My View of Life on the Dock
6PM To Whenever- Bring Some Booze- We’ll Have The Grub
Time To Partay!
Then you better get your sexy ass down to Bodin Historic Photo For The GMG XMAS Party December 19th! 6PMTil We Burn Down The Neighborhood!
I’m just gonna put this out there that if you consider yourself a FOB you had better show up for our killer OFFICIAL GMG CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!!!
We’re gonna celebrate it all, Kwanza, spinnin the dradel, all that fun shit!
Come See Paul Morrison Dressed Up Like Santa-
OKAY EVERYONE CHANT WITH ME-
“WILLOW REST II!”
“WILLOW REST II!”
“WILLOW REST II!”
“WILLOW REST II!”
Pleeeeease!!!!!
Super K Photo
Note to Nonni’s Marketing Director- White tape on dark windows might be slightly more visible. Just saying.
Al Bezanson Submits-
Over at the Causeway a cup is a bowl and a bowl is a super bowl. With a heap of haddock, cooked just right. If they had more seating Gulf of Maine haddock might become endangered.
Kristina Bengston asks-
I have been searching through all the restaurants but I can not find out if anyone is open on Christmas Eve.
Or are we left with Chinese take out?
Thanks so much
Kristina Bengston
Hi Joey –
I wanted to be sure to share these fun pictures from the rehearsals for Welcome Yule! A Midwinter Celebration which will be presented on Sunday, December 21 at 3:30 PM at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.
Welcome Yule! is a family show filled with music, dance, songs and stories to drive the dark away. It features carols, wassailing songs, dancing, a mummers’ play and a Yule log procession. This festive, participatory celebration invites the audience to sing-a-long, laugh-a-long, even dance-a-long!
There is a $15 suggested donation for adults at the door; $10 for seniors and children five through sixteen; $40 family cap; age four and under free. This event will benefit the Meetinghouse Preservation Fund.
For more information visit Sing Through the Seasons on Facebook, or email folklifestudio@gmail.com.
Thanks!
Rose Sheehan, Folk Life Studio
Chrissy “Vic” Jewell is selling The Makenzie Rose and she’s a beaut Clark. (Griswolds reference in case you missed it)
Served by everyone’s favorite – Rusty Shatford !
Lise Breen submits-
MERRY, MAGICAL MIDDLE STREET WALK AT THE SARGENT HOUSE
The Sargent House thanks everyone who helped create a magical day to appeal to Middle Street Walkers’ eyes, ears, and appetites.
The Sargent House Museum gives a huge cheer to Nathan Cohen and His Talented Rockport High School Student Chamber Music Players who regaled us with an extraordinary playlist.
The stellar performers included:
Isa Brisson, Aidan Flynn, Lydia Giangregorio , Sayles Kasten , Nelson Pike, Soni Razdan, Emma Sekercan
Gloucester High School Sargent House intern Hannah St Cyr graciously greeted guests and revived their frosty fingers with hot mulled cider and homemade goodies—fresh baked muffins, anyone? Not a crumb remained.
None other than our own Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard performed as Judith in Jay Di Prima’s original production, “Mingling of Souls from Sorrow to Joy” at the Unitarian Universalist Church. 
Jay performed the part of Reverend John Murray, the love of Judith’s life. Judith led an appreciative audience back to the House to view John and Judith’s bedrooms and her rare writing closet.
HUZZAH!
Many thanks go to the volunteers who decorated the House with fresh greens. Eva DiLascio, Barbe Ennis, and Vicky Bennet showed off their artistry and skill.
The showcase designs on view throughout the House are rendered in ribbons, greens and berries, gilded shells and holly–often in unique containers–are for sale. Next year, stop by for special holiday events and pick out your own fresh wreath or centerpiece to help support the Sargent House!
Happy Holidays to all!
Credit must go, with pleasure, to Sharron Cohen for her photographs.
