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DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2025-11-09

Back home on the #NorthShore of #Massachusetts , #Fixers and #Repairers are FIXING! ❤️

We are looking for Fixers for our next #RepairCafe!

#IpswichMA - The next repair cafes will be:

December 6 from 10am -2pm at Ipswich Town Hall.

We are looking for Fixers for our next Repair Cafe! If you like to fix things and have skills you think will be useful please fill out the form linked below for more information!"

ipswichlibrary.org/ipswich-rep

#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RepairCafesMA #RepairReuse #FixIt #RightToRepair #RepairCafe #RepairCafesMassachusetts

MrWtr0102MrWtr0102@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-29

#NoKings 2.0
Saturday, October 18th, 2025

#NoKingsMassachusetts
(Part 4 of 10)

#HarvardMA
#HaverhillMA
#HollistonMA
#HopkingtonMA
#HudsonMA
#HyannisMA
#IpswichMA
#LeicesterMA
#LexingtonMA
#LittletonMA

Link:
nokings.org

Map showing locations of the “No Kings 2.0” protests to be held in Massachusetts on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.
DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2025-09-07

Tonight and tomorrow night in #IpswichMA !

#CraneOutdoors: Dunes by the Light of the #FullMoon

Castle Hill on the #CraneEstate

Sunday, September 7, 2025, and Monday, September 8, 2025

About CraneOutdoors: Dunes by the Light of the Full Moon

"Transformed and illuminated by the glow of the full moon, the beach and dunes of Castle Neck are a stunningly beautiful landscape. To experience this special place at this magical time, join us for a unique hiking experience.

"We’ll start with the beauty of a sunset while taking an evening walk along Crane Beach when most visitors have packed up and gone home for the day. We’ll have ample time to take in the 'Cape Ann light' that has been the inspiration of many artists over the years. Then, we’ll then head into the dunes where we’ll explore the trails of Castle Neck under the light of the full moon. You’ll enjoy the quiet of Pitch Pine groves and catch glimpses of the Atlantic as you crest the dunes. You might even see some cranberries in the Neck’s naturally occurring cranberry bogs.

"Please note: Our standard Full Moon Hike is suited to kids aged 12+ and/or who can comfortably hike 2-3 miles. For families with smaller children, or those looking for a slower pace, please look for our CraneExplorer: Family Full Moon Hike offerings, which are shorter and go at a gentler pace.

"Bring water and dress for the weather to maximize comfort. You are welcome to bring a flashlight or headlamp, but we may ask for moments of total darkness to fully enjoy the moon and the shadows it makes on the dunes."

$30pp

thetrustees.org/event/441279/

#SolarPunkSunday #LunarPunkSunday #TrusteesOfReservations #CraneEstate #WalkingTrails #MoonlightWalks #Nature
#Massachusetts #MassachusettsEvents #SpendTimeInNature #LandPreservation #LandTrusts

ShadowPlayShadowPlay@nerdculture.de
2025-09-07

Lol! Watching an alleged #Urbex video of the #CraneEstate in #IpswichMA. Dude, sneak in through the coal shaft! That's how we got into it! But seriously, this video has some great footage of the old Rose Garden (and Ritual Circle) when it was crumbling. I got to hang out there before the *renovation*.

youtube.com/watch?v=-4II6Ibfgc

#SpookyPlaces #UrbexVideos #Inspiration

MrWtr0102MrWtr0102@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-07-04

#FreeAmerica Protests

#FreeAmericaMassachusetts

#GreatBarringtonMA 7/4
#BraintreeMA 7/4
#IpswichMA 7/5
#SalemMA 7/4

Link:
action.womensmarch.com/calenda

Map showing locations of the “Free America” protests being held in Massachusetts during the July 4th Weekend of 2025.
mem_somerville
2025-04-23

is all about our event this coming Saturday!

Event details: nelg.us/Weaving-threads-of-lac

The museum will let me sell my Ipswich lace jewelry (necklaces and pins) so I'm doing the final details. I am also bringing Karen Thompson's books for her if you wanted to see them before buying. They are hard to find in person.

has had so many great events this month that I absolutely could not keep up with them.

