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Cape Ann Museum Walking tours this week
Hopper’s Houses – A Guided Walking Tour
A tour in downtown Gloucester to view houses immortalized by renowned American realist painter Edward Hopper
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present a guided walking tour of select Gloucester houses made famous by American realist painter Edward Hopper on Friday, August 7 at 10:00 a.m. Tours last about 1 1/2 hours and are held rain or shine. Participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. Cost is $10 for Cape Ann Museum members; $20 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited and reservations are required. Email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455 x10 for more information or to reserve a space. The Hopper’s Houses tour will also be offered on August 15, August 22, September 5 and September 12 .
American realist painter Edward Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions during the summer months in the years 1912, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1928. His earliest visit in 1912 was made in the company of fellow artist Leon Kroll. During his second visit to Cape Ann in 1923, Hopper courted the young artist Josephine Nivison. He also began working in watercolor, capturing the local landscape and architecture in loosely rendered, light filled paintings. In 1924, Hopper and Nivison who were newly married returned to Gloucester on an extended honeymoon and continued to explore the area by foot and streetcar. During his final two visits to the area, in 1926 and 1928, Hopper produced some of his finest paintings. This special walking tour will explore the neighborhood surrounding the Museum, which includes many of the Gloucester houses immortalized by Hopper’s paintings.
Gloucester’s Middle Street
An ever evolving neighborhood
Guided walking tour offers historic perspective
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Historic Middle Street, a guided walking tour of one of Gloucester’s many historically rich streets, on Saturday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m. The tour meets at the Cape Ann Museum at 27 Pleasant Street and lasts about 1 1/2 hours. Tours are held rain or shine. Cost is $10 for Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited, reservations required. Email info@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455, x16 for more information or to reserve a spot. Additional walking tours are offered throughout the summer – please visit capeannmuseum.org/events for more.
Did you know that a resident of Middle Street, Gloucester, saved the town from a British attack by sea during the Revolution? Or that a leading feminist and religious free thinker lived halfway down Middle Street? Or, that the 1764 Saunders House that forms part of the Sawyer Free Library has undergone at least three radical architectural changes including a massive Victorian tower? Four centuries of Gloucester’s social, economic, and architectural history are packed into this one short street in the heart of downtown Gloucester. Join us for a docent-led tour of an ever-evolving neighborhood where you will see surviving evidence of the past and will learn about structures and people now gone.
The recently renovated Cape Ann Museum celebrates the art, history and culture of Cape Ann – a region with a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial and artistic achievement. The Museum’s collections include fine art from the 19th century to the present, artifacts from the fishing & maritime and granite quarrying industries, textiles, furniture, a library/archives, and two historic houses. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.
The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is $10.00 adults, $8.00 Cape Ann residents, seniors and students. Youth (under 18) and Museum members are free. For more information please call: (978)283-0455 x10. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.
James Eves, owner of Cape Ann GiclĂ©e, Fine Art Printing and Gallery, is GMG’s Arts Enthusiast and the Calendar Guy. To submit arts related press releases, photos of arts events or any arts related posts email: james@capeanngiclee.com.
To add an event to the GMG Cape Ann Calendar go here to see how to submit events.
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The Rhumb Line Until after labor Day Trivia is suspended.Instead we will have our good friend Bradley Royds do his thing from 6:30-8:30..followed by Joe Wilkins and Funk du Jour at 9pm
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Best place to buy lobsters
Rich Bean and daughter picking up birthday lobsters right from the boats.
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Live Blogging “The Gloucester Fleet” 08/04/2015
Live blogging the Gloucester Fleet
“The Lady Jane” 08/04/2015
Refueling 12:10pm
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Community Photos 8/4/15
Hi Joey,
Just returned home from another GREAT Gloucester vacation. We enjoy “smiles on Main Street” . Thought you might like a picture of “Smiles on the Thomas E. Lannon”.
Sharon & Leo Kolenick (Pottsville, Pennsylvania)
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It does not surprise me one bit that “SOME” people thought that the green and orange placeholder in The Action Cameron’s Plan Was The finished architectural renderings.
Here’s a link to Manny’s post-
Affordable Housing Downtown Site Plans
(I put captions on there for those that thought otherwise)
I’d love to say I’m surprised that people made comments to the effect that they thought the plan that Manny Simoes put on the blog were the actual finished architectural drawings but I’m not even a teeny bit surprised.
I didn’t even see the post til the following day because I’ve been prescheduling my weekend blog posts and putting the blog on autopilot during the weekends lately.
But here’s what people may or may not know about the interwebs (and anyone that has read GMG for more than a year has read my countless rants about people’s reluctance to use or know how to perform a simple google search). Read a handful of my previous frustrated rants about how people still in this day and age refuse to use google or a search engine here-
People that refuse to use Google are maddening!
