Gloucester Massachusetts 4K
In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony set aside the rocky land beyond the Annisquam, and named it Gloucester. The new settlers homesteaded and fished, but the area was also thickly wooded, so initially timber, not fish, was Gloucester’s primary export. It was so important that in 1667 settlement in the area that was to become Rockport over a century later was forbidden, in order to protect the forest.
About 40 of these early settlers built houses in the heart of Cape Ann in an area called Dogtown, a place of myth and mystery even today. In the 1700s it was occupied by some of our wealthiest citizens, and provided a safe refuge from both the occasional pirate and marauding French and British ships. By 1830 its last inhabitant had been taken away to the Poor Farm and nothing now remains of this once thriving community but the cellar holes. During the Great Depression local philanthropist Roger W. Babson hired out-of-work stone cutters to carve inspirational sayings into 23 of the large boulders dotting the area. At the same time he donated 1,150 acres of Dogtown to the City of Gloucester for use as a park and watershed, which currently offers rich recreational opportunities to hikers, bikers, dog-walkers, cross-country skiers, horseback riders and nature lovers.
Gloucester also had a good safe harbor with easy access to the rich off shore fishing grounds, so over time, as the trees became less plentiful, the major industry gradually changed to fishing and foreign trade. In 1713 the schooner, which became the country’s foremost fishing vessel for more than 200 years, was first designed and built in Gloucester. By the early 1800s shipbuilding was increasing and the fishing fleet was traveling to the Grand Banks after halibut. In 1879 alone there were almost 450 fishing vessels in town employing over 5,000 men catching more than 91million pounds of cod, haddock, halibut, hake, pollock, mackerel and herring. Sometimes you could not see the water in the harbor for the vessels moored there. But all this came with a price. That same year was devastating for the Gloucester fleet. Thirty-two vessels and 266 men were lost, half of them in a single February storm. In 1883 the young fisherman Howard Blackburn, adrift in his dory in a raging snow storm, rowed towards land for five days, his hands frozen to the oars. He survived the ordeal but lost all his fingers. Despite this handicap he later sailed single-handed across the Atlantic in his sloop Great Western (which can be visited at the Cape Ann Museum). The names of 5,368 lost fishermen are inscribed on 9 bronze plaques where the famous Fisherman at the Wheel statue stands looking out to sea. Gloucester fishermen continue to brave the seas today, making the city the oldest fishing community in the nation.
Gloucester has a thriving cultural heritage too. Books have been written and movies made of and in Gloucester (among them Kipling’s Captain’s Courageous and Junger’s The Perfect Storm), and the city is featured in the popular TV series Wicked Tuna. Rocky Neck, home to one of the oldest working Art Colonies in America, protects the inner harbor. There, artists like Theresa Bernstein, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Frederick J. Mulhaupt and many others found both a home and inspiration.
Explaining the Forefathers Monument - Kirk Cameron Part 1
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The Monumental movie / Kirk Cameron -Apr 09, 2011 show
The central theme of the Monumental documentary film is that the Liberty man and women, or freedom man as former President Ronald Reagan called him, is the only liberator capable of bringing back lasting liberty to America or any nation in the world.
From the beginning of the film the desire for freedom is seen as a universal aspiration of all men. As the rock anthem proclaims -- People everywhere just want to be free.
Whether we portray the uprising of the gladiators in Spartacus or in The Gladiator, or in the French Revolution we observe that none of these revolts resulted in lasting liberty. Those in revolt had no higher law (God's Law) to appeal and no system to put in place to keep one of their own from rising to enslave the people.
Monumental film uncovers the road to lasting liberty and the forgotten road map of freedom that needs decoding in our time. Why was America unique? What was the secret that led to lasting liberty under law?
What kind of individual was forged in Europe and unleashed in America who could bind the tyrants down with the chains of the Constitution as Thomas Jefferson said.
This is accomplishment and unfolds as we understand that a new kind of hero was emerging in Europe, especially in England and Scotland. He was not primarily a conqueror, although he conquered tyrants. He was
not the typical loner anti-hero portrayed in film who does it his way, yet he often stood alone, often only with his family, against entire nations. He accomplished liberation not through the killing of others, but through dying himself if necessary to stand for the eternal principals of right, those laws given at Mt. Sinai.
The Liberty man's legacy is pure and his legend rings into eternity. Liberty man's lineage comes down through: Patrick, the liberator of Ireland; Alfred the Great who codified English common law and loved
his wife and her only; Rev. Langton, who wrote Magna Carta, the constitution of England, which held down the king's power and called for freedom under law; William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, who called for Scotland's freedom from tyrannical power; John Wycliffe
who stood against King and prelate and declared the Word to be pre- eminent over worldly power; The Scottish Covenanters, both men and women, who signed the National Covenant, to raise their children in the Truth, not the King's propaganda; The brave Dutch who stood for
their faith against overwhelming odds as the Spanish threatened them with extinction; The Pilgrims who took the blood bought truth and embodied it for an entire nation, leaving us the blueprint to find our way home to God; And the Founders who codified Christian principles
into the world's finest, biblical civil documents.
The message of this film is so powerful and proven in history. Either we as individuals will follow the path or as Winston Churchill said about England in the early twentieth century, see the walkway of civilization give way beneath our feet and we fall into the abyss
Top 10 Best Tourist Attractions In Boston
Top 10 Best Tourist Attractions In Boston - Perhaps no other city in America holds as much history of the colonial and Revolutionary War era as Boston. It's not surprising then that its main sites have become a pilgrimage trail for Americans and for others who hope to get a sense of that history. But more than that, the Freedom Trail is a good introduction to today's city, connecting or passing close to some of its best loved tourist attractions. Boston is easy to navigate on foot, as its major sights are relatively close, and America's first subway system, the T, connects its important neighborhoods.
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'Finding Metacom', Duane Slick and Martin Smick, Artist Talk 11.9.16
Visiting Artist Lecture Series // Brown Visual Art Presents 'Finding Metacom', a talk by Duane Slick and Martin Smick, November 9, 2016, at the List Art Building, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Artists Duane Slick and Martin Smick present work from their recent collaborative exhibition Finding Metacom at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard MA. Through this exhibition the artists were invited to engage in dialogue with Fruitlands Native American collection leading them to focus on King Philip’s War Club, a prized object in the Fruitlands collection, as context for exploring the lingering presence of Metacom (King Philip’s Wampanoag name) and the narratives that shape the telling of American history.
Duane Slick is a Meskwaki painter and storyteller who holds a BFA in painting from the University of Northern Iowa and an MFA in painting from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1995, and has lectured at colleges and universities across the U.S. and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Martin Smick holds a BFA in painting from Washington University and an MFA in painting from RISD. He was a 2009-10 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and has exhibited work nationally. He teaches at RISD and Brown University.
Garrett Peck | Talks at Google
The Prohibition Hangover examines the modern American temperament toward drink amid the $189-billion- dollar-a-year industry that defines itself by the production, distribution, marketing, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Based on primary research, including hundreds of interviews, Garrett Peck provides a panoramic assessment of alcohol in American culture and history.
Garrett Peck visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss The Prohibition Hangover as part of the Authors@Google series.