C ape Ann artist Renata Fryshara will be featured in an exhibit, “life | capsules” at Jane Deering Gallery in Gloucester through May 26. An opening reception is planned from 3 …
Gloucester-based artist Carmela Martin’s paintings will be featured through June 28 in the Main Street lobby exhibit space of BankGloucester. A reception will be held from 10 a.m. to noon …
I’m no Daniel Boone, but I’ve paid enough attention to animal tracks over the years to recognize cat tracks when I see them. The tracks I saw in the wet sand of the Dunes at Castle …
Conservationists use the term “rewilding” to describe the phenomenon where habitat is restored and native flora and fauna return (or are reintroduced) to their former range. Naturalist …
Looking around at all of the old mill buildings and tanneries that have been turned into fashionable shopping areas and apartment buildings, it’s easy to think of New England’s …
A three-day performance festival will take place this weekend in the name of climate change at the Gloucester Stage Company. Called Water's Rising: Festival of New Climate Action Plays , the …
When the artist Winslow Homer came to paint on Cape Ann in 1869, he arrived as a busy commercial illustrator for popular magazines of the day. Over the next eleven years, spending …
Right now the Hammond Castle Museum in Magnolia is offering a trip through time and artistry with its latest exhibition, “Gertrude Cawein at Hammond Castle Museum.” Running …
Music brought violinists Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo together in the first place, performing together every day on tour. And music is how they continue to spend most of their time—when …
Just in time for the beginning of spring, Gloucester's Cape Ann Museum is bringing back its popular Cape Ann Blossoms event on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Floral …
The Northeast Massachusetts Youth Orchestras (NMYO) will hold open auditions for local Cape Ann and North Shore young musicians to join its ensembles in the 2024-2025 concert season. For those …
The Cape Ann Symphony’s 72nd season is in full swing, and on April 21 the group will reprise one of its most popular programs, the intimate and scaled down “Musicians Unleashed” …
The Sawyer Free Library will host the inaugural Gloucester Zine Fest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at 20 and 21 Main Street in downtown Gloucester. This event, open to all, offers a …
One hundred years ago on Memorial Day 1924, the American Legion unveiled its Memorial to the five young men of Manchester who lost their lives in WWI. Many attend this annual event at Rosedale …
Part II of an incredible story of an amazing sculptress, who, impacted by returning veterans scarred by WWI, rebuilds their faces with her talents at her "Studio for Portrait Masks" ...
‘The Deceiver’, Laccaria bicolor, is a simple pinkish mushroom with purplish gills that can be found growing just about everywhere on sandy forest floors, like those near coastal regions …
A visit to Cedar Rock Gardens is a journey to a lost agrarian past; a slow meander along Walker’s Creek towards Essex Bay and into a rural part of Essex and Gloucester that feels long forgotten …
It’s almost Halloween, and last week, we kicked off a three-part seasonal story written by Robert “Rob” Fitzgibbon, a local author and an Essex Library Trustee. The story harkens back to the early 1800s in Essex, when a Harvard-trained doctor was arrested for grave robbing ... .
In this final edition of Rob Fitzgibbon's three-part series about a true crime story in Essex from the early 1800s, Dr. Sewell goes to trial. That's when the unbelievable part of his story just began ...
In this first edition of Rob Fitzgibbon's three-part story, we meet Dr. Thomas Sewall, a dashing young Harvard-trained doctor who moved to Essex in the early 1800s and married into the Choate family. Then, he was arrested for grave robbing ... .