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Join Cape Ann Today host Kory Curcuru as he catches up with Erika Brown of The Cricket . This week, they discuss the latest news in the ongoing saga surrounding the Community Center. #CapeAnnToday #OriginalContent #GloucesterMA #CapeAnnMA #RockportMA #EssexMA #ManchesterByTheSeaMA   1623 Studios is a #nonprofit organization dedicated to producing community programming for #CapeAnn—Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Essex—and to providing a forum for the free exchange of information and ideas. We also provide a full spectrum of creative services to support our mission. Learn more at https://1623studios.org

Gloucester Times Reporters discuss Essex High School, Cape Ann Museum, and much more. 1623 Studios is a #nonprofit organization dedicated to producing community programming for #CapeAnn—Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Essex—and to providing a forum for the free exchange of information and ideas. We also provide a full spectrum of creative services to support our mission. Learn more at https://1623studios.org

In this bonus episode, John Curtis Perry has a conversation with Sung-Yoon Lee, expert on North Korea and author of the new book The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World.

Gloucester's Mayor Greg Verga discusses city updates including The Magnolia Pier, Green Street Project, and more!

In this bonus episode, John Curtis Perry describes his practical methodology for writing with the reader in mind, helps writers navigate the rocky shores of stilted or formulaic prose, and celebrates the joy of carefully crafting text.

In this final episode, the postlude book-ending the Revolution at Sea series, John Curtis Perry adds a few words as a sort of summary of our time together. "Together we have thought about some aspects of how the world of the terracentric has interacted with the world of the salt water (71% of the planet). We are living in a time of immense and rapid change as we grapple with the many dimensions of globalism that the ocean has provided to humanity, while serving as avenue, arena, and source, a shaper of the human experience. I hope that my remarks may have contributed to your understanding of what this means in the examples I have drawn from the past, and perhaps even to think about the implications for today."—John Curtis Perry.

Millions of Chinese rise from poverty and support an authoritarian state with global ambitions for prominence. The Chinese declare that their system is superior to democracy. What does this mean for Americans?

Under Deng Xiaoping's leadership, China opens to the outside world and builds a highly successful export economy. Logistics come first, Deng says.

“China stands up,” Mao says. At immense cost, China struggles in its early PRC years to make enormous political, economic, and social changes.

Having begun our discussion with China, we now return to it. We begin by looking at the nineteenth century when the Atlantic powers seized and occupied many ports, giving China an idea of what the outside world was like and what it then considered to be modern. For China, an age of bitterness.

"South Korea, a severely impoverished nation in the 1950s had always been a continental state. Now isolated from the mainland by international politics, Korea has turned to the sea. In a remarkably short time it has made itself a rich maritime power. [Correction: South Korea and Japan normalized relations in 1965, not 1963.]

Japan, the first Asian nation to develop an export-driven economy, becomes a leader in salt water commerce. It has become the world's third largest economy and plays an important role in international affairs.

Although Eurocentrism has been strong, some Americans, like President Theodore Roosevelt, think about a dawning Pacific era. In the early 1980s, for the first time trade flows across the North Pacific exceeded those across the North Atlantic, with shipping reflecting a changing world economy. The greatest seaports lie now on the Asian coast.

Waterfronts are no longer densely populated because ships need more space than cities can provide. Sailors now spend only hours in port instead of days. They no longer see the world. A sense of community is lost.

Ocean is no longer the only way for people to travel across oceans. The oceanic empires rapidly collapse. Nuclear power makes true submarines possible and helps open the Arctic. Bulk cargo, the container, and the internet make new complete logistics networks possible and change our lives as consumers.

Europe tears itself apart in the first half of the 20th century. Warfare becomes global and civilians suffer severely. Ocean forms both avenue for the flow of resources, goods, and people, but also for an arena. New weaponry below the surface and above it complicate war at sea.

As a triumph of the industrial revolution and its focus in the Atlantic, for the first time in history one region seemingly dominates the entire globe. Its ocean becomes a great vehicle for the flow of resources, people, and ideas. Immigration transforms cultures.

Emotion pushes war. America goes to Cuba to fight a Spanish colonial government. The war spreads to Asia and the United States becomes a colonial power stretching into the far Pacific, filled with uncertain strategic implications.

Exploiting the new age of steel, Americans use this new industry to build a modern navy although on a modest basis. Americans begin to perceive its application to international affairs.

Occupying their own West preoccupies Americans, and they do not react quickly to changing uses of the sea, which the industrial world is creating. The American merchant marine disappears.

American space and resources enabled the rise of a new presence on the international seas. Establishing a powerful place in the world of sail, the nation falls into civil war.

Japan makes what the Atlantic world considers a remarkable leap into regional power and modernity. Defeating Russia generates both admiration and fear about Japan as it builds a colonial presence.

Germany emerges as a great power in the later 19th century and ultimately challenges Britain at sea.

In a protracted struggle, a small but rich Britain pushes aside France on the sea and emerges as the world's unquestioned salt water power.

