These old hooks are in the rectory wall outside the back door. I don’t know what they are for… The bricks themselves are pretty old, and have developed interesting cracks on the ends, almost as if they were blocks of wood:
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Update: Series- A question About The 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey- A Gloucester Fisherman
Jonathan Olly writes-
Hello Joey C,
While doing a Google search just now I came across the postcard you posted on March 22 of the old fisherman posing in oilskins. Would you happen to know the name of this man? I ask because I’m a graduate student down here in Providence, RI, and I’m writing a dissertation chapter on old salts. They’re found around the world, but in the United States they’re almost exclusively found in New England. Your postcard photo (which is rare, and one of the old salt postcards I’m still hunting for) may have been done by Gloucester photographer/engineer Herman Spooner, who photographed a number of retired fishermen (John Scott, Lemuel Friend, Oliver Emerton, and David Stanwood among them). But, I don’t recall seeing this image in his photo collection at the Cape Ann Museum. So if you have any additional information about your postcard I’d be happy to hear it.
Best regards,
Jonathan
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Vintage & Recycled Goods Shop Photos
Last Saturday was a good time at the Tusinski Gallery for the opening of The Roving Home’s (re)Cycled show – just in time for Earth Day. I even spotted a GMG contributor, Father Matthew Green! To check out the show in person, stop by the Tusinski Gallery at 2 Main Street in Rockport, open Thursday through Monday 11 – 5. For more information feel free to e-mail me at therovinghome@gmail.com. If you would like to be on our mailing list to find out when & where The Roving Home’s events will be held, sign up through this link. Thanks to those of you who stopped in and I hope to see the rest of you who are interested in vintage interiors and design before the pop-up shop & show ends on May 13th!
– Sarah
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Series- 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey- Steamer City of Gloucester
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Series- Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey
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Series- 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey- Annisquam Yacht Club House and River View
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Series- 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey–Long Beach
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Series- 100 year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey- Fish Houses Lanesville
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Series- 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey- Gloucester High School
Can anyone guess what this building is called now?
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The Colonial Arms Grand Hotel Eastern Point Gloucester- Series- 100 Year Old Gloucester Postcards From Peter Dorsey
Peter writes-
Joey,
I have a big box of old postcards, and I realize that a few of them are from Gloucester, Mass. Perhaps your readers would like to see some of them. I’ll send you a few here. Maybe I can find some more in my big box. I’ll send them from time to time; if you like. My father was born in a house near the cut in 1919, and his father worked as a scientist for Mr. Hammond (of the castle);so I have a historical attachment to Gloucester.
I always think its amazing to see the changes that occur in just 100 years, and am glad to have the chance to study old pictures and share them when I can.
I really enjoy Good Morning Gloucester!
Peter Dorsey
Good Morning Gloucester 