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Come Enjoy, Buy Art on the Rail Trail
the Rowley Clay Studio and
firing beautiful dishes, bowls
and vases for decades.
Bryant and McAuliffe
alternate days at the shanty,
which are open from 11 a.m. to
6 p.m.
Selig, who lives in Beverly,
makes her own sea salt, boiling
it for days on her stove, then
bottling it for sale. She is also
a painter who creates nauticalthemed
paintings, which are
also on sale at her shanty.
“When I heard about (the
shanties), I was so excited. I
was even more excited to be
selected,” Selig said.
McAuliffe said he is already
looking forward to coming
again next summer. At $150
a week or $250 a week during
Yankee Homecoming, the fees
are much cheaper than an art
fare, where a booth may cost
$125 a day.
Firehouse Executive Director
John Moynihan said of the
program, “Local artists are
looking for a lower-rent, lowrisk
place to showcase their
work. One of the big roles (of
the Firehouse) is to promote the
creativity in the community.”
of Colorado, Boulder, said he
does not believe the Atomic
Licensing Board should have
granted NextEra a 20-year
extension until all concerns
about the degrading concrete
are answered.
“There is a mismatch between
what the scientific community
knows and what is being done,”
he said, noting that the NRC
has spent millions of dollars on
research, including a $700,000
grant to him, but it has never
reviewed the research findings.
His biggest worry, he said,
are earthquakes and how the
concrete would withstand
seismic activity.
Diane Curran, an attorney for
C-10, who has litigated nuclear
regulatory and environmental
cases for decades, said C-10
has achieved something rare in
getting the NRC to hold the
hearing after it granted the 20-
year extension.
“We are at a critical moment.
NextEra has the burden of
proving that this program
they’ve proposed is adequate,”
Late last year, the Firehouse
was awarded a $30,000
grant from the Essex County
Community Foundation’s
Creative County Initiative to
create the artist shanty program.
They are similar to ones on the
busy Hyannis waterfront where
more than 90 artists participate
in the artist colony.
“These colorful structures
will enhance our waterfront,
attracting visitors to the
boardwalk where they can
enjoy a stroll and the scenery
and perhaps purchase a special
item from the juried artists,”
Mayor Donna Holaday said
at the announcement of the
project.
They were designed to be
similar to Newburyport’s
historic clam shacks, which
once lined the river at Joppa
Flats.
The shanties are 8 feet by 6
feet and will have electricity.
“I am very excited that the
city, in partnership with the
Firehouse Center for the Arts
and the Creative County
Initiative will bring the shanty
project to fruition,” Holaday
said.
The shanties are not the
she told the Newburyport
library crowd. “This is your
opportunity. It’s not going to
come up again.”
If there were an earthquake
in southern New Hampshire,
it could cause the concrete to
crack, she said. “It could be a
dangerous situation.”
Regulators dispute that claim,
saying that although the ASR
is getting worse, they believe
the plant is structurally sound.
They based their conclusions on
studies in Texas of concrete that
imitated Seabrook’s problem.
Peter Robbins, director of
nuclear communications for
NextEra Energy, said that any
claims or inferences by C-10 or
Saouma that Seabrook Station is
not safe are “simply wrong and
are not supported by facts.”
In a prepared statement,
Saouma wrote: “In my expert
opinion, the manner in which
NRC staff reviewed and
accepted NextEra’s testing
and analysis programs was
so devoid of scientific rigor
or independence as to fatally
undermine the credibility of its
only new feature along the
increasingly popular Clipper
City Rail Trail.
Don’t be surprised to see
lobsters, crabs, starfish, sea
horses and angler fish crawling
or swimming up the granite
walls of the High Street
underpass next to March’s Hill.
The sea creatures, rendered in
steel by Eric Harty of Andover,
are a permanent exhibit
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brighten the underpass.
“That old underpass tunnel
used to be a dark, damp,
forbidding place before the Rail
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manager Geordie Vining. “The
combination of the colored
LED lights bathing the granite
walls and Eric’s multitude of
detailed undersea creature
sculptures has turned it into an
unusual and striking place.”
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Seabrook in the presence of
ASR.”
At a licensing hearing
earlier this year, dozens of
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers members
told regulators they supported
the continued operation of
Seabrook because it is a better
than burning fossil fuels.
They noted that the 2014
closure of Vermont Yankee
Nuclear Plant caused a spike
in natural gas use in New
England. Seabrook is about
twice the size Vermont Yankee
was.
Residents, who appeared at
the hearing in February, are
not convinced that the plant is
safe. Massachusetts fisherman
Jay Gustaferro, a long-time
anti-nuclear activist, argued
at the hearing, “It’s turning to
sand, guys, sand. It’s breaking
down.”
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