Year: 2012

Duck Leg Confit at Duckworth’s Bistrot

Posted on by paultmorrison

Even the Rubber Duck thought the Duck Leg Confit with a waffle looked yummy. It was.

A quick tip: reservations at Duckworth’s Bistrot are hard to come by. I have a hard time thinking two weeks ahead of time. But the 4-4:30PM slot on Saturday can be nabbed even  only a day in advance if you’re lucky. Just have an early brunch then aim to be hungry by 4.

Another tip: the kids can have dessert but the adults can have the Espresso Martini, both pictured below. (Then you have the rest of the evening and you’re wide awake!)

Yes, those are two right hands. I guess the adults can have just a wee bite.

Think Spring!

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns


Narcissus ‘Ziva’

Which version do you prefer, black and white or color?

Beginning in November, we maintain a continuous flow of blooming narcissus by planting a new batch every two weeks or so. Paperwhites ‘Ziva’ blooms before the first of the year and ‘Galilee’ just after the holiday season. The ‘Chinese Sacred Lily’ (Narcissus tazetta var. orientalis) is almost as easy to force and has a sweeter, though no less potent fragrance. The scent is a dreamy blend of orange and honeysuckle. They are also a member of the tazetta group bearing multiple blossoms atop slender stalks, with white petals and cheery yellow cups. The ‘Chinese Sacred Lily,’ brought to this country by Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s, is traditionally forced to bloom for New Year’s celebrations.

With both paperwhites and ‘Chinese Sacred Lilies,’ place the bulbs in bowl or pot and cover with stones. The emerging green tips should be poking though the stones. Water up to the halfway point of the bulb and place in a cool dark room; an unheated basement is ideal. Water periodically and within a week or so, new growth will be visible. Then place the bulbs in the room away from strong light, continue to water as needed, and once in bloom, they will flower and scent your home for a week or more. Excerpted from Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden.

Where’s Henri Smith?

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

BigChief

He’s the singer in the hat.  Watch the video and see him with Grammy Award winner Charles Neville on Big Chief, a signature New Orleans Mardi Gras song.  You can see Charles Neville with Henri Smith and his band in a rare, intimate setting at Minglewood Tavern on Mardi Gras (next Tuesday 2/21) to benefit Y Teens Rebuild New Orleans.  Check it out.

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Whitney Houston ~ We will miss you!

We’ll be watching the Grammys tonight, in part to see the tribute they added at the last minute to honor Whitney Houston, who died yesterday before she could attend the pre-Grammy party hosted by her friend, mentor and Arista Records founder Clive Davis.

For those of you who’d rather go out tonight, you’ve got plenty of choices.  See full lineup here.

Young Artist of the week!

Posted on by dawntheresa

Ivan and his monster

This young artist of the week is a very multi-talented boy named Ivan who made this incredible embossed monster in this week’s Metal Tooling class at Art Haven! Ivan has already taken art classes in a variety of mediums, and it’s always exciting to see what ideas and creatures come out of his creative mind next…

If you know of a young artist that should be featured here, email dawn.gadow@gmail.com  with a short description and a photo of some of their work!

Beautiful Industry- Birdseye At Dusk

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Richard Belair says:
February 11, 2012 at 12:39 pm (Edit)

I would say that the loss of a neighborhood through the money making plans of one person is a blow to the entire community, fishing industry and a slap to the face of the historical perspective of Gloucester. Frankly, Joey, I am very surprised to see you sitting on the fence with this issue, when your perspective with so many other things shows you have good eye for composition. One would think that growing up around the industry would make your choices far in favor of people who’s entire lives and the livelihoods of generations before them helped make this city become an attractive place. It didn’t happen the other way around. People didn’t come here to enjoy the flavor of the area and then build an entire fishing industry around the beauty of the harbor. The harbor was built and then the people came to work the already growing industry. The beauty was discovered after the hard dedicated work was already done.

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  • Joey C says:
    February 11, 2012 at 3:17 pm (Edit)

    I disagree that only one person gains completely. I grew up 5 houses from a hotel. My sister built a house two doors down from where we grew up and my mom still lives there.
    The jobs created, the vendors that this property would support, the increased taxes paid to the city and much more on top of the fact that the people behind this already have a GREAT track record of supporting our community and its organizations.

