My View of Life on the Dock
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Dave writes-
Paul Ciaramitaro has been a roofer, a mover, a fisherman, and – at the same time – an artist.
Dave is producing videos for Good Morning Gloucester and Cape Ann TV
His work can be seen in the Cape Ann Historical Museum, the Seacoast Nursing Home, the Rockport Art Association, and the North Shore Arts Association… and you can see Paul and some of his art in this interview we did for Cape Ann TV
Thanks for watching
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see that rubber disk mat that Matt Ring is fixing back into place on the deck of The Stanley Thomas?
That rubber disk mat covers the hatch which Mark just climbed down into to grease the shaft bearing. The shaft is what connects the transmission to the propeller. The easier the shaft turns the smoother the boat runs. Simple right? The sucky part is climbing down into the bilge with only about 3 feet of clearance to get to said bearing where the grease fitting resides. You can see Mark with the paper towel wiping off the sludge from down in the bilge- Good Times.
Video coming tomorrow.
You can read Terry’s work as a columnist at The Cape Ann Beacon.
Here’s an article she did about the albino lobster that Mike Tupper landed at our dock last week-
Kat asked me to forward this along-
Our good friend Tinky Weisblat from In Our Grandmother’s Kitchens is planning a celebration of locally grown produce to raise funds for Mass Farmers Markets. See below:
To my fellow bloggers (and would-be bloggers):
You are cordially invited to a pot-luck feast! Please participate in an upcoming farm-fresh blogathon.
Loving Local: Celebrating the Flavors of Massachusettswill take place from Sunday, August 22, through Saturday, August 28—in other words, during Massachusetts Farmers Market Week.
The blogathon will be hosted by In Our Grandmothers’ Kitchens, with a little help from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and Mass Farmers Markets.
We hope non-bloggers will participate as well, of course! If you are interested in food (well, who isn’t?), please consider liking our Facebook page. We’ll keep you abreast of upcoming posts in the blogathon so you can read and comment.
And when it begins you’ll have lots of yummy posts to savor!
Funds raised during the blogathon (bloggers who participate will be encouraged to place a donation link in their posts) will go to Mass Farmers Markets, a non-profit charitable organization that helps farmers markets throughout the Commonwealth.
Please think about writing a post that week if you live or work in Massachusetts. Or if you used to live or work in Massachusetts. Or if you once spent a weekend on Cape Cod. Or if you have a particular fondness for New England clam chowder, Hadley asparagus, or Boston baked beans.
Posts should focus to some extent on locally grown food in Massachusetts. You don’t have to be a food writer to participate, however.
Gardeners can write about herb or vegetable growing. Architects can write about the design of barns or farm stands. Watchers of the statehouse or even the federal Capitol can discuss the politics of agriculture and/or local food. And so forth.
Posts can be recipes, critiques, short stories, reminiscences … whatever you feel like writing. Let the flavors of the Bay State inspire you.
Here’s how you can get involved: Sometime during the week of August 22-28, put your post on the internet.
Please make sure your post mentions the blogathon, includes a link to In Our Grandmothers’ Kitchens, and encourages readers to donate to Mass Farmers Markets. The organization’s donation link is http://www.massfarmersmarkets.org/FMFM_Main.aspx.
(If you have another local-food cause you’d like to encourage folks to support, that’s fine by us!)
Of course, we’d love to have bloggers show off our gorgeous logo, designed by the talented Leon Peters. You may also display a PDF poster in 8-1/2-by-11-inch format. 
We had a blast at the Summer Harvest Festival on Sunday and took so many great photos that I decided to so a series. I plan on featuring many great local farms more formally in my posting slot (once I get the time to go and visit them with camera in hand)! For now, enjoy the Summer Harvest Festival at Green Meadows Farm…
Raffle quilt and kids art made throughout the day
Farmer Andrews Dad driving the hayride tractor
Hayrides and Pony rides!
Ipswich Clambake, Appleton Farms burgers, great music, and people!
Sneaking up into the tree, which is exactly what I would have done as a girl
The Dixie Cookbook Band was splendid and I loved the costumes!
File Under: Beautiful Industry
The Jocka Offloads Old Wire Onto A Mobile Net Reel
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=132792763423820&ref=ts
If you do not have tickets to this show don’t worry because, you see, Jenny Dee and The Deelinquents will also be appearing at The Harbor Loop Concert series on the 12 of August. Imagine that, not having to go over the bridge, even.
Don’t forget to set your DVRs or tune in Wednesday night on the Travel Channel when Bert The Conqueror takes on the Greasy Pole
Here is the video I took of Bert walking when it happened live-
You should be alerted to this soon other places
You saw it here first on Good Morning Gloucester.
But of course you knew that
My Friend and “Mentor” Deb Clarke is making some room and Raising Funds to fix the “White Wind” Her Dodge Truck. She will be having some ArtWork Available for Purchase. Here is an example and one that is for Sale. It’s a great deal for such a Beautiful and Large Painting.
From Deb,
We had the privilege to offload the Phyllis a at our dock in East Gloucester. The Arnold brothers are among the classiest men the fishing industry has ever seen.
On Saturday, August 14th from 10AM to 2PM at the Gloucester Marine Railways, Rocky Neck, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of a group of fishermen from Charleviox, Michigan bringing gill net fishing to Gloucester and the whole East Coast.
They were called "the Michigan Bears" and the man who built the fishing vessel Phyllis A. was their leader.
The Phyllis A. is the oldest fishing boat in Gloucester Harbor (1 year older then Adventure) and she fished for the Arnold Family, out of Gloucester, for 75 years before becoming a museum ship over seen by the Phyllis A. Marine Association, a non-profit organization.
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This is sure to be a fantastic event.
What I would like to point out and this banner is a classic example of graphic designers who design banners for poster flyers to go full page in coffee shops but not for the web. Just a few days ago I had this intraweb conversation about the frustration of posting flyers with tiny font with Jo Castano from http://www.artsgloucester.com/ and Kat Valentine from http://parlezmoiblog.blogspot.com/ who also will forward along community event fliers on their respective websites.
Maybe some graphc designers will read this and probably it should go into another post which I’ll get around to at some time. But for any people that design banners that will be viewed on the web please understand that the banner that you make to print out and go on walls of coffee shops with tiny font- that doesn’t translate too well to most blogs and web pages that are working with 500 pixels wide. Once your full sized poster gets shrunk down to 500 pixels wide it’s pretty much illegible. If your intent is to get your message across to other mediums- you might want to think about using a little larger font size-just sayin.
For more info about how to attend- http://northshorejazzproject.org/blog/2010/06/aug-7th-barrence-whitfield-the-monkey-hips/
Click the Link below to View Clay’s Second Entry From Gloucester In His Travel Blog
Two Drink Max Is A Guidline In Gloucester
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States kaleyoday click the link above to read his entire entry including a video with Frankie at the dock
Good Luck Clay
Good Morning Gloucester 