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.
Ready, Get Centered Street, go! 1 Center Street is open for Middle Street Walk
Hi Joey,
Get centered during Gloucester’s Middle Street Walk this Saturday. One Center Street is open and filled with friends, social imagination, wellness and artistry! Glance at the list of tenants at Kate Seidman’s building—many GMG readers are already big fans and customers.
1 Center Street, 3rd floor:
Ten Pound Studio silk painting studio with classes every Tuesday
Bradley Royds music recording studio
Jennifer Lee Levitz Studio and Reikki practice
1 Center Street, 2nd floor:
Loren Doucette, Art Showroom, Studio and Teaching Lab ( beginning Artist Way course to discovering recovering your creative self in 2015 along with private art lessons) 978-879-6588, Lorenadoucette@gmail.com Loren Doucette adds: “We are looking for teachers and students to be a part of this great creative cooperative space! Our goal and mission is to practice, teach and share creative well-being!”
Jeffrey Marshall, Art Studio. Jeffrey was invited to have a January show at the Cape Ann Museum and will be the First Cape Ann Artist of Distinction in Residency 2015 – for the Rocky Neck Art Colony
Stephen Baglioni, LMT, clothed sports massage office, http://www.massagetherapyunlimited.com/
Bob Tobin, weekly Kempo Karate classes (Wed & Sat)
Sarah Slifer Swift, rehearsal space, AND she runs Monday Morning Dance Rave 8:30-10am each week. Very fun!
Yoga with Peter Martin starting in January 2015.
Street:
Kate Seidman’s Art Room Boutique
IF YOU GO
What: OPEN HOUSE at ONE CENTER STREET
Where: 1 Center Street (between Main and Middle)
When: Middle Street Walk 2014, 10AM-4PM
Who: Loren Doucette, Stephen Baglioni and Peter Martin are hosting an OPEN HOUSE as part of the Middle Street Walk. Stop by!
Kate has owned 1 Center Street since the early 1990s. Challenge for GMG readers: Do you know the prior occupant(s) and story of this historic building? Write in your comments if you know!
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Family and Friends Day At POP Gallery
A Weekend of Family FUN!
After Saturday’s festivities with the Middle Street Walk and the Lobster Trap Tree Lighting in downtown Gloucester, be sure to come back down to Main Street on Sunday for Family & Friends Day from 12 to 5 pm!
POP will serve FREE cocoa for the kiddies and Yule Fuel for mom and dad! Santa will also make an appearance at our store after 4 pm!
We’re very excited to offer 20 % OFF select sale items and clothing! Plus, 10% off ALL PURCHASES of $50 or more!
There are many great gifts for young and old at POP, so make sure you come take advantage of this SALE at 67 Main Street, THIS SUNDAY!
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Backyard Growers Final Stretch For Push For Global Headquarters
We need a Backyard Growers Headquarters
Help us expand our GARDEN EMPIRE!
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Food
BREAKING NEWS! Generous donors have stepped up to offer a 3:1 match to help us reach our $15K goal! For every $10 you give, our matching donors will give $30!
Backyard Growers has become RADICALLY AWESOME. Here’s why—In five short years we have evolved from providing a handful of neighbors with backyard gardens TO THIS:
- Over 1,300 Gloucester elementary school students plant, harvest, and eat from their school gardens each year.
- Built O’Maley Innovation Middle School’s first school garden with over 200 6th graders to support the science curriculum.
- Built West Parish School gardens at Burnham’s Field. When West Parish moves, the gardens will join Burnham’s Field Community Garden, which will be managed by us!
- Expanded the Gloucester Preschool garden, providing early hands-on gardening and healthy snack experiences to over 90 preschoolers.
- Providing afterschool programs through Gloucester U at the high school, O’Maley Academy at the middle school, and at Beeman and Veterans Schools through the YMCA.
- We now serve the entire Gloucester school district—from preK to high school. Other school districts have expressed interest in adopting our model!
