Day: May 17, 2012

The Gloucester Fleet, circa 1930 Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin

 

This classic harbor scene is one of the most popular photographs in the gallery. It’s not just the interesting content, but also the artful composition, with reflections in the water that I’ve seen in Emile Gruppe’s renowned oil paintings of that time. The fishing and seine boats packed together in Harbor Cove recall the days when fishing was the big business. Mackerel seiner Angie & Vence is on the left, and the Jupiter is third from the left. The white seine boats are filled with seining nets with cork floats. The Gloucester Coal and Lumber building sits in the background, topped by its 35-ton steam derrick (crane). Coal was loaded onto barges, and lumber was carried away by lumber schooners. The company was founded in 1903 by tugboat captain Charles “Cap” Heberle, and is now called The Building Center. The Heberle family still owns it and often visits the gallery.

 

Image printed archivally from the original 4×5 inch film negative in my darkroom. Image #A8345-012

 

Fred

 

Fredrik D. Bodin

Bodin Historic Photo

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Gloucester, MA 01930

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we will have our first Mug Up of the seaon this Sunday, May 20th at 9:00 am at Khan Studio & the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3.  FOB, Barry Marshall will also be heading back to CA and would have missed the Memorial Day weekend events, so we wanted him to be able to experience a Mug Up first hand.

Come on by, check out the new gallery look with the tropical turquoise floor, Judith Monteferrante and Roger Salisbury’s Spirit of the West exhibit, the new GMG Gallery wall, Carol McKenna’s work, my new glass paintings, and of course good coffee, deviled eggs and whatever other mug up type fare people bring along to share.  Always great people and food, and always a good time.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Welcome back, Joey- we missed you!

I know you were anxious to see the 2012 Discover Gloucester Visitor Guide cover- and here it is! Isn’t it fabulous?!

The amazing cover picture was taken by Jay Albert, Cape Ann Images. We love that it represents our City’s fishing heritage; our gorgeous sunsets and sunrises; our real working community- yup, we love it, and it’s getting rave reviews. Thanks, Jay!

We’ll be distributing the Visitor Guides locally with huge help from Daphne at Promotions Express, and we’ve hired a company to distribute them far and wide outside our immediate area.

I’m happy to tell ya that Discover Gloucester was invited to the MA State House for Massachusetts Tourism Day last Wednesday, which was part of National Tourism Week.

All the State’s Tourism Councils- including ours, the North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB), got together to show Legislators what each region offers to visitors, and to let them know how much money tourism generates in taxes for the State, Cities and Towns. Quite a lot of money, and thousands of jobs.

We handed out chocolate fish lollipops from Turtle Alley to all the Legislators and aides (Thank you, Hallie!) along with our new Visitor Guide, whale watch pins and more than a few Ryan & Wood Distillery wooden nickels. Thanks to our four whale watch companies and Ryan & Wood for their participation. We also passed out information from the entire region, which consists of 34 communities.

It was an honor to represent Gloucester, the Cape Ann communities and the entire North of Boston region at the State House, especially as they debate the State budget which we hope will include a larger investment in tourism so we can all generate even more tax money coming back to us from hotel & restaurant taxes, and that in turn can be invested locally.

Did you know that every dollar invested in tourism brings back $8 in return?

Woke up late and worked our way down to the beach after breakfast on our terrace. Croissant, cappuccino, yogurt.

The walk to the beach is a good ways but the stunning views and exercise is welcome.

We got down there and saw El Capitan, the beach chair guy. The Mrs had already set off to find us a good spot on the beach and I was talking to El Capitan when he started to try to give me a tip on where to sit. I stopped him half way in telling him no matter because the Boss is going to decide where we sit regardless of what he tells me.

He smiled and nodded knowing exactly what I meant.

The Mrs gets all the credit for the planning of the trip and she has done an excellent job with the help of our friends Randy and Stephanie and Trip Advisor. I can’t tell you enough how useful Trip Advisor has been in finding great little places that don’t turn up in the big mass marketing travel machine. Every one of them value and in the right locations specific to what WE like to do. By reading other people’s tips you can save a ton of money and avoid dumps or places that charge a ton because they are covering huge marketing expenses to get you to come stay with them.

Anyway, growing up on beaches back home we tend to separate from the pack whenever possible. You can tell who the Midwesterners are on any beach as it doesn’t matter if you are the only two people on the beach, they will set up their beach chairs practically on top of you.

So we go to the very end of the beach and there’s a grotto type rock structure and we set up there all by ourselves. It was about as perfect a beach day as you could imagine. The water is crystal clear. Like if you would have told me that this certain area was reserved for kings I would have totally understood and moved on but we had it to ourselves all day long. Stayed til 6:30PM. The Mrs read. I listened to music and read up on more digital photography techniques and we swam. She also did some cannonballs from our perch.

Dinner at Cafe Positano was fantastic. Second favorite meal in Positano behind La Tagliate. I’d been craving a steak so I got one with porcini mushrooms and she got some fish.

Great great beach day.