“Out of Africa ~ and Into Rockport.”

Posted on by Fredrik Bodin

AfricaMarty5829wmThe carved granite African wildlife has been uncovered after a long winter. Big game photographer, our own Marty Luster, adds to his trophy collection with a happy elephant family. Yesterday’s weather was simply stunning.

Don’t Miss Anita Diamant Reading at the Cape Ann Museum!

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The Boston Girl at the Cape Ann Museum

Reading and book signing with refreshments from Ohana Restaurant

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (May 6, 2015) – On Saturday, May 16 at 3:00 p.m., in collaboration with the Bookstore of Gloucester and Ohana Restaurant, best-selling author Anita Diamant brings The Boston Girl book tour to Cape Ann. Join us at the Cape Ann Museum for a reading and book signing with light refreshments. Books will be available for purchase. This program is free and open to the public.

The Boston Girl is a coming-of-age story about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Written with attention to historical detail and emotional honesty, The Boston Girl is a moving portrait of one woman’s complicated life in twentieth century America, and a fascinating look at a generation of women finding their places in a changing world.

Anita Diamant is the best-selling author of several books, among them theRed Tent, Good Harbor, and Last Days of Dogtown. Diamant has often used Cape Ann as an inspiration for her novels and The Boston Girl is no exception. The Rockport Lodge, a vacation house for working women of low and moderate income, plays a significant role in the main character’s life.

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The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to Cape Ann. Founded in 1873, the Museum’s collections represent the history of Cape Ann, its people, its industries, its art and culture. For a detailed media fact sheet please visit www.capeannmuseum.org/press.

The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours areTuesday 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.

Nichole’s Picks: May 9th and 10th

Posted on by Nichole S.

I’ve fairly certain that I’ve never had an easier time coming up with a perfect first pick!

Pick #1

The Gloucester Public Schools Art Festival

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Come one, come all to the Gloucester Public Schools Arts Festival on Saturday, May 9 from 11am – 3pm.

This fabulous showcase of art, music, theater, dance and technology from grades pre-school through 12th will take place throughout downtown Gloucester all day long. A ukulele concert, drama workshop, poetry reading, ballroom dance demonstration, art displays, and an outdoor community painting project are just a few of the day’s offerings.

Check out the Gloucester Education Foundation for more information HERE

AND…see the entire SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE

Pick #2

Ride the Water Shuttle

Cape Ann Harbor Tours, Inc.

With nice weather finally here, get out on the water and see the sights!  Hop on, hop off.  Grab a bit to eat, check out the galleries on Rocky Neck, enjoy a cocktail or an ice cream, etc.

The prices can’t be beat and season passes are now available.

Get all the info you’ll need HERE!

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Pick #3

Visit Long Hill Gardens in Beverly

As a member of the Trustees of the Reservation, Long Hill is a must see at some point, and why not this weekend?

If you’ve never been, Long Hill is a glorious 114 acres of gardens, trails, and wooded areas.

http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/northeast-ma/long-hill.html#t6

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As always, for a much more comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid.

The Stones of the Quarries Documentary

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi. Hows it going?

My name is Rob Apse and I’m a filmmaker out of Boston, MA. Over the last year or so I filmed a documentary involving the granite quarries of Cape Ann. It was an Official Selection at both the Boston International Film Festival and Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. The film is also receiving a Gloucester Historical Commission Award on May 17th and will be screened at the ceremony as well.

I’d love to share it with the entire Cape Ann community and Good Morning Gloucester seems like the perfect place.

I hope you’d be willing to share it and more importantly, I hope you enjoy it.

You can watch the film here.

Take care and thank you for your time.

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Rob Apse
creative writer//director//editor
http://www.indywayproductions.com

Beautiful, Beautiful Watecolors by Gloucester Artist Marilyn Swift Solo Show!

