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Month: July 2012
WCVB Channel 5 Chronicle Gloucester Episode
As many are aware, tonight at 7:30, WCVB Channel 5 Chronicle is airing an episode featuring Gloucester. This is in and of itself is fantastic; they also borrowed a bit my footage from my Greasy Pole Sunday film that I created for Good Morning Gloucester.
Special thanks are owed Joey for making Good Morning Gloucester the ‘go to place’ for people like Maggie Harper, the producer of Chronicle, to discover more about what makes the heart of our community beat. During the entire week of Fiesta, then followed by Independence Day events, GMG covered all, posting countless feature stories, schedule of events, photos, and videos.
Thank you Joey C for all you do for our fair city!
As Gloucester’s Powerhouse of Positivity would say ~ YEAH BABY! Chronicle Tonight! Boom! We Got That!
Saint Peter’s Fiesta Greasy Pole Sunday
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Rockin’ The Boat For Alzheimer’s Fundraiser
Wes Thibodeau
We still have a decent amount of ticket’s left, so please come and join us for this most worthwhile event. It promises to be a fantastic night of good food, great music and dancing and a lovely 3 hour tour on the Privateer IV. Lest I forget to mention, there will be a cash bar, a 50/50 cash raffle and a gift raffle with a ton of incredible items… To highlight some of the many items, we have a 2 night stay at the Deer Park Resort in N. Woodstock, N.H. 2 North Shore Theater Tickets, Passes for Canobie Lake Park, New England Aquarium, Cape Ann Whale Watch and many, many more awesome prizes and gift certificates to some of the best Restaurants around. It’s going to take some time to do the raffle segment of this evening because we have so many wonderful items to raffle away. You’ve nothing to lose and everything to gain (Not to mention putting that warm feeling in your belly for doing something so worthwhile) by joining us for this fun filled night on The Privateer IV. You can’t go wrong for 20 bucks. Come aboard! Boat leaves at 7:00 p.m.
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Music Around Town ~ July 9-15, 2012
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fitz hugh (henry) lane question
Monica Elefterion writes-
I was just in Gloucester this weekend.. still feeling the salt, sun and sand from Good Harbor Beach.
I have a remnant of a song floating in my head that includes a reference to Fitz Hugh Lane in it… do you or your bloggers know of a popular/contemporary song that includes his name? I don’t’ know if it is real or perhaps I took in too much sea water?
Best.
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Sunset from the roof of the rectory of St. Ann’s church
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Woodpecker Brought Back From The Dead
Hi Joey: I had a woodpecker fly into my window on Saturday. I hydrated
him and guess what, after several minutes he gladly flew away. Yeah!
Susan LaRosa
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2012 Fiesta Smiles
Until next year all we have remaining are great memories and many smiles.
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Gloucester gig rowers get a new boat
Hi Joey,
Look for a brand new blue and orange gig in the harbor tomorrow. The Gloucester gig rowers got a new boat, the "Annie B", here being christened by Ann Banks and duly admired at Maritime Gloucester this evening.
Martha Lazrus
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Community Photos 7/9/12
Hey Joey,
With the fiesta going on we had lots of celebs in town. Here in the West End, Olive Oil stopped by the Cape Ann Olive Oil store and lent a hand. No sight of Popeye though!
Rick Gates
Premier Imprints 48 Main st Gloucester
Sailing School, Sandy Bay Rockport,Mass. From Anthony Marks
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Community Stuff 7/9/12
Folks are discovering wonderful new things in the night sky by re-examining old photographic plates, historic astrophotos taken around the world and housed now at Harvard. At the July 13th meeting of the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club we will have Ed Los speaking to us about the Harvard photographic negative glass-plate archive, and the ongoing project of scanning some 500,000 plates into a database so people can examine them without having to go to Cambridge.
Ed’s presentation will cover the project itself as well as some of the historic and ongoing astronomical discoveries associated with the creation and re-examination of these photographic plates
Ed is one of the folks spearheading the effort to digitize the collection, and was instrumental in designing the software for the scanner.The Harvard collection is one of the largest and earliest glass plate astrophoto collections in the world – with photos of the night sky going all the way back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This talk is a great look back at astronomy history and not to be missed.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club (http://www.gaac.us and
http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage ) meets at St Paul Lutheran Church in
Lanesville, at 8:00 on the second Friday of every month. There is no
cost; all are welcome.
Digital Photography Classes With Kathy Chapman
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Don’t forget To Watch Gloucester On Chronicle Monday Night 7:30PM
Maggie Harper writes-
Hey Joey……
Just wanted to let you know that as of this moment, the Chronicle show on Gloucester is scheduled for Monday July 9th. So let you vast followers know — with the proviso it could be later, if news events warrant.
It was great to meet you — have a great Fiesta this weekend!!!!!!
..Maggie H.
Maggie Harper / Producer, CHRONICLE
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For All You Social Media Neophytes- Listen To My Boy Ryan Pinkham- The Man Knows His Stuff
Ryan Pinkham just graduated from Northeastern with a marketing degree. He is a local man done good and believe me when I tell you he knows his social media marketing.
