Word: rockport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most painted object in the U.S. is probably a weather-beaten, 84-year-old fishing shack in Rockport, Mass, known to artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint...
Last week, with Lobsterman Vibert's permission, Rockport artists found a way out. After raising $100 by subscription, they had a trench dug for an underground conduit. Then, in a formal ceremony which also opened Rockport's summer painting season, they triumphantly clipped and removed the offending wires...
...Rockport and Gloucester are other pleasant shore areas, with Gloucester especially commendable for its pleasant, breezy atmosphere. A trip out to Gloucester is a Sunday trip which has all sorts of possibilities. To get to Rockport take the road to Lynnfield and then 128 to Gloucester. From there just turn on to Rockport...
...eight day period between March 31 and April 7, it will sing in Arlington, Washington, New York City, Ithaca, New York (at Cornell University), Rockport, New York, Cleveland, and Pittsburg. The Radcliffe Choral Group will sing at the first three concerts...
...white-haired old party named Jack Alonzo Goldie got into a Chinese robe at Rockport, Mass. last week, put a black band around his head and announced that 1) he was The Zoom, and 2) that an H-bomb was going to blow the world up on April 7, 1954. He asked one & all to become Zoomites, and join him in burrowing underground. Father Divine took a different attitude. He claimed that he was responsible for the bomb, through some kind of telepathic influence on President Truman, and that it was a fine thing. His exact words: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful...