ID More Difficult, But Not Much
Year: 2013
charting the paths for plastic soup patches of our oceans
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/
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 
Or Angela Sun’s (still in progress) chatty, more entertainment tonight-like still unflinching delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pRy88R-4BI
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.
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Community Photos 11/9/13
Rockport’s autumn colors
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2013
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Community Stuff 11/9/13
CAT Collaborative’s Fall Play, Homestead Crossing Explores the Power of Reflection and Continuity of Self
If you were given a crystal ball at 20-something would you want to see you and your spouse at 50-something? At 50-something would you look back to see your 20-something self and spouse? Would you have the courage to look at what you would become? Could endure you how you had changed from your youth?
Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative’s fall play, Homestead Crossing, by Sudbury, Mass. native William Donnelly creates a “crystal ball” to view the 50-something married couple of Noel and Anne with the by-happenstance meeting of 20-something Claudia and Tobin. Both couples reflect each other across the spectrum of aging and remembrance of youth. Each couple transforms the other into deeper knowing and fuller remembrances. The quiet disconnect of comfortable middle age marriage and the youthful exuberance of setting out on a collective dream meet in a delightful twist! Donnelly’s “jeweler’s eye” explores who we are at the start of relationships and who we are as we age into them. Homestead Crossing abounds with humor, poignance and the deep wisdom of life’s journey when lived fully and honestly.
Our cast features Emma Cavaliere as Claudia, Pauline Miceli as Anne, Tom Rash as Tobin and Marc St. Pierre as Noel.
When: November 15, 16, 17, ( 21st Benefit performance for the Lanesville Community Center, 8pm), 22, 23, 24 Fridays/Saturdays 8pm and Sundays 3pm
Where: Gorton Theatre (home of Gloucester Stage Company), 267 E. Main St., Gloucester, MA
General Admission: $15
Door Sales: Cash/Check Only
Reserve: CATcollab@gmail.com
Buy Tickets Online: www.catcollaborative.org
Calendar listing for College Essay Nights
The Gloucester Writers Center is holding two College Essay nights in November for High School Seniors. Writers in the community will work one-on-one with seniors at two different times and locations to give feedback, advice, or a shoulder to cry on. Free, no appointment necessary. Bring your draft, at any stage, even if it still just in your head. For more information, contact JoeAnn@joeannhart.com.
Thursday, November 21
Show up anytime between 7 pm and 9 pm.
The Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main St, next to Richdale, park on Chapel St.
Tuesday, November 26
Show up anytime between 5 pm and 7 pm.
The Sawyer Free Library, downstairs in the Friend Room.
Historic Businesses of Cape Ann Open House
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present an open house at 16 Rogers Street, Gloucester as part of their Who We Are is Who We Were: Historic Businesses of Cape Ann series on Saturday, November 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visit the working studios of sailmaker Josh Bevins, furniture restorer Dean Snell and artist Jeff Weaver to learn more about these occupations that have been a part of Gloucester’s working waterfront since the 19th century. Light refreshments will be served. This program is free for members, $10 nonmembers. Reservations are required. Please call 978-491-7872 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.
Sailmaker Josh Bevins has been involved with sailmaking since he was 14 years old. A Marblehead native, he got his start with Cressy’s Sailmakers. He fell in love with Gloucester during the eighties when he came through for boat repairs. He set up shop twelve years ago and has been working out of 16 Rogers Street for the past ten years. Dean is an electric bass player who has been happily married for thirty years.
Furniture restorer Dean Snell lives in Gloucester with his wife and three children. He moved here soon after getting a fine arts degree at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He first worked as a carpenter and then apprenticed with John Ockenga, maker of prized North Shore cabinets, in the 1980s and went on his own in 1992. Located on the historic Gloucester harbor, the Restoration Works at 16 Rogers Street specializes in restoration and repair of all kinds of furniture, from fine antiques to pieces worth saving simply because of their sentimental value.
