My View of Life on the Dock
Gloucester Times story about the Schooner Ardelle sailing to Washington DC
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x708369759/Burnham-sailing-to-pick-up-award-in-DC
Here’s the latest graphic as of Thurs. Night. with the Ardelle traveling into Sillery Bay, MD.
-Len Burgess
Holy Family Parish Presents: The Vienna Boys Choir; Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Join us as Holy Family Parish travels to Springfield ’s venerable Symphony Hall for their one-of-a-kind program featuring classic and contemporary Christmas favorites performed by the Vienna Boys Choir.
Experience the beauty of twenty-four of the world’s youngest voices in one of the world’s oldest musical traditions.
The Vienna Boys Choir has been thrilling audiences all over the world for more than 500 years. While providing the music for the Sunday Mass in Vienna ’s Imperial Chapel – which they’ve done since 1498 – the choir also tours internationally, performing each year in some of the world’s finest concert halls.
Package includes: Round-trip transportation from Gloucester , Lunch prior to the concert, Gold seating at Springfield Symphony Hall for the 1:30 PM performance – $135 per person.
Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012. Don’t miss out, space is very limited!!
For more information please contact Rosa Ladd at 978.580.4455 or rladd@necb.com
Reservation forms with detailed trip information are available at Holy Family Parish Church office at 60 Prospect St. , Gloucester .
Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe is delighted to announce the productions scheduled for its fifth season. The company has grown over the years and ranges in age from teens to eighties: students, businesspeople, teachers and other professions held together by a love of theatre and the works of William Shakespeare. New participants are always welcome either onstage or off.
The season opens November 1 at the Gorton Theatre (Home of the Gloucester Stage Company) with "Shakespeare In Two Acts", a program of comedy and tragedy juxtaposed, consisting of "Visiting Lear" an adaptation of "The Tragedy of King Lear", directed by Ray Jenness and "Love on a Midsummer Night", a twenty- first century take on "A Midsumer Night’s Dream", directed by Nick Neyeloff. "Visiting Lear" opened CAST’s first full season, was enthusiastically received and requested to be performed again. The action is set in a nursisng home, where an elderly man abandoned by his family drifts in and out of Lear’s tragedy.
"Love on a Midsummer Night" uses four players to portray Lysander, Demitrius, Hermia, Helena, Oberon, Bottom, Puck, and Titania in a tangled plot of love and deception. A narrator steps in and out of the action commenting on the follies and foibles that unfold.
Performances are November 1 – 4 and 9 – 11, with opening night a pay what you will performance.
The next production is Shakespeare’s timeless political drama, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", also to be performed at the Gorton Theatre on February 28, March 1,2,3,8,9,10. There are still some roles open and backstage help is needed. Anyone interested may email the director, Joseph Stiliano, at cast2008@prodigy.net .
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, CAST will celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with"Shakespeare Shout!" and evening of selected readings by members of the company and an invitation to the public to bring their own favorite pieces to read. Time and venue for this season’s birthday celebration are to be announced.
CAST’s final production of the season will be "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", Tom Stoppard’s brilliant dark comedy featuring Prince Hamlet’s university classmates who are unwittingly caught up in the intrigues at Elsinore. Directed by Ray Jenness, it will play on May 10,11,12,17,18,19 at the recently restored Rockport Community House, where Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe staged its first productions.
More information on CAST may be found at capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook.
Joseph Stiliano, founder and artistic director
Click below for the News From Rocky Neck via Judy Robinson Cox
Hi Joey!
I thought GMG readers would be interested to know that this Saturday is Museum Day. The Cape Ann Museum will be offering free admission to those who print out a Smithsonian Pass. Let me know if you need any more info, but the website does a pretty good job explaining!
Dear Joe,
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts is pleased to invite you to our fourth Fall Benefit, "Celebrate Emerging Stars!" on Saturday, October 27, at the Bass Rocks Golf Club. We will have two fabulous sets of musicians performing as part of an uplifting evening of art and music. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to get to know seARTS and see first-hand how we encourage and support the arts in Cape Ann. Early bird tickets are available on line or by mail (see details below). Click poster at left for a larger view.
Highlights for this celebration include performances from the 17-piece Cape Ann Big Band (right) which has recently played several "sold out" performances at Shalin Liu.
They will be opened by the Beverly High School Jazz Sextet (left). Profiles of all musicians will be featured in upcoming seARTS eblasts.
Both visual and functional art from a diverse nominated group of emerging artists of many genres and generations will also be showcased and for sale. Hearty hors d’oeuvres from Tim Hopkins Catering will accompany a cash bar at the event.
