Month: February 2013

Beer and Cheese Pairing at Savour Wine and Cheese

Posted on by Matthew Green

On Friday Feb. 1, Savour Wine and Cheese had a Beer and Cheese Pairing event!  They had a variety of cheeses and beers available for tasting, and a sheet for you to mark what you thought were the best pairings.  If you identified all the same pairings as the store’s expert, you got a gift certificate!  Also, all the featured beers and cheese were on sale %20 off.

I stopped by at the beginning of the event.  I didn’t try the beer because I had to drive right afterwards, but I did try the cheeses, which were all very tasty. I ended up buying a cheese called “Red Dragon”, a Welsh cheddar made with ale and mustard seeds – really good, with a distinctive flavor! Here are some photos I got before the crowd arrived (I only had time to be there at the beginning when there were only a couple of people, but more were arriving as I left).

 

– Fr. Matthew Green

 

Quote of the Week by Greg Bover

Posted on by God's Morning

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”

Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (1906 – 1982)

Perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time, Paige, an African-American from Mobile, Alabama, was not allowed into Major League Baseball until 1948 when he was 42 years old, the oldest “rookie” ever. He began his professional career in 1926 and pitched for numerous teams in the segregated Negro Leagues, gaining fame not only for his throwing prowess, but also for his ebullience and love of the game. Even at his advanced age he was elected to the All-Star team twice and was finally inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971 at the urging of Ted Williams and others. Among his other famous sayings: “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

Greg Bover

Community Stuff 2/5/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro
Presentations on Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Two residents of Cape Ann will be presenting on their recent travels in a program to be held at the UnitarianUniversalist church of Rockport, 4 Cleaves Street, Rockport, on Sunday, February 10 at 4 p.m. Mary Ann Camp ofRockport a nurse, has recently returned from her latest trip to Haiti with Partners in Development. She will report onthe progress she has witnessed in that country since the devastating earthquake struck three years ago. HeidiWakeman of Gloucester, a Rockport Middle School Spanish teacher, was part of a group of forty educators from the

US, Canada, and the Dominican Republic who visited five cities in the Dominican Republic to learn about such issuesas Haitian-Dominican citizenship; the struggle for union rights; and the Fair Trade Zone, as opposed to the Free TradeZone. Both speakers will be sharing images and stories of their cross-cultural experiences. Light refreshments will beserved after the program.  

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Judy O’Malley

So Muffy Has Regained The Lead In Our Manchester Athletic Club MyZone Fitness Challenge. How You Ask?

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I had no idea she’s go so deep into the archives of rogue fitness routines to try to pull out the win but apparently nothing is beneath Muffy when she competes.

My Manchester Athletic Club Spy Cam caught her top secret workout regimen which has propelled her over me in the standings-

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The really cool thing is that even though I’m on vacation I can strap on my fitness band and it will record up to 16 hours of my workouts even if I’m away from the MAC.

I’d much rather work out at the MAC but as soon as I pop back in to the club all the data from my workouts away from the MAC will be uploaded to the servers and tabulated (don’t ask me how it works, it just does).

The challenge and this MyZone band has totally motivated me to take my workouts up a notch.

I’ll be experimenting with Muffy’s rogue workout regimen once I get back into town.  On that you can be sure.

If you want more info on joining the MAC or getting started with MyZone, call 978-526-8900

2013 Varsity Co-ed Cheerleaders

Posted on by Thom Falzarano

Cheerleaders_team_photo-142Front Row L-R: Luidwin, Captain Sabrina, Captain Alex, Captain Allie B, Koty

Rear Row L-R Ally, Miranda, Hannah, Jayme, Samantha, Olivia, Lexi, Bailey, Maddie, Veronica, Coach Costanzo.

The Team has their 1st competition on Feb 10th at the Beverly High School!

 

Aaand the Duck Torture Continues- Aileen Kern Submits-

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey,
My husband Doug and I enjoyed meeting Sista Felicia, the Mrs., Amanda and B.J. this past summer at the Waterfront Festival.  We bought a couple of T-shirts and got a stickah too.  We went to Salzburg, Austria for Christmas and planned to take the stickah with us to send you a photo of us representing, but we couldn’t find it when we were packing for the trip.  So instead, I’m sending you some photos of Salzburg shop windows displaying Mozart Rubber Ducks and others with an Austrian theme.  The Austrian branch of the RD family!!  Thought this might provide a few laughs on a late January day.
Many thanks to you and all of the blog contributors for everything you do—-GMG provides my daily connection to Gloucester in between visits and until we can move there—I absolutely love the photos, community news, and humor.
Take care!
Aileen Kern

I’m sure Morrison is sitting somewhere giggling like a schoolgirl.

Site Visit To Camp Spindrift Proves This Year’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tourney Will Be One For The Ages

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Camp Spindrift is looking to make folks aware the property isn’t just for Kids Summer Camp.  They are looking to expand into corporate functions, weddings and more.  Panorama photos from the site visit via Frankie Gwynne below the Tshirt Logo.

Mark Your Calendars March 16th

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Massachusetts Municipal Association HarborWalk Award Mentions Part 1- TS Eliot Story

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I’m going to break this down to one a day.  It is in reference to the Massachusetts Municipal Association has awarded the Gloucester HarborWalk with the Kenneth E. Pickard Municipal Innovation Award in which Gloucester competed against 351 other communities and won.

Catherine Ryan writes-

Joey,

Here are some of the story moment markers as they appear on ghwalk.org on line that the Massachusetts Municipal Association mentioned in their release for the HarborWalk award.

