Month: July 2011

Change of Plans for Dinner With Fly Amero ~Tonight ~ Special Guest Toni Ann Enes

Posted on by Joanne

 

 



Hello everyone!
Wednesday, July 6th
I am sorry to announce that Chick Marston will be unable to
perform this week due to a recent hand injury (20-something
stitches, I’m told). However, the prognosis is good and he
should be playing guitar again as soon as a couple weeks!
The popular Toni Ann Enes has graciously agreed to bail me
out and appear in Chick’s stead tonight.

Special Guest: TONI ANN ENES!

Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Wednesdays Only!
Prime Rib Dinner –$9.95 (while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!

Next Week:
July 13th: RIC ST. GERMAIN

Sincerely…
I hope to see you there! 🙂 ~ Fly

Saturday Jr. Men’s Seine Boat Race

Posted on by Sharon

For more Fiesta photos, click on the links below.

Orchard St. Fiesta

Saturday Men’s Seine Boat Race

Saturday Greasy Pole

Saturday Jr. Men’s Seine Boat Race

More to Come!!

Good Harbor Beach, 1930

Posted on by Sharon
Good Harbor Beach, 1930 Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
As summer takes hold and hot weather becomes the norm, I think of this photograph, taken at the Brier Neck end of Good Harbor Beach. It looks hazy, hot, and humid. Details of the Back Shore and Moorland Hotel are lost in the haze. Beach goers seek out the water and hide in the shade. The number of umbrellas makes me think they knew about the effects of too much sun.
Printed from the original 5×7 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Negative # A8357-048
Fred Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

What’s New in Jenna’s Garden? Week 3

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Pleasant Street resident Jenna Howard is providing updates on the beets, radishes and other vegetables growing in her plot at the new Burnham’s Field Community Garden. The reports and photos will allow GoodMorningGloucester viewers to follow the garden’s progress with a weekly answer to the question, “What’s New in Jenna’s Garden?”

By Jenna Howard

Week Three:

"Over the past few weeks the Burnham’s Field Community Garden has evolved into something amazing. Everyday that I visit, I’m surprised to see the growth of all the gardeners’ plots. Our little garden has transformed into a jungle! This week the growth in my garden resulted in the harvest of more veggies — Bib Lettuce, Golden Beets and Radishes! The garden is ever-changing. With the free space I was able to plant some more herbs. The newest additions to my garden are Oregano, Thyme and Rosemary. But the most exciting addition to the garden was the very first strawberry that appeared this week. That strawberry didn’t stand a chance, as I couldn’t wait to eat it. And it was delicious!"

Jenna

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Gloucester Zen- Good Harbor Beach At Dawn July 5th 4:50AM

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sometimes when I bitch about having to get up at 3:45AM every morning for work I forget about being able to bring you scenes like this-

and then it all seems so worthwhile

(turn up your speakers and let the sound of the waves wash over you)

#luckytobehere

Welcome Vixen- Vixen Will Get a Lift Tomorrow Afternoon At High Tide At The Maritime Heritage Center

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

World traveler gets a lift at GHC tomorrow afternoon at high tide.The Halabisky’s talk about their adventures

Hillary Frye Writes

               In the early fifties,when my Uncle Jimmy,fresh from the Navy,with a beautiful young wife,decided to sail around the world,he sought out the best in the business.  Designed by John Atkin and built by Joel Johnson by hand in Black Rock, CT,34′ 71/2″LOA, gaff cutter-rigged with tillered helm, she was born to circumnavigate;Made for the Trades.

              Legend has it that all documentation of that first global loop,fell victim to the jealousy of a troubled woman.

            I remember seeing Vixen for the first time at Dinner Key Marina in Miami with a “FOR SALE”sign posted in her rigging.We were living there at the time,so saw her every day.I was a child and knew she was my uncle’s boat and what she’d done,but was really too young to appreciate the scope of her accomplishment.

