My View of Life on the Dock
As per discussion on the podcast earlier tonight (April 2), here’s the link to the Cape Ann Take Out, Delivery, and Curbside Pick-Up List from the Cape Ann Chamber: https://capeannchamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Cape-Ann-Take-Out-Delivery-List-3.25.20.pdf
We have found it very helpful!
Live GloucesterCast 391, With Scottie Mac, Chris McCarthy, Ralph DiGiorgio and Joey Ciaramitaro 4/2/20
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Topics tonight:
Thank you to health care professionals, first responders grocery workers and everyone else out on the front lines
What’s everyone drinking
Corona diets or lack therof.
What’s your go-to supermarket procedures.
Say you had to be quarantined with three other Gloucester people that you are not related to, who would they be?
Streaming shows
Speculation of summer events being cancelled now
People throwing used surgical gloves on the ground.
Lobsters may play a role in the cure of covid 19.
Useless fact – today in 1987 the speed limit was increased to 65.
Beau shitting on a rock.
Another building on Main Street is for sale; this one on the east end at 262-264 Main Street. The Cape Ann Moose Lodge occupied the function hall spaces at street level (bar, kitchen, bathrooms, gathering spaces) for more than a decade. There are four apartments on the top floor.
MLS#: 72620467
Had to get outside to get some vitamin D and fresh air with of course social distancing. The ocean seems to telling us everything will be ok.
Signs of the times-
Main Street/downtown: Passports, Mark Adrian Shoes, ToodeLoos!, Design of Mine
Further out: Cape Ann Motor Inn
A couple of weeks ago #1…at state fish pier.
Perfect Landing
While this pales in comparison to all that is crashing down around us, it’s still a sad day nonetheless. Today would have marked the Red Sox Home Opener…against the Chicago White Sox. A day that, to me, has always marked the start of spring, longer and carefree days, and new beginnings. Some feel anew on New Year’s Day….for me, it has always been the beginning of baseball season. Funny, coming from someone who isn’t actually a huge baseball fan per se….but, more someone who LOVES all that baseball stands for.
My wish is that there will be a day soon when we all feel anew. Be it at a backyard BBQ, the beach, back at our jobs, in our classrooms, sharing a drink at our favorite restaurant…or at Fenway Park. These empty seats (some of my favorite Fenway photos from my seat fetish days…and some fav opening days pics) will be waiting for us….and the stands…and our hearts…will be full again. #oneteam #theopeningdaythatwasnt
Dr. Charles A. Steinberg, President of the Pawtucket Red Sox, said something that gave me goosebumps earlier this month in a letter to fans
For now, we sit by our windows and wait for spring. We listen to our leaders, and we take each step to protect the health and safety of ourselves and our loved ones. When this fog clears and the sun shines once again, we seek to welcome you with open arms, as we sing, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and most poignantly, “Take me out with the crowd.”
Here’s to dreams of happy, healthy, cheering crowds.
We made a quick stop at Plum Cove Beach this week and found a curious “structure” made of branches and forsythia. It was quite intriguing and beautiful. Clearly a fair amount of care and planning went into building it. It was a lovely surprise to see bright yellow blooms on the beach, so thank you to whomever left it for the rest of us to enjoy.
If any Cape Ann boat yards, marinas and yacht yards have any masks and tyvex suits they would like to donate let us know and we will find a way to get them to hospitals.
Gerry Gallant wrote in with this idea
Warden of Gloucester watersheds dies
By Michael Cronin
Staff Writer
Joe Orange, Gloucester’s long-time watershed constable, died on Tuesday at the age of 97.
Orange’s passion was preserving Gloucester’s water supply and woods. He made it his duty to clear out squatter camps erected around Babson and Goose Cove Reservoirs. In 2008, Orange told the Gloucester Daily Times he had evicted around 1,000 people from 60 camps at that point in his career. All the while, Orange made sure to keep an eye out for teenagers hosting illicit parties in the woods.
“The watershed is a huge area; you’d need about 50 people to control it,” he said at the time. “But we can control the shore of the water itself, and that is where we have to focus.”
From 1994 until this year, Orange would conduct nightly patrols around Dogtown. Usually, he would takes these walks all by himself.
Gloucester resident Joe Orange wore his trademark shorts for this portrait by Jason Grow made for a series on the city’s World War II veterans. Orange died Tuesday; he was 97.
At 3:38 a.m. Wednesday morning, the New England Patriots’ team plane departed from an unusual locale: Shenzhen, China. On board the Boeing 767, in the cargo hold that used to be home to Tom Brady’s duffel bags, were 1.2 million N95 masks bound for the U.S.
Good Morning Gloucester 