Maritime Cape Ann

Gloucester's Bargain with  the Sea

The Stream I Go A-Fishing In

 

 

 

 

 

  Published 2007

 

294 pages, including 60 illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover $28.00; paperback $22.00. Published by Whale's Jaw Publishing

Purchase from booksellers on Cape Ann and the North Shore area; the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine; Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine; Borders bookstores in Peabody, MA and Brunswick, ME; Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA; or online from Amazon.com.

The maritime culture of Cape Ann, Massachusetts is the mix of a noble maritime heritage; ubiquitous sea influences that reach as far as the quarries behind Rockport and into the haunted tracks of Dogtown Common; seductive but capricious natural splendors; and untidy independence that repels some but converts other visitors into lifetime devotees.

Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea portrays these contrasting elements in the makeup of Gloucester - plus Rockport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea - and the wealth of painting, sculpture, music, decorative arts, poetry, fiction and narrative prose that the mix has somehow produced, bursting forth from every seam of this very different Massachusetts cape.

   

Gloucester Daily Times June 14, 2007

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"I simply could not put down (Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea) ... What will be found in these pages is not only an accounting of those who shaped the sea's many uses to our needs, but those who have done so as well through the arts ... Relaxing with a really fine book can be a special treat when it bridges time between what was and what is, and "Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea" does that very well indeed."

Bill Plante, former executive editor of Essex County Newspapers

 

Cape Ann Writers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians

cited in Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea

George Aarons

Sylvester Ahola

Peter Anastas

Milton Avery

Kim Bartlett

Gifford Beal

Cecilia Beaux

David Benjamin

Theresa Bernstein

David Black

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Virginia Lee Burton

Lester Cady

Bernard Chaet

Antonio Cirino

James B. Connolly

Melvin Copeland

S. Foster Damon

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Richard Henry Dana, Sr.

Capt Solomon Davis

Stuart Davis

George Demetrios

David Deveau

Frank Duveneck

T. S. Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Barbara Erkkila

Clarence Manning Falt

Vincent Ferrini

Charles B. Fisk

Robert Frost

Joseph E. Garland

Edmund Gilligan

William Glackens

Charles Grafly

Gordon Grant

Capt. Linda Greenlaw

Edward Everett Hale

Ellen Day Hale

Walker Hancock

Marsden Hartley

George Harvey

Childe Hassam

Charles Boardman Hawes

Sterling Hayden

Aldro T. Hibbard

 

Thomas Wentworth

     Higginson

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Winslow Homer

Edward Hopper

Lester Hornby

Israel Horovitz

William Dean Howells

William Morris Hunt

Anna Hyatt Huntington

Electa Johnson

Irving Johnson

Sebastian Junger

Herbert Kenny

John Kieran

Rudyard Kipling

Leon Kroll

Max Kuehne

Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane

Lucy Larcom

Marc Lescarbot

Jonas Lie

Henry Wadsworth

    Longfellow

Capt. Gorham Low

Percy MacKaye

Charles Edward Mann

Paul Manship

Gilbert Margeson

A. Hyatt Mayor

David McAveeney

Raymond McFarland

Merrill F. McLane

William Meyerowitz

William Vaughn Moody

Frederick Mulhaupt

Judith Sargent Murray

Charles G. Nicastro

Martha Oaks

James F. O’Gorman,

Charles Olson

“Oliver Optic,” (William T.

     Adams)

Steven Parrish

Carl Peters

Jane Peterson

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Morgan Faulds Pike

 

Thomas Piraino

Herb Pomeroy

Edward Potthast

Maurice Prendergast

James Pringle

George Procter

Peter Prybot

Waino T.Ray

Kitty Parsons Recchia

Richard Recchia

Hiram Rich

Sarah Fraser Robbins

F. J. G. Robinson

Elliott Rogers

John Ronan

Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr.

Arthur K.Rose

Epes Sargent

Capt. Epes Sargent

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

Henry Davis Sleeper

John Sloan

Capt. Joshua Slocum

Capt. John Smith

Sylvanus Smith

William Lester Stevens

Dana Story

Marshall W. S. Swan

R. Salve Testaverde

Anthony Thieme

Gordon Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

John Twachtman

Yoichi Udagawa

Mason Walton

John Jay Watson

John S., Webber, Jr.

Nan Webber

William S Webber, Jr.

Katherine Lane Weems

Stow Wengenroth

Edwin Whipple

John Greenleaf Whittier

Alfred Wiggin

John Wilmerding

Rev. John Wise

Clarice Yentsch

 

Gloucester author-historian Chester Brigham, the author of Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea, has also written The Stream I Go A-Fishing In: Musical Adventures of Gloucester Schoonerman John Jay Watson, and is the author/producer of "The Fiddling Fisherman," a narrated musical excursion based on the career of John Jay Watson.