Month: May 2009
WPA Mural At The Gloucester Visitors Welcoming Center At Stage Fort Park
Currently this WPA mural is hung in the Gloucester Visitors Welcoming Center. NOAA is interested in it and it is currently hung improperly for such a valuable piece. There is simple window framing holding it up and it is tearing along seams where nails are holding up the heavy canvas. They couldn’t figure out who the artist was. I wonder if Susan Erony who did the lecture series on the WPA Murals around Gloucester knows. Video at 2PM.
WPA Mural At The Gloucester Visitors Welcoming Center At Stage Fort Park, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
What a cool building-
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Remember when….?
No, this isn’t Fiesta. Remember when the carnival was at O’Maley School? I took this shot maybe 13 years ago. Film, of course. I scanned it this morning, gotta remember to find those cool old shots. I’ll put this in the Block Party slide show next month. It won 3rd place in the Summer Sun photo contest that the Times ran back then.
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Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 4:50AM 5/22/09
Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 4:50AM 5/22/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Downtown Construction Update 5/21/09
I’m not exactly sure what the structure they are forming in the center of the foundation is. Perhaps an elevator shaft? Perhaps a stairwell? Maybe a middle support?
Downtown Construction Update 5/21/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Gloucester legends: Willie Alexander’s latest CD focuses on poetry and life of Vincent Ferrini
By William Routhier/Beacon Correspondent
Gloucester – First thought, best thought, always. Write free-flowing, spontaneous prose. Give birth to artistic creation in the heartbeat of the moment, the now, the ever-present now.
These were credos of Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and that spirit of unbridled creativity is alive and well in Gloucester musician Willie Alexander.
Alexander, who played with The Lost, the last version of the Velvet Underground, his own Boom Boom Band and The Persistence of Memory Orchestra, is a Boston music legend. Stephen King put Alexander’s song “Mass Ave.” at number 13 on his list of top 25 best rock songs of all time.
Thin and fit at 66, Alexander displays the buoyant energy of an edgy young rocker, but also carries with him the calm wisdom of a man who’s learned what is valuable and lasting. For Alexander, a major part of what is valuable and lasting is the city where he was born and now lives, Gloucester.
Alexander spent the first five years of his life in Gloucester, where his father was the minister of the Baptist Church, then moved to East Providence, R.I., and later to Newtonville, Mass. Just a subway ride away from Boston and Cambridge, Alexander would travel in to hear music at various music joints, like Club 47, which later became the famous Club Passim. It was just before the folk music boom, and Club 47 was a jazz club, home to hipsters and beatniks. To read more, click here…
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Gloucester Zen XXV -Under The Good Harbor Beach Foot Bridge
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Chickity Check It! Damon On Canvas In Utah (sorta)
Kim Klopp, Utah skier/snowboarder extraordinaire and real estate guru who lives in Park City painted a picture from one of the pictures posted on this here site.
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Kim does a great job with her blog. If you are a skier or like Utah or are interested in Park City Real Estate, she’s the one to call. You could probably just leave her a comment on her blog (bloggers love comments, it lets them know people are listening)
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Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 4:50AM 5/22/09
Yesterday morning at 4:40AM I climbed down the rocks and over the sea grass to get you this shot under the Good Harbor Beach Foot Bridge.
Getting eaten up by the midgies was worth it. Gloucester Zen video coming at 8AM
Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 4:50AM 5/22/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Fishermen Conversations Joe “Stoga” Scola Part II
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What Up Homie?
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Spring on Wall St.
I’m not sure what this flower is, but they’re blooming outside my door.
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Wingersheek HDR
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Inside The Visitors Center With Ron Garry Part II
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Gloucester Visitors Welcoming Center At Stage Fort Park
Next time you run into Ron Garry, his wife Alina, Ron Gilson, Laura Dow or any of the other folks donating their time to get this place up and running and better than ever, give em a pat on the back and a thank you.
Gloucester Visitors Welcoming Center At Stage Fort Park, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Journey tribute group’s show to rock Gloucester House Saturday
By Gloucester Times Staff
The music of Journey — the 1970s and 1980s group that, with lead singer Steve Perry at the helm, churned out hits such as “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Foolish Heart,” “Oh Sherrie,” “Open Arms” and more — will be ringing loud and clear in Gloucester this Memorial Day weekend.
A performance called Captured — The Journey Show, featuring a Boston-based Journey tribute band, will be playing Saturday night at The Gloucester House, with tickets priced at $10 and doors set to open for the show at 8 p.m.
Unlike other tribute acts, Captured — the Journey Show isn’t merely pegged as a tribute band.
The show is billed as one of the country’s premier tributes to Steve Perry and Journey, covering all of the hits from the late 1970s though the 1990s, including some rare cuts. But the performers view themselves as a “cast,” with John Robert Murphy playing the role of Perry, who was Journey’s front man before deciding and announcing in 1987 that he was “toast” and that it was time to leave the group. Journey has reformed and carried on — without Perry — and is once again touring more than two decades later.
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Mako, Mike Leary’s Dog Aboard The Pamet
Mako, Mike Leary’s Dog Aboard The Pamet, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Mako Inspects A Starfish
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Chickity Check It!- Passports Restaurant Brandy New Blog!
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GMG Local Music Schedule
Yesterday we created a direct link to the GMG Local Music Schedule so that any time you want to see what’s happening on the music scene around town, click on this link and it will take you to to the schedule. You can subscribe to this feed so that you can have the info right at your finger tips.
Also there is a link on the front page of GMG. Scroll down until you see the music photo. Click on the pic to take you to the page.
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Gloucester Zen XXIV The Back Shore
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Good Morning Gloucester 