My View of Life on the Dock
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone they have perfect plates of food to go with reasonably priced beer and wine surrounded by fantastic local art.
I’ll keep the address out of this post knowing there’s no way anyone would do a Siri or Google search to find out it’s location. 😁 IYKYK
Shhhhhhhhhh!
After the snow, ice and sleet, Friday’s clouds, sun and ocean were stunning.
Frostbitten…
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Trying out something new. Small flowerpot, with seeds, with ap photo on the front and any saying you would like on the back.
Hoping for continued success for the wrestlers on Day 2 of All States & Girls State Championships at Reading HS: M Toppan 195lb -Semi’s J Toppan 220lb -Semi’s M Pennimpede 127lb – Semi’s B Militello 127lb – Consolation
Best of luck to Colby Rochford competing in the 600m at the Meet of Campions today at the Reggie Lewis Center.
Big couple of days in Reading. Best of luck to Bailee & Morgan in the Girls State Championship & Michael, Jayden, & Joe in the All States Championship!
Because I like to challenge myself now and again, I decided to join a recent “Paint Afternoon” held on Lexington Ave in Magnolia organized by Sue Wheeler of Arts Abound. Audi Souza patiently led about 20 of us through painting a seascape with acrylics. Many of us (shooting my hand in the air) are total novices so patience and humor were key elements for success and Audi did a great job managing all of us. Additional art and paint classes are being organized and I suggest you check Arts Abound Magnolia on Facebook for further information and updates. Upcoming artists include Sue Ingram and Ann Klein. With questions or to register email: artsaboundmagnolia@gmail.com. Sue is very responsive. My own “creation” is nothing to hang on a wall, but it’s all mine. Here’s the seascape goal we were aiming for and I end with my partial project before it went totally awry.
Welcome to the 2023 Bluefin Blowout!
Captain: James Alvarez
Boat: Dogbar
Registration is now open!
https://bit.ly/2023CaptainRegistration
July 24 – Bluefin Bash Fundraiser
July 25-27 – Bluefin Blowout Tournament
*Tournament dates subject to change
3/24/2023. Now/Then
One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, remembering early 20th C. Ukrainian immigrant artists and Ukrainian American artists including Alexander Archipenko, David Burliuk, Jack Delano, Sonia Delaunay, Chaim Gross, Louis Lozowick, (Kazimir) Malevich, Jules Olitski, Louise Nevelson, Milton Resnick; also, New York’s first women dealer, Edith Halpert, who founded The Downtown Gallery. (Halpert represented Stuart Davis and dedicated several solo exhibitions for him despite lack of sales.)
A few traveled with or visited friends in Gloucester as they built their lives anew.
Reading The Holodomor Memorial 1932-33 at Grand Park in Los Angeles, CA.–dedicated in 1986, the first such tribute in the United States–is devastating, and through the lens of today’s war may fuel a greater understanding of the Ukrainian fight for freedom.
As of January 2021, the Senate and House or Representatives have recognized the famine as man made and an act of genocide. Timeline roundup of the US Senate here and current US House of Representatives resolution (excerpt below):
“…Whereas title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 (Public Law 99–180; 99 Stat. 1157), signed into law on December 13, 1985, established the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to “conduct a study of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 in order to expand the world’s knowledge of the famine and provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role” in it;
Whereas the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933: Report to Congress, adopted by the Commission, April 19, 1988, and submitted to Congress April 22, 1988, found that in 1932 and 1933, the Government of the Soviet Union had committed genocide against the Ukrainian people;
Whereas with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival documents confirmed the premeditated nature of the famine and exposed the atrocities suffered by the Ukrainian people;…”
Running Tide…
Good Morning Gloucester 