Internet 101
It’s never going to sink in is it? ARGHHHHHH!!!!!
How much could I charge for a seminar to teach people how to look for things on the internet using a search engine?
It used to be worse but we’re probably still at about 50% of people that use the web that take EVERYTHING LITERALLY, do not know what a hyperlink is or that if you click on a blue sequence that the link will take them to another online place.
I’ve had dozens of conversations with our contributors saying that if you want to make sure the 50% of not-so-saavy internet people click on your actionable link that you should spell it out for them.
So say I wanted someone to click on a link to the blog, instead of doing this- Good Morning Gloucester To capture the people that don’t know that’s a link I would suggest that they take the extra time to write out-
Click Here To Go To The Good Morning Gloucester Site- http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com
Peter Van Ness told me a long time ago that you have to build web sites using The Grandmother test. The Grandmother test being that if they could figure out how to navigate it then you’re alright.
We have over 6000 email subscribers that receive an email around 8PM with a compilation of that day’s posts on the blog in an email. I’d conservatively estimate that 70% of those email subscribers do not understand that the blog is not the individual emails that they get sent but an aggregation of the daily posts on the blog itself. Many also don’t realize that if they couldn’t see a photo because it didn’t come through in the email that they could click on any of the hyperlinks in the email and go directly to the blog which resides at www.goodmorninggloucester.com
There are a ton of people that think the blog only exists as what they see on the front page. That the over 22,000 previous posts that we’ve done are gone and can never be retrieved by doing a search or scrolling to the bottom of the blog and clicking the button that says “OLDER POSTS”.
I probably have explained to my mother 1000 times to do a search using the search box on GMG and she will still say to me something like “I missed that post your sister put up about the zucchini fries the other day.” And I tell her again did you type in zucchini in the search box, because I guarantee you’ll get your desired results.
Even people that I am close to days later that I think are reasonable intelligent folks made comments to the effect that they couldn’t believe that they were going to build an orange and green building with no windows on Main Street. When I asked if they were serious, they told me they were dead serious.
The point is- no matter which way you fall on the proposal for the Camerons site, if you are a developer at a meeting and presenting plans, you might want to put a huge semi transparent watermark over the plan saying that the green and orange shading is only being used for placeholding and that these are not finished architectural drawings.
Because as internet saavy as you are as a developer or person presenting the plan having years of college and experience with computers under your belt- THERE ARE A SHIT TON OF REALLY NICE PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL VERY CLUELESS AS TO THE WAYS OF THE WEB.
THERE ARE A SHIT TON OF PEOPLE NO MATTER HOW OUTRAGEOUS YOU MAKE A POST THAT WILL TAKE IT SERIOUS AND NOT REALIZE THAT IT’S BEING SATIRICAL.
THERE ARE A SHIT TON OF PEOPLE THAT THINK IF YOU PUT UP A PLAN OF A BOX WITH NO WINDOWS AND SHADE IT IN A HIDEOUS GREEN AND CONTRASTING ORANGE THAT THESE WILL BE THE FINISHED LOOK OF A DOWNTOWN GLOUCESTER PROJECT.
That’s just the way it is.
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Shuttle Smiles-1500
Captain Pete Favazza on the Lady Jillian enlightens you with Gloucester’s History, and sights in the Harbor.
The Lady Jillian is operated by Cape Ann Harbor Tours.
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Gloucester’s Middle Street – An ever evolving neighborhood
Guided walking tour offers historic perspective
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (July 31, 2015) – The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Historic Middle Street, a guided walking tour of one of Gloucester’s many historically rich streets, on Saturday, August 8 at 10:00 a.m. The tour meets at the Cape Ann Museum at 27 Pleasant Street and lasts about 1 1/2 hours. Tours are held rain or shine. Cost is $10 for Museum members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited, reservations required. Emailinfo@capeannmuseum.org or call (978) 283-0455, x16 for more information or to reserve a spot. Additional walking tours are offered throughout the summer – please visitcapeannmuseum.org/events for more.
Did you know that a resident of Middle Street, Gloucester, saved the town from a British attack by sea during the Revolution? Or that a leading feminist and religious free thinker lived halfway down Middle Street? Or, that the 1764 Saunders House that forms part of the Sawyer Free Library has undergone at least three radical architectural changes including a massive Victorian tower? Four centuries of Gloucester’s social, economic, and architectural history are packed into this one short street in the heart of downtown Gloucester. Join us for a docent-led tour of an ever-evolving neighborhood where you will see surviving evidence of the past and will learn about structures and people now gone.
The Saunders House, now part of the Sawyer Free Library, in the early 1880s. Photo by Edward Corliss & J. F. Ryan House Photographs, c. 1882-85. 4″ x 6″ cabinet cards. From the collection of the Cape Ann Museum Library and Archives.
