Month: February 2014
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Make a Mess Making Art!
This event sounds like a good time for a good cause! Check it out, below…
ESSEX ELEMENTARY HOLDS 5TH ANNUAL MESSY ART NIGHT
Essex, MA (January 27, 2014) – Essex Elementary School (EES) and the Essex Parent-‐Teacher Organization (PTO) will hold their annual Messy Art Night on Friday, February 7, 2014. This will be the fifth year of the event, which draws attendees from all over Cape Ann and the North Shore for it’s hands-‐on art projects led by artists from the area’s vibrant artistic community.
Over a dozen local artists will demonstrate their crafts and host hands-‐on make-‐your-‐own projects at Messy Art Night, including sculptors, painters, collagists, mixed media artists, potters, and others.
Confirmed artists include: sculptor Chris Williams, illustrator Chrissie McNiff Twombly, potters from Art Haven of Gloucester, painter Kathleen McHugh, the Art School of Salem’s Andrew Carr, painter Margaret Sweet, illustrator Leslie Galacar, painter Emily Gala, The Art Center of Hamilton’s Erin Clark, mixed media artist Jen Mayer, painter Kristen Wilson, and sculptor Scott Mulcahey. Local Essex museums Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum will also host projects at the event.
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Lobster Rangoon
Patrick @LobsterGuyPat Tweeted ~ @ Sista Felicia I need a good lobster recipe…
Hey Patrick… this ones for you! Continue reading “Lobster Rangoon”
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I’m totally offended.
NSFW Don’t expand this if you’re offended by cuss words-
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Pet of the Week- Moxie
Hello, my name is Moxie and I am a three-month-old male Chihuahua, Shih-Tzu mix. I am staying at the Cape Ann Animal Aid, located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter in Gloucester until I am adopted. I am here with my siblings. We have lots of energy and love to play.
Like most puppies, we need guidance, patience and love in learning good manners.If you have time and energy for a loving pup who is too cute for words, please stop by and visit me. The shelter here is wonderful, the outside runs, the toys, the staff and volunteers.
I just love it here, but I am looking forward to a forever home and if that could be you, please stop by and visit me.
Also, I have a good friend in Rockport, he is a greyhound and his name is Moxie, too. His owners spoil him to pieces – and I am looking for a newowner(s) just like my friend Moxie’s has – someone to spoil me to pieces.
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1954 Good Harbor Beach- Those Were The Days, Weren’t They Virginia?
Hi Joey, Listening to your recent podcast, I thought “What can I do to spice things up for the guys?
Then I remembered some old snapshots I have of the Summer of 1954 on Good Harbor Beach. The Bodybuilders, members of the Old YMCA Weightlifting Club, would get together on Saturday afternoons at 3 o’clock and put on an exhibition of strength and entertainment I would call them the Beach Clowns You can see they were outstanding performing body lifts, pyramids, cartwheels, hand to hand, you name it. What a joy to watch them and a delight to their audience on the beach, every Saturday afternoon.
The first photo is my husband, Bob McKinnon, lifting Bob Bruce. Next photo Joe Orange lifting Bob Bruce. My Bob also had many poses with the Dickman twins, John and Charlie. Last photo is me eight months pregnant with my husband and Joe Orange. You have to agree these were the Strong Men of the greatest generation. All WW2 Veterans, home from the war and having a fun time. My husband and Joe Orange, also Tony Mattos, are the only guys left from the photos, but we have these precious memories. Virginia (Frontiero) McKinnon.
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Tuesday February 4TH 2014 Cape Ann Forecast..
MARINE FORECAST …
Tue: N winds 5 to 10 kt…becoming SW in the afternoon. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Tue Night: S winds around 5 kt. Seas around 2 ft. Snow likely. Vsby 1 to 3 nm.
