Month: January 2012

Meeting of the clergy of Cape Ann

Posted on by Matthew Green

Every month, a group of  clergy from the region meet to discuss various issues of interest to all people of faith and the community in general (such as the Grace Center day shelter for the homeless). I was unaware of the time of the meeting yesterday, but I ran into it by a fortuitous coincidence, and asked someone to take a group photo with my iPhone.  I think it’s great we have this kind of ecumenical / interfaith communication, and I hope to get more involved in it myself.

Those in attendance were, from left to right (titles like “Rev.” omitted, because I’m not sure who likes which title, or who wants none at all):

  • Art McDonald (First Unitarian Universalist Church, Essex)
  • Ronald Garibaldi (Holy Family R.C. Parish, Gloucester; retired)
  • Deirdre White (Annisquam Village Church)
  • Lehlohonolo Henrietta Montjane (Gloucester and Rockport United Methodist Churches)
  • Bret Hays (St. John’s Episcopal Church, Gloucester)
  • Matthew Green (Holy Family R.C. Parish, Gloucester, parochial vicar)
  • Jesse Fallon (Najramudra Center, Rockport)

Dog Bar Breakwater

Posted on by Sharon
Dog Bar Breakwater, circa 1906 (note lack of rip rap on the ocean side on right) Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
Dog Bar Breakwater extends nearly half a mile from the tip of Eastern Point across the entrance to Gloucester Harbor. It not only shelters the harbor, but also covers the treacherous Dog Bar Reef, for which it is named. Construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began in 1894 and continued until December 1905. The foundation of the structure is granite rubble taken from Cape Ann quarries, and is capped by 12 ton granite blocks supplied by the Cheves Granite Company of Rockport. A total of 231,760 tons of granite were used to build the breakwater. A small tower lighthouse marks it’s outermost extremity.
Ledge Hill Trail, Ravenswood, 1919 Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
Eastern Point Light and Dog Bar Breakwater are located at the end of Eastern Point Boulevard, The adjoining  parking lot and breakwater are part of Massachusetts Audubon’s 51 acre Eastern Point Wildlife Sanctuary –http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Eastern_Point/index.php
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Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Snoop Maddie Mad Funny Hula Hoop Faces

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I don’t think people really know the level of crazy I’m dealing with over here.

Karen Ristuben Interviewed about Last Night’s City Council Approved East Gloucester Cultural District

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Patty Knaggs has a great informative interview with Karen Ristuben about the East Gloucester Cultural District on her blog. Click the link below to check it out.

Patty Knaggs Blog

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Snoop Maddie Mad Publishes Her New Blog

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Yep, you got that right, Snoop Maddie Mad has a brandy new blog. Older Sister Bean started hers when she was four so now it’s Snoop Mad’s turn.

All photos on her blog taken by her unless otherwise noted and all titles and captions her words as well.

The humble beginnings from my little maniac.

Here’s the link www.snoopmaddiemad.wordpress.com

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New Stuff Going On At Last Stop Variety

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

There’s a  whole new community chilling area at Last Stop Variety in the heart of God’s Country, East Gloucester.   Check out the photos today and video tomorrow for more info.

On Like Donkey Kong! The 2012 Bikini & Speedo Dodgeball Tournament. Open Bar and Killer T’s For the Participants

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

All Profits to Cancer Research. Get a team together, have a ton of fun and do some good. Wins all the way around.

I will be sponsoring a team from GMG. Any other restaurant or business who sponsors a team you can bet I will see to it that your business gets way more publicity than that $100 sponsorship fee will cost from the crazy amount of coverage I’ll be giving this awesome event!

Like this- Jeremy Goldberg from Cape Ann Brewing already donated a keg to the beer tent for the participants! Boom! Jeremy Goldberg and Cape Ann Brewing is getting a mention in every press release leading up to the event. How bout that?
So Crossfit Cape Ann how bout you guys? You gonna get a team together? All you yogi and holistic joints that want some play here on GMG, you want to get your name out there to the 25-35,000 people a day we reach? Here’s your chance.

Think about it this way, 5 team members each kick in $20 each, each get killer TShirts and open bar throughout the tourney in the players area -no brainer baby! I’d get a team together just for the open bar FFS!

You don’t need to be sponsored by a business you can get a team together yourself. Funny team names are encouraged!

So get in on the fun, drum up some awareness for your organization and help with the fight against the suck that is cancer.
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Three Way Family Interview

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Bean, Snoop Maddie Mad and I conduct three different Interviews…simultaneously…with each other.

It’s all part of their training to be the next generation of media moguls in their father’s footsteps, Ha! 🙂

Here you go, three different perspectives of the same interview.

 

Best Friends’ Sunset

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

Filmed at Oakes Cove, Rocky Neck, November 7, 2011. “Count on Me” by Bruno Mars, from the album Doo-Wops and Hooligans.

Oakes Cove is a small, protected cove located on the southwestern side of Rocky Neck within Gloucester’s Inner Harbor. The “best friends” were unaware they were being filmed. I loved that they were so familiar with the ledge that they knew the exact location of the perfect perch for watching the setting sun together.

Total length 6 minutes, 20 seconds.

Frigid Morning and the Window Frost Has Returned- Pics from Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sort of looks like Lightning, A Flying Bird and Crystal Trees.
–Len Burgess

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Generous Donations for Gloucester Dog Park

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

A Dog Park Update from Mary Lou Maraganis:

 

“Gloucester Dog Park is one paw closer to becoming a reality thanks to the generous donations of $12,500 by Christopher and Anne Lewis for The Cat Doctor of Gloucester and an anonymous donation of $10,000 by a Rockport resident.

We still have a way to go but these donations along with the Dusky Foundation’s matching gift was certainly a wonderful way to end 2011.  Remember the allocation of the land for the dog park was only approved by city council in March.  We’ve come a long way in 9 months.  This is due in part to a great crew of volunteers comprising the Friends of Gloucester Dog Park.  We are actively recruiting additional volunteers to help with PR, community development, events planning, web design, arts committee members, volunteer coordinator -simply anyone that wants to be an active part in making this dog park a valuable part of this community.”

To find out more information on donating and/or volunteering, please visit www.gloucesterdogpark.org or call 978-283-5723.

 

The Virtues Of The Trough

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

At this fantastic beach club here in Playa del Carmen the “Hombres” room has a good old fashioned trough just like they used to have at Topsfield Fair and Fenway.

What a brilliant use of space.

Never a line to unload the many cervecas you’ve consumed because even though the bathroom isn’t all that big the use of space when you don’t have to have a bunch of individual stalls allows like 6 dudes to pee in the same space that you’d only be able to get three stalls.

Brilliant.

Did You Know? (Rock Envy)

Posted on by God's Morning

In bedroom communities around America people experience lawn envy, and are always trying to make their lawns look as nice or better than the Jones’.  Not so on Cape Ann.  Here I think people are more inclined to experience rock envy, and how much more effectively the Jones’ have beautified their property with the rocks they had available to them.  I think that Annisquam has been blessed with some of the largest, most beautiful and abundant rocks I have seen on Cape Ann, and is therefore probably the target of much rock envy.

E.J. Lefavour