THIS PODCAST WAS NOT RECORDED. GloucesterCast 279 With Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Not Taped 4/29/18

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The Lost Episode.  We thought we were taping but no. Oy Vei.

Gives New Meaning To The Lost episode.  (No really, it’s lost.)

GloucesterCast 279 With Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Not Taped 4/29/18

 

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Free Tickets To Cape Ann Community Cinema – Share this post on Facebook for a chance to win two free tickets to Cape Ann Community Cinema, The Cinema Listings are always stickied in the GMG Calendar at the top of the blog or you can click here to go directly to the website

Check Out My Auxiliary Sites- Cape Ann CommunityCape Ann Wellnesscapeanneats

Tacos Lupita Giving Away A Free Taco Per Person On Cinco De Mayo (excluding fish and shrimp tacos)

$1 GMG OysterQuest Link

Whale watching–highly recommended to go NOW! if you can 🙂

Cape Ann Whale Watch: Sat only until May 1 http://www.seethewhales.com/
7 Seas 1 trip/day @ 1:30 until June 25 then 2/day http://www.7seaswhalewatch.com/

Capt Bill & Sons opens season May 19 http://www.captbillandsons.com/

#PipingPancakes

Dog officer

https://www.instagram.com/kenlawler70/ Muffins and 1200 Calorie Kids Breakfasts

Waiting An Hour After You Eat To Go For A swim (cramps)

Fog Creeping in on Little Cat Feet

The fog crept in and out very quietly yesterday morning. I could see it racing across the fields at Stage Fort Park, but could not capture the movement with a mere camera. I’ll leave it to your imagination.  Fog shrouded the harbor though and it reminded me of Carl Sandburg’s poem:

Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
And that it did.
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I am glad I stoppped to watch this miracle.

May 1st ‘Community Reiki Share’ for a Cause – Toots Fore Tufts

Karen Pischke BSN, RN's avatarCape Ann Wellness

Community Reiki Share/Clinic

Where: At the Manchester Community Center. 40 Beach St. (Harbor Place) Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.

When: 5:15 – 8:15 P.M. First Tuesdays fo the Month. Suggested Donation – $20.00

This month’s Reiki Share/Clinic proceeds benefit Toots Fore Tufts and the Marc Jackson Foundation Neuro-oncology Patient Support Fund at Tufts Medical Center, providing programs that support neuro-oncology (brain cancer) and other patients undergoing treatment for cancer and their families, at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA

100% of net proceeds from Tuesday’s Reiki Share will go directly to Toots Fore Tufts. 

~ Ask your workplace about matching corporate donations! ~

How You Can Help Support Toots Fore Tufts:

However You Choose to Help, it’s a ‘Win-Win!’ 

~ Enjoy the Sense of Peace, Comfort…

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CAPE ANN SYMPHONY PRESENTS ORCHESTRAL OPERA GEMS ON SATURDAY, MAY 19

THE 66h  SEASON

Yoichi Udagawa, Music Director

CAPE ANN SYMPHONY PRESENTS

ORCHESTRAL OPERA GEMS

ON SATURDAY, MAY 19

Passionate Works from the World of Opera  by Composers:

Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Bizet, Weber, Tchaikovsky, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Ponchielli,

Close 66th Concert Season

Cape Ann Symphony wraps up the orchestra’s 66th Concert Season on Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm at the Manchester-Essex High School Auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA with Orchestral Opera Gems, a program featuring romantic and stirring works from the world of opera. Cape Ann Symphony celebrates orchestral masterpieces from renown and beloved operas byWagner, Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Ponchielli, Weber, Tchaikovsky, and Bizet. Accordingto Cape Ann Symphony Conductor and Music Director Yoichi Udagawa, “The May concert features some of the most passionate and incredible music written for orchestra from the world of opera. It’s gorgeous music, and the musicians of the orchestra and I can’t wait to present it to our audiences!” The May concert program includes Leoncavallo’s  Intermezzo from I Pagliacci; Tchaikovsky’s  Polonaise fromOnegin; Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana; Puccini’s  Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut; Ponchielli’s  Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda ; Verdi’s Prelude to Act 3 from La Traviata; Bizet’s  Carmen Suite No. 1; Weber’s Overture to Oberon; and Wagner’s Meistersinger  Overture  and  Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmenrung. Cape Ann Symphony presents Orchestral Opera Gems on Saturday, May 19 at 8 pm at the Manchester-Essex High School Auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. For tickets and information, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org.

