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Daisy Nell at East Gloucester Elementary
Daisy Nell at East Gloucester Elementary
In keeping with the Gloucester 400+ commemoration, First R Foundation will continue reading books featuring Gloucester writers, illustrators, and themes to the kindergarteners and first graders in Gloucester’s public schools. Local favorite Daisy Nell will read to the kindergarteners at East Gloucester Elementary School on May 3 and the first graders of West Parish School… Continue reading Daisy Nell at East Gloucester Elementary
Sea Urchin Secrets: The Spiny Science of Longevity
Sea Urchin Secrets: The Spiny Science of Longevity
Please join us in person as GMGI comes to Gloucester City Hall's Kyrouz Auditorium! Doors open at 5:30pm, presentation begins at 6pm. The oceans are home to the Earth’s longest-lived animals, including some that can live for centuries or even millennia. Remarkably, these long-lived marine animals remain healthy and disease-free throughout their lives. Understanding how… Continue reading Sea Urchin Secrets: The Spiny Science of Longevity
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Daisy Nell at West Parish School
Daisy Nell at West Parish School
In keeping with the Gloucester 400+ commemoration, First R Foundation will continue reading books featuring Gloucester writers, illustrators, and themes to the kindergarteners and first graders in Gloucester’s public schools. Local favorite Daisy Nell will read to the kindergarteners at East Gloucester Elementary School on May 3 and the first graders of West Parish School… Continue reading Daisy Nell at West Parish School
Native Waters; Native Lands – Wetu Installation at CAM Green
Native Waters; Native Lands – Wetu Installation at CAM Green
Native Waters; Native Lands – Wetu Installation at CAM Green CAM Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA Free and open to the public Join the Cape Ann Museum and SmokeSygnals, a Wampanoag creative production firm, for the installation of a wetu (traditional home) at CAM Green on Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6.… Continue reading Native Waters; Native Lands – Wetu Installation at CAM Green
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Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum: Maryellen Lepionka
Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum: Maryellen Lepionka
Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum Mary Ellen Lepionka of Gloucester is an independent scholar researching the Indigenous history of Essex County from the last Ice Age to around 1700 for a book on the subject. Some chapters have been published on capeannhistory.org. Mary Ellen is a retired college instructor, textbook developer, author, and publisher with… Continue reading Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum: Maryellen Lepionka
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GEF Gloucester Student Arts Festival
GEF Gloucester Student Arts Festival
GEF Gloucester Student Arts Festival Showcasing + Creating Art as a Gloucester Community After a three-year hiatus, the Gloucester Education Foundation and Gloucester Public Schools are thrilled to relaunch the Gloucester Student Arts Festival, a daylong celebration of the arts in the Gloucester Public Schools! The festival will take place on Saturday, May 13 from noon-5pm… Continue reading GEF Gloucester Student Arts Festival
Fish Tales: Moms
Fish Tales: Moms
Join us for the mother of all Fish Tales: MOMS! Tickets now on sale! Celebrate, remember, laugh, and more at our storytelling showcase, where local voices fill Gloucester Stage with true Mom stories, told live. Fish Tales. True stories, told live. Since its first iteration in 2013 to today, the Gloucester Writers Center’s “Moth”-like… Continue reading Fish Tales: Moms
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Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert
Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert
The Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert Presenting the joyous, fun filled music of Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Haydn's delightful "Clock" Symphony. We conclude with Brahms' incredibly powerful, yet lyrical Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring the incredible pianist Michael Lewin. If this doesn't bring everyone out of their… Continue reading Cape Ann Symphony Presents: The Colors of Music Concert
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Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett
Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett
Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett Mr. Barlett will present artifacts unearthed from cellars in the historic Dogtown region of Gloucester and Rockport revealing much of what colonial life was like on Cape Ann. The Dogtown artifact collection spans from the 1920s through to 2023.… Continue reading Unboxing Dogtown – Presented by Leslie Bartlett
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Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration
Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration
Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration CAMTalks, Community Programs, Music and Performance with the Dineh Tah Navajo Dancers Buy Tickets 11:00 am presentation in the CAM Auditorium, 27 Pleasant St, Gloucester MA 1:30 pm performance at CAM Green, 13 Poplar St, Gloucester MA Registration required for all attendees. Free for members, $20 for non-members This May, the… Continue reading Colonel Samuel Tappan and the Navajo Treaty 155th Commemoration
Ribbon Cutting & Open House
Ribbon Cutting & Open House
Please join us for an Open House and Ribbon Cutting on Friday, May 19, from 5 - 7pm at 123 Main Street. See our newly redecorated Visitor's Center and meet the Gloucester 400+ team. Special thanks to the generosity of Cape Ann Savings Bank, for donating our office space. Stop by to say hello and… Continue reading Ribbon Cutting & Open House
Dogtown Common Theatre Production
Dogtown Common Theatre Production
BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines, shunned for… Continue reading Dogtown Common Theatre Production
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Dogtown Common Theatre Production
Dogtown Common Theatre Production
BUY YOUR TICKET HERE! Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines,… Continue reading Dogtown Common Theatre Production
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Souls of the Sea
Souls of the Sea
NOW ON SUNDAY, MAY 21!! UPDATE: DUE TO WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY ONE DAY from the original date AND WILL TAKE PLACE SAME TIME, SAME LOCATION ON SUNDAY MAY 21 Join us for this FREE concert on the wharf of Maritime Gloucester featuring band members: Allan Estes, Sal Baglio, Matt Levinworth,… Continue reading Souls of the Sea
Images from the James Webb Telescope
Images from the James Webb Telescope
Dana Hersey Narrating Images from the James Webb Telescope with Organ Improvisations by Peter Krasinski. More information coming soon!
