This transition will take place in phases commencing with Christmastide ~ which begins the last quarter of the old-style (Julian) calendar year [March 25, 2009 - March 24, 2010, termed "The Year of Charting (New) Courses"] through Candlemas (February 2) ~ with a blue moon benchmark marked on the new style (Gregorian calendar) New Year's Eve on December 31, 2009 (link within).

• Thursday, 12/24/09, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Waxing blue moon, commencing last quarter of the old-style (Julian) civic calendar year.
  
  
• Thursday, 12/31/09, new-style calendar New Year's Eve - "Once in a Blue Moon opportunity."
  • SMILE (Seek More Insight Linked Electronically) about the blue moon on New Year's Eve at this link within.
    
    
• Friday, 1/1/10 - New-style calendar New Year.
  
  
• Monday, 1/4/10 ~ Inauguration Day.
  
  
• Friday, 1/15 and Saturday, 1/16 - New Wolf Moon (0% visibility).
  
  
• Monday, 1/18 - Martin Luther King Day, Greater Newburyport YWCA annual MLK Day breakfast and awards event to be held in Georgetown this year.
  
  
• Tuesday, 1/19 - any communications or agenda item for Monday, 1/25 City Council meeting must be in by 4PM.
  
  
• Tuesday, 1/19 - School Committee meeting, public conversation at 6:30PM, meeting commences at 7PM.
  
  
• Thursday, 1/21 – first official (2010) volunteer meeting for Yankee Homecoming 2010.
  
  
• Friday, 1/22 – Lord Timothy Dexter’s birthday (January 22, 1746/7).
  
  
• Saturday, 1/23 – Winter Carnival at Bartlet Mall.  An instance to which the substance of “all matters and things” might be shared via some storytelling around the fire.  Ropewalk, “coming full circle,” Dexter’s birthday (“Americake”) etcetera.
  
  SMILE (Seek More Information Linked Electronically) about the Winter Carnival event published in the local press:
  • 12/31/09 piece re Winter Carnival “dog” sled race at this link within
  • 1/7/10 Daily News piece regarding Winter Carnival at this link within
  • 1/13/10 Daily News piece regarding Winter Carnival at this link within
    
    
• Monday, 1/25 – Senior Center site ad hoc committee meets 8AM in City Council Chambers to discuss consideration of the Towle site (link without); City Council meeting commences at 7:30PM, beginning with public comment, with any separate standing committee meetings generally take place before.
  
  
• Saturday, 1/30 – Sunday, 1/31, Full Wolf Moon (99% visibility).
  

• Monday, 2/1 – School Committee meeting, public comment at 6:30PM.  Update: Joint Ed meeting typically held before the first SC meeting of the month will be scheduled for another date.  Possible engagement by Debbie Szabo’s  Creative Writing students who have taken on the work orders (link within) for Candlemas Eve “Twelfth Night” pantomime.
  
  
• Tuesday, 2/2 – Candemas, when more will come to light.

[NOTE:  Also adjusted milestone for Dexter’s date of birth from old-style to new-style calendar, requiring adjustment by 11 days when reference his (or any) chronological age.  An interesting means of conveying man’s infinitesimal quest to “measure time” and progress for (link within).]

• Monday, 2/8 – City Council meeting, coinciding with the date (in history) of Newburyport’s first town meeting on February 8, 1764 (see link within).
  
  NOTE: From Epilogue at webpage chronicling The Waterside Petition:  [T]he petition of the Memorialists was granted by the General Court on January 28, 1764, and officially enacted under the provincial governor’s seal on February 4, 1764.  The first town meeting was held at 10 o’clock on the Wednesday morning of February 8, 1764.  At that meeting, officers were selected and an ad hoc School Committee was formed.  The townspeople of Newburyport established three schools by March of 1764, actions predicting Newburyport’s future prominence on the vanguard of public education.
  
  NOTE: In the “race to the top” --- let’s reach for the moon. (Calculating that the moon recedes 1.5 inches a year (per the laser ranging reflectors deployed by Apollo 11 in 1969) --- the moon is 30.75 feet more distant than in the year 1764.  And 5 feet more distant than in 1969.  “Conceivably” still within reach!)
  
  
• 2/14 – 2/15 - New Snow (or Hunger) Moon (0% visibility). In (pro)Motion of Comity for upcoming public forum ~ educed by the “Apex of Education.”
  
  
• Monday, 2/22 - benchmark in the search for new Superintendent of Schools (as detailed at this link without); By this date, the Screening Committee members will proceed with a seminar for interviews and final stages of search and presentation of candidates ~ at the conclusion of those identified by search consulting firm Hazard Young and Associates; finalists are expected to be identified by the end of that week (2/26).
  