Tuesday mostly sunny temps in the mid to upper 30’s with a light and variable wind … Tuesday night increasing clouds lows in the 20’s light winds from the south around 5-10mph .. Snow breaks out after 3-4 am Wednesday morning .. Wednesday snow heaviest from 5am-1or2pm looking at a Solid 8″ of heavy wet snow along with a gusty NE wind to 30mph !
Things should cool down by late Wednesday .. Dry out period Thursday through Saturday temps in upper 20’s to low 30’s .. Then all eyes turn to the south sat night late ESP Sunday into Monday big storm possible .. But it’s still 5-6 days out . Will deal with one storm at a time 🙂 Thanks for reading ..
Peter J Lovasco
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Happy Birthday Dot!
Gloucester Quilter Is One year Wiser Today! http://gloucesterquilter.wordpress.com/
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GMG Open Topic Of Discussion Of The Week- Wood Stoves vs Pellet Burning Stoves vs BioBricks
So before you start reading please consider contributing to the deiscussion on this topic by clicking where it says “Leave a comment” below the post. If you get the email at the end of the night you can add to the discussion by clicking on the title of this post and adding your comment where it says “Leave a comment” below the post. Thanks. I’m really obsessed with the topic right now and I’m excited to read what you all have to say.
The idea of the new “GMG Open Topic Of Discussion Of The Week” Is To Talk about an interesting topic and beat it to death in the comment section. Hope you like it and feel free to subit other topics for upcoming weeks.
A friend of mine has a killer pellet stove. You go into the room where the pellet stove is roaring and no matter how frigid it is outside you are warm and comfortable in his house.
I hate the cold. Despise it actually. Winter is for the birds as far as I’m concerned. I want to be comfortable and being cold does not equate to being comfortable in my book.
Pellet Stove
This will be my first shortened post using the new format so to view the entire post click here to expand it-
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What We Can Do to Help the Monarchs
Everywhere we turn this past month, there is a report in a major newspaper about the declining Monarch butterfly population. This forwarded from one of our GMG readers: “Monarch butterflies keep disappearing. Here’s why,” was published in the Washington Post on January 29th, 2014.
The author, Brad Plumer, interviewed Dr. Lincoln Brower, a professor of biology at Sweet Briar College and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the subject. I will be meeting Dr. Brower and interviewing him for my film while at the biosphere this month.
One of Dr. Brower’s suggestions on how we can help the Monarchs is along the millions of miles of roadsides in the eastern United States, if we cold get highway departments to plant for pollinators rather than cutting everything down and spraying herbicides. This would be of great help to the Monarchs, insects in general, and many species of birds.
I’ve thought a great deal about this and it is my foremost reason for creating butterfly and habitat gardens, such as the butterfly gardens at the Gloucester HarborWalk. I think too, of the many patches of unused city-owned land dotted about our community and how we could turn these little patches into habitats for all our winged friends. For several years I have wanted very much to organize this project however, I have my hands full with launching the film. Once the film is complete, my hope and plan is that it will become an inspirational and positive educational tool to help generate interest in community projects such as these.
In the meantime, as many of you may be aware, since 2007, I have been creating exhibits and giving lectures about the life story of the Monarch, on the state of butterflies migration, and how we can help the Monarchs, both as individuals and collectively. I purposefully do not publish a price on any of my lecture listings because the cost of my programs are rated based on the size of your group or organization. No group is too small and I don’t want budget constraints to prohibit making the information available to all who are interested.
Here is a link to my Monarch program. If you and your organization would like to learn more about the Monarch Butterfly and how you can help, please contact me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com.
Spangled Dawn Eastern Point Gloucester Massachusetts
Recent Posts on GMG about the Monarch Butterfly:
September 2013
Where Are All the Monarchs?
November 2013
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
January 2014
Monarch Butterflies in Crisis
Request for Help from GMG Community and Monarch Film Update
March 2013
How Exactly is Monsanto’s Roundup Ravaging the Monarch Butterfly Population?
To read more about the life story of the Monarch Butterfly type in Monarch in the GMG search box.
