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“Welcome Yule! – A Midwinter Celebration” returns for a third year to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse.
The Welcome Yule Chorus, Children’s Troupe and Folk Orchestra, under the direction of
Welcome Yule Children – 2015
Rose Sheehan, will present this lively, seasonal pageant on Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 4:00 PM in the sanctuary of Gloucester’s historic Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse. The program is expected to run two hours including a fifteen minute intermission.
Yule is the name for the old, pre-Christian Winter Solstice festivals celebrated throughout northern Europe. ‘Welcome Yule!’ highlights symbols and festivities associated with those older festivals – wassailing, holly and ivy, yule logs, candles – and includes Christmas lore that blends the old customs with the newer festival.
Welcome Yule Mummers – 2015
This family friendly show is filled with music, dance, songs and stories for the longest night. It features a mix of traditional pieces…
Don’t forget to come to Beeman this Saturday, December 3rd from 9 to 1 for the Holiday Fair! Fun for the whole family with games and crafts for the students, trees and wreaths for your family to choose, and special shopping fun for the adults with vendors selling beautiful and interesting gifts to help with your shopping! As always we will have our fantastic luncheon on sale. Counting on seeing you there!
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Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. at Gloucester City Hall, where Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken will raise the #WorldAIDSDay flag along with other elected officials and community activists and groups, including North Shore Health Project, to preside over a short ceremony marking this important day of remembrance and gratitude.
Each Wednesday, CATA provides service to shopping centers outside Cape Ann for senior and disabled customers. Locations include WalMart, Christmas Tree Shops, Trader Joe’s, and Liberty Tree/North Shore. Pickups are at the Rockport and Gloucester Senior Centers. The cost is $5 round trip. Please call 978-283-7916 with any questions!
For many people, the holiday season is anything but joyful. St. John’s Episcopal Church is offering a healing service for those who are alone, stressed, or in pain this Saturday at 5 p.m. The church will open at 3 for individual prayer and contemplation. All are welcome, regardless of faith (or lack thereof).
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Here’s our slick control panel-32 out of 32 panels firing away!
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We are so thankful and grateful to all of our wonderful customers who have supported our little shop for the past 12 years. Unfortunately, we have made the very difficult decision to CLOSE OUR DOORS at the end of our lease on December 31st.
It’s been a great adventure and we can never thank you enough for the friendship and support you have shown us over the years.
So – let’s save you some dough on your holiday shopping. Starting Wednesday, November 30 we’ll be 20% off all adult tees and 30% off the rest of the store with even bigger discounts in the Sale Corner.
**Please note – No adjustments to prior purchases, sales are final sale, no refunds, no store credit.**
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* Secret Sushi Service Pop up at “7 Central” in Manchester by the sea on Nov.30th Wednesday from 6pm to 9pm. Limited 70 seats by reservation only. About Chef Sang Hyun Lee. Sang, originally from South Korea, moved to the states on Sep.11th 2001. Sang has worked at many Japanese restaurants around Boston and the New York area over the last 14 years. Some Gloucester locals may remember him from Madfish sushi bar during the 2012/2013 summer season. After Madfish Chef Sang moved back to New York City to continue his sushi skill under master Chef Kazuo Yoshida at “1or8” in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Sang is currently sushi chef at Uni located in the Eliot hotel in Boston.
This will be Sang’s first solo pop up event. He is putting lots of energy and love into the preparations for Wednesdays event. With special focus on the sushi rice…
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For many people, the holiday season is anything but joyful. St. John’s Episcopal Church is offering a healing service for those who are alone, stressed, or in pain this Saturday at 5 p.m. The church will open at 3 for individual prayer and contemplation. All are welcome, regardless of faith (or lack thereof).
BACKYARD GROWERS’ ANNUAL HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP IS IN FULL SWING UNTIL DEC 21!
