Month: November 2013

Sista’s Helpful Tips

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It’s time to start prepare our homes for the holiday season. Before you pull out the holiday silver and start decking the halls and setting tables, take a quick peek at your chandelier. When was the last time you washed it? There is nothing more embarrassing for a hostess then gathering around a beautiful table with family and friends, ready to dig into the holiday feast, and noticing cobwebs and dusty crystals hanging directly over the holiday table. Every November I make a special trip to Home Depot, to purchase the best Chandelier cleaner on the market. Extend AFinish Chandelier Cleaner formulated with “Sheeting Action” makes a daunting task a quick an easy one! No more removing, cleaning, drying, and rehanging each and every crystal. Simply place a drop cloth or plastic sheet under chandelier; spray each crystal on all sides; stand back and watch it work its magic. In minutes your chandelier crystals will be sparkling like new!

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Henry David Thoreau Quote of The Week From Greg Bover

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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Sometimes called the first environmentalist, Thoreau, born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, was mentored by the Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott, his neighbors. His book Walden, about the two years he spent living in a hut he had built himself on Emerson’s woodlot at Walden Pond, has become a classic of American literature for its introspection blended with natural history. His Civil Disobedience, written as an explanation of his non-payment of taxes as a protest against the Mexican-American war, is still influential, and his books on his journeys to Maine, Canada and Cape Cod go much deeper than mere travelogues. Thoreau is also credited with the invention of raisin bread.

Jay DiPrima will read from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience at seven o’clock next Thursday evening at the Sawyer Free Library as part of the Gloucester Lyceum Series.

Community Photos 11/10/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro
Cape Ann Y swim Team with Dara Torres

Kathy Slifer submits-

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Hi Joey ,

Members  of our Cape Ann Y Masters swimming group Catherine Mciff, Andi Freedman and Lisa Zraket take a ” racing start and turn” clinic from 5 time Olympian Dara Torres at Harvard last weekend.

Go team !

Kathy Slifer

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Community Stuff 11/10/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

POP GALLERY PRESENTS:

Our SPAlidays Offer!

This month, if you spend $75 at POP, you will receive a coupon for 10% off a 60, 75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage at 161 Main Street!

Likewise, if you purchase a 60,75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage, you will receive a coupon for 20% off at POP!
We all get stressed around the start of “holiday shopping season”. Why not kill two birds with one stone as they say? Shop POP’s extensive array of soothing soaps, lotions and aromatic candles! Then, unwind with a nice massage… all on the same street! Shop local, stress less.

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TURNER’S SEAFOOD AT LYCEUM HALL SAILS INTO SALEM, PERMANENTLY MOORED AT ICONIC LYCEUM HALL

This November, Turner’s Seafood family, brothers Jim, Joe, John Jr. & Chris, are bringing four generations of experience, expertise and their passion for all things seafood to Salem, opening an authentic New England seafood restaurant and market in storied Lyceum Hall on Monday, November 18th. Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall expands their culinary footprint adding to their Melrose restaurant grill and market, and up to Cape Ann for their seafood plant and market. Diners will experience the restaurant’s signature seafood cuisine, a lively oyster bar and Salem’s first fresh, locally- sourced seafood market.

“Over the past five years we were casually looking for a very special space to offer our seafood dining and fresh-catch market in the heart of the North Shore. The first time I walked through the Hall I imagined a time past, a true seafood eatery with classic fish and chips prepared the way they should be,” recalled, Jim Turner, owner, Turner’s Seafood, “The genuine seafood model and quality standards that define our Melrose restaurant are the experiences our dining guests and market customers will have with us in our new Salem home, and more.”

As stewards of Lyceum Hall, the Turner family’s seafood heritage and appreciation for the region’s history culminates in a seamless fit between restaurant and the Hall’s architectural bones, influencing their thoughtful approach to the design in developing a welcoming environment, partnering with the esteemed Boston architectural firm, Niemitz Design Group. Dining guests will find familiar amenities long-valued along with new spaces to experience.

Executive Chef Yale Woodson, with a rich background in the culinary arts, especially the sea’s bounty, leads a kitchen team whose menu centerpiece will be a creative mix of appetizers and entrees from Turner’s authentic New England seafood classics paired with Chef’s interpretive culinary spirit for blending available foods of the moment.

“Our team selectively sources and prepares food to please the full range of the senses, stimulating, and striving to create a memorable seafood dining experience for our guests … every visit,” explained Yale Woodson, executive chef, Turner’s Seafood.

