I AM
PARTICULARLY PLEASED TO PROVIDING A MONTHLY PRESENTATION OF ESSEX
HAPPENING. I AM HAPPY TO BE ONCE AGAIN
PROVIDING MY OUTLOOK ON THIS REGION. IT
SHOULD BE NOTED THAT MY THOUGHTS AS PRESENTED DO NOT REFLECT THE PRESENTATION
OF AN EMPLOYEE OR A MANAGER OF ANY OF THE ORGANIZATIONS COMMENTED ON IN THESE
REPORTS.
ESSEX HERITAGE
EVENTS
Trails & Sails News
Thanks to
new and returning event hosts, over 100 events have been scheduled for the 12th
annual Trails & Sails: Two Weekends of Walks and Water, taking place
September 20-22 & September 27-29, 2013!
See the full
listing of events and plot your course online at www.trailsandsails.org when the
site goes "live" August 1st! Trails & Sails 2013 is generously
sponsored by: With Thanks to TD Bank:
A Presenting
Sponsor of Trails & Sails 2013
Essex
Heritage is pleased to announce that TD Bank has returned as a Presenting
Sponsor of Trails & Sails 2013! We are very grateful for TD Bank's
commitment to the mission of the Essex National Heritage Commission, our
communities and the residents of Essex County. With their continued support we
are able to keep Trails & Sails a FREE public outreach celebration. Thank
you!
Essex Heritage Fall Meeting
Save the
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2013
Mark your
calendar for Essex Heritage's Annual Fall Meeting on Thursday, September 5th,
from 8am - 10am, at the Cape Ann Museum
in Gloucester! We invite you to
participate in this free, valuable morning of networking and regional
engagement! The agenda will include updates on Essex Heritage initiatives,
introduction of new Commissioners and the presentation of Essex Heritage's
Pioneers in Partnership Awards .Learn more and download a PIP Award Nomination
Form
REGIONAL EVENTS
City of Peabody work in the Square Nearly
Complete
The City of
Peabody road reconfiguration work in the square is almost complete and the City
Administration, local merchants and residents appear to be pleased with the
results.
City of Peabody Concert Series
The City of
Peabody is scheduling a series of late summer early fall concerts at the
Peabody Institute Library which started on 8/15. The events will be held in the Sutton
Room. For information on dates and
artists visit www.peabodylibrary.com
Cruise Ships planning Accelerates in Salem
The City of
Salem is accelerating deep water port planning at its Blaney Street Port. The City operated ferry service was recently
featured in a WCVB Chronicle segment on commuting to Boston and now have
announced plans to accelerate work on the development of the deep water port to
encourage the visit of Cruise Ships from a few hundred to 1500 passengers
starting as early as 2014.
COMMUNITIES OF SALEM and BEVERLY OFFER
SUMMER FESTIVALS
During the
early weeks of August, the communities of Salem and Beverly offered annual
Festivals called Heritage Days and Homecoming for their residents.
Local high Salem School Student band to hold
Fundraiser
In this
region we are blessed with a number of great student bands. As a resident of Danvers we are most pleased
with the number of events that the band has participated in over the years. We
recently learned that another well drilled local band will soon be seeking
donations to bring their instruments and uniforms up to date. At the Salem Rotary we have annually been
blessed with a holiday concert performed by the members of the Salem band and
we wish them well as they start their new campaign.
NORTH SHORE ELDER SERVICES
Massachusetts
Elder Affairs Secretary Ann Hartstein has announced the appointment of two
senior managers.
• Sue Temper is the new Elder Affairs
Assistant Secretary of Programs and Operations.
Ms. Temper spent 18 years as executive director of Springwell, an Area
Agency on Aging and Aging Service Access Point, offering a wide array of
services to seniors and people with disabilities in the near-Boston western
suburbs. Ms. Temper will assume her new role on August 5th.
• Sue Thomson is the new Elder Affairs
Assistant Secretary of Policy and Program Development, having been the agency’s
Chief of Staff since 2007. Ms. Thomson
will begin her new job on Monday, July 29th.
Before coming to work for Elder Affairs, the new Assistant Secretary was
Executive Director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Senior managers appointed at North Shore
Elder Services to the local leadership team.
Cheryl
Krisko, RN is now the Chief Program Officer overseeing all programs and
services directly involving clients.
These include Home Care Programs, Nursing Services, Protective Services,
Information Services, Family Caregiver, Options Advisors, GAFC, and Community
Services. Cheryl reports directly to me.
Rhonda
Gauthier has been promoted to the position of Director of Community
Services.
Her
responsibilities include overseeing Title III funded programs and activities
(Area Plan, Nutrition, and Nursing Facility Ombudsman), Money Management,
Volunteers, the Over the Rainbow LGBT Coalition and serving as liaison to
Councils on Aging. She reports to Cheryl
Krisko in her capacity as Chief Program Officer.
North Shore Elder Services to install
informational kiosk at Danvers Council on Aging
The
Longevity Connection at North Shore Elder Services is pleased to introduce the
Kiosk for Living Well at the Danvers Council on Aging. The Kiosk, a project
launched this spring by Greater Lynn Senior Services, is aimed at building a
community for and around seniors. Trained volunteers serve as advisors and are
available to meet with visitors to the Center and explore, via face-to face
discussion or the computer, a variety of healthy lifestyle options. The kiosk
also is a resource for those seeking information on transportation options,
looking for social activities and interaction, and Skype and email access. The
volunteers will be here every Thursday in August from 10 AM-1 PM. September
dates will be announced in the September newsletter. Stop by and say hello. This is a most important development for me
as I serve on both the Danvers Council on Aging and North Shore Elder
Services. It is even more important to
me as I serve on the Longevity Connection Committee. The management of that initiative at NSES
should be complimented for heir initiative.
