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GLOUCESTER — A bright blue sky arched over Rocky Neck earlier this week, crisp and spotless not a full day after an obscuring winter storm would have made downtown Gloucester, a short hop across the harbor, all but invisible. It’s the same vantage point captured almost 200 years ago by Fitz Henry Lane, one of this maritime town’s favorite artistic sons, in his 1844 piece “Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck.” Read the full story here.