And, it all begins very early each morning. Jim Turner and his team inspect and pick from dayboats’ fresh-catch in historic Gloucester and Boston Harbors, immediately coming to their Gloucester seafood plant where it’s expertly handled and processed to demanding quality standards. Within hours, Turner’s delivers fresh seafood to market, arriving in Salem & Melrose ready for market customers and dining guests…minutes to Gloucester.

“We are privileged to continue the Hall’s heritage as a public gathering place for engaging conversation and the finest in hospitality,” noted, Jim Turner.

Anne Kennedy’s Easy Kitchen-to-Dinner Table Special

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IMG_1143-1Anne Kennedy’s “Simple Favorite and Healthy 20-Minute Dinner”

Thanks so much Anne for sharing. I love not only how simple and fresh this looks, but so nutritious, too. I think we’ll give it a go tonight!

Anne writes, “This is just homemade chicken stock (or buy if you don’t have any), to which we add Chinese Five Spice, soy sauce and a bit of brown sugar to taste.  Bring to a boil and toss in handfuls of whatever veggies you like.  After a few seconds, add either thinly sliced chicken, pork, shrimp, or fish, turn down the heat,  cover for a minute or so, then eat.  Make as thin or thick as you like.  Endless variations include adding curry, sliced figs, apples and other veggies.  Yum.”

Visit Anne’s fascinating blog Haddock and Dill about mid-20th century American and Japanese domestic life, inspired by a forty-year written correspondence between her mom and grandmother.

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What is your family’s tastiest and most favorite easy dinner, from kitchen to table (it can take a minute or two longer)? Send in your recipe and we will post here on GMG. No photos needed (but gladly accepted), just your family’s endorsement!

20-Minute Kitchen-to-Dinner Table Special

*Chinese Five Spice ~ If, like me, you did not know about Chinese Five Spice powder, wiki says, ” Five-spice powder is a mixture of five spices used primarily in Chinese cuisine  but also used in other Asian and Arabic cookery. While there are many variants, a common mix is: star anise, fennel, cloves, cinnamon, and Sichuan pepper.”

Snapshots of Korea Today from Korean War Veteran Dave Moore

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3184061 Chinhae Cherry Blossom time the mountain overlooking the city quite a few steps up
Chinhae Cherry Blossom time the mountain overlooking the city quite a few steps up

Good Morning Gloucester FOB and Korean War veteran Dave Moore forwarded all these photos. Dave grew up in Lanesville and lives with his wife Kim at the Osan Air Base in South Korea.

Dave thought fellow Korean War veterans would be interested in snapshots of Korea today. I believe Dave was in the Air Force and perhaps he can tell us more about his service. Thanks Dave for sharing the photos.

Turtle Ship old with Rok Navy New In Background
Turtle Ship old with Rok Navy New In Background
I walk by this place in moutains on my hikes about 2 1-2 hours round trip
I walk by this place in moutains on my hikes about 2 1-2 hours round trip
Old Korean Won
Old Korean Won
Chinhae Admiral Yi Staute
Chinhae Admiral Yi Staute
Korean Security toward North border Paju Close to DMZ
Korean Security toward North border Paju Close to DMZ
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Korea Times

Who Wants Pews? Perfect for Thanksgiving Seating

Posted on by God's Morning

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Last three remaining church pews from old Christian Science Church on Rocky Neck, C.1950. 35″ high sides, 32″ high back, 20″ deep and 102″ long. Great pieces for a large foyer, living room, dining room or enclosed porch.   Perfect for seating at your Thanksgiving table.  $200 each or best offer, benefits the Cultural Center Building Fund.

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Essex – A Front Rolls Through

Posted on by Lowell Peabody

About 3:45 on Friday, a front rolled through the area providing menacing clouds, incredible spots of sunlight and snow showers in the sky that melted before they hit the ground. Just incredible! Glad to live on Cape Ann and be able to see capture a few scenes like these.  Click the images for larger view

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View Down River towards Crane Beach and Wingarsheek

Kids In The Kitchen With Sista Felicia

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PrintGMG Contributor Donna Ardizzoni and her adorable Grandchildren came over this morning to learn how to make Pizzelle. I absolutely love when the kids climb up onto my kitchen island and help me cook!

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Big Mike’s Bikes Blowin Up!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Hey Joey!

Just wanted to let you and the GMG readers know we’re moving to a bigger space! We had NO IDEA we would get this popular, and we are running out of space here on Maplewood. We’re moving to the former Junque & Disorderly spot at 57 Washington, next to Tacos Lupita and Sclafani’s. It provides us with storage space for all our trade-ins and purchases, and no more tripping on bikes! We should be open the week of Thanksgiving so we will be all set for Christmas season. 

