My View of Life on the Dock
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Saturday, Jan. 9th at 1:00pm
Bring the whole family and join along with the Optimistic Voices Senior Choir and La Petite Chorale who will sing, sign and dance with you to favorite oldies, children’s and holiday songs. Awaken your senses and minds with this fun challenge and light up your day!
Free and open to the public.
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Spend February Vacation at Maritime Gloucester for Sea Creatures of Cape Ann. The program runs Tuesday through Friday and includes a variety of activities in the classroom, microscope laboratory, wet lab, and museum. Students may enroll for one day or for the entire four days. There are two different programs based on age of the students that are offered during the four-days—one for Pre-K to K (ages 3.5-5) and the other for Grades 1-5.  The Pre-K/K drop-in program runs from 9:00 am-10:30 am and children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Grade 1-5 program runs from 8:30 am-3:30 pm; after care until 5:00 pm is available for Grade 1-5 students for an additional fee. For more information and to register online, please visit click here.
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Suellen Wedmore, poet laureate emerita for the town of Rockport, has been painting since she was a teenager. She has studied painting with Skip Lawrence of Pemaquid, Maine, at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is presently in a workshop with Ron Straka at the Rockport Art Association. She recently won first place in the Quill’s Edge Press “Woman on the Edge” contest, and her poetry chapbook , Mind the Light, was published with her painting of Thacher Island’s north tower on the cover. (The book is available at Toad Hall Bookstore, from the author, or on-line at the Thacher Island website and at the Quill’s Edge Press website.)
The four Cape Ann public libraries are launching a yearlong innovative community reading program!                                                                                 The Cape Ann Museum is hosting the CAPE ANN READS kickoff event…
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EnergySage Is A Game Changer. They couldn’t make learning about solar quicker, more transparent or easier to understand than this. In my quest to bring more info to you, my peeps, I went into EnergySage Headquarters and spoke with Senior Solar Advisor Kimberly Le who demonstrated just how few clicks it takes to get an instant estimate and then how after you register with a few more clicks that you can get a bunch of area solar installers (who are all vetted and approved by EnergySage) and have user ratings in their profiles (much like the way Amazon or Trip Advisor has user generated reviews) which give you an idea of how happy people are with their installations.
The part I like best is how all of the different Solar companies compete for your business, and they all load their quotes in a standardized way that EnergySage set up so that you can compare each installer’s quotes side by side. Aaaaand then to take it even a step further, EnergySage takes the equipment that each solar installer is proposing for your project and rates the solar panels in a grading system. Aaaaaand you always have access to totally impartial passionate about Solar, EnergySage Solar Advisors that can further guide you and answer any questions you may have along the way.
You know how I’m all about the No-Brainer initiatives that are wins for everyone involved. Well this is literally a NO-Risk, everything to gain, super simple, super fast way to check out Solar options for you.
Check out the first interview I did with Kimberly Le, Senior Solar Advisor for EnergySage right here and then check out the EnergySage Website and for zero cost just fill out the measly three fields to get an instant quote. You don’t even have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to.
Here’s the link to get an instant estimate- EnergySage
Once you get an instant estimate based on your address, you can register to get access to the marketplace where the different EnergySage Vetted and Approved Installers start to email you quotes and they appear in your EnergySage Marketplace Dashboard side by side where you can compare things like what each installer is proposing for a warrantee, each installer’s user generated reviews, an installation target date, what type of panels they propose to use, and more. Best part is that on every page there are little question marks that when you click on them, explain in further detail what each term means, also there’s an EnergySage Advisor that is just a mouse click away that will help you as well if you have any questions.
Good morning from Brace Cove, and what a gorgeous morning it was!
Cheery Song Sparrow First Light
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As our local ponds begin to freeze, look for diving ducks along the sea’s edge. They are hunting for mollusks, crustaceans, snails, shrimp, and other small creatures.Â
Niles Pond Canvasback Duck with Male and Female Ring-necked Ducks
I haven’t seen the Canvasback or Ring-necked Ducks since Niles Pond started to freeze on Monday. Only partially frozen in some areas and with the warmer weekend temperatures predicted, I hope they’ll return soon!
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Interesting short video of eiders diving for mollusks in the Arctic ~
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to offer free admission to all residents of Cape Ann (Gloucester, Rockport, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea) during the month of January 2016. Visit us and see what we have to offer!
January is also Membership Month at the Cape Ann Museum. Membership and donations support the special exhibitions and programming that the Museum offers its communities. We hope that a trip to the Museum will encourage all visitors to become members and join us in sharing the art, history and culture of Cape Ann.
