Red Sox beat Tampa 2-0 with Rick Porcello pitching shutout ball for seven innings and Mookie Betts hitting two solo home runs over the monster seats. It was fun seeing the guys from that epic 1975 World Series. Boy did they get old! Just for fun I will post a few photos from that series next.
Month: May 2015
Flatrocks Gallery’s May7-June 7 show, ‘Blooming’
Flatrocks Gallery’s May7-June 7 show, ‘Blooming’– features paintings by Claudia Kaufman, Rokhaya Waring, Patricia Crotty and Laurel Hughes, photographs by Paul Cary Goldberg, stainless steel sculpture by Gints Grinsbergs. This survey will lead the viewer on a journey from photo realism, to abstract art. Using flowers as the subject, they take on new identities as characters in a metaphorical journey.
Claudia Kaufman’s is a contemporary realist painter, her works are studies in observation – still life set-ups of familiar objects that are deceptively simple, yet complex. She challenges herself to translate the perceived three-dimensional world to a 2D field by observing and capturing the conditions of light, form, color and space through the painterly properties of oil paint.
Rokhaya Waring paints in the spirit of Impressionism and Plein Air painting, with its constant change in light, color and mood, are a natural extension of her sensibilities and lend vibrancy to her work. She conveys through her paintings a feeling of being there, the power of nature- a transient beauty that is often bittersweet.
Patricia Crotty’s paintings explore the territory between abstraction and realism with bold gestural brushwork and a sureness of line and color. When her subject is flowers, she “tries to capture their fleeting beauty and catch a glimpse of the eternal in their brief life, to see the universal in their particular forms.”
Laurel Hughes is an abstract painter, drawing on quiet moments in nature, her paintings grow out of thoughtful observation, sensations and split second glimpses. She is perpetually drawn to ideas and practices that help ‘re-seed our earth.’ —planting seeds of compassion, joy, and gratitude so that we touch the earth and stir her wonder.
Paul Cary Goldberg has established a reputation photographing our local industry and culture with a keen eye that transcends documentation, with painterly results. Last year he returned to his studio and the still life. His images are layered with rich texture, color and symbol – contemporary versions of still-life painting of the 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of change as a reminder of its inevitability.
Gints Grinsbergs’ creates welded stainless steel over sized flowers that maintain their delicate grace. The sculptures indoors or out combine modern metal structure with rough, natural stone making these works unique sculptural forms.
There will be a reception for the artists May 16th from 6-8pm. ‘Blooming’ runs through June 7th. Flatrocks Gallery is open Thursday – Sunday 12-5pm. 77 Langsford St. , Gloucester. (978)879-4683. www.flatrocksgallery.com or visit us on facebook.
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It’s time to think SUMMER!!!
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“Water Shuttle Seasonal Passes” are now available.
Only $50 before June 30th.
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Saturday’s Clean up
Clean Gloucester and the One Hour at a Time Gang’s Saturday’s schedule
When: Saturday, May 9, 2015
Where: We can meet at the Fishermen’s Wives Memorial
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
I have bags, hope to see all there on Saturday.
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The Gloucester Fleet
The Gloucester Fleet
“Theresa & Allyson”
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Paul Harris Fellow
Thanking Tracy Arabian for sending this information to GMG.
MEDIA RELEASE
Contacts: Steve Kaity, 978-879-1051, Michael Costello, 978-546-7140
ROTARY’S HIGHEST AWARD
TO DOUCETTE, SHATFORD
The Gloucester Rotary Club has named Rick Doucette and Doug Shatford as Paul Harris Fellows, the prestigious award named after the Chicago lawyer who founded the Rotary movement in 1905. Doucette was selected by a Club committee of previous recipients of the award, while Shatford was chosen by members of the Interact Club, the very active group of Gloucester High School junior Rotarians. Doucette and Shatford will be honored at a special dinner on Tuesday, May 12, at Cruiseport Gloucester, located at 6 Rowe Square in downtown Gloucester. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Rick Doucette was born and raised in Gloucester, and is a proud product of the Gloucester public school system.
Rick has served as Executive Director of the Cape Ann YMCA since May 2002, turning his focus specifically to Teen & Camp Services in 2008. Rick began his career at the YMCA as a Counselor-In-Training (CIT) at Camp Spindrift in 1984. Through his career, Rick developed many new innovative programs and initiatives that remain as “mainstays” of the YMCA youth and family programming. These include unprecedented levels of growth and participation at Spindrift, the Friday Night Fun program, the afterschool child care program, Y Teen Leaders Rockathon, teen service trips, sports leagues, many of other youth and teen initiatives.
