Fall fun awaits.
Cool dry days, football, fire pits, apple crisp, did I mention football? 
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.
3 of 18,014 Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quote of the Week from Greg Bover
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
Born into an aristocratic family, the Comte de Saint-Exupéry attended the French Naval Academy and studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts before joining the army in his early twenties and learning to fly. He became a celebrated airmail pilot on the route between Toulouse and Dakar, Senegal, and wrote movingly in high French style about his life in the air. During the Second World War, exiled to New York from Nazi-occupied France, Saint-Exupéry wrote his best known work, The Little Prince, a work of philosophical reflection masquerading as a children’s story which has become one of the best-selling books of all time. Returning to Europe to fight with the Free French, late in the war, Saint-Exupéry was lost at sea during a reconnaissance flight. He was the recipient of the Légion d’honneur.
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Gloucester U After-school Program “ Tuesday Talks” kick-off on September 22 with Jim Unis
Gloucester U After-school Program
“ Tuesday Talks” kick-off on September 22 with Jim Unis 
GHS 2002, Fishermen Tight End and Defensive End, All American, BC Eagles
Please join us to hear our first speaker, Jim Unis, who will be inducted into Gloucester High School Hall of Fame on September 20, 2015
“Never has Gloucester football seen a physical freak of nature like Jim Unis. The 6-foot-5-inch, 225-pound defensive end and tight end wreaked havoc on Northeastern Conference opponents from his freshman year in 1998 to his senior year in 2001.“ Gloucester Times, September 2, 2011
Jim was a Boston College football superstar and clearly headed to the NFL. Then the unexpected happened…Come learn about his incredible story.
September 22nd in the High School Library
Event starts at 2:15 for refreshments
Jim Unis will speak at 2:45 in the High School Lecture Hall followed by a Q and A
Tuesday Talks is an exciting line-up of guest speakers on career/life skills through Gloucester U, the high school after school program
REGISTER ONLINE at Gloucesteru.weebly.com or contact Samantha Whitney or Caitlin Kreitman
swhitney@gloucesterschools.com
ckreitman@gloucesterschools.com
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Breakwater From Peter Digre
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O’maley Happenings
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I know people get all horny for pumpkin flavored stuff. I’m not one of those people.
Not sure what it is but just the thought of pumpkin coffee makes me queasy. I know there’s tons that wait all year long for Dunks to bring back the Pumpkin coffee so this probably puts me on the outside looking in on the Pumpkin party.
Where do you fall on Pumpkin flavored coffee?
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Greg Verga 2015 Gloucester MA Mayoral Election Video
To View Other Candidate submissions- https://2015gloucestermaelection.wordpress.com/
An Offer To All #GloucesterMA Election Candidates:
As you all know we don’t take political stances here or endorse candidates but what I’d like to offer is an invitation for any candidate that is running for office in Gloucester to submit a video explaining why they think they are best suited for the position they are running for. The easiest way to do this would be to upload the video to YouTube.
The videos will be released once and placed on GMG at 7PM on the following night that they are received. If more than one video is submitted to me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com then the first one that is submitted will be aired the following evening at 7PM and the next one submitted will be posted the following evening at 7PM. There will be a link in each candidates post containing their video to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com which will have all previously submitted candidate’s videos.
Once they are submitted they will be added to https://2015gloucestermaelection.wordpress.com/ where all the videos will be available for viewing at any time on the same page.
In the title of the video it should list the candidate’s name- position they are running for and the words “GMG submission”.
If a candidate is not able to create a video to submit, then that speaks in my opinion to their qualifications to hold a position at this level of City Government. If a candidate doesn’t read GMG or doesn’t get the word about this opportunity then that also speaks to their qualifications to hold a position at this level of City Government knowing the reach GMG has.
As always the GMG politics disclaimer- any post on these pages containing a candidate does not imply an endorsement for any candidate. Comments on www.goodmorninggloucester.com for these video submissions on the blog will be turned off for these posts as well.
Hopefully this will serve to help candidates get their message across.
Good luck and thank you to all that participate in the process for the love of Gloucester and making it better.
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Spots Available for Youths Interested In Sailing On A Schooner For The Gloucester Schooner Race!