Ryan is part of a group of young Gloucester adults who have restored faith in the youth of our city. There are a group of young men and women in their early 20’s in town that I’ve been completely blown away by in the past year as to how much they have their shit together. Educated, well dressed, well mannered, responsible hard working people that make me think that as good as it is right now in Gloucester, the best is yet to come if people like this are our future.
There seems to be a whole group of them, people like Rebecca Linquata, Erica Mitchell, Joe LaRocca, Mike Torres, Ty Rogers, Jon Vizena, Shannon McCarthy, Steven Fletcher, Lily Linquata, Austin Souza, Liv Hauck, David Brooks, Dawn Gadow, the list goes on and on… all really good people that have made me think that the future is really looking bright if these are our future leaders.
So follow along with Ryan’s insights in his column on marketing yourself and your business
Here’s just one excerpt and following the excerpt is a link to a feed of all his latest musings on social media marketing-
7 Things People Love More Than Being Sold To
JULY 6, 2012 BY RYAN PINKHAM LEAVE A COMMENT
People do not love being sold to.
Whether it’s hanging up on a telemarketer, slamming the door on a salesman, or driving their car until the wheels fall off in an effort to avoid the sales pitch at the car lot—most people don’t respond well to sell, sell, sell.
But there are things they do love—or at least love more than being sold to. And those things can actually be used to improve your chances of making the next big sale and driving business results for your brand.
Here are seven things people love and how they can be used to get more results from your email marketing. [Read more…]
Link to follow Ryan Pinkham’s marketing column here
You can also follow him on twitter, he’s one of the more interesting people I follow on a daily basis- @RyanPinkham
Look for an upcoming interview here on these pages
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2012 Fiesta Hat Ladies From Anthony Marks
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The Dance
The Dance
Once each month we witness a celestial ballet
when the orb of night ascends in the east
just as the sun sets in the west and we
move from sunlight into moonglow.
And I, from my place above the Annisquam,
get to see the reflected glory of the setting sun
beaming brightly from Thurston Point and,
at the same time, the rising moon’s illumined face.
What exquisite choreography; what exact timing;
what a marvel of precision and what unique seats
we, here on Earth, have – to be able to be,
however briefly, exactly between opposing sun and moon.
And the performance is repeated month after month,
year upon year, eon after eon,
with the ballerinas always on time to dance a dance
that will continue long after the audience is gone.
When the Earth turns to ice or dust and
the oceans are dry or spread upon the land;
or when infernos burn and whirlwinds blow,
for the sun and moon, the dance goes on.
© Marty Luster 2012
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Storm Clouds over Hammond Castle June 26, 2012
Spooky..
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Did You Know? (Summer Pie Theater and Tales of Bong Tree Island)
That Dona Lambert and her troupe at Summer Pie Theater Playhouse in Rockport want to be the first to do a production of Tales of Bong Tree Island? But before that can happen, we have to make Tales of Bong Tree Island a reality. Without your help, in 2 days, the owlpusses with their great wisdom and teaching of acceptance and tolerance to young people, could become extinct. Please support them and this project, at whatever amount you can (you can pledge as little as $1.00). http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997277714/martines-owlpuss-interviews-and-tales-of-bong-tree
About Dona Lambert and Summer Pie Theater:
Dona Lambert has been imaging stories her entire life. On the farm she grew-up on she created magical kingdoms in the woods. Every Summer with her dad she turned a tiny chicken coop building into a little theater and performed plays. Dona has a B.A. in speech and dramatics. She has been a teacher in grades K-8 and recently taught the in-school drama at the Rockport Middle School. She was a program director with the YMCA in Maryland and New Jersey for many years. Dona’s theater and stories with the children has always been a part of whatever other pursuit she was involved in at the time. The Summer Pie Play House is very much a piece of the little chicken coop theater from Dona’s childhood farm once upon a time. It is children in their imagination, building, inventing, relaxed, and happy.
Dona has been conducting children’s theater mainly in Rockport and the surrounding area since 1998. Her Chicken Coupe troupe this season performed ROBIN HOOD And Monty Python………..and the 21 chickens. Dona directed the Art Harbor Camp at Windhover for five years. Dona’s Troupes now rehearse and perform at The Unitarian-Universalist Society in Rockport.
I think Dona’ Summer Pie Theater is the perfect venue for the first stage production of Tales of Bong Tree Island. Thanks for your help in making it a reality, EJ
www.khanstudiointernational.com
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Felicia and Coconut
I am even further behind in sorting through photos from Fiesta and the Horribles Parade than Father Green. I hope to be done tomorrow!
Sister Felicia taking a moment to snuggle Coconut before departing for the parade.
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LOOK! Up in the Sky……….
LOOK! Up in the Sky……….
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Horribles Parade in retrospect
“Retrospect” is a euphemistic way to say that I’m a bit late in getting these photos ready to post. But you didn’t really want to get bombarded with all the photos of the parade from all the contributors at once, did you?
As a newcomer who moved here less than a year ago, the whole Fiesta and 4th of July week experience has been a lot of fun! The Horribles parade was bigger than I expected, and well worth watching.
So, here are a few of my shots of the parade. The full set can be seen as a slideshow or one by one on my photostream on Flickr.
See these bigger, and lots more, here:
Good Morning Gloucester 