We recently started selling Redline BMX bikes in addition to being a new Jamis dealer, and new 2014 models are reasonably priced Christmas gifts for boys and girls! Now we can have a space to actually display them! 

HUGE thanks to you and all the GMG contributors and readers for the support we’ve gotten since we opened a few years ago. We knew Gloucester needed a bike shop, but we didn’t realize how much support Gloucester gives to local business! 

Kathleen T

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The Village Restaurant In Essex Gets Some Love

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I think folks have forgotten how great this restaurant is.  It used to have lines so long and now no.  We had dinner there the other evening and the fried clams were as perfect as one could ask for, the onion rings were totally delicious, the corn bread yummy, the baked crab – out of this world, the scallops scrumptious and the Sicilian Chowder, the best one has ever had.  We have a lot of fine restaurants on Cape Ann, and we go to all of them, but this gem is being forgotten.  Also, the beauty of this restaurant is that you can carry on a conversation without a lot of noise.  We talked with the owner, and he said, “no one is coming over the bridge anymore”.  That is quite sad because this has the freshest fish that you could ask for and cooked by an excellent chef. Their prices are very affordable, and we would love to see lines there once more.   Sandy and Eben Andrew

ID More Difficult, But Not Much

Posted on by Fredrik Bodin
This is a great example of a "point." I used to do a lot of photos for geography texts, and this is a good example. Twenty years ago, a friend, who sold me my first Kayak, asked me over to look at his darkroom equipment. I went, and didn't need anything. "Do you have any negatives," I asked. So I ended up with 1,000 aerials taken from Boston to Boothbay, ME. Photo by Don Felt. Where is this location?
This is a great example of a “point.” I used to do a lot of photos for geography texts, and this is a good example. Twenty years ago, a friend, who sold me my first Kayak, asked me over to look at his darkroom equipment. I went, and didn’t need anything. “Do you have any negatives,” I asked. So I ended up with 1,000 aerials taken from Boston to Boothbay, ME. Photo by Don Felt. Where is this location?

charting the paths for plastic soup patches of our oceans

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Catherine Ryan submits

Hi Joey,

It’s not beach balls and rubber duckies. Great time lapse visualizations of how garbage moves around our oceans to the 6 largest patches (they used surface drifter buoys with GPS sensors).

“What we found is patches are international problem…It’s not that plastic from one country ends up in one particular patch; quite the contrary, all of the plastic ends up in all the patches and all are interconnected in a way we didn’t know before”. One big evolve take away: invent plastic that disintegrates. Less intimidating do it yourself adjustments: easy stuff at home here http://www.plasticfreeguide.com/

 

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More garbage patch info and docs worth a look: Look for this artful, full on feeling, elegiac nature doc from photographer Chris Jordan  http://www.midwayfilm.com/index.html image004

 

Or Angela Sun’s (still in progress) chatty, more entertainment tonight-like still unflinching delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pRy88R-4BI

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http://plasticparadisemovie.com/

 

In Gloucester all things eco green visit Maritime Gloucester and Oceans Alliance for their efforts, and the Farmer’s Market. Tons of GMG contributors and other local media. Plenty of volunteer clean up orgs. And see local artists’ work such as Karen Ristuben’s art (9 videos are here http://vimeo.com/user2947114/videos including:

Trash Calendar

Deposition of the Ocean as Witness

North Pacific Gyre Voyage

In Gloucester all things eco green visit Maritime Gloucester and Oceans Alliance for their efforts, and the Farmer’s Market. And see local artists’ work such as Karen Ristuben’s art (9 videos are here http://vimeo.com/user2947114/videos )

 

Look right here, too, GMG is stewardship—business, arts, nature, beauty, community! See Joey’s photography and posts: it’s not just Good Morning Gloucester, but Wake UP Gloucester! Look at the wide range of MA Green stories from lobsters to rosa rugosa https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/the-rosa-rugosa-is-starting-o-come-alive/ to solar powered lobster pot haul https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/video-next-generation-lobstermen-brett-and-jake-donovan-and-their-solar-powered-lobster-pot-hauler/. Then go right down the GMG mast head.

Kim Smith’s naturalist take whether how NOT to approach a seal or the indelible imprint on all butterfly musings evermore https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/wow-and-wondeful-150-milkweed-plants-ordered/

EJ’s sensitivity to our surroundings is there often—and she spreads awareness, most recently her OA posts –Jane Goodall! https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/ocean-alliance-and-jane-goodall/

Donna’s photography, too, and volunteer dedication  https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/what-community-is-all-about-burnhams-field-clean-up/, https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/one-hour-at-a-time-gang-city-clean-up-saturday/
And Fred, Marty, Kathy, Felicia, I mean ALL GMG. Reverent.