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Gloucester Massachusetts
balances its intertwined past and future with assurance and skill. The
city, long renowned among artists for the purity of its light, has traditionally
been the home of internationally known painters like Winslow Homer, Edward
Hopper and Fitzhugh Lane and sculptors like Walker Hancock. In addition,
the Cape Ann Symphony makes its home in Gloucester as does the critically
acclaimed Gloucester Theatre Company, whose director and playwright, Israel
Horovitz, is known on and off Broadway. But the beautiful harbor that attracts
a sizeable artistic population is also a working harbor which is one of
the top three fishing ports in the northeast.
The picturesque fishing fleet, manned
primarily by Portugese and Italian residents of the city, supports a major
fish packaging and freezing industry. Residents note emphatically that
the city is not a bedroom community, offering work to many of its residents
in five industrial parks which produce everything from T-shirts to electronics
and engineering. Gloucester is equally proud of the diversity of its population,
with working class and ethnic residents as well as old wealthy families
and newer summer visitors.
Gloucester is located in Northeastern
Massachusetts on Cape Ann, bordered by Manchester and Essex on the west,
the Atlantic Ocean on the north and south, and Rockport on the east. Gloucester
is 15 miles northeast of Salem, 31 miles northeast of Boston. |