Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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GloucesterCast With Guests Nichole Schrafft, Sista Felicia and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/30/14
GloucesterCast With Guests Nichole Schrafft, Sista Felicia and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/30/14
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Topics Include: Topics Include: Coconut Licking The Mic, Foreign Affairs, Als Cafe, Top 4 Restaurants On The North Shore, Duckworths, The Franklin, Passports, Latitude 43, Seaport Grill, The Blue Ox, The Cheesecake Factory, Ithaki, Artu in the North End, Modern Pastry vs Mike’s Pastry, Lexington Ave Resurgence, Innovation House in Magnolia, 525, Donna Ardizzoni, Larry and Misty From Glosta Joes Kickstarter, Village Market, The Surf, Edgewater Cafe, Bruni’s, Willow Rest, Mariposa Sale, Art McCann and The Change.org Petition About The Petition, Spring Sports, The Information Needed To Sign Up Kids For Sports Nowadays, Indoor Sport Facilities Making Sports Year Round, Participation Awards
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WITH TRACY CORBETT, YVONNE BURKE and WALT KOLENDA
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3rd ANNUAL FAST CHICKS 5K IS SATURDAY, MAY 3RD
HAMILTON-WENHAM, MA, March 18, 2014 – On Saturday, May 3rd, 2014, the Hamilton-Wenham Mother’s Club (HWMC) will host the 3rd Annual Fast Chicks 5K. The Fast Chicks 5k is a women’s-only race/walk designed to celebrate active women everywhere.
New this year: Girls 13 and under can register for only $15. Plus the race will be chip-timed for the first time using the MyLaps Bib Tag System.
For this 3rd annual race all monies raised will support Wellspring House, a local non-profit dedicated to empowering individuals and families to live more secure lives through basic needs assistance, education and job training.
“The Fast Chicks 5K is more than just a road race,” says Jessica Minnaar, chair of the race. “It’s a call to action to celebrate the active roles women take as community leaders. To contribute to women’s interest charities and to empower each other, our mothers, our friends, and our daughters to lead, not follow. And it’s also one heck of a way to have fun!”
Although the Fast Chicks 5k is a women’s only run, race organizers auction off a bib number to one wicked lucky “rooster” (male) who will get to join the field and race along side the field of women. To join the fun and submit your bid, visit our facebook page.
The Fast Chicks 5K is only possible with the support of sponsors and volunteers. Please contact us at fastchicks5k@gmail.com to sign up to volunteer.
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, rain or shine
Location: Patton Park Start, park at the Winthrop School
Fee: $27
Start Time: 8 a.m. day-of registration, 9:15 a.m. start
To Register: Visit http://www.fastchicks5k.org/ to download a registration form for Fast Chicks 5K run/walk or sign-up online. Race Packets can be picked up at North Beverly’s New England Running Company on Friday, May 2nd, 2014. While there, race participants can join a raffle to win a free pair of running shoes.
In order to be guaranteed a t-shirt, participants must register by Thursday, April 18th. All runners are asked to arrive prepared for a 9:15 a.m. start. If registering day-of, registration begins at 8 a.m. For questions please email Jessica Minnaar at fastchicks5k@gmail.com.
Wellspring House
For more information, please visit http://www.wellspringhouse.org/
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Ohana Starts Third Season in Gloucester
Ohana Starts Third Season in Gloucester
Chef Enx Continues Vision Featuring New American Cuisine
Ohana’s husband and wife team of Enx and Alyssa Dadulas is excited to start their third season featuring “New American cuisine, coupling local ingredients with French and Italian techniques, with an Asian influence.” It’s Chef Enx’s interpretation of all types of food. Chef Enx honed his skills as an executive chef in the kitchens of the legendary Roy Yamaguchi in Hawaii, and locally with renowned Boston chefs Barbara Lynch and Jean Joho of Brasserie Jo. In addition to a la carte offerings, creative sushi and a bar menu, Ohana features a prix fixe menu (available with or without wine pairings)
Ohana’s menu features local and regionally-sourced food from the land and sea with a tasty twist that brings in Asian spices from his background. A truly unique offering is butterfish which is marinated black cod accompanied by tempura green beans and vegetable sushi; two sauces of wasabi butter and uni butter complete this popular offering. The lunch menu includes a mixed Hawaiian plate of Teriyaki Grilled Salmon, Mongolian Pork Ribs & Blackened Shrimp. Of course, there are also tuna burgers, great sandwiches (such as a very unique duck pastrami) and creative takes on sushi. For meat lovers, there is the Big Kahuna burger and a kalbi marinated ribeye steak.