Artist Jeff Weaver was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. He began drawing and painting at an early age, accepting portrait commissions by age fourteen. In his high school years, he won awards in drawing & sculpture in the Boston Globe state-wide art competitions. After graduating from high school, he entered the Boston Museum School. In 1972 he took up residence in Gloucester, sketching and painting the waterfront on an almost daily basis. In his early years in the city, he supported himself at various waterfront jobs, as well as from commissions for boat portraits from fishing vessel captains, and for murals in commercial establishments and private homes. This eventually led to many years of commercial work, including over 30 murals painted in different parts of the city. Returning to fine art pursuits in the 1990s, Jeff again focused on depicting Gloucester and its environs in various media. He currently operates a studio/gallery at 16 Rogers Street on the Gloucester waterfront.
The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to this remarkable place. Founded in 1873, the Museum’s collections represent the history of Cape Ann, its people, its industries, and especially its art and culture. The Museum is closed for renovations until summer 2014. For more information visit www.capeannmuseum.org
HELLO FRIENDS:
The Frenchman is currently featured on Whizbuzz and has a great review in InD Tale magazine. Both links are below.
http://www.derekhaines.ch/whizbuzz/2013/10/b-b-boudreau-the-frenchman/#comment-341
http://www.indtale.com/magazine/2013/june/#?page=82
Enjoy! Books available at The Bookstore, 61 Main St., Gloucester and Toadhall, 47 Main St.,
Rockport.
Antiques, furniture, collectibles, art, and more will be available at a tag sale at the Unitarian Universalist Society of
Rockport, 4 Cleaves Street, Saturday, November 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The sale will be held in both the
upper and lower levels of the church and will feature the work of local artist William Reynolds Beal.
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Local Updates- Engage!
Cat Ryan submits-
Hi all,
Here are few deadline events that may interest you, and some wonderful Gloucester news. So many updates are possible because of the strong support and lead from the City of Gloucester through the office of Mayor Kirk. Click the logos to follow the links—orange seems to be in fashion for these logos! What amazing partnerships surround us; please share the links with your friends. Good Morning Gloucester, the Gloucester Daily Times, the Cape Ann Beacon, Cape Ann TV and other local media have helped tremendously in spreading the word for our creative art, businesses, and orgs.
Sincerely
Catherine
November 14, 2013 FREE special conference on rising water issues and natural systems: The Great Marsh Symposium at the Crane Estate, Ipswich, MA, Great House at the Trustees of Reservations, Ipswich, MA, hosted by The Great Marsh Coalition. Essex National Heritage is a member. There’s a tour from the great roof after! FREE
Wednesday, November 20, 2013, Smart Growth Alliance Conference at the ABX convention center, Boston. Celebrating Smart Growth projects across the Commonwealth and ten years of Smart Growth. I’m going as a participant. I’ll also be speaking about arts/culture updates in Gloucester for one of the panels. Gloucester’s successes via its Community Development department and the HarborWalk public spaces inspired this invitation.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Montserrat Gallery, Beverly: The Creative Economy of the North Shore (CEANS) is hosting a networking reception. Feature of the night: arts and culture curator, and non profit advisor, Ricardo Barreto, will speak about the NEA public art process that led to 75 nationally known artists submitting public art ideas. We’ll meet the artist awarded the project, too, Anna Schuleit Haber. FREE
You may have missed Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s hosting for MOTT’s Director Betsy Wall. A big focus of this reception described the excellent platform of their website. Please add in your businesses and orgs ASAP—the North Shore and Gloucester can do more! If you have questions feel free to email me! Immediate exciting impact: MOTT has asked multi talented Gloucester resident and artist Kim Smith to be a guest blogger on their fantastic website. Also, her video of the schooner festival will be added to their YouTube channel. The Chamber is also working on a campaign for a Cape Ann license plate. They’re working with legislature to see if the restrictive parameters for logo design can revert to offering the entire background as part of a winning design (as we see with Cape Cod or the MA Environmental Trust’s Right Whale).
