Month: August 2018
Stuck
When Finn saw this photo of himself kayaking he said, “I look stuck.”
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Plum Cove Peace
Recent sunset over Plum Cove.
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Join us for our weekly Community Meditation Mondays! Aug 20th, 6:00-7:15pm Held at Gloucester Yoga Collective, 114 Main St. Gloucester. Only $5.00! No reservations or experience necessary. All levels. For more information call Annette: 978-239-3586
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Rotary Pancake Breakfast this Saturday
GLOUCESTER ROTARY PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Come for the Pancakes, Stay for the Waterfront Festival!
The Rotary Club of Gloucester MA will hold its annual Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on Saturday, August 18, 2018, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in Stage Fort Park, located on Hough Avenue in Gloucester, MA. This popular event takes place concurrently with the Gloucester Waterfront Festival, which is sponsored by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and is held in Stage Fort Park on Saturday-Sunday, August 18-19, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. both days. A special FREE parking area is available for Pancake Breakfast attendees.
Tickets for the Pancake Breakfast are $8 per person and are available from any Gloucester Rotarian or at the following Gloucester locations:
North Shore Health Project, 5 Center Street, Gloucester, MA
Rose Baker Senior Center, 6 Manuel F Lewis Street, Gloucester, MA
Bank Gloucester, 160 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Cape Ann Savings…
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High Holidays at Temple Ahavat Achim
As always, our services are open to all, and we welcome guests and newcomers to be with us. Please extend this invitation to anyone you know who may be interested to share the High Holiday season with our congregation.
Temple Ahavat Achim | 86 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA | 978-281-0739
Sunday, September 9th EREV ROSH HASHANAH
7 pm Evening Service
Monday, September 10th FIRST DAY ROSH HASHANAH
9 am Services Begin
10 am Children’s Service
5 pm Tashlich – Meet at Pavilion Beach in front of 33 Commercial St
Tuesday, September 11th SECOND DAY ROSH HASHANAH
9 am Services Begin
Tuesday, September 18th KOL NIDRE
6:30 pm Services Begin
Wednesday, September 19th YOM KIPPUR
9 am Services Begin
10 am Children’s Service
10:45 am Yizkor
5:15 pm Mincha, Neila Service
7:30 pm Shofar, Ma’ariv, Havdallah, and Community Break-Fast
Monday, September 24th SUKKOT
9 am Services Begin
Sunday, September 30th SUKKOT…
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Recreation of the battle of 1775
This was a fun event that took place in and around the harbor.
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Fish Cutting In Catania Sicily Comapred To Anthony Caturano Breaking Down A Tuna For Tonno In Gloucester MA
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GLOUCESTER DPW ROCKIN THE NEW FENCING AT GOOD HARBOR BEACH!
Check out the awesome new dune fencing recently installed at Good Harbor Beach by our DPW crew. The wire fencing runs along the length of the beach. The DPW did an outstanding job, very neat and unobtrusive.
Dune fencing plays an important role in reducing erosion. One of the main benefits of dune fencing is to help keep pets and people out of the dunes. Why is it detrimental to the dunes to allow uncontrolled dogs to run through the dunes and for people to use the dunes to access the parking lot, or worse, as their personal toilet? Repeated traffic through the dunes damages and kills the plants growing in the dunes. Plants help control erosion by stabilizing soil and sediments with their roots. Dune vegetation helps break the impact of of wave splash and rain, and also traps sand to help build up the dunes.
The fencing material installed by the DPW is an excellent choice for nesting shorebirds. This year especially, with much of the beach vegetation washed away and with the beach greatly narrowed, the Piping Plover adults and chicks had learned to use the area behind the old wire fencing for shade and to hide from predators. The open fencing still allows for small wild creatures to go in and out of the holes to find shelter and safety at the base of the dune.
Pip snuggled under Mama PiPl at the old fence.
Thank you Gloucester DPW for a super job well done!
Adult Piping Plovers and chicks found shelter along the wire fencing (the Bachelor left, and Mama and Pip, right).
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Elegance
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Call for Artists: $300,000 public art at new Roxbury Fire Station Engine 42
From the call announced 8/13/18:
“…The Call to Artists is open to to all artists, artisans, architects, landscape architects, or teams with experience in public art, site responsive design, project management, and construction administration. An Artist Selection Committee comprised of representatives from the Boston Art Commission and local arts professionals representing the neighborhood will review all applications and determine the final artist/team.
The deadline to submit questions about the project to bac@boston.gov is August 29, 2018, and applications are due by September 18, 2018. The application can be found here.”
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Come Sip and Shop the great deals while listening to ToniAnn Enes @ Design Of Mine 6-8pmWednesday August 15th.