In addition to his work with the YMCA, Rick also spent four-and-a-half years as a faculty member at O’Maley Middle School. Rick has been very active in the community throughout his adult life, coaching Senior Little League, Pee Wee Football and Fisherman Youth Soccer and serving on various civic and municipal committees. Rick currently serves as co-President of the Gloucester Pride Stride Committee, a Trustee of Awesome Gloucester, a member of the O’Maley S.A.I.L.S. Team, and a charter member with Theatre in the Pines. Rick is very proud to be a member of the Gloucester Rotary Club and served as its President in 2013-14.
An accomplished actor, Rick has performed locally in numerous productions as well as on stages in Boston, New York and London. Rick has earned praise and positive recognition for his work in several short film projects – in particular earning awards at the Woods Hole Film Festival and the Manhattan Short Film Festival.
Doug Shatford has been a pillar of the Magnolia community for many years. Another Gloucester boy, Doug is a graduate of Gloucester High School and currently is a co-owner of Machine Technology in Beverly.
Doug’s record of service to the community is extensive. As a long-time coach of youth sports teams, the co-founder of Citizens for Public Safety (a group dedicated to the re-opening of the Magnolia Fire Station), a member and President of the Magnolia Library Board, and a member of the Magnolia Historical Society and the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). He also belongs to the Magnolia Lions Club and the Tyrian-Ashler-Acacis Lodge of Masons.
Shatford is a known leader in his community. Whether working to repair the Magnolia pier or coordinating efforts to assist victims of recent fires, or chairing on the local sports team, Doug serves with enthusiasm, kindness, and humility.
Tickets to the Paul Harris Distinguished Service Award Dinner are $47 per person and may be reserved by contacting event Chairman Steve Kaity at 978-879-1051. The Dinner is open to the general public, and friends and colleagues of Doucette and Shatford are encouraged to attend.
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Barnyard Growers
Brynn Sibley, Program Assistant, gave a recap of their mission, link to their website to learn more.
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Eastern Point Day School sending out a Big Thank you
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Live on the Waterfront 05/06/2015
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“Why Me?”
“Why Me?” That’s the thought that kept racing thru my mind 15 months ago from my hospital bed, tethered by IV tubes, pumps, and very serious medical conditions (cancer, kidney failure, etcetera). That mindset soon changed to: “Why NOT me,” and “Better me than you.” This beautiful morning is a gift. Enjoy it.
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Ignorance Was Indeed Bliss
No! Nooooooo!
Not my beer. Anywhere else, but not in my favorite, super yummy and refreshing, grapefruit beer. And, to add insult to injury, why now? Why find out now….just when the weather is getting warm and I am primed for Grapefruit Beer drinking on the deck and at the beach?
I don’t mean to be naive. I guess, if I were to think about it, I’d be certain that I eat things I’d prefer not to eat on a weekly basis. But this blatant….slap you in the face declaration… right there on the label makes it kind of difficult to turn the other cheek.
Do I continue to “enjoy” my favorite beer, regardless of the fact that I’m now aware it is partially bug juice? Or do I run for the hills and find a new favorite?
Cochineal extract is extracted from the cochineal, specifically the female, a species of insect that belongs to the order entomologists refer to as the “true bugs.” (Don’t trust any account that calls this bug a beetle — it’s not).
Read More About How These Bugs End Up in Your Food HERE and HERE (if you dare)
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Chapatti at Gloucester Stage May 8th-10th
Theatre in the Pines brings its production of Christian O’Reilly’s delightful Irish comedy to the Gorton Theatre at Gloucester Stage, 267 East Main Street on Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9, at 7:30 and Sunday, May 10 at 3 pm. First presented during blizzard season in Rockport, the show is moving to Gloucester this weekend so all snowbound Cape Anners can enjoy this tale of a man and his dog and their adventures with a cat woman who is determined to liven up their lives. Cast includes Martin Ray, Sarah Clark, Randy Dupps, Chuck Francis, Ann Roman, Hattie Rich, Barbara Brewer and director Nan Webber. Tickets are available at the door or at The Bookstore and Toad Hall. Adults, $15 and students $10.
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Joey C Invited You to Dropbox
Taped The GloucesterCast At Cape Ann TV yesterday. Using DropBox, it made it easy to transfer and share large media files to collaborate which otherwise would have been too big to go through email. It’s easily one of my most important apps and it’s free. Here’s a link to get free space to use for yourself-
Hey there!
I’ve been using Dropbox and thought you might like it. It’s a free way to bring all your files anywhere and share them easily.
Sign up with this link to get some bonus space: https://db.tt/LwmMeXWh
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“WATER SHUTTLES PASSES” now available $50.00 until June 30th, (family $100.00 pass)
"WATER SHUTTLES PASSES" now available $50.00 until June 30th, (family $100.00 pass).
Call harbortours
Thank you in advance.
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Gloucester, MA., America’s Oldest Seaport
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Celebrate Nurses Week!