- Nice press for downtown.
Harbortown Cultural District is featured in the November 2013 issue of their publication Horizons as part of a submission for one of its regularly published “ten” lists. You can find the article here They introduce the ten districts as “the creative heart of many communities. Here are some in the region worth visiting.” The other districts on the list cover 7 states: New Haven’s Audubon Arts District, Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts, Lowell’s Canalway, New York City’s East Fourth Street, Providence’s Downtown, Hartford’s Downtown, Baltimore’s Mount Vernon, Portland’s Arts, and Pittsfield’s Upstreet. The article also credits the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s (MCC) cultural districts program. www.gloucesterharbortown.org. The author selected this district because of the HarborWalk.
- INCREASE YOUR AUDIENCES
Excellent podcast webinar from the Massachusetts Cultural Council on how to build audiences with ArtsBoston Audience Initiative project. The link also has a copy of the presentation if you don’t have time to listen. When you do find an hour to sit with the audio, there’s a lot of good information (and maybe one dog barking in the background at some point and one swear whoops!) There’s a sliding scale fee to sign up and share audience lists. Gloucester businesses/orgs should do it. Local mention: If you listen to the entire broadcast you’ll hear artist and seARTS Chair Jackie Ganim-Defalco ask a question and mention Cape Ann Artisans! Update: In September, the Massachusetts Cultural Council worked with legislatures to append the state budget, requesting an increase in $500,000 towards marketing. The request was tabled for now. But what’s important is the advocacy, the communication, and the ideas are out there! It is so important to share. Mention and coverage of arts and culture across many elections and in the media has significantly increased and improved.
US Travel Association. Please text to show your support for this Jolt Act. It affects Gloucester and all MA residents! I can’t believe that Brazil, Romania and Poland have trouble with visas! Text from your phone today 877-877, “travel”, and send to sign up for the Power of Travel coalition if you want to help there.
See Good Morning Gloucester coverage here
Essex National Heritage outstanding Essex Trails and Sails is not surprisingly already planning for next year. They were thrilled with Gloucester participation and the Block Party overlap, and hope to have even more partners and more promotion for 2014. Update coming soon and please plan for it next year! Their website and social media platforms are excellent opportunities.
November 1-17, 2013, save time for Cape Ann Community Cinema’s 6th Cape Ann Film Festival
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Surf City USA ~ Gloucester, Massachusetts?
Gloucester’s Good Harbor Beach Surfers at Daybreak in Autumn
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I often see the surfers arriving en mass at daybreak and then departing around 8:30–I imagine heading off to work. What a terrific way to start the work day! For the daily New England surf forecast, visit New England Surf.
Good Harbor Beach
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True or False
Adam Bolonsky submits-
Poll: the following story is true or false:
True: I was there and I saw it happen. We made frogs’ legs stew out of the frogs stuck in the mud
False: no way a 12-gauge shotgun could scare that many seagulls
Probably true: winters in Gloucester were a hell of a lot colder back then. Most winters kids from Magnolia iceskated to GHS by way of Normans Woe and the Blynman Canal
Reporting in the Gloucester Daily Times more than a few years back, none other than Joe Garland was accosted downtown by Ray Davis, deliveryman for the Railroad Avenue Market:
Ray jabbed a finger in my chest and asked why I didn’t mention the day Niles Pond disappeared.
“You mean the day back in the twenties when Jack Prentiss tried to drain it to under twenty acres so it wouldn’t qualify as a Great Pond and he could claim if for his private puddle?
“Naw,” said Davis. “This was way back, a terrible hard winter. Niles froze right deep. Came on so fast an awful crowd of gulls there got their feet froze in. Next morning one of the guys was tramping through that way, and thought mebbe he could save ’em if he could scare ’em off.