T.S. Eliot, Virginia Lee Burton, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Greasy Pole St. Peter’s Fiesta

There’s content generously provided from many sources including Good Morning Gloucester contributors (Joey, Fred, EJ, David, Fr. Matthew Green…)!

TS Eliot Story HarborWalk Moment #2 with links-

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Gloucester DECA Fundraiser

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hello!My name is Danielle Pomeroy, and I am a senior at Gloucester High School. I am the president of our city’s DECA chapter, and was wondering if there was any way in which you could publish an article publicizing our upcoming fundraiser. It is a babysitting night on Valentine’s Day at the Magnolia Library for all ages 2-12. The cost is $5 an hour, $20 for the entire night (5-9). For each additional child from the same family, the cost will be a $10 flat rate. We will include arts & crafts, activities, snacks, and a movie. It will be run by a large group of local students participating in Gloucester DECA, and all proceeds will go towards reducing the cost for our state competing in March (approximate $320 per student, and 15 are eligible to attend). If you have any questions you can contact me, Danielle Pomeroy, atdaniellepomeroy2013@gmail.comThank You!Sincerely, Danielle

Up Cranmore Mountain on the chair lift, circa 1950

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North Conway, New Hampshire, circa 1950. She doesn’t look like a skier to me. Beautiful state of the art chair lift for the time. Go girl, and don’t lose the hat! Have fun Joey and family.

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Logan Horne, Recipient of the Friends of Halibut Point State Park Scholarship

Posted on by paultmorrison

Logan Horne is the recipient of the Friends of Halibut Point State Park Scholarship. Logan is studying Environmental Science at Westfield State University.

Fred Peterson the Treasurer of the Friends hands over the goods to Logan Horne.  logabhorne

Friends of Halibut Point State Park website

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JoeAnn Hart’s Latest Novel Float Out Now!!!

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“Float” is all of these things: joyful and troubling, hilarious and somber, evocative and introspective.” ~ Necessary Fiction

Ashland Creek Press Announces the publication of Float:

We are thrilled to announce the publication of JoeAnn Hart’s smart, witty second novel.

To learn more about JoeAnn Hart and Float, read this Q&A with JoeAnn on the Ashland Creek Press blog. Also, be sure to check out this Q&A on art, the environment, and advocacy with JoeAnn and Float cover artist Karen Ristuben.
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Float is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as through your favorite indie bookstore, including The Bookstore of Gloucester. Float is also available as an e-book for the Kindle, the Nook, and at the iBookstore. You can also download an excerpt here.Visit JoeAnn’s website for news, reviews, events, her blog, and much more.
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Duncan rescues the seagull, not realizing that he’s being filmed by a group of conceptual artists and that the footage will soon go viral, turning both him and the gull into minor celebrities. And when an unsavory yet very convincing local, Osbert Marpol, talks him into a not-quite-legitimate loan arrangement, Duncan can’t help but agree in a last-ditch attempt to save the jobs of his employees.When Duncan Leland looks down at the garbage-strewn beach beneath his office window, he sees the words God Help Us scrawled in the sand. While it seems a fitting message—not only is Duncan’s business underwater, but his marriage is drowning as well—he goes down to the beach to erase it. Once there, he helps a seagull being strangled by a plastic six-pack holder—the only creature in worse shape than he is at the moment.

For a while, it seems as if things are finally looking up for Duncan—yet between his phone-sex-entrepreneur ex-girlfriend’s very public flirtations and the ever-mysterious terms of his new loan, Duncan realizes that there’s no such thing as strings-free salvation—and that it’s only a matter of time before the tide rises ominously around him again.

A wry tale of financial desperation, conceptual art, insanity, infertility, seagulls, marital crisis, jellyfish, organized crime, and the plight of a plastic-filled ocean, JoeAnn Hart’s novel takes a smart, satirical look at family, the environment, and life in a hardscrabble seaside town in Maine.

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P&V’s LOL #12: Sometimes you just can’t blame anybody

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

(For those of you who have just tuned in, “LOL” stands for Law of Life.  Click here to see the first 11.)

Everybody’s looking for somebody to blame — especially for last night.  First there’s the power outage.  Even though the official line still makes vague reference to an “abnormality”, you can bet people are scrambling to nail somebody’s ass — or “hold them accountable” to use the latest PC term.

Then there’s Beyoncé.  Joey may have liked her lip-synched dance numbers, but Vickie and I have to agree with venerable music curmudgeon, Bob Lefsetz, who said, “I wasn’t sure what to do after Beyonce’s appearance, join a gym or masturbate.” (We know Joey’s done the former.  What about the latter, Joey?)

Lefsetz tries to blame Madonna, CDs, Hip Hop (read his full tirade here) and he lauds  Prince, Adele, Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers.  (Joey likes The Lumineers too.  See this post.  Their show tonight at House of Blues — yup, across the bridge — is sold out.)

Singers love to lay blame.  Usually they blame somebody else, like when Beyoncé admonishes “you should have put a ring on it.”  Once in a while somebody writes a great song blaming himself.  Of those, my favorite is Guilty by Randy Newman, sung here perfectly by Bonnie Raitt.

You’ll be blaming yourself big time if you don’t get VIP tickets to see Henri Smith featuring Charles Neville this Friday.  It’s the best dinner / show / Mardi Gras party deal around.  Best of all, you can avoid feeling guilty because you’ll be helping to send local YMCA Teens on their service-learning trip to New Orleans in April.  Oh, and Henri won’t be lip-synching.

The older I get the more I realize that casting blame feels good, but doesn’t accomplish much — sort of like masturbating.

Blame is best left to songs.  Chelsea Berry knows how to write a great song that lays blame.  And you can bet she won’t lip-synch when she sings it at her  Shalin Liu concerts.