- Since 2010, 150 new gardens built in Gloucester for families, community groups, organizations, and schools, helping hundreds of people learn how to grow their own food.
What we need and how it will benefit the people we serve
Backyard Growers is a small, scrappy non-profit organization. We know how to do a lot with a little. Our main base of operations is my house. And when I say my house I mean my kitchen table, my small office, the hall, the living room, the bedroom, the basement, the yard, the driveway, and sometimes spilling out into the street. Backyard Growers also exists beyond my house! Thank you to The Open Door for providing space for our FoodCorps service member, and to the city and school district for storing some of our stuff.
All of this to say, we have officially burst our seams and are in need of an OFFICIAL BACKYARD GROWERS HEADQUARTERS. We are currently looking for a space. We need to raise $15,000 to pay for the first year of rent and associated costs. Our own space = centralized operations = more efficient program and operations management = strengthened programs/more people served/strategic organizational growth.
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Gloucester Stage Company Holiday Delights Dec 19-21
Purchase Tickets
A must-see holiday tradition
for the whole family!
GSC’s Youth Acting Workshop’s Holiday Delights is a year-end showcase of student talent from YAW’s winter, summer, and fall workshops.
The 2014 edition of Holiday Delights is the all-new journey of a young girl who discovers the spirit and the joys of the holiday season.
Conceived and Directed by Heidi Dallin
Musical Direction Helen Greene
Choreography Carol Burnham
Stage Manager Annika Rosenvinge
Costume Design Lara Jardullo
Purchase tickets online or call the Box Office 978-281-4433
Adult: $15 Senior: $12
Student: $8 Child under 6: $6
SPONSORS
Barry and Susan Weiner CTI Cabling Technologies Cape Ann Savings Bank
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Community Stuff 12/12/14
The days continue to get shorter and shorter and for many of us, this is only part of what makes the winter holidays a challenge. Some of us will be spending the holidays without loved ones, perhaps for the first time. Some struggle with mental illnesses including depression and seasonal affective disorder. Others are alone either because they live far from their family or because they have no family left. And some are beset by more than one of these circumstances. These reasons don’t matter. The fact is that not everyone is joyful at this time of year. Christmas carols sound hollow, Hanukah lights don’t seem to dispel the darkness, and the rampant commercialism combined with financial insecurities make it difficult to be “merry,” as so many others seem to expect of us. But there is a place for you to come and dwell for a brief time in a meditative atmosphere that will also give you the opportunity to pay tribute to your grief and sorrow.
On Thursday evening, December 18 at 7pm, the First Baptist Church in Gloucester invites you to attend The Longest Night Service. Named for the winter solstice, the longest night of the year after which the days grow longer and the light returns, The Longest Night is a service of quiet music and candlelight designed for those who need a peaceful place to be, if only for a short time, in the midst of the noise and bustle that the holidays bring. The service is Christian in nature, but all are invited to join us and to participate at a level that is comfortable for you. There will be a time to light candles in memory of loved ones now gone, in hope for our community and our world, and in the promised joy of burdens to be lifted. You may light one candle or many, or none at all if you prefer to just sit and enjoy the soft light that expels the darkness one candle at a time. You will also be able to receive private prayer if you so wish. After this brief service, light refreshments will be served.
If you need some time apart, if you are seeking a reason to sit in stillness, if you need a safe place to cry, please come and join us. No expectations, no jingling bells or blaring carols. Just you, the candlelight, gentle music, and other people who understand the need to be quiet for a while. You are welcome here, whatever you might be facing right now.
The First Baptist Church in Gloucester is an American Baptist congregation located at 38 Gloucester Avenue. For more information please call the church office at 978-283-4808.
May the light of the season illuminate your dark places,
Pastor Cindy Antonuk
Thursday, December 18
7:00 PM
The First Baptist Church in Gloucester
The Longest Night
Sometimes called a Blue Christmas service, this is a time of reflection and light, music and prayer, designed for those who struggle to find happiness during the December holidays. You will have the opportunity to light candles, receive private prayer, listen to contemplative music, and share light refreshments.