Hey Joey — Please post the following:
Please have youth interested in sailing on a schooner for the Gloucester Schooner Race contact Amanda at amappy@sbcglobal.net to signup. Please provide name, age and cell phone number. It’s generally first come, first serve. “Kids” should be age 12 – 18 and need to be ready to go from 8:45 — 5pm on Sunday, Sept 6th.
Thanks,
Thomas Balf
Executive Director
Maritime Gloucester
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Missing Fred Bodin. This photo was taken in downtown Gloucester. Where?
Cat Ryan Submits-
On the wall is an Alice Curtis Fred Bodin print of Dogtown Babson boulders. This one is hanging in a salon. There are others around town. He was on my mind and I’ve seen it there before. This time it was just after what would have been his 9AM GMG posting.
Fred Bodin had time to be companionable, none of this I’m so busy and rush about manner. If you didn’t meet Fred or have the chance to visit his gallery, you could sense it in his GMG posts and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BodinHistoricPhoto where he’d take time to research any newcomer to best introduce and welcome them into the fold. A dash of humor didn’t hurt nor asking questions. He wrote generous and respectful introductions on GMG, too.
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/representing-from-cincinnati-ohio/
Fred was thrilled to join the Good Morning Gloucester ranks as official GMG contributor in September 2013 and grateful that Joey pushed him into social media.
“Who knew what influence GMG would have on us all? I had no idea. Love you all, eager to post interesting and sometimes provocative content.” – Fred Bodin
“From the little that I know, Joey does his WP Good Morning Gloucester work around lobster boat deliveries and bait pickup slack times. I’ve never had a job as physically demanding as Joey’s. He works his ass off.” – Fred Bodin
Post production (pun intended) was an art for him. He liked his GMG and Facebook posts short and crafted them deliberately. He was proud of meeting his morning deadline. He experimented with ideas and topics.It’s tempting to describe his process akin to dark room developing. Magic in the end.
Fred Bodin belonged ‘here’–Gloucester, Rockport, Cape Ann, Main Street, harbor, GMG, on line- and it was contagious. He knew the festival, restaurant, artist, merchant, and neighbor. He blended art, business, history, sense of place. And he helped.
“My criteria for selection is this: You have only to ask me.” – Fred Bodin
He helped local merchants
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/the-spirit-is-unstoppable/
He was an essential and proud contributor for the HarborWalk
“Thanks Jenn. The marker was cured and done when I got to work this morning. The signage looks great, and will even be helpful to those without smartphones (like me), and much more so to those who can scan the QR. I believe the new technology makes the old much more available to us.” – Fred Bodin
and the block parties.
He was the early and key partner for the downtown cultural district.
He knew how to say thanks.
Every inch of his gallery was filled with works of variety and originality like his approach to life.
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“Transformation Through Grief” Sessions begin Monday Sept 21
Cape Ann Health Fitness and Wellness News http://www.capeannwellness.com
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O’Maley PTO, Gloucester Gardeners Club and Gloucester DPW Team Up To Beautify The O’Maley entrance
Debra Lucey and Christine Leveille forward-
Thanks to the O’Maley PTO for the beautiful benches, Gloucester Gardening Club for the planters and flowers and DPW for the cleanup and removal of cement lights. The O’Maley entrance looks great!
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holycowicecreamcafe"FREE iced coffee at Holy Cow from 12-2 today to celebrate brady ruling!! Get Down There!
Cape Ann Dining News-
http://www.capeanneats.comPaul Morrison and That Damn Duck Are On The Scene For The Free Iced Coffee At Holy Cow from 12-2PM Today-
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For information on reserving space on a schooner during the 2015 @GlSchoonerFest :
Plus all the information including downloadable 2015 Festival programs check out the Schooner Festival Website-
http://gloucesterschoonerfestival.net/
Info from The Gloucester Schooner Festival website-
For information on reserving space on a schooner during the Festival:
Adventure, call 978-281-8079
Ardelle, click here
Mystic, click here
Roseway, click here
Thomas E. Lannon, call 978–281–6634
Click here for downtown Gloucester parking information.
Click here to download the 2015 Festival Program (printed programs will be available Sept 4)
Tickets now available for Festival Raffle. Grand prize is an oil painting by John Caggiano!
