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My View of Life on the Dock
Check out Martin Ray’s recent posting “Floating”, at http://halibutpointnotes.blogspot.com
Martin
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
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!
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.
Hi Joey,
During two Trails and Sails weekends and the last Block Party, the Committee for the Arts (CFTA ) was pleased to participate and spread awareness about municipal art. One event: during the block party we were at Main and Parsons, near a very busy Markouk booth (always busy at Cape Ann Farmers Market, too), fried dough and candy truck (not just kids buying!), Dress Code’s charmingly illuminated booth, and Joe Ciolino’s. What a gorgeous night! We spoke with dozens of folks including the group of twenty youth from Ocean Classroom en route from Maine to Puerto Rico with a stop in Gloucester and a night out downtown. Parsons Street public art mural by James Owen Calderwood.
Send us your photos and we’ll add them in! gloucestercfta@gmail.com
Enjoy photos from Saturday’s Gloucester Committee for the Arts/Block Party/Trails and Sails!
Gloucester Block Party is making some “best of” and “top” event lists. Here are a couple of nice mentions:
http://www.topeventsusa.com/state-events-massachusetts.html
http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/992709/top-8-summer-block-parties-in-the-us
The Essex National Heritage Commission is the organization that ran the fantastic Trails and Sails weekends (34 towns, and hundreds of FREE events!) Don’t miss it next year!
Learn parenting hacks from the best!
Author, Christine Koh of Boston Mamas and Minimalist Parenting to speak at North Shore Nursery School on Thursday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m.
In the midst of a culture and marketing climate that tells parents “more is more”, MINIMALIST PARENTING, authors Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest offer a fresh approach to navigating modern family life. Christine helps parents tune into their family’s unique values and priorities. She’ll share the Minimalist Parenting road map for simplifying your family life – how to confidently edit schedules, possessions, and expectations to give you time and space for what you truly care about. With her suggestions you’ll enjoy your family more by doing less!
“With its focus on simplicity, self-knowledge, kindness, and confidence, Christine gives parents the tools to help themselves-and, more importantly, trust themselves-as they navigate the often overwhelming terrain of managing family life.” –Andrea J. Buchanan, New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls
Tickets are $10 with limited seating. Purchase tickets online today!
Kelly O’Connor
I loved your recent turkey photo. When I travel across the state via Amtrak (the slow route), the autumn fields are full of flocks of wild turkeys, seeking corn leftover from the harvest. The train eventually travels along the Missouri River, and sometimes I’ll see a turkey at the river’s edge.
I hope you enjoy this marvelous season, and I look forward to your new and interesting posts. By the way, I might enjoy your meatloaf since it includes bacon:-)
Kindest regards,
Ann
Ann and Her Brother in a Japanese Tub
Visit Ann’s stellar blog, Haddock and Dill, which was inspired by a 40 year written correspondence between her mother and grandmother. It is a blog of letters that chronicle the life of one American family. The collection of nearly 2000 letters, notes and cards contain photos, clippings, and comments on everyday life, beginning in 1941.
While talking with Thom Falzarano the other day, he was saying how much he was enjoying photographing up in New Hampshire where there was rusted old farm equipment and grazing horses to photograph. Â Although these are grazing donkeys, not horses (I know my barn animals) – that is a cool old rusted piece of farm equipment, and they are right here in Gloucester. Â Does anyone know where?
E.J. Lefavour

Tomorrow at 9AM Peter will be Aurelia Nelson’s guest on her North Shore 104.9 radio show Curtain Up, where he will announce a one-night-only concert featuring a major national recording star and rock n’ roll icon at The Larcom Theatre down the road in Beverly.
If you’re already a member of our gimmeLIVE Concert Club, you’ll be notified when tickets go on sale before the general public is. Â You can sign up here if you’re not a member.
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EVENT Make Your Own Instrument! |
DESCRIPTION Family Activities |
TIME & LOCATION 10am to 12pm at the Old Firehouse Trust |
MORE DETAILS Sponsored by Rockport Music |
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Dog Parade! |
Family Activities |
11:30 in Harvey Park with prizes awared following the parade |
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Sasquatch  & Co. |
Music |
11am – 12:45pm in Dock Square |
Folk & Americana |
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Ipswich Ale Beer Truck |
Food |
11am – 6pm. Enjoy the craftsmanship of microbrews under the tent on T Wharf |
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Cooking Demo: Paola LaBoa demonstrates how to make his award-winning pesto |
Food |
11am on T Wharf |
Paolo’s pesto was featured in La Cucina Italiana Magazine |
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Eric Wilson & John Rockwell |
Music |
11am to 11:45am on T Wharf |
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Old Cold Tater |
Music |
12pm to 2:30pm on T Wharf |
Celtic, Folk, Americana |
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The Buddy Walker Band |
Live Music |
1pm, 2pm, 3pm in front of Bearskin Neck Leathers on Old Harbor Road. |
Polish Polka music from a band founded nearly 65 years ago! Sponsored by Bearskin Neck Leathers |
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MIT Juggling Club |
Entertainment |
1pm & 3pm on Bearskin Neck, 2pm in Dock Square |
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Cooking Demo: Laurie Lufkin, creator of prize-winning recipes and accomplished cook |
Food |
1pm on T Wharf |
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Nicholas Bogosian |
Music |
1pm to 2pm |
Roots music |
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Cooking Demo: Seafood Throwdown |
Food |
2:30pm on T Wharf |
Sponsored by NAMA |
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The HarvestFest Cape Ann Contra Dance |
Family Activities |
2:30pm to 5:30pm |
Sponsored by Cape Ann Contra Dance |
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Scarecrow Chase. Find the the Great Scarecrow! A parade for children of all ages (in costume or not). |
Family Activities |
3pm, beginning in Harvey Park |
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The Sturdy Oaks |
Music |
3pm to 5:30pm on T Wharf |
Bluegrass, Folk, Americana |
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Art/Light: a public send-off to a temporary public art installation |
Art |
6:15pm on Lumber Wharf (public access behind 1 Main Street and down Pier Avenue) |
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WOCA Nonprofit Fair (WOCA stands for: What’s on Cape Ann?) |
Family Activities |
All Day in Harvey Park |
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NYRE Food Booth |
Food |
All Day in Harvey Park |
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Local Fare Food Tent. The best of New England regional food producers come together under one tent! |
Food |
All Day on T Wharf |
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Stores open during Harvestfest! |
Shopping |
All Day throughout downtown |
See all music sorted by time here.