Please join us for this peaceful evening in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the season. All are welcome.
“Blue Christmas” at St. John’s
Dear Joey,
This might be helpful to some of your readers.
For many people, Christmas and the days around it are more about pain than joy. Saint John’s Episcopal Church is offering a service Sunday at 4 pm that will give voice to those feelings and respond to them with prayers and a ritual of spiritual healing. All are welcome.
Peace,
Bret+
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Electricity Savings Alternative Home Energy and Comfort Update #7- Cape Ann Chimney and Hearth
If you’ve been following the Electricity Savings and Home Heating and Comfort Series I’ve been doing then here you go with part 7. We started in Parts 1 and Part 2 with Next Step Home Energy Assesments in which my mom got over 30 new lightbulbs, electronic thermostats, energy efficient showerheads and powerstrips all for free. In Part 3 Art Bevilacqua Educates Us about how energy prices are established and how we are paying for Home energy audits and free energy efficient equipment even if we don’t take advantage of the program. Part 6 gave us energy efficiency tips for your washing machine and for snowbirds who leave their homes for sunny climes during the winter.
If you want to take advantage of awesome programs available to you right now for zero out of pocket like my mom did and we spoke about in the first parts of the series then sign up for your own energy efficiency assessment and get a ton of free lightbulbs, power strips, electronic thermostats that will turn down the heat at night or while you’re at work automatically, and efficient showerheads.
SIGN UP HERE-
For those of you who signed up for the Free Home Energy Audit and Free Energy Efficient Lightbulbs and Other Equipment , please leave me a comment on how well it went for you.
Next we go into alternative fuels in a three part sub series filmed at Cape Ann Chimney and Hearth:
Cape Ann Chimney and Hearth is Located at 7 Pond Road Gloucester MA. Phone # 978-283-1119
Part I of the sub series talks about the different types of products available to heat your home
Updates 1,2 and 3-
Update 3: Electricity Prices
Electricity Update #4: Free Home Energy Assesment With Kevin From Next Step Living
Electricity Update #5: Video Walkthrough- Energy Efficiency Assesment and Free Stuff At Mom’s House
Electricity Update #6 Energy Saving Ideas
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All Things Victorian Steampunk w/Bruce Rosenbaum
Published on Dec 10, 2014
Show #11 of All Things Victorian w/Victoriana Lady Lisa. This episode covers the World of Steampunk through the talents of artist/designer Bruce Rosenbaum of Modvic. Enjoy everyone.
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Marty and Barbara Luster Represent on Easter Island
Marty and Barbara Luster Represent on Easter Island
This is the most remote inhabited island on the world. The nearest inhabited land is 1200 miles away, Pitcairn Island.
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Cape Ann Farmers Market Winter Solstice Market December 20th!
Hi Joey-
Hope all is well with you-Here is the flier for our last market of 2014-hoping you can post it.
Most of our farmers and food vendors will be there, a great chance to stock up for the long winter!!!
Take care and thank you
Niki
Nicole Bogin
Market Manager
Cape Ann Farmers Market
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Middle Street Walk At The Sargent House Museum Dec 13,2014 11-3PM
This Saturday!
From 11A-3P, see historic Sargent House finely decorated for the holidays as you shop for gifts, greens and more! Snack on holiday treats and enjoy our family-friendly programming:
- Listen to music provided by Rockport High School musicians, led by director Nathan Cohen.
- Happening at 1:00PM at the UU Church (see map & inset below): Dramatic reading of “Mingling of Souls from Sorrow to Joy.” A one-act play by Jay DiPrima about the lives and writings of Reverend John Murray and Judith Sargent Murray. (Suggested donation $5.) Afterwards, walk with the actors to Sargent House.
For more information, visit our website: www.sargenthouse.org/events
Sargent House Museum is #11 on the map.
UU Church is #12.
(Click on map for full Middle St. Walk program.)