Having a prix fixe menu allows Chef Enx to show his talents with many different cuisines from Bolognese sauce with house made pasta to Peruvian chicken. Instead of running specials, Ohana changes its prix fixe menu weekly to take advantage of fresh local ingredients.
Everything from the warm rosemary focaccia served when people sit down to the out of sight desserts such as the delectable melting chocolate soufflé is made on premises. Ohana also features cocktails using locally made Ryan & Wood products including a Coastal Dog Cooler which is marketed in conjunction with Coastal Dog Apparel, a locally owned swimsuit company. Ohana loves to host and cater parties and has done so for a variety of businesses and families.
At Ohana, the name says it all. Ohana means family and you will be treated like family when you are there. Alyssa says “We see the restaurant as a family place—and it’s our family, too.”
Ohana is at 151 Main Street in Gloucester, 978-283-3200, www.ohanacapeann.com
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A Murmuration-
A flock of starlings is called a murmuration.
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon happen over the Americold Freezer in East Gloucester looking at it from the front of our dock. It’s pretty wild to witness. It seems they flock together and prepare for migration because if I remember correctly it happen in late fall.
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Reimagining Railroad Meeting at City Hall
Reimagining Railroad and Maplewood and …
Gloucester Community Development / Metropolitan Planning Area Council
Catt Ryan submits-
Hey Joey,
Last night, Community Development partnered with the Metropolitan Planning Area Council (MAPC) to host the first in a series of discussions about Gloucester’s railroad station and the surrounding area. Along with all the other robust planning that is ever constant, this interactive meeting was an extra special focus on what transit oriented attention and development might mean for Gloucester. Gloucester Planning Director, Gregg Cademartori, gave a great introduction.
Eric Halvorsen introduced the team from MAPC, which helps town generally within the wide swath of I-95. I met Eric last fall at a MA Smart Growth event he was part of. It featured Fred Kent of Project for Public Space and one of our site walks that day considered spaces and transit areas at Harvard. Halvorsen explained that there are 280 or so transit stops in Massachusetts. He enthusiastically gushed, “They are precious and finite”– and therefore merit our attention. These transit hubs account for 5% of the geography of the state, and cover 37% of the jobs. The state considers Gloucester’s railroad station as an ‘urban gateway’, one of 10 types of transit stop categories they’ve identified in MA. Salem, Beverly and Haverhill are other examples of this urban gateway category.
The evening ended with three tables of break out discussions. Topics swirled, and questions prompted responses and exchanges. Connections to other areas downtown were mentioned, Gloucester’s past, and the railroad station area as a gateway. We wondered together what people thought it might be like soon and many, many years from now. Creative ideas and similar words and phrases oscillated throughout Kyrouz like air-popped kernels: emphasis on sidewalks, signage, streets (Washington Street, Maplewood, Prospect, Railroad Avenue, Dale and Pleasant), seniors, bike rentals, safety, young families, terms such as “soft and hardscaping”, public space, shade, paving one side (like the HarborWalk), green energy, beach buggies, maker spaces, lighting, artists and other professionals, trees, wayfinding, future businesses, pedicabs, mixed use, residences, single stories, design, the stores folks value now, the Jeff Weaver mural, the supermarket, Dunkin Donuts, the restaurants.
