Cookbook Gala Prep! One Day Left To Get Sista Felicia’s Cookbook Launch Gala Tickets- You Can Get Them Here At The Dock or At Mamie’s Kitchen!

Daphne Papp Photos-

Assembling Centerpieces!

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Cookbooks-

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Cookie Being Made-

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Centerpieces with Frank Ciolino Made Banner Held By Dee Noble and Skylar-

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Making The Red Pasta

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IMG_3490For Anyone That Has Yet To Purchase A  Ticket I Have Them Here At The Dock

Captain Joe and Sons

95 East Main St

Gloucester MA

You can come get yours here.

Here she is at Cruiseport Working Out the details of the ridiculous menu.

Lots of her recipes will be served- She tells me the menu will be coming to post soon.  Every last detail she’s been working on feverishly to make it a spectacular event.  Huge huge thanks to Sheree DeLorenzo and her staff at Cruiseport for catering to her special requests to make this night a night to remember.

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News Flash! East Gloucester Overrun By Mutant Hyper Breeding Bunny Rabbits- Feds Calling In Bunny Rabbit Expert To Take Care Of The Situation

If anyone has driven down Moorland Road at 4AM they know the situation.  You got Bunny Rabbits Cross Crossing the Road Like A Bunny Rabbit Version of the eighties video game Frogger.

It’s not if you’re gonna eventually run one of these mutant hyper breeding bunny rabbits over, it’s when.  My when just happened to be this morning on my way to work.

Replace Frog With Furry Brown Bunny Rabbit

So the call went out to the Feds and I word is that they’re sending in an expert to take care of the situation-

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Rubber Duck Public Service Announcement: Do Not Feed The Seagulls!

rdbirdIf you want to do something really cool, like feed birds out of your hand just go to the Mass Audubon Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary and bring sunflower seeds. The volunteers there will tell you where to hold out your hand and sure enough chickadees and even a nuthatch will come down, sit on your finger, and grab a seed.

But please do not feed the Cape Ann Seagulls. It’s not the poop and the squawking. The problem is that Cape Ann seagulls are just as smart as chickadees if not a little smarter. It might only take a few days for a couple of seagulls to figure out that when a fisherman is on the point they might throw their bait in the water when they are done. Or they clean their fish on the rocks and leave the guts and rack right there and the seagulls clean it up. But the next day or the next these seagulls are bolder and they think all fishermen on the point are there to feed them. So they chase the popper of the next fisherman on the point.

Yeah, I just spent the morning with two trained seagulls chasing my popper. It sucks. Next time you throw your bait to the cute seagulls or feed them anything remember that cute seagull with a hook stuck in its beak dying a slow and agonizing death. Or a fisherman yanking her popper out of the water and smacking herself in the head with treble hooks.

And take your Dunkin Donuts coffee cup with you. Thanks.

[edit] I am getting quite a bit of back channel chatter about my usage of “seagull” as the name of the flying sea rats we have around here. Birders prefer just “gull” or maybe you have to name the species. We have herring gulls, black back gulls, laughing gulls, common, lesser and one we call Homie.

In Wikipedia they say: Seagull or Sea Gull is a common, informal, name for Gulls, sea birds in the family Laridae. Since Rubber Duck and I like to be on an informal basis when dealing with Homie and his pals I will continue to use “seagull”.

Blood Drive hosted by Gloucester Fire Fighters and Jalapeños was a success!

Tina Ketchopulos forwards-
In response to the Marathon bombing and emergency need to replenish blood supplies, Jalapeños and the Gloucester Fire Fighters held an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Saturday, August 24 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

The community blood drive was held outside Jalapeños, 86 Main Street, Gloucester. The American Red Cross blood donor van was be parked at 86 Main Street. Palazola’s Sporting Goods provided parking spaces in their parking lot for donors. Jalapeños provided a $20. gift card to those who donate that day. Addison Gilbert Hospital provided a gift bag to each donor.
Attached are photos from Saturday’s blood drive of volunteers and donors!

Community Stuff 8/27/13

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The online portion of Bluenose Gala Celebration and Auction is now open. The auction will run until September 2, 2013. Proceeds go to Maritime Gloucester in order to support our efforts to inspire students and visitors to value marine science, maritime heritage and environmental stewardship through hands-on education and experiences. Auction items range from exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin! 

http://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/AuctionHome.action?vhost=maritimegloucester

Make Your Bid to Support Maritime Gloucester!

