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Registration for FREE Adult Education Classes at Wellspring House
Celebrate spring with a new plan for growth! Registration for FREE adult education classes at Wellspring House in Gloucester is going on now for those interested in attending our Spring Session. Classes begin Monday, March 24th and you must be registered before that date. Wellspring’s Adult Learning Initiative (ALI) provides 8 weeks of FREE classes in Computer Skills, Career Development, English and Math for men and women interested in passing the high school equivalency test, returning to school or finding a career. Classes run from 8:45 am -12:30 pm, Monday – Friday for 8 weeks. The goal of the ALI program is to help individuals move toward personal and financial self-reliance by gaining self-confidence, direction, motivation and workplace skills necessary to further their education and careers. Whether your goal is to get a better job or go back to school, call Career and Education Advisor, Mary Scofield, for more information or to sign up for classes at (978) 281-3558, ext. 304. Wellspring House is located at 302 Essex Ave., Gloucester MA.
Be Courageous!!
Mary Scofield Career and Education Advisor ALI Program Wellspring House, Inc. 302 Essex Avenue Gloucester, MA 01930 (P) 978-281-3558 x304
Hey Joey!
Just wanted to spread the good news! My daughter Bailee who is now 8 is being recognized as a Hometown Hero by the Red cross on Thursday the 20th at their Annual Hometown Heros Breakfast. She is being honored among firefighters and nurses and others who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. They are being recognized for their response on that horrible day. We are so proud of her and want to thank all the Glostonians who have supported her by coming out and buying lemonade at all of her stands! She will be opening up soon in the spring with a new focus…still thinking on where she wants to donate this time. But we will have characters in costume!! I will keep y’all posted! Thanks Joey for all your help with spreading the word! She gets ALOT of customers because of GMG!!
Brieana Militello
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Would You Look At These Pretentious Bananaheads Crowing Around All Proud Of Themselves For Messing Up Perfection?
If you want to read the horror story that they pass off as a recipe (and claimed they conquered no less) Click Here-
Will They Ever Learn The Rules Of Lobster Roll Making Is To Not Get In The Way Of The Most Delectable Meat Known To Mankind- Lobster Meat?
Why I ask you do, they feel the need to mask the flavor of the most succulent meat on earth with not one, not two, not three, but no less than unlucky 13 lobster roll ingredient violations???
Why not squat down over the mixing bowl and lay down a nice fat shit in there to compliment the flavors while you’re at it?
Read the ingredient list these dopes from The Tasting Table put together (Violations Highlighted in Red)-
Anise????? Like as in Licorice anise? In a lobster roll? I wish Patrick Ewing was still in his prime so we could set him up right in front of where ever these dopes tried to serve these lobster roll abominations and he could swat them into the stands like a basketball and then stand over the servers and flex and growl like he just made the most impressive shot block in the history of the NBA. Just like “Get That Shit Outta Here!”
Arbol Chile? Really???? What are we at Taco Bell now? Lemongrass? Ginger? Please. This is absolutely criminal.
I guess I should have stopped reading when I read these pretentious buffoons were writing in from New York where they root for the Yankees and all. I mean WTF do they know about lobster rolls anyway, right?
Maybe it’s a March thing where they want to get out in front of all the other pretentious food bloggers who will inevitably write their own versions of the Perfect Way to Fuck Up a Good Lobster Roll.
When I saw the laundry list of lobster roll purist violations I just couldn’t leave this debacle go unchecked. There are plenty of pretentious food bloggers who will throw in 2-5 violations but when you go over the top with 13 you have to know that someone with some common sense is gonna call you out on it.
Listen here anyone who would describe themselves as a “Foodie”. Do all us normal real folk a favor and spare us your stupid frickin lobster roll recipes that include anything other than a split top roll. Spare us your French baguettes, spare us your frickin lemon zest bullshit, spare us your ginger and your anise and your arbol chlis.
Hellooooo, we wanna taste the lobster. How hard is that to comprehend? If we wanted to eat Mexican we’d order a goddamned Burrito.
This is a lobster roll. The purist of the pure. Time tested. Tradition. Like a Fenway Frank, only a bajillion times better.
It’s easy, there’s no need to go out of your way to try to fuck it up with your laundry list of Lobster roll no-nos like anise and garlic and lemongrass.
Read the ingredient list these dopes from The Tasting Table put together (Violations Highlighted in Red)-
Like a right of Spring I feel compelled to get us all off on the right path to Lobster Roll righteousness. I’m not sure if we should have expected more considering the source- Foodie Bloggers From New York. Maybe we don’t have to expect more but we certainly can’t let this shit go unchecked.
Despite the cold, snowy weather, the Schooner Adventure’s crew continue to be hard at work below deck.