“So he went home and got his twelve-gauge shotgun and went back and fired both barrels up in the air. Them gulls all started flying at once, and they lifted the whole of Niles Pond right up off the bottom and flew away it over Brace Cove to the no’theast.”
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Fish on Fridays
The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.
Halloween on Gloucester Harbor
Grim Reaper’s iron dredge assembly broke loose and tipped over the side of the vessel. During the incoming tide she got caught under the cement dock and took on water. After a few high tides she took on enough water to sink. The distress call for Grim Reaper came into the Coast Guard on Halloween. They said, “you just can’t make these things up!”.
TMC Services Inc. was sub-contracted by the Boston Coast Guard to drain the oil and gasoline tanks and clean up any spillage.
Photos © Kathy Chapman 2013
http://www.kathychapman.com
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Calm Before the Storm
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Night Colors
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November in the Matz Gallery: Laureen Adrienne Maher’s “Birdseye View”
This month the Adolph Matz Gallery features the work of Laureen Adrienne Maher. “Birdseye View” is her largest body of work and features many images of the old Birdseye building as it stands today. You will see the dilapidation and gritty character that this site brings to our unique cityscape … if only for a little while more. Birdseye View is also the title of the large centerpiece of this exhibit: three 18 x 24 canvases dressed in oils and mounted on a stucco-like background.
 This show is dedicated to her late husband, Steve DeBoer, who supported her painting efforts wholeheartedly and loved Gloucester and the cast of characters and artists that make up this City. “Everywhere I go people are talking about what is happening around the old Birdseye building. All I know is I had a great time painting it!”
Laureen was published in the Gloucester Times in March 2010 and 2011. Both articles featured her florals and popular series, called Catch of the Day, which depicts our great local rock stars including Allen Estes, Fly Amero, and Willie “Loco” Alexander. In recent years she has exhibited locally at Lone Gull, Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Rocky Neck, and The Bodin Historic Gallery. The latter carries Snack Bar at Good Harbor Beach which is one of her most popular reproductions.
Laureen resides in beautiful East Gloucester. She owns Beauty Bar at 12 Parker Street where she cuts and colors hair and exhibits her artwork year-round. New works are in progress for her upcoming late Spring exhibit to be held at Beauty Bar. She also participates in the Sawyer Free Library Annual Art Auction each year.
Contact Laureen at (617) 335-6788 or email her at laureen@beautybarstyle.com.
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Roly Poly Pinnipeds
E.J. Lefavour
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State Fish Pier 11/08/2013
2:05pm
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Sun Sets in Peabody (not “on”)
Not to panic, I was a passenger on this journey down Route 128 / I-95 . Traveling on the way to Reading for the Manchester Essex field hockey game and I got to watch a changing sky almost all the way.
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Don’t be fooled by cooler weather — the music season NEVER slows down on Cape Ann
A few places have closed for the season and there aren’t as many tourists around.  Traffic is lighter.  The Cut Bridge isn’t always up.  But that doesn’t mean you can wait until the last minute to get tickets to concerts at Shalin Liu.  That’s because with a world-class music venue down the road in Rockport, the season never really ends — at least not the music season.  Many of their concerts are already sold out — or nearly sold out, meaning you have to call the box office to see if there are any seats left, namely: Capital Steps and Arlo Guthrie.  There are still a few tickets left for Jonathan Edwards and Peter Wolf, but not many.  And the Cape Ann Big Band matinee on Dec 8 is nearly sold out too.  There are still some good orchestra seats for The Freddy Cole Quartet on next Friday, Nov 15, but they’re going fast too.  Check out his video below:
So the moral of the story is that just because it’s getting cold out doesn’t mean you can wait until the last minute to get tickets to world-class concerts at Cape Ann’s premier concert venue!
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Menage a Trio ~ Franklin Cafe ~ Linda Amero, Bronek Suchanek & Jane Potter 7-10
LADY JANE POTTER tinkling the keys tonight, COUNT BRONEK SUCHANEK bowing his dopple bass. YOURS TRULY doing my usual vocalizing. COME TO THE FRANKLIN TONITE FOR JAZZ & DIN DIN! You might see a movie star (or two)! 7-10p.
