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Month: August 2017
Visitors from Berlin Germany (Deutschland)
Visitors from Berlin Germany working on being a couple
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Top notch GPS O’Maley & Veterans teachers engage Cape Ann Museum, Backyard Growers, and Black Earth Composting thanks to Essex Heritage | North Shore Magazine spotlight
Gloucester Public School teachers shine through the North Shore Magazine September 2017 issue with exemplary projects helped in part by one of Essex Heritage grant programs: “A Park for Every Classroom”. Essex Heritage supports local initiatives in a big way.
Congratulations to Gloucester Public Schools dynamite O’Maley Innovation Middle School 6th Grade teachers: Pat Hand, Mary Beth Quinn, and Jessica Haskell!
“O’Maley 6th grade students collaborated with the Cape Ann Museum and a local cartographer to create maps of their diverse Gloucester neighborhoods. Part of an effort to get the entire 6th grade community to come together as they experience their first year of Middle School, the project aligned with the curricular focus on geography. A collection of the students’ maps, called “Gloucester Through My Eyes,” is on display at the Cape Ann Museum.”Â
Congratulations to Veterans Memorial Elementary School teachers Laura Smith and Mary Housman!  Their “students worked with Backyard Growers and Black Earth Composting to understand the benefits of composting, created posters and presentations to share their knowledge, implemented and monitored lunch-time cafeteria composting, and used the compost they created to enrich the soil in their school garden.” We were lucky to hear about this project during a pitch night at Awesome Gloucester.
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THE ANNISQUAM VILLAGE PLAYERS PRESENTS “SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN!”
We’re looking forward to attending opening night, Tuesday, August 8th! Always a sell-out show, get your tickets now at annisquamvillageplayers.org or at the Annisquam Exchange.
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Gloucester Lobster for Chef Kyle McClelland Great American Seafood Cook Off 2017
Since 2004, Competing chefs from all across the country battle to win the annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off. Â Only one chef for any state is selected to compete and they must serve up native fare. Chef Lionel Uddipa of Salt from Juneau Alaska brought home the King of American Seafood Cook Off 2017 crown with an Alaskan king crab dish.
Chef Kyle McClelland of Saltie Girl Restaurant, Boston, MAÂ was runner up with “his dish of Modern New England Clambake with Gloucester Lobster and Corn Puree.”
from the Great American Seafood Cook Off site:
Competing chefs:
Chef Brody Olive, Alabama (Voyager’s Restaurant at Perdido Beach Resort)
Chef Lionel Uddipa, Alaska (SALT)
Chef Jason Perry, Florida (The Fish House)
Chef Ryan Nelson, Indiana (Late Harvest)
Chef Bonnie Breaux, Louisiana (The St. John Restaurant)
Chef Kyle McClelland, Massachusetts (Saltie Girl)
Chef David Dickensauge, Mississippi (Corks & Cleaver Wine Bistro)
Chef Amber DiGiovanni, Missouri (Cookbook author and culinary teacher)
Chef Jay Smith, New Hampshire (Copper Door)
Chef Marc Quinones, New Mexico (MAS Tapas y Vino)
Chef Jennifer Behm-Lazzarini, Rhode Island (Red Fin Crudo + Kitchen and MasterChef winner)
Chef Ryan Coffindaffer, South Carolina (The Alisa Pub)
Chef Joe Cervantez, Texas (Brennan’s of Houston)
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Side walk Bazaar
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Sidewalk Bazaar 1986
Joe–Since it’s Sidewalk Bazaar weekend, I thought your readers might be interested in these pictures of the same weekend event from 1986. One of them depicts the waitstaff races, which I recall was very amusing. They aren’t the best pictures (I like to think my photography skills have improved since then) but I think the buildings in the background are very interesting. Perhaps others will agree. Missing you all! Pat and Jim D
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Happy Birthday To Our Alicia… Unleashed
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Last Call for Cape Ann Animal Aid and North Shore Arts Association presents A Silent Auction of Original Artworks by NSAA Artist Members.