  
  • NOTE: Those finalists (identified by Friday, 2/26) will come before the community at a seminar to be held by Friday, 3/5. After interviews, the preferred candidate will be announced by Friday, 3/12, with site visit(s) completed by Friday, 3/26 and the announcement made by Wednesday, 3/31. Key dates incorporated in this calendar above and below. (FURTHER NOTE: Local press coverage at this link without.)
    
    
• Sunday, 2/28 – Monday, 3/1 – Full Snow (or Hunger) Moon (99% visibility).
  
  
• Friday, 3/5 - target date for community seminar to meet finalists for Superintendent of Schools. (See above and below.)
  
  
• Saturday, 3/6 – Newburyport  public forum organized by the Mayor’s Office to be held at Newburyport High School from 9AM to Noontide. Local press coverage included the Newburyport Daily News article published March 11 entitled "Mayor deems public forum a success" can be found online at this link without and local weekly GateHouse News Service (Newburyport Current) article published March 12 entitled "Mayor's forum was chance for residents to get involved" found online at this WickedLocal.com link without.
  
  
• Friday, 3/12 - preferred candidate for Superintendent of Schools to be announced. Related local media coverage concerning these last steps in the process:
  
  

  Newburyport Daily News articles:	Published:
  Kerble excited to begin in port	Tuesday, March 16, 2010
  Kerble gets top Port schools job	Friday, March 12, 2010
  Newburyport to pick school superintendent tonight	Thursday, March 11, 2010
  School job candidate drops out	Saturday, March 06, 2010
  New school superintendent pick expected Monday	Thursday, March 04, 2010
  Search for school head speeds up	Wednesday, February 24, 2010
  Newburyport Current (Gatehouse News weekly) article:
  Kerble is Newburyport Superintendent pick	Friday, March 12, 2010

  
  
• Monday, 3/15 – Tuesday, 3/16 ~ New Sap Moon (o% visibility). Monday, 3/15 School Committee meeting concurs with the New Sap (or Worm or Crust or Lenten, the latter termed by planters) Moon waxing to Full on Monday, March 29, which coincides with the City Council meeting.
  
  
• Wednesday, 3/24 – ends the old-style (civic) calendar year “The Year of Charting (New) Courses” and begins the old-style (civic) calendar year (tentatively termed) “The Year of Boundless Ambitions” (from March 25, 2010 – March 24, 2011).
  
  
• To celebrate and "cerebrate" the turn of the old-style (civic) calendar year in style ~ take the opportunity to join the conversation during the Ward 3 meeting to be held Thursday, March 25 (beginning 6:30PM in City Council Chambers). Then continue the conversation at the provisional Wolfe Tavern given "tasteful accommodations" at Loretta (27 State Street). Follow these unfolding (and enfolding) plans at the Virtual Wolfe Tavern ~ plied with a neat knit at the thread found at this link within ~ with other pURLs (particular Uniform Resource Locator) looming wisdom, daily spun (e.g., the letter to the editor ("forwarded in a "Motion of Comity") for publication in the Newburyport Daily News at this link without).
  
  

The old-style (Julian) civic calendar year (March 25, 2010 - March 24, 2011, termed "The Year of Boundless Ambitions" begins with an auspicious milestone in history and history in the making for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the New World:

Note that the compass and calendar for “The Year of Boundless Ambitions” (March 25, 2010 – March 24, 2011) will be posted with the new Sap Moon of March 29 ~ the Sap Moon so called by the Algonquin tribes because this was month when the sap of the Maple trees began to flow.  Noting the link without to the Farmers' Almanac, the Sap Moon was also known as the Worm Moon, the Crust Moon, the Crow Moon and (by colonists) the Full Lenten Moon, should it coincide with the Liturgical calendar. This old-style Julian civic year will mark several milestones in history and history in the making. Coincidentally, the year 2010 marks the 375th anniversary of the settlement of Newbury in 1635, while the Waterside community passes a 285-year milestone for a monumental step in the establishment as the Waterside Third Parish of Newbury (link within).

In the year 1725, in anticipation of the General Court's approval of the bounds and ambits for the new parish, "ye Waterside Parish meeting house" was built and Market Square and dedicated on June 25. This milestone will be celebrated (and cerebrated) during the Full Strawberry (Rose) Moon which falls on the weekend of June 25, 2010 (coordinated with Newbury 375) ~ as well as during Yankee Homecoming (duly noting that the Full Buck Moon (on July 25, 2010) coincides with the first day of the festivities.

