Monumental Mural Going Up, Live Webcam Coverage: The final phase of the Essex Street Gateway Community Mural is under way, and new images are appearing on the wall every day. Watch progress in daylight hours on HCTV’s live link: LIVE WEBCAM You can run the video feed from an updated version of Windows Media Player. Hundreds of community members have already participated in painting panels which are being applied to the wall, and which will be blended into the final image by the team artists from Saligman studio: James Tafel Shuster, Josh Shaffner, our own Jeff Grassie, and intern Amanda Brack from the Museum School in Boston. You may DONATE NOW to this project by clicking HERE. Beautiful prints and note cards are available for sale at four downtown locations: Wicked Big Café (Essex Street), Angles and Arts Gallery and Positive Images Gallery (both on Wingate Street), and Sage Gallery (on Washington Street). If you would like to know the identity of the various people and objects in the mural, you can download a design key by clicking HERE Follow the mural on Facebook by clicking HERE.  

“Hues of the Heart” Community Block Party on Wingate Street, June 2: Celebrate Haverhill’s history, arts and varied cultures on Saturday, June 2, from noon to 4 (Rain or Shine), on Wingate Street—which adjoins the mural site. Sponsored jointly by Team Haverhill and many other community organizations, this family-friendly event with include tours of the mural (whose title is, “Hues of the Heart.” For a preliminary line-up of the afternoon’s events, click HERE.

Mural Dedication, June 15, 3:30 pm: The Essex Street Gateway Community Mural will be officially dedicated on Friday afternoon, June 15, at 3:30 pm. The location is 25 Essex Street, Haverhill, MA. Special guests include international shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, whose image figures prominently in the mural.

HaHaverhill Farmer’s Market Opens Saturday morning, June 23: This year’s market includes more than twenty vendors, weekly music, and a new children’s area. Formore information about the Farmer’s Market, click HERE.

OTHER PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS: A Team Haverhill crew cleaned up at the Tilton School and other sites during Brightside’s Earth Day Clean-Up...Later in the year we’ll host a one-day river clean-up with the Clean River Project and we’ll partner with neighbors to refurbish playgrounds on Union and Portland Streets...Mentors are signing up now to work with third-graders at the Tilton School starting this fall...Planning is underway for a number of other initiatives related to our January “Possible Dreams” community conversation. For information about any project, please contact Team Haverhill President Alice Mann by clicking HERE. The preliminary report from Possible Dreams is available by clicking  HERE .