FOB Kathy Downer has a cottage on Long Beach and had asked a number of times why no one on GMG ever puts up photos of Long Beach. I’d never been there until Violet took me there during my intimate island tour. So these photos are for you Kathy and everyone else who visits and loves Long Beach.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
About E.J.
Artist, researcher, spiritual traveler of this fascinating orb we inhabit, lover of life and all it has to offer.
Hi everyone out there in GMG land. My name is Ellen “E.J.” Lefavour (a/k/a “Ejay Khan” – the pseudonym I used during my years as a political activist artist). I am a newcomer to Cape Ann, and thrilled to be a new contributor to Good Morning Gloucester. I am a painter and photographer who has lived and worked as an artist for 20 years, since leaving the corporate world in 1990 to pursue my passion. My contributions to GMG will consist of images (either my paintings, photographs, or the occasional video) and a little history about the image, called “Did you Know?” I hope to come up with tidbits of information that people don’t already know, or had forgotten they knew. As I am new here, everything is new and fascinating to me, especially the amazing history, so bear with me if I post something that is common knowledge – I’ll eventually come up with something that’s new to you. Please take a minute to comment on my posts, like them or not, especially if you have corrections or something to add, as that is how I, and all of us, learn. Have a Good Morning Gloucester, and a blessed day.
Alicia
blackswanbeth
Joanne
Joey C
Marty Luster
Craig Kimberley
David B. Cox
Ed Collard
Sharon
Vickie & Peter
Kim Smith
Fr Matthew Green
patrickr
Paul Morrison & RD
Manuel F. Simoes
S.D. Kelly
Thom Falzarano
Isn’t this what they call Pebble Beach on the Rockport end of Long Beach? Very appropriate, I would say.
Cape Hedge is the Beach next to Long Beach. The beach on the other side of Cape Hedge is Pebble Beach. I remember a few years ago a large whale wash up on Cape Hedge. After they studied it they buried it the parking lot.
Thanks for the clarification Paul. I didn’t get to Pebble Beach this time. Cool to realize that we were parked on top of a whale!
Thank you EJ, as always brilliant photos. very kind and thoughtful. next time you have to take photos of gloucester end. we grew up calling that beach Pebble Beach. we also grew up thinking we were in Gloucester! i think there may have been shared responsibilities. kathy
I heard that Pebble beach is also knows as Henry’s beach.
Who the heck is Henry? And what’s a popple?
I don’t know who Henry is, but on popples:
In former days — that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the Land of Gramblamble, Seven Families. They lived by the side of the great Lake Pipple-popple (one of the Seven Families, indeed, lived in the Lake), and on the outskirts of the City of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite dark, they could see plainly. The names of all these places you have probably heard of, and you have only not to look in your Geography books to find out all about them. (from Edward Lear)
And . . . Popples resemble brightly colored teddy bears or marsupials (but with long tails with pom-poms on the tip), and have pouches on their backs that they can go into and resemble brightly colored balls. (from Wikipedia)