Month: June 2012

Kudos To McDonalds Gloucester

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The reconstruction is well under way.

The building looks like it is mostly made of brick which blends in 100 zillion times nicer than the old building which was painted the most ghastly of primary colors of bright red, harsh yellow and glossy white.

Hopefully when the finishing touches are made that they use some tasteful accenting colors to the brick.

The neighbors across the street must be thrilled.  I figure that on top of not having to look at the hideous old building they each will see the values of their homes go up by $15-$20,000 just by getting rid of that old primary color harsh yellow, red and white from the old building.

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VIDEO INTERVIEW- THE SUMMER RETREAT 2012 PREVIEW WITH LINDSAY CROUSE and RICK BLUE

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

click below for the interview

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The eight annual Summer Retreat is just a couple of months away!

For More Info- www.thesummerretreat.org

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The Retreat is a rare opportunity for people to take a break from their busy lives and experience something wonderful. It’s a chance to:

Rest and revitalize with life-changing happiness teachings from world-class teachers and master practitioners – including the amazing Lama Marut, author of A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life.

Enjoy meditation, yoga at all levels and community in the beauty of pastoral New England.

Understand how to live in happiness for six days…so you can be happy the rest of your life.

The retreat is led by Lama Marut — an American Buddhist monk whose teachings are both profound and completely engaging. He will make you laugh. He will make you think. He will probably change your life.

You can check out his podcasts – including podcasts from last year’s Summer Retreat – on iTunes.

Thanks to Joey and Good Morning Gloucester for supporting the Summer Retreat!

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Update On City Hall Restoration and a Request For Photographer’s City Hall Photos from Maggie Rosa

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey

Can you post these photos that were recently taken of the restoration project of City Hall? As your site is so popular this is the best way to keep everybody informed as to the progress of the project.

The project has started in earnest but as the work being done is going on behind the green shrouding it’s not easy to detect the progress. These photos were taken of the small towers (ventilator towers) last week.

Craig Herrmann will be posting these photos on our website www.restoreourtower.com and we will be sending you more as we get them.

And I’d also like to invite people who are also taking photos to send them to me so that we can post them on the website as well as keeping a record of this project for posterity’s sake.

Thanks

MAGGIE ROSA

Tea Party Ships Now Partially Rigged Photos From Kathy Chapman

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Progress report: Tea Party Ships Eleanor and Beaver are nearing completion in Boston.

Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

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Discover Gloucester Weekly From Linn Parisi

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey, Joey!

Fancy meeting you at the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Lock Up fundraiser at LobstaLand yesterday!

Pilar Garro from the Beauport Sleeper-McCann house on Eastern Point (which is open for the season, btw) recommended that I get "arrested" for the truly good cause- Thanks, Pilar!

I had a great time at the event. The best part is that so many friends and family members contributed to my "bail" ahead of my being "arrested" that I didn’t have to make phone calls. Thanks to all who donated to help put a halt to this  horrible disease. We raised nearly $2400!

Thanks to Corey and his crew at LobstaLand for hosting the event and feeding all the participants.

The pics attached are of me being served my warrant by Manny Simoes’ nephew, Officer Simoes; getting into the police car to be driven to the Lock Up  (my first and last time in the back seat of a cruiser :); yours truly behind bars; Pam Macaurelle from CruisePort making desperate calls for bail; and Joey bringing Pam a bail check. Too fun!

The last and totally unrelated picture is a UK Travel Channel TV show called "American Times" filming the star/host, Julian, eating a lobster in the rough at Roy Moore’s on Bearskin Neck- in the pouring rain on Monday. Everything we tried to do that day for their show, which was about fish & fishing, lobsters & lobstering, was derailed due to the nor’easter. Not a fish to be found in the City; too rough to go out on the water. They managed to get enough footage done, but it took us hours and we were drenched and cold at the end of the long day.

Thanks to all of the Discover Gloucester partners who tried to help during the day, and did help to get the job done.

Another TV show film crew will be here on Sunday. This one is from Italy, RAI 3- like our PBS channel 2.

This time the media FAM is about art, culture and history. Hopefully, no rain on Sunday- please?!

Linn Parisi
Discover Gloucester The Seaport Gloucester DMO
PO Box 6103  Gloucester, MA  01930
978-290-9723 Twitter: @DscvrGlstr  FB: Discover Gloucester

Community Stuff June 7th, 2012

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Volunteer Opportunities At The Trustees of Reservations Long Hill

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The Flower Field Program for Teens

Weekly June – August (call 978-921-1944 x1825 for days and times)

Ages 13-17

Get outside this summer and work side-by-side with your peers. Easily increase those community service hours here at Long Hill.  Join the Garden Educator and help in the Flower Field, Demonstration Gardens and the Children’s Garden.  We have a range of projects available for all abilities from planting, weeding, and staking, to deadheading, seeding, labeling, and much more.  Weekly commitment working outdoors.  Opportunity to work with the public during PYO Flower Field hours.  You can cut your own FREE bouquet after each morning of work.

Email bogrady@ttor.org for more info.

