My View of Life on the Dock
The polling has shown fairly consistently that approximately 60 percent are in favor of multi-colored lights and 40 percent favor warm white lights.
The final number as of 6pm tonight is that of the 1,605 people who participated, 58.75 percent voted for multi-colored lights and 39.31 percent voted for warm white lights (1.9 percent voted for other).
Thank you so much to Everyone for voting!!!
This year David Brooks and Crew are leaving it up to the community to vote on whether warm white or multi-colored lights are preferred. The voting ends at 6pm on Tuesday, December 3rd.
Please vote your preference for Gloucester’s unique and beautiful Lobster Trap Tree. Thank you!
This year David Brooks and Crew are leaving it up to the community to vote on whether warm white or multi-colored lights are preferred. The voting ends at 6pm on Tuesday, December 3rd.
Please vote your preference for Gloucester’s unique and beautiful Lobster Trap Tree. Thank you!
By noon today the super dedicated Lobster Trap Tree building team had made great headway. With snow predicted for tomorrow, the crew plans to have the tree built by day’s end. Don’t let the photos deceive; Shawn Henry was wearing shorts but it was frigid at noon and only getting colder as the day progressed.
Many thanks to Three Lanterns Marine for providing the 360 lobster traps required to construct the tree.
Mayor Sefatia and granddaughters, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce CEO Ken Riehl, and Gloucester’s Economic Development Director Sal Di Stefano and his wife Maria (and kids), all stopped by to check on the tree’s progress while they were out shopping local for Small Business Saturday.
Please vote your preference for either warm white lights or multi-colored lights for Gloucester’s unique and beautiful Lobster Trap Tree. Thank you!
Monday, December 2, 2019 2:30 – 4:30pm at East Gloucester Elementary School
It’s that time of year when the awesome David Brooks and Crew are once again constructing Gloucester’s famous and fabulous Lobster Trap Tree. Friday morning, the base of the tree and entrances were laid out and tomorrow, Saturday, construction will be complete. The lights won’t go up for several days.
This year David is leaving it up to the community to vote on whether warm white or multi-colored lights are preferred. The voting ends at 6pm on Tuesday, December 3rd.
Please vote your preference for Gloucester’s unique and beautiful Lobster Trap Tree. Thank you!
Jason Burroughs, Shawn Henry, Shane O’Neil, and David Brooks laying out the tree.
Thank you Jessica for sharing -Love the the portrait of Finny ❤
THANKS SO MUCH KEN!
Kim and Ralph DiGiorgio
The Dubinskis and fellow Dolliver’s Neck neighbors
The lobster trap tree in downtown Gloucester at Main and Pleasant Streets basked in glorious early morning light and festooned with buoys hand painted by kids at Cape Ann Art Haven.
A welcome pause any time any vantage.
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Inside of the Lobster Trap Tree.
The first one I saw in 2012 was amazing and it gets better every year! From the days of stacked traps and colored lights we now have a wider base with doorways opening the inside with cantilevered traps opening up the center of the tree for a great view from inside, a look at the dome and viewing a light show of Christmas Colors on the floor. (The lightshow with its colored moving dots of light brought back memories of college…but that’s another story!) The stack is tighter and now the traps are color coordinated Yellow and Green by level and the colored lights have given way to energy efficient white LEDs. The yearly engineering advances allow for more and more hand painted buoys from the kids at Art Haven. Hard to imagine anything more spirit lifting than just walking past the tree, not to mention spending some time in it and around! I met two photographers who were waiting for the light to go down and then were going from Gloucester to Rockport, ME and Portland to capture some other trap trees. Their take? Others might be a little taller but none are better than Gloucester’s tree!
Lobster Trap Tree Legend!
Legend has it if you share a kiss with your sweetheart under the lite Lobster Trap Tree you will be blessed with health, wealth and happiness for the next year.
Love the new wood signs heralding the Lobster Trap Tree lighting on Saturday, December 10th, just after a fun-filled day of Middle Street walk festivities.
The tree looks gorgeous already, but just wait until it’s trimmed with buoys hand-painted by children in our community under the direction of Cape Ann Art Haven and with the help of volunteers! The After is priceless and original. Thank you Cape Ann Art Haven and all who help to make this tradition happen in Gloucester. Wreaths and lights on the street lamps are readied by the City, Gloucester Downtown Association, and Ringo Tarr.
The Prettiest Tree in All The Land, Inside and Out!
Inside looking up
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Photo by: Samantha Barrett
Our beautiful Lobster Trap Tree is being built on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 9:00 am. For more information you can email David Brooks at David@arthaven.org.
Even though it was cold, we managed to get the Lobster Trap tree put up. We want to thank all the volunteers, Hiltz and the Building Center.
Good Morning Gloucester 