https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/work daily 0.75 2020-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574281585777-18INPM6KB2SL99JLKSSV/Screen+Shot+2019-11-20+at+3.23.52+PM.png Work John Singer Sargent, painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574282045396-RUA7F8MS0J8E4ZGC4TZT/1_LTD_Working.JPG Work Lesley Davison working on WallTogether, a community mosaic mural at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574282121619-2G3MIAEH24ZG7WB16G8A/LTD.JPG Work Lesley Davison on Essex Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571926690228-QG2XJBDUP0MI6YAC4QTC/Frank+Mineo%2C+the+Alden.jpg Work - Vintage photo: Mending the nets We’ve gathered and established how to represent selected stories from the community. We’ve made tiles to illustrate those stories. We’ve made tiles with Gloucester citizens. We’ve bisque-fired and glazed and fired those tiles again. Now it’s time to put the whole thing together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571927255401-9454MHSKO2JQTX2367EN/Screen+Shot+2019-04-12+at+11.44.19+PM.png Work - Vintage Photo: Howard Blackburn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573498585430-UOYK9NOT6E3IR1I3FVCD/Gloucester+from+above.jpg Work - Gloucester, MA 42.6159° N, 70.6620° W Gloucester, Massachusetts, is located on and covers most of Cape Ann, 31 miles northeast of Boston. I have been a partial resident of Gloucester all my life. Gloucester—infused with America’s history and its own—is surrounded by ocean, and, for the time being, it remains a very authentic place. On the way to nowhere, except by water, Gloucester is preserved from the overwhelming homogenization of our age. Strongly influenced by its Italian and Portuguese residents, Gloucester is a historic fishing town; however, due to the depleting of our limited oceans, there have been increased restrictions on fishing, profoundly impacting the local economy. Gloucester is at risk of being diluted, changed, turned from a vibrant real community to a place like too many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574283137445-BCHUGFSLI53XZR5WR0WC/Screen+Shot+2019-11-20+at+3.23.52+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571925959659-YZBYLMB5VKUBGZZ0IPMW/Sorting+Fish.jpg Work - Vintage photo: sorting the catch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571927391128-NRISKV59JUO0AF6XJVNT/Crowning+1948.jpg Work https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/about daily 0.75 2019-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574281014306-V364I94ZCDM04V3NCYP6/LTD%2BSRT.jpg About Lesley Davison, unveiling of first MosaicGloucester panel with Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571944788853-9CS2C13M7QSTWM62BZAH/Americold+Logo.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571850246567-ZJL4WT16TWYBXKJL3S2Q/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-05-21%2Bat%2B2.10.42%2BPM.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1571849489738-JN32G0TKHW7FMKG2TNFN/Screen+Shot+2019-05-21+at+2.10.26+PM.png About https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574175322995-23GDXOTLDWHAYYAX6ID4/Ocean%2527s%2Balliance.jpg Never Try, Never Win - Ocean Alliance The Tarr and Wonson Paint Factory began manufacturing the first copper, bottom paint in 1863 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Now the paint factory is home to Ocean Alliance. Iain Kerr told me all about the organization and its innovative Snotbot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573842963955-XAAVCCEMEJB2BZ1AU3GH/Howard+B.jpg Never Try, Never Win - Howard Blackburn Local legend Howard Blackburn ran a saloon in the building that is now Halibut Point. In 2015, Joseph Favazza, 95 years old at the time, told how as a boy he sold mackerel to Blackburn so he could make money to go to the movies. Blackburn told him to put the fish in the sink, then slid two dimes across the table. “I never knew who Howard Blackburn was, but I’ll never forget the man with no fingers.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573842968090-PCD2RP6OATS1KVPZ72BZ/Mayor%27s+mom.jpg Never Try, Never Win - Nurse? As a young girl, Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken always thought her mother was a nurse, since she dressed in white clothing when she went off to work. It was only later that she realized that her mom was working packing fish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574306089256-HE6NA9XS7LX29QWYVPZ4/GMGI.jpg Never Try, Never Win - GMGI Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute studies our ocean right down the street from MosaicGloucester. At the Gloucester Biotechnology Academy, young people learn skills like extracting DNA, preparing them for possible careers in the biotech industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574306702187-B0NGEMTMDSMKI9MYJ9FN/St+Peter.jpg Never Try, Never Win - St. Peter Salvatore Favazza instructed a Charlestown sculptor to create the original St. Peter’s sculpture (replaced with a fiberglass replica on its 90th birthday, in 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573750890225-UIE3VBZZ34OTIP7UN7GA/Never+Try+Never+Win Never Try, Never Win https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573841966233-KRXH2XRT5H6BBKP9XW3P/Use+Your+Head.jpg Use Your Head Use Your Head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259836910-04P8YYRZOPVG4K0KBMM7/Dory+Shop.jpg Use Your Head - The Dory Shop By day, the Dory Shop is a woodworker’s dream, full of tools and sawdust and a boat-in-progress in the center of the room. On a Saturday afternoon, you might walk into a group of musicians playing sea shanties, a pot of stew on the wood stove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259821063-G6AMHBEC6WYFVESDO5KF/Adventure.jpg Use Your Head - Schooner Adventure Built in Essex in 1926, the Adventure’s restoration process was completed in 2015. Now it’s one of many schooners that participate in the annual Schooner Festival, along with the Lannon and the Ardelle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259841220-RVVWJ5VBAUWH8MHUOQY5/Lannon.jpg Use Your Head - The