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Community Stuff 12/11/14
Come spend this Saturday morning (Dec 13) at Maritime Gloucester making nautical inspired presents. Ages 5 to 12 years. Cost is $5 per child members, $8 per child non-members. Parents/Guardians are required to attend and registration is required. Workshop will take place in the Sarah Fraser Robbins Classroom accessed from the walkway to the pier. Register here.
Hi Joey,
My name is Danielle Soucy Mills and I am a former Gloucester resident of 23+ years (before I went away to college in Rhode Island and graduate school in California.) I now live in San Diego, but Gloucester is still a place so very near and dear to my heart, especially since my parents still live in Annisquam in the house where I grew up. (My mother is a HUGE Good Morning Gloucester follower, too!) I moved to California to study creative writing and am now publishing my first novel, Illusion of an Ending, which is set in Gloucester (and part in SD and CT too). I am looking for help to get the word out about the book, especially since I am doing a “Pay It Forward Book Launch” where a percentage of the proceeds on Saturday, December 13th, Day 2 of the launch will go toward creating a scholarship in honor of Michael Gryzbinski, a young man from Gloucester who passed away in 2010 at 13 years old. His mother kindly donated her picture for the cover of my book.
I have attached a copy of the book cover, and my website, which details the launch as well as what the book is about. Please let me know if you would be able to help me in getting the word out. Also, here is the link to the Book Launch event which I created on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1579026482330880/
Thank you so much! I look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Danielle
Danielle Soucy Mills
Dec 9 at 2:35 PM
Hi Joey –
If possible to get this on GMG this week (or next) that would be great. The Shop has been vastly improved with the renovation – chock full of new items for the holidays, most of local interest including books, prints, cards, posters, maps, toys, home goods, and so on! There’s also the Working Waterfront exhibit on view through Feb. 1 and the Diane KW ceramic shard installation (permanent) in the vestibule and entry level restroom (catalogs available in the gift shop for both) – as well as the Museum’s 2015 Fitz Henry Lane Calendar.
Thanks,
Meredith
Meredith Anderson
Media & Communications Coordinator
Cape Ann Museum
If you have memories, objects or photographs from the Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory, Ocean Alliance and Maritime Gloucester would love to hear from you. We are creating an exhibit on the Manufactory’s history, and its pioneering role in the development of commercially viable anti-fouling paint which played a pivotal role in america’s industrial revolution and the rapid growth of its commercial fishing industry. Your stories could be just what we need to make it come alive. Objects or memorabilia that might be borrowed for the exhibit or examined for their information are also of great interest, and we will happily copy any photographs and return originals to you. Please contact Melanie Murray-Brown at Maritime Gloucester at 978-281-0470 or mmurray-brown@maritimegloucester.org
Thomas Balf
Executive Director
Maritime Gloucester
Gloucester nonprofits receive $11,000
Thanksgiving week, Cummings Properties distributed $327,000 to local nonprofits, including $11,000 to four Gloucester organizations. Cape Ann Animal Aid, Day by Day Adult Care, SeniorCare, and The Open Door each received multiple donations in honor of the commercial real estate firm’s full-time staff members, who were each invited to select a charity to receive $1,000 through the Employee Directed Giving program.
The program, now in its third year, supports local communities through organizations based and providing services in or near employees’ hometowns. Eight Cummings organization staff members reside in Gloucester, including John Dionne, associate division manager at Cummings Center in Beverly, who has been with the Company for more than 17 years.
“My wife works for Day by Day Adult Care and it has a short budget. The donations allow them to have programs and equipment they couldn’t otherwise afford,” said Dionne, whose past donation went to purchase a Nintendo Wii system for physical therapy. “I can speak for myself and others; we greatly appreciate that the Company makes these donations in our names.”
When looking for a local charity to donate to during the last Employee Directed Giving cycle, carpenter and Gloucester resident Saverio Sciortino asked his colleague Mike Taormina to recommend one; he suggested The Open Door.
