Another Year and Another Unanimous Decision For The Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Tree As The Without A Doubt Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of The World.

While towns up in Maine are still going back to the same old tired plans trying to make their trees the tallest (by making them horribly disfigured Christmas Spikes Instead of Christmas Trees)  David Brooks and the Gloucester MA community once again made them all pale by comparison.  David Brooks and Gloucester MA is playing chess while Rockland Maine is playing checkers.  But after all these years and crushing their spirits with their horribly disfigured Christmas spikes and them using terrible Chinese sweat shop labor Christmas bows on their trees while Gloucester MA adorns their Lobster trap tree with hand painted buoys made by the angelic youth of  Gloucester.  But this year after the over the top outpouring of support, David Brooks decided to go 3 dimensional on their ass.

You don’t just experience the Gloucester Ma lobster trap tree from the outside, we built this shit so dope that you can actually enter inside the tree and the entire inside is adorned with the beautiful hand painted buoys as well.   They turned the Lobster trap tree game on it’s head.

Hilarious that they thought they could compete.  I feel bad for these other communities, I really do.  Just when they think they have a chance, along comes Brooks and Co just crushing their Christmas dreams.

Kim Smith photo.

In all seriousness, it’s nice that the other communities try  to compete and we wish them nothing but the best during this Christmas season.

Good luck next year, LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Gloucester MA Lobster Trap Tree> All Other Lobster Trap Trees

Word on the street is that the makers of the other community lobster trap trees were all infiltrated by moles from the creators of the Land of the Misfit Toys.  True Story.

Community Holiday Sing

December 19, 7:00 pm
Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport
Music by Triton Brass Quintet, RHS Madrigals, and audience sing-a-long

Nice walk on Cape Hedge Beach right now.  Not a lot of beach right now, but always lots of treasures to discover along the way.

Time to make the traditional “Cuccia Pudding” 

For Sista Felicia’s St. Luccia Recipe click link below

http://m.cook123.com/recipes/saint-lucia-day-pudding.html

  

Photo Cat Ryan

The Little River Stream Naturalization and Restoration  Project is moving toward completion. Started in August of this year, the project, located on the westerly side of Essex Avenue where it crosses over an inlet to the Little River, will remove the remains of a decaying concrete fish ladder and an unused water treatment lagoon installed in 1969.

The fish ladder was intended to assist alewife, smelt and other species to reach Lily Pond, their historic spawning ground. However, over the years the decay of the concrete ladder had become more of a hindrance than a help. The project will restore the natural flow of the stream, eliminate the related unused lagoon and provide a more natural upstream route for  spawning fish. Reduction in future operational and maintenance expenses for the system is expected.

The City of Gloucester  partnered with the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service, the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration, the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the development and implementation of the project.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
“For the Birds”

A multi-media, juried exhibition and fundraiser inspired by everything Avian

The Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) invites New England artists to submit work to “For the Birds” a six-week exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930. A portion of all sales will be donated to support Mass Audubon’s mission “to protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife”.

• Juror: Amy T Montague, Director, Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
• Exhibition Dates: January 28-March 6, 2016
• Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12:00-4:00 PM
• Opening Reception: Sunday, January 31, 2:00-4:00 PM

The Call: The RNAC seeks traditional, decorative and expressive works of art and craft inspired by everything avian including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, decoys, birdhouses, jewelry, cards and more.

About the Juror: Amy Montague is the director of the Museum of American 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, Amy has stewarded and grown the organization’s broad and eclectic art collection, which embraces fine art, folk art, sporting art, illustration and more. She has curated more than 30 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.

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Hi Joey, something’s been brewing since last spring and I am so excited to share this happy announcement.

Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library, Rockport Public Library, Manchester-By-The-Sea Public Library, and TOHP Burnham Library Essex are pleased to announce and launch a yearlong innovative community reading program in 2016 CAPE ANN READS. The libraries are coordinating with several regional organizations including Cape Ann Museum (CAM), Cape Ann Art Haven, Cape Ann YMCA, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Local Cultural Councils, area schools, cultural districts,  Pathways for Children, and First R Foundation. 

Throughout 2016 the four Cape Ann public libraries will coordinate special events PLUS administer a contest for original picture book submissions.

One new book. Four communities. Everyone reads.

The 2016 Public Call for the first ever Cape Ann Creates for CAPE ANN READS children’s picture book contest will be open to Cape Ann residents, all ages, students attending school on Cape Ann, and people who work on Cape Ann.  People can collaborate, too. Look for the announcement for the application and guidelines coming in the New Year. The Cape Ann Museum (CAM) is hosting the CAPE ANN READS kickoff event for the yearlong collaborative initiative on Saturday, January 30, 2016. Staff from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art will be at CAM to lead a series of picture book-themed workshops for adults and children throughout that day.

New logos were created for CAPE ANN READS by young artists with Kyra Moyer and staff at Cape Ann Art Haven’s Teen Artist Guild (TAG) art center, working with Kate LaChance from the Cape Ann Museum.

Hire these HIVE/TAG kids—but wait until after this week. This week it’s all Cape Ann Art Haven buoy painting for the lobster trap tree at the art center.

For more information about CAPE ANN READS contact Deborah Kelsey, Director, Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library, (978)281-9763 x23, kelsey@sawyerfreelibrary.org.  The 3 other Library Directors are:  Deborah French, Library Director, Essex, MA; Sarah Collins, Library Director, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA; and Cindy Grove, Library Director, Rockport, MA.