My View of Life on the Dock
Willowdale Estate Courtyard
Monday night I was filming at Willowdale as we are in the early stages of creating a web page about the butterfly gardens for the Willowdale Estate website. I was hoping to film the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds at dusk and did succeed! They were nectaring from the Rose Mallow, hosta, Snowberry Bush, and butterfly bushes.
Verbena bonariensis
I love the new bistro lights in the courtyard garden–so romantic!
Ringo Tarr is at it again, folks. He’s putting on another FREE concert at the Boulevard.
Thousands of people danced and partied with us on July 3. Were you there? It was a perfect night for dancing and celebration.
Saturday’s concert features classic rock dance band Full Circle, so come ready to dance again!
Music starts at 7pm and continues until 11pm with breaks for the Boat Parade of Lights and Fireworks
Help celebrate the the Schooner Festival by dancing on the Boulevard.
Don’t miss the last free big outdoor concert of the summer!
Lobsta and Beer
I was walking down the Pleasant Street several days ago when I saw him with his easel on the sidewalk, almost right across Prospect Street from St. Ann’s School. He courteously let me snap a photo of him while he worked – apparently, I was something like the 15th person to photograph him that day… He has a gallery at 16 Rogers Street here in Gloucester (open Friday and Saturday 1-5 p.m., also by chance or appointment). His website gives you an idea of his beautiful work. I haven’t made it to his gallery yet, but after perusing his web gallery, I really want to go!
To see the beginnings my new website, click here- Sharon Lowe Photography. Thanks! ~Sharon
Join us on board M/V King Eider for our annual SCHOONER CHASE during the Esperanto Cup Race on September 2nd.
Spectacular, upclose viewing of the participating schooners as they battle it out off Eastern Point.
Enjoy the 2.5 hr trip chasing down the ships. Fabulous photograph opportunities. Limited seating available. Bring your own lunch and beverages. Celebrate the day. Call us and reserve @ 978 283 1979.
Follow them on Facebook for more info-
Joey, not sure you would want these but these were taken on the North West Corner of Stellwagen Bank on the last day of the Bluefin Blowout Tuna Tournament
A monster of a sun flower grown from a seed. It has been a growing year and is still growing.
Hi Joey,
We’re gearing up for a great Schooner Festival Weekend at Maritime Gloucester! Here is the Pinky Ardelle schedule for the weekend. There are no public sails on Sunday for the Race. Harold takes the amazing crew of volunteers who helped to build the Ardelle out for that special occasion.
Hope to see you on the water.
Best,
Mary Kay
Thursday, August 30, 2011, 6:00pm
(register by 5:45pm)
$3.00 per child
Magnolia Library Center, 1 Lexington Avenue,
Magnolia
MAGNOLIA’S 1K FUN RUN/WALK
MAGNOLIA’S 1K FUN RUN/WALK
Start the beginning of school on a healthy note!
Children of all ages are invited to take part in the Kid’s 1K Fun Run/Walk at the 36th Annual Magnolia Road Race on Thursday, August 30, 2011. The race is an annual, family-friendly community event which benefits the Magnolia Library.
The Kid’s 1K Fun Run/Walk begins at 6:00pm, followed by a 5k race at 6:30pm. The Fun Run/Walk distance will once again be a 1 kilometer race to encourage more youth runners to participate.
The scenic course begins at the Magnolia Library, continues through Magnolia Square and along the coast, ending back at the Library. Parents are welcome to run along with younger children. The cost is $3.00 per child and all participants get a ribbon. Join in the fun!
Pre-registration is available online at www.magnolialibrary.org or at http://www.coolrunning.com
You can also register the night of the event. For more info, contact Stephanie O’Neil at sapalazola@yahoo.com
LEGENDARY ROCK GROUP THE COWSILLS IN GLOUCESTER ON SEPT. 13
Night to include live set, Q&A and documentary screening
As part of the Cape Ann Community Cinema’s “Fall Into The Rhythm” lineup – 10 days of movies celebrating music that runs from September 11-20, 2012 – the CACC will host the legendary family band, The Cowsills.
The Thursday, September 13th show starts at 7:30pm, with a live set, screening of the new documentary “Family Band: The Cowsills Story,” and a Q&A with The Cowsills – Bob, Susan and Paul.