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Gloucester Smiles ~ 35
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Wanderbird Being fitted as a Bed and Breakfast ?
The “Wanderbird” from Rockland Maine conducted Expedition Cruises (see site Wanderbird Cruises ) now possibly being fitted as a Bed and Breakfast.
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Zack Aboard The Lady J Tries To Catch A Striper Before The Cameron D Hits The Dock @CaptJoeLobster #GloucesterMA
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Step by Step, Stone by Stone
We are absolutely loving the new breakwater in Rockport! Â A part of my affection probably stems from having watched it being constructed slowly, day by day and massive stone by massive stone, all winter long. Â Maybe even more so because of the fact that it was one of the worst winters in our history.
Finn and I walk to its end once each week or so to watch as Thatcher sails past in his Opti during lessons from the Sandy Bay Yacht Club.
We have been enjoying how each and every stone has a different pattern, shape, color, and “personality.” Â Not surprisingly, Finn has named a few of them. Oreo, zebra, camo (as in camouflage), whale, fishy, etc.
It is really, truly a piece of art and I look forward to watching the boys grow as they continue to navigate its surface over the next several years. Â I see lots of photos in its future.
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It’s Our Awesome Buddies Alicia Cox DeWolfe, Hanna Kimberley and Rick Doucette’s Birthday Today!!!!!!
We’re Celebrating Tonight At The Seaport Grille!
Celebrating Our Tell It Like It Is Alicia Unleashed DeWolfe, Homiecast Regular and all Around Awesome Dude Rick Doucette and The Sweetest Feminist You’re Ever Gonna Meet- Hanna Kimberley’s Birthday Tonight!
Partay!!!!
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The New Electric Balroom at the Gloucester Stage Now Through August 15th
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Community Stuff 8/4/15
Northshore Sports Desk
Hi Joe – the North Shore Sports Desk will be broadcasting live from inside the Cape Ann Savings Bank this saturday morning the 8th from 8-9am. Nick Curcuru – Gloucester Times and Phil Stacey – Salem News will be hosting the show. Guests will be the cape ann savings bank student athletes of the year as chosen by the bank and the show. A male and female each from gloucester high, manchester/essex and rockport high are chosen. Thanks Joey for a mention!! Best- Pete Kelley
The Cape Ann Y – Mobile Y program is offering free one week tennis lessons next week August 10th. Tennis lessons take place at the High School Tennis courts for kids ages 5&up. No cost, just need to register at the Cape Ann Y. The Mobile Y Program is sponsored by the United Way- Women in Action.
Youth Tennis Lessons
Ages: 5 years & up, co-ed
Week of August 10th
Location: Municipal Tennis Court at Gloucester High School
Ages 5-8 years Time: 5:00pm
Ages 9& Up Time: 6:00pm
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his top-notch program will introduce the game of tennis to beginners and reinforce strong skill-development for returning players. Through a series of games and fun activities, your child will make new friends and learn the basics of tennis in this fun and recreational setting. Kids are encouraged to bring their own racquets, if they do not have one we have a limited number available.
This special 1 week clinic is offered at no cost, however kids are required to be registered. We have limited number of spaces available! Register for all week or just the days that you want!
Teens from around the globe get an up close look at Gloucester.
Young women from around globe check out the Sea Pocket Touch Tank Aquarium at Maritime Gloucester Saturday as part of the Women2Women Conference. Photo by Desi Smith.
GLOUCESTER — A group of 120 young women from all over the globe descended on the Maritime Gloucester museum Saturday afternoon to learn all about marine science, the local fishing industry, and what it’s like to be a female sea captain.
The point of the program was to help inspire these young women — ages 15 to 19 — and assure them they can have a place among the next generation of influential chemists, biologists, engineers, mathematicians — even seafarers, if that’s their dream.
Read the full article from the Gloucester Daily Times.
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Pauline Bresnahan Loves Her GMG Cap- Get Yours Or Your Gloucester Beach Sticker T Shirt Or Hoodie Here-
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Home for a New Tree in time for the Sidewalk Bazaar
Toodeloos’ Bears, wearing lots of sunscreen, await the planting of a new tree. The Old Tree was causing dangerous passage, but in one week’s time the tree was uprooted, and a new sidewalk put in place, just in time for the Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar coming this Thursday August 6th – Saturday August 8th, to downtown.
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Amazing Footage of Cecil the Magnificent Lion
Cecil the Magnificent
One of the most heartbreaking aspects of Cecil’s brutal and gruesome killing is learning about how human kind has forever altered the gene pool of African lions. The unrelenting hunt for the largest and most dominant of the lions has led to an overall weakening of the species. In recent studies, scientists have shown that the largest male African lion is thirty pounds smaller than the largest male lion of only a few decades ago.
Powerful and Regal Cecil
Images courtesy Google image search.
Good Morning Gloucester 