My View of Life on the Dock
James & Anna Eves of Cape Ann Giclee talk to us about their new shop and their expertise in Giclee printing.
Remember this Saturday to stop by the opening of The Art Nook in Rockport and Save the Date for Cape Ann Giclee’s Grand Opening in August.
~Alicia
Kathy Chapman is interviewed in the July issue of abstraks magazine with reference to living and working in Gloucester.
http://abstraks.com/?page_id=257
Good Harbor Beach surfer portraits.
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012
Click On The www.gloucesterwebcam.com website under attractions and you will find the Schooner Adventure webcam where the Picton Castle is currently tied up.
Kathy Chapman writes-
Shot this picture of the Picton Castle out my window this morning. Marty Luster posted details yesterday as she entered the harbor..
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/picton-castle-in-gloucester/
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2012
Fred Bodin writes-
Sean Marler from Mystic Scenic Studios levels the top of a Story Moment marker on Main Street in front of the Sargent Murray Gllman House. Sean estimates there are about eight more markers left to install signage on.
The narrative sign with smart phone QR code is then epoxied and bolted to the granite marker. The post card shows Main Street and Gray’s Hardware on the left, which I wrote about on GMG in September 2011. All I need now is a smart phone!
Fredrik D. Bodin, Bodin Historic Photo
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Small sailboat rental?
Joe, a few years ago you helped me find Patty Page of GHS sailing. We went sailing with a GHS young man for an hour or so and in exchange, made a donation to the program.
I called her and they don’t do that anymore. I tried the YMCA at Patty’s suggestion, no good. I tried Brown’s in Gloucester and the Sandy Bay club in Rockport- all no good. No luck with internet searches either.
Any Idea where I could rent a small sailboat for a few hours between Aug 2 and 7? Thanks for help.
Bill Rothschild
July 14 – September 30: water, water: A multimedia installation by Sarah Hollis Perry & Rachel Perry Welty
water, water is the first collaborative museum show for mother–daughter artists Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty. In addition to maintaining separate practices, Perry and Welty have been working collaboratively since they overlapped as students at the School of the MFA, Boston in 2000. They have two permanent sculptural installations at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Perry and Welty organized and filmed their video performance "Drawing a Line with the Tide" in July 2011 using eighty volunteers from the seaside village of Annisquam in Gloucester, Massachusetts where they both live. Moving to avoid the inevitable, the performers demonstrate a futile attempt to control nature with its stubborn adherence to the circling of time.
Included in the installation are three short films in which the artists explore aspects of identity and the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship of dependence, independence, and interdependence.
Gallery Talk with Sarah Hollis Perry & Rachel Perry Welty
July 21 and August 1 at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
$10 members; $20 nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required.
With apologies to all the good people who run the block parties now, I finally finished the new Block Party website with 9 days to spare before the first block party NEXT SATURDAY, JULY 21!
This block party crew has really taken it to a whole new level (more music, more dancing, more dining, more entertainment, magic, etc,) and next Saturday, you’ll see what I mean — our child is all grown up!
They call themselves Blockheads (see a whole page about them here) and they asked that I keep the page about the founders and guess what? I found a picture of an original Block Party committee meeting taken by our boy Joey using a timer (If you want to know why we’re all smiling so much click here and find out).
So what ever your plans are for the rest of this month, be sure to go downtown next Saturday at 6pm — stores are open ’till 11!
See you there . . .
Hi Joey,
I’m attaching a picture of the GMG logo at Kings Gate community in Port Charlotte, FL taken this winter.
GMG is our link to home while away. Thanks.
Joanne Aiello
Hi Joey,
Gloucester Gig Rowers held our christening and launching party on Sunday evening, 8 Jul for our new 32′ Cornish Pilot Gig, custom-built for us by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Champlain Longboats School http://www.lcmm.org/education/champlain_longboats.htm . Here are a few pictures of our party party to celebrate the arrival of our new boat, and christen her. She can be seen moored at the Harriet Webster Pier at Gloucester Maritime, on Harbor Loop.
