How Many More Months?
How Many More Months?
Year: 2012
St Ann School date mystery
On the Prospect St. side of St. Ann’s School, there is this text on the top of the façade:
Those three dates are interesting. I know why one of them is there (1885 is when the parish was officially founded), but the other two? Does anybody know what their significance is? I’m assuming one may be the foundation of the school (if that came after the parish), but that still leaves one date to account for…
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Video- seARTS Annual 2012 Meeting Preview
Click on the button below to vote for Gloucester as the Top Small City Arts Destination in The Country, and thank you for supporting Gloucester and it’s artists!
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The Schooner Ernestina From Len Burgess
One of the 6 remaining old schooners built in Essex, MA is now 118 years old.
Len Burgess writes-
On February 1, 1894 118 years ago the Effie M. Morrissey, the ship that became Ernestina, slid down the ways at the James and Tarr Yard in Essex, Massachusetts.
The Ernestina has been designated by the Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark. She has sailed on through the century to become one of six remaining Essex-built schooners and is now in New Bedford, MA.
She reached within 600 miles of the North Pole and is the last ship to bring immigrants to this country under sail from the Cape Verde Islands. Ernestina was given to the people of the United States by the people of the Cape Verde Islands in 1982. Her history is a remarkable legacy that spans continents, races and generations.
A very large scale model of the “Morrissey” is in the Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.
Here are some videos and photos I took of her back in May of 2009-
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Loren Doucette- Recent Work Showing At The Art Room Feb 4 to April 4
Loren Doucette, local Gloucester artist will be showing her recent work from Montserrat College of Art at The Art Room on 3 Center Street in Gloucester. She is exhibiting her portrait work, abstractions, large ink works and some small landscapes from her July 2011 trip to Italy. She invites you all to stop by her opening reception anytime between 10am and 7pm on Saturday February 4, 2012. Her work will hang from Feb 4 to April 4, feel free to call her and make an appointment to see the show. Any questions, call Loren at 978-879-8981.
To view recent artwork: http://lorendoucette.blogspot.com/
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Community Stuff Thursday
hi joey!
the cape ann waldorf school is sponsoring a free screening of the movie Race To Nowhere. please see below for details. we still have room for the friday night screening and are inviting all those who are interested in seeing this fabulous movie.
have a good one!
stacey
Cape Ann Waldorf School (Moraine Farm) 701 Cabot Street, Rte. 97, Beverly, MA will be screening the award-winning and socially provocative movie,RACE TO NOWHERE, The Dark Side of America’s Achievement Culture, on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm. The film is rated PG-13 and runs 85 minutes.
RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century.
All are welcome to this free screening but seating is limited. Admission requires a reservation via http://rtncapeannfebthird.eventbrite.com/ There will be an opportunity for group discussion following the film. Visit www.capeannwaldorf.org for directions and school information.
North Shore Tour de Cure Kick Off Party
The North Shore Tour de Cure is holding its Kick Off Party next week. Come and learn about how to get involved in this one-day cycling event across our region that raises funds to find a cure for diabetes.
Tuesday, February 7th
6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Village Green
225 Newbury Street in Danvers
Light appetizers provided and cash bar available
Sponsored by the American Diabetes Association
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The History Channel Tapes Segment With Wives and Daughters of Gloucester Fishermen At The Lone Gull
On February 1st 2012 the History Channel was at the Lone Gull to tape segments talking about the fishing industry and how the wives and daughters of Gloucester fishermen remember the industry.
Here are some photos I took at the taping-
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Taping of Bacala Video with Felicia and Sefatia Part 2 From Gianni Gallo and Joe Langhan
Gianni and Joe are the men behind the Taste of The Times Videos at the Gloucester Daily Times Website- this is from them-
Felicia and Sefatia (“the Godmother”) got together to tape a segment on how Felicia’s Grandmother taught her to make a special bacala dish for the traditional Italian meal of the seven fishes on Christmas Eve. This is the second of three parts of the original footage. The entire shoot lasted over 45 minutes, which was edited down to a 10 minute video. (You can see that video at http://food.gloucestertimes.com/video/Baccala-Italian-Style-Codfish.html) Some have asked to see the entire production, with little or no editing. Here is Part 2
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Minglewood Tavern Again Open For Lunch Everyday
If you were like me and jonesing for one of Gloucester’s best burgers at lunch for the past couple of months and gone by Minglewood only to have found tehm closed for lunch fear not my friends!
