My View of Life on the Dock
A new session of classes starts at Art Haven today, including classes in jacket re-decorating, poetry illustration and undersea shadow boxes. There’s also youth open studio, family studio, pottery throwing, and other fun stuff. Click on Kerry Christman’s shadow box for the full schedule!
Joey,
I wanted to share a story of kindness I was lucky enough to witness today. Some friends were planning a birthday dinner party on Sunday for their 6-year-old-to-be at Giuseppe’s restaurant on Main Street. Forty-four people had reserved weeks in advance but the big event got called off a couple hours before due to a sudden illness in the family.
I don’t know anything about running a restaurant but I’d be pretty upset to lose a tab of 44 people for dinner and drinks. Instead, Giuseppe’s co-owner Memory Layne heard about the illness and sent dinner on the house to the little boy, his family and their friends. Someone tried to pay her for it but Memory wouldn’t take a dime, instead asking how the sick family member was doing and wishing him a speedy recovery.
Little moments of kindness like this make life sweeter. They’re not all that surprising in Gloucester, a place where people look out for each other more than any other place I’ve ever known. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop and point them out once in a while.
Memory Layne and people like her are part of what we all love about this place.
– John McElhenny
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On St. Patrick’s day, the Holy Family Parish Women’s Guild organized a traditional Irish dinner in the hall at St. Ann’s, with corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, Irish soda bread, and (mostly green-frosted) desserts. After everyone was served, the Gloucester High School “Docksiders” provided entertainment, playing a fantastic set including jazz, bossa nova, etc. If you haven’t heard them before, look for an opportunity – they are really great!
We had a good turnout for the event, and everyone seemed to have a great time! Here are some photos.
More photos are on my Flickr photostream in my Holy Family Parish set.
"We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live"
General Omar Nelson Bradley (1891-1983)
Among the most intellectual men ever to command the United States Armed Forces, Bradley graduated from West Point just before WWI, in the same class as Dwight Eisenhower. He returned there to teach mathematics between the wars, and then worked at the War Department for George Marshall, eventually rising to command the 82ndAirborne at the outbreak of WWII. Sent to North Africa in overall command by Eisenhower, he moved to London in 1943 to help plan the Normandy Invasion. Later in the war he became embroiled in the political tussle between Montgomery and Patton and was blamed for reverses associated with the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war, Bradley was promoted to Army Chief of Staff and then the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Truman, and later NATO Commander. He was influential in the dismissal of Douglas MacArthur as the head of the United States forces in Korea, and in the policies that resulted in the Korean stalemate. Active in industry during his retired life, Bradley was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ford in 1971.
Ann Kennedy submits-
Hi Joey. I came across this cool poster online while doing some research for my blog. Meat was scarce in NE in ’45 and as you know, the promotion of fish was widespread. The poster was originally printed by the US Office of War Information. (If you want to post the poster, no need to include my comment unless relevant. The poster is available at www.artnectar.com.) I just think it’s a great image.
I know Joe Testaverde knows a little something about those take out baskets. I’d like to have a nickel for every one I ever dumped on the culling table at the dock. They had a long long life on the waterfront. We also used the ones with the same types of frame but with net which would allow the ice to drop through. Joe Testaverde, did they sell them with that canvas or with the net or once that duck canvas material wore away did they mend in the netting around the frame to keep use of them? I can’t remember if they were sold with the net or if they were just repaired that way. I can’t be that old can I?
Whiting, cod, haddock, pollock they all got offloaded the same way. They have a guy using that double pulley though and lifting it by hand. In my day at least we got to use the winch.
The Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association is closing in on its fundraising efforts for the Renewal of Newell Stadium. On March 24th, there will be an event at the Elks at Bass Rocks to help bring us closer to the goal line. The live auction will be run by professional auctioneer, Walt Kolenda. There will also be a silent auction with nearly 100 items!
Autographed Curt Schilling jersey
Sporting event tickets
Golf outings at Essex County Club, Bass Rocks, Turner Hill
A private performance by The Docksiders
Bountiful gift baskets
Disney 1-Day Hopper passes for four
Attraction tickets and gift certificates galore!
Mariposa serving tray
And MUCH, MUCH more!
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets are now being sold at Destino’s, Cape Ann Savings Bank, Palazola’s, Jeff’s Variety and Christine’s Variety.
For more information or to make a donation, please email Kristin Michel, donation coordinator at newelldonations@gmail.com or call her at 978-290-6035.
Special thanks to all of the beautiful families who welcomed us into their homes, Sefathia for organizing the Trolley, Bob Ryan from CATA and Eddie Salah who donated his time to drive the Novena Trolley and our trolley mates who did the 2012 Novena crawl.
The work put in by these families is truly astounding and we are all honored by the welcoming by each and every house and huge props go out to the women, men and children that keep this tradition alive. You are what makes our community special.
Kim Smith will do her usual knock out job covering the entire thing in a much more refined manner than my stuff but it will take a bit for her to chew through all the footage.
In the mean time, I’ll be doing a separate post each day from each family, some had more coverage than other from me as while The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad were still with us I wanted to spend that time with them.
First off, the Trolley-
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Video with Sefathia explaining what it’s all about-
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Sacred Space
Where we lived in New York, a stone path led to
a meditation garden that we designed and
built over the course of two summers.
A stone Japanese lantern marked a turn
in the path that took us to a wooden bench
that overlooked the smaller of our two ponds.
The pond was home to tadpoles and bullfrogs,
spring peepers, two mated mallards that
visited us each year, muskrats, deer and
an occasional blue heron, magnificent
dragonflies and a wide, colorful and
musical collection of birds and insects.
That garden was a place of perfect peace
where I went to pause and to free my mind
of wasteful and exhausting commotion.
It is the place where my daughter was married,
where Barbara’s mother daily came and
near where our well-loved dog’s ashes were spread.
So, when we moved to Gloucester, we took with us
the lantern and the bench and the sacredness
of that space and put them in a new quiet place
that looks over the gardens, down the hill
to the salt marsh and the tidal river;
where I listen to the hidden ocean
and the bell buoy off the Annisquam Light
and watch the gulls, egrets and herons over
the marsh and feel peace wash over me again.
Marty Luster
So much fun to watch the grand children bloom.. Love the Nonnie stuff
Although everywhere you look today there are clear signs of Spring, or early summer, Spring will arrive on Tuesday, March 20, at 1:14 A.M. EDT.
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