Gloucester Addendum

I finally finished the first addendum to the Playground book. Go to the web site:
www.visualvoices.net/publications/update.html

and download the PDF of the updated pages. It includes the write ups for each of the five playgrounds. And best of all, they are all in color!

The playgrouds are:
Babson Playground
Brown's Field
Edward "Gint" Middleton Playground
Ganine Nancy Doucette Playground
Joseph Palazola Playground

Updates coming!

Winter is here and we don't go to as many playgrounds as we use to. BUT I should be working on getting those updated playgrounds into a print format for those people who have purchased Playgrounds of the North Shore.

Well, I have finally started working on them and my editor (wife) is currently going over them and I should have them posted this weekend I hope.

First up will be those five playgrounds I missed in Gloucester:

Babson Playground

Brown's Field

Edward "Gint" Middleton Playground

Ganine Nancy Doucette Playground

Joseph Palazola Playground

Next up will be Action Cove in Newbury and the ONE playground I missed in my own hometown of Salem, Mary Jane Lee Playground.

Doucette Playground, Gloucester

This was a huge park located up a hill tucked into a very-Gloucester neighborhood. Huge field in the back, and a small structure. At least it was different than the common Gloucester-style structures we'd seen that day.

Rating: Three stars

Babson, Gloucester

Most of the playgrounds we missed in Gloucester were three stars . . . except this one.

This is it.

Missing Playgrounds, Gloucester

Well, Eagle Tribune's Playground Rating web site has actually helped me. Through the web site, I see I have missed 5 playgrounds in Gloucester.

FIVE?!!!!!

drat.

They are:
Joseph Palazola Playground
Babson Playground
Brown's Field
Middleton Playground
Ganine Nancy Doucette Playground

Here's Joseph Palazola Playground:



Each of the five playgrounds have INCREDIBLY similar play structures to each other as well as to others in Gloucester. So when we were going to rates these, we quickly got bored with them for the play structures are the same at Cripple Cove, Sargent Street Park, and Fort Point Playground.