Bids are being accepted now through August 5th. View all works online by clicking here: http://nsarts.org/2017_CAAA_Auction.html North Shore Arts Association, believing in the importance of community involvement, continues its “Art In Action – Connecting Communities” philosophy for 2017 – our 95th anniversary season! Our collaboration continues with an art exhibition developed in partnership with Cape Ann Animal Aid. We support the mission of CAAA and want to do our part to help. “Cape Ann Animal Aid is a non-profit, no kill organization dedicated to facilitating appropriate placement of adoptable animals and enhancing the lives of all companion animals by promoting respect and well-being through education and outreach.” Visit their website http://www.capeannanimalaid.org to learn more. “We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” – Immanuel Kan
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#Chocolate Covered Bacon On The @PKGrills #PK360
First we set up the PK 360 for indirect heat to cook the bacon using cherry wood for smoke. Â Line the grill with tin foil for easy clean up.
Once the bacon is done place it on a plate with paper towels to take away excess bacon grease. Â Melt semi-sweet chocolate by placing a glass bowl over a steaming pot of water and on medium-low heat.
Once chocolate is melted place a sheet of wax paper on a cookie sheet. Â Using three different toppings- Himalayan Salt, Maple Pepper and Sweet Maple Seasoning.
The bacon will be delicate so the best way to apply it is to lay it against the side of the bowl, get a god glob of chocolate on the spoon and then let it drop down onto the side of the bacon strip. Â Turn and do the same on the other side.
Place on the wax paper…
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POSSIBLE LITTLE CHICK SIGHTINGS!
A postscript to yesterday’s “Farewell Little Chick” ~
Thank you to Everyone for your kind notes, thank yous, love, and interest in our Little Chick.
I thought readers would like to know that since Little Chick departed Good Harbor Beach Friday morning several friends have shared that they have seen a small flock of Piping Plovers at other local beaches!
Carol Ferant wrote that Friday afternoon she was swimming by Corliss Landing and saw a small group feeding on lots of worms at the low tide sandbar. They stayed for a good long while and then flew off towards the marsh.
Abbie Lundberg wrote that in Annisquam this morning, Saturday, she saw a group of four Piping Plovers, three the same size, and one seemingly appeared smaller, about 2/3 the size of the others.
It makes complete sense to me that the Piping Plovers would move around from local beach to local beach before undertaking the long journey south. Comparing notes from last year, a mixed group of adults and fledglings grew larger and larger in number until one day, nearing the end of August, they all departed.
Today I was looking through the photos, from back in April though yesterday. We have every aspect of our Good Harbor Beach plover family documented–courtship, mating, eggs, all the different stages of development, friends, predators, other species of migrating shorebirds, scenery–thousands of images to organize. And after that, the next step is tackling all the film footage. Big Project!
Four-day-old and five-week-old Little Chick
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Waiting at Niles
A small group  of fans wait in vain at this morning’s planned dory eliminations at Niles Beach. I believe the competition has been postponed due to the heavy fog until Sunday morning. Can anyone confirm this? An additional round of elimination heats is scheduled for Monday at 6:00 PM.
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Reflections at Mill Pond as the tide was coming in
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Red Tail Hawk having lunch
While taking a walk down my street saw this beautiful bird having lunch.
Looking at me
Digging for something
Got it, looks like a small garden snake
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Gloucester Smiles-703
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Visitors from Ohio
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Madeline makes Mams a new scarf
It’s her favorite color!
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Soupy morning at Niles
It's a foggy, soupy morning at Niles
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Boston Globe on Cape Ann Museum Gloucester MA Rockbound art exhibition!
Here’s the link (plus some installation photos) to the Boston Globe Cate McQuaid review of Cape Ann Museum’s wonderful exhibition “Rockbound: Painting the American Scene on Cape Ann and Along the Shore” (on view through October 29) and “The Importance of Place: A Sketchbook of Drawings by Stuart Davis”.Â
I’ve included some installation shots of the show that I took in June, and will write more about this must see exhibition. The paintings are superbly displayed and most were generously lent from private collections else we wouldn’t have a chance to see them!
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Old Guys Catching Tuna
Not a bad day for Capt. Mike Parisi aboard F/V Amanda Marie catching a 90 ” Bluefin tuna with his crew of seniors in their 70 s. The old guys reeled it in landing their catch in about 2 hours.Thanks to Lex and Dewey , great crew got the job done.
Good Morning Gloucester 