They are rebuilding the fo’c’s’le – crew bunks and galley. Here are a few shots that show the work done to date. Most of these shots are taken from near the mid ship area looking forward towards the bow. The vertically boarded wall is the bow’s watertight bulkhead. This was not originally present on the Adventure, but is a current Coast Guard requirement. I’ve included a couple of shots of John Miles and our intern, Sarah, doing the woodworking. The last 2 shots show the vertical partitions between the bunks. The final shot is taken from the bow looking aft towards a mast and the watertight bulkhead that separates the fo’c’s’le from the fish hold. The galley will be built along that bulkhead.
Mary Barker
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Thanks to you and GoodMorningGloucester for being so supportive of Burnham’s Field (see here, here and here for a few examples of awesome GMG stories you’ve published about the field.) I wanted to share some good news: the launch of the first-ever Friends of Burnham’s Field.
The Friends are welcoming new members: Anyone who ever played on the field as a kid or goes to their kids’ games at the field or walks their dog there. If anyone is interested, more information is at the Friends’ new website here and below.
And yes, I’m very much looking forward to your ribbing for quoting myself in the news release below.
Thanks, Joey!
– John McElhenny
New community group forms as the largest playground in central Gloucester undergoes its first renovation in 30 years; Donated trees and park benches welcomed
Gloucester, Mass., March 14, 2014 – A group of families, neighbors and other residents have launched the first-ever Friends of Burnham’s Field to make the largest open space and playground in central Gloucester a more beautiful, welcoming open space to walk, exercise, play and enjoy the outdoors.
Burnham’s Field is a 7-acre park, playground and recreation area in downtown Gloucester. Generations of Gloucester children and their families have played on its swings, basketball courts, ball fields, play structure and grassy open spaces.
Burnham’s Field has recently enjoyed a surge of new activity with the launch of the Burnham’s Field Community Garden, more frequent clean-ups and the first major renovation to the field in 30 years scheduled to begin this spring. The renovation will include new playground equipment, swings, a walking loop, lighted paths, fences, park benches, a spray fountain for kids, bathroom, trees and other improvements.
The Friends of Burnham’s Field is being launched to create a community of people who will continue to care for the field once the renovations are complete. Dozens of Gloucester residents have already joined and a new website has been created, www.burnhamsfield.org.
“The Friends of Burnham’s Field is made up of regular people — neighbors, parents, children, friends — who want to make sure Burnham’s Field stays a park Gloucester can be proud of for generations to come,” said John McElhenny, a neighbor and founder of the Friends. “The rebirth of Burnham’s Field in the heart of the City sends a message that in Gloucester, green spaces and playgrounds matter.”
Organized under the Gloucester Fund, a registered 501(c)(3) charity, the Friends are welcoming donations for park benches, picnic tables and trees and are offering naming and sponsorship opportunities to local businesses. For information on how to become a Friend of Burnham’s Field or make a donation, click here.
“Burnham’s Field holds special meaning for many people who’ve grown up in Gloucester,” said City Councilor Melissa Cox, who represents the neighborhoods around the field. “The Friends of Burnham’s Field gives anyone the chance to become involved with the field as a Friend or to donate a tree, park bench or picnic table to remember a relative or their own fun memories ‘down at Burnham’s.’”
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When the behemoth iceboat Rocket was built in 1888 she was said to be among the fastest vessels on the planet – capable of over 100 mph. With a gaff rigged sail. Rocket is the treasure of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club in Red Bank, NJ, and just one other boat in this class remains – Jack Frost, of the Hudson Valley Ice Club. There had been one other, Icicle, built for John A Roosevelt, an uncle of FDR. For sport in their day they would race trains, and Icicle once beat the “Chicago Express” on a run between Poughkeepsie and Ossining.
Rocket was rebuilt by Bob Pulsch who won the Betty Ramsey Trophy in the 2004 Gloucester Schooner Race with Heron, the 1911 Crowninshield schooner he had rebuilt. Last week Rocket sailed again, for the first time in almost 100 years. Bob Pulsch (80) and others aboard are regulars in the Gloucester Schooner Race in Adventurer.
In his follow-up to Lunatic Heroes, Martignetti sheds all defenses to reveal the viscera of a mind shaped by the dark and confusing forces of his childhood. This collection of memoirs and essays focuses mainly on Martignetti’s adult years, and features the pivotal characters of his ever-entertaining personal narrative. From the cascade of memories and emotions triggered by an accidental butterfly killing in “Cocoon Talk,” to the homicidal impulses prompted by a visit to his boyhood home in “Sign,” from the heartbreaking to the hilarious musings inspired by beloved pets in “Mochajava” and “Dog,” and throughout the uncensored sexcapades of “Mad,” “The Wild,” and “Feast of the Hungry Ghost,” Martignetti’s colloquial, humorous, and intimate style will keep you riveted, crack you open, enthrall and embrace you with an honesty normally reserved for not even the closest of friends.
