Want to turn your food and garden scraps into some coveted “black gold” this summer? Then come learn how to start your own backyard composting system from the experts at Black Earth Compost! Both the urban and suburban gardener will learn easy, low-stress ways to turn your scraps into a useful organic soil amendment!
Join The Open Door for an evening of food and hospitality at the 17th Annual Empty Bowl Dinner and celebrate a beloved North Shore tradition on Thursday, May 11, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Cruiseport Gloucester.
The meal is simple—soup, bread and a cookie. Guests can choose and keep a special soup bowl created for this community event. The bowl goes home as an unspoken reminder that somewhere someone’s bowl is empty.
Tickets available at the door. $15 for adults and $10 for children under ten. Extra parking is available at Harbor Beach with complimentary trolley service to and from the event site.
Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief programs. Proceeds from this event will benefit The Open Door Summer Meals and Mobile Market programs.
Sneak Peek at some of the 2017 Silent Auction Items:
The Seaside Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale and Auction is Tuesday, May 9th at the Manchester Community Center. This event is the Seaside Garden Club’s only fundraiser for the year. Proceeds help fund their community service projects and programs.
This is a great opportunity to purchase tried and true perennials from the Garden Club Members’ gardens along with garden art and contributions from area businesses including:
6 pm – Plant Sale
7 pm – Auction starts
At this month’s GAAC meeting, 8:00 Friday night, May 12, at the Lanesville Community Center, we are thrilled to host Ed Los, a long-term member of the “Digital Access to a Sky Century team at Harvard” (DASCH). Ed will bring us up to date on the project to digitize over 500,000 images of the night sky collected on glass photographic plates between 1885 and 1993.
Image: Portion of Plate b41215 of Halley’s comet taken on April 21, 1910 from Arequipa, Peru with the 8-inch Bache Doublet, Voigtlander.
These images offer us far more than mere historic value. They have greatly advanced what we know of the composition of stars, their inherent luminosities and distances, and, as a 100-year record of the skies, they are sure to continue to inform our understanding. Already as part of this ongoing project more than 162,000 plates, along with data from a card catalog and 1200 associated log books, have been scanned into digital files, to preserve them and make them more readily available to researchers.
Ed will explain the ongoing project and its importance to our knowledge of the night sky, and will tell us some of the many ways that these data are even now helping us understand the universe around us. We’re very pleased to have Ed as this month’s presenter, for what is sure to be an entertaining and informative evening at GAAC. We hope to see you there.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of the month at 8:00 at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street, Lanesville. All are welcome; no special knowledge or equipment is needed to have a great time. There is plenty of free parking, and there is no cost. For more on the astronomy club see our website or Facebook page, or follow us on Twitter, @gaacster. Come see us!
This year’s luncheon recognized Wellspring House program participant, Jill Brown and honored Margo Casey of the United Way, Joan Whitney of Healthy Gloucester Collaborative and Rose Evans of the Department of Community Housing and Development. Keynote speaker MA State Attorney Maura Healey spoke at length about the impact community support and educational opportunity have on the empowerment of women and families. It was a powerful and inspirational event, drawing together a diverse representation of more than 650 women from communities all over the North Shore and beyond.
Showtimes are 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Created by filmmakers, Steve Liss, Andy Laub and David Abel and premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 13, 2017, SACRED COD is a feature-length documentary that captures the collapse of the historic cod population in New England, delving into the role of overfishing, the impact of climate change, the effect of government policies on fishermen and the fish, and the prospect of a region built on cod having no cod left to fish.
Co-creator Steve Liss will be in attendance to take questions from the audience following the screenings.
Read more about SACRED COD here or watch the trailer.
Showtimes are at 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. A donation of $10 is suggested for those viewing the documentary (includes Museum admission). Space is limited; reservations required. For more information email info@capeannmuseum.org. Register online at Eventbrite or by calling (978) 283-0455 x10.
