Driving by the Back Shore and in Magnolia the sunset was had amazing colors.
Sunsets
Year: 2012
All your shopping done? If not, NYRE Buttons could save your butt
OK, you’ve had Ladies Night and Men’s Night, but you’re still not done. Or if you’re like me you haven’t started yet. We went to Men’s night last night and what did I do? Saw the Two Buddies Show at Alchemy, bought cheese, pate and olives at The Cave (I know I was supposed to by buying gifts, but I was hungry), talked with lots of people I don’t see every day and then it was late and Vickie and John (who had been Christmas shopping the whole time) wanted to go. Oh well, guess I’ll go back to plan A, which is to start my shopping at noon on Christmas Eve. Then I’m focused.
But wait! You don’t have to procrastinate like I do. You can get New Years Rockport Eve buttons for everybody still on your list. It really is one of the best entertainment values you will ever get on Cape Ann with dozens of artists performing all over Rockport from 6 to midnight — and beyond (see live music schedule here). Plus magic, puppetry, story telling, fortune telling, face painting, balloon making and lots more for kids and parents.
Here’s where you can get buttons:
In Rockport:
John Tarr Store, Main St.
Smith hardware & Lumber at the Lumber Desk, 3 Station Square
Toad Hall Bookstore, Main St.
In Gloucester:
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, Commercial St.
House of Raven, Main St.
Gloucester Music, Main St.
OK, now you’re done . . . and you can relax and enjoy all the great music this weekend. You’ve got over 30 choices between now and Sunday. See the full live music schedule here.
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This is GMG’s 26,000th Post
Screenshot from the Good Morning Gloucester editing Dashboard-
26,000 Posts.
Wrap your mind around that one.
That’s like 26,000 pages of a novel that you’ve had access to for nothing. If you consider we post an average of one food post per day for all these days that’s thousands and thousands of basically bringing you the best food offered in these parts and showing you what local restaurant to get them.
If you consider one or two art posts per day that’s thousands and thousands of posts showing you all the fantastic artists and art happenings in our area.
If you consider the multiple music listings per day from Joanne, Peter and Vickie, that’s thousands and thousands of posts promoting local musicians and music events in our area.
If you consider the Did you know and old photographs and history in which we’ve connected the dots for you through the efforts of contributors like Fred Buck and Fred Bodin, Geno Mondello, Al Bezanson, that’s thousands and thousands of historical posts about our area.
If you consider the landscape photos bringing you daily the geographic natural and urban beauty that our area offers us in all four seasons that’s thousands upon thousands of posts.
And all never having asked a dime. Doing it for the love of helping those in our community- businesses, artists, musicians, athletes, photographers.
I couldn’t be prouder of our team.
26 MF THOUSAND!!!
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How to Offend Flowers
Native Pink Flowering Dogwood ~ Cornus flordia rubra
While writing Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! I would often come across what seemed at the time random information, but would jot it down anyhow hoping that it would find its way into the pages of my book. The following excerpt was found within a display of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) porcelain at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore where I was researching Chinese flower and bird painting. I laughed out loud when reading and it makes me smile with every subsequent read but wonder if it is only funny to we flower- lovers.
Enjoying flowers with tea is the best, enjoying them with conversation the second and enjoying them with wine the least. Feasts and all sorts of vulgar language are most deeply detested and resented by the spirit of the flowers. It is better to keep the mouth shut and sit still than to offend the flowers.
—from a Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) treatise on flowers Walters Art Museum
The idea that flowers can be offended by bad manners reflects the belief that the world we inhabit is an organism in which all phenomena interrelate. By the same reasoning, someone who drinks tea from a peach- shaped pot will live longer (peaches symbolize longevity), and someone who dips his writing brush in a peony-shaped bowl will have good fortune, as the peony is a metaphor for success and wealth. The love of flowers was and continues to be a passion among the Chinese and trees and plants are genuinely loved as living creatures.
To win a free copy of Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities ! Notes from a Gloucester Garden leave a comment or see yesterday’s post about the Magnolia virginiana.
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Jon Butcher and Fly Amero @ The Rhumb Line 12-12-12
It was not your average night at The Rhumb Line this past Wednesday with Jon Butcher joining Fly Amero. There was not an empty seat in the house. The music was excellent and Jon Butcher fit right in and felt at home. Jon mentioned that he loves Gloucester and he is now living there. I certainly hope that means we will be hearing more of him around these parts. Here are some of the places Jon Butcher has been and will be soon. Also check out the link to his webpage. Sat 12/1- GUITAR CENTER EVENT, Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA Sun 12/2- w/ PARKER WHEELER, The Grog, Newburyport MA Mon 12/3 – WBCN/AMERICAN REVOLUTION, House of Blues, Boston MA Fri 12/7- w/ ROBERT CRAY, Blue Ocean Concert Hall, Salisbury MA Sat 12/15- FARREN BUTCHER INC , Chan’s, Woonsocket RI Tues 12/18- CHRISTMAS BUZZ BALL, The Palace Theater, Manchester NH Fri 12/21- FARREN BUTCHER INC , Voices, Lowell MA http://www.jonbutcher.com/index.html Fly shared about the loss of loved ones close to him in the Orleans’s music world and Jon sang of loved ones in his songs. Plus Jon shared with the audience that he has a new “Jon Butcher Axis ” recording that he is working on and is due out some time next year.
