Day: October 20, 2013

GloucesterCast 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro

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GloucesterCast 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro

GloucesterCastSquare1GloucesterCast Podcast Taped 10/20/13 With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro

Topics Include: Red Sox Clinching and Odds That John Farrell getting Manager of the Year, Farm Bar and Grille vying for East Gloucester Spot, Smartphones on planes, GMG Caps, Passports Closed for a couple of weeks for Olive Kitteridge miniseries taping, Posts of the week including Kim Smith's Love Letters To Gloucester and Marty Luster's Phyllis A Video, people who email comments to GMG instead of posting their comments under the respective post.

Topics Include: Red Sox Clinching and Odds That John Farrell getting Manager of the Year, Farm Bar and Grille vying for East Gloucester Spot, Smartphones on planes, GMG Caps, Passports Closed for a couple of weeks for Olive Kitteridge miniseries taping, Posts of the week including Kim Smith’s Love Letters To Gloucester and Marty Luster’s Phyllis A Video, people who email comments to GMG instead of posting their comments under the respective post.

Samuel Johnson Quote of The Week from Greg Bover

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18 October, 2013

“Kindness is always in our power, even when fondness is not.”

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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Dr. Johnson was the most important English literary figure of his age. He wrote plays, essays and poems including the perceptive “Vanity of Human Wishes,” but he was best known for his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), an almost incomprehensible feat of mainly solo scholarship, written in just nine years, and the first to feature examples, largely from Shakespeare, Dryden, and Milton, of the 114,000 words in a literary context. Johnson was also the subject of one of the most famous biographies ever written, the minutely detailed Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell. It is from this biography and other descriptions of the tics and outbursts of the good Doctor that it is now thought that he suffered from Tourette’s syndrome, a condition not yet defined in his time. Johnson is also credited with the observation that “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.”

Cape Ann Seagulls

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Great Black-back & Herring Gulls Massachusetts ©Kim Smith 2013Although ubiquitous where ever we turn, I was curious about the several different species that are often observed fishing and feeding together at dawn. The flocks of seagulls that we see on Cape Ann at this time of year are typically comprised of two species and they are the Great Black-backed Gull and the Herring Gull. In the above photo taken at daybreak (click to view larger), you can see both species; the gulls with speckled feather patterns are first year fledglings of both the Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls.

Great Black-back & Herring Gulls in flight ©Kim Smith 2013.

Interestingly, early in the twentieth century, both species of gulls were mostly winter visitors, neither staying to breed when the weather warmed. The first pair of breeding Herring Gulls was discovered on Martha’s Vineyard in 1912. The first pair of breeding Great Black-backed Gulls was found in Salem in 1932.

Great Black-back & Herring Gulls Massachusetts in flight ©Kim Smith 2013.

The Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) is the larger of the two, up to 30,” with a black back and wings, yellow bill distinguished by a red dot on the bottom near the tip, and pinkish legs.

The Herring Gull (Larus argentus), at 25 inches, has gray wings tipped with black, gray back, white head, pinkish legs, and yellow bill also with a red dot on the bottom near the tip.

The Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) is also a regular visitor but according to Mass Audubon, it has never successfully bred in Massachusetts. The Ring-billed at first glance looks similar to the Herring Gull but is the smallest of the three at 17″ and is also easy to distinguish as it has yellow legs and a dark gray band near the tip of its bill.

Great Black-back & Herring Gulls MassachusettsTwin Lights ©Kim Smith 2013Twins!

Representing in New York City

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While in New York recently I checked out a fruit and vegetable cart at 93rd and 2cnd. Got to speak with a few other people at the cart too. Overall pretty grumpy crowd of former football and baseball fans… Even though they decided I was not to be liked, I was allowed to represent GMG!

OK, you can exhale now — take a breather from baseball and go hear some good music

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

No explanation needed for this headline — unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks.

Lots going on tonight — if you hurry down to Mile Marker One you can catch Dan King’s last set.  See today’s full schedule, below.  Great music all week long — see here.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Dan King 1:00 pm DAN KING

Bridge Deck – Acoustic
75 Essex Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: (978) 283-2122

FREE SHOW
3:00 pm  BARBARA ALEX

Jazz Session
285 Cabot St, Beverly, MA 01915

Phone: 978-921-2233

FREE SHOW
Toni Ann Enes 5:00 pm Listen to Toni Ann Enes TONI ANN ENES

with Inge Berge
141 Essex Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-515-7386

FREE SHOW
Inge Berge 5:00 pm Listen to Inge Berge INGE BERGE

with ToniAnn ~ till 8pm
141 Essex Ave, Gloucester, MA 01930

Phone: 978-515-7386

FREE SHOW
Michael O'Leary 6:00 pm Listen to Michael O'Leary MICHAEL O’LEARY

Celtic Music Session, 6-9pm. Trad songs ‘n tunes with string players Bob & Jennifer Strom.
7 Central Street, Manchester, MA