Photos by Jeph Ellis

 

Art Classes with Kathy Roberts

👩‍🎨Adult Summer Painting Workshop

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You’ve taken care of everyone else!! Isn’t it time you did something fun for yourself ? Ongoing adult Art Classes in a small group, drawing and watercolor painting for beginners. May and June, 6:00-8:00 pm    (6 week Workshop ) a demonstration at each class, with instructor Kathy Roberts at her studio in East Gloucester. Contact 978-853-7825 or email kathygroberts@yahoo.com for more details!

Powerful journalism: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Univ MT, & NY Times shorebird message soars with supreme digital storytelling

Three years ago (!) almost to the day, Deborah Cramer’s NY Times op ed , “Silent Seashores” was published and her horseshoe crab and Red Knot poetic missive “The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey” advanced a global ecological message to the masses. “I hope I never walk beaches empty of sandpipers and plovers. But it is possible that may happen. In the case of some shorebirds, it is increasingly likely. This is why we must commit the money and muscle needed to give these birds safe harbor. If we do, we just might keep our shores teeming with shorebirds.”  Deborah Cramer is a  visiting scholar at M.I.T., and resides in Gloucester.

April 28, 2018

The New York Times, published another mighty call to arms making use of today’s improved visual storytelling tools. “Shorebirds the world’s greatest travelers, face extinction” is breathtaking and devasting digitial photojournalism about shorebird extinction by John W. Fitzpatrick (Director Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology) and Nathan R. Senner (scientist University of Montana). Stuart A Thompson designed the superb interactive graphic element. The indeliable header pulses with a bird on a wire, a “common snipe” it’s captioned, peering, chest beating, and then a sickening struggle. The bird’s caught, and we’re its snipers. Do. Not. Look. Away.

While you’re checking out this NY Times must read on line, think about Gloucester, Deborah Cramer, and Kim Smith. How one person can and continues to make a difference.  Among many other projects, Smith is leading the effort to protect piping plovers at Good Harbor Beach. Let’s support the laws in place to safeguard the natural world. No dogs year round may be easier to remember. Honor system, volunteers, and enforcement (without “teeth” and more funding) are not working. If compassion, art, rules, and legacy aren’t persuasive, there’s always the bottom line. Natural culture all about us is a strategic resource.

Shorebirds New York Times John Fitzpatrick Nathar Senner
Shorebirds the Word’s Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction 

Serendipity at Seaport Grille

When I know that Seaport Grille is at the end of my long drive from New York, I feel as though I found that legendary pot of gold.  Especially fond of the Seaport Coffee, which I may have mentioned in the past…….  Anyhow, yesterday’s stop at Seaport Grille was improved immensely by the fact that my cousin and her girls were also there for dinner! It so happened that I was led to the next table and there was my cousin! Serendipity in action. I could have been seated elsewhere.  She could have decided to go elsewhere. Instead, we were able to share a great meal. I am very happy to be back home.

GloucesterCast 278 With Heidi Dallin, John Hillner, and Wendy Waring, Kimberly Voltero, Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 4/27/18

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GloucesterCast 278 With Heidi Dallin, John Hillner, and Wendy Waring, Kimberly Voltero, Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 4/27/18

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Plug In Cape Ann Tours With Kimberley Voltero

Plovers In The Parking Lot Does not Bode Well. No Bueno.

Madame Defarge  Opens May 11th At Gloucester Stage John Hillner, and Wendy Waring To Purchase Tickets

The Studio Half Off Is Happening!

Coffee Cup Plug From Cape Ann Coffees

Gloucester Pride Stride This Sunday!

Paul StGermain Becoming A Member Of The Thacher Island Assoc, Book:  Lighthouses and Life Saving Stations On Cape Ann

 

 

 

LOBSTER TRAP GIFTS

Check Out This Article About The Wine Trap

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If there are two things that I love dearly in this world, it is lobster and wine. And when both are elegantly intertwined (Quite literally), art is born. Enza Iacono of Gloucester, MA  found a way to achieve this sustainable brilliance, and her creations are both aesthetically pleasing as well as fun and functional.

Lobster Trap Gifts was born in 2016, and originally began as a hobby. The only daughter, and youngest of of six children, Enza grew up in a commercial fishing family, dating back to the 1900’s. She has fond memories of awaiting dockside, the return of all five brothers as well as her father, from their various voyages at sea. And although Enza never became a fisherwoman herself, she has found another way to exercise her own unique hand at the trade – Her own expression of a sincere love and passion for the ocean.