“This time I decided to visit in person to see where the donation was going,” said Sciortino. “I went to deliver the check and get a tour on the day before Thanksgiving, so it was busier than usual. When I saw what these people do, how much they help so many in need, I wanted to cry.”
Sciortino was so moved, he volunteered his handyman skills to executive director Julie LaFontaine.
“Employee Directed Giving is a unique opportunity for the company to make an impact in the communities where our employees live in a way that is particularly meaningful to them,” said president and CEO Dennis Clarke. “The fact that families are sitting down having discussions about where to give and why has resulted in numerous colleagues feeling especially good about the program.”
Employee Directed Giving is open to all full-time staff within the Cummings organization annually, including the firm’s affiliated New Horizons retirement communities in Marlborough and Woburn.
A complete list of recipient organizations is available at www.cummingsproperties.com/employee_directed_giving.htm.
Cummings Properties carpenter Saverio Sciortino, once a Gloucester fisherman, delivers a $1,000 Employee Directed Giving check to The Open Door. Pictured left to right: Kevin Brisson, food pantry supervisor, executive director Julie LaFontaine, and Sciortino.
Cummings Properties carpenter Mike Taormina and electrician apprentice Mike Kiene made a special trip to Gloucester’s The Open Door to deliver their Employee Directed Giving checks to executive director Julie LaFontaine.
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Gloucester’s GAP Promotions Knows How To Throw a Christmas Party -And Cape Ann License Plate Ordering Info
Gayle Piraino Got Her Cape Ann License Plate!
Did you know you can request your numbers for a little extra dough?
I’ve got printed applications right here at the dock if you want to pick one up. I’ll even deliver it to the Chamber for you!
There was a ton of stuff I found out for the first time in this interview with Ken Riehl, Peter Webber, Brienne Black and Kerry McKenna.
Order your own plate personalized with your favorite numbers right at the Chamber website-
Download an APPLICATION.
For more information, please contact the Chamber at info@capeannchamber.com, or call 978-283-1601.
Click for video interview-
If you don’t have a printer you can head to the Chamber for an application or come down the dock and I have them here-
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GHS Students signage
Hi Joey,
After we saw the piece on Calvo’s exceptional work we thought you may want to check this out.
Next time you are in the GHS field house be sure to have a look at the new sign created and designed by the GHS Cabinet Design & Innovation class.
The original sign was damaged over the years due to various sporting events. The Cabinet Design class under the instruction of Teacher Tim Rose took over the assignment of replacing it. The pictures show some of the talented students who were involved in the project (Mike Munroe, Hannah Pastagal, John Whitmore)
The new sign was created in large part with the help of the new “Computer Numerical Control” or CNC machine which the Cabinet Design Class received through a grant from the Gloucester Education Foundation last year.
Students first designed and then programmed each of the letters using a CNC software program- The design was then fabricated on the CNC. Each letter was attached to the newly designed backboard and finally finished with a bit of paint and a gloss polyurethane.
As you can see, the new sign is a great improvement of the old, and best of all, our very own GHS students crafted it!
The Cabinet Design and Innovation program is one of the longest running electives offered at GHS and is available to all GHS students. Each year the program enrolls 75 students for a full school year.
DONATIONS ACCEPTED!
Thanks Joey,
Tim Rose, M.Ed.
Technology Education
Cabinet Design & Innovation
Gloucester High School
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Back Shore Nor’ Easter 12/10/14 #GloucesterMA
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Santa at Sea!!
Hi Joey,
I wanted to share some exciting photos from the first ever Beauport Princess Santa at Sea!! The family event took place on Saturday, December 6th. The afternoon cruise was 2-3:30 and had close to 150 people aboard. The event was so well received we had to add an evening cruise (6-7:30) that had over 100 people as well!!
The Beauport Princess held their first ever “Santa at Sea” cruise on Saturday, September 6th in Gloucester. The event was attended by more than 250 guests aboard two cruises (afternoon and evening) with families from Gloucester and throughout the North Shore. Children were treated to cookies and hot chocolate, a reading of “The Night Before Christmas,” caroling with elves, and of course – a visit from Santa! Guests were able to bring home a complimentary photo as a keepsake. Many dropped off new unwrapped toys that were donated to Action Inc’s Holiday Toy Drive. The event was so successful, the Beauport Princess is hoping to add more cruises for next year!!
