Cape Ann Trail Stewards Annual Meeting and "Cellar Holes of Dogtown" Talk

Cape Ann Trail Stewards invites you to join us for our Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 5 from 6-8:00pm, at the Lanesville Community Center in Gloucester.

We will present a brief overview and photo slideshow of our work over the past year including an annual financial report, and vote in our slate of officers for the year.  Complimentary pizza and drinks will be provided!

Our guest speaker, Mark Carlotto, will give a presentation on the Cellar Holes of Dogtown.  Mark is an aerospace engineer with over thirty years of experience in satellite imaging, pattern recognition, terrain mapping, and mobile applications, and has published over a hundred papers in various technical areas.  Soon after moving to Gloucester in 2003, Mark got lost in Dogtown.  As a result, he decided to map all of the trails with a GPS, spending hundreds of hours following every path and investigating every cellar hole he could find.

His 2007 book The Dogtown Guide received a Preservation Award from the Gloucester Historical Commission. His second book, The Island Woods, published in 2012, is a spatial history of the interior of Cape Ann.  Using maps and photographs, he goes back and forth in time, describing the old roads, settlements, granite quarries and enigmatic boulders of the Cape.  In 2015, Mark also wrote the book The Cellars Speak: The Old Cellars and What They Tell Us about Dogtown and Its People.

Please register online if you plan to attend  the Annual Meeting, as space is limited!

Location:  The meeting will be held at the Lanesville Community Center at 8 Vulcan St. in Gloucester.  See Google map location HERE.