Phone: 978-526-7494

FREE SHOW
6:30 pm  THE NANCY HILDEGARDE JAZZ EXTRAVAGANZA

with Mark Earley
285 Cabot St, Beverly, MA 01915

Phone: 978-921-2233

FREE SHOW
The Wilkins Noise 8:00 pm Listen to The Wilkins Noise THE WILKINS NOISE

Acoustic Evening at The Rhumb Line with Special Guests
40 Railroad Ave, Gloucester, MA

Phone: 978-283-9732

FREE SHOW

First Ever 2014 Rotary Calendar Photo Contest

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The Rotary Club of Gloucester is pleased to announce a photography contest for the youth of Gloucester. The winning photo will be featured on the 2014 Annual Rotary Calendar, which will be distributed to over a thousand Gloucester households and businesses. All profits from the calendar are donated to local charities.

The calendar will feature a photo that depicts the beauty of Gloucester at the top that is visible throughout the year. For the first time, high school and middle school students from Gloucester are being invited to submit their amazing photos of Gloucester. The winning entrant will receive $100.

2014 Calendar Photo Contest Theme: Photos should be a scene from anywhere in Gloucester that shows the unique beauty or character of Gloucester. Summer or late spring shots are preferred, if possible.

Requirements:

  • Photos entered must be original, digital, color, horizontal and no smaller than 1800 x 1200 pixels (a 4 x 6” image @ 300 dpi).
  • Limit one entry per person.
  • Entrants must be 13-18 years of age and living in Gloucester, MA.
  • All entries must be emailed to Dave Stotzer, owner of Cape Ann Photography, at stotzerphoto@gmail.com. In the email, please include your name, age, grade, address and phone number.
  • Entry Deadline: November 7, 2013.
  • The entrant agrees to allow the Gloucester Rotary Club to publish the winning photo for no fees other than the prize. Parental (or legal guardian) permission for photo credit on calendar required.

More information about the Gloucester Rotary Club can be found at the Club’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RotaryGloucesterMA.

The mission of Rotary International is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

Community Photos 10/20/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey-

Yesterday, when we returned from our morning row, we saw two (very nice) workers who are in the process of inspecting the integrity of the docks in our Harbor.

Looking up, we also saw our (always nice) Harbormaster, Jim Caulkett.

Smiles all around-a great way to start the day!

Best- Janet Rice

gloucestergigrowers@gloucestergigrowers.com

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West Gloucester Farm photos from Anthony Marks

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Community Stuff 10/20/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro
Almond Bread Cooking Class at Temple Ahavat Achim!

Temple Ahavat Achim invites you to its “Google the Kugel” cooking class!
Join Rabbi Lewis for the first “Google the Kugel” class of the season!
In 1996 Rabbi Lewis made a short video of his grandmother, Hannah Aronson Levinson Quint, preparing  mandelbrodt (“almond bread”) and talking about what cooking means to her.  Come watch the video, learn her recipe and share what cooking means to you.
Please call Natalia at (978) 281-0739 to sign up!

Mandel Bread

Hey Joey how are ya? Was wondering if you could advertise for us, Bailee is having another event next saturday Oct 26th, she will be selling Hot Apple Cider to raise money to buy toys, coloring books, crayons and stickers to bring up to Beverly Hospital to the pediatric ward, Bailee was hospitalized in the end of August, and was not allowed in the toy room because they were not sure if she was contagious, so all they really had was a old coloring book that was filled, and a baby wipe box full of broken crayons, Bailee was inspired to do this event so that throughout this flu season kids that are on precautions and arent allowed in the toy room will have the opportunity to get their own “prize” a toy, coloring book, etc, we are just asking for no stuffed animals….

“Heal with Happiness a Bailees Lemonade Fundraiser”

Saturday Oct 26th from Noon- 4:00 pm

29 East Main Street Glosta!!

Hot Apple Cider in trade for a donated toy, or cash donations are excepted that will be used to purchase toys.

There is a facebook event “Heal with Happiness a Bailees Lemonade Fundraiser”, but im not sure how i would post it to you, maybe you could do that?

Thankyou so much for all your help in promoting in the past, lots of people come because of GMG!!!

Brieana Militello

Hey Joey,

This is Stefanie over at Alchemy. We have an event coming up on the 29th of October called the Pumpkin Challenge. It is a competition between 2 chefs ( our chef Scott Jensen) and Stacy Cogswell from the Regal Beagle in Brookline using a pumpkin as the main ingredient in each dish. We are also doing a pumpkin carving challenge as well among the guests to see who can carve the best pumpkin. First prize is $100 and second prize is $50. For each pumpkin that is entered into the contest, $5 will be donated to the Open Door Foundation.

I was wondering if you could post something about the event on Good Morning Gloucester.