          My uncle had become enamored of Africa and returned there leaving her behind.  When my family returned to Dinner Key the following year,Vixen was gone.

          Her name cropped up occasionally in the classifieds of assorted yachting journals,then sort of faded away.My uncle pretty much lived out the rest of his life in Africa,primarily Rhodesia,until the uprising,when he moved to South Africa.  He visited us,here in Gloucester,maybe a handful of times,before his death in 2005.

       My brother,Dave,like his uncle,a devotee of fine things nautical,ocean-going vessels in particular,decided to “google”Vixen,and he came up with a hit.That put us in touch with her current owner/skipper Bruce Halabisky,who has just now completed her(at least)second circumnavigation at her birthplace in Black Rock.

        He and his wife became a family on the way,adding to beautiful little girls to the crew.

       How Vixen got to Juneau,Alaska,remains a mystery to me.(maybe Les knows;I’ll ask him)In 1989 she was discovered in a boatyard in Port Townsend,Wash.,by a sympathetic boat-building professor with a connoisseur’s eye for poetic lines,Leslie Schnick.From then on,he directed all of his resources and energies to her refitting and upgrade,restoring her to the condition of her original purpose.She won prize after prize in the classic boat shows, becoming quite the star on that circuit.

        Meanwhile,Bruce was researching his own project;planning to build his own world traveler.When he saw Vixen at a show,however,he knew he’d found the vessel he would’ve designed and built himself.He and Les struck a deal:and once they hit Hawaii,there was no stopping her;Vixen was going around again.

                                                 Welcome Vixen

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New Addition To The GMG Free Cape Ann WiFi Map- Café Bishco

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sandy Farrell Reprts-

Hi Joey! Walked by the Cafe Bishco on Main Street, Glo- they had a wi-fi sign in the window. Don’t know the particulars re: passwords, etc, but thought you might like a new entry for the map.

Thanks, Sandy Farrell

Click on the Map below to Go To The Interactive Map We Made For You To Find Free Cape Ann WiFi Locations-

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Somewhere along the Line We Passed 9 Million Views

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

With all the excitement lately I lost track of the next milestone- 9 million views.

We passed it a couple of days ago while we were prepping for the Horribles Day Parade

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Did You Know? (NOTN)

Posted on by God's Morning

That this Thursday is July’s Night on The Neck on Rocky Neck?

Come celebrate post-4th of July with unique summer fun on Cape Ann’s historic Rocky Neck Art Colony in East Gloucester. Thursday 7/7, from 5 to 9pm, is ‘Night on the Neck’– a summer series orchestrated by the Rocky Neck Art Colony, held on the first Thursday of each month, June – September. Taking place all along Rocky Neck Avenue, galleries and shops will be open and serving refreshments as well as hosting street-side entertainment by musicians, authors, sea shanty singers, dancers, as well as various artistic demonstrations.

Highlights of this free public event include: 

Bird Mancini at the Madfish Wharf, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.

7-8:30pm: outdoor concert 

“A cosmopolitan fusion of blues-tinged rock, Latin-flavored Bossa Nova, country folk balladry, and woolly psychedelia!”  Listen: http://www.birdmancini.com/ 

Moira Kelly, Traditional Celtic Harpist. 

Moira is a Celtic singer/ harper/ rhythm guitarist, originally from the coast of CT.
She has been playing, teaching and giving harp workshops from Florida to the NYC metro area to Ireland’s green countryside, to the sunny coast of Melbourne, Australia and back to Boston/North shore.  She now lives in Gloucester.

6-7:00 at Madfish Wharf, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.

Goetteman Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Ave: 7:15pm Local author Carole St. John will be speaking on  ‘Owning the artist within.’

Rocky Neck Gallery presents “The Quarrymen” featuring Matt Natti on the Didgeridoo, Eli Natti on Upright bass and Jim Corcoran on the hand drums. 