The Cowsills enjoyed great success during the late ’60s and in to the early ’70s, not only with their music but appearing as guests on many television shows and even hosting their own TV special. They were the basis for the hit show “The Partridge Family,” which aired on ABC from 1970-1974. The Cowsills’ hits include “Hair,” “The Rain, the Park, and Other Things,” “Indian Lake” and “We Can Fly.”
Tickets for this only Massachusetts appearance are $20.00 ($17.50 for Cinema Members), and are available at www.CapeAnnCinema.com.
For interviews with The Cowsills, contact Margo Lewis at (212) 730-2701, or at margolewis@tciartists.com.
THE COWSILLS – OFFICIAL SITE ::: www.cowsill.com
FAMILY BAND: THE COWSILLS STORY – OFFICIAL SITE ::: FamilyBandCowsills.tumblr.com
“FALL INTO THE RHYTHM” – FULL LINEUP ::: www.CapeAnnCinema.com
Hi Joey,
Just wanted to let you know that this Saturday the Cape Ann Museum is offering hourly highlight tours as part of the Schooner Festival. Tours are free with Museum admission!
Thanks,
Melissa
Come meet the new principal of East Gloucester Elementary School, Mrs. Carol Bratt!
Mrs. Bratt will be at the EGS playground on Thrusday, August 30th from 3:00p to 5:00p. She wants to meet as many parents and students as possible before school starts, so please spread the word.
Thanks!
Location: Manchester – Essex Woods, meet at Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Time: 2:00 p. m., Saturday, September 8, 2012
Place: Meet at Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Rear 66 Main Street, Essex MA 01929
Admission: Free . In order to assure a space, please sign up.
Contact: info@essexshipbuildingmuseum , call 978-768-7541 and leave your name, or drop in at the museum Wed. – Sun., 10 a. m. – 5 p. m.
Find live, some of the many species of edible mushrooms that are in the Manchester- Essex woods. Erika Sonder will take us to see for ourselves how these ephemeral, sometime tiny, sometime large and always interesting species of fungi grow and flourish.
Erika is a field biologist, naturalist and nature artist with a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies. She was formerly Assistant Curator of Vascular Plants at the New England Botanical Club Herbarium at Harvard University. Her perfectly detailed and rendered specimen prints are used as tools in education, displays and as beautiful art.
Please join us in the Waterline Center of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum at
2 p. m. on Saturday, Sept. 8. Admission is free. Space is limited. Please register
at 978-768-7541, or info@essexshipbuildingmuseum.org, or drop in!
Rain date: meet at the Shipbuilding Museum on Sunday, September 9 at 2 p. m. 
Hi Joey,
Can you please share this important info? Rockport Elementary and Middle Schools are in top 1% of winning $10,000 in FREE Schools supplies at Avery Gives Back To Schools Contest. Please go to http://givebacktoschools.avery.com/schools/index and register emails and vote for both schools every day until 9/14. Wouldn’t the parents, teachers and kids love this!!!!!!!! Thank you everyone!!!
Diane Ambrose
Here’s a list I grabbed off the Chamber’s great website which lists each Schooner participating in the 2012 Gloucester Schooner Races. To Connect The Dots For You and bang the point home this is what you need to do-
Click on the highlighted link under or or above each schooner to go to the website and contact the Schooner to reserve your spot aboard. Gloucester harbor is going to be jamming back and forth with all these schooners and to be on the water it will be magical!
YOU WILL NOT REGRET BOOKING YOUR SPOT ON ONE OF THESE BOATS AND BEING PART OF THE ACTION!
I’m convinced 99% of our population outside of the schoonerheads don’t even realize that they can get aboard and race. The costs to go out for a sail is not even a rounding error on the cost of owning a boat for a year.
What, you’re still reading this? You should be on telephone with Kay Ellis or the people at The Ardelle office booking your reservation for this weekend. Hurry up will ya?
28th Annual
Gloucester
Schooner Festival™
August 31 – September 2, 2012
Thomas E. Lannon
Gloucester, MA
1997
(978) 281-6634 info@schooner.org
Ardelle
Gloucester, MA
2011
978-290-7168 mobile
email: info@schoonerardelle.com
Adventure
Gloucester, MA
1926
Adventurer
Norwalk, CT
1925
American Eagle
Rockland, ME
1930
Bald Eagle
Gloucester, MA
Estrela
Prudence Island, RI
1975
Fame
Salem, MA
2003
Green Dragon
Manchester, MA
Irena
Newport, RI
1986
Lewis H. Story
Essex, MA
1998
Liberty Clipper
Boston, MA
1983
Perception
Vineyard Haven, MA
1983
Spirit of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
1984
Sugar Babe
Gloucester, MA
Summerwind
Kings Point, NY
1929
Attraction Vessel:
The HMS Bounty
Hi Joey-
My boyfriend (now fiance!) Bradley and I really enjoy your blog and we LOVE Gloucester (we definitely have the wheels turning for a relocation from Boston one day). Thought I would share a Gloucester story from this past Sunday..
