My View of Life on the Dock
For some odd reason, somebody keeps barricading the kids’ favorite spot. This is creating an unsafe situation.  Generations of young children have learned to jump off the pier by being able to jump without having to climb the railing, which makes it a lot harder to learn — and way more scary too.  Whomever keeps barricading the jump spot, please remove the barricades.  Thanks!
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Pigeon Cove Tavern at Emerson Inn looking to add to our amazing culinary team!  We are looking for a Rounds Cook …Hot Line Ace… to hit the ground running alongside Chef Doug Papows and his crew. Must have experience and overall be someone that we want to work hard standing beside each day. Only serious applicants apply… maybe you are new to the area or are looking to make a change. Come join the best show in town. Great wage based on experience.
If you are interested in applying, please stop by to say hello at anytime, give us a call at 978-546-6321 or email your resume over to: info@emersoninnbythesea.com
My son Sal’s 3 Russian Tortoises in their outdoor enclosure pigging out on watermelon and Blueberries.
The new animated short film shown prior to Finding Dory is stunning. It features a baby bird beckoned by her mother from the dunes to the edge of the waves. The animated baby bird masters its first venture beyond the nest. Some things have to be seen on the big screen.
Positive news:
On a recent morning, very early, Patti Amaral swept her arms joyfully imploring me to look– an entirely litter free Good Harbor Beach parking lot after a weekend and before DPW had arrived. She exclaimed what a positive change has transpired over the past 10 years and how many people help.
She still sees some litter in this vista, but it’s camouflaged. She hopes to see the removal of the last vestiges of raked and buried trash from years’ back. I doctored a photo to help. It’s to the right of the back green gate.
The goodlinens soft opening was pushed back;Â hopefully the doors will be ready to open July 15th. The space required lots of love.
Martin Del Vecchio’s drone video highlights from Gloucester’s fireworks display July 3, 2016. Great capture Martin!
Anyone who has spent time looking for bargains should know about the Old Sloop Fair at the First Congregational Church in Rockport. The Old Sloop Fair takes place over three weekends. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and the first leg of this Rummage Sale to end all Rummage Sales takes place this coming Saturday. With a wealth of hand-knitted items, baked goods and household linens, not to mention enough clothing to cover all those semi-naked people loitering on Front Beach, the Old Sloop Fair is not to be missed.
Here is a slightly less hyperbolic description from one of the organizers:
The Old Sloop Fair at the handicap-accessible First Congregational Church of Rockport, 12 School Street, will span three July weekends this year. The Fair will begin with the Rummage Sale on Saturday, July 9 from 9:00AM to 2:00PM. The Rummage Sale offers gently-used women’s, men’s, and children’s clothing, bed linens, luggage, handbags, and much more. The Fair will continue with the traditional events — Silent Auction, White Elephants, Art Mart, Jewelry, Book Nook, Handknits, Ken’s Collection, Bake Table, and Snack Bar — on Friday, July 15 and Saturday, July 16, and conclude with a Giant Yard Sale on Saturday, July 23. For more information, visit http://oldsloopfair.org, send email to info@oldsloopfair.org, or call 978-309-9667.
Len Burgess Photo from the Adventure, July 3rd.
Cape Ann TV reeled in two first place awards in the Hometown Media Award Contest.
The two winning videos are Gloucester’s Giant Lobster Trap Christmas Tree & Menorah, and Behind the Scenes at Gloucester Election Night 2015.
Gloucester’s Giant Lobster Trap Christmas Tree & Menorah was entered in the Access Center Professional Division and won in the Community Events-General category. The program was produced by Cape Ann TV staff members, Lisa Smith and Rebecca Tober and was narrated by Cape Ann TV intern, Jill Wach. The ten-minute video profiled the people who created the Lobster Trap Tree on Main Street and the Menorah at the Temple Ahavat Achim, and the importance of these structures to the Cape Ann community.
Behind the Scenes at Gloucester Election Night 2015 was entered in the Independent Producer division and won in the Democracy in Action category. Matt Morris created this short, two-minute video. The video creatively shows the hustle and bustle at City Hall on election night and the live election coverage by Cape Ann TV. Matt Morris won a Hometown Media Award last year for his Awesome Gloucester series. Video link to Behind the Scenes at Gloucester Election Night 2015
The Hometown Media Awards is a national contest, sponsored by the Alliance for Community Media, that honors and promotes community media and local cable programs that are distributed on community access cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.
