Day: April 14, 2009

Walker Creek Furniture Table With Milk Wash Finish

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

How Walker Creek furniture is made
We use mortise-and-tenon joinery instead of dowels, and smooth our boards with a hand plane rather than a belt sander. We use only solid wood, no chip-board or veneer. While most furniture is finished with a sprayed-on polyurethane or colored lacquer, we finish every piece by hand using linseed oil, shellac and milk paint, just like 18th century furniture, so the surface feels as good as it looks. And … Click the text to be transported to the Walker Creek Furniture Website, read how they build furniture and where teh name comes from.

Walker Creek Furniture Table With Milk Wash Finish, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Movies – “Green Days”: 12 Earth Day Films @ CACC

Posted on by Rob Newton

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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS CO-HOST EARTH DAY FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 15-22

The Cape Ann Community Cinema (at the Gloucester Stage at 267 East Main Street in East Gloucester) is pleased to partner with Essex County Greenbelt and the Cape Ann Farmers’ Market in presenting GREEN DAYS, a week-long eco film festival to commemorate Earth Day. The series will feature a mix of thought-provoking films – some startling, some – about the environment and people who are working to create a sustainable future. The series begins the Wednesday before Earth Day (April 15) and culminates on Earth Day (April 22) with an evening gathering, appetizers and the warm and engaging film “The Real Dirt on Farmer John.”

Essex County Greenbelt, the Cape Ann Farmers’ Market and the Cape Ann Community Cinema are all organizations focused on strengthening our communities by connecting people to each other and to their local landscape.
Information about these organizations will be available at the event, along with light refreshments. Special promotional memberships will be available for attendees. Tickets for each film are $8.50 for adults, $7.00 for students and seniors. The films and showtimes are as follows:

WEDNESDAY 15
ICE PEOPLE [7:15pm]

THURSDAY 16
BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA [7:15pm]

FRIDAY 17
THE GARDEN [7:15pm] – OSCAR NOMINEE! (Partner: Farmer Dave’s)

SATURDAY 18
ELMO IN ‘BEING GREEN’ [10:30am] – FREE!
SCARRED LANDS [12:30pm]
MAMA EARTH / CRUDE IMPACT [2:45pm] (Sponsor: The Cape Ann Healing Center)
ICE PEOPLE [5:00pm] (note: substitution for Tapped!)
THE GARDEN [7:15pm] – OSCAR NOMINEE! (Partner: Farmer Dave’s)

SUNDAY 19
NO WONDER TO COMPARE:  THE MARVEL OF CETACEANS [1:30pm]
plus bonus short DISNEYLAND DREAM – FREE!
Filmmaker Robbins Barstow, co-founder of the Connecticut Cetacean Society, will present his whale video “No Wonder To Compare” and his Library Of Congress-inducted travel document, “Disneyland Dream” (from 1956!). We will also show an additional short promotional film about Wakefield’s Pleasure Island, aka “The Disneyland Of The East.”

THE POWER OF COMMUNITY:  HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL [4:00pm]
This is a fundraiser for the Cape Ann Farmers’ Market. Tickets are $30.00 for the film and dinner, $45.00 for the film, dinner and a membership to CAFM. [RESERVE TICKETS]

MONDAY 20
THE GARDEN [7:15pm] – OSCAR NOMINEE! (Partner: Farmer Dave’s)

TUESDAY 21
BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA [7:15pm]

WEDNESDAY 22
THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN [7:15pm]

Click to visit the official site of The Cape Ann Community Cinema.
Click to visit the official site of The Cape Ann Community Cinema.

(AT GLOUCESTER STAGE)
267 EAST MAIN STREET
GLOUCESTER, MA 01930
978/282-1988

www.CapeAnnCinema.com

State Fish Pier

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Many days you can drive by the State Fish Piere on a beautiful day and the boats will be tied to the pier.  10-15 years ago you never would have seen boats tied up on such beautiful days.  The guys would be out fishing. 

Between Federal Regulations, and an aging fleet of skippers you see this more and more.  We have a handful of great young skippers coming up but it is but a handful.  It’s going to be scary in another ten years when the last of the big generation of skippers are retired and the permits that they fish are gobbled up and consolidated.  This huge harbor under the current regulations will have great difficulty supporting such a contracted industrial base.  

State Fish Pier, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Where Zat? Answer

Posted on by Sharon

where-zat-191 Both Hedge and Eric S got the right answer to this week’s Where Zat? game.

From Hedge:  I’ll play. But it probably isn’t fair….. But if you stand in the Periwinkles parking lot. you can view the same little boat! (Or if it’s still too windy…. look here instead….. http://simplycapeann.blogspot.com/2008/12/simply-waiting.html

And from Eric:

Essex……….essex river aross from Pikes Marina

Thanks for playing and see you for Where Zat #20 next week!  —Sharon

Gorton-Pew Salt Cod Box

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Here is another relic from Gloucester Fishing Industry Past,  An Old Gorton-Pew Salt Cod Wood Box.  I wonder if this box which now resides at Ron Gilson’s house ever spent time at our dock which was part of the Gorton-Pew Fisheries before it was Captain Joe and Sons property.  Part II of my interview with Ron Gilson from his house comes at 8:00AM today.

Gorton-Pew Salt Cod Box, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Captain Joe’s Before It Was Captain Joe’s-