A velvet beige jewelry tray with small bins for items. There are five columns across and six rows down. The upper half is mostly oval and round brooches with Ipswich lace (black or white) on the surface and a glass with a color behind it. The bottom two rows are the necklaces with square or rectangular pendants but the same basic thing. Lace applied to the glass surface and a color underneath. Karen Thompson (doyenne of Ipswich Lace) has a new book with "Jewelry Patterns Inspired by Historic American Ipswich Lace". The cover has earrings and pendants in various colors and some with beads. Karen Thompson's original book of the Ipswich lace patterns based on the Library of Congress samples that she had access to as a volunteer with the Smithsonian. She examined each of the 18th century samples in detail and recreated the patterns from them. So they are entirely authentic to that period. But with modern diagrams!
AIF-MassachusettsAIF_Massachusetts@kolektiva.social
2025-03-08

Women's March tomorrow, March 8th, in Boston, Billerica, Natick, and Ipswich!

Boston Common, 12pm: action.womensmarch.com/events/

Natick Common, 12pm: action.womensmarch.com/events/

Billerica Town Common, 11:30am: action.womensmarch.com/events/

Ipswich at Five Corners/Bottom of Town Hill/North Green, 12pm: action.womensmarch.com/events/

#Boston #BostonMA #Ipswich #IpswichMA #Natick #NatickMA #Billerica #BillericaMA #Antifascism #Events #WomensMarch

mem_somerville
2025-02-25

Oh, Elena Kanagy-Loux has done a lovely Insta post about and talks about our upcoming big event in .

instagram.com/reel/DGdv5s4Skpn

mem_somerville
2024-12-02

I decided that I needed a day today. Away from the internet, just the noise of the waves crashing. Trudging through the sand. Nearly alone. It was great. Found an actual comb on the beach.

Also, I needed a crustacean claw for Alençon lace, but I think I got the wrong one. Oh well, another beachcomber day....

Alençon lace uses a lobster claw to press the lace at the end. I don't know if these crab ones will work.

My haul of beachcombed items from today. These are Atlantic ocean things in Ipswich MA. Some clams shell pairs, big heavy ones and smaller razor clams. Some driftwood pieces. Some horseshoe crab carapaces, some coal from an old shipwreck, and a plastic hair comb. A couple of snail shells, one will be zoomed next.This is an unusual snail shell. Pointy, with 6 whorls from the top smallest part. But it also has this really heavy extra crust on it, part of which is coming off. It looks like cement, but it likely isn't. The cement stuff is scraped off on a lot of the ridges and there is a white pearly shell that appears. The other side of that pointy snail. The hard crust is more apparent here, and fewer of the ridges of the shell are here but you can see them. A screencap of a section of the UNESCO video about Alençon lace showing the part at the end where they rub with a lobster claw. It's weird, but if it is a tradition there must be some reason....
mem_somerville
2024-05-17

I was walking in a while back, and this lovely spring window box was so charming on an otherwise gloomy gray day.

An old brick wall has a window in the center. The window has large old granite lintel pieces. The window with 6 over 6 panes is closed, reflecting the other side of the street and the phone pole with wires subtly. But the red wooden window box on the bottom is full of flowers, arranged in lovely bunches from the purple delicate ones on the left, to some white shorter ones next, some taller yellows, some much taller purple springs, to some flaming tulips, and these repeat kind of symmetrically to the right. So it just has a lovely arch of flowers in the back and some smaller ones in front.
mem_somerville
2024-04-28

This giant insect sculpture both compels me and haunts me, every time I visit the Museum.

A wire sculpture bug hangs from an old tree in the back yard area of the Heard House, an 1800-ish Federalist square large front house with several small lower ells behind. The insect in the foreground must be 4 or 5 feet long, and shoulder to leg tip about 3 feet. It is suspended from a single wire and drifts a little in the wind. The black wire forms a clear head, abdomen, and folded-in wings. Its legs dangle down beneath. I took the shot from down the hill a bit so you can see the blue sky through most of the sculpture. It kind of makes it look like a pen sketch of an insect on a photo this way. It's both ominous and interesting.
mem_somerville
2024-04-27

I was up in today for something else, and finally got a photo of the historical marker for . It is now in @wikipedia on the Ipswich lace page.