We often come up on the weekends to hang out and one of the things we (mostly me) like to do is look for sea glass at Pavilion beach. That’s where we were this past Sunday when Bradley called me over to look at something in the sand. Just sitting on a rock was a beautiful shiny sparkly ring. I was a little slow..even thinking aloud that someone must have lost their ring..doh! Anyway it was for ME and we got engaged right then and there! We were super lucky that local, Amy Clayton happened to be on the beach and she snapped some pictures for us! Here our a couple of our favorites ..
Kimberly Funk & Bradley Scheetz
8.26.12
In my haste to get this story up my software automatically watermarks photos with Joey Ciaramitaro Photo, but noticed this morning that I didn’t change the photo credits when I originally posted this story. I corrected it to the proper credit this morning-Amy Clayton Photo.
Hi Joey,
My husband and I are gardening with a new soil-fee technology that eliminates weeding. We love watching the veggies grow (pic taken this AM). For those who’d like to garden, but don’t have the land or back for it, this is a fun solution. The pic links to my site for more info. Thanks for considering passing this along.
Amy
From City of Gloucester’s website:
6:00 AM TO 10:00 AM ~
BROADCASTING LIVE AT THE BANDSTAND
COME AND BE PART OF THE GLOUCESTER CROWD WELCOMING FOX 25
THE WELCOMING CENTER WILL BE OPEN AT 6:00AM
Time to Represent! Fox 25 TV is coming to Stage Fort Park this Friday morning
Joey,
The positive media spotlight on Gloucester continues. Boston television station FOX 25 is finishing up its Zip Trip summer series of visits around the state this week. Out of 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts, they’re saving the best for last: Gloucester!
The Fox 25 crew will be broadcasting live from the Bandstand at Stage Fort Park this Friday, Aug. 31, from 6 to 10 a.m.
They’ll interview local residents, report on this weekend’s Gloucester Schooner Festival (more here), and spotlight the general awesomeness that is Cape Ann.
The visit is being spearheaded by Fox 25 Producer Sarah Unis, a Gloucester native (say hello to Sarah on Twitter at @ProducerSU).
GMG readers are encouraged to come down to Stage Fort on Friday morning starting at 6 and be part of the crowd that welcomes Fox 25 to Gloucester!
John McElhenny
Matter Communications
Yesterday Captain Richie Cassola a retired policeman from Beverly landed a speckled lobster (our second speckled lobster landed this year) of which the New England Aquarium claims are one in 30 million. I predicted the over under at 3 for speckled lobsters landed here at our dock this year way back on June 4th. 2 Down with 4 months to go. I like the over!
and Today Mark and matt Ring from The Stanley Thomas Land a Blue one.
It’s what we do.
Just add it to the already most mutated lobsters documented at one dock anywhere in the world collection- here at Captain Joe and Soons in Gloucester MA.
#Boom!
Click below for the slideshow of all the mutant lobsters landed here at our dock.
We have more documented mutated lobsters here than any other dock on the planet!
Just to show the honorable and effective meter maids of Gloucester do not play favorites they practically put the ticket under RD’s bill. But since Rubber Duck did indeed stretch the idea of a parking spot a bit parking at the front door of the Cape Ann Brew she went and paid the $15 fine promptly.
RD Fun fact: Don’t let these tickets sit in your pocket since the fine just gets bigger. Go to: www.gloucester-ma.gov , type in your ticket number and your plate number then shwing, you can use your credit card. They do tack on $3.50 if paid electronically but it is well worth it to get it off your dash or desk top. Pay a parking ticket, fill a pothole.
And it was well worth it. Rubber Duck was giving Shelley the visiting Biochemist from New Mexico the full Cape Ann tour which included lobster pick up and meeting Joey at the dock as well as the fish and chips (awesome huge chunks of haddock) at Cape Ann Brew.
Good Morning Gloucester 