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Month: October 2016
Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 10/11/16
Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board
Joey C ~
A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.
The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com
To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.
Seaside Garden Club Presents Melissa Glorieux of Aster B. Flowers on October 11th
The program will be held at the Manchester Community Center. Social time begins at 7:00 pm and the program begins promptly at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. $5 guest fee for non-members.
Founder, farmer and lead designer at Aster B. Flowers, Melissa Glorieux, will talk about her experience as a self-taught flower farmer and floral designer. She will also discuss the Slow Flower Movement and how the locally-grown trend has been formative in the evolution of her farm and business.
Melissa Glorieux of Aster B Flowers
For more information visit the Seaside Garden Club blog: https://seasidegardenclub.wordpress.com/
10/14 GAAC Meeting Program Change
October 9, 2016 ~ Michael Deneen
GAAC has reshuffled their schedule just a bit. Mario Motta’s terrific program on the destruction being wrought by star WD1145+17 is now scheduled for our Holiday Party on December 9. Watch for Mario’s Sky & Telescope article on this very topic later this year.
Now, has GAAC got a program for you on Friday!
On Friday October 14 at 8:00 pm please join the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club for an evening with astrophysicist Alan Hirshfeld, author of Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe.
Dr. Hirshfeld will share his insights into a watershed period of science—roughly 1830-1920—when amateurs and professionals were developing the photographic and spectrographic tools of modern astronomy.
As Dava Sobel described his work: “Starlight Detectives is just the sort of richly veined book I love to read—full of scientific history and discoveries, peopled by real heroes and rogues, and told with absolute authority.”
Reviewers at Scientific American said of Starlight Detectives that “astrophysicist Hirshfeld chronicles the radical changes in our conception of the cosmos that have accompanied the advent of modern astronomy over the past century and a half, [a period Hirshfeld describes as] ‘a remarkable and complex period in the development of humanity’s oldest science’…”
This evening promises to be informative and a lot of fun; arrive early for a good seat, great conversation, cake, and an overall good time.
GAAC members meet at the Lanesville Community Center in the Lanesville neighborhood of Gloucester MA, at 8:00 pm on the second Friday of every month, for presentations, discussions and activities related to observational astronomy. All are welcome. There is plenty of parking, and there are no dues or fees. No special knowledge or equipment is needed to have a great time. For more information, see the club Facebook page, website, or follow the club on Twitter, @GAACster.
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@WeberGrills Performer Rescue/Restores To Date #weberkettleclub
April ‘16
2009 Black 2nd Generation DE Code
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April ‘16
1998 Green 1st Generation EZ Code (James Eves Has This One Now)
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2010 Red Brick 3rd Generation AD Code
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1997 Green 1st Generation EI Code
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2001 Green 1st Generation DA Code
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2006 Green 2nd Generation
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Much of the blame for the obsessive hobby of finding and cleaning up old Beautiful Weber Grills can be placed squarely on the shoulders of the founders and members of the Weber Kettle Club
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BEWARE!
Poison Ivy Run Amok
Oh how pretty! Doesn’t this bucolic scene look interesting? I had to stop and take a photo. And then began to walk toward, wanting a closer look, before catching myself. If poison ivy even looks at me, or I look at it, that most unpleasant of itchy rashes finds a home on my person.
Poison ivy is in full glorious color right now, dissipating in shades of golden yellow, tangerine, and crimson scarlet. The oils found in the foliage and stems are just as potent at this time of year as they are during the summer months.
Leaves of three, let it be,
Berries white, run in fright,
Red hairy vine, no friend of mine!
Cape Ann shores and meadows are rife with poison ivy and the best defense is to recognize the leaves and wear protective clothing. Not a plant one desires for the home garden, it is an important bee and bird food. The flowers provide nectar for pollinators in the spring and the small white berries are a winter staple for our some of our most beloved songbirds, including American Robins, Northern Cardinals, and Mockingbirds.
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MEET CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR VISITING ARTIST TONY CONNER
From a post on Tony’s website:
Painting of a Boat in Drydock
It’s funny, but I’m not sure whether to consider this a landscape, seascape or “nautical”. Certainly the theme is nautical. There are no sea or land elements in the painting, but there is a boat – so I guess it’s a nautical!