978-283-7888, make a res now.
Franklin Cafe
118 Main St
Gloucester, MA 0193
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Say It Ain’t So Mr. Morrison. Please Say It Ain’t So!
Giant Rubber Duck Deflates After Earthquake
From the UK Telegraph;
“A giant rubber duck art installation fell victim to a 6.3 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan on Thursday.
Workers in Taoyuan county tried to re-inflate the duck, the work of Dutch  artist Florentijn Hofman, after its air pump malfunctioned during Thursday’s  earthquake in Taiwan.
But the artwork had suffered too many tears and leaks thanks to high winds,  and it collapsed onto the surface of the lake where it had been installed.
Local media reported some Taiwanese were so upset, they called for a 10 second  silence to commemorate the duck.
Officials soon came to the rescue however – with the bright idea of moving the  59 foot inflatable onto dry land.
Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported it would take seven to 10 days to  completely repair the duck, which cost about $44,000 to make and install,  but by Saturday afternoon it was looking plump and healthy on its new  land-base.”
Also Please Help Paul Morrisons Obsession of bringing the Big Rubber Duck to Gloucester Harbor. I just Invited all my Facebook Friends I know and don’t know personally. I hope all you Facebook Readers will do the same. https://www.facebook.com/giganticrubberduck
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Fried Artichoke
A few weeks ago as I waited in line for some cuts of meat from the butcher, during my weekly shop at Joe Pace & Son in Saugus Ma., , I spotted a childhood favorite displayed on top of the deli counter….marinated artichokes! Immediately my brain became flooded with dozens of recipe ideas, and became so excited, that I could feel butterflies in my stomach. I could not wait to get home an crack open that can and start cooking.
Fried Artichokes
Ingredients
1 Can Roman Artichokes with stem
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
3 cup Sicilian Breadcrumbs (recipe in my cookbook, “Gifts Of Gold”on page 201)
1/2 cup milk
2 large eggs
La Spagnola Oil (for frying)
4 paper towels
Step-by-Step
1 In pie plate,combine flour salt and pepper; mix well; reserve
2 Whisk eggs and milk together in separate pie plate; reserve
3 Stack 3 paper towels on flat work surface; arrange each artichoke on top; absorb excess oil with remaining paper towel
4 Cut each artichoke in half lengthwise
5 Carefully coat all sides of each artichoke half, generously with seasoned flour mixture
6 Immediately dip and coat all sides with egg wash
7 Generously coat flour and egg washed artichoke pieces with Sicilian Breadcrumbs
8 Heat 4 cups La Spagnola Oil in large frying pa; using kitchen tongs and working in small batches, carefully arrange 3-4 artichoke pieces into hot oil
9Â Â Fry 2-3 minute, turn pieces; cook 2-3 minutes or until all sides are golden in color
10 Cool and drain excess oil on cookie rack lined cookie sheet; serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce
A special Note from Sista~
I have received a few new Sista Felicia recipe photos sent in from GMG FOB Cooks this week… keep them coming … I will be posting them once per week…they are looking great !
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Rockport, but Where?
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Updated! Photos of Fisherman/woman Statue from Scandinavia
This just in-
Hi Joey-
I arrived home from Iceland last evening and was catching up on GMG posts when I saw that Sarah Clark had posted some great photos of other fisherman statues. She commented that she wished she had a GMG sticker when she had taken them so I must have taken this photo for her!
Best-Janet (Rice)
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Sarah Clark submits-
Hi, Joey,
Here are a fisherman and fisherman’s wife statues from Alesund, Norway. Next to them are two views of the fishermen’s statue in Reykavik, Iceland. Wish I had thought to have a Good Morning Gloucester sticker when I took these! Just thought folks in Gloucester might enjoy these.
Good Morning Gloucester 