They are now re-opened and serving up one of Gloucester’s best burgers and killer hand cut steak fries.
Not only that but they have a different deal going on 7 nights a week.
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Barely Standing
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Goose and Gull
So these two look like they are ready to discuss politics..
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Reflections
E.J. Lefavour
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Six Weeks of Fresh Flowers, for Nine Dollars!
The last stalk of ‘Orange Sovereign’ was cut, the plant discarded, and the pot tucked away for next year’s Hippeastrums. If we had a spare sunny window, I would feed and water the plant during the winter then place outside on the patio during the warm summer months, allowing the plant to replenish and rejuvenate.
Looking back at my photo files, the first snapshot of ‘Orange Sovereign’ was from December 15, 2011; the photo below was taken January 30, 2012. Growing flowering bulbs during the winter is a terrific and economical way to keep the home lively with cheery color, in spite of the gloomy grays of winter.
Hippeastrum ‘Orange Sovereign’ ~ January 30, 2012
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What is Inge Berge banging on now?
Inge Berge talks with Peter about his new song, the household implements he used for percussion and the video we shot together that features some of those very implements. You can see the the music video here:
It’s Wednesday in Gloucester — and that means everybody’s got a special guest. Fly’s got J.B. and Dennis has The Dejas. See the full lineup here:
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New Jason Burroughs painting at Pleasant Street Tea Co.
New Jason Burroughs painting at Pleasant Street Tea Company!
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Tacos Lupita Gloucester Now Officially Open!!!
O M G I just had a pork burrito with everything cut right off the spit! Hellooooo Tacos Lupita!!! OUTSTANDING and Fresh and Cheap!!!!!!
This place is gonna be mobbed!!!!
68 Washington Street Gloucester
Tell ‘em Joey from Good Morning Gloucester Sent You!
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Dinner with Fly ~ Special Guest Tonight ~ JB Amero
Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm
Hello everyone!
You can call him the “Soul Ranger”, or “the
hardest working man in show business”, or the
“#1 Blue-Eyed Soul Brother in New England”…
or, you can simply say “J.B.”! Something “last
minute” has come up for my previously scheduled
guest, Bradley Royds (he will do a make-up in
March). Brother J.B. has graciously agreed to do
the night. Get on up and come on out, everybody!
~ Fly
Dinner with Fly Amero: 8 – 11pm
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
Dave Trooper’s Kitchen…
Wednesday’s only!
Prime Rib Dinner – $9.95 (while they last)
Prepared fresh weekly by “Troop”… always good!
Sincerely…Fly.
Feb. 8: JOHN ROCKWELL
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Rockport Represents in Vieques, Puerto Rico
I just got back from an amazing vacation in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The beaches are beautiful and at times you can have a whole beach to yourself. We stayed at a wonderful house in the Pilon hills of Vieques at Mockingbird Hill. The views from the deck were amazing and the breeze throughout the house was wonderful.
We did a lot of fun things, like diving, snorkeling and got to kayak the bio luminescent bay, which was so unique. We kayaked the bay at night and was able to see all the bio luminescent dinoflagellattes light up like liquid sparkles. When the water is disturbed they light up. You could even see the light trails from fish that swam by. Unfortunately I couldn’t capture the experience in photos or video, you really need a special light sensitivity camera.
Another highlight of our trip was sitting down to breakfast at a restaurant called Belly Button’s on the Malecon in Esperanza. Above our heads in the rafters was a photo of Rockport! Unfortunately the waitresses didn’t know the origin and thought it was a place in Maine. What a small world!
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Look who made yummy Muffin Tops
Remember the muffin top incident at the dock a couple of weeks ago… well our lovely Kim Smith made banana walnut muffin tops of us this morning.
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Tacos Lupita Gloucester Second Customer- Joey C Woot!
Good Morning Gloucester 