Community Development and MAPC will share results from these conversations and offer their take, research and observation. Our input will inform the process, and there’s funding queued up.
There will be two more public meetings and they’re sure to be interesting … make sure you come if you can for the next ones, and for any that Community Development organizes.
For the Railroad discussions, send in ideas and comments and/or sign up for updates on any future meetings with:
Eric Halvorsen ehalvorsen@mapc.org
Gregg Cademartori gcademartori@gloucester-ma.gov
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Community Stuff 3/30/14
SEACOAST NEWS-APRIL
Thanks to the Friends of Seacoast the residents enjoyed their St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Irish Step Dancers, A Baby Farm Animal Visit by Barn Babies, the weekly concerts and the monthly dinner theater by professional entertainers included The Honky Tonk Women, Freddie Arabian and Dave Burns.
The Friends of Seacoast enhance the resident’s lives at the Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center with hours of enjoyment by providing the finances needed for the special entertainment, supplies and community outings. Any and all donations to “The Friends of Seacoast” are gratefully accepted.
We are looking forward to many upcoming events with the support of the Friends of Seacoast including a Red Sox “Home Opener” Celebration with Fenway favorite snacks, weekly Musical Entertainment, Dinner Theater with catered foods from local restaurants, Community Outings and more…
The next Friends of Seacoast meeting is scheduled for
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 6:00 PM.
The Cape Ann Museum received a grant from “Mass Humanities” and has been offering Seacoast an on going program scheduled from September 2013 through June 2014 called “The Power of Place”
This artistic expression project has included poetry, painting, a museum tour and art demonstrations within the Seacoast facility.
The next visit titled “Art Celebration” scheduled for April 24th, will exhibit residents artwork.
In collaboration with Cape Ann Giclee and the donations from local Artists, Seacoast is looking to bring the residents of the memory impaired unit back home through a program entitled “Scenes of Cape Ann”
Canvases of Images of familiar places and events on Cape Ann will be on permanent display and will bring memories and comfort to the seniors on the Alzheimer’s care unit.
An Open House Art Show “Scenes of Cape Ann” will be held on Saturday, May 17th 2-3:30 PM at Seacoast exhibiting the canvases. A DVD of all the donated images will be shown.
All contributors will be welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Alison Cox
Activities Director
Ghostlight Chorus, an a cappella choir based in New York City, was in residence on Cape Ann this past week, sponsored by Rockport Music’s Education and Outreach programs. Presentations and workshops were given to chorus, orchestra, and chamber music students at Rockport Middle and High Schools, and to students at West Parish Elementary School in Gloucester. Rockport High School Madrigals, who had been working with choral director Patti Pike in preparation for the residency, workshopped, rehearsed, and performed with an a cappella quintet from the Ghostlight Chorus at the free Community Concert on Thursday March 27 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. The concert was sponsored by the Summer Star Foundation for Nature Art and Humanity. Rockport High School students taking part were Emma Brousseau, Miles Bryan, Nick Endicott, Annabelle Harling, Alexandra Legendre, Jane Quirk, Kiva Trumbour, Katrina Tuck, Cady Whitley, Myles Wrinn. Evelyn Troester is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Ghostlight Chorus.
The Pub is hosting a Beer Dinner on April 1st at 6 p.m.
We’ve put together a great five course menu paired with our beer. The night is limited to 50 spots, and they are going quick.
Cheers
Nick Chapman
Cape Ann Brewing Co.
Spring Greening at Rockport’s April 5th Town Meeting
Rockport Middle School in conjunction with Project 351 is proud to announce “Spring Greening.” Our Project 351 representative Grace Collins is coordinating this program.
