It’s time again to bring your scrap steel to 107 Eastern Avenue, Gloucester (behind Foster’s of Gloucester). Proceeds of the drive benefit the restoration of Gloucester’s oldest fishing vessel, the Phyllis A. Big thank you to Foster’s of Gloucester and North Shore Scrap Steel for helping to make this drive possible!!

October 20, 2018

Scrap Steel Drive

We had a Wonderful Phyllis A. Art Show and Sale Saturday, September 22nd and Sunday, September 23rd at the Gloucester Marine Railways on Rocky Neck! Met up with lots of old friends and met many new ones. We have already started planning next year’s Show and Sale, so stayed tuned for more information soon! Thank you to all the participating artists!

September 24, 2018

We had an amazing Maritime Saturday yesterday, September 1st! So many people came to talk about the Michigan Bears and give us information about their families! We had Places, Arnolds, Dalhmers, Jones, and so many more from other families to tell us stories and add to the information we have already collected! Keep an eye out for an event early this coming winter where we will invite all the families to come and tell us thier stories while we have 1623 Studios help to record them. It will be fun! Thanks to everyone!!!

September 2, 2018

Yesterday we were saddened to hear of the death of Phyllis Arnold Wagner, the namesake of the fishing vessel Phyllis A. and the only daughter of Albert Arnold, the leader of the “Michigan Bears”. 97 year old Phyllis was on her way home to Gloucester and we are so sad that she did not make it. Phyllis loved the Phyllis A and we hope she would be pleased that we are working hard to get the vessel finished and back in the water. We send our sympathy and love to Phyllis’s family.

August 24, 2018

2 - September 2018

Please join us Saturday for our Maritime Saturday! This month we are working on our Phyllis A Genealogy Project and looking for descents of the “Michigan Bears”, the group of men who brought the gillnet fishing industry to the Atlantic Ocean from lake Michigan, in 1910. The Phyllis A was built for the leader of this group, Albert Arnold in 1925 and fished for the Arnold family for 75 years out of Gloucester Harbor, something done by no other fishing vessel. Many of the “Michigan Bears” fished on the Phyllis A, as did their descents, but we are looking for people from the members of the other “Michigan Bear” families, too. We would love to hear and record your family stories! Yours’s is a very important part of Gloucester and fishing history. The Phyllis A wants to make sure we document this history for generations to come. So, come for “mug up” and let us get to know you and your family story!

July 30, 2018

August poster