    Destroying neighborhoods and not helping the community by donating Five Hundred Thousand Dollars to help rebuild Newell Stadium?
    Destroying neighborhoods by providing jobs in a building that has basically been vacant for years? Destroying neighborhoods by paying the city many multiples more in taxes to pay to keep fire stations open, roads paved and schools in better shape? Destroying neighborhoods by providing visitors a place to stay and support our vital Downtown businesses, area museums and attractions such as whale watches, schooner tours the Cape Ann Museum, The Heritage Center and The Sargent House? A place where they can park and walk to all of these destinations without having to clog up our streets with vehicles?

    Building a hotel on a beach where you would never offload a boat. Because you know, you don’t offload boats on beaches. You don’t have to displace fishermen to do this.

    I’d say that what is destroying neighborhoods is not encouraging development and change when the industry you relied on for years has been radically consolidated to make fish stocks more sustainable which means no way that you could ever land the amount of fish that was once landed or else you would simply be negligent to returning to overfishing.

    Destroying neighborhoods? Really???

    I’d say what destroys communities more than anything is not having enough tax revenue and jobs to support strong school systems and this is the kind of project that will help with both!

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Andrew Innes says:
February 11, 2012 at 10:56 pm (Edit)

So it’s all about the money is it ? What about the businesses all ready there? Shall they be bought or forced out ? And what about, of course, the people that are already there? Are they to be bought or forced out ? This is an invasion of the super rich upon the history, the industry, the people, the place that is Gloucester. “Polis is this.”

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  • Joey C says:
    February 11, 2012 at 11:28 pm (Edit)

    All about the money????

    The building has been empty. Who says anyone has to sell their house????
    Show me the person that had their ARM twisted to sell out???

    An invasion by someone that wants to invest in our community and provide jobs on a site that was close to being foreclosed on???

    Invasion by someone who has donated their other space to countless community organizations to hold their fundraisers?? Invasion by a group of people who demonstrated that they didn’t force a single fishing boat off of the Cruiseport site and where there is probably more port activity with a restaurant and function facility operating on the same space with fishing boats, cruise line landings and LNG pipeline support.

    Invasion by a group that employs probably hundreds in Gloucester and that’s not to mention the hundreds of vendors that supply services such as photographers, food purveyors, caterers, electricians, webmasters, florists, linens and again supporting them without displacing a single fishing boat.

    You act as if people making money is a bad thing.

    How do you expect to improve our schools, pay for our growing infrastructure needs, and public safety?? With empty buildings? The fishing industry is not going to be allowed to overfish again. It isn’t going back to a free for all. The number of permits and fishermen have been drastically reduced.

    Why are you scared to death that people will make money and pay more taxes and support our downtown? Can you simply not stand it?

    Do you not recognize that the fishing industry has been greatly consolidated?
    Do you not recognize that with the auctions, that the amount of fish that goes through way fewer waterfront buildings is a fraction of what it once was?

    As long as the boats aren’t being displaced the fishermen I speak to are in favor of changes to the upland parts of the waterfront.

    Don’t you want better for our children than empty buildings and no way to fund stronger educations for them?

Blogger visit Flashback; 2009

Posted on by capeannpainter

Flashback November 2009, Gloucester got a visit from  a few Bloggers; Bowsprite (NYC), Tugster (NYC) and MonkeyFist (Maine). Bowsprite decided to take a dip.

Christina’s Blog http://bowsprite.wordpress.com/

Tugsters Blog http://tugster.wordpress.com/

MonkeyFist http://gcaptain.com/mm-february-six-twenty-twelve-ferry-tales/?39280

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/bowsprites-november-gloucester-harbor-swim-111609/

Saturday night on the town, part I

Posted on by Matthew Green

Yesterday was a great evening to be in Gloucester.

First, there was Fred Bodin’s party at Bodin Historic Photo and Fine Art. I got there early and snapped this panorama of the gallery before many people arrived.

As always, there were delicious refreshments, including some good wines, hot meatballs in tomato sauce, and a table of sweet and salty snacks:

Our host, Fred Bodin, with GMG contributor Kathy Chapman:

If you missed this event, you should consider going another time.  There’s great food and company, and you can talk to some of the artists whose work is represented.

