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Month: November 2013
Friends of Seacoast Holiday Bazaar
….and everybody had a good time!
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Dirty Ducks
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Birds?
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East Gloucester Timelapse From the Office Window 11/24/13
Clouds just cranking by to the right and cars zipping by to the left.
and here’s one from a similar view- shot composed by Eloise and Madeline-
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Community Photos 11/25/13
Hi Joey,
Although I really do try, I can’t stop myself from pulling off the road to take sunset pictures. I am constantly amazed by the variation of beauty this planet gives by spinning around. How lucky we are!
Best-
Janet, Sunset Addict
Trimming The Kent Circle Christmas Tree photo from Anthony Marks
Nick Curcuru and Pat Cusick string lights on the tree.
Hi Joey,
I’d like to share some photos of a cold day at the Cox House (Essex Green Belt) on Rt 133 in Essex (just before the Blue Marlin on the Right). It’s a great spot along the Essex River, with nice pathways for walking and bird walking. Very dog friendly. There was an artist there painting when we were there today. Even on a cold day it is a beautiful spot.
Mary Barker
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Community Stuff 11/25/13
FREE EVENT. Christmas Sing-Along with Jayzee and the Singing Seniors at the Rose Baker Senior Center
Calendar and Goin’ On—Please!!!
Gloucester Stroke Club meeting Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 6:30 pm.
Please note change in time. Addison Gilbert Hospital, Logan Room. First Floor, Front Entrance. Annual Potluck Supper.
Please bring a main dish or dessert to share and a $5. gift for the Yankee Swap.
New Members are welcome and guest encouraged to attend.
For more information Please call Virginia 978-283-3968 or Cynthia 978-283-2633.
Chorus North Shore Holiday Concerts 12/7 and 12/8
For their 82nd season, under the direction of Sonja Dahlgren Pryor, Chorus North Shore is performing Handel’s Messiah with the Honors Youth Choir, the Festival Orchestra and joined by soloists Jean Danton, soprano; Martin Kelly, tenor, and Mark Andrew Cleveland, bass.
Concerts are Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 8:00 PM at Our Lady of Hope Church on Linebrook Road in Ipswich and Sunday, December 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM at Hamilton-Wenham High School, 775 Bay Road in South Hamilton
Tickets are available now on the website at www.chorusnorthshore.org and will be on sale at the door before the concerts
General Admission: $20; Seniors/Students $17; Children 12 and under are free
Handel’s Messiah, one of the best-know and most frequently performed choral works in Western music, was originally an Easter offering first performed at the Musick Hall in Dublin on April 13, 1742. On Christmas Day in 1818 the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston performed Messiah and since that time it has become a perennial Christmas favorite. And now it has become a biennial tradition for Chorus North Shore.
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GloucesterCast 11/24/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Toby Pett
GloucesterCast Taped 11/24/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Toby Pett
Topics Include: Coffee From The DR: Cafe Molido, Sleeping and Caffeine, New Sticky Fingers Bakery, What Would You Do With City of Gloucester Free Cash, New Steps In Front Of The Police Station, Ken Hecht, Dollar Shave Club, Gillette vs Dollar Shave Club, Peppermint Scented Ass Wipes, Vickie Van Ness’ Holiday Fair Guide (post of the week), Thankless People, Seacoast Holiday Fair, Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Harvest Market, Mailtland Farm Spicy Pickles, Duckworth’s Bistrot Pickle Juice Martini, New GMG Technical Jerseys, Dressing For Winter, Thanksgiving Eve at The Rhumb Line, Local Joints Open For Breakfast On Thanksgiving Morning, New Management At Former Catch 22/Fiesta Pub, Trina Fuller, Mexican Touch.
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The Lovely Cookie Ladies At The 2013 Seacoast Holiday Fair
You would not believe how many incredible cookies were made for the fair. Nice turnout where 100% of the money goes back to the residents.