Elynn Kroger Gallery, 15 Rocky Neck Ave

Live music:  Lisa Landry 5pm to 6:30 pm – Janet Young 6:30pm to 8pm – Jeweler, Skye Fresh, will be demonstrating techniques and selling her wares   

Imagine Gallery, 43 Rocky Neck Ave.

7:15 Rick Drost, accoustic guitar player and singer 

Sailor Stan’s, 1 Wonson St. – music and dinner 5 – 9pm 

Sea Shanty Singers at Schooner Adventure in The Marine Railways: 5 – 9pm 

Alma MacGloughlin Antiques, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.: Paco, Flamenco guitarist and Concertina player

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Gloucester At Dawn 7/5/11 4:50AM

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Now that the major events are behind us it’s time to slow down and enjoy the rest of the summer. 

Oh wait, we’ve got the GMG Cigar and Rum sail Coming up aboard The Lannon with the Old Cuban Cigar Company and Ryan and Wood Folly Cove Rum!

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This party ain’t over baby!  It ain’t over ‘til we say it’s over!!!!!

Did You Know? (Call for Fishermen)

Posted on by God's Morning

Call for Fishermen for 2012 Gloucester Fishcake Calendar

That Adam Bolonsky came up with a great idea that Rocky Neck East End Madfish Wharf Girl artists Wendie “Bomb Diggity” Demuth, E.J. “Did You Know?” Lefavour and newest addition to the Neck, Gigi “Spicey Meatball” Mederos are running with?  We are going to put out a 2012 Gloucester Fishcake Calendar (Gigi came up with the name) full of your favorite and hottest looking Gloucester’s Finest Kind.  This is a call to all of you who know and love some of those strong, good looking, manly professional harvesters of the sea (fishermen, lobstermen, clammers, shrimpers, if it comes from the sea and they bring it home for a living, we’re looking for them) to be nominated to be featured in this one-of-a-kind, definitely destined to become world famous, Gloucester Fishcake Calendar.  We need to move quickly to have the calendar ready to distribute to the world by September, so if you want to nominate your favorite fisherman or lobsterman, please email khanstudio@comcast.net, call 857-891-9054 (EJ at Khan Studio and the GMG Gallery) or stop by 77 Madfish Wharf at your convenience – we’re here all the time.  This is going to be real, Glosta, oldest working seaport, finest kind, fishing capital of the world stuff.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Blackburn Challenge: Registration Closes this Saturday July 9

Posted on by paultmorrison

The epic silver jubilee 25th running of the Blackburn Challenge is Saturday July 23.  This oar or paddle human powered race in dory, kayak, outrigger canoe or even SUP; Stand Up Paddle, can enter this race around the entire circumference of Cape Ann.

Over 300 boats are all in. Registration ends this Saturday at midnight, July 9. Do not regret missing this race. Gloucester High School start, up the Annisquam, then clockwise all the way around until you paddle under the greasy pole finish line back in Gloucester Harbor. Besides the ability to say that you paddled around the entire island you get a cool Patagonia shirt you can proudly wear showing you completed the race.

Your humble scribe kayaked it last year and was a bit surprised that most every entrant took the race “seriously.” No duffers in the lot. All I wanted to do was finish before the beer keg was drained and I made it. The pulled pork sandwiches were dee-lish. This year I am taking Rubber Duck and my protege, Ed Collard, The House Doctor, around the island. Ed has kayaked exactly three times  in his life, (past four weeks), but he is pumped and may very well tow me over the line.

There will only be one 25th running of the Blackburn Challenge. Sign up now, do it for a charity, but find a vessel and a paddle, slap a GMG sticker on the bow and meet us July 23.

Register here.   Countdown here (18 days left!) My detailed map of course with all the pitfalls here.

Rubber Duck Quick Tip: No dory or boat? Check out Cape Ann Stand Up Paddle right on Pavilion Beach. I bet you could rent for the race, paddle over the finish line right to their rental location. Paddleboards get a head start at Blackburn Challenge!