For sale on the All Things Gloucester site, click the photo to order yours- The purchase of these caps helps to pay the costs associated with running the blog. With the enormous amount of content we provide the content hosting fees have quadrupled in the past 4 years. If you appreciate the effort we put in, we’d appreciate you supporting us with a cap or two purchase. Thanks
For sale on the All Things Gloucester site, click the photo to order yours-
GMG Logo Cap Pigment Dyed Stonewashed Charcoal. Velcro strap. Three Color High Stitch Count Embroidery. If you need your cap shipped be sure to select the shipping option and not local pick up. If you purchase 5 caps at once you get a 6th cap free and free shipping.
If you order 5 I’ll know to include the extra cap, you won’t need to check off any special box.
If you purchase 5 caps also select the local pick up option so you won’t be charged for shipping.
For people that make their living based on how rough the seas will be I can tell you that an incredible amount of forecasts that have to do with sun and temperature mean diddly. It’s all about the wind- direction and speed.
www.windyty.com gives you just that in an interactive map which changes as you click along the timeline. check for yourself and bookmark it!
Mark McDonough Holding Court With Deb Coull and Creative Salem Marketing Genius John Andrews
Check Out Creative Salem Here
This Thursday (Dec. 18th), from 5 pm to 10 pm, stroll Gloucester’s historic downtown on MEN’S NIGHT! Shops will be open late, with refreshments and special discounts for our gentlemen of the North Shore. POP Gallery and BUOY will be serving up pulled pork sliders, beer and awesome sales on a variety of clothing, jewelry and housewares!
Shop unique gits for your loved ones and friends or perhaps find a smart look for yourself! Come hang out with the sassiest gals on Main Street at 67 Main!
Here’s a sneak peek at some of our top selling inventory of the season!
Bodin Historic Photo, 82 Main Street, will be open for Men’s Night from 5pm until 10pm. We’ll be featuring the etchings of Gloucester Allen Sloane. Over his long career on Cape Ann, this master printmaker has captured classic scenes of the area, in limited editions. We also have the oil paintings of Laureen Maher and other artists. Oh, my work too, of historic photos and maps of your neighborhood and favorite beaches. In Cod We Trust and Fish City shirts are in, all sizes and all colors (blue or blue). They won’t last long. Food: cheese and meat platter, sardines and smoked and pickled fish of various kinds, and drinkable wine and beer. Open 5pm to 9pm.
Good Afternoon,
I would like to let you know that for Men’s Night we will be offering a 10% discount on purchases of 2 items or more and drawing of 5 bottles of wine (winners will be an announced Friday in the morning).
Thank you very much
Mario A. Bravo
TBT Post 33 Main St. Gloucester, MA 01930
December 15, 2014
St John’s Episcopal Church of Gloucester, Ma will be presenting a unique pageant play by Louise Mundinger as part of its Christmas Eve Service at 5pm. The Young Shepherds’ Tale is a Christmas Celebration with scenes, music and dancing and promises to be a lot of reverential fun. Audience members are invited to come dressed as animals or at least be willing to join the crush to the manger.
Billed as an alternative to the traditional Christmas Pageant, it focuses on the experience of the shepherds and the joyful incarnation of the Son of God. It is first and foremost a festive, playful celebration involving an organist, a choir (young and old), a congregation, shepherds, the holy family and many animals.
The performance will take place on Christmas Eve (December 24rth) at 5pm. Come celebrate and share the good news of the birth of Jesus through music, song, drama and dance.
Rick Doucette submits-
Hi Joey –
For the third year, the YMCA TEEN LEADERS CLUB and the TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT of the Gloucester Public Schools collaborated for the STUFF A BUS Toy Drive. Thanks to the amazing generosity of our community,
we are able to redistribute more than 500 toys to local families in need.
We are grateful for this avenue of service and look forward to further initiatives.