Featuring a PINK PUMPKIN SALE on many items in store!
Warm up with some complimentary hot mulled cider, seasonal ales, and apples and snacks!
Extended hours on Saturday till 7 pm. October 19th! At 67 Main Street!
Some of our FALL special sales include:
– Our ‘Glowing’ collection of candles to set the mood at home!
– Wooly handwoven scarves from SmartWorks, cashmere hand warmers from Elizabethan!
– Jewelry to accent your sweaters and leather jackets by Emily Rosenfeld, Betsy Frost, Joyce Roessler And SKLO
And a plethora of other treats to “Grab”on the way out!!!
GHS DOCKSIDERS
Concert to Benefit
The Open Door Food Pantry
When: Saturday, October 19th at 7 p.m.
Where: Gloucester High School
Admission: Food donations to The Open Door
When: Wednesday October 30th 7:30 pm
What: Helen Fremont to Read at the Gloucester Writers Center
Where: 126 E. Main Street, Gloucester MA 01930
Contact: Chloe Martin, chloemart@gmail.com, 949-677-2451
The Gloucester Writers Center presents Helen Fremont, the author of the national best selling memoir After Long Silence on October 30th, 7:30 p.m. at 126 East Main St. In addition to being a memoirist she is also a public defender in Boston. She will answer questions and dialogue with the audience after her talk A Perspective- Point of View in Memoir.
Helen and her sister grew up Roman Catholic, and it was not until she was in her thirties, that they discovered that their parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors. The book Traces the stories of her parents’ lives, including her father’s years as a political prisoner in the Siberian Gulag, and her aunt’s marriage to an Italian Count, who was instrumental in saving her mother’s life. Other works of fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including 1994: The O. Henry Awards, Ploughshares, and The Harvard Review. She is currently working on her second memoir focusing on her and her sister’s lives, and how the trauma of one generation is expressed in the next.
The Gloucester Writers Center was founded to celebrate, preserve, and promote Gloucester’s rich literary legacy and to create space in the community for the voices of people of all ages and backgrounds to be heard through writing, dialogue, and the artistic process. Find out more about the Gloucester Writers Center at gloucesterwriters.org
Here is some information regarding Family Ties and the Golf Tournament. Also Thom Falzarano is a part of the day taking tons of photos. This is occurring this Monday.
Tee Up……To End Cancer! Schedule of Events:
Ferncroft Country Club 9:00am Registration & Lunch
Middleton, MA 11:00pm Shot Gun Start
Monday October 21, 2012 4:00pm Dinner, Awards & Auction
Please join us for a day of sunshine, fresh air, friends, family, food and a celebration dedicated to all we love to fight and to raise money to help The American Cancer Society through the Relay For Life and Family Ties, Inc.; to help individuals and families financially; and to find cures to end cancer. We are hosting an all-day event of golf, food, awards, silent and live auctions for all to enjoy with the proceeds going to our foundation and to Relay For Life fundraising efforts.
Family Ties, Inc. is a Massachusetts Non-Profit Corporation that was established to help families affected by cancer. Family Ties, Inc. works with Relay for Life which is a 501(c)(3) company to help as many as we can in the fight against cancer. In 1985, Charles “Chucky” Pratt was diagnosed with cancer as a 17 year old high school student. Chucky lost his battle with cancer after four years and missed out on so many of life’s wonderful moments. Family Ties was a Relay for Life team created by Erin “Pratt” Avila to honor her brother and to bring her family together, celebrate him and fight for those who need our help.
Over the past 8 years our family has raised over $100,000.00 as a part of the Relay for Life in Cape Ann, we have won several awards as a team due to our fundraising efforts and have led the fund raising event as top fundraisers. We have now turned this team into a foundation as our passion is to raise money to help families who are battling cancer and to help invest in cures supporting The American Cancer Society through the Cape Ann Relay For life. Join us with your family and friends to help us in the fight against cancer.
The following explains all of your options in how to help and be a part of this amazing day:
If you are interested in making a straight donation to the Family Ties, Inc. foundation please feel free to contact Jon Pratt at 978-239-6881 or Bethany M. Pratt at 617-388-9571.
Thank you from the bottom on our hearts
Family Ties, Inc.