Britain retreats from North America but builds a new empire with its strategic center in the Indian Ocean. India becomes the “Jewel of the Empire.”

The industrial revolution changes the nature of sea power dramatically. The Atlantic world seizes the initiative and wields it in politics, economics, and society as it shapes global power. Wind and sail yield to steam and iron.

Why did rich France fail to compete successfully with Britain at sea? How did Britain capitalize on its advantages?

Maritime Europe Discovers the Pacific and we look at the life of the sailor.

A newly-united Britain, with growing prosperity and new markets, vigorously contests other maritime powers.

England admires and fights the Dutch, and begins to develop a powerful navy.

Remarkable Tudor rulers strengthen and enrich the government. At sea, privateers capture foreign wealth and popular admiration. Defeating the Spanish armada electrifies the nation.

England takes on the sea, beginning to embracing it as part of its life.

Dutch visual arts take on great brilliance in this maritime society. Merchant society exhibits extraordinary skill in buying and selling; process becomes product. Tolerance and diversity characterize society. Why then does this remarkable vitality fade?

Digging further into the Dutch experience, we explore how this small nation could create such a dynamic and sweeping maritime presence.

The Dutch make the world's first global trading state.

Northwestern Europe seizes oceanic leadership.

Using the World Ocean, Spain creates a global colonial empire.

Portugal builds a global oceanic enterprise.

Iberia makes the Atlantic an inland sea for oceanic Europe.

Peoples on the Indian Ocean were active seafarers. But, did they move beyond their region?

China enjoyed huge success on the continent but failed to encourage exploring the sea.

Stepping back before recorded history to an amazing saga, we enter the vast open Pacific. This is the world of the of the Austronesian speakers.

John Curtis Perry invites us to embark in a wondrous journey through the centuries to explore the human history of the seas.

The Writer's Block with John Ronan - #374 - Madeline Caviness

Now We're Here - Rocky Neck Cultural Center Now We're Here visited the Rocky Neck Cultural District to enjoy live art, music and conversation with the following special guests: Loren Doucette, operations manager, Rocky Neck Cultural Center Jillian Demeri of Three Stones Gallery Rockport Brenda Malloy of Imagine on Rocky Neck Ken King of Recreational Structures, Judy Robinson-Cox of The Square Circle Gallery, Vanessa Michalak of VanessaMichalak.com, Joyce Roessler of RoesslerGlass.com, Cindy Journey of CindyJourney.com, James "Gully" Hand of JamesBHandFineArt.com, and Musicians Grant Clark, Peter Meyer, & artist/musician Ira Levine (aka Negative Space)

Host: Michael Wheeler, Member and Former Chair of the Gloucester Democratic City Committee   Guest: David Gauthier, President of Mass Access and Executive Director of Winchester Community Access and Media, Inc.

The Kindness Project - Ep 1 The mission of the show is about strengthening communities through conversations about kindness. On this first premiere episode Kelly talks with guests: Peggy Haggerty-Steck of Action Inc Julie LaFontaine of The Open Door, & Bob Gillis of Cape Ann Savings Bank

Now We're Here, 1623 Studios traveling talk show, visits the Manchester Public Library in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.   Guests: - Sara Collins - Director Manchester Public Library - Erika Brown - (publisher/editor Manchester Cricket) - Beth Welin (Director Manchester Historical Museum) - Tom Kehoe - for Manchester’s 375th Committee - Mike Chapman (Open Space & Recreation Committee)  - Designer Pavlina Gilson - Priemlov: http://priemlov.com/#!/HOME  - Chris Langathianos & Joe Wilkins   

Gun Forum at GHS sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Cape Ann Moderator: John Bell, former Mayor of Gloucester and US Army officer who served in Korea. Panelists: - Gregor Gibson, author and father of a shooting victim - Mark Nestor, Decorated helicopter pilot in Vietnam and Commander of the Lester S. Wass Legion Post - Jim Wallace, President of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League (G.O.A.L.)

Rockport Art Association & Museum presents "Meet The Artist" Celebrating 100 Years Host: John Caggiano, Rockport Artist .  Guest Artist: Betty Lou Schlemm "Art is emotion beautifully organized"

Now We're Here - Brother's Brew Coffee Shop (Rockport, MA)   Now We're Here, 1623 Studios' roaming talk show, visited Brothers' Brew Coffee Shop in Rockport for a live broadcast on February 3, 2020.   Special guests: Ross Brackett of Brackett's Oceanview Restaurant & Brothers' Brew Sarah Kelly of Rockport Exchange Laurie Angilly Tuck of Tuck's Candy & Gifts Geof Lyons of Old Sloop Coffeehouse Heidi Caswell-Zander of Rockport Art Association & Museum Les Bartlett of Sandy Bay Historical Society John Nelson, author of Flight Calls: Exploring Massachusetts through Birding Jake Pardee of Maritime Music Studio Melanie Waddell of Rockport Exchange