I also visited two other interesting places, to be described in upcoming posts…

Just Before The Father Daughter Dance with The Bean

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sista Felicia got a little emotional when she saw The Bean wearing her teenage daughter/my niece Amanda’s dress from when she was a little girl.

Now my little Beannie is growin up!

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Gloucester Harbor Walk Construction Photos From Steve Douglass

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Dear Joey,
I am sending pictures I took last Friday. The"Gloucester Harbor Walk" under construction. Photos taken by Steve Douglass gloucesterharborwalk.com.
I was informed by a construction worker that the "Walk" should be completed by May 1 st. 2012.
I hope that you could include them in the daily "Good Morning Gloucester site".
Regards,
Steve Douglass
Harbor Tours Inc.
and
Gloucester Harbor Walk,
A self guided audio tour

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Adventure on the Railways

Posted on by God's Morning

The Adventure organization is beginning 2012 at a rapid pace with our goal to have Adventure sailing in the 2012 Schooner Festival. She will not be completed, just able to sail with crew. On February 13th we plan to be hauled on the South railways at Gloucester Marine Railways starting at 2:30PM. We will then have the masts pulled within the next few days. I will schedule this project as soon as Adventure is on the rails

That will be a photo op! Mayer Tree Service is coming with a 270’ crane to pull 92’ masts out of a vessel 25’ in the air. Wasn’t sure if anyone from GMG, maybe EJ or Kim Smith might be interested. We will be going back in the water while calculations are determined for the engine bed, engine installation, water tight bulkheads , and ballast etc., but will be out again on the North railways the beginning of April to complete this phase.

Joanne Souza, Executive Director

Schooner Adventure

Good Harbor Sunrise by Skip Montello

Posted on by God's Morning

Len’s photos on the Feb 7 captured the sunset and the moonrise…here is the sunrise at Good Harbor on the 7th…

“Even a leafless winter tree is strikingly beautiful when set against a Good Harbor Sunrise”

Thanks,

Skip

IPad connection question from Jane

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey, Since I consider you a great source of information,I would like your opinion. I am getting a new iPad with 3G, what carrier will give me the best connection in Gloucester (my home away from home) Verizon or AT&T. Thanking you in advance 🙂

Jane
http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Bird Mancini’s Back

Posted on by God's Morning

Any of you who came to Nights on the Neck this summer on Rocky Neck in July, August and September, got the great treat of hearing Bird Mancini on Madfish Wharf outside Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery.  I’ve known Ruby Bird and Billie Carl Mancini for a number of years, and they are a great couple and awesome performers.  If you want to hear them again, or for the first time, before this summer when they return to Rocky Neck, come by the Dog Bar at 65 Main Street tonight at 9:00.  You can go to Fred Bodin’s party first and then hop, skip and jump to the Dog Bar for a rockin good time.   Look for Wendie Demuth and yours truly there.

Photo of Bird Mancini with T Max on Madfish Wharf

E.J. Lefavour

Cape Ann Painters and Photographers Group

Posted on by God's Morning

Post from Alice Gardner about the next upcoming Cape Ann Painters and Photographers Group.  This is a great group that is really supportive and sharing.  If you are a painter or photographer looking to network, share what you are doing, or just get out of the studio or house in the winter and connect with other likeminded people, you really should come.  EJ

“Since we are about to outgrow the Pleasant Street Tea Company space which Trish and Allison so graciously let us use for the first three meetings, we have changed our meeting space to accommodate more people. Our meeting we will be Monday, February 13 from 9-10:30 AM at
“the Annie” on One Washington Street ( The Old Blackburn Tavern) – entrance on the side.  Henry has offered the space for our meetings . Thank you Henry. We will have Dunkin’ Donuts coffee and some tea  available for everyone. There is free parking in the city lot near the water.

We will continue to have a “check in” so that each person has 3-4 minutes to share how their art is going. E.J. has offered to do a brief presentation on marketing of our art.

Welcome to any new members who are about to join us.

Looking forward to seeing everyone.”

Sincerely, Alice Gardner