Sassy Eco Bags are uniquely designed handbags, purses and totes. Each bag has been handcrafted from discarded coffee or tea bags from area coffee houses. By rescuing these materials and reusing them, they are kept away from dumps and landfills. The materials used in each bag are durable as well as attractively functional. I hope you enjoy the bag. Feel free to feel good about helping the Earth and looking Sassy at the same time.
Sassy Eco Bags came about from the idea that if we can lighten our Carbon Footprint and lessen the amount of trash we throw into dump sites, we can help the Earth. If any of the trash we produce can be utilized for fashion, function and fun, then let’s go for it! Bags are available in a variety of sizes, styles, colors and schemes. Please contact me by email or phone if you are interested in placing an order or if you would like more information about Sassy Eco Bags. Best, Susan 978-697-5252 swoleary@live.com
Great Food, Great Music, Great Beer for a Horrible Tradition!! Thursday May 19th, 4pm to 10:30 at Cape Ann Brewery. 15% goes to the Fishtown Horribles Parade and we will have some great raffle prizes. The Runaround, who has donated their time, will start at 8pm. If you have not seen this band you are missing out! Just an amazing talented group. Raffle prizes include a Gift Pack from Cape Ann Brewery valued at $65, 4 passes to the Gloucester High School Drama production of "Once upon a Mattress" valued at $28 and some other prizes yet to be dug up! If you can’t attend and would like to make a donation, please mail it to Fishtown Horribles Parade PO Box 924 Gloucester, MA 01930 Sincerely, Fishtown Horribles Parade Committee
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Discover Gloucester’s May Mug Up Meeting for all local tourism-based folk
is tomorrow (Thursday) May 19, 8:30AM on Seven Seas Whale Watch’s Privateer IV, docked at Seven Seas Wharf next to the Gloucester House.
The Mug Up agenda includes the debut of the 2011 Discover Gloucester Visitor Guide, with the unveiling of the winning cover photo of the Man at the Wheel.
There’s a fabulous backstory to the photo!
We’ll also explore the 2011 Sea It All Gloucester Passport; Visitor Guide distribution and more.
This is the bend in Main Street’s West End, just past Palazola’s (where the large tractor trailer trucks get stuck). The photograph was taken shortly after trolley tracks were installed, but before the time of automobiles. In those days, small deliveries were made by horse drawn wagons. Large long-haul deliveries were made by train, sailing vessels, and steam ships.
Photographer John Coggeshall set up his 8×10 camera in front of Valentino’s. The second building on the left is where Bananas is now. Next to it, behind the horses and wagon, my gallery is the light-colored building. At that time it was James Patten’s fruit market, with a print shop upstairs, and in 1896 it was the Wingaersheek Cafe. On the other side from right to left are the present Gloucester Estate Buyers, Cafe Bishco, Stone Leaf, and the Bookstore. Boynton Way, now a walking street, was open to traffic.
Printed from the original 8×10 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Negative # A93810-011
Click the picture for just one page from Abby’s Gloucester Fishing 101 book which she produced for seARTS Partner With an Artist Program. there will be many panels on eth walls here at our Dock- Captain Joe and Sons 95 East Main St Saturday from 10-2PM
Click on the picture below to see it full sized and learn some interesting facts for yourself. I for one was astounded at the breakdown of how many of each different type of commercial fishing boats there were. 42% of the fleet are lobster boats, I had no idea, but this is just one of the factoids that Abby has broken down. I think if you click on the picture you will get a sense of how easy she made it all to understand even though there is a ton of data in her book and in her exhibit, ANYONE could easily understand it.
-and this is all stuff that anyone that really takes pride in living in Gloucester or loves the fishing industry should know about.
Blown away! When you can get Pete Mondello, a fisherman for over 50 years excited about a Gloucester fishing industry exhibit you know you’ve done something special.
The way Abby has broken down such an incredible amount of fisheries statistics into an easily digestible visual/artistic/educational/fun presentation with everything you need to know about where Gloucester’s fishing industry has been with data and visuals bringing you right up to the present is nothing short of astounding.