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Stories about the poll for the display
1) Last night the  Bay State Banner published a second article about the Bacheler Civil War coat helping spread the word about the poll on GMG (which will help decide how the coat is displayed). Jule wrote a great article. You can share it a bunch of ways from their website.
2) America’s Civil War Magazine (historynet.com) had the coat in their FIELD NOTES section, “Coat Tales”. They sent us an advance copy of the September issue. It comes out bi-monthly and they said it’s for sale at Barnes and Noble. The article compares Bacheler’s coat to another Civil War era coat. It’s really interesting.
The White House mailed back photographs and a note from the President. We believe it’s something that is sent out to kids. It doesn’t mention the Bacheler coat or Gloucester. We’ll scan that later.
Thank you Dr. Powers for contributing to the display and adding another Gloucester business in to the support.
Sincerely
Charles + George
Moderator Bill Cross, Deborah Epstein, and Maryann Thompson
New Spaces/Od Places was the title of last evening’s Design/Build lecture. The lecture was given by Deborah Epstein and Maryann Thompson, two of the area’s leading architects, and was the second in a series that is part of the Design/Build: The Drawings of Philips and Holloran, Architects exhibit currently on display at the Cape Ann Museum. Deborah Epstein designed the stunning Shalin Liu and Maryann Thompson the beautiful Temple Ahavat Achim. The lecture focused on the creative process and challenges of designing new public buildings in an area surrounded by older buildings.
On exhibit, the scale model of the Temple Ahavat Achim
Shalin Liu
Wendy Frontiero and Maryann Thompson
A peak at the Phillips and Holloran drawings -so interesting!
Hotel at Bass Rocks -The Hotel Thorwald was a rambling hotel in business for fifty years. It was in walking distance of Good Harbor Beach and could accommodate 200 to 250 guests. The Hotel Thorwald was destroyed by fire in 1965.
Twin Light Garage, East Main Street, now home to the Gloucester Stage Company. Note the very cool ‘Twin Lights’ flanking the sides of the sign.
Save the date for the third and final lecture in the Design/Build series on the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Raymond, presented by documentary filmmaker Lyda Kuth. Raymond was a pioneering woman in the field of architecture during the 20th century. In 1948, she designed one of the first successful solar houses, the “Dover Sun House,” and is credited with designing the first Northeastern regional modernist home (1931), predating by six years the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln. Architect Eleanor Raymond: A Pioneer in the Field, Thursday September 29th at 7:00 p.m.
Outstanding hors d’oeuvres Chef Matt Beach!
Tuesday’s weather was awesome with the rain, fog and sun.
Eric has something HUGE cooking up tonight!! If you want a taste of these huge fish, Passports is running a special tonight, the secret is in the video!
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
Eliezer Wiesel (1928 – 2016)
Born in Romania to Jewish parents, Wiesel and his family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where his mother and sister were killed, and then to Buchenwald where his father died just weeks before the American 3rd Army liberated the camp. He lived in Paris after the war working as a journalist, and wrote the first of the 57 books he would ultimately publish, almost entirely about the Holocaust and the effects it would have on society. He moved to the United States as a correspondent for an Israeli daily and stayed on to become the Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University in 1976, he went on to teach at several other institutions including Yale and Barnard, and became the voice and conscience for oppressed populations around the world. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 among dozens of other awards and honors.
The F/V Phyllis A is being rebuilt at the Gloucester Marine Railways Yard.
The oldest fishing vessel in Gloucester Massachusetts.
Go to www.Phyllis-a.org for more information.
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Special thanks to Carol Pallazolla and Chris Siva for taking on this event. For Dave Hill taking care of sound…
Many many thanks to Morgan Huke R.I.P. for bringing it to us and for Bradley Royds, Walter Peckham, Harry Pardee for their devotion all the past years. Thank you to the sound guys and people who set it all up… All the bands, contributors, police officers, vendors and the community who enjoyed coming out and filling the hill..
Good Morning Gloucester 