Good Morning Gloucester

The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present Peggy’s House, a Cape Ann Cottage, a photographic series by Robert Lerch. The one-day exhibit will take place at the White-Ellery House on Saturday, June 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The White-Ellery House is located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary. This program is free and open to the public.

Peggy’s House is a collection of photos, primarily interiors, all taken in one particular house in Annisquam. Built in 1761, “Peggy’s House” is one of only 65 or so known surviving Cape Ann cottages. Typically referred to as a story and a half with a gambrel roof, it was the vernacular house of the time. During the Colonial period, approximately 350 Cape Ann cottages dotted the coastline around the island, and were home to the many families who made their livelihood fishing and farming.

Robert Lerch said of working on this project, “I am fortunate and grateful that I was given the opportunity to photograph inside a very special Cape Ann Cottage, within the current owner’s daily living space.”

Robert Lerch is a contemporary fine art photographer who has owned and operated a gallery on Bearskin Neck in Rockport for 35 years. His work is sensitive, soulful, and full of substance. He uses all found material and works only with natural light.

The White-Ellery House, located at 245 Washington Street in Gloucester at the Route 128 Grant Circle Rotary, was built in 1710 and is one of just a handful of First Period houses in Eastern Massachusetts that survives to this day. Unlike other structures of this period, the largely unfurnished house has had very few interior alterations over the years. Stepping inside today, visitors enter much the same house they would have 300 years ago. The historic home will be open this year on the first Saturday of June, August, September and October as part of Escapes North 17th Century Saturdays. Parking is available off Poplar Street in the field behind the house.

THE WEATHER HAS CLEARED! AN EXCELLENT EVENING SAIL IS PREDICTED!
Please join us for a memorable adventure aboard the Schooners Fame, Ardelle and Thomas E. Lannon, and help the Museum to keep history alive!
We still have room for you and a friend! There are limited tickets available at just $ 40.00!
Bring a team!
For parties of two or more, we’ll make sure that we get all of you on the same schooner.
It’s an evening of fun, songs, games, and silly challenges, all for a great cause.
You can purchase beverages aboard.
Don’t wait!  Sign up securely on our web site at:
essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/details-of-our-next-
or call Marcia now at (978) 375-3337.
The Challenge directly funds the care and preservation of our Essex-built schooners. Thank you for your generous support! See you on board!
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Thanks for letting folks know!

Victoria Petway at Cape Ann Museum just set up a Google Calendar for museum events, made it public and shared it with me, jameseves3@gmail.com giving me  access to “Make changes AND manage sharing”. I then added her calendar to the ever growing calendars on the GMG “Cape Ann Calendar”. Now when ever she adds and event or makes changes to an event it immediately shows up here on GMG.

This calendar is permanently hosted and can be viewed when ever you want at capeanngiclee.com on the ‘events’ page.

To submit entries for this calendar email text only to james@capeanngiclee.com the following:

A Title
A Date and Time
A Place including complete address
A Short description (no more than a paragraph)
and a link for more info

I post regular Arts related PR and announcements directly to GMG daily, so send those to me too.

and was never measured and never will be measured.

I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all!)

Walt Whitman, from stanza 46, Song of Myself.