Month: January 2011

That Mount Adnah, formerly known as Jakes Hill, consists of 5.12 acres, which were purchased by Annisquam Village members as a burial ground in 1848?  The first person interred was David Lane, who died in 1848.  The name Adnah was selected because the Hebrew translation means “rest or testimony eternal”.  The cemetery was incorporated in 1860, and in 1890 the Annisquam & Bay View Civil War Monument was dedicated to the Bay View and Annisquam men who served in the Civil War from 1861-1865.  Nine men from Bay View and Annisquam lost their lives in the Civil War, and their names are inscribed on the monument.  Over the past 155 years, this beautiful location has been improved with walls, shrubs, monuments, tombs, pathways and trees into one of the more unique cemeteries in all of New England.  Persons buried at Mount Adnah represent a diverse cross-section of the Annisquam/Bay View population.  I’ve walked through this cemetery on a number of occasions, and it is a very unique one.  My first time there I encountered three turkeys. Beyond the stones in the photo above is a view of Lobster Cove.

E.J. Lefavour

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Snowy Inner Harbor, originally uploaded by Thomas Philbrook.

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This Is one of my first posts I made on Gmg one year ago this month.

I check out what posts of mine people have been checking out. This one seems to be one of most viewed. As I remember it got a couple of Bad responses that Joey had to defend me from.

Maybe some people have matured (not me) or have moved on.

So for those who have missed it, here it is.

ENJOY! Maybe.

“A little Bathroom Humor

Keep Updated.

Take GMG Wherever You GO!”

At Ku Da Te Restaurant In St Lucia they serve the creamiest chicken balls. Sadly- No Rabbit

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Following quote from the Conservation Law Foundation-

Today, Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke made the decision to reject Governor Patrick’s request for emergency action to increase catch limits for Massachusetts fishermen, in violation of the groundfish management plan that CLF helped to pass, which has been in effect since May 2010 and was helping to create positive, sustainable change in the state’s fisheries. Several weeks ago, the Governor petitioned Secretary Locke to declare a state of economic emergency in Massachusetts fisheries and was supporting a lawsuit that challenged the plan, putting fish and fishermen at risk.

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It should be made clear that the rebuilding of the stock by a law that was passed just this past May and that CLF helped to pass did not start in May of 2010. Does anyone really think that the huge recovery in cod stocks happened in eight months?

No, the recovery of the cod stocks started with amendment 13 and Days At Sea program where the amount of cod was slashed to 400lbs and then upped to 800lbs when the regulators saw the recovery taking place. This was long before The Conservation Law Foundations Catch Share Program came along and was working well by all accounts. The government would not have raised the quota of daily cod limits from 400 to 800 if it wasn’t.

The beauty of the Days at Sea program was that it turned Gloucester Fishing from a volume
business at lower prices to quality of fish at a higher price business. The fish were coming back and because the government placed quantity restrictions on the cod, the fishermen were getting close to triple the amount of money for their fish because of the lack of a glut of fish in the marketplace.

There was less effort on the stocks but the same or very few fishermen went out of business. In fact if you looked around the harbor the fishing boats were all being maintained really well- a sign of the health of the industry for sure.

Now if I were an Eco Foodie Nazi, this would be nirvana. Less impact on the stock, much higher quality fish and most importantly all of the small independent fishermen still exist and support the same number of families.

Instead, they (because they don’t know any better and the Conservation Law Foundation has a much better Marketing team funded by PEW and hence Shell Oil) back a Catch Share Program The Catch Share program which has brought about hyper consolidation of the fleet of the stronger fishermen buying out multiple permits of their tired fishermen brethren who can barely keep up with the mountains of paperwork and regulation changes but mainly because the bigger fishing corporations have the money to buy out the little guys. The Conservation Law Foundation has backed a plan to privatize the fish – your fish – my fish – the public resource. Now instead of thousands of small fishing operations you have hundreds of big ones and within ten years or so way less. Big huge corporations are going to own our fisheries and the greenies who usually are in the corner of the small guy are aligned with The Conservation Law Foundation “clever title” but what they don’t understand is how it flies in the face of everything they usually stand for.

The Conservation Law Foundation can claim a huge victory for a law that caused hyper consolidation of fishing communities and taking massive numbers of small independent fishing families out of business, but to say that in eight months they are responsible for rebuilding the stocks is ridiculous. The stocks were rebuilt by fishermen who endured the cutbacks in cod quota and Days At Sea program over 10 years ago.

Just so the greenies know who they are in bed with.

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Thanks to Peter Webber of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce for this e-mail:

Hello Sarah.  I am guessing, by the Ohio reference, that you were the author of the recent Rockport restaurant rant on Good Morning Gloucester.  I have also looked at some of the comments.  Here is some more information to add:  The Coffee Shop was purchased by the Bracketts who spent longer than they hoped to make major renovations. It re-opened this week, and is being operated by their sons.  Lograsso’s, Bistro 127, Rockport House of Pizza and Roast Beef, and the Grand Café are also open year round. RHOP is daily 10-10 year round; Lograsso’s is Wed-Sat. year round; Bistro and Grand Café are Fridays and Saturdays in January for dinner and then expand their operations with the calendar; Hong Kong Kitchen is daily year-round.

Rockporters, we need to make every effort to support Rockport restaurants during the winter months.  However, even when viewed in the most optimistic terms, the situation with restaurants in Rockport clearly reveals a persistent problem, particularly downtown.  There just aren’t enough restaurants (and none with a significant number of seats), to support the non-food establishments that are working so hard to make a go of things during both the high season and off-season. The John Tarr Store, Toad Hall Bookstore, Rockport Music and a host of other businesses and organizations manage to hang in there year-round – so where are the restaurants?  People presumably still frequent the library, the churches still hold services, the Rotary Club & Garden Club hold meetings, so why can’t more restaurants manage to stay open?  I’d love to hear from some business owners on this, and some Rockporters.  And once again, let LoGrasso’s, the Rockport House of Pizza, and the rest (some mentioned in yesterday’s post) know that as a local, you appreciate the fact that they work hard to serve their  community, as well as contribute to our town industry by staying open for visitors.  Rockporters need to consciously support local business if we want a thriving year-round community with an active downtown culture.

Old Sloop

Did you know that on September 8, 1814, the British frigate Nymph invaded Sandy Bay? One of her barges surprised and captured the barracks at the end of Bearskin Neck; when the second was seen entering the Old Harbor, the meetinghouse bell sounded the alarm. The crew shot at the bell to silence it and hit the steeple instead. Firing the shot, the carronade went through the bottom of the barge, and the crew was captured as they swam ashore. Their captain affected an exchange of prisoners and promised not to bother the town any more. The church (First Congregational Church of Rockport, United Church of Christ) still has the cannonball. The wooden replica that can be seen in the steeple was probably added in one of the later reconstructions. When Sandy Bay became the Town of Rockport in 1840, the meetinghouse was completely redecorated and the steeple enlarged to support a heavier bell. The fishermen conferred the nickname “The Old Sloop”. In 1842 the General Court released the meetinghouse to the Congregational Church.  

E.J. Lefavour

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