Upcoming Events

Rockport Farmers Market takes place every Saturday from June 25 to October 15. Produce and locally-grown and made farm products can be purchased on-site from their farmers and vendors from 10am-1pm. Stop by and buy fresh food directly from your farmers and food producers!

Explore the specific sites in the area of Gloucester known as Portuguese Hill depicted by renowned American realist painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Hopper is known to have painted in Gloucester on five separate occasions in the first decades of the 20th century. His paintings from this period capture the local landscape and architecture in a loosely rendered, light-filled style and are considered by many to be some of his finest works. Also included are watercolors painted by Josephine Nivison Hopper…

At their passing in 1989 and 1993, respectively, the Misses Aimée and Rosamond Lamb bequeathed their family archive to the Boston Athenaeum, including a group of letters they and their mother Annie had received from their cousin, T. S. Eliot, writing mostly from England, from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 1965. The letters are chatty and affectionate, revealing a personal side to the poet, maintaining a warm relationship with his extended family. Dr Buchtel’s presentation will examine…

Jane Deering Gallery is pleased to present the solo show Claire Wyzenbeek | Still Alight, opening with a reception with the artist on Saturday October 1st from 2-5pm. The imagery in Wyzenbeek’s paintings uses life events, emotions and states of awareness as inspirations. Color has an emotional resonance that is often the starting point of a painting. Her figures and landscapes exist in symbolic settings, painted from both memory and life. Recurring themes are renewal, journeys, the female body, relationships,…

Dogtown is all of these things and more. But first, it is a place where proud people once lived and worked, at the center of Gloucester, for nearly 150 years – until it became “Dogtown” and died out. This tour will take you down the main roads of this early settlement, to meet some of the people, see where they lived and hear their stories. You will learn how Dogtown got its name, why people left, and how it has…

Gloucester Gratis Days: Tuesdays Gloucester Residents Enjoy Free, Self-Guided Tours
Every Tuesday From May 3 through October 25th
In keeping with John Hays Hammond, Jr’s original vision for his seaside castle-home to serve as a museum offering the Gloucester community access to ancient works of architectural art, Hammond Castle Museum will offer Gloucester residents free, self-guided tours each Tuesday throughout the regular season which runs through the end of October.
There are paid self-guided tours and guided tours available for visitors, offered daily! Visit hammondcastle.org/visiting-the-castle to learn more.

In the days following the 1929 crash of the stock market, on Halloween night, John Hays Hammond Jr. invites a close circle of intimate friends and fellow members of high society to his newly constructed castle for a grand masquerade. Fridays this October, Hammond Castle Museum presents: The Masquerade of Abbadia Mare. Step back in time and join Hammond’s guests for a Halloween night of terror and the macabre inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Set in the…