Last night’s clouds making way for a beautiful Tuesday!

Thank you again for your past participation in the Magnolia Road Race.  As you know, 100% of the proceeds from the 5K and Fun Run support the Magnolia Library and Community Center.  The Library has been the center of our neighborhood for well over a century.  I hope you can again join us on August 25th for the 42nd running.

While the race is still a ways a way, I am writing to let you know that we offer a $10 discount over the race day fee for the 5K ($3 discount on the Fun Run) if you register before July 1st. 

REGISTER HERE!

When: Saturday, August 25, 2018

Times: 1k run – 8:30 am     5k run – 9:15 am

Location: 1 Lexington Ave, Magnolia, MA.

T-Shirts: First 100 registered runners. Runners will have the opportunity to purchase a race t-shirt on race day for $15

Prices: 1k fun run – $7   1K Fun Run after July 1, 2017 – $10        5k Adults Pre Fiesta Discount – $20  Adults After July 1st – $25         Under 21 –  $20

Day of Registration: From 7:30 – 8:45 AM  $30 Day of Fee

Awards: $100 to the top M/F overall winners. Awards to all age group Male & Female winners in the following age divisions 19 and under, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+

Once again there will be a pancake breakfast and we plan to have a live band at the finish line.

We are always looking for business sponsors and race day volunteers.  Please let me know if you have ideas for either or both!

Best Wishes,

Randy O’Neil

Race Director

On Thursday evening, June 28, from 6:30 to 8, Gloucester native Bradley Bagshaw will be doing an appearance at the Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, reading and signing his debut novel “Georges Bank.”

“Georges Bank” was release on June 12 by Seattle-based publisher Clyde Hill Publishing.

“Georges Bank” – which has already garnered the attention of Hollywood, with a noted film producer signing an exclusive and closed-end option to market the novel to movie studios – is a nineteenth century tale set in the stormy waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts, home to Kipling’s “Captains Courageous” and Junger’s “Perfect Storm,” and in the steamy fishermen brothels ashore. Maggie O’Grady, an Irish immigrant, is impregnated by her first employer, a rich Boston merchant, who discards her penniless in a Gloucester brothel. Maggie raises her son in the brothel and in time finds love with a fisherman. The book chronicles their struggles at sea and ashore.

The fisheries of Georges Bank and the other waters of the North Atlantic drive much of the story. Between 1860 and 1885, three hundred sixty-four fishing schooners set out from Gloucester and never returned, and two thousand four hundred twenty-two Gloucester fishermen died at sea, a staggering loss for a town whose population ranged from eleven to nineteen thousand during those years. Bagshaw mines the extensive written history of the Gloucester fishery to tell in chilling detail the story of its appalling dangers and of the men who faced them.

But the real meat of the story takes place ashore with the plight of the women and children left behind when their husbands and fathers died at sea. There was no government support in those days, nor were there good ways for women to earn a living when left to fend for themselves. Those not supported by family or swift remarriage did the best they could, and sometimes that meant prostitution. The harsh life of the desperate women forced to prostitute themselves is realistically shown in this novel. But so is the kindness and basic humanity of women forced to earn their keep as practitioners of the oldest profession.

In 1859, Maggie O’Grady was an adventurous seventeen-year-old in Enniskerry, Ireland when the town celebrated Bonfire Night, an ancient summer solstice ritual. She is sexually assaulted and then driven from Ireland when her assailant lies about the assault, and her village blames her for it. She is victimized again by her Boston employer who sends her to the brothel to be rid of her. She befriends the prostitutes, and eventually takes over the brothel herself. She becomes wealthy but loses her innocence to the demands of running such a business.

The novel climaxes with Maggie’s fight to keep her son when his rich merchant father comes to claim him, and in the courtroom battle of two widows for damages against the boat owner whose negligence caused their husbands’ deaths. The latter is patterned after a nineteenth century courtroom battle, The Harrisburg case, that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bradley Bagshaw grew up in Gloucester and has lived with the sea since exploring Gloucester Harbor in a beat-up dory at age ten. Sailing instructor was his first job at sixteen, which was followed by summer jobs on the Gloucester docks as a stevedore and a forklift driver. After Harvard Law School, he moved to Seattle and to a career suing fishing companies for mistreating their fishermen. Starting in 2007, Bagshaw and his wife sailed eleven thousand miles from Seattle to Tahiti and back on a thirty-nine-foot cutter. On that trip, he conceived the idea for “Georges Bank.”

• Sandy Bay Yacht Club Junior Sailing Open House
• Friday June 29th: 4:45-6:45pm
• Sandy Bay Yacht Club. 5 T Wharf, Rockport, MA 01966
• Come down and learn what sailing is all about! Go for a boat ride, meet the instructors, and learn about Sandy Bay’s Jr. Sailing Program. A fun and free introduction to the sport of sailing for kids 8-18 (must have an adult present). Games and activities for all.

We are always grateful for you help in publicizing our events! Many thanks
Jessica Lanier, Chair, Membership, SBYC

TO  WHOM  IT CONCERN ,

Whiting  fishing  begins  July 15, 2018 , at present  time , at age of 75 years old , Sam Novello  might  have to go  back whiting fishing again  because   lack of fishermen  in today’s  commercial  fishing  industry.

F.V.  CAPT. NOVELLO   IS  LOOKING  FOR A   PERSON TO GO WHITING FISHING THIS SEASON ,

QUALIFICATIONS;  ON  SUMMER BREAK FROM  SCHOOL–AGE   16YRS. OR  OLDER— BE ABLE  TO  LIFT  60 LB. BASKET OF FISH–  BE  DRUG FREE—- SEA-SICKNESS  MIGHT BE A ISSUE FOR YOU- FOLLOW  DIRECTIONS  &   BE ING   ON TIME IS  A MUST ??

WE  WILL  TEACH &  PAY  YOU  TO BECAME  A  COMPETENT & SAFE FISHERMAN  , PAY  , WILL  DEPEND  ON YOUR WORK  ??

FISHING SCHEDULE  ,5 DAYS  A WEEK  ,WEATHER PERMITTING– TIME,  USUALLY  2  A.M. IN THE  MORNING  TO 6  P.M. ITS  HARD  WORK  &  LONG   HOURS ,  F.V . CAPT. NOVELLO  IS  A COAST GUARD  INSPECTED VESSEL  AND , WILL FISH  IN IPSWICH BAY    FOR  WHITING-MOST OF  WORK IS  SORTING  DIFFERENT KINDS OF FISH .

IF  YOU ARE  INTERESTED  IN   SUMMER  JOB  FISHING  E-MAIL ME  FOR MORE INFORMATION snovello@verizon.net

                                                                      SAM  NOVELLO

THE VIKING BOAT POLARIS HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR!

The crew is not on board. They’re probably out pillaging and plundering.

For the second summer in a row Rockport is thrilled to be hosting the  Music at the Beach concert series! A series of fantastic bands will play on Mondays this summer from 6 to 8 at the bandstand on Back Beach.

Grab a blanket, beach chair, and a picnic dinner and plan on listening to Pier Ave tonight…and then mark your calendars for the rest of the summer.

Much thanks to 10-year-old Wyatt Wilkinson as well as Bruce Reed for bringing this series to us last year.  We all hope that it becomes a summer tradition for years to come!

Earth  Wind  Fire

An Opening reception is Sat. June 30th 6-8pm.

Go to Lovecapeann.com and order yours today.

If you have a plate send us your picture to use in our “Got Plate Campaign” on Instagram and Facebook!