We will also have some fabulous raffle prizes, including jewelry items from Mahri, Beth Williams and other designers, museum passes and a gift certificate from Duckworth Bistrot, a five-star cafe in Gloucester.
The Board and the Bands
Left to right: seARTS Board Member Susan Boles, Board Advisor Seyrel Williams, seARTS Chair Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Carlos Menezes Jr. from Cape Ann Big Band, Liam Beaudoin from Beverly High School Jazz Sextet, Adam Costa, BHS Band Director, Board Member Kristine Fisher.
Don’t miss out on this unique experience to celebrate Cape Ann’s emerging art and artists.
The schedule for the event is as follows:
Additionally, if you would like to consider a small sponsorship, we would most appreciate your consideration for any of the sponsor/donation options we have listed below. We would love for you to be able to join us personally – but if you can not, this is a way to show your support and be present in another way. We are pleased to announce our first $1,000 sponsorship from our fellow Board member Susan Boles of Axis Promotions and hope this will inspire you to do the same.
This is seARTS only fundraising event of the year and thus is a critical component of our funding sources so show your support for the Arts on Cape Ann and join us for a fun evening of colorful art and music!
Hey Joey, head’s up, as I’m sure you know, this is the last weekend of the Essex National Heritage Area Trails & Sails.
There are lots of great free events going on, rain or shine, including free Historic Icehouse Tours at Cape Pond Ice Company, 104 Commercial Street on the Fort, where we’ve been serving Gloucester’s fleet since 1848. Icehouse Tours are this Friday at 2 pm, Saturday at 11 am and 1 pm, and Sunday at 11 am. Folks should wear practical footware and bring a sweater or sweatshirt for when we are in the Icehouse. Tours last about 1 hour, and include video of natural ice harvesting, and our role in the Perfect Storm.
Tour details and directions at: http://www.capepondice.com/info.htm and complete Trails & Sails event listing at: http://www.essexheritage.org/ts/
Thanks, Scott
Sent in by Anthony Marks –
Photo below Boston Public Library
In 1946 there was a bowling alley next to Alexander’s Fish Market, a year where there was enormous groundfish landings of well over 90% more than that are landed today in Gloucester MA and before there was ever a DPA.
But as you know if you listen to the local obstructionists a bowling alley and a Fish Market couldn’t co-exist, it must have been an aberration or a mirage.
Just like The Gloucester House Restaurant and their outdoor dining would never ever work next to a place like Fisherman’s wharf because, you know, like the obstructionists always say- those two uses can’t coexist on the waterfront.
Of course it could never exist at Captain Carlos Restaurant and the Seafood Display Auction on Harbor Loop, it’s all just been a dream silly, those uses are totally incompatible on the waterfront.
Or at Cruiseport where they pump out pogie boats in front of their open air deck and they are grinding steel hulls next door at Roses Marine- NO WAY, NO HOW could those two uses ever co-exist!
Or at our dock where we load stinky bait on lobster boats and are surrounded by houses and recreational marinas- we couldn’t possibly be operating a commercial dock since 1953 here next to places where they tie up pleasure boats- the two uses are completely incompatible. If it were to be there surely would be lawsuits and riots on the streets.
Or just like the property in the top of this photo where it sits today next to Beacon Marine where they do boat work and have living space and web design. Same as it was back then in 1946 before the DPA and same as it is now- MIXED use.
That R.P. Fraser must have been on acid to have imagined a bowling alley on the waterfront in that 1946 painting- that’s just crazy talk.
This painting is in reference to the photo in the Boston Public Library Archives we posted yesterday-
Posted on September 26, 2012 by Joey C
You see the building that says Fish Market? That is the building where the fire was last week that the Gloucester Fire department quickly snuffed out. Look at Jay Albert’s pictures here from the scene His pictures are from the back of the building which is now a wood furniture maker.
Look at the stern of the the big schooner in the middle of the photo. off the stern is The Phyllis A. The oldest gillnetter in Gloucester and undergoing a major restoration project.
Read about and look at pictures of the restoration here in these Phyllis A posts
Thank you to Adam Gaffin at www.universalhub.com for the link to the picture.