Grace Collins is Rockport Middle School’s eighth grade Ambassador to Governor Deval Patrick’s Project 351. Project 351 is designed to bring together 8th graders from each Massachusetts school district to “serve, develop leadership skills, and discuss issues critical to young people and their communities.” With the help of Principal Conrad and School Counselor Ms. Chace at the Middle School, Grace is organizing this clothing collection from March 31st through April 11th. Through a partnership with Project 351, the clothes will be donated to Cradles to Crayons, a non-profit organization that provides care packages of clothing and other items to homeless and low-income children in Boston and beyond. “This project is a great way to make the world a little better,” says Grace, “helping the community with their spring cleaning, encouraging recycling of gently used clothes for a good cause, and helping kids that aren’t as lucky as we are here in Rockport.” We are proud to support Grace in this leadership endeavor and know that she will make it a great success.
Rockport residents planning to attend the next Town Meeting on April 5th are invited to bring along any gently used children’s (infant through small adult) clothing they would like to donate to support a middle school student’s Spring Greening project.
Grace was originally going to promote Spring Greening just within the school community, until she learned that the Town Meeting was right in the middle of the collection period. She’s hoping that Rockport residents, perhaps with children that have headed off to college, or with preschoolers or grandchildren, will find gently used clothes to add to the Spring Greening effort. Students will be on hand to help direct the clothing collection. For more information aboutSpring Greening, Project 351, or anything else related to the project please contact Ms. Anne-Marie Chace at Rockport Middle School at 978 546 1250.
WHAT’S GOING ON IN MAGNOLIA?
FIND OUT!
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2:00-4:00 PM
MAGNOLIA LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER
PANELISTS: DEO BRAGA, JEFF CALA, ERIC LOIACONO, STRATTON
MOORE, ERIC SMITH, JON VON TETZCHNER (Innovation House)
Moderator: Ward 5 City Councilor Bill Fonvielle
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In January, Bill Fonvielle came to Magnolia to listen to his constituents.
Many ideas were exchanged and the group present decided to organize a
town meeting in April to discuss the commercial revitalization of Magnolia.
It turned out that some major players already had plans underway that
could revitalize the face of Magnolia’s main street. Some of them have
agreed to be panelists at the April 6 meeting (see above) and discuss
their plans. This meeting will give the community a chance to focus on
efforts they might support that would benefit Magnolia.
All residents are encouraged to attend!
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GloucesterCast With Guests Sista Felicia, BJ Mohan and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/29/14
GloucesterCast With Guests Sista Felicia, BJ Mohan and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/29/14
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Topics Include: Art McCann- Local Hero, Veterans, Not Repainting Home of The Fighting Fishermen, The Petition, JOHN A “GUS” FOOTE, BOB WHYNOTT, DAVID H,. WATSON, LEE KENNEDY, MIKE McLEOD, RICK NOONAN, Article in the Gloucester Daily Times, Ann Kennedy’s Questions About The Blog Today vs the Blog a Couple Years Ago, Rants, Taking Things Literally, Frank Ciolino, An Intern, The Dilution of The Blog For The Broader Good, Striving For The Happy Medium, The Impossible Job Of Pleasing Everyone, Nichole Schrafft, How Can we Improve?, Felicia’s New Espresso Maker, BJ’s Online Tools You Should Know About- Google Drive, Google Drive vs Dropbox, Sista Felicia’s Chifeletti Cookies, Ethnic Grocery Stores Today, Filling Boat Orders At Pat’s Center Grocery, Gelato
Local Hero Saving Us From Politically Correct Nutjobs- Art McCann
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Andre Gide Quote of the Week from Greg Bover
“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
André Gide (1869-1951)
A native of Normandy, Gide published his first novel at 22 and went on to write dozens more, as well as plays, essays and autobiographical works, receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Much of his writing centers on the search for intellectual honesty in a world constrained by false moralism. Controversy swirled around him almost his entire life, principally for his open attraction to men much younger than himself, and for his marriage to his cousin, never consummated, while siring a daughter with another woman. In his politics Gide seemed to worship Soviet Communism from afar, until he visited Russia in the 1930’s, after which he became its vocal critic. He spent a significant portion of his life in the then French colonies of North and Central Africa and passed the bulk of the Second World War in Tunisia, but ultimately returned to Paris before his death.