Further Proof That Gloucester’s Got The Coolest Jews
Adam Bolonsky writes-
I remember when the Unification Church (the Moonies) arrived Gloucester in the late 70’s and started bluefin fishing. It was a complex time, and thinking about it recently, I came across these reminiscences from Colleen Christian, a Moonie who moved to Gloucester to fish on one of the two dozen or so Gloucester bluefin boats the Moonies brought to the waterfont. Moonie crews fished with handlines for bluefin. Some crews were made up of only women. Anyhow, I got a kick out of the anecdote below, especially the part where a moonie from the Bronx teaches a Gloucester bluefin moonie crew how to respond to Moonies suck!
Colleen writes:
My first assignment in Gloucester was on a bluefin boat that went to the Northwest Corner, this huge bank, a rise in the ocean floor, where the water is about a hundred feet deep, ideal for bluefin tuna fishing. Soon after we we got there, there was a strike on one of the boats in there. When you hook a bluefin, first thing you do is, the first mate releases the anchor – attached to a big orange buoy ball – so that when you land your fish you can retrieve your anchor. In our fleet, it was permissible for any of our boats to come over and take the anchor of a Moonie boat that had just hooked up, the reasoning being, if one boat caught a tuna in that spot, another boat would, too.
So that’s what we did. Soon after we moved to the other boat’s mooring ball, I heard the snap of one of the clips holding our handlines. Our captain barked out orders to release the anchor and to pull in all the our other lines.
It was pandemonium and utter confusion, and so another boat in our fleet motored over to help. This big German guy jumped on board with us to us. He and I pulled in the extra lines and our captain took the fighting line to the bow. After a half hour, I took the fighting line, and that’s how it went, back and forth, for over two hours. , and it went on, like that, for two hours, his turn, my turn.
The fish we landed weighed 550 lbs. When we got it within a few feet of our boat, I gaffed it, and we inserted one line through its gills, another around its tail, and we tied it off alongside low enough in the water to keep cool for the trip home.
The big thing to do in was moon us. People in Gloucester knew us and knew our cars, and they would drive by us and pull their pants down and show us their butts. They’d yell,
“Moonies suck! Moonies suck!”
But there was a brother in our church who was kind of a bad dude before he joined the church. He was from the Bronx, and he knew how to answer Moonies suck. He said,
“When they yell Moonies suck, you yell, Your mother sucks! Your sister sucks!”
So we did. They yelled Moonies suck at us. And we yelled back, Your mother sucks!! And they yelled, My mother sucks?! You suck! and from there it would escalate.
Photo: Nancy Breyfogel, Susan Fox, Jane Rees and Lois Ramunnihad stand with a Moonie bluefin they landed in Gloucester in the early 1980’s. “Like anyone else,” Lois said, “I wanted to try it because it sounded exciting. It was something new.”
Easiest of all and most bang for your buck- Dinner Dealer Decks get them here- https://www.dinnerdealer.com/decks/
For A Woman- It’s hard to leave Pisces without a cool gift.
For Hand Crafted Stuff- Present Down at The Bottom Of Union Hill and diagonally from Stones, def going to walk out with something cool and unique.
Alexandria’s Bread Co- I’ve said it a bunch of times- Alexandria should be a buyer for Target because she has an eye for timeless interesting things and that space offers many T Shirts and other things that scream Timeless New England Coastal Community.
Take your favorite photo of your child or local scene and email it to James and Anna At Cape Ann Giclee to get a Canvas wrap made of that image and if you are giving that present to someone that the photo holds meaning for, you can’t get more personalized than that.
The Weathervane for your Cape Pond Ice gear.
Passports is currently offering 20% on Gift Certificates- easy No Brainer for one of the best restaurants in town that you’ll undoubtedly be visiting.
