Month: January 2012

While on a recent walk I decided to take a peek down Dorset Drive, almost across Washington Street from Leonard Street.  The road had always intrigued me because of all the huge rocks you can see lining it on either side.  I have always loved rocks of all shapes and sizes, but especially the huge ancient looking ones.   As I walked down the road, I noticed no houses, only massive rocks and morraine until the road came to a fork and there was a Conservation Land Welcome sign.  I walked past the gate and found a lovely pond, brook, beaver’s dam and more rocks.  For anyone who loves to explore and photograph nature, welcome signs are so much nicer than no trespassing signs.  You’d never know there was conservation land down there unless someone told you or you just wandered in – and now you know.

E.J. Lefavour

There is a Public Hearing before the City Council on Tuesday, January 10,  at 7:00 pm at City Hall concerning the East Gloucester Cultural District.  What it’s about:

The Massachusetts Cultural Council is in the process of designating areas of the state’s cities and towns as Cultural Districts.  The City, the Rocky Neck Art Colony, the Gloucester Stage Co., and the Gloucester Writers Center are, in partnership, applying to MCC to have a sizable section of East Gloucester designated as a Cultural District.

In MCC’s words:  Cultural districts can help local arts, humanities, and science organizations improve the quality and range of their public programs so that more local families can benefit from them. They can enhance the experience for visitors and thus attract more tourist dollars and tax revenue. And they can attract artists, cultural organizations and entrepreneurs of all kinds – enhancing property values and making communities more attractive.
One of the distinct attributes of Massachusetts is the authenticity of its communities. From urban centers and fishing ports in the east, to rural hamlets and older industrial centers in the west, the Commonwealth incorporates a wide range of distinctive places.

The Cultural District Initiative will encourage Massachusetts communities to strengthen this sense of place, while stimulating economic activity, improving the experiences of visitors to our communities, and creating a higher quality of life.

The proposes district runs from Cripple Cove to Niles Beach and includes East Main St. and Mt. Pleasant Ave.

Karen Ristuben
Rocky Neck Art Colony

“The statistics on sanity are that one American in four suffers from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, it’s you.”

  Rita Mae Brown  (1944-     )

After obtaining degrees in cinematography, classics and English, Brown went on to doctorates in literature and political science. She began her writing career as a poet but gained much notoriety for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle in 1973, which dealt with lesbian themes in an unusually frank manner for the time. Since the sixties she has been active in the fight for racial and gender equality, and was an administrator in the National Organization for Women for several years. She continues to write in the mystery genre, to ride to the hounds, and to play polo.

Greg Bover

 

Gregory R. Bover
VP Operations, Project Manager
C. B. Fisk, Inc
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www.cbfisk.com

Do you really think anyone give a sweet #^}€£¥ about what your daily astrology thing says every single day?

Could you see how clogging up everyone else’s twitter stream every single morning because you signed on to some automated form that spits your astrology readings into the twitter universe at the same exact time 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year might be considered incredibly narcissistic?

Do you see how people who might otherwise look forward to reading what interesting tidbits you’ve discovered on the interwebs may become uninterested in following your tweets because of this?

I don’t have a personal Facebook page but I imagine if people can sign up for these types of services and they clog up people’s Facebook pages the unlike button would get tons of use.

Just look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you would give two shits about someone else’s astrology reading…on a daily basis…put in front of you.

Although I don’t care about astrology I’ll even give you the benefit of doubt and say if that’s your thing then knock yourself out. I’m sure you could get your own personal astrology readings sent to your email account…to be read by you…the person who presumably gives a #%€£ about it and spare the rest of us who it has no bearing on from having to read what none of the rest of the world cares about- your personalized astrology readings on twitter.

(as a side note, if anyone can provide proof beyond a shadow of doubt that these astrology readings could 100% predict the winning superfecta or the Superbowl victor in a couple of weeks kindly disregard everything I said)

Thank you

Just trying to make this whole Internet experience better for us all.

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com Do you get it?

COMING HOME

 

I was down at the Gloucester

train station the other day

and it reminded me of

the attraction for trains  lots

of us quietly enjoy.

 

When I was a boy, the train,

the Delaware & Hudson

Railroad , ran right outside of

our little summer home;

 

steam locomotives pulling

both freight and passenger cars,

on Fridays, bringing fathers

home after a  week in the City.

 

Two long, one short, one long meant

The train had passed the crossing

and would soon be braking to

give us our dads for the weekend.

 

I spied on the location

of those little dramas last

night – courtesy of Google Earth;

 

no trace of the D&H

was found: no tracks, no station,

no crossing gate,  no little

children excited and waiting.

 

Meanwhile, back in Gloucester, after

two long, one short and one long,

the commuter train from Boston

pulls into the small station

where moms and dads step down to

come home.

 

Marty Luster