The elves take a break from their work on the Santa at Sea cruise aboard the Beauport Princess. All are members of the Cape Ann YMCA Teen Leaders Club. Pictured are Mike Collins, back, and (l-r) Chloe Bailey, Jack Fernandes, Adam Jerome and advisor Chris Brayton.
Jack Frontiero of Gloucester enjoys a visit with Santa during the Santa at Sea cruise aboard the Beauport Princess on December 6th. Over 250 guests attended the event that included both an afternoon and evening cruise. Families were treated to cookies and hot chocolate, caroling with elves and a reading of “The Night Before Christmas.”
Families from Gloucester and throughout the North Shore gather around for a reading of “The Night Before Christmas” during the Santa at Sea cruise aboard the Beauport Princess on December 6th. Hundreds came to enjoy cookies and hot chocolate, caroling with elves and a visit from Santa himself!
Caitlin Small of Gloucester talks to Santa about her wish list aboard the Beauport Princess on December 6th. The first ever Santa at Sea cruise drew over 250 guests. Families were treated to cookies and hot chocolate, caroling with elves and a reading of “The Night Before Christmas.”
Children listen attentively to a reading of “The Night Before Christmas” during the first ever Santa at Sea cruise aboard the Beauport Princess on December 6th. The two cruises drew more than 250 guests who were treated to hot chocolate and cookies, caroling with elves and a visit from Santa.
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Give the Gift of Cape Ann this Season!
Happy Holidays to our Chamber Members, Friends, and Families!
First quick update on our Chamber Holiday Celebrations:
– Manchester-by-the-Sea was last week at La Casa de Luis – a great time had by all!
– Rockport was Tuesday at the Fish Shack
– Essex is this Thursday at the Windward Grille
– Gloucester is next Tuesday (12/16) here at the Chamber
All celebrations are open to all – come on by and kick-off the Holidays with us.
And, with Santa making the rounds, ‘tis the Season for Gift Giving.
I’m sure by now that you have heard about the beautiful and symbolic Cape Ann License Plate, but did you also know that the proceeds are going back to the Cape Ann community to support:
1. Promotion of our Region
2. Economic Development, and
3. Education
Have you wanted to sign-up, but not yet done so? Well, now is the Perfect time: for Yourself, your Family, and your Friends –
Give the gift of Cape Ann this Christmas!
I have attached a ‘Christmas Application’, for you to fill out and mail back to the Chamber. If you prefer, you may hold the $40 payment, and we will follow up with you as we get closer to the 1,500 target, and then we will submit the entire batch to the Registry.
Want to save paper and use an even easier way to sign-up? – you may do so on line at: http://capeannchamber.com/cape-ann-license-plate/ , or click on the below icon:
And we want YOU to be a part of our “I Got Mine” campaign!
Everyone who has submitted an application by the end of this year, is automatically entered into a drawing to win a reserved number from 11 – 100, or a custom number free of the $100 donation charge. There will be three chances to win.
As part of this campaign, we are featuring folks who have signed up for the plate. Take a selfie with our license plate promotion frame, and post it on your Facebook page and we’ll post it on ours. Make it fun – come on by and pick-up a promo. frame (or we can deliver to you), they also make great stocking stuffers! Anyone recognize the good looking gent below?
Check out our facebook page for frequent updates: https://www.facebook.com/capeannchamber
I hope to see you before the Christmas break, but if I do not – I wish you a wonderful and safe Holiday season.
Yours Sincerely,
Ken
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Cranking Lobster Crates
Just a glimpse of work on the dock
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Community Stuff 12/10/14
Cape Ann Families are invited to the Cape Ann Skating Club’s “Winter Festival on Saturday, December 13, from 11-2 pm at the Talbot Rink, O’Maley School, 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester.