• Full Sap Moon, March 29. Remarking that on this date in history, March 29, 1630, John Winthrop and his company set sail for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Waylaid by the inclement weather, an expeditious launch of their expedition to the New World would be delayed for ten days until April 8, as noted below (*). 
    
  DULY NOTED: On Saturday, 3/6 Mayor Donna Holaday's administration will hold a public forum for citizens to engage their elected and appointed officials concerning broader issues and ideas. Likely a follow-up forum and follow-through will be scheduled, noting that the budget process will begin in earnest at (and before) this timeframe.
  
  During this timeframe the final selection of Superintendent of Schools will come to fruition (with a public seminar with finalists to be held Friday, 3/5, final selection on Monday, 3/12 and site visit to follow on Friday, 3/26 with public announcement made on Wednesday, 3/31).
  
  * On March 29, 1630 (**) John Winthrop and his company of nearly one thousand Puritan men, women and children, along with their chattel, boarded the Arbellla and ten other vessels to make way to their “New Jerusalem” in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  On that date, John Winthrop began his journal (link without), with the first entries describing whither the weather that was to delay the launch of their venture for ten days, until Winthrop's fleet would finally leave England’s Southampton Harbor on April 8, bound for New England (link without).
  
  Five years ago (during a prior administration) Comity had planned to remark the 375-year milestone of this chapter in the history of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts --- (ap)plying both history and “history in the making” with information presented online at the Comity.org website and during the mayoral meeting for wards 3 and 4 (which had been scheduled to take place evening at the Newburyport High School), with participants invited to join in the conversation at the Virtual Wolfe Tavern (then hosted on another community website).  The occasion was to define the old-style calendar year from March 25, 2005 – March 24, 2006 as “The Year of Reckoning” (link within) and propose an Annual "town meeting" Forum, based upon the issues and ideas collected at the various ward meetings that warranted further discourse and course(s) of action.
  
  ** Some 380 years ago (by date not duration) disregarding the 11-day adjustment from the old style (Julian) calendar to the new style (Gregorian) calendar when the latter was finally adopted by Britain and her colonies in September of 1752, requiring the elimination of 11 days to reconcile the two. See this link without (Wikipedia.com) for more insight about the transition from the old style to new style calendar.

• Pink (or Grass Sprouting or Egg or Fish) Moon ~ new (0% visibility) from Wed 4/14 - Thurs 4/15; full (99% visibility) from Wed 4/28 - Thurs 4/29
  • Earth Days (Saturday, April 17 through Sunday, April 25) ~ Eco Collaborative Earth Days calendar can be found linked from this link without
  • Newburyport High School Favorite Poem Project anticipated for the month of April, recital event projected for Sunday, April 25
  • Full Pink (or Grass Spouting or Egg or Fish) Moon coincides with an obscure milestone in the Waterside's history given the advertisement of the upcoming auction of the late Timothy Dexter's "wodden figgers" and other such accoutrements
  • Parking Garage Forum will be held at Newburyport City Hall Auditorium on Thursday, April 29 at 7PM ~ referencing the following links without (and within) for more insight:
    • PowerPoint presentation for the two options for Intermodal Facility archived at this (CityofNewburyport.com) link without
    • Newburyport Business piece published 4/9/10 regarding Mayor Holaday's perspective and prospective forum at this link without
    • Newburyport Daily News article published 4/9/10 announcing 4/29 forum at this link without
    • Newburyport Daily News article published 4/17/10 about petitioners in opposition to downtown garage at this link without
      
      
• Flower (or Corn Planting or Milk) Moon ~ new (0% visibility) from Fri 5/14 - Sat 5/15); full (99% visibility) from Wed 5/28 - Sat 5/29
  • Newburyport Preservation Week which will coincide with the dedication of the Clipper City Rail Trail (link without)
  • Saturday, May 22 ~ wine tasting fundraiser for Yankee Homecoming at Nicholson Hall from 6PM to 10PM (link without)
  • Come what May milestones in history as reflected in the biography of Timothy Dexter:
    • May 9, 1755, young Timothy Dexter sent to work on farm at 8 years of age; May 22, 1770, Dexter married widow Elizabeth Lord Frothingham as parishioners of the Waterside Parish Meetinghouse (First Religious Society of Newburyport) in Market Square; the end of May 1802, first edition of "Pickle for the Knowing Ones" published; May 12, 1807, auction of the departed Timothy Dexter's furnishings and other appurtenances (see link without)
      
