My name is Marissa and I work with The Lexington Ave Block Party Committee. Our team here is working to facilitate the upcoming August Block Party to supporters and community members like you.
This past weekend, we had over 500 guests come to our block party, where we had many vendors fill the streets.. We offered music by Soul Rebel Project as well a kid zone filled with bounce houses, a dunk tank and other things for kids of all ages to do. Many food trucks also attended the event!
We are expecting August’s event to be an even larger turn out!
But events like this can be expensive, and to make sure our operations run smoothly and our guests receive the best experience possible, we need your help. With entertainment costs, and more, a sponsorship from your organization will bring us closer to having the perfect event.
There are different levels of sponsorship see as follows: Platinum – $1,000 Bronze – $500 Gold – $250 Silver $100
If you choose to sponsor our event, you will be advertised on all of our flyers and marketing materials for the event.
Please contact us at marissa@lcompanies.com if you have any questions or are interested in becoming a sponsor.
Thank you, The Lexington Ave Block Party Committee
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Artist Mary Faino has collaborated once again with writer S.D. Kelly in the creation of a picture book for children, this time featuring the historic port city of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Called A Day in Gloucester, the book highlights notable landmarks in and around Gloucester Harbor by taking the reader on a journey, beginning just before sunrise and ending just after nightful. A Day in Gloucester even includes a foray into deeper waters in its depiction of whales at play, a nod to Gloucester’s reputation as a premier whale-watching location.
Artist Mary Faino has created original artwork for the book, combining paper art collage with gouache painting, accompanied by evocative text from S.D. Kelly. This collaborative effort has produced a book that captures various Gloucester scenes – everything from the West End to the Paint Factory to the Boulevard – in a way that both residents and visitors can appreciate. And while designed for children, A Day in Gloucester provides the perfect snapshot of America’s oldest port for readers of all ages.
A Day in Gloucester is the latest in a series of books from Mary Faino and S.D. Kelly. Previous releases include A Day in Rockport and Rome: a Day.
A Day in Gloucester can be purchased at The Bookstore in Gloucester and at The Paper Mermaid in Rockport. A book launch with both the artist and writer available to sign books will be held at The Paper Mermaid, 57 Main Street in Rockport, on Saturday July 29th from 6-8pm. Original artwork created for the book will also be on display. For more information, contact the store at 978-546-3553.
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Perhaps you get more visitors in the summer than any other time of the year…..similar to our experience in the backyard of our Magnolia home. These were from one recent early evening. It’s why I keep my camera charged at all times.
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When you win you can talk all you want and Junior Dunne has done just that, winning 🥇 🥇 two @bluefinblowout tournaments on two different boats and last year doing it on the slowest boat in the fleet. He says he has some tricks up his sleeve for this year’s tournament which Good Morning Gloucester will be broadcasting live start to finish. We can’t wait!!! Come say hi to us in the broadcast booth!!!
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Captain Evangeline is a USCG Licensed Captain, Master and Coast Guard Auxiliary Member with a lifetime of experience in the Cape Ann area. She and her team of widely experienced captains provide onboard boating lessons in and around Cape Ann, Massachusetts to people of all ages who want to learn how to safely operate or be crew on a small power boat with utmost confidence. Want to BE A BETTER BOATER? Schedule your lesson today!
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While I was in Seward with the Slonina Photography Alaska Tour, we went on two full day boat tours of the Kenai Pennisula and were fortunate to come upon humpback whales each day. These groups of maybe 8 whales were displaying many familiar behaviors such as lunge feeding, pec slapping, tail lobbing, and breaching. The first day, we accidentally found ourselves VERY close to the lunge feeding. You get an idea how close from the video as well as the photos.
As spectacular as it was, I found I was missing the kind of teaching information provided by our local tours such as Cape Ann Whale Watch. Since I’ve been out several times with the Cape Ann Whale Watch crew, I have learned a great deal about whale behaviors. I am grateful for that because I was able to share that information with my fellow photographers who were less experienced with whale encounters. No fault of the Seward boat operators–our boat tours there were not designed to be research oriented though there was a helpful naturalist on board. I guess I didn’t know how fortunate we are to be able to take advantage of the educational opportunities from our very own Gloucester captains and crews. But I got some pretty wonderful whale photos and I hope you enjoy! Cape Ann Whale Watch is located on Main St in Gloucester.
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Edward Hopper in Nyack | Hudson River and Hook Mountain & Nyack Beach Loop, Palisades Park
American Artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) was born and raised in Nyack, Rockland County, New York. The home he grew up in still stands because local stewards obtained its landmark status in the 1970s and eventually designation as an important historic house museum, The Edward Hopper House Museum & Research Center.
Hopper’s boyhood home on 82 North Broadway was perched on a rise with an unobstructed view downhill to the magnificent Hudson River with easy access to an active waterfront and smack dab in the middle of two worlds.
Stepping out the front door To the Right
To the right, it was a short walk to a cityscape: his father’s store, the train station, and all that was necessary for commerce in a bustling town at the turn of the century.
To the Left
To the left and surrounding streets nearby, it was a short walk to residential neighborhoods with a handsome array of American architectural styles common on the East Coast–but unique town by town.
photos above: Catherine Ryan. 718 North Broadway, Nyack | Edward Hopper. Seven AM. 1948. Whitney Museum
FURTHER LEFT to HOOK MOUNTAIN
Further on to the left (less than 5 miles) it was a quick trip by bike to a range of scenic landscapes: rural, farm and river view estates–until the last stop—the rugged wildness of Hook Mountain, a local icon (and historic landmark for navigation), part of the Palisades park system, with stunning cliff views.
In recent years trail advocates established a complete Hook Mountain and Nyack Beach loop that’s about six miles RT. It’s awesome.
HOPPER PULSE | HALLMARK HORIZONTAL COMPOSITION
We can traverse Nyack’s particular stretch of riverfront geography because North Broadway–on the street where Edward Hopper lived and returned to–bisects the terrain parallel to the river. No matter which direction one ambles, the reassuring view of the Hudson and distant riverbank stays fixed, stretching horizontally as far as the eye can see.
Westchester, Tarrytown across the river (and on a sunny day the Tarrytown lighthouse is visible)
Above: OAK HILL CEMETERY NYACK
Of all the places he resided or visited, he chose to be buried in Nyack. Turns out, you can’t take Hopper out of Nyack.
In Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, the grave of Edward Hopper and Jo Nivison are next to his parents and sister, high above the family home on North Broadway, with a view of the Hudson River and the unmistakable distant shore. And sited–fittingly for Hopper–on a corner, at a bend where paths converge.
American theater legend, Helen Hayes (Helen Hayes MacArthur, 1900-1993), owned a riverfront estate across the street and a few blocks down the road from the Hopper family home, humorously nicknamed ‘Pretty Penny’ (in the block of house photos above), and drawn resentfully by Hopper when Hayes commissioned a house portrait through his art dealer or so she wrote. (I may write more about that.) The painting was hung prominently and visible in publicity stills .
Hayes is buried in Nyack’s Oak Hill Cemetery further down Oak hill from the Hopper markers. There are four flat markers flush with the grass for her family. Sadly, her daughter died in 1949 at age 19 from polio before the vaccine.
The grave for American artist Joseph Cornell is located down and off to the right of Hayes.
Edward Hopper in Gloucester
Hopper’s impressions of Nyack are repeated in his art throughout his life.
Good Morning Gloucester 