Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea

Description:

*Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea* profiles the combination of factors - the dramatic and tragic history of schooner fishing, a rugged coastline with its own special light, and an independent way of life - that attracted first-rate artists and authors to Gloucester and Cape Ann, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

subjects: History,  Navigation,  Art,  Sculpture,  Literature,  Fisheries

People: Winslow Homer,  Fitz Henry Lane,  Marsden Hartley,  John Sloan,  Paul Manship,  T. S. Eliot (1888-1965),  Rudyard Kipling,  Charles Olson,  Howard Blackburn,  Benjamin Butler,  Roger Babson

Places: Cape Ann,  Gloucester, Massachusetts,  Massachusetts,  Essex, Massachusetts,  Rockport, Massachusetts,  Manchester, Massachusetts

Times: 1623-2007