Visitors in January will be treated to two special exhibitions: Gloucester, Three Visions featuring the work of Jeff Weaver, Peter Vincent and Don Gorvett and Gloucester: A Community of Neighborhoods quilt project, overseen by artist Juni Van Dyke, the quilts showcase the work of nearly one hundred senior artists across Cape Ann.
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (December 29, 2015) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present an opportunity to become more intimate with its collections. On Saturday, January 9, the docents of the Cape Ann Museum will offer six twenty minute tours focusing on a topic of their choosing. Tours will begin on the hour and on the half hour. Reservations are not required, but space is limited – first come, first served. Free for CAM Members and Cape Ann Residents or with Museum admission. For more information please email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10.
Participants are encouraged to spend the entire morning at the Museum, enjoying two, three, perhaps all six of the tours! To plan your day accordingly, please see the schedule below:
The beginning of the season we looked invincible. After an enormous amount of key injuries, the past two weeks of Patriots football have been painful to watch. If I’ve learned anything as a Pats fan it’s to never count ’em out but for most teams, winning a Superbowl is a culmination of a whole bunch of bounces and breaks all going your way as you roll through the playoffs. In past Superbowl wins it seems like the confidence is off the charts and everyone is smiling and you roll through the playoffs with momentum. Right now there seems to be zero momentum.  Having the bye week will most certainly…
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USCG Cutter Hamerhead
Passing the State Fish Pier
01/08/2016. 8:38am
Is it not like 10 times a day you hear about something going wrong with these hoverboards?
“Art, Rocks!” Good Harbor Beach
01/08/2016 7:59am
Find me if you can.
Left at 7:59am
I spend a lot of time in many different hockey rinks. Â Many are really nice…some are pretty nasty. Â The yuckiest by far is made much worse by the deplorable condition of the bathroom. Â Inevitably, however, one needs to use it. Â I cringe while walking on the floor when I think of those same boots later walking into my home and, heaven forbid, on my carpet.
What that bathroom doesn’t have, however, is this sign. Â This sign can actually be found in one of the nicer rinks. Â While a seemingly obvious request, maybe they’re on to something.
Do people really need a reminder?
If you haven’t yet, go see Spotlight. Although we all know the outcome you will be on your seat’s edge. I had been wanting to see it for many months and was happy to find it still playing at the Liberty Tree Mall. Check times before planning because this week it was only playing in the afternoon.
EnergySage Is A Game Changer. They couldn’t make learning about solar quicker, more transparent or easier to understand than this. In my quest to bring more info to you, my peeps, I went into EnergySage Headquarters and spoke with Senior Solar Advisor Kimberly Le who demonstrated just how few clicks it takes to get an instant estimate and then how after you register with a few more clicks that you can get a bunch of area solar installers (who are all vetted and approved by EnergySage) and have user ratings in their profiles (much like the way Amazon or Trip Advisor has user generated reviews) which give you an idea of how happy people are with their installations.
The part I like best is how all of the different Solar companies compete for your business, and they all load their quotes in a standardized way that EnergySage set up so that you can compare each installer’s quotes side by side. Aaaaand then to take it even a step further, EnergySage takes the equipment that each solar installer is proposing for your project and rates the solar panels in a grading system.  Aaaaaand you always have access to totally impartial passionate about Solar, EnergySage Solar Advisors that can further guide you and answer any questions you may have along the way.
You know how I’m all about the No-Brainer initiatives that are wins for everyone involved. Well this is literally a NO-Risk, everything to gain, super simple, super fast way to check out Solar options for you.
Check out the first interview I did with Kimberly Le, Senior Solar Advisor for EnergySage right here and then check out the EnergySage Website and for zero cost just fill out the measly three fields to get an instant quote. You don’t even have to talk to anyone if you don’t want to.
Here’s the link to get an instant estimate- EnergySage
Once you get an instant estimate based on your address, you can register to get access to the marketplace where the different EnergySage Vetted and Approved Installers start to email you quotes and they appear in your EnergySage Marketplace Dashboard side by side where you can compare things like what each installer is proposing for a warrantee, each installer’s user generated reviews, an installation target date, what type of panels they propose to use, and more. Best part is that on every page there are little question marks that when you click on them, explain in further detail what each term means, also there’s an EnergySage Advisor that is just a mouse click away that will help you as well if you have any questions.
Norman Smith, Director of Mass Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, has been relocating snowy owls from Logan Airport for 35 years. He does this for the safety of both the owls and planes that use the airspace.
On Wednesday, December 30, Smith brought an adult female snowy owl he had safely removed at Logan to Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable and released it back into the wild. This owl was one of 15 Smith has removed from the airport this year. Before she was released, Smith attached a a new G3 solar transmitter, which will track her movements. The transmitter was provided by Project SNOWstorm, who collaborates with Trailside’s snowy owl research.
The Cape Cod Times was there to capture the release on video. Read more about Norman Smith and the Snowy Owl Project here. From the Mass Audubon website.
PHOTOS: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times
The Rocky Neck Art Colony kicks off the 2016 exhibition season with an extraordinary six-week exhibition and fundraising event at the RNAC’s Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. Juried by Amy Montague, the Director of the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon, in Canton MA, the exhibition “For The Birds” features multi-media avian art. The public is invited to a reception on Sunday, January 31 at 2-4 PM. Save the dates for a talk on the life and art of John J. Audubon by noted local author Chris Leahy, Bertrand Chair of Field Ornithology at Mass Audubon, at the Cultural Center on Thursday, February 11 at 7:00 PM, a talk about the Birds of Cape Ann by local photographer and filmmaker Kim Smith, and “The Artful Birdhouse,” an auction of original, artist-created birdhouses on Sunday February 21, beginning at 1:00 PM. A raffle of a basket full of birding-related items concludes the events with a drawing of the winning ticket on Sunday, March 6 at 2:00 PM. A portion of all events proceeds will support Mass Audubon’s mission to protect the flora and fauna of Massachusetts.
Concurrent with RNAC’s “For The Birds” exhibition, The Trident Gallery, Director Matthew Swift, presents “Nest” its third annual exhibition in partnership with Mass Audubon’s Museum of American Bird Art offering artworks from the Museum’s collection. Exhibition dates: January 30 – March 6, 2016.
The songs, vivid colors and enormous variety of bird species attracted to Cape Ann’s coastal waters, marshes, and waterways often bring with them both birding enthusiasts and artists, each drawn by their vibrant visual appeal. Come to The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck to view the aesthetic heights their wildly patterned beauty has inspired in the work of New England artists’ multi-media offerings in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, and more.
This spectacular melding of the avian and the artistic is juried by Amy Montague, Director of the Museum of Bird Art at Mass Audubon, the only museum dedicated to art inspired by the beauty, science and wonder of birds. In her 23 years at Mass Audubon, Ms. Montague has stewarded and grown the organization’s broad and eclectic art collection that embraces fine art, folk art, sporting art, illustration, and more. She has curated more than thirty exhibitions exploring the intersection of art and nature focusing on artists as varied as John James Audubon and Andy Warhol. She has twice been a juror for the internationally renowned “Birds in Art” exhibition at the Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin.
The Artful Birdhouse Auction: Sunday, February 21. Preview 1-2PM, Live Auction at 2:15 PM. The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester MA. Engaging the charm and appeal of birdhouses as a foundation, the imagination of friends and members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony will soar in creating whimsical, modern, traditional, fantasy and completely unexpected “artful” birdhouses. The following artists have donated their time and talents for an auction of their birdhouse creations in support of Mass Audubon and in conjunction with the “For The Birds” art exhibit at The Cultural Center. Promoting the Auction, early bird creators will have the opportunity to display their works at several venues in and around Gloucester.
Artists participating in the auction event are Kathy Gerdon Archer, Deborah Barnwell, Carol Mansur Benesh, Lisa Carlson, Joy Dai Buell, Elizabeth Gauthier, Rachel Gauthier, Joy Halsted, Jane Keddy, Mindy Lind-terk, Ron MacNeill, Tom Nihan, Sinikka Nogello, Christy Park, Hans Pundt, Kenny Riaf, Karen Ristuben, Sally Seamans, Pam Stratton, Karen Tibbetts, and Karen Tusinski among others.
“For the Birds” A Juried Exhibition of Avian Related Art, January 28 to March 6, 2016, Opening Reception: Sunday, January 31, 2–4 PM.
John J. Audubon: The Man and His Art, A talk by Chris Leahy, Bertrand Chair of Field Ornithology at Mass Audubon, Thursday, February 11, 7 PM.
Birds of Cape Ann, Talk,photos, and short films by local filmmaker and photographer Kim Smith, Thursday, February 18th, at 7PM.
The Artful Birdhouse: An auction of artist-created birdhouses, Sunday, February 21, Preview: 1-2 PM, Live Auction at 2:15 PM.
Raffle Drawing for a basket of birding related items, Sunday, March 6 at 2 PM
The Cultural Center Gallery
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, 12:00-4:00 PM
Bonaparte’s Gulls Preening Lighthouse Beach
Good Morning Gloucester 