Flower Field Volunteer Hours

Weekly  March – Oct  9AM – 11AM

We need your help to prepare and plant and maintain Long Hill’s Pick-Your-Own Flower Fields.  We’ve extended our garden this year to bring even MORE fresh flowers to the community!  We have a range of projects available for all abilities from planting, weeding, and staking, to deadheading, seeding, labeling, and much more. Opportunity to work with the public during PYO Flower Field hours.  Dig in and have fun with a great group of fellow volunteers! You can cut your own FREE bouquet after each morning of work! Email bogrady@ttor.org for more info.

PYO Flower Field Shifts

July 12 – Oct 13

Thur 3pm-5pm, Fri 12-5pm and Sat 10am–5pm

We need your help to cover the shifts of the PYO Flower Field.  The garden will open July 12th and close Oct 13th.  There are 6 volunteer shifts per week that need to be covered by a Long Hill volunteer.  Thur 3-5, Fri 12 – 5, and Sat 10 – 5.  A 2 to 3 hour commitment each shift. You will be greeting the public and assisting them with scissors, water and information about the garden. You will be required to do light work in the garden while it is open.   Training will be provided and is mandatory.  You can cut your own FREE bouquet after each shift!Email bogrady@ttor.org for more info.

Beverly Farmer’s Market Assistant

Every Monday starting July 30 – Sept 20

The Trustees of Reservations is looking for enthusiastic individuals or families to set up and manage our Long Hill PYO Flower Field table at the Beverly Farmer’s Market.  Every Monday starting at the end of July and going through September you will be selling annual cutting flowers from our own annual cutting garden.  We are eager to participate in the local farmer’s market this year but can not send staff at this time.  Do you love fresh, locally grown flowers and hope that more people can have access to the bounty of our local fields? Then this is the position for your summer volunteering!  Email bogrady@ttor.org for more info.

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The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Businesswomen’s Committee is now welcoming applications for the Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship. Established in 2005, this non-traditional $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a woman who is looking to change careers or re-enter the workforce and would require some form of continuing education or training. 

The Carolyn O’Connor Scholarship, named after the first chairperson of the Businesswomen’s Committee, honors Carolyn’s dedication and involvement with the committee and the Chamber through the years. Organized in 1986, the Businesswomen’s Committee aids in the growth of Cape Ann businesses and the professional development of the Chamber’s women members.

Contributions to the Businesswomen’s Scholarship Fund may be sent to the Chamber Businesswomen’s Committee, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester MA  01930. Checks should be made out to the Businesswomen’s Scholarship Fund.

The deadline for submitting the scholarship application is Friday, June 29. Applicants must have a high school degree or its equivalent, be a legal resident of Massachusetts, and be accepted to an accredited college, university or job training program.

Applications are available at the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce office, online at www.capeannchamber.com, or contact Sharon Bragg at Sharon@capeannchamber.com.

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June 2012
The Newsletter of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce is now online!
Start Reading!

In This Issue:

Small Business Week
25th Annual Auction
Rockport Booth Opens
Scholarship Information
Membership Spotlight
Business After Hours
Matter Communications
Road and Bridge Report
Upcoming Events
Business Tips & Tricks

and much more!

Video Interview- Meet Goetemann Artist in Residency Program Artist Of The Month Ekaterina Smirnova

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Check out her work at the Goetemann Artist in Residency Studio (GRS) at 51A Rocky Neck Avenue.

Check out her website here- www.katapostrophe.com

Gloucester At Dawn- 4:50AM 6/2/12 Good Harbor Beach

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Bob Represents From Sturgeon Bay Light Station

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Ann Kennedy forwards-

Lake Michigan…fun, big water, good fish, lots of boats, nice art and music…but it’s not Gloucester.   Here’s Bob representing from Sturgeon Bay light station.

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Rocky Neck Gallery Opens for the Season

Posted on by God's Morning

The Rocky Neck Gallery opens for the season on Thursday, June 7.

The public is invited to an Opening Reception on Saturday, June 16 from 6-8 p.m. to meet new and returning artists. Working in both traditional and contemporary genres, North Shore painters, photographers, sculptors, potters, jewelers, cabinet makers, multi media artists and print makers show their work at the cooperative gallery located on charming Smith Cove in the very heart of Gloucester’s newly designated Rocky Neck Cultural District.  This year the gallery welcomes seven new members: jewelers Katherine Bagley and Deborah Way, and painters Debbie Schraedieck, Phyllis Feld, Elizabeth Gauthier, Dina Gomery, and Kathleen Staab.

 A special feature of the gallery is the very successful Summer Artist Series that exhibits a solo artist or a group show for three weeks throughout the summer. Painter Elizabeth Gauthier’s show “Simplicity through Form and Color” is the first in the series this season.

Gauthier is an artist and teacher from Manchester-by-the-Sea.  Elizabeth earned her BFA with a dual degree in Fine Art and Art Education at Mass College of Art and her MFA from Boston University. She has taught various art disciplines at the high school level and in different arenas for many years on Cape Ann and in Boston. She continues to paint and exhibit in the Greater Boston area.

