About Our Award For Being Named Small Businesspersons Organization of The Year…

I don’t have to go into the reason that this is obviously a shared award, right?

Well I’m gonna, just in case anyone doesn’t think otherwise.

Such a great honor for our team.  If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it ten thousand times, Good Morning Gloucester with only one person contributing is infinitely less impactful than it is when you have such a dedicated group of people all pulling in the same direction, all with incredibly positive attitudes, all working for good and trying to have fun along the way.

Just like our family business, Captain Joe and Sons is not nearly what it is without my incredibly rock solid partner and cousin Frankie. Good Morning Gloucester is just another blog without all of the readers, commenters and contributors who all have a shared passion for this place.

Probably the single greatest influence creatively in my life has been my mom.  She pushed my sister and I to try as many different things as we could growing up, took us out of our comfort zone and sent us to Bishop Fenwick which forced us to leave our close friends at home and learn how to socially adapt outside of the small network of family and friends and prepared us for college. So thanks mom for all your love and support.

No one wins awards alone.  It’s the people that are around you that you draw strength from and by working together and pulling for good and fun, that’s when awards are given.

I’d also like to recognize Barbara Keon who in the first year of the blog told me the Buddhist expression “The most selfish thing to do is to give.”

I didn’t understand it at first but it all made sense in practice.

Thanks to the Chamber for recognizing our work and congratulations to the other recipients of this award from our surrounding communities- Mike Storella of Central Street Gallery in Manchester, Karin and Ken Porter of Roy Moore Lobster Company and Roy Moore’s Fish Shack in Rockport, and Tim and Vickie Kennefick of the Windward Grille in Essex.

Just wish my dad had his wits about him to celebrate our good fortune.

Love our team. Can’t tell you how fortunate I am to have you all in my life.  Thanks to everyone that has touched the GMG community to make it the positive force that it has become. Thanks each and every one of you.

Here’s the press release