A Train Orchestra At Ryles Jazz Club and iTunes

From, David “DOC” Vincent;

“Come celebrate with us..this is a great venue..Rik and I performed at Ryles for 10 yrs..w/Megawatt Blues Crushers..now we are back.. w / A. T. O. We need your support..lets fill the room.”

Also, You Can Now Purchase their Music on Itunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-a-train-orchestra/id501810172

There’s something fishy about this snow storm…

Being in March, these fish don’t seem to think the snow will last long.

They've been out of water so long, they'll take anything they can get...

It looks like they’re lifting up their heads to drink in all the snow they can, while it lasts.

From the lovely fountain in front of the Sawyer Library on Dale Ave.

Heyday of East Gloucester Square, 1930

East Gloucester Square, 1930 Anonymous/©Fredrik D. Bodin

I’ve been saving this photograph for a blizzard. Nary a snow storm’s come along, so I’m posting it now as a reminder of what winter could have been. The camera lens is pointing down East Main Street, with Highland Street in the center left, and the curve on the right at the telephone pole leads to the current laundromat and Duckworth’s Bistro on East Main. The store on the extreme left is J.C. Dade’s Hardware. The view is remarkably similar today. At one time the Square had three markets (Dutch’s, Powler’s, and First National); Wishnick’s barroom, Kirby’s pharmacy, Mrs. Fine’s seamstress shop with pants pressing, Jensen’s Shoe Repair, and two physicians (Doc Quimby, with Doctor Torrey next door). I’d like to thank Paula Parsons and Deb Callahan for this negative, and the East Gloucester fisherman who shared his childhood memories of East Gloucester Square. Please comment with your own remembrances.
Printed archivally from the original 6×7 centimeter film negative in my darkroom. Image # A9267-056.
Fred
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Black and White Series South Channel Gloucester Harbor From International Lobster

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Spin For Hope

Hi Joey

At Transform Fitness Studio in Essex Ma, 30 of us rode a three hour marathon spin along with many other clubs in New England. We raised $4000 and all together $265,000 was raised to find a cure and create more birthdays.
AND we had a lot of fun.

Donations can still be accepted at
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/CommunityFundraisingPages/CFPFY10NewEngland?pg=entry&fr_id=41595

Thanks
Jean Grobe

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28 Minutes Of GMG/Farm Bar and Grille Dodgeball Love From Kim Smith

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

You see, when you think about how long this must have taken to edit and how great it is you know why we have the most dedicated team in the business!
If you attended the event of 2012 chances are you’re in here!

I literally had tears watching this,thank you Kim!
Boom!

Attention PR Folks- Joey Won’t Be Able To Edit Your Releases Til The 14th of March

If you continue to send things in I’ll assume you don’t read the blog anyway so pay no attention 🙂

Series- Can You Date The Publication of This Old Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Visitor Map- The Cape Ann Trail? Part II

FOB Frank Ciolino brought down this old Visitor’s Guide map and I’ll be posting a different neighborhood photo each day this week.  Look for clues to tell you when you think it was first published.

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Is It ok to Publicly Make Fun of Someone Taking a Picture with an iPad?

A few weeks ago I saw a group line up for a picture at the Santa Monica Pier and then the picture taker reached into their bag and took a picture with an iPad. With technology getting smaller and smaller it is quite a site when someone pulls out a camera as big as a sheet of loose leaf paper and asks people to say “cheese”. I understand that the camera is intended for video chat, similar to the function on a PC, but I don’t know what to say about this. The only acceptable thing to do is stop this before this becomes an epidemic. Hasn’t the smartphone & tablet technology taken over enough of our lives? We see enough people checking their smartphones in the car. What’s next? I will flip if I see someone driving and reading a magazine on their iPad! I think there are very few things that you can call someone out publicly on. This is definitely something that I feel is perfectly ok to do and I encourage it before people get too ridiculous with their iPad and this becomes acceptable. If you see someone on the boulevard doing this please snap a picture of them and tell them that the best camera is not always the one that is with you.

Can you imagine if you saw someone pull this out at the part of the concert when people whip out their cell phones for the part of the concert that used to be meant for lighters?

Thanks – Patrick

Oh yeah, she can ROCK too!

Yesterday we introduced you to Megan Burt, the gimmesound Artist of the Week, and featured a video of her solo delta blues hit — and the story behind it (click here if you missed it).  Today, you get to see her ROCK.  Check out the video above.

Tomorrow you can see her live at Alchemy with her good friend and Gloucester singer/songwriter Chelsea Berry.

It’s Tuesday in Gloucester.  That means KBMG or Henley Douglas Jr.  Details here.

Batteries Wanted!!!!! GHS Robotics Program.

From, Catherine Ryan;

The Gloucester High School Honor Physics, Engineering, Technology, Robotoics, students are in need of;

“ANY” Working 12v battery, rechargeable or not, car or wheelchair batteries (“we are not proud”)  🙂

In other words they can make magic out of just about any power source. If anyone has a contact with a lithium ion battery producer that may donate for a good cause, that would be a greener route. PLEASE DONATE!

cryanaid@gmail.com

Celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday

Come celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday
with a screening of
Henry Ferrini’s film on Kerouac, “Lowell Blues”
introduced by Peter Anastas
with a reminisence of when Kerouac visited Olson deep in the 1960s.
Monday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.
126 East Main Street
(please park across the street)
For more info call Annie Thomas, 978-283-7738
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