Create a flyer for a February 8th & 9th promotion at your spot. It should include a rough idea of what you’ll be handing out if anything (we’re suggesting something sweet or valentine related) and what your promotion for that day will be!
The flyer should be square to be included in a slideshow and listing at the top of www.goodmorninggloucester.com and other locations
So send me a flyer with your promotion asap to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com
Thank you to peg at pop gallery for creating the event flyer
The name of the event – “Glosta So Schweeeet!”
This what we have so far, I’ll add to it as they come in (click on images to expand)
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Pretty badass that when anyone local says “Where should we go for lunch” and the other person responds “The Hotel” that everyone knows they’re talking about Beauport.
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Cannabinoids are a group of naturally occurring chemical compounds produced by cannabis plants and some other botanicals, as well as the human endocannabinoid system (ECS).
There are two types of cannabinoids: phytocannabinoids and endocannabinoids. Each is named based on where they are derived. The prefix phyto- means “plant,” and phytocannabinoids originate from plants. The prefix endo- means “within,” and these cannabinoids are produced within the body. Both interact with the endocannabinoid system of the nervous system.
Over 100 cannabinoids have been identified. Two of the best-known are CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). Each compound interacts with cannabinoid receptors within the ECS. Cannabinoids can elicit both psychoactive and non-psychoactive effects. Below are a few of the more prevalent cannabinoids and their primary effects:
CBD (Cannabidiol): This therapeutic cannabinoid has many beneficial properties (pain relief, anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea and others) but is non-intoxicating. Research continues to inform us about CBD’s potential.
CBG (Cannabigerol): The first cannabinoid ever identified, CBG has displayed antifungal, antibacterial, antidepressant and pain-relieving properties. Like CBD, it is non-intoxicating.
CBN (Cannabinol): This cannabinoid has been shown to help sedate the body, alleviate pain and nausea and support a sense of calm – with minimal side effects.
CBC (Cannabichromene): Studies have demonstrated CBC’s benefits for mood, pain, inflammation, brain cells and even acne. It is non-intoxicating and aids in the entourage effect.
THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol): This cannabinoid has significant intoxicating effects. (It’s the component that produces the high Cannabis is known for.) THC has been proven to sedate and relax, and it also affects cognition, consciousness, mood and energy levels.
Taken alone, each cannabinoid can produce different effects in the body. When taken together, cannabinoids may work in synergy to enhance the cannabis plant’s functional benefits overall and may create vastly different experiences with different benefits and impact depending on the ratio of different cannabinoids.
Full-spectrum formulations are as close to nature as possible. The whole-plant hemp extract contains all of the cannabinoids and terpenes. They work better together – and this is commonly referred to as the “entourage effect.” Visit us at AngelWingsShop.com
Drop by Angel Wings Wellness 12 Rogers Street Gloucester to find out more how CBD can improve the quality of your life! Friday and Saturday 11-4 or call for an appointment 978-985-4592
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Gloucester’s favorite day of play returns! Mark your calendars now, or be prepared for your kids to be really annoyed with you :). Follow the Gloucester Education Foundation’s social media and website for updates, activity schedules, swag previews, and more!
Funding to support operations of expanded Sawyer Free Library
For Immediate Release (January 27, 2024) Gloucester, MA – – The Sawyer Free Libraryhas been awarded a $27,700 grant from the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency, through its Operating Grants for Organizations Program that provides multi-year, unrestricted operating grants to nonprofit organizations that enrich Massachusetts’ cultural life. This funding recognizes the Library’s commitment to high-quality cultural and educational resources and activities in the arts, humanities and sciences.
“Our Cape Ann residents deserve outstanding opportunities, and that’s exactly what the newly renovated and modernized state-of-the-art Sawyer Free Library will provide – for free to all,” saidSenate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester). “This grant from the Mass Cultural Council is a crucial investment in our community, ensuring the Library remains a beacon of equal access and lifelong learning.”
“As the daughter of a school librarian, public libraries hold a special place in my heart,” said State Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D-Gloucester). “The Sawyer Free Library fosters a love of reading, inspires learning, and cultivates connections among all the residents of Cape Ann. I am grateful to the Mass Cultural Council for their support at this exciting moment as the Library expands its resources, programs, and services to reach new audiences and build a lasting community.”