After Fly’s opening set Jon shared the stage. Later Allen Estes and J. B. Amero followed with Dan King. It was quite the night and just as magical as one could ever hope for.
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GHS Girls Hoops Makes A Statement In Opening Game vs Saugus
New GMG GHS Contributor Marlee Melvin submits-
GHS For The Win 63-39
Join me in welcoming Marlee to the GMG contributor ranks, submitting the inside scoop from Gloucester High!
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Two Rising Stars at Giuseppes – North Shore Voice
Two rising stars shown here with their parents sang at Giuseppes Ristorante in the North Shore Voice Contest.
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Joey C and EJ’s Two Buddies Show At Alchemy Photos From Charlie Carroll
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More origami ornaments
I will teach one or two of these at during my class tonight at The Hive tonight. (Apparently the class fee is $10, not $15 as I previously mentioned – and folding will start at 6PM. Fish first, then other ornaments).
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Two Buddies Show Photos by Anthony Marks
Thank you so much to everyone that came out to support EJ and my show at Alchemy. Thank you Anna and James Eves from Cape Ann Giclee for their quick turnaround and super high quality work creating my photos into canvas wraps (you don’t have to be a professional photographer to visit James and Anna at 20 Maplewood Ave and have a canvas wrap of your work created)
I’m really proud of the work. Really proud of it.
Unfortunately we had a boat that stayed out lobstering past the time that the show ran so I could only manage to stop in to say hi in between offloading lobster boats and didn’t get out of work til after the show was over. For the brief time I could stop in it was great to see many of our FOB’s and people from the Gloucester Education Fund who 10% of the proceeds of the sale of our work at Alchemy will go to.
if anyone else has photos from our opening could you send them in to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com I know Charlie Carroll was snapping away and Jason Grow was taking photos as well. I’d love to see what I missed.
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New Year’s Resolutions, Put Your Thinking Caps On
My New Year’s resolution is to decrapify my desk, workspace and closets.
Criteria? If I haven’t used it or looked for it in 3 years it goes.
How bout you?
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Db submits- NPR on Edward Hopper
Just came across this piece on WBUR about a photographer who has produced a book of photographs of the houses that Edward Hopper painted in Gloucester.
“Photographer Gail Albert Halaban spent her childhood summers in Gloucester, Mass., a small seaside town where her father was born.
…Halaban’s photos of Gloucester are now on display at New York City’s Edwynn Houk Gallery. She also has a new book out, called Out My Window.”
Find more at: http://www.wbur.org/npr/166876847/if-edward-hopper-had-been-a-photographer
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Snoop Maddie Mad Interviews Santa 2012
Chip off the ‘ol block I’d say.
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Tom Fraser Remembers George Cabral
Hi Joey,
I’m a lost Glosta boy living south of town now and always wishing I was back home. Good Morning Gloucester makes me feel like I am still there. This pic of my "old boss" was taken in 2002 on a Yankee Fleet fishing adventure. But in 1965 I was growing up on Rocky Neck and working summers on the Dolphin with Capt Sherm and his dog Ginger… And George. I was 12 years old. It was the Rocky Neck Sport Fishing Dock then and the were right there at the Railways. I baited hooks, gutted fish on the way back in for tips and got a dollar for washing down the boat. I hadn’t seen George since then but he looked the same to me now and in 2002 as he did in 1965. Thanks for the memories.
Tom Fraser
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Video- SWAT team at Beauport Avenue Gloucester, Ma.
SWAT team are assisting Gloucester police in trying to apprehend the man.
From Herb Wennerberg
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Tina rescued from a high kill shelter to the beach in Gloucester, Massachusetts!
I just shot this footage at Good Harbor Beach on Tuesday. Tina and Dexter were rescued from shelters by Kimberlee Bertolino and Michael Oppelt of Gloucester. I hope you will share this with the readers of GMG so they understand the urgency of re…
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North Shore Voice at Giuseppes
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Happy Birthday Lylacakes!
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Jon Butcher thanks Gloucester
To Whom It May Concern,
I want to thank everyone who came down to the Rhumb Line to see Fly Amero, Weds night 12/12/2012. Fly was gracious enough to invite me to sit in with him and, as a consequence, I received one of the warmest welcomes I’ve ever experienced from all of the musicians, artists, local media and others who were in attendance. As someone who has spent most of an adult life traveling the world without the benefit of establishing permanent roots, I am both humbled and honored beyond words to be received so warmly and with such genuine affection by this special and unique community. So, to the Rhumb Line, to the incomparable Fly Amero, to Laurinda Mahoney, Allen Estes, Dan King and to all of the wonderful residents of Gloucester MA, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve all made this old guitar picker very happy.Sincerely,
Jon Butcher
[new resident of] Gloucester MA
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Uhmmmm, I’m Not Sure If It Was The GMG Promotion All Week But This Was The First Men’s Night I Recall That Did Big Business
Kudos For Downtown Merchants For Sticking With It and Keeping The Doors Open Late.
I’m Telling You Downtown Gloucester Is Just Getting Better and Better!
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