This is an uncomplicated 101 guidebook to Gloucester’s fishing industry which has distilled all the data and will give any person a good basic understanding of what is going on around the Gloucester waterfront. The way it is broken down there is info for people 7 years old to 70 and it is all incredibly interesting. Every person who considers themselves a real “Gloucesterite” NEEDS to come see this exhibit.
The Who What When Where-
Who- Abbyy Ytzen Partnering With Captain Joe and Sons
What- seARTS Partner With an Artist Gloucester Fishing 1626-2011 Exhibit
When- Saturday May 21,2011 10AM-2:00PM
Where- Captain Joe and Sons 95 East Main St Gloucester MA 01930
Refreshments provided by Rachel Carver-Brown including Coffee
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The Gloucester Stage Company will mark their 32nd Season of producing professional theatre on Cape Ann with a celebratory SPRING BENEFIT GALA on Friday, May 20, 2011 from 6 pm to 11 pm. This fun-filled event will be held at Cruiseport Gloucester located on the waterfront at 6 Rowe Square in downtown historic Gloucester, MA. Included among the evening’s festivities will be a cocktail hour, gourmet buffet dinner, a Silent Art Auction and dancing to New England’s Premier Dance Band, Guilty Pleasure. Gloucester Stage Artistic Director, Eric Engel, will also be on hand to give gala guests the latest updates on the 2011 production season and the many special events planned for the year and architect Alan Joslin will be on hand to discuss Gloucester Stage recently announced plans to renovate the theatre’s home on 267 East Main Street.
Throughout the 2011 SPRING BENEFIT GALA, guests will be afforded the opportunity to participate in a Silent Art Auction where they can bid on unique and beautiful pieces of art donated by local and regional artists. Ranging from framed scenic photographs, oil and pastel paintings, and mixed media pieces, the artwork represented display a myriad of styles and disciplines. The Silent Art Auction will showcase the talents of New York artist Anna Cinquemani and Rocky Neck Art Colony affiliates Wendie Demuth, Devera Ehrenberg, Ken Riaf, Elynn Kroger, Brenda Malloy, Skip Montello, Ruth Mordecai, Judy Robinson-Cox, Patricia Sullivan, Ed Touchette and Rokhaya Waring.
Adding to the Gala’s ambiance will be the musical stylings of Guilty Pleasure, the popular seven-piece ensemble based in Boston. Formed in 2003, Guilty Pleasure is comprised of two male and female vocalists backed by some of the area’s top musicians. With their repertoire consisting of Motown, soul, R&B, funk, disco, Top 40, pop, and rock favorites, along with classic standards, ballads, duets, swing and “lite” jazz, Guilty Pleasure has garnered numerous accolades from their “dancing” and listening audiences.
Tickets to Gloucester Stage’s 2011 SPRING BENEFIT GALA are $150 per person and can be purchased by calling the company’s Box Office at 978-281-4433 or visiting www.gloucesterstage.org. Included in the ticket price is an Open Bar of wine and soft drinks from 6 pm – 8 pm along with the cocktail hour fare and gourmet buffet dinner. A cash bar of beer and spirits will be available throughout the evening; a cash bar of wine and soft drinks will be available after 8 pm. Tickets will not be sold at the door; advanced ticket sales only. Gloucester Stage Company’s 2011 SPRING BENEFIT GALA will be held on Friday, May 20, 2011 from 6 pm to 11 pm at Cruiseport Gloucester located at 6 Rowe Square in downtown Gloucester, MA.
The Gloucester Stage Company is an award-winning, small, non-profit, professional theater company founded in 1979. Located in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, its mission is to provide a nurturing, intimate and relaxed platform for the development of new and established playwrights and plays; offer a wide variety of educational programs for children and adults; and present a high quality, relevant theater experience that is entertaining, stimulating and intellectually challenging to year-round and seasonal residents.
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I just wanted to let you know that on Saturday, May 21st at 2:00 PM, The Cape Ann Skating Club will host its 37th annual spring show titled "CAFSC Music Awards." The show will be held at the Talbot Rink in Gloucester at the O’Maley Middle School.
Dozens of skaters from preschoolers to high-schoolers will perform an array of skating programs with colorful costumes to grammy award winning songs.
Eleven members of the Cape Ann Team won medals this past winter at the Bay State Games. Those medals qualified the skaters to represent Massachusetts at this years State Games of America, to be held in San Diego this summer.
