#Gloucester Massachusetts

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Mary Bradish Titcomb (US 1858–1927) 

"Sunday Morning" (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

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For 152+ years, there was a town on the rocky heights above Gloucester ("Gloster"), Massachusetts. Founded as the shepherding community of Gloucester Commons in 1693, it came to be known as Dogtown as it declined after the American revolution. By 1830 the last resident was dead, and by 1845 the last bulding was torn down, turning it into a ghost town maze of stone ruins amidst glacial boulder deposits.

It is now a park / hiking area above the city of Gloucester, a dense new-growth forest dotted with bogs, where the stone ruins and old roads are still visible, and legends of witches and tragic deaths persist. It also hosts an abandoned tree farm, and the weird Babsen Boulders, a scheme to keep people employed during the Great Depression that only added new weird human stonework to an area already rich with it.

Dime Store Adventures takes us on a tour, while he retells the history and very queer (ha) legends of a long-lost world.

(Note: this feels like certified Blair Witch stuff. It isn't. He just hikes and educates us. ...Though if you indeed want to make an inexpensive horror movie, just adding some freaky jumpscares to a hiking video like this would be a brilliant idea.)

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Eastern Point Lighthouse, Gloucester MA

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Sun Room July 28, 2024 Hammond Castle Museum Gloucester, Massachusetts

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Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Artist: Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967)

Date: 1934

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

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New England Headlands

Artist: Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)

Date: 1899

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

This panoramic landscape depicts Gloucester, Massachusetts, one of Childe Hassam’s favorite destinations. During the summer months Gloucester was home to many artists, who, like Hassam, chose to emphasize its picturesque aspects, such as its quaint buildings and sailing vessels, rather than its fish-processing plants. The composition exhibits Hassam’s broken brushwork and his use of bare canvas, particularly in the foreground. Bright, saturated blues and crisp whites add to the maritime tenor of the work, while the square canvas highlights its architectural quality and harmoniously organized space.

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Jane Peterson (1876-1965) - Gloucester Harbor

Oil on canvas. 30 x 40 inches, 76.2 x 101.6 cm.

Estimate: US$120,000-180,000.

To be sold Christie's, New York, 23 Jan 2025.

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On this day:

EAST COAST SEA SERPENT

On August 14, 1817, in Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts, an eighty-foot sea serpent charged toward the ship where Matthew Gaffney, the ship's carpenter, stood firing his gun at it. According to Gaffney's sworn affidavit, the beast first appeared late afternoon. Its dark-colored head had a white underside and was the size of a four-gallon drum. When fired upon, the creature sank from sight, reappearing one hundred yards away and traveling half a mile per minute. A judge, a physician, and a naturalist collected testimonials from eyewitnesses as daily sightings continued for the next two weeks. Another man described the "strange marine animal" as having a head the size of a horse's with the features of a rattlesnake. It moved in either circles or a straight line.

On August 14, 1819, the creature was again spotted. Its snakelike head at the end of a long neck emerged from the water, and several humps were seen along its back. Two hundred citizens had gathered to observe the sea serpent, but all of them panicked and scattered when it headed toward shore. Sightings continued throughout the summer.

The earliest documented accounts of the black, snakelike serpent come from 1639 when colonists reported seeing it coiled up upon a rock at Cape Ann. In 1779 the crew of the American gunship Protector noticed it lying motionless on the water in sight of their vessel. A crew manned a large boat to get close to the serpent, but as they neared the creature, it raised its head ten feet into the air and then slowly swam off, speeding up when they began to shoot at it. In 1780, frigate captain George Little surprised the beast at sunrise and took off after it in an armed cutter. When he ordered his men to fire on it, the beast disappeared beneath the waves.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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Fisherman's Memorial, Gloucester Mass.

Photo by Jason Kennedy.

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Angels at the wheel

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Edward Hopper Sun on Prospect Street

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Gloucester, MA - July 2023

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Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

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dec 2023 - jan 2024

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Another from Gloucester Harbor. August 2024.

Fujifilm X-T50 with XF 18-55 f/2.8-4.

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Circa 1910. "Post office. Annisquam Station, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Plus, a Fish Market.

Photo by Detroit Publishing Company

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