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A Short From Pop Gallery
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Host A Foreign Exchange Student This Summer!
Hi Joey,
I was wondering if you would be able to post something to help spread the word. There are about 250 foreign exchange teens coming to the North Shore area this summer and they need host families to stay with. The kids come for about 3 weeks and are in school M-F 8-6 and there is a bus that will take them there….so it’s a great opportunity to host because there isn’t a huge commitment involved. Also there is a $100 stipend to help pay for additional food, water, etc used by the students. I hosted last summer for the first time and I really loved it, so I’m helping to find families in this area to hopefully benefit from the experience as well. I’ll attach a flier with the info too if you want it. Thanks so much if you can post this! Also, not sure if you could/would post it to the Facebook page too. It would be super helpful! The students who came last summer rated their experiences so high that the North Shore got the best scores in the country….so there are 3 times as many kids signed up to come to this area this summer….so they really need to find more host families.
Thanks!
Kristen
Contact Kristen today!
LT.USA@ef.com
(315) 491 – 9447
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Photos from March Sailing Adventures
Hi Joey,
I just wanted to share some pictures of the Sail GHS Racing Team. They have been out practicing for the last week and a half for their upcoming scrimmage. A little wind, a little rain, a little cold, and some freezing waters can’t keep these sailors away. No wimps here – look at those smiles!
Go Sail GHS!
– Becca Campbell
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Community Stuff 3/29/14
It’s Saturday! Come get sticky at Sticky Fingers Bakeshop!!! Spend $10 and get a free cookie!!!
Dark chocolate baby cake with raspberry mascarpone frosting!!
Please join us for the Annual TAA Community Seder on the Second Night of Passover on Tuesday, April 15th at 6 pm!
Led by Rabbi Lewis, we will enjoy a traditional Seder – with some contemporary twists. We will eat a delicious Seder meal thanks to TAA’s inspired chefs and dedicated kitchen crew.
Cost for adults is $36, for children (4-13) it is $18*, and there is no cost for children 3 years or younger.
Space is limited (“sold out” last year!), so please RSVP to Natalia at (978) 281-0739 with your check or credit card number by Monday, April 7th!
Click here to register.
We hope you can join us – this is a wonderful event for all ages!
Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative Presents, LEADING LADIES, by Ken Ludwig
“Forget love —
what the world needs now is laughs.
That’s clearly the creed of playwright Ken Ludwig.
He supplies plenty in his comedy, Leading Ladies.”
— Everett Evans / Houston Chronicle
April 4th – 13th
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm
Sundays @ 3pm
Where: GORTON THEATRE
Home of Gloucester Stage
267 East Main Street, Gloucester
Directions
Buy Tickets On-line
Tickets: General Admission $15
Door sales – Cash/Check Only
Hi
I am the wife of Steve spencer who sent you the pictures from the top of the turbine!
I am opening a new fitness and tumbling studio in Gloucester on 4/1/14. It is a sublease of club c fitness which is already open at 3a pond rd. Gloucester.
Sisu fitness cape ann
Sisu ( see soo) is a Finnish word meaning strength, determination and courage. We have a lot of fins on the island! I am a 3rd generation rockport townie.
Just wondering if you could write a short blog or post some photos? It is the only kids tumbling studio on cape ann and I offer TRX, PT, Pilates and senior fitness. You can check out website at sisufitca.com or email or call with any questions.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you
Laurie Olson
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GloucesterCast With Guest Tom Balf From Maritime Gloucester and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/27/14
GloucesterCast With Guest Tom Balf From Maritime Gloucester and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/27/14
www.maritimegloucester.org
A Note from Tom Balf…
Maritime Gloucester has a fundraising dinner planned for Monday, March 31. Chefs from Turner’s Seafood and Latitude 43 will prepare a three-course meal highlighting underutilized, local seafood to showcase the best of what the waters off Gloucester have to offer.
