Cape Ann, Massachusetts
I find that I spend a lot of time on Cape Ann, a beautiful peninsula about 40 miles northeast of Boston. Come with me now and let's visit a few of the reasons I go there.

A guest house in Rockport.

 

The New England locale of Cape Ann is evident in the architecture of its churches. This is St. Anne's Church. If the tin coated steeple seems oddly small, it is because it replaces a bigger steeple that blew down in a Nor'easter some years ago. I guess that discretion is the better part of architecture.

 

Many of the Our Lady's parishioners are fishermen as well. Our Lady hold a boat in her hand, the symbol of a safe voyage. This is the second statue of Our Lady; the first was carved in wood seventy years ago and got a bad case of rot. The current model is in fiberglass.

 

Our Lady of Good Voyage is a predominantly Portuguese parish.

 

The design is modeled on a church in the Azores.

 

A Virtual Tour of Cape Ann, Massachusetts
© 2002 Joe Kelley

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