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Gloucester and the War of 1898
Gloucester and the War of 1898
Library Discussion GLOUCESTER AND THE WAR OF 1898 Mrs. Brooks's Monument Explained with Wayne Soini In honor of Gloucester’s 400+ Anniversary, local historian Wayne Soini will present Gloucester's Company G Volunteers and the U.S.S. Gloucester in the War of 1898 at the Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives on Tuesday, May 23 at 11:00 am. Significantly, 2023 also… Continue reading Gloucester and the War of 1898
From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig
From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig
Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig Back when he was serving as the Associate Curator for the Permanent Collection at the Cape Ann Historical Association (today’s Cape Ann Museum) award-winning curator and author… Continue reading From Fitz Henry Lane to the Future: a Brief History of the Fine Arts in Gloucester – James A. Craig
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Literary Gloucester; A Walking Tour
Literary Gloucester; A Walking Tour
RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE! Sponsored by the 400th+ Literary Committee Gloucester has been home to great writers since at least the early nineteenth century when Judith Sargent Murray penned her feminist poems. T.S. Eliot, Nobel Prize winner, spent nearly every summer of his boyhood in Gloucester and themes of the sea… Continue reading Literary Gloucester; A Walking Tour
Sargent House Museum Opening Day
Sargent House Museum Opening Day
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday with tours on the hour at 12 noon, 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm Memorial Day-Labor Day; Saturday and Sunday only Labor Day-Indigenous People's Day Admission $12; Seniors $10; Students $5; Members Free Learn the history of Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (1751-1820), a philosopher, writer and an early advocate of… Continue reading Sargent House Museum Opening Day
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2023 Memorial Day Celebration
2023 Memorial Day Celebration
Please stay tuned for more details on location, time, and registration for this event.
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Main Street & Downtown – presented by Beth Welin
Main Street & Downtown – presented by Beth Welin
Gloucester 400+ Lecture Series at Hammond Castle Museum Main Street & Downtown – presented by Beth Welin Beth Welin, Collections Manager at Hammond Castle Museum, will present the program “Gloucester’s Main Street Through the Ages.” Utilizing old maps, photos and postcards we will take a “stroll” down Main Street seeing former buildings and businesses that… Continue reading Main Street & Downtown – presented by Beth Welin
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Pride Flag Raising at City Hall
Pride Flag Raising at City Hall
Pride Flag Raising at City Hall The Pride flag raising at Gloucester City Hall will take place on Wednesday, May 31, at 2:30 p.m., continuing an annual tradition of acceptance and respect in Gloucester. The event kicks off Pride Month in June, which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer pride and culture. A proclamation… Continue reading Pride Flag Raising at City Hall
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Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
Now in its 40th year, the Cape Ann Artisans Open Studios offers a unique opportunity to visit artists in their studios for several select weekends each year. If you have never done this before, you are in for a treat. You will meander along the coast of Gloucester and Rockport peeking into hidden drives and… Continue reading Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
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William Haskell House Tours
William Haskell House Tours
RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE! Built at West Gloucester beside a salt marsh by west-englishman William Haskell in 1680, the simple yet grand farmstead was the foundation for the Haskell family in New England. They lived a quiet, simple but difficult frontier life growing crops and raising livestock among the marsh; harvesting hay and sailing it… Continue reading William Haskell House Tours
Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
Now in its 40th year, the Cape Ann Artisans Open Studios offers a unique opportunity to visit artists in their studios for several select weekends each year. If you have never done this before, you are in for a treat. You will meander along the coast of Gloucester and Rockport peeking into hidden drives and… Continue reading Cape Ann Artisans Spring 40th Anniversary Open Studios
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