This is an important event for Maritime Gloucester and, quite honestly, it’s more than a fundraiser. Let me explain.
Over the last two years, Maritime Gloucester has been increasingly active in supporting conversations and information sharing with respect to fisheries issues. We hosted a month long series of programs on sustainable seafood; we supported GMRI’s Trawl to Table workshop at our harbor campus; we hosted college groups from Endicott, Boston University and University of Rhode Island who wished to learned about Gloucester fisheries issues; and we taught lobster biology and the art of lobster trap building to high school students. We continue to work with various partners in the City in support of a sustainable fisheries and a thriving working waterfront. We have a clear role — Maritime Gloucester can convene, engage, provoke, facilitate and educate. We plan to begin that task in earnest this summer with a new, fisheries exhibit.
So you see, while this is a fundraiser, we are looking for strength in numbers – no easy task on a Monday night in March – to validate Maritime Gloucester’s instinct that it can honor 400 years of maritime fishing history, utilize contemporary communication tools and educational techniques, and host in this community the setting for a seafood table that has the potential to nourish all.
We hope you can join us at that table. Plus, it will be fun and tasty.
Tom Balf
Executive Director
Maritime Gloucester
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Thank Christ For Rational Men Like Art McCann
I’m not sure whose idea it was to try to strip away the signature “Fighting Fishermen” on Newell Stadium but thank god there are still men like Art McCann who have enough sense to push back on the politically correct machine and make sure it was repainted.
Love this guy.
The petition reads:
“Let’s not rob our students of the fighting spirit to win both on the field and in the classroom. This petition is to bring back the Fighting Fishermen”
Next thing you know they’re gonna go and try and take the word “Midget” off of Midget Pickle Jars.
Read the article on the Gloucester Daily Times Website here
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$5 Friday Munga Burgers At Mamie’s Kitchen
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Marine Construction Smith Cove Photos from Anthony Marks
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When life’s got you down remember this video and the joy…
Joanne’s Milne’s implants are turned on and she hears for the first time
If this doesn’t make you appreciate, you’ve got no heart.
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Community Stuff 3/28/14
Cape Ann Painter and Photography Group Meeting on Friday April 4, 10:30 -12
Hi Everyone,
The Cape Ann Painter and Photography Group will meet at Cape Ann Giclee on 20 Maplewood Avenue, Gloucester on Friday, April 4, 10:30 -12. We will have a social time ,share goals for our work for the year, and just have fun! Coffee and pastries will be provided. All are welcome. This is a great opportunity for artists and photographers in the area to meet each other and share ideas.
Parking at Cape Ann Giclee is on the far right of Shaw’s Supermarket.
Thanks to Jams and Anna of Cape Ann Giclee for providing a space for the meeting. It is much appreciated.
Hope to see you there!
Alice Gardner 978-810-9760
There are a couple of spaces left in the Pottery 1 class at The Hive.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm for 6-week session
$150/Adult $127/Senior or Student
No materials fee
Instructor// Susan Hershey
Rockport Reunion “The Day A Town Came Together”
Spiran Lodge # 98 Annual Swedish Pancake Breakfast
CRANE ESTATE TO HOST LECTURE ON THE COUNTRY HOUSE LIBRARY APRIL 23
Mark Purcell, Libraries Curator to the National Trust, will present an illustrated lecture A Great Number of Useful Books: The Country House Library at Castle Hill on the Crane Estate, 290 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, on Wednesday, April 23, at 6:00 pm. Tickets are $40; $30 for Trustees of Reservations and Royal Oak Foundation members. A reception following the lecture and sponsored by Freeman’s Auctioneers and Appraisers is included in the ticket price. Advance registration at www.thetrustees.org/royal-oak is recommended.
