Month: April 2010
Rainbows over the Island
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Now Open on Monday- Sugar Magnolia’s
It used to be that on certain days if I didn’t realize it was Monday and headed downtown to Sugar Mag’s you’d get the harsh reality of the closed sign. Not any more my friends.
Sugar Mag’s- now open 7 days a week.
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PR For Gloucester- Taking Control Of Our Image
Bob Hastings Executive Director of The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and Tracey Muller from the Bass Rocks Ocean Inn interview in which they explain a new public relations campaign started by a grass roots group of Gloucester business people.
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Rainbow Leading To Lobster Traps At The Dock
Let’s hope the lobsters are led to these traps in much the same way once lobster season gets under way and these traps hit the water.
Rainbow Leading To Lobster Traps At The Dock, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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Red Skiff Eggs Benedict with hash
My daughter wants to see every sunrise but I slipped up this morning and was out there at 6:15 AM and even though I would call it rising in her book it was way too late. To console her we all went to The Red Skiff for breakfast. A rock throw from the lighthouse in the middle of the street (OK locals tell me the name of it).
To do my cub reporting correctly I had the special listed at the top of the whiteboard. Eggs Benedict with hash. I think it was red hash.
[Expletive deleted], [Expletive deleted] my goodness this was good. From bottom to top, English muffin, soft but still with a crispy top, the hash, rich and no diet reduction working here, on that a perfect poached egg, not runny but it was just a few seconds before it was pulled, then a remarkable Benedict sauce on top.
After the first bite I said: “self, if you eat this and the home fries you are going to regret it. Do not touch them. (I listened to myself and the home fries went doggy bagging home to a late sleeper who enjoyed them)
But back to breakfast. I did not share, I wanted it all. The hash was amazing. I don’t want to argue about who has better hash. Two Sisters is in the running. But when you layer all these good things and keep the crunch in the top of the english muffin while everything else is going all gooey this was a good start to the day.
I was purchasing ping pong balls at Cracker Jacks an hour later. Trying to find change I mentioned that, oh, don’t have the quarter since I put it in the meter in front of the Red Skiff this morning and then we get to talking about hash and how she doesn’t like hash because as a kid it was not so good. I felt the same way my entire life until a few years ago. Hash when you were a kid was terrible. Your parents were making a cheap meal made of leftovers and a potato. I think I may have convinced her to try hash again for the first time.
I used to hate peas for the same reason. Seven kids and mom plates canned peas in front of you they were terrible. Now one of my favorite foods just poking out of the garden this week.
Update: Peeps III coming, Art has Revenge, they are back at Shaws.
I missed my 2PM deadline because of kayaking to Pigeon Cove before the big black cloud arrived. But I have Homie pics from that.
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Pasta On The Table -A Gloucester Family’s Tradition
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Shot by Eric Lorden For GMG-
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Cape Ann Savings Bank – Beautiful Gloucester
Cape Ann Savings Bank – Beautiful Gloucester, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
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This Weeks Events at The Cape Ann Healing Center
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News From Rockport Music! Second Paula Cole Concert Added
From Gregg Sorensen
Greetings, Joey:
Thank you for mentioning that single tickets were going on sale for Rockport Music’s season. Our offices was flooded with requests to purchase tickets!
Here’s some information that I’d like to share with you….
Rockport Music, presenter of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, is experiencing unprecedented demand for tickets to its inaugural season in the Shalin Liu Performance Center, which opens on June 10, 2010. Since tickets went on sale on March 15, nine of twenty-four concerts have sold out.
Rockport Music is pleased to announce that it has added a second performance for the Rockport appearances of Grammy Award-winning singer Paula Cole. The new date is Friday, August 6, at 8 p.m. at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, located at 37 Main Street in downtown Rockport, Massachusetts. The first performance, Saturday, August 7 at 8 p.m. sold out two weeks ago. In the intervening days, Rockport Music received many phone calls from local residents and fans of Paula Cole, who were very disappointed to discover that the concert was sold out. States Rockport Music Director of Marketing Gregg Sorensen, “Paula Cole is a real treasure, not only for local residents, but for countless fans around the globe. Rockport Music is grateful to Ms. Cole for finding time in her very busy schedule to add an additional concert during the inaugural season of our new home, the Shalin Liu Performance Center. It’s with great anticipation that we await her performances in August.”
