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Art inspired by a bygone industry

*Untitled photo by* ***Tsar*** ***Fedorsky***, *from "The Quarry Project" series (archival inkjet printed on washi paper) in the* ***Cape Ann*** ***Museum’s*** *group show “QuarryArt,’’ through July 30*
*— Courtesy of the artist.*

The museum explains:

{The} “exhibition … brings together the work of nine artists in collaboration with freelance photographer and Boston Globe reporter David Arnold. The nine artists, Tsar Fedorsky, Albert Glazier, Paul Cary Goldberg, Skip Montello, Olivia Parker, Martin Ray, Katherine Richmond, Steve Rosenthal and Constance Vallis photographed area {granite} quarries to ‘highlight economic importance of quarries centuries ago."‘

***Panorama of the former quarry at Halibut Point State Park in Gloucester***
***— Photo by*** ***Ymblanter***

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Making art from environmental crises

*Work by painter/experimental artist* *Sinikka Nogelo*, who has created art based on abstractions of such environmental challenges as the atmosphere’s ozone hole, oil spills and melting polar ice. The discovery of gyres of plastic in the oceans spurred her to three-dimensional action with her series of wall pieces made out of plastic. This piece can be seen at the *Cape Ann Museum’s* *White-Ellery House, in Gloucester, Mass.*

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Boating formal wear

*Advertisement mock-up for* “*This is Boatwear,*” *in the* ***MIGHTY-MAC* *Collection*** *of the* *Cape Ann Museum Library and Archives, Gloucester, Mass.*

*The Eastern Yacht Club, in Gloucester.*
*— Photo by* *Oceanhistory*

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Not for tourism promotion

“*Tally’s Corner*” *(oil on canvas), by Gloucester, Mass.-based artist* ***Jeff*** ***Weave***r, in his show “This Unique Place,’’ at the ***Cape Ann Museum****, Gloucester, starting March 18. His work focuses on the built and natural landscape of Cape Ann. Tally’s Corner is in downtown Gloucester.*

*May 2008 view of Cape Ann. Gloucester and its harbor are visible to the upper right, Manchester-by-the-Sea is at center, just west of Singing Beach.*
*— Photo by Doc Searls*

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But not for exterior use

“*Gloucester Linens*” *(acrylic on marine canvas), by Barbara Aparo, at the* *Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass.*

*The noted Shingle Style Essex Town Hall and Public Library, in Essex, Mass. (1894), designed by Frank W. Weston.*

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Trying to keep kosher on Cape Ann many years ago

*Photos at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass.*
*(Left) Belmont Hotel, c. 1890s. Photograph by Walter Gardner. (Right) Belmont Clothing House, 1881. Photograph by Corliss and Ryan. Both were Jewish-owned.*
The museum relates:
“As early as the 1860s, Jews have been a part of Cape Ann’s diverse economy. One of the first Jewish residents of Gloucester, Samuel H. Emanuel, started the S.H. Emanuel & Co Millinery Shop in 1868 after he and his wife, Delia, immigrated from Germany. Another early resident, Solomon Hochberger, opened a dry-goods shop in Lanesville in 1875. Hochberger later started a junk business with fellow Jewish resident David Heineman in 1887. Jews from the waves of Jewish immigration … made their living as peddlers, tailors and cobblers as well as owners of dry-goods shops, junk businesses, bakeries, grocery stores, clothing stores, hotels and summer camps. Many of these businesses, such as Harry Goldman’s clothing store (est. 1896), Joseph Bloomberg’s clothing store (est. around 1900), Louis and Leah Pett’s grocery store (est. mid 1920s), Bennie Schred’s Star Remnant Store (est. 1909), Samuel Feldman’s grocery store (est. late 1920s), and Bob Kramer’s haberdashery (est. 1948) became fixtures of the Jewish community. Jewish-owned bakeries, grocery stores, and restaurants were especially important when it came to Jews trying to keep kosher on Cape Ann. Unlike larger Jewish communities on the North Shore that were closer to Boston, access to kosher meat was difficult. Feldman’s grocery store was one of the few places on Cape Ann where Jews could find kosher meat”.

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Good ferries

*“Model of the Steam Ferry Little Giant (wood, metal), by John Gardner Weld (1879-1969), at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass.*

The museum says:

“Steam-powered ferries were an important means of transportation throughout the 19th Century and into the early 20th, linking Cape Ann to seaports up and down the Eastern Seaboard and to the rest of the world. In Gloucester, ferry service was also available around the Inner Harbor, helping get residents to work and visitors to scenic sites around the city.

“The Little Giant provided passenger ferry service around Gloucester’s Inner Harbor for nearly 40 years. Built in 1878 at the John Bishop Shipyard in Gloucester, the jaunty vessel was 46 feet long and 16 feet in breadth. Her cabins were finished in black walnut and oak, and she had long wooden benches on her upper deck sheltered by a striped awning.’’

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The idea of a quarry

“*Halibut Point Variation #9*” *(acrylic/ash on cotton duck), by Vincent Castagnacci, in his show “Vincent Castagnacci: Notes from a Quarry,’’ at the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., through Oct. 9.*

The museum says:

“This exhibit displays his work from the mid-2000s onward. Castagnacci's (who has New England routes) work is striking while being utterly minimal, expertly utilizing line to draw the eye across the canvas. His use of muted, almost industrial, colors and drafting marks are reminiscent of architectural mock-ups elevated into art.’’