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Walking through Ravenswood, Eastern Point Lighthouse
To see more information on Ravenswood, please click on the following link.
http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/northeast-ma/ravenswood-park.html
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Join Az One Trio & Lise Breen in a Special event Commemorating African-American History
The Az One Trio returns in a festive service at Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, on Sunday, February 9th, Commemorating African-American History in Gloucester with special speaker Lise Breen. Continue reading “Join Az One Trio & Lise Breen in a Special event Commemorating African-American History”
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Marc Berger and RIDE at Old Sloop Coffeehouse on Saturday February 8th
The music is western-themed, and it will be performed by a five-piece band. The drummer is a photographer by day, and he’s taken some beautiful pictures of dramatic scenes in the west. Photos are going to be projected as a sort of backdrop for the band.
Check out their video:
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Gloucester House Showcases North Shore Artists
Participating artists include: Charles Francis, Annie Ziergiebel, JP Ware, Deb Shradieck, Susie Fiels, EJ Lefavour, Camilla Macfayden, Beth Williams, Donna Ardizzoni, Phil Cusumano, Marty Morgan, Thi Linh Wenau, Kathy Roberts, Elynn Kroger, Nina Goodick, Mary Ann DeLouise, Conrad Roeske, Catherine McGeary, Karen Tibbets, Tory and Ally Voner, Eileen Oliver, Amanda Cook, Mary McCarl, Theresa Testaverde, and the folks from Cape Ann Giclee.
Thanks to the Gloucester House Restaurant for sponsoring this art event for the community and North Shore artists! Hope to see all of you there.
E.J. Lefavour
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Central Street Gallery – This Saturday at 5:00 PM!
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What would you like when it’s all over?
Personally This creeps me out. But I think it would be fun to see what our contributors would want if they choose something like this man did.
At the moment mine would be easy. Toast me and toss me over the State Fish Pier so I can float around Joey’s Dock for a few years.
From ABC News,
By Liz Fields;
An Ohio motorcycle enthusiast’s family has carried out their father’s long-laid and elaborate funeral plans, that were 18 years in the making.
Billy Standley, 82, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was buried Friday, embalmed atop his 1967 Harley Davidson and encased in a giant plexiglass casket.
A couple of hundred people turned up at the funeral which was held outside so all of Standley’s biker friends could attend, two even arriving riding their own motorcyles.
Standley, who died of lung cancer on Sunday, began his own funeral arrangements 18 years ago when he approached David Vernon of Vernon Funeral Homes with his quirky idea.
“At that time I didn’t know to take him seriously or not,” said Vernon, who realized as conversations progressed over several years that this was something “very important” to Standley.
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving…
This Weeks GMG Cook is Dee Noble. AKA my BFF & the wife of Steve Noble from Noble Electric. Last week Dee and I happened to be shopping at Market Basket at the same time. She asked me to give her a quick easy one dish dinner suggestion that she could prep while the kids were in school without any hesitation I immediately recommended Pasta Bolognese dinner. It’s hearty meat sauce can be prepared ahead and quickly warmed while the pasta boils, making it a perfect meal for mothers like Dee who’s afterschool hours are spent driving and picking up kids from their afternoon activities, while worrying about how their going to pull off getting dinner on the table at a reasonable hour. Dee followed my Pasta Bolognese recipe featured on page 216 of my Cookbook “Gifts Of Gold In A Sicilian Kitchen With Sista Felicia, Harvest”
Dee Noble Writes~ Ha!!!! Felicia Ciaramitaro Mohan WHO????? You would be so proud of me. I even used a KNIFE to coarsely chop my onions. Instead of my usual scissor action….
There was one very special hilarious moment during a Christmas Eve open house at my home that Dee and I became BFF’s…click see more for a peek of that moment … Continue reading “The Gift That Keeps On Giving…”
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Second Annual Gloucester Chocolate Tour Sunday February 9th
Good Morning Gloucester 