Day: December 14, 2012

A review-

With all the book talk lately, I thought I would share one of my favs from Ron Gilson.

Readers of An Island No More will immediately recognize this memoir as no routine historical account of Gloucester. It is a deeply moving essay of an author’s experience of the fishing industry as it affected the everyday life of its citizens. Gilson transports the reader into decades that cover depression, war, prosperity and, finally, decline. Gilson’s story is a poignant personal insight into many vignettes of the characters which fill his historical account. Using the fishing industry as a metaphor for life, Gilson reveals the life of a city over four decades. This historical approach is the strength of his work. Only a native of Gloucester could have written such a memoir.

As I read Gilson’s history, having been away from my home- town over fifty years, I was immediately taken back into time. Gilson’s account rings with such an authenticity, a virtual new experience of that time and place came back to me. In short, this history will engage the reader at all levels of emotion.

Dr. Richard J. Elliott 
Professor Emeritus 
University of New Orleans

This isnt a quart or a gallon. This is like the really small size. $3.69 ????? If there’s anyone at Market Basket get me a price check STAT. This one was at Shaws

The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.

This week we continue with our documentary photographs and videos from Gloucester’s Steve Connolly Seafood. Salmon is cut fresh for the retail counter and boxed for shipping. http://www.steveconnollyseafood.com/

You’re crossing the line pulling in mom in your duck sickness.

Screenshot from the Good Morning Gloucester editing Dashboard-

26,000 Posts.

Wrap your mind around that one.

That’s like 26,000 pages of a novel that you’ve had access to for nothing.   If you consider we post an average of one food post per day for all these days that’s thousands and thousands of basically bringing you the best food offered in these parts and showing you what local restaurant to get them.

If you consider one or two art posts per day that’s thousands and thousands of posts showing you all the fantastic artists and art happenings in our area.

If you consider the multiple music listings per day from Joanne, Peter and Vickie, that’s thousands and thousands of posts promoting local musicians and music events in our area.

If you consider the Did you know and old photographs and history in which we’ve connected the dots for you through the efforts of contributors like Fred Buck and Fred Bodin, Geno Mondello, Al Bezanson, that’s thousands and thousands of historical posts about our area.

If you consider the landscape photos bringing you daily the geographic natural and urban beauty that our area offers us in all four seasons that’s thousands upon thousands of posts.

And all never having asked a dime.  Doing it for the love of helping those in our community- businesses, artists, musicians, athletes, photographers.

I couldn’t be prouder of our team.

26 MF THOUSAND!!!

#BOOM!