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

RusscamPhotorusto88
2023-10-08

Black and white photo of the water’s edge on a beach. The very edge of the water where it meets the sand is illuminated by the sun (which is out of frame) and takes the form of an irregular vertical path that leads the viewers eye from the bottom/foreground of the image up towards the horizon, and then curves first right then left below the upper part of the beach. Above the beach, the sky displays a clutch of fair weather clouds, each one rim lit by the sun behind. The whole image is rendered with a very constrasty tone, with the sand, water and sky very dark and the reflections on the water and edges of the clouds very light.
Tenar Arha, 🌻DaTenar@mastodon.coffee
2023-10-05

I knew it was going to be pretty hot yesterday, so I took a half day & went up to Ipswich MA, to Crane Beach. At this time of year, whenever it’s warm enough, it’s fun trying to catch that last great beach day.
#IpswichMA #massachusetts #beaches #beach #CraneBeach

Here’s a video w sound of place where the beach kind of comes to a point & the waves change directions & cross each other, about where Plum Island Sound shifts into the Gulf of Maine

mem_somerville
2023-09-21

Finally, this little one was not having a good day. I did the flip over, but it didn't seem too excited about that either. Alas. I don't know how it turned out.

An overturned horseshoe crab, washed up to the high tide line on the sand. It was waving a leg, but not very actively.The same horseshoe crab turned right side up on the sand. But not in any hurry to move back towards the water.
mem_somerville
2023-09-21

Me, on the way to the charger: why does my car smell like low tide?

Also me: oh, right, yesterday's on the back seat.

I learned some interesting things from this haul. 1/n

Array of sea shells and driftwood from the east coast of Massachusetts. Some clams, some snails, some oysters, Various sizes, from a 5 inch clam pair to less than one inch shells. Various states of solid to some with holes or other decay issues. In the center is a shiny black rock, highlighted in the next photo.My personal favorites yesterday were these snail shells that are about 2+ inches wide. They have some of those perfectly increasing coil shapes, even the broken one which might be especially hand for print making. In the center fo some clam shells and driftwood pieces, a very shiny black triangle-shaped piece that is about 3 inches on the long side. Turns out, this is coal from 100 year old shipwrecks.
mem_somerville
2023-09-20

. I decided that I needed to make some in actual . And I really needed a beach day. It was wonderful--a perfect summer day. Stunning

Had to briefly stop when this small ladybug decided to check out my pillow.

A blue fabric on a lace pillow shows two wooden bobbins wound with black silk thread, and a tiny ladybug right in the way, about a quarter inch from my bobbins.The beach walkway has a small deck perch with benches, overlooking the sea grass and dunes, a sandy beach, and further out the blue ocean water and a little island off to the left. Some small puffy clouds are casually floating by in the glorious blue sky. My blue roller lace pillow is set up for work on a small folding table on the gray weathered wooden deck area.
mem_somerville
2023-09-06

I forgot to do a for a while. Got busy, but also because it's the same damn work, only longer.... Lace is a .

This is an replica pattern. These were found in 's papers and patterns recreated from original samples of ~1790 from .

A bobbin lace roller pillow, shot from the back. It's an oval sort of platform, with a cylinder in the middle that turns as you work your pattern around. A little holder in the back winds the completed yardage. It is a black silk lace, about 2 inches wide. The fancy edge has kind of a wavy look with little picots off the side. In each wave trough a small diamond motif forms. The rest of the lace is the ground stitch, just like the background that lets the motifs show up. The completed part has pins removed. The recent work still has brass pins at each stitch location to hold them until you get further along. Towards the upper part of the photo, the 50 or so bobbins wound with the unused thread are waiting. An opened up piece of my completed black silk lace, unwound to see the detail. About 2 inches wide, it has one side that has a wavy motif with a heavy border. The outermost edge has little picot twisted bits. In the trough of each wave is a little diamond shape stitch area. The other edge is called the sewing edge, and you'd put something like this on your black shawl or cape edge using that sewing edge. It just has an extra close thread to make a border at the edge. It's just laid out on a white linen fabric for contrast. It's still attached to the working section over on the right so it's hard to photograph well. The working section has brass pins in the yellow pattern paper where the stitches get made. It's on a roll that I can turn as I complete a segment.

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