Year: 2011

GMG Questions and Answers- Harriet Webster

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Harriet is the Executive Director at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.

How long have you lived in Gloucester?  41 years

What is your favorite season In Gloucester? spring (it may be cold and muddy but if offers so much promise)

Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”? the rocks overlooking Halibut Point, Dogtown walks

What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester? Virgilio’s

What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester? Passports

What is your favorite bar in Gloucester? Halibut Point

What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester? Morning Glory

What is your favorite local event in Gloucester? Gloucester Maritime Heritage Day
In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat? beach 

Who is your favorite local artist? Jeff Weaver

Which is your favorite local beach? Good Harbor

Who has the best chowder in town? Causeway Restaurant

Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog? Yours is the only one I look at.

Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder? Haddock

What is your favorite Gloucester neighborhood? Lanesville

What is your favorite local band? Walker Creek

Fly Amero to host Rocky Kramm tonight.

Posted on by Joanne



Hello everyone!
Wednesday, March 2nd
Special Guest: ROCKY KRAMM!

Sophisticated arrangements.  Hilariously entertaining.
Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm
*I host and perform as always
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
*Comfort food dinner specials from Dave Trooper’s kitchen
*Sponsored by Shipyard Ale
Great fun!
Food is prepared fresh by “Troop” and is always good!
Fred features special discounted entrees with half-off
on a Shipyard every week!
Sincerely…
I hope to see you there!  🙂 ~ Fly

Wall of Figure and Effect video

Posted on by capeannpainter

From Deb Clarke;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RstCgSCb-k8

I gave my drummer boy David a camera. A few nights ago he had to calibrate one of his lights for a performance and used the large “Four Stand” painting. He liked what the lights did to the painting, so he composed some music and synced it to the shots of “Four Stand”, throwing in some other paintings to vary the visual image.

Maybe we will have a black room show someday with spots hitting the paintings under his direction.

I like the music and his unique way of seeing of my work.

best,
deb.

Montreal Fans Speak Out (Featuring The QOFE)

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Boston Massacre vs The Montreal New Skids On the Block

Government, Business/Development and the Arts – Together for a future Gloucester

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Represented by Jaqueline Ganim-Defalco, Mac Bell and Mayor Carolyn Kirk at the SeArts Annual meeting held at Cruiseport February 28th 2011

1901 East Gloucester Flake Yard Photo On Shorpy

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Click the picture to view the full sized version at the Shorpy Site

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Thanks to Frank Garrison for sending this in. I can’t place it exactly but if I had to guess it looks like it’s near beacon Marine where the Tuna wharf is.

Looks Like We Will Be Working With Abby

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Had a fantastic meeting with Abby Ytzen Monday morning and discussed partnering up for the 2011 seARTS PAW program.

Here is the project as Abby describes it on her website–

Artist Grant

At the end of January I applied for an Artist Grant, and was award one! I have been commissioned to create a public work about the city of Gloucester. 
THE PROPOSAL:
Discover Gloucester is an education series of map/infographics about different aspects of Gloucester: Fishing, Historical/Cultural, and Conservation/Agriculture
Stay tuned, I will try to keep an updated on my process…still in the concepting/researching stage

Abby was one of the winners of the AIGA student competition, New Voices, Unique Visions. Her thesis, Biomes,  will be on display at Endicott College from now until the end of March. After the closing of the show her work with return to its permanent home at Ken Olsen Science Center at Gordon College.

Openning reception will be March 3rd Endicott College

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The GMG Farm Bar and Grille DTF Burger Challenge Video From Frankie The Silver Bullet Gwynne

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Frankie “The Silver Bullet” Gwynne Straps On The Helmet Cam For this Incredibly Edited First Person DTF Burger Challenge Video!

This is the video Paul Morrison calls the best GMG Video ever.  I’m not sure I agree with that assessment but I will say it is right up there.  Why don’t you be the judge.

Be sure to check out the very end of the video when pandemonium ensues.

Twin Lights Half Marathon Info Session With Dave Murray

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Registration is open at http://twinlightshalfmarathon.com/

Those who sign up early will get Race Shirts so get on it!

 

 

My Favorite Fish- Whiting

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Fried- It comes right off the bone and you eat it like corn on the cob. here’s some pictures of some whiting Sista Felicia fried up for the family.

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Did You Know (Fire)

Posted on by God's Morning
Photo by E.J. Lefavour

That the discovery of fire, or, more precisely, the controlled use of fire was, of necessity, one of the earliest of human discoveries? Fire’s purposes are multiple, some of which are to add light and heat, to cook, to clear forests for planting, to heat-treat stone for making stone tools, to burn clay for ceramic objects. The controlled use of fire was an invention of the Early Stone Age (or Lower Paleolithic). The earliest evidence for controlled use of fire is at the Lower Paleolithic site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel, where charred wood and seeds were recovered from a site dated 790,000 years ago.   From Archeology.com.

This is a modern fire, hopefully the last one I will light this winter.  I thought the burning wood with the hole in it looked like a flaming lumpfish from hell. 

E.J. Lefavour

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GMG Questions and Answers- Andrea Holbrook From the Gloucester Times

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

How long have you lived in Gloucester?

I don’t.

What is your favorite season In Gloucester?

Fall

Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?

Half Moon Beach and Stage Fort Park in the late fall, when its nearly empty

What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?

It was Andiamo’s, but now it’s Poseidon’s

What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?

Palermo’s

What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?

The Franklin


What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?

Cape Ann Brewery

What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?

Sugar Magnolia

What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?

The farmers market

In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?

Boat, as long as I don’t have to crew or put bait on a hook. I’ll gladly hold/watch a pole, but I never hooked a tuna when I’ve gone out — just a warning

Who is your favorite local artist?

Dead: Fitz Hugh Lane
Living: Jeffrey Weaver

Which is your favorite local beach?

Half Beach Moon

Who has the best chowder in town?

I’m allergic to shellfish, and don’t eat clams.

Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?

Heather Atwood’s Food for Thought

Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?

Haddock

What is your favorite Gloucester neighborhood?

Rocky Neck. OK call me tourist

What is your favorite local band?

Bandit Kings

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As always the GDT

Five Guys Burgers

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Five Guys has some tasty burgers but I found a way to maximize your dollars there.  Order the single patty with the works burger.  It was three bucks and change and was a really tasty burger.  Once you add double patties, bacon or cheese the prices start to skyrocket.

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