Free Family Event!
*11 am – Noon: Ice Skating Exhibition
*Noon – 1 pm: Free Arts & Crafts, Used Skate & Dress Sale
*1 – 2 pm: Open Skate – $5 per Family
*Great opportunity to learn about Cape Ann Skating Club Hockey & Figure Skating programs
Participants are encouraged to bring your own skates & helmets, limited rentals are available. Not a drop-off event!
Thanks!
Cape Ann Skating Club
For more information regarding Cape Ann Skating please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/CapeAnnSkatingClub
website: http://cafsc.org/
Treetop Yoga is happy to be a part of the Toy Drive Program fro Pathways for Children!
If you have new children’s toys and would like to donate them, please stop by our studio! All gifts must be submitted by Wednesday, December 17th.
We would also like to invite you to the “Holiday Flow” Class with Anneliese Brosch on Saturday, December 13th from 1:30-3 pm.
This will be a fun, warm Vinyasa-style class set to some of your favorite holiday tunes and carols. The class is designed to help you connect to the back body – the universal – and release some of the inevitable holiday stress.
The cost is $12 when you bring a child’s toy for Pathways for Children Toy Drive. ($20 otherwise.)
Wellspring House Annual Holiday Store on Saturday, December 13th and Sunday, December 14th
Wellspring House’s Annual Holiday Store will be held this year on Saturday, December 13th and Sunday, December 14th. In its 18th year, the Holiday Store program provides an opportunity for low-income parents to “shop” by appointment for toys and gifts for their children. This year Wellspring expects to serve 750 children from more than 350 families. The operation of the Holiday Store relies strongly on the generosity of the Cape Ann community. Many individuals and local organizations are holding toy drives, brightening the holidays for those most in need in our community.
On Sunday, November 16th Cape Ann Pee Wee Football and Cheerleaders held a toy drive at their Championship Sunday event at Newell Stadium. Over 100 items were collected. Gloucester Fire Department, as well as Manchester Fire and Police Departments, are also holding drives. New, unwrapped, non-violent toys/gifts may be dropped off at any of these stations until December 10th.
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Friends old and new are invited to En Vogue Salon’s Annual Holiday Open House on Thursday, December 11th.
We will be offering all day specials (listed below), refreshments, discounts on products and services, beautiful retail gifts by Leavitt and Co and a chance to catch up with our staff of stylists in the evening when they put down their scissors and blow dryers and socialize with you, our clients in the spirit of the holiday season.
Please join us!
Rosalie and the En Vogue Salon Team
En Vogue Salon
18 Washington St, Gloucester
(978) 281-8870
http://envoguesalongloucester.blogspot.com/
Open House Specials
Free Product Samples
20% off All Products
OPI Gel Manicure $25
Blow Outs $18
Makeup $25
Cuts and Blow Dry $30
Cut, Blow Dry, Makeup and Nails $75
Take advantage of our GIFT CERTIFICATE SALE December 11- 24. Save 10%
And sign up for our BASKET RAFFLE – $5 ticket, $200 worth of products.
Drawn on Christmas Eve Day
2 SHOWS LEFT
“TOMFOOLERY” IS A MUST-SEE!
Our first stage show, “Tomfoolery,” is a hit! It runs for 2 more shows, so catch it while you can!
Thanks to a generous gift from a patron (who is both a fan of our Cinema and of fringe theater), we have added a 30′ performance stage, complete with a new live sound package and thoroughly modern sound. Each quarter, we will either host or produce 
a repertory or original stage production. Join us for our final 2 performances of satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer‘s classic TOMFOOLERY.
The show, “by local folks, with local folks, for local folks,” is ensemble-directed and features Brian King, Jennifer-Lee Levitz, Jeph Ellis, and Olivia Gale, with Joseph Nuccio serving as musical director.
Click here for more information on the show, and here for more on Tom Lehrer.