I was able to enjoy four days of painting in the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts recently. Cape Ann includes the picturesque shore towns of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Annisquam. It’s one of my favorite places and one of my favorite places to paint. One evening, my friend and fellow painter John Caggiano and I set out for the Gloucester Marine Railways. It’s an odd name for a ship repair and drydock company, which is what it really is. But whatever it is named, it is a great place to paint since there are always a variety of boats up for repair.
The Phyllis A
One boat in particular is the “Phyllis A“. It is Gloucester’s oldest fishing vessel and has been preserved to promote the history of gill-net fishing in Gloucester. Visit the website for the Phyllis A here – and donate to the cause if you have a mind. I’ve seen it a number of times while visiting the shipyard. Although it actually spends a great deal of time in the water, I happen to have seen it out of the water, in drydock, three times in the last three years. This sketch was done in July 2012, up in the very same drydock as the painting shown above. The sketch was actually done in the morning, while this latest painting was done in the evening.
As an old boat, it is in constant need of repair, and is also in the process of restoration, so it spends a lot of time in drydock, I suppose.
The latest painting
We visited the yard one evening and set up with the light disappearing rapidly – more rapidly than we had anticipated. The Phyllis A was up in drydock and in the exact same place as I found her in July 2012. There was another boat – a modern fishing boat – up in the dock next door.
The sun was sinking in the sky but still shining on most of the yard. I set up in the shadow of a crane so that I had a good view of the Phyllis A and it’s mate in the next dock, but on their shady sides. The sun was just catching the front edge of the cabin and the roof over hang cast a shadow across the side. Most of the rest of the boat was in shade, as was the stern of the fishing boat which can be seen on the left in the painting. With slanting light from the low sun, and my vantage point, it was possible to sense the color temperature differences between shady areas and areas lit directly and indirectly by late evening sun. In the painting, the contrasts were enhanced by pushing temperature differences. The lit areas were painted in warm colors, and shade areas in cool, enhancing the sense of late evening light.
To learn more about Tony and his paintings, visit his website here.
If you see one of our visiting artists painting in a public location, say hello and welcome them to Cape Ann. The artists will be here through Sunday. Listen to Sunday’s podcast to learn more about Cape Ann Plein Air event and visit their facebook page here for the most up to date information as well as information about all the fantastic events associated with the festival. Today, Tony Connor and Carol Arnold were both painting in our neighborhood!
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MEET CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR VISITING ARTIST CAROL ARNOLD
If you see one of our visiting artists painting in a public location, say hello and welcome them to Cape Ann. The artists will be here through Sunday. Listen to Sunday’s podcast to learn more about Cape Ann Plein Air event and visit their facebook page here for the most up to date information as well as information about all the fantastic events associated with the festival. Today, Carol Arnold and Tony Connor were both painting in our neighborhood!
About Carol
Carol was first inspired to become a painter when as a child she became fascinated by the plein air painters her family encountered on vacations in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Vesper George School of art in Boston, Arnold spent several years working in the commercial art field before turning her attention fully to fine art painting. She is currently a member of Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik’s Putney Painters located in Putney, Vermont. Arnold’s work, executed primarily from life, has been steadily winning recognition, including taking the First Honor award at the Inspiring Figures Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art in October of 2010. She won an Honorable Mention at the Portrait Society of America’s Members only competition in December of 2010, in April of 2011 she was awarded a Certificate of Excellence at the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition and another Certificate of Excellence award in May of 2012. To see more of Carol’s work, visit her website at www.carolarnoldfineart.com
Recent achievements:
2016 First prize at the Laumeister Fine Art competition at the Bennington Center for the Arts.
2013 Southwest Art Magazine Award of Excellence at the American Women Artists National Juried Competition
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Lone rowboat at Magnolia Pier
Beautiful lone white rowboat at Magnolia Pier.
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Music Around Town ~ October 10-16, 2016
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Busy day in Magnolia on Saturday October 15th.
Indoor Farmers’ Market at the Magnolia Library from 10-2 and
Calling all vendors!!! October 15, 10-2 the MLCC we’ll be hosting an INDOOR farmers market in our Jones Hall! If you’ve been to our Magnolia Farmers Markets on Lexington Ave, picture that, but at tables in our hall. So far we only have a handful of committed tables and we’d love to fill the room with local foods, flavors, arts, crafts, gifts, and offerings of all kinds! Message us here to inquire about space, we’d love to welcome you to Magnolia!