I happen to know these beautiful women and they’re even sweeter than the cookies.
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MACKLEMORE LIVE at Best Buy Theatre
A whirlwind 20 hours in New York City to see the extraordinary Macklemore and Company perform at Best Buy Theatre left me spellbound and so not wanting the concert to be over!
Wanz singing Thrift Shop
I was a guest of my daughter Liv, who is the events manager at Best Buy Theatre. How proud I am of her and the fantastic job she does! I followed her around the theatre and observed as she managed 80 plus employees including 45 security guards, and as many bartenders, waitresses, hatcheck girls, and barbacks. The Xbox event was particularly complex and she had been at the theatre since 6am that morning and wasn’t going to be leaving until 6am the following morning. I had to laugh (with admiration) because if you’ve ever met my daughter, you know she is a petite blonde, and she is managing the likes of hurly burly security guards aptly nicknamaed “House.” Most of the employees are young aspiring actors and actresses, or a bit older with families to support, and everyone was super, super sweet and fun to meet.
I found Macklemore awhile back and by accident one day while googling around looking for interesting and beautiful music videos, which then led to entering their video competition for the song BomBom. Liv knows that I am a huge, huge fan of Macklemores and I was on cloud nine when she asked if I would like to attend the event. Their music and their message are beautiful and delivered with heart and humor. The concert was fabulous and fun in every way–really simply beyond fabulous!!!
Mary Lambert singing the tender and heartfelt Same Love
I didn’t have my interchangeable lens camera with me, as they are often times not allowed, and had to rely on my iPhone for video. I had never shot anything longer than a Vine with my iPhone and discovered that the iPhone shoots in 1080p, which is wonderful and ideal for editing.
See my live recording of Macklemore performing “Can’t Hold Us” on my blogs at Kim Smith Designs or Butterfly Films.
Times Square
Liv found a great little hotel in midtown, within walking distance of Penn Station and Best Buy Theatre. The following morning, before heading back to Gloucester (and she to bed for some much needed rest), we walked around Bryant Park in the rain and had a late breakfast at a charming French pâtissier. ~ Thanks to my darling daughter Liv for the wonderfully fun 20-hour New York City whirlwind!
Bryant Park Carousel
See a live recording of Macklemore performing “Can’t Hold Us” on my blogs at Kim Smith Designs or Butterfly Films.
See more posts related to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis ~
Same Love Marriage
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Win THREE Awards at the VMAs!!!
BomBom Butterflies Video
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LETTIE G in Gloucester. . .
a natural fit.
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Eastern Point Lighthouse
Took this from the Hammond Castle at 4:00 pm.
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Artist Spotlight Series – Jen Moltoni
Spotlight on Jen Moltoni
Originally from Maine and now settled in Melrose, Jen Moltoni is a collage artist whose images are created using hand-painted paper and photographs. Jen loves color and the ocean, and is inspired by both. She makes a point of traveling to the North Shore at least once a week to take a walk on one of the many lovely beaches and to find inspiration for her work. Jen is a relatively new member of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, and this will be her first Holiday Art and Fine Craft Festival.
Although never formally trained, Jen has always enjoyed painting, and would create collages for fun when she was in High School. “I remember being obsessed with perfume bottles. I didn’t actually own any fancy perfume, and I didn’t wish that I had some. It was more about the different shapes and colors of the bottles themselves. I would look through magazines, and every time there was a new perfume ad, I would cut out the picture and attach it to one of the walls in my bedroom. By the time I went off to college, I had a space on my wall that was about 3’x3’, and it was covered with tiny pictures of perfume bottles. I loved figuring out how they would fit together best. My rule was that I could not use the same perfume bottle picture twice.”
