Year: 2011

The GloucesterCast Episode 1

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The GloucesterCast Episode 1

Click here To Listen or Download The First Episode of The GloucesterCast

Hosts:

  • Joey Ciaramitaro – creator of Good Morning Gloucester and co-owner of  Gloucester MA Captain Joe and Sons lobster company
  • Kenny MacCarthy – creator of The Cut Bridge and Gloucester MA real estate agent guru

Joey and Kenny discuss Gloucester / Cape Ann:

  • recent happenings
  • upcoming events
  • local real estate trends
  • dog and pet talk
  • sports, technology, social media
  • anything else that comes up along the way

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Give it a listen if you will by clicking on the link above.  Knowing that we have a way to go we will appreciate your feedback on what you liked and what we can improve upon.  Also feel free to leave suggestions on show topics for next week’s podcast.

Icicle Madness

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joe,

I saw this on my way through Ipswich the other day and thought it was worth sharing.  It’s the Kingsbury Lord house on High Street in Ipswich. 

Thanks,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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Old Fish House – Then and Now

Posted on by God's Morning

The fish house in the top photo, taken in the early 1900’s on what was then called Curve Road, is the same location as in the bottom photo, now called River Road.  The shack is gone, but the granite pier and house remain.

South Tower red flash

Posted on by paultmorrison

1/23/11 Sunrise 7:05AM. It took a few shots on burst to catch the south tower flashing red. From Andrews Point. To actually see the light click on the photo to get a better look.

Gloria’s Breakfast, Lunch and Coming Wednesday Spanish Food Menu

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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DSC02313DSC02314Gloria’s is closed Sunday’s and will be closed Monday as well but then will resume the regular posted schedule on the picture of the sign above.

View From the Winter HQ’s

Posted on by capeannpainter

View From the Winter HQ’s

The Corner Office

Did You Know (Bearskin Neck)

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

That Bearskin Neck was named by fishermen who saw the bearskin Ebenezer Babson had left to dry on the rocks?

Roger W. Babson in his Story of Bear Skin Neck puts it as follows: “…Ebenezer Babson, who then resided at the Farms, saw the bear attack the boy [his nephew, Henry Witham]. He immediately attacked the bear to get his attention away from the child, but having no gun he permitted the bear to follow him into the water. There, after a terrific struggle, Ebenezer killed the bear with a fish knife.”  (As depicted in the sign over the front door of The Pewter Shop.) 

The story is continued by George Jay Babson: “He then brought the bear onto the shore, skinned him, and spread the skin on the rocks to dry. Ebenezer died shortly afterwards, presumably at sea, but his nephew Henry Witham, whose life he saved, lived to a ripe old age. Naturally, he often told the story of his rescue, and when people asked how Ebenezer killed the bear, he would reply: ‘With his knife, I do declare.'” 

And hence the little ditty: “Babson, Babson, killed a bear, With his knife, I do declare.”

From John J. Babson, History of the Town of Gloucester Cape Ann Including the Town of Rockport (Massachusetts: Proctor Brothers, 1860) and The Witham Family History

E.J. Lefavour

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Analemma Part II, sunrise

Posted on by paultmorrison

I was admiring Joey’s sunrise photo he posted today and started thinking about where exactly the sunrise was this morning and when he would post a sunrise with the sun splitting the twin towers on Thachers.

After screwing around with astronomy tables for an hour I discovered a web calculator that figures it all out.  Solar Calculator click here.
1) Go to site and click on the map.
2) Keep double-clicking until the marker is in your backyard.
3) Go to the bottom of the table and click “show on map” both the sunrise and sunset.

Sunrise in Joey’s shot this morning at Good Harbor Beach was way down here:
This position of sunrise is not much different from a month ago at the winter solstice:

That’s because the sun is swinging around the bottom of the analemma (I posted here) and there isn’t much change. But we are gaining two minutes a day in day length now and it won’t be long before sunrise is before 7AM (January 29 to exact).

On June 21 during the summer solstice Joey will have the sun rise right about here on Good Harbor:

Check the solar calculator out. It is really easy to use once you get the hang of jumping around. Save your backyard position or figure out the exact day that a Good Harbor sunrise splits the uprights of the Twin towers. Lazy photographers who want to know exactly where the sun will be rising for their morning shot can figure it all out here.

If you do one thing, get the map centered on your favorite sunrise and sunset spot with the “show sunrise” and show sunset” lines turned on and then move the dates to June 21 and December 21.

Now they just need to make one of these things for the moonrise.

Royal Represents!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

High Joey, My name is Royal. I’ve been to G-town many times. Dad use to live there. Spent a lot of time at Fort Sq with some old friends. Dad put some stickers in the tree to make me feel at home. The photos that dad got from you are awesome. Maybe we will stop by this spring on our up the coast.

Arff, your friend royal.

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