Purcell has been Libraries Curator to the National Trust since 1999 and is responsible for the Trust’s 168 historic libraries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He presided over the cataloguing of the Trust’s vast collection of books and the digitization of the catalogue in 2010. This is his second lecture tour for the Royal Oak Foundation, whose Campaign for Country House Libraries underwrites much of the National Trust’s libraries program.
Purcell will present a lavishly illustrated lecture exploring different British country house libraries with books both useful and curious. He will show fine examples from the National Trust including an early 15th-century Chaucer manuscript at Petworth House in West Sussex. He’ll also present the book collection at Cambridge’s Anglesey Abbey, acquired by the 1st Lord Fairhaven, a member of the British House of Lords who was born in New York City in 1896.
This program is presented in partnership with The Royal Oak Foundation, a U.S. non-profit that engages Americans in the work of the National Trust of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. For more information about The Royal Oak Foundation, please visit
www.royal-oak.org. For more information about The Trustees of Reservations or this program, please visit www.thetrustees.org or call 978.356.4351.
Ellen Morse Retires
Cindy Cafasso Donaldson (L), Vice President, Addison Gilbert Hospital, extends her appreciation to
Ellen Morse, ultrasound radiology technologist, who is retiring after 42-years of dedicated service to
Addison Gilbert Hospital. A reception was held on March 26th, providing staff and co-workers to
wish Ellen a happy retirement.
(Ellen is a resident of Gloucester)
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Presents a Talk by Chris Hood of C.W. Hood Yachts
April 8, 2014, 7:30 pm
Join us for a gripping talk and engaging evening on Tuesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum as Chris Hood, nephew of the famous sailmaker Ted Hood, talks about yacht building in Marblehead – and the interesting journey of following a family legacy.
Chris Hood, 46, of Marblehead, Mass. is the nephew of the 1974 America’s Cup winner Ted Hood, and comes from a family of innovators and inventors. Along with his famous uncle Ted, who was known for his innovations and inventions, he has many unusual and interesting influences that helped shape his chosen career as a boat builder in his hometown of Marblehead, Mass. With sailing and yacht racing a part of the family legacy, his family history is full of unique individuals and influences. Chris Hood’s great grandfather R.O. Hood worked for Henry Ford and is credited with inventing the electric starter, his grandfather Ralph Stedman Hood was also an inventor and chemist for Monsanto in the early 1940s. His grandfather helped both Ted Hood and Chris Hood’s father, Bruce, with their own unique careers. His grandfather is credited with inventing the looms that spun the famous Hood sailcloth, while Chris’s father – an MIT-educated physicists held many patents and created the product Hood Molded Foam in the 1970s – used in everything from car dashboards to Nerf toys. Chris Hood himself says that growing up with physicists and chemists and inventors in his home certainly helped shape his own keen instincts for three-dimensional thinking and innovation.
Chris Hood followed his own dream to become a boat builder and his award winning C.W. Hood 32 is now built right in Marblehead at the iconic Little Harbor. Just featured in SAIL magazine and the winner of the Spirit of Tradition under 40-feet category in the British magazine Classic Yachts, Chris Hood truly has both the instincts and the legacy to continue to build high quality, innovative sailboats and power boats.
His lecture will talk about his family history, his current projects and will offer practical advice for boat owners and boat lovers alike on getting a vessel ready for spring or simply maintaining the beautiful quality that his yachts are famous for.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Waterline Center, 66 Main Street, Essex, MA
7:30 pm
Coffee and refreshments served
Members $8; Non-Members $10
For information, call 978-768-7541
Hi Joey!
We seemed to have made a good call trying out Saturdays for dances. The March 1 dance was so well attended that we’ve got our next two dances scheduled for Saturdays as well. First up is this Saturday, March 29. Then we’ll do it all again on Saturday, April 19. Newcomers have been joining us at every dance and our intro sessions do a good job of warming them up for the evening. We are excited that this traditional New England dance style has taken roots here in Gloucester! The flyer has more details.
Good Morning Gloucester 