The boat’s name is the "Annie B", and one picture shows Annie Banks, her namesake and one of the chief founders of Gloucester Gig Rowers, breaking the traditional bottle of champaign over her bow.
Sorry this took a while – I needed to secure the club’s approval for all of these mug shots to be published before sending this. We would be grateful for any coverage which you could provide us!
All best,
Rick Isaacs
The Picton Castle is registered in the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific, and is owned and operated by the Windward Isles Sailing Ship Company, Ltd. The ship’s mission is deep-ocean sail training and long-distance education. Also, she carries supplies and educational materials to far-flung islands in the South Pacific. Her North American homeport is Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
The ship is a completely refitted barque that observes the rigorous standards of Germanischer Lloyds for steel-hulled Cape Horners. She is 179 feet overall, with riveted steel hull, clear oiled-pine decks, steel masts, and wooden and steel yards. She carries 12,450 square feet of canvas sail. The ship also has a powerful 690 hp Burmeister & Wain alpha diesel engine for occasions when sailing is not feasible. The galley is on deck, and its 1893 cook stove is similar to those used on commercial sailing ships 100 years ago.
The natural marsh around this house is amazing.
From the deck of SV Linnet in Casco Bay, heading home to Gloucester.
"Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
Shari Barr (no dates or Wikipedia article available) See www.Sharibarr.com
A self described country girl from southern Iowa, Barr is a mother and wife who writes children’s literature from a Christian perspective. Her books include those of the Camp Club Girls series.
Greg Bover
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Hi Joey, The Picton Castle received a Schooner Escort by the Thomas E. Lannon into the Harbor today! Also Keep your eyes peeled for the Tall Ship HMS Bounty as she sails up the coast for her arrival in Newburyport sometime tomorrow morning. To track the Bounty, go to this page and click ‘Update’ to get the latest info! As I’m writing this the Bounty is just clearing the Cape Cod Canal! Enjoy! ~Bill O’Connor North Shore Kid
Looking for something fun to do Saturday night. Come to Rocky Neck – have an awesome sushi dinner at Madfish Sushi, go to the Opening Reception of “Reflections of Cape Ann” paintings by Eileen Patten Oliver from 7:00-9:00 at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck, then if you feel so inclined, return to Madfish Grille and rock out to F Bomb from 9:00 til whenever.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Including Rubber Duck. She has been pumping iron (and a one and a two, OK now)
and has now moved on from the Horribles Parade hat she was sitting on last week and is now safely strapped down to the forward kayak cockpit with the secret Rubber Duck Tracker GPS System® attached below the black seal. 
Click the link to go to the Rubber Duck Tracking System®.
The Blackburn Challenge will start behind the Gloucester High School and the starting gun for her race is 8:20 AM this Saturday. She will start paddling and activate her Rubber Duck powered GPS system around 8AM. Then it is up the Annisquam River over to Halibut Point, down Sandy Bay past Rockport then all uphill into the tide and southwest wind along the backshore to the DogBar Breakwater then turn right for another uphill two mile paddle to the greasy pole. Right now the tracker is showing Rubber Duck as she went to Falmouth Inner Harbor to catch a bluefin tuna on Tuesday (photos when available). Be sure to “refresh” the page and you will know exactly where she is all day which will be about two hours behind the winners although she is quite svelte now for a Rubber Duck and might burn some rubber on the track. So if you have nothing better to do check it out and meet us on Pavilion Beach a little after noon Saturday. Paul Frontiero will be there to capture the exit from the kayak on video.
View of Ipswich Bay from the Lobster Pool Restaurant Rockport
Sunday night we arrived at the Lobster Pool just as the sun was setting. By 11:30 that morning a line had formed out the door, yet despite this fact, we were greeted graciously and had a delicious dinner of (what else) Captain Joe’s lobster rolls.
The Lobster Pool Restaurant Rockport
Good Morning Gloucester 
