My View of Life on the Dock
This is what connecting the waterfront to Main Street is all about. Listen to the girls tell us how they spent the day on the water and then came up town to shop and partake in the Block Party. It’s all related and everybody wins. The waterfront and downtown do not have to be mutually exclusive. Kudos to Kay and Tom Ellis for sending their passengers downtown to explore and have fun. They’re good people those Ellis’ are I tell ya!
Would you just look at that presentation?
Seafood Throwdown Winning Dish Panko Crusted Haddock With Sauteed Chard and Grilled Vegetables, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Two artists from the Rocky Neck Gallery will talk about and demonstrate processes they use to create their fine art craft work on Wednesday, September 23 at 7:30 pm at the Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave., Gloucester.
Jeweler, Mary Healy will talk about working with metal and stone and demonstrate a variety of procedures including: forming with metal and treating it like clay, including synclastic and anticlastic forging and form folding; doming; texturing; patination; and reticulation. She will demonstrate the process for using the Byzantine weave starting with a spool of wire and ending in a finished bracelet. In addition, she will briefly discuss the lapidary process in stone work from beach pebbles to fine gems. She will also discuss the types of tools or machines used for the different processes and talk about safety issues.
Ceramic artist Susan Hershey will talk about creating a piece of wood fired pottery, including selecting the clay, making the pot, and applying the glaze. She will outline the entire process from a lump of clay to a finished piece. Firing a kiln that is powered by heat from fire includes wood selection, wood splitting, loading the kiln, stoking the fire and unloading the kiln. Most often this requires at least two, preferably four people to get the job done.
$7.25 and very tasty at The West End Grille. I got one early in the evening of the Block Party. No line- zipped in and zipped out
Church Street Panini From West End Grille, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
I wonder how old those blocks are. They are the same types we used to use years ago before we switched over to the stainless ones.
Vintage Blocks On The Spirit Of Massachusetts, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Cliff Rideout- the only man, woman or child to finish the Three Stooge Challenge. For his outstanding achievement in competitive eating Cliff gets his name emblazoned on a plaque and the $8.50 meal was on the house.
The one thing I noticed about Cliff was that when he was in eating mode he zoned out everything around him and he went into an almost zen like eating mode. It was like a machine- fork to mouth- fork to mouth- fork to mouth. Steady stroke and even pace brought him the title.
Congrats champ!
Janice says the George Clooney manequin does not go with the pram. Raffle tickets can be purchased at The Cormorant Shop -one for $6 and six for $25
Pram Dinghy To Be Raffled Off To Benefit The Schooner Adventure At Cormorant Shop For Your Viewing, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 