Downtown Campus, 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA 
Free for CAM Members, registration required. 

Join the Cape Ann Museum for an opening reception of a joint installation with the T.S. Eliot Foundation to kick off the 2022 Dry Salvages Festival. The installation features Eliot’s Gloucester, a collection of letters and photographs, and Walking with Eliot, Cape Ann Paintings by Bruce Herman. 

Eliot’s Gloucester  

Born in St. Louis Missouri in 1888, Eliot and his family escaped the oppressive heat of St. Louis by spending their summers in the cool sea breezes on Eastern Point in Gloucester from 1890-1919. As a young man, Eliot learned to sail, dig for crabs, and enjoy the natural beauty of the rocky coastline “What seas what shores what grey rock and what islands ” (from the poem Marina). The installation represents a collection of letters and photographs illustrating a time in his life when he was the happiest, an environment that inspired him to write some of his best poems in his lifetime.  

Walking with Eliot- Cape Ann Paintings of Bruce Herman  

The ocean off Gloucester’s rocky coastline “Measures time, not our time…Older than the time of chronometers” as Eliot writes in  The Dry Salvages. This same sense of time—geologic, oceanic time—along with the topography, weather, and colors of Cape Ann––have all shaped Bruce Herman’s art.