A special treat this year will be 2 performances by the International Gold Medal Winning Adult Theater on Ice Team, Imagica. Imagica won gold last year in France and has also qualified to compete in its third annual Nations Cup, to be held in Spain. The team includes members from the Cape Ann Area, including Cindy Backe and Sherry and Mike Descios of Danvers, Anne Marie Crotty, Doug Grimes and Theresa Lee of Gloucester, Faye Greel of Rockport, Vikki Hyer and Gale Denis of Newburyport; Kathy MacNichol of Georgetown, Heidi Rowell and Carol Woods of Billerca, and Theresa Snow of Chelsea.
Imagica, under the direction of Tansey Mazzarino of Danvers and Amy Vecchio of Winthrop will skate a short program, which is a patriotic skateto an Olympic Medley and a longer program which tells a story of a leprechaun tracking down a pot of gold.
Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10.00.
Hope to see some of your subscribers at the rink cheering on these accomplished young skaters! It is sure to be a great afternoon of skating.
Thanks so much, Becca Campbell
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To say that I’m excited about the gallery would be an understatement. I’m looking forward to seeing people at the openings and being part of the Rocky Neck Community. EJ did an incredible job!
The idea EJ had to offer artists two week art shows in a guest artist space is brilliant. For a small amount of money an artist can have space at a high traffic area on Rocky Neck, they get the incredible power and reach of the Blog (lately 17-24,000 people per day) to talk about their show, and they can have their own opening for their two week stint. Any artist that is interested in what I consider to be an awesome opportunity should contact EJ an lock down a two week span.
Imagine this- you are a FOB and you are coming to Gloucester for a couple of weeks this summer. You could come and have an art show on the oldest Art Colony in the Country. Or if you are a local but don’t have a studio space to show your stuff, you could use the power of GMG to get your stuff shown and promoted on the blog and feed off that energy for a two week exhibit. No-brainer, right?
Contact EJ for available weeks- believe there are 5 slots that are spoken for.
We all need to eat, so why not eat for a good cause? Come to Ellen’s Harborside Restaurant on historic T-Wharf this Thursday, May 19th for a DineAround fundraiser and 20% of the proceeds from your meal will go to support the programming for Motif No. 1 Day & HarvestFest. This is a great way to begin the Motif No. 1 Day festival weekend which kicks off the next night in downtown Rockport. Rockport Festivals (in charge of Motif No. 1 Day & HarvestFest) is run by community volunteers and funded entirely through community sponsorship, so this event will go a long way toward making the festivals happen. Many thanks to the Inns of Rockport & the Rockport Chamber of Commerce for sponsoring the DineAround and to Ellen’s for hosting it.
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Joey mentioned in a recent Good Morning Gloucester posting that the Blue Shutters Beachside Inn has turned into a lively event center. Well, we’re not done yet — in fact, the best is yet to come. On the afternoon of Saturday, May 21, we’ll hold our annual Blues & Brews Back to the Beach Bash. The Cape Ann Brewing Co. will once again be on hand to offer tastings of their beers, and some musician friends will provide live entertainment on our lawn overlooking Good Harbor Beach. There will be opportunities to tour the inn and stroll across the footbridge to enjoy the beach. Call or email us to reserve a room at the Shutters for that Saturday and party with us into the night — we’ll be roasting marshmallows by the firepit and playing games inside late into the evening. Here’s a photo from last spring’s Blues & Brews Bash. Those of you who have joined us in past years know how much fun this can be — and the 2011 version will be no exception
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The SEAWARD INN, Rockport, presents the HonkyTonk Women of Gloucester, Sunday Morning Live, May 22nd. from 9:00 am to noon during a Breakfast Buffet by the Sea. Sheila, Barbara, Caroline and Elaine will sing Doo Wop hits and take you for a fun filled journey through the 60’s era. Visit blog.seawardinn.com for more on these Gals or call 978-546-3471.
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Perfect on a cold damp day to warm you up. Had a bowl yesterday and like Toby said when we were talking about it- “If Erik Ever Takes It Off The Menu There Will Be Hell To Pay!” (or something like that).
That andouille sausage takes the chill right out
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Good Morning Gloucester 