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Full Moon Auction at the Magnolia Historical Society 46 Magnolia Avenue.
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Gravy Sundays at Tonno Restaurant
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http://www.capeanneats.com
As a kid I remember going to my Grandmothers and eating great home cooked meals. Lasagna, chicken cutlets, homemade pastas, zeppoli, fried eggplant with tomato. She always called it Gravy, other families know it as sauce. Whatever you may call it we hope you come by and give ours a try. We know it wont be as good as your grandmothers, but hopefully it will stir those old memories up of sitting around the table, sipping wine and talking about family. Starting this Sunday we will be featuring some good old fashioned Italian-American cooking. So join us for Gravy Sunday, every Sunday.
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Gloucester Smiles – 387
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Visitors from China
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Goodwin Party Shop ready for Halloween!
Stopped by Goodwin’s Party Shop to grab some things (cause we try to shop local when we can!) and noticed they have so much great stuff for Halloween! So if you are looking for some awesome costumes or accessories, stop down and see Suzanne!
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Charlestown Locks
For all of the time I’ve spent in Boston, I’ve never actually seen the locks at the end of the Charles River in action. While walking from a parking lot in Charlestown over to the TD Garden to see a Bruins game the other night, I got to see them working. Kind of cool.
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Expanded Hours at Saltwater Massage Studio and a Discount for New Clients
More Cape Ann Wellness News-
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At Saltwater Massage Studio, our mission is provide the highest quality massage therapy that reduces pain, eases stress, and allows for a deeply relaxing experience that makes you feel like you’ve just woken up from a really good dream. Our goal is to make scheduling as convenient as possible and to be the #1 place on Cape Ann you can count on for a great therapeutic massage and relief from the pain and stress of your day-to-day life. We are now officially a team of 5 and are now able to offer more scheduling options than ever.
So whether you see Gretchen, Heather, Grace, Jamee or Justin, you know that you can count on getting a great therapeutic massage that is both deeply relaxing and addresses your pain and discomfort with deep tissue massage and neuromuscular therapy. We also offer prenatal massage and therapeutic hot stone massage.
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GloucesterCast 203 With Chuck Hayback, Kim Smith, James Caviston, Mike Storella, Ed Collard, Karen Ruistuben, Catherine Ryan, Pat and Jimmy Dalpiaz, and Joey Ciaramitaro
Ok. FYI for your notes J I broke down the CAPA stats
- 40 artists from 18 states
- 12 are from MA
o 7 are from North Shore
o 4 are from Cape Ann:
– MA: Jeff Weaver (Glou), Ken Knowles (Rockport), John Caggiano (Rockport), Rae O’Shea (Rockport), Janet Sutherland (Ipswich), George Martin (Beverly), Alan Bull (Newburyport), Michael Compton (Cambridge), Paul George (Cambridge), George Van Hook (Cambridge), Carol Arnold (Northbridge), Eli Cedrone (Stoughton)
MA-12, ME- 4, NY- 4, NY- 4, OR- 2, MO- 2, FL- 1, CA- 1,, AZ- 1,, CT- 1,, VT-1, MD-1, TX- 1, TN- 1, NJ-1, PA- 1, NH-1, HI-1
Apple Festival In Stonington Ct
Miss Perigrine’s Home For Peculiar Children Playing at Gloucester Cinema Review
Passports and Franklin
Mile Marker Review with Pat and Jimmy Dalpiaz
En Vogue Fundraiser
Public Art On Ed’s Cross Country Trip
Poverty Point Louisiana/Gettysburg
Cat Ryan October Art Festivals
Best Apples- HoneyCrisp
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HAPPY AUTUMN, HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!
I’ve had the exciting task of cleaning closets ALL afternoon and haven’t had a chance to put together a proper post. Here are some snapshots from an early morning walk Saturday taken before heading to work and before it clouded over. I hope everyone is having a terrific long weekend. Happy Autumn, Happy Columbus Day!
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Dear, did that recipe call for 2 packets of yeast or 20?
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The beauty of Rafe’s Chasm
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Gloucester Smiles-386
Good Morning Gloucester 