The Extracurriculars

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Thursday Afternoon Walking tour of Gloucester:
(Note: everything is the first in the US because we are the oldest surviving
city in America, in these economic times we are barely surviving)

City Hall
Tour Gloucester City Hall, a national historic monument, contains spectacular historic murals throughout the hall, the names of all the fishermen lost at sea listed on the tower stairs

View
The Fitz (Hugh) Henry Lane House
Sitting on a high knoll overlooking the inner harbor
Where the great painter worked
(Gloucester was originally named “Beauport” by Champlain during his visit of 1414. “Beauport” means “beautiful port” in French, for you English majors)

Visit
The Cape Ann Historical Museum
To see the largest collection of Fitz Hugh Lane paintings for a tour with a docent

 Walk
to see the “Fisherman at the Wheel” statue that has guarded our harbor since 1929
and featured in the film “Captains Courageous” and the emotionally stirring “Fishermen's Wives” statue. These and other statues are on the wide boulevard along the water 

Saturday suggestions:

Hammond Castle Museum
Home of John Hayes Hammond
Made up of three castles brought from Italy, France, and Spain, stone by stone
In the Great Hall, there is a 14,000 pipe organ

Beauport Sleeper McCann House
Forty room mansion built in 1920 by the architect, designer, and art collector as a summer home on the outer harbor, where each room is of a different décor and style

Salem, Mass
Only a 20-minute drive, with historic homes and the Peabody/Essex Museum
And the Witch Museum telling the story of the famous witch hunts

Golf and Tennis (can be arranged any day while you are here)

Whale Watch

Schooner Sail

Lighthouse Water Tour
 there are five lighthouses in Gloucester
Water Taxi makes five stops continually touring the inner harbor
(you can get off at each stop and re-board or go all way around)