      
• Strawberry (or Rose) Moon ~ new (0% visibility) from Sat 6/12 - Sun 6/13; full (99% visibility) Sat 6/26 - Sun 6/27)
  • Monday, June 21 ~ Summer Solstice ~ coincidentally, the last School Committee Meeting for 2009 - 2010 school year
    • the new moon coincides with the dates in history as recorded for the old-style Julian calendar timeline June 11 - 12, 1630 (when Winthrop's fleet cruised the Isles of Shoals on June 11 before heading south along the coast to make landfall in Salem on June 12).
    • Adding the requisite 10 days to adjust to the new-style (Gregorian) calendar, the 380-year milestone is marked with the Summer Solstice.
  • Thursday, June 24
    • remarking the 159-year milestone of the City of Newburyport’s inaugural day on June 24, 1851
    • and the adoption of its first City Charter
    • this benchmark a neat knit with the Charter Review Commission’s progress re charter review/reform
  • Friday, June 25
    • Yankee Homecoming fundraiser event (Motown Dance Party, see link without for more information)
  • Weekend to begin a “(re)collection” of input for downtown “re:generation” outings
    • to “update the (downtown) map” throughout the generations (on stage and page)
    • coordinating with progress of the “downtown group” (fundraising and consciousness raising)
  • some 35-years after the 1975 competition for a succinct "composition" to (re)mark the Market Square compass/medallion for posterity
  • With the Farmers Market on Sunday, July 27 before …
  • Newbury 375 “Big Band” event held at the Governor’s Academy on Sunday, June 27, 3PM (link without)
  • July 1 ~ Dr. Marc Kerble officially takes the helm as Superintendent of the Newburyport ("Clipper City") School District
    
    
• During the New Buck Moon ~ new (0% visibility) from Sunday, 7/11 (day following 7/10 Riverfront Music Festival) through Mon, 7/12 (evening of only scheduled City Council meeting for July 2010)
  • With consideration to coordinate something akin to the Waterside community “jam and gam” during that timeframe to gather momentum for moons to come
    
    
• During the Full Buck Moon ~ full (99% visibility)  on Monday, July 26 through Tuesday, July 27
  • If not a “gam and jam” held in a Motion of Comity with Yankee Homecoming itself ~ coordinate a bit of “gamming” (social exchange) "'fore & aft'" one of the waterfront concerts
    • thus, engaging Yankee Homecoming regarding the scheduled bands, particularly Beatlejuice
    • also coordinating with Youth Council (dance party, &c)
      
      
• Gathering further momentum for moons to come ~ including plans in motion around and surrounding the Full Sturgeon Moon of Tues 8/24 - Wed 8/25; the Full Harvest Moon of Fri 9/23 - Sat 9/24; the Full Hunter Moon of Fri 10/22 – Sat 10/23; the Full Beaver Moon on Sun 11/21 – 11/22; with the Winter Solstice (December 21) concurring with the Full Long Nights (or Yule) Moon
  • Full Sturgeon Moon remarking several key dates in history and history in the making
    • plans are in motion for educing the RE:generation of the Spirit of Community
      • (including key opportunities to come to a "meeting of the minds")
    • with approval process underway for permission to use of Market Landing Park on Sun 8/22 for the Waterside community "jam and gam"
      • Newburyport Waterfront Trust to review application on 7/12 (link without)
  • Full Harvest Moon marks a time to reap (and reckoning) and marks the end of the second quarter of the old-style calendar year (March 25, 2010 - March 24, 2011, termed "The Year of Boundless Ambitions")
    • with Labor Day weekend falling a couple of days before the New Harvest Moon ((8/8 - 8/9) ~ the Labor Day festival held in the heart of the community will offer the opportunity to bring "Motion of Comity" on stage and (web and print) page, on screen and "screed."
    • (inevitably, will (ap)ply cross promotion between the 8/22 event and Labor Day events
  • Full Hunter Moon remarking the passing of Lord Timothy Dexter (October 23, 1806)
  • with consideration to “Tiptoe through the Tombstones” at Old Hill Burying Ground
  • Full Beaver Moon also an “old-style blue moon” which is defined as the third moon in a season which has four moons
    • occurring Sunday, 11/21 ~ the weekend before Thanksgiving (11/25) and the Santa Parade and Christmas tree lighting event on Sun 11/28
  • With "hope and esperance" to fulfill some "boundless ambitions" with TITO (in toto) for “Panto” productions during Christmastide, the new-style Gregorian New Year,  through Candlemas (February 2, 2011) through Chinese New Year (February 3, 2011) with the following day (February 4, 2011) marking a 247-year milestone in the Waterside community’s history, in that the Waterside Parish of Newbury was established as the separate town of Newburyport on February 4, 1764.