Bouquet Sale

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Thank you, Generous Gardeners, for all your hard work and the beautiful flowers.

 

 

The most beautiful event of the year is the

Generous Gardeners

Stacy Boulevard Dahlia Bouquet Sale

Saturday October 4th at 10:00 by the tennis courts

Generous Gardeners volunteers will be cutting and arranging the amazing dahlias for sale to the public Saturday morning. The flowers will be in vases or plastic sleeves for you to transport home. The dahlias are spectacular this year, so be sure to see the show of flowers before this event. Arrangements will not be set aside or pre-sold.

We do expect the flowers to continue blooming, so if you cannot make it this Saturday, after October 11th, find Antonietta on the boulevard (or call or text her at the number below) over the next few weeks and she will make individual arrangements for you to purchase up until first frost. The dahlias need to recover from this big cutting so this will not be until a week after the sale. After that we will be digging out the plants to store for the winter. We will not be selling tubers this fall. Any extra dahlia tubers will be sold at our spring plant sale that is always the Saturday before Memorial Day.

Thank you for your support.

Susan Kelly

781-346-1363

Antonietta Calabrese

978-907-2675

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flowers

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

The flowers on the Boulevard, get more and more beautiful every time I walk Stacy Boulevard.  The colors are amazing, and we need to thank Generous Gardners every day.

 

We help families build smart education plans that support your children or grandchildren — without sacrificing your own financial security.

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From 529s to custom investment strategies, we help you stay ahead of rising costs while keeping your goals in focus.

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Surfside Subs and Pizza Friday 10/3🍕🍔

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Route 133 Auto

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Gloucester, MA

Call or stop by to schedule a detail, maintenance, service, tinting, PPF, used car sales and financing and more.

We are also a MA State Inspection site.

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Saturday

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RailWay

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Now that I live in East Gloucester I spend a lot of time walking around Rocky Neck and the Railways. It really is such a unique place full of the coolest nooks and crannies.

Fall Visit To Russell Orchard

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We stopped by Russell Orchard on Argilla Rd in Ipswich for our annual fall visit and were not disappointed. There happened to be several preschoolers there for what looked like a story hour. Bonus cuteness points! Apple picking is in progress, pumpkins plentiful and cider donuts are fresh. We love swinging by there and never fail to pick up some yummy treats.

Happy 🍁🍁🍁 Friday Cape Ann From Cape Ann Coffee🥯 ❤️❤️❤️!

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We’ll be open this Saturday & Sunday 8:00 am – 11 am or sellout at 1 Whistlestop Mall in Rockport. Bagel of the week: Asiago

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Update :Project Elm From Cape an Elm In Our Back Yard 3/3/23 to 10/1/25

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10/1/25
3/31/2023

Click here to get your elm tree planted:

https://www.capeannelms.com/

Project Elm

Making Cape Ann GREEN again,
one tree at a time.

Reserve Your Trees Now

We are now accepting tree requests for 2023 as we aim for 1000 Elm trees planted in 10 years—only 825 to go! So far this year our trees are free, thanks to many generous donors who are paying it forward so Cape Ann folk can plant beautiful elms!

And our dedicated volunteers will plant the tree(s) for you on the Cape Ann site you select. So what are you waiting for? Sign up for a gorgeous elm in your yard and help us by picking a site that is street facing so that we can help recreate the cathedral like “elm effect” all over Cape Ann like so many years ago and fight climate change at the same time!

Donations to help fund our efforts are deeply appreciated. Though we are not yet a 501c3 organization and therefore donations are not yet tax deductible, they will help us do what we do best—buy and plant elm trees all over Cape Ann. Thank you.

This year we, in honor of Gloucester’s 400th Anniversary, we are partnering with Biomimicy of New England to support 400 Trees Gloucester—an effort two plant that many trees in Gloucester over the next two years. All trees requested in Gloucester this year and next as a part of Cape Ann Elms will count towards this special tree initiative. Help us!

Thank you!

Footprints in the Sand

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Good Harbor on Wednesday afternoon was clear and crisp.  Taking a walk on the beach takes all the stress of the day away.  Grateful.

Deb Read Named Goetemann Artist in Residence at Rocky Neck

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Does Art Have to Be an Object?

Deborah Read Named Goetemann Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Neck, October 2025

Gloucester, MA — This October, Gloucester-based artist Deborah Read joins the Goetemann Artist Residency at Rocky Neck Art Colony with a deceptively simple but urgent inquiry: Does art have to be an object?

For Read, the answer has long been “not necessarily.” Her interdisciplinary practice—spanning installation, performance, writing, and collaborative projects—frames art as an act of generosity. As co-founder of Gallery RAG in Gloucester and the international foundation Art+Everywhere, she has created platforms that dissolve boundaries between artist and audience, centering collaboration, care, and mutual support.

Read’s projects invite participation and dialogue: immersive performances with Coco Haze that turn galleries into collective canvases, hybrid works with poet Joel Iwaskiewicz where language becomes performance, and community-based installations like Tejido Vivo, which weave craft traditions into living art. In each case, connection outweighs the object itself.

Her foundation Art+Everywhere embodies this vision, described by Read as “a global, artist-led ecosystem built on mutual generosity.” Its mission: expand access to funding, programming, and creative opportunities while removing barriers of gatekeeping institutions. “The challenge is not scarcity, but activation,” Read explains. “Compassion already exists—in hundreds of hands and eyes—ready to help.”

At Rocky Neck, her residency continues this ethos—not as a retreat into isolation, but as a public process of listening, generating, and sharing. “The question is never just ‘what did I make,’ but ‘what did we generate together?’ Generosity is generative—it can enrich lives, spaces, and even economies.”

Public Programs:

  • Artist Talk — October 5 from 4-5PM at Rocky Neck Cultural Center
  • Open Studios — October 27 and 29, from 12-2PM at Gallery RAG
  • Culminating Talk — October 30 at 6PM at Gallery RAG

For Rocky Neck—a community shaped by both maritime labor and artistic innovation—Read’s residency is both a philosophical question and a practical experiment: What if art is not possession, but presence? Not scarcity, but abundance?

Grove Street Self Storage

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Gloucester, MA

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