While this addition is a dramatic (and comedic!) new part of what we do, we are still movies over 95% of the time. Keep your eyes on your email for an announcement of our big December 12th movie!
Won’t you please come out for TOMFOOLERY? It would mean a wicked lot to all of us who have put so much into bringing it to you.
The following shows still have tickets available:
WED. DEC. 10 @ 8:00PM
THU. DEC. 11 @ 8:00PM
TICKETS:
$20.00 GENERAL ADMISSION
$18.00 CACS MEMBERS
With great appreciation,
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Painting – Meeting of Gloucester Boats on Rum-Row From Bill Hubbard and More About The Arethusa
Joey,
Here is my Painting, “Meeting On Rum-Row”
It’s 1932, Prohibition and two former Gloucester fishing schooners meet up with the US Coast Guard’s 75’ patrol boat, CG-100 which was then based in Gloucester. They are on Rum-Row, 3 miles off the coast of New York and New Jersey. The coast guard is charged with patrolling the 3 Mile Territorial Limit to protect against the illegal entry of liquor into the US.
On the left is the 100 ft. Sch. H.L. Marshall and on the right is the 110 ft. Sch. Arethusa. Both were Essex-built and had been high-liners among the Gloucester fishing fleet. They were purchased by the legendary bootlegger, Bill “The Real” McCoy of Florida. Both were rebuilt, strengthened and had their twin auxiliary engines replaced. The Arethusa had a new ten ft. bowsprit added to accommodate a flying jib and increase her carrying capacity to 16,000 cases of liquor. The Marshall carried 15,000 cases They were operating out of the Bahamas under British registry. At that time the Arethusa’s name was changed to Tomoka after McCoy’s home port in Florida. They were fast under sail or power and the nemises of the US Coast Guard. At the height of his career, McCoy operated six former fishing schooners, hauling illegal booze from the Bahamas, Cuba, Bermuda, Jamaica and St. Pierre & Miquellen Islands off Newfoundland. Those cases, offloaded on Rum-Row to fast small boats and landed in the US earned McCoy $10/case. The Marshall carried 1,500 cases and the Arethusa 1,600 and would earn him $31,000 cash
Rum-row was the 3 mile territorial limit of US legal jurisdiction off our coastline at the time. The federal boats had no jurisdiction outside the limit and the smart rum-runners stayed outside to avoid capture. McCoy operated one and hired young, seasoned fishing captains to skipper his other boats. His boats were mounted with Bofors and Colt Machine guns – not to battle the Coast Guard but, as protection against mob-owned hi-speed boats that cruised the “row” and hi-jacked unprotected ships. McCoy earned the nickname, The Real McCoy because he refused to buy his liquor from the mobsters and guaranteed it was not watered down.
Eventually, McCoy was captured by what he and many others claimed to be a very unscrupulous trick by the Coast Guard. My next painting in this series will be the show-down between his Schooner Tomoka/Arethusa and the cutter Seneca.
Bill Hubbard
Joey’s note:
Our Lobsterman Tommy Burns named his boat The Arethusa after Bill “The Real” McCoy’s Schooner Arethusa.
Paul Frontiero Photo-
Check out Paulie Walnuts Post Here-
Arethusa 04/22/12
Arethusa
Definition: Arethusa was a nymph, possibly the daughter of an Arcadian river god, and a follower of the virgin goddess Artemis. One day as she was bathing, she discovered the river god Alpheus desired her, so she fled. She ran as far as the island of Syracuse, but he kept up. In desperation, Arethusa called on Artemis to defend her. Artemis did what she could. She transformed Arethusa into a spring, but according to Pausanias, the nymph didn’t remain pure even in her transformed state. Alpheus had himself transformed into a river running under the spring so that the waters of river and spring might mingle. AND KNOW YOU KNOW.
There are also these videos from Ben who came up and had a short stint aboard the Tommy’s Arethusa-
You may remember Ben from his brief stint as a lobsterman aboard Tommy Burns’ Arethusa and the Cartoon That Was Made About His Experience-
Good Morning Gloucester 