The public is cordially invited to attend the opening reception for both the regular gallery artists and for Elizabeth Gauthier’s Summer Artists Series show on Saturday, June 16 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Rocky Neck Gallery, 153 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester MA 01930, 978-282-0917, www.rockyneckgallery.com Hours: Sun.-Wed. 11 am – 6 pm; Thu. – Sat. 11 am – 8 pm.

Hoe Down and Happenin’

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Hoe Down & Happenin’  –  A Farm-to-Table Dinner
June 24, 4-9 pm
Celebrate summer and local food with Alchemy and friends at Greenbelt’s Cox Reservation
A slice of heaven on earth local food fans won’t want to miss…
A raw bar station sourced from local suppliers, BBQ lobster salad sliders, local caught yellow-fin, house-smoked pulled pork,Tendercrop Farm skirt steak…a table full of farm-fresh organic greens and vegetable salads, and desserts that will bring locavores to tears! And it’s all taking place on one of the longest nights of the year, within the magnificent surroundings of the Cox Reservation.
Mark your calendars for Sunday, June 24, 4-9pm, as Alchemy Bistro brings local fare with a flair to Greenbelt’s Cox Reservation with the Hoe Down & Happenin’, with proceeds to benefit Greenbelt’s local land conservation efforts.

Limited tickets:  $100.00 pp includes:

• Cocktail hour with music, raw bar, special local brews and wines
• Creative food stations presented by Alchemy Bistro and local artisanal
providers
• Bluegrass music featuring Flynn Cohen
• Cash bar with signature cocktails, wines and local beer
Purchase tickets online or call 978-768-7241.

Are you in this video? Depends on were you were on May 5 …

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

If you were at Minglewood Tavern on May 5, you just might be in Brad Byrd‘s new video On My Way Down shot by Hollywood Director Brandon Rose that night.  If you can’t remember May 5, perhaps you’re the one dancing, singing the words and pointing in the air at 1:24 seconds into this video.

You may remember our series on Brad’s hit video Zero to the 101 shot by Brandon on St. Pat’s day (here’s some behind the scenes footage of that shoot).

Brad is Allen Estes‘ guest on this week’s Local Music Seen, which premieres tonight at 6:30pm on Cape Ann TV Channel 12.  It’s a half hour of excellent music and fascinating dialogue between two of Cape Ann’s best songwriters.  Plus you’ll get to hear three songs by Brad and Allen’s new song The Trouble with Me.

When the show is over, you can choose from half a dozen live music venues tonight with music for every taste you could imagine.   See the full live music schedule here.

Have you seen the sun today?  It’s coming back and will be here in full force soon enough, which is a good reminder to save $12 by getting your tickets now for the Gloucester Blues Festival on Saturday August 11 at Stage Fort Park.  See you there!

The Golden Hour

Posted on by capeannpainter

The Golden Hour

from; digital photography review

“The “hour” part of the golden hour is a misnomer. The length of time depends on how long the sun plays on the horizon. That changes by the time of the year and the latitude. Near the equator, the golden hour lasts but a few minutes as the sun moves relatively quickly. Closer to the poles, the golden hour can last for hours.

The quality of the light during the golden hour can be dramatically different from what comes before and after. The difference in time can be just a few brief minutes, so be prepared.”

Click here to read more

African Zebra in Gloucester

Posted on by Matthew Green

OK, not really, just an origami zebra.

This model is designed by John Montroll, to be folded from one square sheet of origami paper (as usual, no cutting or gluing).  It is a great example of how to take advantage of the fact that most origami paper has two colors: usually white on one side, and a solid color or a pattern on the other side. Here, Montroll has done a great job of designing the model so that the black paper only shows up in little stripes. I folded and left one of these in the Art Parlour at The Annie; it may still be there, on a windowsill.

Choate House, Essex

Posted on by God's Morning
 
The Choate House sits on 135-acre Choate Island (formerly called Hog Island). The island is part of the 700-acre Crane Wildlife Refuge, which includes Castle Hill, Crane Beach, and six other islands; all owned by the Trustees of Reservations. Choate Island was originally farmed by the Native American Agawam tribe, then by Europeans in 1655, who built the Choate House around 1730. In 1996, Choate Island was the location set for the Salem witch trials film: The Crucible. Choate is open daily year-round, featuring dockage for private boats, guided tours (in season), bird-watching, and hiking.
 
Printed photographically from the original 35mm transparency film.
 
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Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Pet of the Week-Lucy

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

My name is Lucy and I am a four-month-old female
retriever.  I am very sweet, cute and mellow and so is my sister, Ethel.
We would rather be in the lap of our new owner helping
read a book and just cuddling.   If you would like to meet me,
I am at the Cape Ann Animal Aid, now located at the
Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter at Four Paws Lane in
Gloucester.

Please save July 21 for our Sunset Dessert Cruise from
Captain Bill’s at Harbor Loop at 7 p.m.

Have you had an opportunity to visit the new shelter?
It is beautiful!  It is lovely!  It is magnificent!
Visit:  CapeAnnAnimalAid.com and you can see for yourself.
We all feel so fortunate to have a wonderful new
shelter.  The new shelter has everything to keep dogs and
cats healthy and happy.  I think I can even get my nails done here!