JULY 5, 2023

Graphic © Bing McGilvray.

COSMOS Salutes the Gloucester 400+ Quatercentenary!

Gloucester 400+ COSMOS Culture Folio

Co-Edited by Chris Munkholm and Bing McGilvray
Design by Meredith Anderson

Photo credit: Antony Ohman

July 5, 2023 

Dear Cultural Community of this Gloucester Realm,

We hereby present our Gloucester 400+ gift of the COSMOS Culture Folio.

A paean to the inspired predecessors of these past 400 years on the promontory, and to the inquiring habitants of the prior millennia, we salute all who have contributed to the cultural mantle enriching our lives today.

The COSMOS Folio offers a compendium of fifteen essays, covering some of the most intriguing stories in Gloucester’s illustrious cultural heritage.

We invite you to enter the fifteen portals, created by writers who animated their subjects with historically accurate narratives and many rare photographs. May you experience these bygone and mysterious eras, which still echo across time, with the lore and images we absorb today. Many of the eccentric characters in these tales are more like our temporal soulmates and questing companions.

The next time you enter Cape Ann Museum, give a nod to Dr. Herman E. Davidson who hosted the formative 1875 gatherings, in his front parlor, to discuss the intellectual ideas of the times. Or, when you next step into the Great Hall of Hammond Castle, thank those dapper gents who built the mansions of their imaginations, which embellish our lives today. Or when you look to the stars, think of the skywatchers of 3,000 years ago, searching the same stars we see today.

It has been our honor, privilege, and slightly mad overreach to produce this Folio. 

But an immersion of endless fascination as well.

To Gloucester with Love,

Chris Munkholm & Bing McGilvray
Co-Editors

Meredith Anderson
Design Editor

CONTENTS

Thank you to the following businesses, artists, organizations, and individuals for your support!

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Nubar Alexanian
Dan Bacon
Sheila Carrassi
Donna Caselden
Nicole Cohen
Linda Collins
Cheryl Dyment
Tamsen & Dominic Endicott
Ricardo Fernandez
Melissa Fisher
Judith & Harry Hoglander
Peter Littlefield
Jim and Judi Masciarelli
Leslie Nicholson
Samuel and Elizabeth Otis
Miriam Pett
Sara Stotzer
Trish Roach
Judith Walcott
Miriam Weinstein
June Wulff