Percy McKaye's opening to his book length "Dogtown Common"

Cape Ann author Lora Clark's eerie "The Wraith of Dogtown"

Rockport's Kitty Parsons' closing to her long poem "Dogtown Common"

Vincent Ferrini's mystical "Wat Dogtown Doan Tell"

Vincent Ferrini's series of short "Dogtown Songs"

Vincent Ferrini's magical "The Priestess of Dogtown"

Charles Olson's "Maximus, to Gloucester: letter 7, part 2" inspired by Whale's Jaw

Charles Olson's "Maximus, from Dogtown– I" based on the legend of John Merry

Marsden Hartley's"Beethoven (in Dogtown)" and its expansion into "Soliloquy in Dogtown – Cape Ann"

Essex painter and poet Barbara Aparo's "The Dogtown Linens" based on her three Dogtown canvasses.