Cape Ann Wellness
Your source for Cape Ann health, fitness and wellness information
http://www.capeannwellness.com
Promoting Optimal Wellness for Body, Mind & Spirit
May 6th – May 12th is National Nurses Week.
Nurses of Cape Ann and Around the World, Join me in the Celebration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UWLIgjB9gGw#t=1
Nurses make a meaningful difference in people’s lives every day. Considered by many to be the ‘Heart & Soul’ of health care, nurses often work long hours and put others’ needs before their own. Nurses work in a variety of positions and settings, at the bedside in hospitals, extended care facilities and hospice, in wellness and integrative medicine centers, medical offices, schools, rehabilitation, public health and community centers, people’s homes, private practice, administration and even battlefields.
Historical nurse pioneers and leaders such as Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale were, and continue to be inspiring role models for nurses around the globe.
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Save the Date for the Fourth Annual Schooner Challenge
Don’t miss this fun-filled event, the “4th Annual Schooner Challenge” June 1, 2015, 6-8pm!
Sail from Maritime Gloucester aboard one of (3) Essex-built schooners: the Fame, Ardelle or Thomas E. Lannon. Please be sure to select the boat of your choice in the “notes” section when purchasing tickets. We will keep together parties who request to be together! Sign on board NOW, limited tickets available. Tickets are $40 ea.
Go to http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/details-of-our-next-events-27.html or call: Marcia at 978-375-3337.
The Challenge is to benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum for the care and preservation of Essex built schooners.
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Deborah Cramer’s New York Times Op Ed: “Silent Seashores”
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — As the spring days lengthen, shorebirds have begun their hemispheric migrations from South America to nesting grounds in Canada’s northern spruce and pine forests and the icy Arctic.
They are among Earth’s longest long-distance fliers, traveling thousands of miles back and forth every year. I have watched them at various stops along their routes: calico-patterned ruddy turnstones flipping tiny rocks and seaweed to find periwinkles or mussels; a solitary whimbrel standing in the marsh grass, its long, curved beak poised to snatch a crab; a golden plover pausing on a mud flat, its plumage glowing in the afternoon sun.
I used to think that sandpipers flocking at the sea edge, scurrying before the waves, were an immutable part of the beach. No longer. This year, as the birds come north, one of them, the red knot — Calidris canutus rufa — will have acquired a new status. It is now listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. It joins four other shorebirds on the government’s list of threatened and endangered species.
Sadly, it is unlikely to be the last.
Read Deborah Cramer’s complete New York Times opinion editorial here: Silent Seahores
Deborah is the author of The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, Yale University Press, 2015. Visit Deborah Cramer’s website here to order a copy.
Advance Praise
“The Narrow Edge is at once an intimate portrait of the small red knot and a much larger exploration of our wondrous, imperiled world.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
“In the face of global warming, is our big brain connected to a big enough heart that we might preserve the beauty of the earth we were given? Heart is no problem for the red knot”
—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth
“I have a compass, GPS, and radio,” [Cramer] writes. “The birds have—what? By the end of this journey I am more in awe than when I began.” Follow her graceful writing for the full 9,500 miles and you will share in that awe.”
–Laurence Marschall, Natural History
“A superbly written and gripping account…more thrilling than the Kentucky Derby.”
—Thomas E. Lovejoy, National Geographic Conservation Fellow
“A book so multidimensional, yet somehow so admirably succinct, I wish I’d written it…”
—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“Perhaps the red knot should replace the canary in the mine as the harbinger of impending changes that are good neither for birds or people . . . essential reading for anyone interested in conservation.”
—Joel Greenberg, author of A Feathered River Across the Sky
“An eloquent exploration of our relationship to nature.”
—Nancy Knowlton, author of Citizens of the Sea
“A remarkable tale of science, nature, and humanity.”
—Susan Solomon, author of The Coldest March
“Cramer brilliantly presents us with an ecosystem of many parts.”
—Don Kennedy, Pr
Thanks to Lise Breen for mentioning Deborah’s op ed piece and new book!
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Engrossed and Entwined
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Our new neighbor
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Support Cape Ann Special Olympics – Tonight at Passports
Join us for
Passports Restaurant’s Community Dinner Nights!
Tonight We Support Cape Ann Special Olympics
4 – 9 pm • 3 Course Dinner • $15.00
10% of proceeds goes to Cape Ann Special Olympics
Reservations Requested
Celebrating 20 years in business we are giving back to the community every Tuesday night.
Full menu also available.
If you would like to inquire about support for your organization, please email us at
passportsrestaurant@gmail.com. We look forward to working with you!
Passports Restaurant
110 Main Street Gloucester, MA 01930
Please call for Reservations: 978.281.3680
Good Morning Gloucester 