Movie night Wednesday. Hey Joey C Gmg every Wednesday Homey comes sits on the movie screen and keeps us company. Thank you sponsors.

Backyard Growers is holding our second cooking workshop as we have the second harvest of 2016!

This August class is the second class in a series of three seasonal cooking workshops (May, August, and October) that Backyard Growers is launching to celebrate local seasonal produce. All workshops are held in the dining room of The Open Door. Each August course is the same curriculum.

These workshops will focus on sharing delicious, healthy, seasonal-produce based, easy, kid-friendly, cheap, and fast recipes with you and your family. Beyond being practical, these workshops will be hands on, fun, and you won’t leave hungry! This is a family workshop so please bring your kids if they are 5+ and remember to wear clothing you don’t mind cooking in!

Dates: Tuesday August 2, 23, 31 6:30-8:30PM

Payment:

• 2016 Backyard Garden Program participant: Free (and 2/3 Mandatory)
• 2015 Backyard Garden Program participant: Free
• Community Garden Participant: Pay as you can
• Past Community or Backyard Garden Program participant: $10
• Community Member: $20 per person

There is limited space in each workshop so reserve your spot here soon!

We are also looking for volunteers for upcoming events. For more info see our NSUW page.

Friday, July 29

10:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m.

The Cape Ann Museum invites you to experience 19th century Gloucester history as this walking tour leads you through the neighborhoods and waterfront that inspired the artwork of native son Fitz Henry Lane.

Participants are encouraged to bring smart phones or tablets in order to use the rich sources of information in the newly released Fitz Henry Lane Online catalog raisonne. During this walk, you will connect specific locations to the paintings they inspired by accessing the online catalog. Alternative visuals will also be available.

Guided walking tours are held rain or shine and last about 1½ hours; participants should be comfortable being on their feet for that amount of time. $10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. Call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org for details. Tickets can also be purchased online at Eventbrite.

Not a member of the Museum? Join now and get discounted tickets to all our events!

Upcoming Fitz Henry Lane waking tours: Saturday August 6; Friday August 19

Image credit: Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865). Gloucester Harbor at Sunrise, c. 1850, oil on canvas. Gift of Lawrence Brooks, 1970. [Acc. #2020]

Annisquam SeaFair

170th Year Anniversary

Saturday July 30, 2016 

Leonard Street, Annisquam

10-3pm:  Food, Drinks, Plants, Books, Art, White Elephant Table, Children’s Games, T-Shirts, Hats, Candy, Cakes, Famous Waxworks Tableau and more.

6:30-9:30pm  Block Party with Live Music and food.

9pm Annual Lighting of Lobster Cove

Come for a bit, come all day and night.

The Largest Little Fair Known.

Peter Souza and Three Sheets to the Wind                                                                – Music on Meetinghouse Green Concert to Benefit Schooner Adventure

Friday, July 22                     6:00 – 8:30               Corner Church & Middle St., Gloucester

Three Sheets to the Wind is an old sailing term and refers to a ship whose sheets (lines) have come loose, causing the sails to flap uncontrolled and the ship to sh…udder and roll (like a staggering drunk) and meander at the mercy of the elements.

Three Sheets to the Wind is also a Gloucester chantey/sea music group. Many of the crew have years of established song and sea history to offer and create a perfect storm of song and good cheer. Their vocals, harmonies and instrument skills are phenomenal, and they have a great time performing and drawing the audience into the fun.  https://www.facebook.com/threesheetstothewindgloucesterma/

This is concert three in a series of nine free outdoor concerts presented by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation.   The family-friendly concert begins at 6 pm. Bring a picnic, folding chairs or blankets. In case of rain, the event will take place inside the Meetinghouse (no food or drink permitted inside.)

The public will be invited to make free-will donations and all collected monies will go to the Schooner Adventure.

The Gloucester Adventure, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit maritime historic preservation and educational organization. We are the stewards of the 1926 dory-fishing Schooner Adventure. Our mission begins with restoration and preservation in perpetuity of the National Historic Landmark Schooner Adventure, one of the last surviving Grand Banks dory-fishing schooners. The Schooner Adventure is a national treasure that has resumed active sailing as an icon of the American fisheries and as a floating classroom for maritime history and environmental education programs. The Schooner will be operated at sea, primarily along the New England coast, as a living monument to Massachusetts’ fishing heritage. As such, the Schooner Adventure is important not only to Gloucester, but also to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and all America.  http://schooner-adventure.org/

July’s Gloucester Block Party was a great one!!  People filled the street to support the Main Street Merchants and enjoy the wonderful vendors and entertainment. Save the date to join us on Main Street on Saturday, August 20 for the next Block Party event!

Visit gloucesterblockparty.com for vendor info and schedules of performances as we get closer to the August Block Party.  You can also follow along for updates on Facebook and Instagram!

Join us this Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at the Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport for the second in the Thursday Talk series titled “Navigating the Cosmos” with William Waller, Ph.D.  Bill will take us on a cosmic journey — from Rockport’s Front Beach into the Solar System, Milky Way and beyond.  Along the way, he will show how astronomers reckon distances and sizes of myriad celestial wonders.  It can take a lifetime to effectively navigate the currents, waves, winds, and shoals of Sandy Bay.  It is another thing altogether to navigate our planet, galaxy, and universe. Bill is a former NASA astrophysicist and Tufts professor of astronomy.  He currently teaches physical sciences at Rockport High School and writes general interest books on astronomy. Refreshments provided.  All invited to attend!