“We are deeply grateful to the Mass Cultural Council for recognizing the Sawyer Free Library’s public value,” said Mern Sibley, President of the Sawyer Free Library Board of Trustees. “For nearly 200 years, we have enriched lives, fostered creativity, and built connections. As we move into our newly renovated, expanded, and modernized space, this grant will help us broaden our reach, enhance our services, and continue building a brighter future for Gloucester.”
As the largest free public space in Gloucester, the Sawyer Free Library draws over 275,000 in-person and online visitors annually. Guided by its mission to cultivate community connections, power imaginations, inspire learning, and provide an inclusive, welcoming space for all, it hosts hundreds of free public programs each year. With a newly renovated and modernized building, the Library looks to increase monthly programs by 25% and community-focused events by 50%.
For Fiscal Year 2025, the Mass Cultural Council has adopted a $34 million spending plan, enabling the agency to award at least 2,500 grants totaling approximately $38 million to the Commonwealth’s creative and cultural sector. These funds primarily come from the Council’s $26.7 million state budget appropriation and support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Through initiatives such as the Mass Cultural Facilities Fund in partnership with MassDevelopment, the Council’s unrestricted organizational support grants help cultural organizations innovate, take on new challenges, and expand access for underserved audiences—improving quality of life, creating economic opportunity, and fostering greater cultural participation across Massachusetts.
Mass Cultural Council funds reach every community in the Commonwealth. Its mission is to advance the Commonwealth’s creative and cultural sector by celebrating traditions and talents, championing its collective needs, and equitably investing public resources.
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Not that they’re charging 30 cents more per customer that dines in, but that they’re announcing it rather than just increasing their price by 30 cents which no one is going to balk at anyway.
This is such a terrible marketing idea.
That’s worse than charging 10 cents for a paper bag at a grocery store.
You just piss off the customer and point out a problem when no one would have even complained. Whoever made the decision to post the sign would be off my team so fast their head would spin.
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We’re thrilled to announce a new coffee partnership with Motif Roasters!!! After an engaging “cupping” (☕️☕️☕️ tasting) hosted by head roaster Eoin Vincent, we’ve chosen two of our favorite Motif coffees to brew for our customers.
❤️☕️The Motif Morning Brew blends beans from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, with notes of coca, roasted nuts, and caramel. Word on the street is that dark roast is popular on Cape Ann, so we’ve also chosen Motif’s Dogtown, a rich Colombian dark roast. ❤️☕️
The Team at Salty’s 🥯🥯🥯 1 Whistlestop Mall, Rockport Open Sat. & Sun. 8 am – 11 am or sell out.
local #coffee #motifroasters #bagels #capeann #rockport #gloucester #manchesterbythesea #essexma #goodmorninggloucester
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We decided to go to 1640 Hart House on Linebrook Road in Ispwich for dinner on a recent cold winter evening. This old house has been adapted for restaurant and event use. The minute you walk onto those wide plank wood floors, you know you’re experiencing part of history. The ceilings in the dining rooms is low and the lighting is dim (the way it would have been in pre-electricity days) but the service is attentive and friendly. We found it to be quite full for a weekday dinner which is a good sign!
We were seated in the Keepers Room which was intimate and cozy. I had the Fish and Chips (which you can see was HUGE) and Jim ordered Chicken Milanese. Warm bread preceded our drinks which were generously poured. We finished with a classic (for the sake of this post only haha) apple crisp. It was a nice little excursion to Ipswich and we’ll plan to go again sooner than later.
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Of all the symphonic sounds one encounters riding the NYC subway trains and tracks, above a multitude of electric aches and brakes, and machinery coming and going, it’s the brief and stirring melody that never fails to stir my heart.
image caption: 12 second video. NYC Subway–can you hear the notes?
I have filmed it every decade since the 1980s. That such solid heavy machinery can sound delicate and fleeting and produce the identical phrasing of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 adagio un poco movement stops me every time (25 second audio below).
Beethoven (1770-1827) was fully deaf by 40. At the time when the sounds that he heard must have grown muffled and distant and the high pitch frequencies rubbed away–in his mid thirties–he composed Symphony No. 5. What many may consider the loveliest and most layered melody the world has produced may be one of the last of his own works Beethoven could hear at all. Think about that as the subway is pulling away.
