Art! Crafts! Music! Fun for all on Chatham’s Main Street during Summerfest 2018.

Don’t miss the Big Head Parade that steps off at noon. See you on July 7th!

A reading from the collection of The Bottle Diggers by poet Andrea Fry, with guest readers, Fern Sloan and Ted Pugh of The Actors’ Ensemble.

“This is a first book of poems, but the poet is already on her way, the voice clearly her own and not to be confused with that of any other poet. An auspicious debut collection.”

~ Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, proprietor of The Grolier Poetry Book Shop, Cambridge, MA and author of Before a Common Soil

For her landscape paintings, Newburyport artist Annalee Johnson draws on a variety of tools—from hands to palette knife and brush—and materials—from pastels and watercolors to mostly oil, using walnut oil, cold wax, or marble dust for effect.

Born in California, Johnson grew up in Washington, DC, and lived in Oslo, Norway, but has spent her adult life in Newburyport, MA. After studying art early on, she majored in elementary education in college, taught in progressive elementary schools, and served as head of school. When she retired, she resumed painting and has been influenced by the work of Karen Jones and Nella Lush.