Now is your chance to not only get all the great items you want, but to do it knowing you are helping support our organization and mission. 

Inspiring Discovery. Embracing History. Exploring Science. Living Stewardship.

 


Dream Repeater: Toys Falling
IlaSahai Prouty and company

Don’t miss Flatrocks Gallery’s show Dream Repeater: Toys Falling, a group show curated by IlaSahai Prouty  in it’s final week.  

In her on-going project Dream Repeater, Prouty creates artworks in various media based on bits of collected dream narratives. For this show, she has invited other artists to join her.

Prouty’s work deals with the ways repetition can intensify and expand meaning. “I’m exploring how a short snippet of a dream, essentially a short story, can grow to become something larger and more mythic.”

Last summer, Prouty’s Dream Repeater work, “Goldilocks, Save the World,” was installed at the Cape Ann Museum’s White Ellery House. This year, she returns to her home town to present a collection of works based on a dream called Toys Falling. “I have been working with these dreams myself, and I wanted to expand the project – to see where others might take the dreams, and how they look through other peoples eyes.”

Each artist in this show agreed to create work in response to the dream text. The show will include sculpture, painting, encaustic, illustration, mixed media, poetry, video, printmaking, quilting, and story telling.

Participating Artists are: IlaSahai Prouty, Caroline Bagenal, Rocky Delforge, Adriane Herman, Bo Hyung Lee, Vicki Paret, Doris Prouty, Hans Pundt, Sarah Slifer Swift, Stephanie Williams, Heather Atwood, Emily Wheeler, Tim Averill, and Peter Hickman.

IlaSahai Prouty grew up in Lanesville, Massachusetts. She is a former chair of the Art Department at the Waring School in Beverly, Mass., and considers herself an artist with Cape Ann roots. She has an MFA from the California College of Art in San Francisco, California., and is currently Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Prouty is also an Assistant Professor at nearby Appalachian State University.
Flatrocks Gallery is located at 77 Langsford Street/Route 127 in Gloucester, MA. Hours are 12-5pm, Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment. The gallery is focused on continuing the long tradition of artists in Lanesville, and is committed to offering works of art to the community that challenge and engage.

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Hello,
I’m helping out in the search for a missing coonhound/shepherd mix named Zadie. Missing since the end of May. She is now 10 months old. She has been spotted multiple times in Gloucester recently. I was wondering if you could post the attached poster on your Facebook Page. They also have a FB page. The family is desperate to find her and miss her very much. Thank you for any help in finding Zadie. Thank you so much!
Jan Jaroma

Tommy O From The Yankee Fleet Outfits Captain Pete Mondello With A Pair Of Outriggers

Captain Pete has been having some severe a type of vertigo that makes him so dizzy it takes him to his knees.  In the past couple weeks he’s had to come in from fishing a bunch of times.

So what does Tommy O do?  Hand crafts Pete his very own set of stabilizing outriggers right down to the cables with the birds hanging off the ends.

Tommy O displays the prototype-

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and here’s a happy Pete ready to go fishing-

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Live Blogging: Pre- shoot scouting

I’m rolling w a production crew scouting for next week’s Wicked Tuna promo shoot. When they return, it will be a big crew, with even bigger camera rigs.

Up-close action on a schooner – catch a ride

Al Bezanson writes-

You can ride on a schooner in Gloucester on Labor Day weekend and be part of the action.  Or you can spend +++ the price of  a schooner ticket to attend a major league ball game and watch highly-paid athletes with your binoculars.  Folks that work aboard these schooners are the real deal, with great skills, doing what they love for little or no pay.

Here you see the fors’l being furled on ADVENTURE following last Saturday’s shakedown sail.

Tickets here on various schooners  http://gloucesterschoonerfestival.net/?p=408

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Trident Gallery

Sent by Charlie Carroll

Here’s an Invitation to the Opening of the ” Trident Gallery”…

New work by Charlie and 12 other renowned Artists and Photographers will be featured.

This is an Opening, not to be missed. Hope to see you there.

Charlie

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Bench Dedication – Betty (Densmore) Lafata

Family and friends attend dedication of a Bench in her memory, celebrating her life.

Gloucester Daily Times Obituary, Family Thank You.

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