File name: 08_06_023528
Title: Mass Views: Fishing schooner and fish market, Gloucester Harbor
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1940 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Fishing industry; Fishing boats; Piers & wharves
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
John McElhenny writes-
Joey,
Thanks to you and Good Morning Gloucester, GMG readers over the past couple years have followed the good things happening at Burnham’s Field including the clean-ups, the newly painted backboards and the new Burnham’s Field Community Garden. Here is some of the great GMG coverage of Burnham’s Field
With all of GMG’s support, it’s no surprise that so many people have rallied to make Burnham’s Field, the largest green space in central Gloucester, a more beautiful, family-friendly place. Here’s some breaking news: The City of Gloucester just won a big grant to continue that process and fix up Burnham’s Field even more. It’s great news for the countless kids and families who use Burnham’s Field every day. Open spaces and playgrounds matter!
Readers can read more about this great news here:
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x964641325/City-wins-195-000-to-fix-up-Burnhams-Field
Thanks to you and the GMG community for all you do,
John McElhenny
Hi Joey, attached are some pics of last week’s Saturday pickup. We meet Sat. mornings at 9-10:30 at Kettle Cove Fields through Nov. 10th, and definitely looking for more players. Contact julieledwig@yahoo.com for more info.
Beauty of a Sunday.
Joey can you let your readers know.
Good afternoon the Giambanco Family, Sefatia, Marianne, Rosaria, Grace, Anthony and many other helpers, thru AGH is pleased to announce that we are cooking this Sunday at Open Door and we added to our family adopted Sista Felicia will help cook all are welcomed to come and enjoy the day, not only will be cook and serve we enjoy the company of all and eat like a family.. All are welcomed and dinner will be served at 4.. Thank You Sefatia
That this is the 8th year of the Goetemann Residency Program? The quality of the applications submitted continues to rise and there has been an increase in our geographical range. Applicants come not only from the Boston area, state of MA and New England, but now there are many more national and international candidates.
Painter Viktor Valasek is a native of Czechoslovakia and has a Master’s Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He studied at Cooper Union in NYC in 2009 and his work from that time was included in an Exchange Students Exhibition. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including at Trafo Gallery and AVU gallery both in Prague. He is currently a resident artist at Meetfactory, a center of contemporary art in Prague.
Do take the opportunity to visit the Goetemann Residency this month and meet the current resident artist, Victor Valasek from Prague, Czech Republic. Victor is charming, worldly and inspired, and his work will definitely make you stop and think. The series he is working on during his month-long stay on Rocky Neck is of paintings over other works, thereby recycling something no longer wanted. A number of the canvases were donated by artists on Rocky Neck of paintings that we no longer wanted and were willing to “throw away”. Instead they have become something new and wonderfully incorporated into a Victor Valasek painting. Having had the opportunity to paddleboard one night with Victor and get to know him a little, and then to visit him at the residency, I can certainly say that he is one young man you do not want to miss the opportunity of meeting, and of seeing his work. He is at the Residency located at Kismet Wharf, 51A Rocky Neck Ave. most afternoons. His studio talk will be on Wednesday, October 3 at 7:00 pm. You can see more of his work on his website at www.viktorvalasek.com.
E.J. Lefavour
that Doma means cutting board in Korean? If you like sushi and always thought you’d like to learn to make your own, or want to have a fun sushi party with your friends, check out Sang’s Doma. Sang is the renowned sushi chef that joined Jordan Rubin this summer at Madfish Sushi, and has worked at Oishii in Boston, Ruii in Lexington, Ginger Exchange in Cambridge and Dah Mee in Natick. I just adore Sang’s sushi (Jordan’s too!). These are some shots from Sang’s Doma group sushi lesson #3 which included a beautiful Capt. Joe & Sons lobster which they used for the spring roll.
Sang’s Doma at Madfish Sushi Bar
$60/person for a two hour sushi lesson/party.
Sang will prepare fresh local fish including lobster for the quality lesson.
Come over with an empty stomach and have some fun creating your own sushi! please call to sign up! 8 people max per party!
Call Sang 781-698-9907
http://www.facebook.com/Sangsdoma
Well it’s not quite October, but beer festivals are already starting up. Tonight Alchemy will host live music with Marina Evans and Dave Brown (normally they don’t have music on Thursdays) to help celebrate North Shore Beer Week featuring homemade brew’s from Cape Ann Brewery. Check out her new EP and maybe you’ll want to request one of those songs.
Then you’ve got a choice of 21 artists Friday and Saturday (see schedule here)
Next Saturday (Oct 6) is the last 2012 Celtic Music Sail aboard the Lannon. If you’ve never experienced truly acoustic music – no mics, no amps, no speakers – on a schooner in full sail, this should be on your bucket list. (Now, I’m not suggesting that you’re not likely to make it until next summer, but why take the chance, right?) You know you’re getting top musicianship when the wind is literally the only thing between you and the sound of voices and instruments.
