Liz Vago

"The term athenaeum conjures up centuries past, but our founders were forward-thinking leaders of their time who gathered a community of curious thinkers to share ideas, …

Peter Littlefield

I have lived through two great artistic moments in my life, one was in NYC in the 1980's and the other is now, in Gloucester. The two art scenes have a lot in common, in the artists' individuality married to their devotion to community. …

Chris Munkholm

It was a perfect Saturday night of convening as more than 200 – perhaps many more, we lost count - found their way to Gordon’s new studio on Gloucester Harbor. His new space was decked out, with a selection of his immense paintings covering the 40 ft walls, up to the ceiling. …

Chris Munkholm

Theater people often seem lit from within. Maybe it is showtime every day but even more so when all the scripts and parts are in place for the 2024 summer season at Gloucester Stage Company. Such was the situation during my recent chat with Rebecca Bradshaw, the charismatic and well-spoken …

Chris Munkholm

Driving into Gloucester one winter morning and looking across the St. Peter’s parking lot, my gaze landed on the startling sight of a long rectangular building with the uncommon color of light salmon. As if a large slag of iridescent coral had been dragged onto dry land and wedged into the typically muted Gloucester …

Ricardo & Diana Fernandez

A wonderful attribute of our professional retirement is having time to travel to far-flung parts of the world. Last fall we embarked on a tour of the Stellenbosch region of Southern Africa, sponsored by noted landscape designer Karen Chapman, …

Bing McGilvray

Above the Fold is a landmark exhibition. Over 200 Gloucester Daily Times photographs, from 1973 – 2005, are now on dazzling display at the Cape Ann Museum. These photos were carefully selected from the over 1 million that were donated to the CAM Archives by the North of Boston Media Group, …

Jim Dunn

From Bass Rocks to
the slippery cliffs of Rafe’s chasm
I hear the resounding
ringing of your Afro Cuban rhythm
It’s the beat …

JoeAnn Hart

Astrid, their Icelandic tour guide, was so white her head seemed disembodied from her black Gore-Texed torso. Nary a suggestion of yellow in her hair, no pink to her skin, but it could have been the lighting, or more accurately, its lack. The entire busload of tourists knew one another only by flashlight. …

Paul Erickson

At 4:30 AM on 18 November 1775, an earthquake rocked eastern Massachusetts, tilting church steeples, and sending the grasshopper weathervane atop Boston’s Faneuil Hall hopping to the plaza below. Today, geologists link this …

This September 2023, a triumvirate of world class art is occupying the main galleries of Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester Massachusetts. The stellar Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis exhibits are joined, across the hall from Hopper, by a group of artists, many of whom both worked with and knew Hopper …

Nostalgia, Peter Anastas’s final completed novel, is a work of the ‘speculative real,’ a prophetic history of Gloucester that shows what happens in America’s oldest fishing port when the forces of economic development set off a building spree, with high-priced condos going up across the harbor …

On any scale, Schulz’s job at Amnesty was one of the hardest imaginable. Exactly how hard—and interesting, exasperating, gratifying, and sometimes absurd and humorous—he reveals in a beautifully written volume that speaks clearly and poignantly to the reader. While by no means an easy read, …

I’d like to tell you about the huge “killer” clams I’ve photographed on Indo-Pacific coral reefs. And I will. But first, I’d like to pay homage to our local softshell clam (Mya arenaria), famously harvested in my hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts, which is located just a few flaps of a gull’s wing from Cape Ann. …

As we enter the brief beach season of New England, many of us hope to maximize the pending days of relaxation and salty air. What has become a secondary experience is the company of increasingly aggressive seagulls, who also have their summertime plans: plundering human food. …

Mooney’s Manifesto is Greg Gibson’s new book, a roman à clef, fictionalized version of Greg’s haunting life experiences. And yes, the best damned novel I’ve read in a long time. Like few characters of fiction ever could, Mooney got to me. Now I cannot get him out of my head. …

You’re a salamander. A spotted salamander in a forest on Cape Ann. Spring has arrived and you’ve been sheltered underground in an abandoned mole tunnel for the last eleven months. …

It is Saturday afternoon at 16 Rogers Street, where Jeff Weaver holds court from a corner in his gallery. People drift in and out of the space, a mix of old friends and passersby, with Jeff engaging all in relaxed conversations. The gallery, situated in the heart of Gloucester with a short walk to Café Sicilia, …

The essay was first published in the Stanford News, September 6, 2022. We are reprinting a version edited for length and Stanford University centric content, but without altering the themes of philosophy, science, and art. The article also reveals the little-known manipulation of stellar images …

Last Halloween, I downloaded an app: Dream.ai – since then I’ve made/saved over 3000+ ‘picreations’ on my phone, having rejected 10 x more in the process. I continue to be astonished by these bizarre, mysterious, highly sophisticated pics. Simply tap-tap-tap in a few words, and virtually instantly …