Thomas E. Lannon The original Thomas E Lannon was a fisherman in Gloucester in the first half of the 20th century. The Schooner Lannon was built by Harold Burnham in Essex in 1997, and can be seen raising its sails in Gloucester Harbor, giving landlubbers the view so many fisherman have had coming back with a load of fish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259821421-Y59XDJ6MIPMT5Q8AT2A1/Ardelle.jpg Use Your Head - The Schooner Ardelle Just as many of Gloucester’s historic fishing schooners were built in neighboring Essex, Harold Burnham built the classic pinky schooner Ardelle in 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259834216-59M9MLUI5LP5GQ8K9ZFH/Garland.jpg Use Your Head - Joseph Garland Joseph Garland was a writer and historian — he published 24 books in his lifetime, including Lone Voyager, about Howard Blackburn. He also wrote a column for the Gloucester Daily Times. He enjoyed looking out at the boats from his home on Eastern Point, and looking back at his home from the deck of a boat on the water. I had a wonderful time talking with his lovely wife and number one fan, Helen. She described how a collection of boats sailed in a circle outside his window in his honor during his final days, so I placed him on the mosaic among books and the schooners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574259790628-JLAUKM7NUOZTTH63OHUW/Jimmy+T.jpg Use Your Head - Jimmy T. James Tarantino can often be seen rowing his mustard-colored Banks Dory in Gloucester Harbor. He is a gregarious and enthusiastic booster of our fair city. He appeared as a contestant on Survivor, 2010. His approach to balance on the water is to “embrace his inner seagull”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574260078940-LTH8FGFRHXZN1AWD16T2/Screen+Shot+2019-11-20+at+9.26.02+AM.png Use Your Head - Nicknames Many Gloucester fishermen shared relatives and names. So as to be able to refer to them without confusion, people adopted nicknames. From left to right, these are a sampling of such nicknames and their origins. (DISCLAIMER: I based the representation of these men on their nicknames alone….I never met them). Gerome “The Lone Ranger” Fronteiro (Name of boat); Sammy “Two Thumbs” Parisi (Thumb smashed with hammer); Charlie “Skunk” Ciaramitaro (White hair streak); Jimmy “Mop” Parisi (Lot of hair); Jimmy “Beak” Parisi (Big Nose); Sammy “One Eye” Cucuru (Lost an eye on fishing trip); Tony “Ollie” Palazola (Tooth Stuck out); Jimmy “Schrodie” Verva (Small Guy) https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2019-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1573841591695-C2FFXH8LS65YJ098U8G5/Help+Mother+2.jpg Help Mother Help Mother https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574299999844-JUH88ZANLE29OTT3Q3PR/PB150150.png Help Mother - Cedar Rock Gardens Tucker and Elise Smith grow beautiful and delicious things on their West Gloucester farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574299999039-H10VDR57YOEP9X24CPE5/PB150151.png Help Mother - Marshall's Farm Stand The Marshall family has been farming this land for generations, offering fresh produce and plants in West Gloucester to visitors to Wingaersheek Beach and locals alike , as well as giving people an opportunity to get up close and personal with their creatures great and small. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574300027017-V5A3AMPEVZSEYP83IHZI/PB150152.png Help Mother - Wind Turbines Like them or hate them, the wind turbines at Blackburn Industrial Park are certainly visible from all over Cape Ann. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574300036222-GHH2Z1E4KFAPGJP6SDGH/PB150155.png Help Mother - Neptune's Harvest Ocean Crest Seafood has been selling fresh fish out of Gloucester since 1965, and then developed a way to turn the “gurry” or by-products into a powerful fertilizer…the ultimate recycling! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574300955852-G4SWXSDNWQQKRJJSNB60/PB050127.png Help Mother - Generous Gardeners The beauty of our city has been amplified with the assistance of the Generous Gardeners. They’ve planted thousands of bulbs on the Boulevard, they’ve planted and weeded traffic circles and roadsides and generally added color and life all over town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574302309789-D266LXKBLOJAFS9IR442/PB050122+%281%29.png Help Mother - Piping Plover The tiny plucky Piping Plover is a seasonal visitor to Gloucester, checking in each year to nest at our local beaches. Who can blame them? They’re embattled, but have a lot of local boosters. https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/new-page daily 1.0 2023-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574284777576-5HMG8UEZECLUGIDX8MRO/Beth+Wm.jpg The Panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574283446903-9675X9PSL871TVEN5BQ2/Screen%25252BShot%25252B2019-11-15%25252Bat%25252B12.11.50%25252BPM.jpg The Panels T.S. Eliot, 1955. The Granger Collection, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/27df0707-355a-48df-bdf1-34052f058578/IMG_0820.JPG The Panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574285309703-872YFZ52QSA1W6MTDY43/IMG_7857.jpg The Panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574258539214-W06OMGA14T7XOGRZIFO2/KOOD.jpg The Panels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1574285595654-QHE7L0N4FGTJ7YTH2MUL/Namez.jpg The Panels There are many Gloucester names incorporated into the body of the mosaic. https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/courage daily 0.75 2023-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/70aead3d-1e4d-4dcd-bcb7-96bb4a430977/Courage.jpg Courage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/cff253f3-2dc9-4d4b-87aa-056163bf6d65/IMG_3143.jpg Courage - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/kindness daily 0.75 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5db07e3d1b25a26c8d2eb744/1609958845397-N5OT55VZR97ZBNQVNX6W/P9100346.jpg Kindness https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/new-page-5 daily 0.75 2023-08-28 https://www.mosaicgloucester.com/sound-files daily 0.75 2023-09-25