John Ronan tells us what it means to be Gloucester’s Poet Laureate, the responsibilities that come with the title and more.
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Michael Wall At The American Ship Model Gallery Video
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American Marine Model Gallery
Incredible detail in this museum quality showcase of some of the finest Ship Models anywhere. Be sure to tune in for the four day long video interview series with Michael Wall, the director/owner of American Marine model Gallery.
Here is a cut away version of a ship model- just amazing.
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American Marine Model Gallery
Behind these doors lay a vast collection of beautiful ship models, collected and for sale by Michael Wall. The first installment of our four part video series starts today at 8AM.
Also on tap for today is the first part of my interview with Gloucester’s Poet Laureate, John Ronan.
Sharon’s “Where Zat?” location guessing game will be posted at her normal time of 12PM today, Monday. There’s a lot to look forward to this week, check back, every hour on the hour for a new fresh slice of Gloucester. We have Gloucester restaurant food pics, some new construction updates, derby pictures and interviews. There’s just a ton. Hope you all are enjoying this stuff as much as we’re enjoying bringing it to you.
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Michael Wall’s American Marine Model Gallery
Are you one of those people like me that have walked past the portholes at the American Ship Model Gallery at 20 Pleasant St and wondered what it was like in there?
Well wonder no more my friends because once again your good pal Joey gets inside to bring you behind the scenes and informs you what the heck is going on like no one else.
Look for the first of a four part video series of interviews with Michael Wall starting Monday.
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Chickity Check It- Paul Frontiero Is Blogging
From Paul-
I will be posting My Paintings And a step by step process of my painting, on there.
I will also be featuring other Painters of Cape Ann, and some of my photos of Cape Ann on there also.
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Paul Bruce Represents!
Here’s Paul Bruce. A special shout out to Paul’s wife Lisa Bruce who is a fan of the blog and an avid knitter. Check out Lisa’s knitting website by clicking this text.
You can also check out a slide show of her knitting by clicking Paul’s picture-
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Debara Hafemann Seaglass and Watercolors At Local Colors
Here’s another one of Debara’s pieces in which she combines pieces of sea glass with one of her watercolor paintings.
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Debara Hafemann Seaglass and Watercolors At Local Colors
Debara uses bits of Sea Glass that she finds on the Shores of Gloucester and combines them with her watercolors to create unique pieces that always have a little bit of Gloucester in them no matter where you may hang them.
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John Ronan- Gloucester’s Poet Laureate
John Ronan, Gloucester’s Poet Laureate is looking for some good poetry from local commercial fishermen. If you are a commercial fisherman and do write poetry John would love to feature your work on his site-
gloucesterpoetlaureate.org
Here is John at the Gloucester Guerilla Art Project II/Russo Family Fundraiser-
Thanks To Sharon Lowe for the picture
John also has a website http://www.theronan.org/
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Debara Hafemann Seaglass and Watercolors At Local Colors
Debara is another one of those transplants that found herself in love with Gloucester and instantly realized once she came here that this is where she belongs.
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Isabel Natti Cape Ann Postcard At Alexandra’s Bread
You may recall some of Isabel Natti’s work from the Acorn Press.
You can read all about her by clicking this text
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Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags
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Gloucester Is For (Fish) Lovers Postcard At Alexandra’s Bread
75 cents for a postcard.
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Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags
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Twin Lights Soda Logo T Shirts Exclusive At Alexandra’s Bread
If you were born in Gloucester you remember Twin Lights Soda. You remember those heavy glass soda bottles and you remember the crates that they used to put the heavy glass bottles into. You remember the different cool flavors like birch beer, and cream soda.
Well Alexandra’s Bread exclusively carries Twin Light T Shirts. She had them made up with permission from the bottler. For a little bit of nostalgia, cruise on down to Alexandra’s Bread, grab a cobble or six and check out all teh cool stuff on the walls for sale.
Click here for a story on Twin Lights Bottling from The Salem Evening News
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Alexandra’s Bread Oilcloth Bags
Yesterday I popped into Alexandra’s Bread to grab some cobbles for my girls. You should see Snoop Maddie Mad tear through a cobble, she loves em!
But they always have some funky cool stuff for sale and Alexandra changes up the product mix all the time.