“I do the same thing with the collages that I do now. The difference is that I don’t start off with a specific shape or color or texture. I figure that out as I go. I also make rules with the photographs that I cut up sometimes, just to make it interesting. For example, if I want to have the ocean in one of my collages, I can’t use cut up pieces of a photograph of the ocean to re-create that. I can use anything –pieces of a sky or tree photo, painted paper, but NOT a picture of the ocean. Silly (sometimes broken) rules. It’s fun.” As a busy mom who works full time at a local university, it can be difficult to carve out time for being creative, but Jen has worked hard to make her artwork a priority. “As a parent I’ve found that it can be difficult to find time for myself. However, once I committed to having certain times during the week that were dedicated to giving myself permission to be creative, I found that overall the quality of my life improved noticeably. Painting and doing collages is something that makes me happy, and being happy is making me a better parent.”
You can follow Jen’s work on her blog: http://jenmoltoni.blogspot.com/, and look for more of her work at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, East Gloucester during the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival
Saturdays and Sundays, Noon-4 PM
November 30 – December 29
http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/winter.php
E.J. Lefavour
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Frenchman’s Pier, Days Creek
View of Manchester Harbor from Beach Street overlooking Days Creek. Frenchman’s Pier at Little River, Gloucester
Days Creek, Manchester
Days Creek Sunset
Frenchman’s Pier, Gloucester
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Waiting
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Time to order your 2014 Cape Ann calendars! BY SHARON
Cape Ann calendars make a great gift for those who used to live here, someone in the service, or for friends who would love to live here someday! They can be mailed directly or you can pick them up at Present, 33 Main St here in Gloucester. Here’s where you can order: http://slowephoto.com/?p=6864
These calendars have become favorites for people all over the country! Year after year folks re-order for gift-giving or to keep for themselves. I love the notes I get from those who have received calendars during the holiday season.
The calendars make great holiday gifts for:
-Your kids’ teachers
-The dog groomer
-Your hairdresser
-Friends who have moved away
-An elderly person
-Mail delivery person
-Babysitter
-Your favorite waitress
-Party host(ess)
-Newspaper delivery person
-Your mother-in-law
Just about anybody! (Even your therapist!!)
This calendar comes in a unique cd-type case which flips into a stand for the monthly pages. 
Good Harbor Beach desk calendar:
And the 8.5 x11 Cape Ann wall calendar : 
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Skating on Mill Pond, 1943
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Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Harvest Festival at The UU Was Packed! (and I scored some of my favorite pickles)
This is a must attend event every year. Wish it happened every week or every other!
Just another wild weekend in Gloucester with only 50 or so community events happening around town to choose from.
You know those people who say there’s nothing to do around here? They really ought to be committed to the funny farm.
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2013 Taste Of Magnolia
Ya, another packed event for a great organization. One of about 50 this weekend 🙂
I apologize for the not great photography, had the camera on the wrong settings.
Go Magnolia!
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Community Stuff 11/24/13
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club is pleased to host two wonderful presentations at the December 13 meeting, one by Steve Kolaczkowski, and another by Dr. Mario Motta. Steve K will open the meeting by showing us what’s in store for us in the winter sky, from planets to galaxies to star clusters and nebulae; Steve will be followed by Dr. Motta’s presentation on the strange journey of one of his giant telescope optics.
The large mirror, 1/3 the size of the Hubble primary (!), was designed as part of a satellite before it became the primary optic for Mario’s first big telescope. When he made another large telescope for his Gloucester observatory, Mario donated the mirror to a facility in Italy where it is now being used for spectroscopy.
Come on out and enjoy Mario’s remarkable optical saga, Steve’s fun and informative look at what’s up, and the usual (and some not so usual) good things to eat and drink, and great conversation.
The public is warmly invited. There are no dues or fees, and no special knowledge or equipment is needed to have a great time.
GAAC meets on the second Friday of the month at 8:00pm, at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street, in the Lanesville neighborhood of Gloucester. More info can be found on the club website at http://gaac.us and on the club facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage or on Twitter, @gaactweet.
Good Morning Gloucester 