Because it was a center of the music world of its time, booming with royal and freelance opportunities for musicians and music publishing, Beethoven resided and worked in Vienna. When I hear the notes emanating from the NYC subway, I wonder about the ambient and industry sounds in Vienna that Beethoven absorbed. The upper Danube was dotted by land and ship mills for grain, textile, metal working, lumber, and fishing. Although the sounds of steam engine trains were decades away from Beethoven’s lived experience, and well before audio recordings, sounds and vibrations from man made metal and engineering production were extant.
150+ years later, preeminent American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, drew inspiration and intentionally quoted that Beethoven phrase in “Somewhere” from West Side Story. How could he not? Bernstein was a New Yorker. The sounds of the city were his inspiration, too. And what can be more New York than the subway and an artist delighting in references as broad as Gershwin and Beethoven and the challenge of embedding them into popular musical theater. Bernstein was also an unfailing educator and student of music. Here he is in 1954 on his first live tv appearance, on the Sunday afternoon weekly broadcast, Omnibus, with the Symphony in Air orchestra episode devoted to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Image caption: Omnibus video from 1954 is 33 min. Check out the studio set–it’s amazing!
The popular Beethoven ‘master class’ aired three years before his seminal musical West Side Story premiered on Broadway.One wishes there was an episode about Beethoven’s the Emperor with Bernstein.
There is a broadcast in 1956 with Josef Krips conducting. Below is a 1 min excerpt with that phrase from Beethoven Piano Concerto 5 performed with NBC Symphony of the Air and Arthur Rubinstein on piano.
image caption: 1956 (1:00 minute audio)
And three more (duration 20 second (or less)) recordings of that Beethoven leitmotif phrase, different interpretations for joyful comparison:
image caption: 1951
image caption: 1958. 23 seconds.
image caption: 1992.
Reri Grist (American, b. 1932)
The Broadway musical, West Side Story, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein, opened in 1957. The gorgeous melodic and pining classic, “Somewhere”, was not sung by Carol Lawrence who played the role of Maria. Broadway was lucky to recognize the gorgeous voice of Reri (sounds like MiMi) Grist, a member of the background chorus who played the part of Consuelo and the off stage soloist who launched “There’s a Place for Us” into the world. You can also hear Grist’s vocals soaring in the chorus of “Tonight”.
Four years later, the song pivots to the part of Maria in the classic 1961 film adaptation. Grist was not involved in the iconic movie. She became an international opera soprano, and legendary voice teacher in New York. There doesn’t seem to be any film recording of Reri Grist with the original cast acting and singing. There is a contemporaneous video with excerpts of Grist starring in a 1965 live tv production of “Ariadne auf Naxos” — it’s incredible (and only 2000 views as of today). She’s dazzling.
1960s
2007
Flash forward decades to 2007: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS gala fundraiser featured Reri Grist singing “Somewhere” and it’s so layered and stunning and felt!
image caption: video duration is less than 5 minutes. Do stay through to the end or you’ll miss the original cast and chorus join the stage.
And here is a snippet from the historical rehearsal for the 2007 event with original cast members and Grist beaming and her voice lifting in “Tonight”
Image caption: 1957 cast album Reri Grist “Somewhere” (17 sec- volume up specific of this motif)
West Side Story film
Excerpts with examples of the leitmotif from the 1961 juggernaut with Natalie Wood as Maria (with vocals dubbed by Marni Nixon) and Richard Beymer as Tony (vocals dubbed by Jim Bryant).
Somewhere interpretations
Video and audio snippets zeroed in on that melody covered by legends: Judy Garland with Vic Damone , the Supremes (1966), Barbra Streisand (1985), Idina Menzel (Glee, 2011) , and Renee Fleming (1999)
Renee Fleming – 32 sec
Idina – 10 sec
Barbra- 15 seconds
Image: LIVE Judy Garland and Vic Damone medley (7 min)
Image caption: The Supremes – 1966 Ed Sullivan (3:44 min)
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On Tuesday, February 4, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., theSawyer Free Library will host a presentation and discussion about Planning for Medicare led by a representative of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
This informative presentation is geared toward individuals approaching medicare eligibility and for the community who may still be working and looking to transition.
Topics covered include health insurance information outside of employer-sponsored coverage, such as an explanation of Medicare, the Medicare enrollment timeline, Medigap and Medicare Advantage plans and programs available to early retirees, and COBRA.
No registration required. For questions or more information, please email: moneill@sawyerfreelibrary.org or call 978-325-5500.
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Good Morning Gloucester 