Rockport Music’s first season in the Shalin Liu Performance Center begins on June 10. The organization’s signature series, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, includes 20 classical chamber music concerts from June 10-July 18. The newest series, Rockport Music Presents, features five jazz, world-music, and pop concerts from July 24 – August 8. During the summer, Rockport Music also offers a number of special events to enhance the audience’s concert experience. Those include prelude suppers, lectures, master classes, a DVD/lecture, and two free Family Concerts.
Tickets may be purchased by calling 978-546-7391 or by visiting www.rockportmusic.org.
Thank you!
Gregg
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Last Call for Tee Ball At The Cape Ann YMCA
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Trash to Treasure
Each time we do a major clean out at our house, I put a big box of stuff out by the side of the street and mark it with a FREE sign. It’s gratifying to see the “stuff”
slowly disappear from the box to be put to use in a new home. I looked out on Sunday evening and saw someone drive up to take the few remaining items and the container. Time to fill another box!! Happy Earth Day! Keep it alive!
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Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center Event Thursday April 22
Harriet Webster
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
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The Beast!
The Beast Ready to be Released!
It’s Been a Long Winter.
For more info on the Boston Harbor Cruises High speed tour boat click below
http://www.bostonharborcruises.com/codzilla/
http://www.FrontieroGallery.com
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Aloha from a Gloucester Native!
My sister told me about this yesterday. Angus is part of our MacFeeley/Lowe extended family growing up in Magnolia.
To the editor:
The GHS Docksiders “dockside” performance at the USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor on Sunday was fantastic.
For me and many visitors who were there that morning, it was like travelling in time as WWII era tunes echoed from the USS Arizona Memorial, along Battleship Row where WWII began, to the decks of the USS Missouri, where the Japanese surrender was signed.
It was impressive, in a place where everything is normally done on “Hawaiian time,” to see these young performers shake off jet lag, set up, and perform so professionally.
Pearl Harbor historical sites bring to visitors a unique sense of time and what was experienced during the attack on Pearl Harbor and through the war in the Pacific.
The Docksiders’ performance, on a quiet Sunday morning much like the very early Dec. 7, 1941, brought a rare and even greater sense of that time to those of us who were there. For me, it gave pause to remember my father who worked at Pearl Harbor Shipyard during the war and returned to Gloucester to start BOMCO during the 1950s.
It was more than a performance of 1940s Big Band music by an exquisite band. Through their director, Dave Adams, these young musicians expressed their respect and honored those who experienced World War II by bringing their music back to life. They connected themselves to a place and time that will, for many future generations, be remembered for the cost of freedom and the price paid by America’s ‘greatest generation’.
I have a fresh sense of hope for the future as I saw, in these young musicians, high caliber ability, hard work, and excellence.
Their generation is pretty darn good, too.
Congratulations, Gloucester! Mahalo Nui Loa!
Angus MacFeeley
Wahiawa, Hawaii
(Gloucester High School Class of 1970)
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Our Lady Of The Motif Submitted to the GMG Flickr Group Pool By Thomas Philbrook
Thomas Writes-
Ahhh, the sacred Motif — the holy grail of many an artist.
Our Lady Of The Motif, originally uploaded by Thomas Philbrook.
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This Saturday’s BirdsEye Symposium Preview With Mac Bell Video
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For More Information About The Symposium Here Are The Details
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Joey Hard at Work
Perusing the new Gloucester Daily Times the first photo I come to is none other than our fearless leader hard at work. If you have ever seen Joey collecting info for this blog you will instantly recognize him. Focused on the interview, camera working the closeups and you know he has this guy spewing information because Joey gets all the info. (Also man purse at the ready with accessories and GMG sticker).
Gloucester: Jim Langford of the U.S. Coast Guard explains how the emergeny survival suit works to Joey Ciaramitaro as Joe Orlando, center, listens during the Fishing Fanily’s Health and Safety Fair at the Gloucester Coast Guard Station Saturday. Mary Muckenhoupt/Gloucester Daily Times
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A Call To Artists
A Call to Artists!
I’m looking for artists to share studio space in central Gloucester.
contact me via email for details.
Deb Clarke: elli01930@yahoo.com
Painting and Drawing Lessons available
You too can learn how to do a 20 minute painting! Take a class with Debbie,
and you will be doing them in ‘no time’…
Contact Debbie Clarke at;
elli01930@yahoo.com
http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/
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Emerson Inn Rockport submitted to the GMG Flickr Group Pool by halibut2
Emerson Inn Rockport 2, originally uploaded by halibut2.
Good Morning Gloucester 