And we have whiskey to thank for the ingenuity behind Lobster Trap Gifts, an idea that began from Enza’s husband’s desire for a shelf to display his collection. The shelf was constructed from lobster trap wire, supporting the whiskey and complete with door and closure – True to a genuine lobster trap.

Read entire article here

For wholesale inquiries:

Enza Iacono
P.O. box 207
Gloucester, MA 01930
OR
info@lobstertrapgifts.com

WE NEED VOLUNTEER PIPING PLOVER MONITORS SATURDAY AT THE PIPL NESTING AREA #3

No one paid attention to our signs that we added to the nesting area yesterday. My friend Deborah Cramer stopped by to see the PiPl and watched half a dozen dogs running through and playing in the nesting area. When I returned to the beach at 6:30, the PiPl were in the parking lot, again driven out of the nesting area by off leash dogs. Very frightening when an SUV drove past and they didn’t budge.

While the PiPL were in the parking lot, I thought would be good time to reinforce the signs with duct tape. When at the nesting area adjusting signs, there were more dogs owners allowing dogs to run through and completely ignoring the signs.

Reading the federal regulations from the USFWS:

“Pets should be leashed and under control of their owners at all times from April 1 to August 31 on beaches where piping plovers are present or have traditionally nested. Pets should be prohibited on these beaches from April 1 through August 31 if, based on observations and experience, pet owners fail to keep pets leashed and under control.”

All the signs in the world won’t make people who don’t care, care.

Tomorrow, especially at high tide, and as the skies are clearing, I am afraid will be another terrible situation for the PiPl. If you would like to lend a hand, please email me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com or just come. I will be there for the better part of the day and will show you what to do. High tide tomorrow is at 10:54 am. Thank you!

OCEAN ALLIANCE APPEARING ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AND RECEIVES A WEBBY ALL IN ONE WEEK!

Congratulations to Iain Kerr and Ocean Alliance!

Iain writes,

“On Monday April 30th 10:00 pm East Coast time our 2017 Sea of Cortez, Parley SnotBot field season will be featured in the National Geographic channel show. One Strange Rock.

I think that our presence in this show will be brief.

Yesterday we learnt that our Intel / Parley SnotBot production Below the Surface won a webby (this is like an Emmy but for web produced products). 

https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2018/film-video/branded-entertainment/corporate-social-responsibility-branded/below-the-surface/

 Onwards Upwards.

PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILLER

Lyricora Returns to the Annisquam Village Church

Lyricora returns to the Annisquam Village Church

Let My Love Be Heard

May 6, 4:00 pm
Annisquam Village Church
820 Washington St., Gloucester MA 01930

Lyricora presents its Spring 2018 concert series, Let My Love Be Heard, on Friday, May 4, 7:30 pm in Newburyport, MA; Saturday, May 5, 4:00 pm in Chatham, MA; andSunday, May 6, 4:00 pm at the Annisquam Village Church, Gloucester, MA.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $10 for students.
Tickets available at the door, and in advance through: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3386284

For additional venue details, visit Lyricora’s website at www.lyricora.org.

Lyricora explores the many facets of love across the ages, from the lively madrigals of the Renaissance to the lush and ethereal harmonies of the 21stCentury. This concert will feature selections by Lauridsen, Paulus, Runestad, Morley, and others. We hope you’ll join us to help celebrate the season of love!

Lyricora is a Boston area ensemble dedicated to engaging, educating and entertaining audiences through performances of the highest caliber. The ensemble strives to integrate New England’s rich historical tradition of choral music with new directions in contemporary literature. In concert, Lyricora is dedicated to bridging the gap between listener and performer – presenting programs that are accessible to today’s audiences while maintaining artistic expression and performance.

Beautiful Fish: Snipe Eel

The Snipe Eel has been taken in deep water at many stations off the east coast of North America between latitudes 31° and 42°N., longitudes 65° and 75°W.  Capture near Bermuda of a snipe eel clinging by its jaws to the tail of a large red snapper has suggested that such may be a regular habit of this curious species.  Maximum length about 3 feet.

One specimen taken from the stomach of a codfish caught on Georges Bank in 45 fathoms is the only Gulf of Maine record, but several have been taken in depths of from 300 to 2,000 fathoms on the seaward slope of the bank.

From Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) online courtesy of MBL/WHOI http://www.gma.org/fogm/Nemichthys_scolopaceus.htm

Al Bezanson