Our Donna Ardizzoni can have any of her images put on a pillow for you- check out her website here- http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/donnaardizzoni.html
Sista Felicia’s Cookbook which preserves and shares traditional Sicilian recipes for future generations
For Men- Merino Wool Socks or Other Warm Outdoor Gear at Nelsons
Kim Smith’s Oh Garden Of Possibilities for The Local Gardener
Sporting Goods as well as Gloucester/Rockport/Manchester Caps- Palazolas
Gift Certificates At Any Of the Local Massage Joints
Cape Ann License Plate- Ordering Info- http://capeannchamber.com/cape-ann-license-plate/
TBT Post Alpaca Sweaters, Shawls, Hats and Gloves- Guaranteed To Walk Out With a Woman’s Present (The Men’s Classic Alpaca Crew Neck Sweaters In Black or Grey Are Timeless and Reasonably Priced As Well)
You Can Get One Of Paulie Walnuts’ Late Father’s Paintings (he was a great painter of Gloucester’s Fishing Fleet)-
EJ probably has some of her inspiring Moolong books kicking around
The Village Silvermith and Blue River Diamonds downtown- wide range of women’s jewelry- you can definitely walk out of those joints with a gift.
Local Colors Artist Cooperative- Joe Fish Prints or Rusty and Ingrid Prints or any of the other tons of stuff there locally crafted. 100% can walk out of there with a gift.
Life Is Good Now Has the exclusive local sellers of Cape Ann Tuna Club Gear
Any of the Gear From The Wicked Tuna Boats Make Good presents for the fans of those shows Hard Merchandise Gear Tuna.Com Gear
The Art Room on Center Street also carries unique clothing and art for women.
Wine and Cheese Gift Baskets at The Cave and Savour Wine and Cheese.
Beth Williams Studios has completely unique blown glass items for your ladyfriend.
Pop Gallery Is the place for funky presents for your man or woman
You want a hand painted unique to you mailbox or something else? Paulines Gifts #Boom
UPDATE:
Not sure how I could have forgotten an old school framed print from your neighborhood from our boy Fred at Bodin Historic Photo.
Also for the sport fisherman in your life, Stevie Corbett’s Chum Cutter
These are just some of the no-brainers I can think of right off the top of my head, feel free to help complete my list by adding a comment in the post or forwarding me a link to your favorite local joint or gift to add.
As 2014 comes to a close, we would like to wish all of our members and friends of the IDRC a happy and safe holiday season. We are certainly fortunate to have dories to row and a beautiful harbor to row in (winter and summer)! We remember those who can no longer get out on the water, and look forward to another great year of dory rowing and racing in 2015.
Don’t forget the dory rowers on your Christmas List. The IDRC has oars and other rowing gear in stock and ready for wrapping! Just call Skip Levielle at (978) 281-1071. Or, visit our virtual store for dory apparel @ www.internationaldories.com.
From Deadspin and forwarded by Robin Jones (click the link above to check the whole thing out)
It’s a difficult world out there, people. War, poverty, brutality, corruption, social and racial injustice … these are not civil times we live in. Which is why, more than ever, we NEED the comfort and warmth that only life inside the Williams-Sonoma catalog can provide. Follow me, America. Follow me inside these glossy pages, where there is no anger. No violence. No internet commenters explaining why YOUR SO STOOPID.
In here, there is nothing but endless kitchen countertops, and meticulously arranged buffet spreads with pre-made bundt cakes (prep it a day early, and your party is a snap!) that have been drizzled just so with triple-butterscotch icing. There are fancy chocolates enrobed in other fancy chocolates. There are WHIMSICAL TINS (yes, the copy actually says that). There are thousands of newfangled cooking tools and gadgets and devices that only a Greenwich, Conn., kitchen could possibly have space to accommodate. There are dustings and sprinklings and twee little bows, all perfectly arranged for your perfect little evening of perfect holiday entertaining with your perfect neighbor guests and your perfect children standing by the table in their john-johns and singing gaily to you all as you pipe fresh, warm cognac into each other’s butts.
Really, click the link to see the whole post on Deadspin, it’s good stuff. Just in case you’re not sure where to click- see the highlighted text after the word “word”, click there. word The 2014 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Good Morning Gloucester 