The holidays are almost here, and we’ve filled our office at 271 Main Street with veggie socks, garden books, children’s watering cans and more! Come shop our new and vintage funky clothes, gardening tools, cooking supplies, and books- plus our usual supply of seeds, organic fertilizers, and pest sprays.
We will be open every Monday–Friday 9 am- 5 pm
Also, shop late from 5-10 pm on Ladies Night Dec 1, Employee Night Dec 8, and Men’s Night Dec 15!
Artists: Backyard Growers invites you to Painting the Harvest Still Life, an evening of still life painting and tea. Please join us at our office on Main Street, where we will stage a lovely nature-based still life for you to paint. Bring your own easels and supplies. All proceeds benefit our nonprofit urban agriculture programs.
There are 8 CD Case Calendars Left if anyone wants to buy them this is your chance. I won’t be ordering any more for this season.
I also only had a handful of the New GMG Logo Pro Mesh Navy Caps. If you want to purchase one of those I’ll have some at the dock tomorrow as well or shoot me a message and I’ll put one aside for you while they last.
The lovely Kate modeling the new GMG No Compromise Cap.
This Is What the CD Case Calendar Looks Like-
Click to play video which shows exactly what the 2017 GMG CD Case Calendar looks like-
This is an awesome deal on a remote long range wireless thermometer like the one I use and paid twice as much for!
Knowing your meat temp is absolutely critical for BBQ or cooking success. 10 degrees over or under and it’s not even close to being as good as it can be.
The 158 ton brig Union would have been very similar to this one. This is the 162 ton, 90 feet long, wooden brig Annie Brown, which trading around South Australia from 1875. Source: p. 136 of “Sail in the South” by Ronald Parsons, Wellington, AH & Aw Reed, 1975
A bronze pintle with three through bolts from the 1823 wreck of the 432 ton sailing ship Brampton. The item was recovered by Kelly Tarlton from the wreck site in the Bay of Islands. This item was sold at Webb’s auction no. 862 in November 2002. Note as photographed the pintle is upside down. The Waimahana Bay trademe pintle did not have through bolts but was fastened by rudder nails and lag bolts instead.
More Reading about Gudgeon and Pintles- whats interesting here is this one from
A Snow Brig. The Mountain Maid was a strongly built wooden snow brig. She had two square rigged masts and a smaller sail called a spanker, behind the main mast.
(Based on a line drawing from Ships Rigs & Rigging, H. A. Underhill. Nautical Press, Glasgow. Colorised by EFL.)
So I contacted my friend Will (Tugster) and he had a more intriguing information and photos to add to this-
Hi Joey–
Wow! My filing system works, and I located these photos about 5 minutes after I started looking.
The story is this: after a storm in spring (?) 1988, Mike Magnifico–then manager of Salisbury Beach State Reservation/Beach saw this as he was surveying beach erosion. He thought–he said later–those were gold, and the color is not exactly true in the photos. He called the Newburyport Maritime Museum, who called me, because I was Mr. Shipwreck before I was Tugster. I wet to Salisbury Beach, took the photos. A friend is standing in photo 1 to show scale.
I pursued it a while; a maritime archeologist up at Plymouth State (NH) looked it over carefully and declared the pintles made of “yellow metal” but further identification would likely not be possible. Last I knew, almost 30 years ago, Salisbury Beach Reservation kept them rather than donate to the N Maritime Museum.
Exciting. Feel free to post on GMG any text and photos.
Cheers
When you coming down to NYC?
Will
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Hi…I’m new in town..and am loving it..but yesterday went to the Y and took my sons car cuz he blocked me in and lost his keys on Middle St between the Gloucester bank and they Y. Luckily I had his spare key at home but his dorm key was on it and his college charges $250 for a rekey fee. Would it be possible to post on your website to see if anyone has found the keys please? It was 3 keys, his Toyota key and 2 others. I checked the Y and police station with no luck. I love your fb page and the info that you put out. I just moved here Oct 1st and everyone says to check out GMG for news and events. Below is my email and phone nbr. You can use both.
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