tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124810652025-06-15T11:00:53.919-04:00This is a diary of living on Lanes Cove, a small cove in the Lanesville area of Gloucester Massachusetts.Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442857533626315776noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12481065.post-60915990000337004502021-04-17T12:42:00.001-04:002021-04-17T12:42:42.074-04:00

 We've lived on Lanes Cove for more than 16 years. After building a wonderful home and thoroughly enjoying the experience of living in such a unique and beautiful location, we've decided to spend our retirement in Florida. Before you say "uh huh..." my wife and I are both natives of Florida, with Sandy growing up in Magnolia and I grew up in Seminole Florida. We found another spot that is

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. The author Natalie Shipman of Boston came to

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. Artist John I. Coggeshall, who painted from

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. Charles Grafly was born in Philadelphia,

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. One of the first women artists to win the

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. One of the first artists to appreciate strong

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. Gurdon Saltonstall Worcester, psychologist and

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. Virginia Lee Burton (Jinnee) set out on many

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. While most artists pack up their easels and

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. John Manship usually paints in the ox-barn

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop. Margaret Cassidy, sculptor, works in the

Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442857533626315776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12481065.post-31540975635172711202011-04-10T08:00:00.000-04:002011-04-10T08:16:20.350-04:00

This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop.The range and variety of Walker Hancock’s

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The Boston GlobeIn Gloucester, a gathering place scattered all aboutStorm leaves hole in a sea wall, and in a city’s psyche(Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff)By David RattiganGlobe Correspondent / January 9, 2011Days after the late-December storm that had damaged part of the Lanes Cove sea wall in the Lanesville section of Gloucester, a steady stream of local folks stopped in to have a look.Rick Paolillo

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December 28, 2010A piece of history crumblesPhotos.By Richard Gaines Staff Writer The Gloucester Daily Times Tue Dec 28, 2010, 11:19 PM ESTThe Lane's Cove seawall, built at a painstaking pace — 14 years from conception to dedication in 1842 — has persevered through a most unstable history for locally cut granite blocks weighing five to eight tons each.The thematic history of the seawall, to be

Stanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01442857533626315776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12481065.post-67166601068284016482010-09-13T08:59:00.002-04:002010-09-13T09:05:25.373-04:00

It was a beautiful day for the Bluefish Tournament this year.Gloucester Daily TimesSeptember 10, 2010Lanes Cove bluefish event one for the agesEbb & Flow By Peter K. Prybot Fri Sep 10, 2010, 10:56 PM EDTGood weather, catches, participation, organization and execution made last Sunday's 22nd annual Lane's Cove Bluefish Tournament flow like never before.The tournament officials even frequently

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Seems recently we've been getting boaters coming in on weekends and rafting up at the dock in Lanes Cove and staying overnight. They've even set up a tent onshore! I know that Lanes Cove is one of the best spots on this side of the Cape and it looks likes some other folks have discovered it to. Hey, what's not to like--plenty of free parking for your friends, gorgeous scenery, no pesky

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The weather was just beautiful this weekend, and is predicted to continue for the next several days. After the wettest March on record, things are greening up and budding all around. Of course this is New England, where fierce snowstorms are not unusual in April, and I once lost a bet that it wouldn't snow in May. Often times it feels like we never get a true spring--or at least not until June.

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I must admit that I've neglected my blog about Lanes Cove. Like so many of us, there are many other things vying for my time. One of these is the number of computers it takes to provide the two camera feeds, a weather feed, plus one for a ham radio Internet to RF (radio frequency) link known as Echolink. Try keeping four computers running 24/7 sometime.This is the lowest depth as far as sunlight,

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop.The late sculptor George Demetrios of Folly Cove

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The sunsets are now racing south along the horizon and soon they will set behind the hill (toward the left), where they will remain for several months.

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The Salem NewsEssex County ChroniclesJim McAllisterSeptember 21, 2009 12:03 am—In the basement of the Cape Ann Historical Museum in downtown Gloucester is a room dedicated to the works of the many sculptors, painters and textile artists who practiced their craft, summers or year-round, in that far-flung corner of the city known as Folly Cove.Folly Cove is actually part of Lanesville, which was

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This excerpt is from A Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara H Erkkila recently reprinted and available through Ten Pound Island Book Company. Barbara was the best chronicler of Lanesville and also authored the book Hammers on Stone-The History of Cape Ann Granite available in bookshops around Rockport and Gloucester, and The Cape Ann Museum giftshop.Paul Manship, internationally known sculptor, and

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Gloucester Daily TimesEbb & FlowPeter K. PrybotSeptember 11, 2009 10:08 pm—"There weren't a lot of fish caught, and the weather drove a lot of people away."So explained Don Peavey, one of the annual Lane's Cove Bluefish Tournament's officials and founders.But despite those negatives, participants did leave last weekend's 21st annual tournament happy, especially for winning a prize or just getting

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Late-night rowdiness dampens great Lanesville holidayEbb & FlowPeter K. PrybotOrganizers of the second annual Lanesville Emergency Action Program's July 4 Extravaganza and the 18th annual Lanesville Fourth of July parade and bonfire treated thousands of locals and out-of-towners to separate, superb Independence Day celebrations.Remarkably, the weather did its part with a sky showing its infinity

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I have to admit that June is a pretty iffy month for weather here on Lanes Cove. It seems like we've had a lot of rain and the temperatures have been cool (50's & 60's). I guess I shouldn't ask for too much--we are getting some very lovely sunsets. The Cove is full of boats and the kayakers from Discovery Adventures are starting to go out. All-in-all, it is still a very special place.

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