CAMTalk: History Series Granite and the Sea in Cape Ann’s History, Art, and Literature

Sunday, September 8, 2024, 2:00-3:00 pm
Presented with the Jonathan Bayliss Society
CAM Auditorium, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester MA
Free and open to the public
Live-streamed on Facebook 

Offered in conjunction with the Jonathan Bayliss Society’s conference “Granite and the Sea: Exploring the History, Nature, and Arts of Cape Ann’s Rocky Coast.”  

Local historian and author Paul St. Germain will present a series of slides from his book Cape Ann Granite. St. Germain, a thirty-year resident of Rockport, has written eight books on a variety of subjects since 2010. His most recent is Three Bridges to Paradise. 

Rebecca Reynolds will discuss “Granite Appeal: How the Rock of Ages Inspired Artists.” Reynolds, an American sculpture curator with a career in Washington, New York, and Boston, founded and serves as the director of the Manship Artists Residency, located in Lanesville between two quarries at the summer residence of sculptor Paul Manship.  

The program will conclude with “‘it is elements men stand in the midst of’: Jonathan Bayliss and Charles Olson,” a talk by Gary Grieve-Carlson.  He is professor emeritus of English at Lebanon Valley College, a board member of the Jonathan Bayliss Society, and past president of the Charles Olson Society. His most recent book is Poems Containing History: Twentieth Century American Poetry’s Engagement with the Past.  

The Bayliss Society was formed in 2018 to promote the study of the Gloucester writer Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009).