Above the Fold is a landmark exhibition. Over 200 Gloucester Daily Times photographs, from 1973 – 2005, are now on dazzling display at the Cape Ann Museum. These photos were carefully selected from the over 1 million that were donated to the CAM Archives by the North of Boston Media Group, …

Mooney’s Manifesto is Greg Gibson’s new book, a roman à clef, fictionalized version of Greg’s haunting life experiences. And yes, the best damned novel I’ve read in a long time. Like few characters of fiction ever could, Mooney got to me. Now I cannot get him out of my head. …

Last Halloween, I downloaded an app: Dream.ai – since then I’ve made/saved over 3000+ ‘picreations’ on my phone, having rejected 10 x more in the process. I continue to be astonished by these bizarre, mysterious, highly sophisticated pics. Simply tap-tap-tap in a few words, and virtually instantly …

Unless you’ve been hiding under a large rock in Stage Fort Park, you know by now that in 2023 Gloucester will celebrate the 400 years since the ‘discovery’ of this unique port by the not-so-altruistic speculators of the Dorchester Company, a colonialist conglomerate of Puritan merchants and traders …

7/7 Received an email with several pics from Willie:
We are here in Valparaiso on top of this steep hill, the green one in the middle is our AirBnB /// this section of town is really decorated /// holy crap!!

A glorious June afternoon, Spring in full bloom, overcast but balmy, a perfect day for a joy ride. There is no nicer journey, while staying close to home, than to picturesque Ipswich. One of the earliest English settlements, established in 1634, Ipswich is rich in history and takes preservation seriously. With many beautifully restored, period houses, all within walking distance of each other, it is the ideal destination for a day trip. Joy and I were on a mission though: to find out more about the artist Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922), whose centennial was being celebrated. One hundred years since he slipped his mortal coil.

The high-speed Eurostar rail, which connects France and England via tunnel under the Channel, is a sleek, efficient marvel of modern engineering, imagination, construction, and cooperation. Paris to London in about two hours. Doug Roberts and I arrived at David Hockney’s studio and were warmly greeted by my longtime, good friend Ben. Here we would stay for the next few days. Doug has many pals in London and soon set off to socialize. My deteriorating right hip made that increasingly difficult. Were it not for our scheduled visit to see Hockney’s Eye on Sunday, I would have gone home, posthaste. I have no trouble amusing myself though and David’s shelves were stocked with books.

Spent a magical few days visiting David and his indispensable partner JP at their secluded, farm-country home nestled in a small pocket of Normandy. In the brief three years since moving in, throughout the global pandemic, JP has transformed the property into an unparalleled artist’s paradise.