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NORTHSHOREMAG.COM 30 APRIL 2018 Gloucester is well-known for both its harbor, where hard-working shermen keep one of the country's oldest industries alive, and its beaches, where visitors go to relax and escape. ere is, however, yet another side to the city: It has long been a haven for artists of all kinds. "Beaches are seasonal," says Gloucester mayor Sefatia Romeo eken. "e museums, the art, the culture—it's all year long." Once you are in the know, Gloucester's artistic heritage is visible everywhere you look. Stroll through downtown and you'll nd cafés, gift shops, and boutiques mingling with galleries and artists' cooperatives oering everything from upscale ne art to more aordable everyday jewelry and home décor. Murals depicting local history and character adorn the brick walls lining many an alley and side street. Just o Main Street, Gloucester City Hall is home to several large paintings completed as part of the New Deal–era Works Progress Administration, which employed people in public works projects in the wake of the Great Depression. Across the street, the Cape Ann Museum oers a broad collection of paint- ings, sculptures, photographs, and artifacts that capture the region's history. "Artists have drawn great inspiration from all facets of Cape Ann," says museum curator Martha Oaks. "e arts have been central to Cape Ann's identity for 150 years." A quick drive or stroll from downtown brings visitors to Stacy Boulevard, a grass- lined waterfront walkway most notable for its iconic Gloucester Fisherman's Memorial, more commonly referred to as the Man at the Wheel. A short ways oshore, note the compact lighthouse on Ten Pound Island, where renowned artist Winslow Homer once D A T E O F S E T T L E M E N T 1623 D A T E O F I N C O R P O R A T I O N 1642 A R E A 41.5 square miles P O P U L A T I O N 29,546 Z I P C O D E 01930 M E D I A N H O U S E H O L D I N C O M E $ 63,917 Gloucester's artistic heritage is visible everywhere you look. Gloucester Preschool, Beeman Memorial Elementary, East Gloucester Elementary, Plum Cove Elementary, Veterans' Memorial Elementary, West ParishElementary, O'Maley Innovation Middle, Gloucester High The cast of Wicked Tuna, Olympic hockey coach Benjamin Smith, poet Vincent Ferrini, writer T.S. Eliot, author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton, inventor and entrepreneur Clarence Birdseye, painter Fitz Henry Lane S C H O O L S N O T A B L E R E S I D E N T S / F A C E S + P L A C E S / THE DETAILS spent a summer producing some 50 paintings of Gloucester. At the far end of the boulevard, an astonishing array of boats pass through the drawbridge that links the harbor to the Annisquam River. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCOTT MURRY