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11150558_1112214238805833_8996139550142108701_nCome see Marilyn Swift’s exquisite solo show at the lovely gallery at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms. The opening is this coming Saturday afternoon, May 9th, from 4 to 6pm. Congratulations Marilyn!11149551_1112214018805855_1959557921795544107_n

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Eastern Point Lit House Welcomes Emily O’Neill

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Emily O’Neill is a writer, artist, and proud Jersey girl. Her recent poems and stories can be found in Five Quarterly, Profane, and Split Rock Review, among others. Her debut collection, Pelican, is the inaugural winner of Yes Yes Books’ Pamet River Prize. She teaches writing at the Boston Center for Adult Education and edits poetry for Wyvern Lit.

She has facilitated workshops and poetry programming in association with the White Plains Public Library, the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, and the New Jersey public school system.  She competed at the 2010 National Poetry Slam in St. Paul, MN with the Hampshire County Slam Team and is a founding member of the nationally touring performance poetry troupe No More Ribcage.

Her work has appeared in The Best Indie Lit New England Anthology, Sugar House Review, and Whiskey Island, among others.  Her poem “de Los Muertos” was selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of Gigantic Sequins’ second annual poetry contest, and her poem “& when the canary stops singing” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014 by Vector Press.  She is a former editor and essayist for Side B Magazine.

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1975 World Series

Posted on by David B. Cox

Just a few photos of the World Series that some believe was the greatest ever.

Birds hanging out at Clarke Pond

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

What a way to end a busy Saturday. Coolidge Reservation is so beautiful. Take a walk but I mostly love Clarke Pond and its beauty.

Red Sox vs Tampa Bay

Posted on by David B. Cox

Red Sox beat Tampa 2-0 with Rick Porcello pitching shutout ball for seven innings and Mookie Betts hitting two solo home runs over the monster seats. It was fun seeing the guys from that epic 1975 World Series. Boy did they get old! Just for fun I will post a few photos from that series next.

Flatrocks Gallery’s May7-June 7 show, ‘Blooming’

Posted on by James Eves

Flatrocks Gallery’s May7-June 7 show,  ‘Blooming’– features paintings by Claudia Kaufman, Rokhaya Waring, Patricia Crotty and Laurel Hughes, photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg, stainless steel sculpture by Gints Grinsbergs. This survey will lead the viewer on a journey from photo realism, to abstract art. Using flowers as the subject, they take on new identities as characters in a metaphorical journey.

Claudia Kaufman’s is a contemporary realist painter, her works are studies in observation – still life set-ups of familiar objects that are deceptively simple, yet complex. She challenges herself to translate the perceived three-dimensional world to a 2D field by observing and capturing the conditions of light, form, color and space through the painterly properties of oil paint.

Rokhaya Waring paints in the spirit of Impressionism and Plein Air painting, with its constant change in light, color and mood, are a natural extension of her sensibilities and lend vibrancy to her work. She conveys through her paintings a feeling of being there, the power of nature- a transient beauty that is often bittersweet.  

Patricia Crotty’s paintings explore the territory between abstraction and realism with bold gestural brushwork and a sureness of line and color.  When her subject is flowers, she “tries to capture their fleeting beauty and catch a glimpse of the eternal in their brief life, to see the universal in their particular forms.”

Laurel Hughes is an abstract painter, drawing on quiet moments in nature, her paintings grow out of thoughtful observation, sensations and split second glimpses.  She is perpetually drawn to ideas and practices that help ‘re-seed our earth.’ —planting seeds of compassion, joy, and gratitude so that we touch the earth and stir her wonder.

Paul Cary Goldberg has established a reputation photographing our local industry and culture with a keen eye that transcends documentation, with painterly results. Last year he returned to his studio and the still life. His images are layered with rich texture, color and symbol – contemporary versions of still-life painting of the 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of change as a reminder of its inevitability. 

Gints Grinsbergs’ creates welded stainless steel over sized flowers that maintain their delicate grace. The sculptures indoors or out combine modern metal structure with rough, natural stone making these works unique sculptural forms.

There will be a reception for the artists May 16th from 6-8pm. ‘Blooming’ runs through June 7th.  Flatrocks Gallery is open Thursday – Sunday 12-5pm. 77 Langsford St. , Gloucester. (978)879-4683. www.flatrocksgallery.com or visit us on facebook.

This is a great deal!!!!

Posted on by James Eves

It’s time to think SUMMER!!!

Take advantage of the Best Deal on the Harbor.

“Water Shuttle Seasonal Passes” are now available.

Only $50 before June 30th.

email us at harbortours@gmail.com

http://www.capeannharbortours.com/shuttle.html

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Saturday’s Clean up

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

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Clean Gloucester and the One Hour at a Time Gang’s Saturday’s schedule

 

When:                  Saturday, May 9, 2015

 

Where:                 We can meet at the Fishermen’s Wives Memorial

 

Time:                    8:00 – 9:00

 

I have bags, hope to see all there on Saturday.

 

Paul Harris Fellow

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

Thanking Tracy Arabian for sending this information to GMG.

Rick and Doug

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Contacts: Steve Kaity, 978-879-1051, Michael Costello, 978-546-7140

ROTARY’S HIGHEST AWARD

TO DOUCETTE, SHATFORD

The Gloucester Rotary Club has named Rick Doucette and Doug Shatford as Paul Harris Fellows, the prestigious award named after the Chicago lawyer who founded the Rotary movement in 1905. Doucette was selected by a Club committee of previous recipients of the award, while Shatford was chosen by members of the Interact Club, the very active group of Gloucester High School junior Rotarians.  Doucette and Shatford will be honored at a special dinner on Tuesday, May 12, at Cruiseport Gloucester, located at 6 Rowe Square in downtown Gloucester. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Rick Doucette was born and raised in Gloucester, and is a proud product of the Gloucester public school system.

Rick has served as Executive Director of the Cape Ann YMCA since May 2002, turning his focus specifically to Teen & Camp Services in 2008.  Rick began his career at the YMCA as a Counselor-In-Training (CIT) at Camp Spindrift in 1984.  Through his career, Rick developed many new innovative programs and initiatives that remain as “mainstays” of the YMCA youth and family programming. These include unprecedented levels of growth and participation at Spindrift, the Friday Night Fun program, the afterschool child care program, Y Teen Leaders Rockathon, teen service trips, sports leagues, many of other youth and teen initiatives.

In addition to his work with the YMCA, Rick also spent four-and-a-half years as a faculty member at O’Maley Middle School.  Rick has been very active in the community throughout his adult life, coaching Senior Little League, Pee Wee Football and Fisherman Youth Soccer and serving on various civic and municipal committees.  Rick currently serves as co-President of the Gloucester Pride Stride Committee, a Trustee of Awesome Gloucester, a member of the O’Maley S.A.I.L.S. Team, and a charter member with Theatre in the Pines.  Rick is very proud to be a member of the Gloucester Rotary Club and served as its President in 2013-14.

An accomplished actor, Rick has performed locally in numerous productions as well as on stages in Boston, New York and London.  Rick has earned praise and positive recognition for his work in several short film projects – in particular earning awards at the Woods Hole Film Festival and the Manhattan Short Film Festival.

Doug Shatford has been a pillar of the Magnolia community for many years. Another Gloucester boy, Doug is a graduate of Gloucester High School and currently is a co-owner of Machine Technology in Beverly.

Doug’s record of service to the community is extensive.  As a long-time coach of youth sports teams, the co-founder of Citizens for Public Safety (a group dedicated to the re-opening of the Magnolia Fire Station), a member and President of the Magnolia Library Board, and a member of the Magnolia Historical Society and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). He also belongs to the Magnolia Lions Club and the Tyrian-Ashler-Acacis Lodge of Masons.

Shatford is a known leader in his community.  Whether working to repair the Magnolia pier or coordinating efforts to assist victims of recent fires, or chairing on the local sports team, Doug serves with enthusiasm, kindness, and humility.

Tickets to the Paul Harris Distinguished Service Award Dinner are $47 per person and may be reserved by contacting event Chairman Steve Kaity at 978-879-1051. The Dinner is open to the general public, and friends and colleagues of Doucette and Shatford are encouraged to attend.

Barnyard Growers

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

 

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Brynn Sibley, Program Assistant, gave a recap of their mission, link to their website to learn more.

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