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Alicia Unleashed Podcast Episode 2 Taped 9/2/15 With Guests Katrina Wightman, Bridget Ernest, Jenn Klopotoski, Kyle Danikas and Host Alicia Cox
Alicia Unleashed Podcast Episode 2 Taped 9/2/15
Potty mouth, Savour Wine and Cheese, Steve Connoly’s lobster meat, lobster snob, new words added to the Oxford dictionary, can you disconnect from your phone, how to get out of a date, texting instead of face to face conversation, best and worst pick up lines, celebrities running for political office, fantasy football vs. reality tv, Gronks voice on Waze GPS, guy mentality, friends that are vindictive but come across sweet and innocent, pool landscape
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Community Stuff 9/3/15
Cape Ann Whale Watch Annual Parade of Lights & Fireworks Cruise
Hello again,
Cape Ann Whale Watch will be doing our annual Parade of Lights & Fireworks Cruise on Saturday September 5th! Wondering if you’d be kind enough to run this in GMG!
Join the judges & get a front seat aboard the Hurricane II for the Parade of Lights & Fireworks Cruise!
Saturday September 5th 7:30-10:30 – boarding at 7pm
$15 per person (cash only)
Full cash bar
DJ Tracy Sousa
Tickets must be purchased ahead of time @ 415 Main Street (Cape Ann Whale Watch)
1800-877-5110
Thanks!!
Emily
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Adventure’s Freight Hauling Voyage from Greg Bover
Gloucester’s recently restored 1926 Schooner Adventure was hired by a group of Maine farmers, the Greenhorns, and an outfit called Maine Sail Freight, to carry goods from Portland to Boston for sale in the Boston Public Market, the first such delivery under sail since before WWII. Their idea was to show that there are alternative ways to reduce one’s carbon footprint. I shipped aboard as a volunteer deckhand. It was a privilege to be part of such a fine crew (most of whom are half my age or less).
We left Gloucester at 2300 on Wednesday after our regular member sail and arrived in Portland to load the next morning. There were plenty of volunteers to help get the goods on the ship. We left Portland at 0600 on Friday morning, sailed south all day and through the night tacking against the prevailing southwesterlies. I stood lookout and did my turns at the helm from 0400 to 0800 so I saw moonset and sunrise with my two watch mates while everyone else was asleep. It was an amazing experience to be sailing such a powerful ship twenty miles off the coast in darkness and almost total silence. Whales, porpoises, gannets, and shearwaters came by to check us out. There was some time to catch up on sleep and eat the great food coming from the galley before going back on watch from 1600 to 2000, and sailing into Boston Harbor. We unloaded early Sunday morning so the goods could be sold at the Boston Public Market and entertained visitors on deck during an Open Ship before sailing back to Gloucester and anchoring in the outer harbor allowing Columbia, in town for the Schooner Festival, to stay at our usual spot on Maritime Gloucester’s Webster Pier until the next morning. As the official schooner of the City of Gloucester, part of Adventure’s mission is to represent the city in places beyond Cape Ann, I think we did so ably. Our upcoming trips to Provincetown and New Bedford will continue that ambassadorial role.
A link to the NPR story:
http://www.wbur.org/2015/08/28/maine-produce-delivered-boston
My crewmate Lukas Baumgaertel sent these pictures. <<…>> <<…>> <<…>> <<…>>
Gregory R Bover
V.P. Operations, Project Manager
C. B. Fisk, Inc.
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League of Women Voters Mayoral Debate tomorrow
League of Women Voters Mayoral Debate tomorrow
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John Theo’s new murder mystery novel Cape Ann (CLEAN READS, 2015) is now available where all e-books are sold.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Theo Jr. has been a freelance writer for over ten years publishing both fiction and non fiction. He holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He is an adjunct professor at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he teaches screenwriting. Cape Ann is his second full length novel. John lives on Cape Ann, Massachusetts with his family.
Check out the Facebook Page here-
https://www.facebook.com/capeannbook?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
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Jim Dialpaz Wins The First GMG Logo Shirt Contest!
My husband Jim in his GMG tech jacket while we took the harbor lighthouse cruise sponsored by the Cape Ann Museum last week. Not the best picture in the world, but the logo is clear! Again, it was great to meet you. Thank you for your time. Jim and Pat Dalpiaz
To enter this week’s contest for the long sleeve XL GMG logo shirt share links from the GMG Store found here-
Share on facebook or twitter. every share you do becomes another entry for you to win, with every purchase you also get another entry and increases your chance to win. Click here to go to the purchase page where the share links reside!
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