(See more Michael O’Leary videos here)
Take advantage of our thriving music scene during these last few days of September, with over 30 artists performing this weekend (remember, the weekend starts tonight). See the complete schedule of all live music in Gloucester and Cape Ann here.
Last week while filming on Eastern Point I had the pleasure to meet Kate, who works at Wolf Hill. She was with a friend and they were looking for butterflies through binoculars. I had seen Kate often at the garden center, but never stopped to chat. We were talking about all things butterfly when she mentioned that she had a Black Swallowtail caterpillar on a parsley plant back at the nursery office. She offered the caterpillar to me and I gladly accepted. My Black Swallowtail film is nearing completion but there was one missing piece to the story.
Black Swallowtail Chrysalis ~ Green Form
The swallowtail chrysalides that I had on film were all greenish gold. Oftentimes the Black Swallowtail chyrsalis will turn a woody brown, but no matter how hard I looked, I could not find a woody brown chrysalis. Not showing the brown form, I knew, would confuse viewers, especially families who are interested in raising swallowtails.
Kate’s caterpillar pupated while she was away from work for a few days. When she returned she found the chrysalis had wandered from the parsley plant and it had pupated on the razor thin edge of an envelope-as office caterpillars are want to do. Well, you guessed it–the Wolf Hill pupa was the brown form!
Black Swallowtail Chrysalis ~ Brown Form
I know it is said often on the pages of this blog, but Kate’s thoughfullness goes to show once again what a beautiful community is Gloucester–stunning visually, and most special of all, are the beautiful, kind-hearted people who call Gloucester home. Thank you Kate!
Not finding a brown chrysalis is a relatively escoteric problem, to say the least, but I think you will agree that the two forms of the pupal case are remarkably different in appearance. In this photo you can see where I have taped the envelope behind a tree trunk in order to film. This is how you would find the chrysalis in a more natural setting.
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There are several openings remaining in my Close-up Photography Workshop at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, which will be held this coming Sunday morning at 9:00 am. I would love to see you there! Follow this link to register.
Capturing a sharply in focus close-up of a butterfly, especially one in mid-flight, is one of the greatest challenges of photography and I will be revealing techniques such as these, and more; techniques that have taken many, many hours over many years to perfect. All the photos I have shot in the past year and a half were taken not with a zoom lens, but were shot with a 23mm prime lens. I am typically photographing within a foot’s distance of the butterflies!
Event Designed to Honor the End of the Summer Ban on Dogs on Gloucester’s Beaches and Help Raise Money for the Gloucester Dog Park
The Friends of Gloucester Dog Park announced that it will host a ‘Paws on the Beach’ celebration in honor of the end of the summer ban on dogs on the city’s beaches. The event, which is being held at Good Harbor Beach on Saturday, September 29, will feature coffee and treats donated by Mamie’s Kitchen. Members of the Cape Ann community are encouraged to bring their dogs to play on the beach and support the Gloucester Dog Park.
“Summer may have come to an end, but for dogs, beach days are just beginning,” said John Dugger of The Friends of Gloucester Dog Park. “Many dogs really enjoy the beach – whether it be running in the sand or splashing in waves. We are excited to bring the community together to exercise and socialize their dogs on one of the most beautiful beaches in the Northeast.”
Dog guardians should bring and use waste removal bags (barrels are located at the end of the foot bridge).
Friends of Gloucester Dog Park t-shirts and signature red dog park bandanas for dogs will be available for sale, and gift baskets will be raffled to benefit the Gloucester Dog Park.
Additional donations can be made online at www.gloucesterdogpark.org or by sending a check to The Gloucester Fund at 45 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 with the memo line: “Dog Park.”
My nephew BJ had Chrome installed on his iPad. I had no idea there were different browsers available for the iPad. Do any of you use it and what are your thoughts about it compared to the stock iPad browser?
The Ardelle is on its way again. Harold figures he’s lost a day but presses on up the Delaware river towards the cannel that leads into the Chesapeake Bay.
-Len Burgess
Early Morning Walk From Ann Kennedy
Another perfect morning for walking Gloucester neighborhoods!
Let the colors begin.
-Len Burgess
Bank Gloucester is donating $15,000 to 15 community organizations on Cape Ann/Gloucester. Go to the Bank Gloucester homepage: https://www.bankgloucester.com and click the “Vote Now" button on the left under the online banking login area or click here to go directly to the page >>
CONTEST ENDS SEPTEMBER 28. Winners will be announced Oct 8th.
Your vote helps the community – THANKS!!!
Good Morning Gloucester 