Larcom Theater in Beverly Announces
Schedule for 2013-14
The
remodeled Larcom Theater on Wallis Street in Beverly recently announced a
schedule of six shows running from this October through next May. This is a new operation and the schedule
looks very interesting. Tickets for all
six shows are on sale now and a call to the Theater at 617-531-1257 will
connect one to the box office. All
additions to the cultural resources in this region adds to what makes this
region so special. Essex Heritage is
most concerned with the historical, natural and cultural resources of this
region.
DANVERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY REPORT
Golf
Tournament Report: This golf tournament fundraiser scheduled for 9/16 is an
important event for the Society and will be played at the Black Swan Country
Club in Georgetown. If you can play on
Sept 16, please sign up ($125 p/p includes golf, cart, lunch, contests, and a
lot of fun). Please reach out to golfers
you know to join in the tournament. Also, make a donation if you can. We need
as many sponsors as possible. Let's make this fundraiser a huge success so we
can keep improving the Society and its programs. Thanks, Wayne Eisenhower President
SHOW
HOUSE UPDATE AT GLEN MAGNA MANSION: The Holiday Show House reached a major
milestone this week with all the rooms being taken by designers and all the
designer contracts signed.
Join
us in celebrating four major upcoming Anniversaries: In December, the 50th anniversary of
saving Glen Magna Farms and the Endicott Mansion, and in 2014, the Society's
125th Anniversary, the 100th anniversary of the saving of the 1754 Page House
and the 200th Anniversary of the Ingersoll Farm transformation into Glen Magna
Farms, one of America's first country estates by Salem Maritime Merchant Joseph
Peabody, one of the richest men in America.
St. John’s Prep Football
St John’s
Prep football schedule for 2013 has been set.
After several planned scrimmages with local schools including Salem.
Pingree and two Lynn Schools. The Prep opens
with Bridgewater-Raynham and will host powerhouses Brockton, Everett, Malden
Catholic and Xaveraian as the season progresses. The Prep team recently won a 7 on 7 contest
held at Bishop Fenwick High School in Peabody and they are expected to be a football
force in this region and the most talented Catholic Conference.
PERSONAL
OBSERVATIONS
SUMMER READING
Since my
recent decision to end a decade and one half employment relationship with the
Essex National Heritage Commission as they continue to have limited financial
resources to extend their efforts, I have more time to enjoy a long time
avocation reading and as in the past, I wish to share some of my recent reads
and my thoughts. The books that I have read this summer and enjoyed in recent
weeks follow.
Frozen
in Time: An Epic Tory of Survival
by Mitchel Zucoff…a wonderful story about a military airplane crash, survival
and ultimate rescue. Wonderful thriller with a glorious ending
about a hunt for US Hero’s.
Those
Angry Days, Roosevelt, Lindberg and America’s Fight over WW 11….A Story of
America’s entry into a World War.
Inferno
by Best Selling author Dan Brown…A novel set in Europe about world population
growth. This book was as entertaining
as his previous presentation.
The
Guns Last Night by Ric Atkinson the last book in the Liberation Trilogy
about the war in Western Europe in 1944 and 1945
I am
currently reading and fascinated by a book entitled FDR, written by Jean Edward Smith about the life of President
Roosevelt from his youth to his time in the White House. As you can see my choice of reading focuses
on the period of the 1940’s as I was alive during that period but only have
hazy real time memories of the period.
The book
provided a wonderful overview of how well the President and the Congress worked
together in the time of crisis at the end of the great depression. The period
brought the country the creation of Social Security, the establishment of
insurance on bank deposits and the project focused WPA that developed numerous
facilities that are still providing support to many locations in the country.
In addition the time produced the electrification of Rural America.
Roosevelt’s
efforts were certainly complimented by the start of World War Two and the
positive impact that the conflict had on the economy, job creation and other
economic benefits. There was a period
of disenchantment with the President as the Roosevelt decided to attempt a
court packing program with the Supreme Court, but most of those problems were
overcome with the election of the President to an unprecedented third
term. His forward thinking to create and
obtain congressional approval of a lend lease program to assist the President
in his efforts to arm England and aid them in their defense of Europe before
our entry into the war. Then came
Pearl Harbor in 1941 and a second front for the President to be concerned
about. The attack came after a prolonged series of discussions on both sides to
prevent a difficult war in another part of the world.
The book
ended with recaps of several important battles of the war. It also recounted the president’s final
election and the final day of his life at Warm Springs, Georgia. I was so enthralled with the presentation
that I have started a new offering by the
Roosevelt Author on the life of the General and President Eisenhower. Hopefully that effort will be as good as
book I just finished
SUMMER BASEBALL TOURNAMENT IN COOPERSTOWN,
New York
My youngest
grandson Casey Leonard participated in a summer baseball tournament with his
Northborough team. They as a group did
not fare all that well, but had a great series with a half a dozen hits and two
home run. He pitched and caught and
after a summer of chasing all over that part of the state to watch him play, we
were pleased to learn that many of these games could be watched on our lap top
computer. There was a single camera
located behind home plate on several of the 120 fields where they played, and
as primarily a pitcher or a catcher we saw much of Casey’s activities in those
games that were shown on the laptop.
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