Here are some bags made from oil cloth. There were also place mats, baby bibs and other items made from oil cloth.
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GMG Q&A- Emile Doucette
Emile Doucette is one of the original Gloucester Guerillas. He displayed some of the work from Bait and Tackle ad agency at the second Block Party and also the first GGAP presentation at Cape Ann Community Cinema.
Emile, Chad Carlberg and the Bait and Tackle crew recently won an award for the short picture film Daughters of Dogtown which we showed at the first GGAP officially sanctioned event.
He is an amazing videographer and editor and we’re gonna blow the roof off this summer with some big time Guerilla style Art projects (stay tuned)!
How long have you lived in Gloucester?
Since I was 2.
What is your favorite season in Gloucester?
Spring.
Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get
away”?
The UMASS marine station at Hodgkins Cove.
What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?
Leonardo’s.
What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?
Virgilio’s.
What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?
Lat 43.
What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?
Pilot House.
What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?
George’s.
What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?
Lanesville 4th of July Parade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BfXgK5brhE)
In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?
Boat.
Who is your favorite local artist?
John Sarkin.
Which is your favorite local beach?
Plum Cove.
Who has the best chowder in town?
Capt. Carlos.
Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?
Clam.
What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?
Awesome, but lets have more live music.
What is your favorite local band?
Mine. (http://www.myspace.com/backbeatband)
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Movie – “Greenheads”
GREENHEADS
Wed., Feb. 18 @ 7:15pm
Cape Ann Community Cinema
267 East Main Street
East Gloucester
978/282-1988
Sometime painter Sam Holdsworth painted a series of 38 oil panels which were an imaginative, sideways tribute to that local summertime menace, the Tabanus americanus — or Greenhead horse fly. This short film, produced and narrated by Holdsworth’s Musician Magazine co-founder, Gordon Baird, is a simultaneously amusing and haunting short film, portraying the carnivorous creatures as human-like and alien at the same time.
Mr. Baird will be on hand to present the film and conduct a Q&A after the show, which is presented at the special discount price of $5.00, proceeds from which will benefit the Matteo Russo Fund. A selection of Gloucester-related short subjects will precede the film.
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Movie – “Visible Silence”
VISIBLE SILENCE: MARSDEN HARTLEY, PAINTER AND POET
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH @ 7:15PM
***DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE***
THE CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA
(AT GLOUCESTER STAGE)
267 EAST MAIN STREET * EAST GLOUCESTER * 978/282-1988
This is the first documentary ever made about world-renowned painter Marsden Hartley. It was written, directed, and narrated by Michael Maglaras of 217 Films, who will be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions following the screening.
“Visible Silence” features 43 Hartley paintings and sketches as well as many photographs of Hartley — from early youth to his final years as “Maine’s Painter.” Drawing heavily from his poetical works, this documentary, a deeply personal statement by Maglaras, captures the essence of Hartley — long considered one of the fathers of American Modernism.
Hartley spent his life traveling the world in search of remote and forbidding landscapes. A critical period for Hartley was his stay in Gloucester in the 1930’s, where he painted his “Dogtown” series.
“The two periods in Hartley’s creative life, first in 1920 and then again in 1931 when he went to Gloucester and to Cape Ann to paint, left us some of the most wonderful and exciting work of Hartley’s career,” said Maglaras. “Hartley fell in love with the area around Gloucester, known as Dogtown, and from his humble boarding house at #1 Eastern Point Road, reported to friends that ‘… a sense of eeriness pervades all the place; the white ghosts of those huge boulders stand like sentinels guarding nothing but space.’”
An entire section of this film is devoted to an important early painting, “Carnival of Autumn,” which is in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Also featured is the late painting “Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain” from the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.
In 2008, a Hartley painting sold for $6.31 million, setting an auction record at Christie’s for an American Modernist work, overtaking a record previously held by a work of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Check out Gail McCarthy’s great article from last Thursday’s GD Times.
Director Michael Maglaras will be on-hand to present the film and conduct a Q&A after the show, and will be joined by Mary Beth Bainbridge of the Peabody-Essex Museum.
- “Dogtown” (1931) by Marsden Hartley, oil on canvas, h: 18 x w: 24 in / h: 45.7 x w: 61 cm
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