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Poppin’ thru Essex
The rain makes everything more vibrant…spotted this yellow bike in Essex that just pops with color!
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Into the Wind
Last month Thatcher and the Sandy Bay Yacht Club Race Team spent three days, in somewhat snotty conditions, sailing at Marblehead Race Week. About 25 different clubs and sailing programs were represented in the three day event at Pleon Yacht Club. Upon dropping Thatch off each morning I sat, completely impressed, and watched the scene unfold around me. I couldn’t believe how independent, confident, and dedicated all of the young sailors were. Rigging boats is no joke and takes it hard work and preparation…and often times, commitment to jump in and help others. There is no simply show up and race.
Here is a little time lapse video of just some of the action as about 175 boats set sail….
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Frenchman’s Pier at High Tide
Most things seem prettier at high tide, and this is no exception–Robert Knowles Landing
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The West End #GloucesterMA
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SeniorCare Honors Lafontaine at 46th Anniversary Gala
SeniorCare Inc. will host its 46th Anniversary Gala Celebration on Thursday, September 27, 2018 at Danversport, located at 161 Elliott Street in Danvers, MA. The Gala will feature a delicious dinner, dancing to the sounds of Madhouse and a Silent Auction. The Gala is presented by ABC Home Healthcare Professionals.
SeniorCare will honor three community leaders at the Gala. Mary Ann Camp of Rockport will be presented with the Myra L. Herrick Outstanding Older American Award. Julie Hazen LaFontaine of The Open Door will be presented with the Rosemary F. Kerry Community Service Award. William Coughlin of Beverly will be presented with the Board of Directors Community Partners Special Recognition award.
Tickets to the Gala are $75 each or a table of 10 for $650. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For information about the Gala, contact SeniorCare’s Marketing Officer Tracy Arabian at 978-281-1750 or tracy.arabian@seniorcareinc.org or go to http://www.seniorcareinc.org.
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SeniorCare presents A Matter of Balance workshop
SeniorCare Inc. will host a free 8-week workshop, A Matter of Balance, at their offices located at 49 Blackburn Center in Gloucester, MA, on Mondays, starting on September 10 and ending November 5, 2018. Each session will be held from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
Many older adults experience concerns about falling and restrict their activities. A Matter of Balance is an award-winning program designed to manage falls and increase activity levels.
Participants learn to:
- View falls as controllable
- Set goals for increasing activity
- Make changes to reduce the risk of falling
- Exercise to increase strength and balance
Who should attend?
- Anyone concerned about falls
- Anyone who has fallen in the past
- Anyone who has restricted activities because of falling
- Anyone interested in improving balance, flexibility and strength
For more information or to register, contact Beverly Flanagan at 978-281-1750. For more information about SeniorCare programs, visit our website at
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See amazing 1901 historic photos from Bruce Roberts: Gloucester crews worked on Haskell’s dam
City of Gloucester officials are working towards a Phase 3 for the Haskell Pond Dam reconstruction which I wrote about last week (Part 1). I included information about the original monumental build. In response, Bruce Roberts was kind enough to share these amazing photographs of the impressive crews at the Haskell Pond construction site 1901. Bonus: they were annotated by his grandfather in 1958. West Gloucester families may recognize a surname or two, maybe a family resemblance. Please help ID if you can.
Bruce Roberts explains: “My grandfather, Edward F. Roberts, identified the individuals back in 1958. There are some folks he didn’t recognize, since he would have been pretty young when these images were taken. The first picture has the most identified individuals. One thing that has always been remarkable to me in the second image is how much Chester Andrews, my g-grandfather, resembled my father, Eugene Roberts, at that age.”
HASKELL’S POND CONSTRUCTION ca.1901-02 – (Individuals ID’d by Edward Roberts in 1958)
Photo 1, Dec 1901 (in snow): “Wood Choppers at Haskell’s Pond, December 1901”
Front Row, L-R: 1. Otis Lufkin, 2. Matt Poland, 3. Loren (sp?) Harris, 4. Melvin Wilkins, 5. Jim White
Back Row: 1.Asa Sargent, 2. unknown, 3. Ed Lufkin, 4. James Chadbourne, 5. Joseph Abbott, 6. unknown, 7. Joshua Roberts, 8 & 9. unknown
Photo 2 (late 1901 or early 1902):
Front, L-R: 1. Loren Harris, 2 & 3. unknown, 4. Asa Sargent
Center, w/ white shirt: Eps Walter Haskell
3rd row: (Right side, behind Asa Sargent, in light coat): Chester Andrews
(2nd to left from Chester Andrews): Fred Jeffs
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