Masconomet Regional High School junior Isabelle Yabe has been named Grand Prize Award Winner for her piece “Japanese Heritage” in this year’s 6th Congressional District High School Art Show. The awards were presented Saturday, March 8, by U.S. Representative John F. Tierney at Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly. This marks the 20th year Montserrat has hosted this competition. The exhibit included 124 pieces from 25 different high schools and one homeschooled submission.
The exhibition was juried by Chris Van Allsburg, a Caldecott Medal winning author and illustrator whose books The Polar Express and Jumanji, are among his 15 publications, and Greg Bokor, a designer who is the founder and CEO of Cloud Factory, who has done work with such major global brands as Buick, Pepsi, Target, American Eagle and many others. The competition was open to high school students from public and private schools within the 6th District of Massachusetts, as well as high school students home-schooled within the district.
Saturday, March 19th, from 9am to 2pm – Electronic Recycle Day at the GHS Parking Lot. Recycle any kind of electronic item (computers, scanners, flat panel monitors, copiers, etc.) for $5 each, appliance (dishwashers, dryers, stoves, microwaves, dehumidifiers, refrigerators, AC, exercise equipment, lawn mowers, small engine items, snow blowers, lawn mowers, etc.) for $10 each, computer monitors for $10 each, TVs for $10-25 each. NO FEE: cables, keyboards, cell phones, car batteries, sewing machines, and some other items.
We will also be recycling bicycles (NO FEE)! Bring your unwanted old or new bicycle and drop it off; it will be reused. Any bicycle is a good bicycle: mountain, road, BMX, cruiser, kids’, etc. – old or new. Our aim is to keep bikes from being thrown out when they can be reused.
Gloucester Police Department, Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, and Gloucester U at Gloucester High School have partnered to bring a brand new course to the Gloucester U after-school program! Students will work hands on with GPD and other instructors from the field, travel to various exciting locations, and even have the opportunity to earn 1 academic credit! Click the link below to Register for the Course! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/175dEHKu5mb3oyFkKRXAHcGlHI8XDlKqwL9BZSs9Whns/viewform
Lead Program Coordinator Gloucester High School Library
Latitude 43 and Turner’s Seafood Team Up For Maritime Gloucester! On Monday, March 31st, Jake DaSilva and his team will welcome the crew from Turner’s Seafood into the Latitude 43 kitchen for a sustainable seafood dinner. The chefs will prepare dishes highlighting underutilized, local seafood to showcase the best of what the waters off Gloucester have to offer. The three-course meal will feature underutilized fish that can typically be found at Turners Seafood or on Lat 43’s specials menu (think beyond haddock to skate wings), and each guest will receive a recipe card detailing how they can prepare this local seafood in their own home. The three-course meal is $33.00 with a percentage of the total going directly to Maritime Gloucester to support a new fisheries exhibit. For reservations call Latitude 43: (978) 281-0223. The restaurant is located at 25 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA
The award-winning documentary MAIDENTRIP is about the life and adventures of 14 year-old Laura Dekker, the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. Laura sets out—camera in hand—on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams of her early youth at sea. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from locations including the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, and South Africa. Doors open at 6:00 pm, film begins at 6:30. Tickets for the show can be purchased online at or at the door, as space permits. Prices are $10.00 adults * $8.50 students & seniors (60+), and $7.00 for CACC and MG Members. ADVANCE TICKETS ::: http://www.CapeAnnCinema.wordpress.com/advance-tickets This event is a benefit for Maritime Gloucester. Let’s pack the theater!
Movie trailer:
Hello Joe!
I am one of those ‘ladies’ who run at dawn with Pixie Harrington. We’ve been at it for over ten years and I am sure by now folk along the back shore hate us since we wake them up with our loud conversations!
I am sure we have met through Bob Gillis.
Anyway here’s why I am bugging you.
I am running the Boston Marathon on April 21. I am running for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. This organization is very near and dear to my heart as I myself have MS. I have been on an incredible mission for the past 14 years running marathons, climbing the highest peaks in the world, the first person with MS to go to the North and South Poles and I began training to hopefully run the Iditarod in the not too distant future.
All of this may sound crazy especially for a person living with MS but I do all these extreme adventures for one reason only. I want to change the perception of what MS looks like and challenge those living with MS to chase their dreams and goals. As I tell them they all have a mountain, the mountain is MS now what are you going to do with it? My journey has been incredible and hopefully if I can make life easier for one person suffering with MS my mission will have been oh so worth while.
Sorry to be so lengthy in my request. Perhaps you can help me. I am hosting a fundraiser at Jalepenos on March 24. Jalepenos is wonderful to host these fundraisers for many of us and now they are doing it for me. Would you be able to publicize this for me on Good Morning Gloucester?
When: March 24
Where: Jalepenos
For: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Wendy Booker’s run of this year’s Boston Marathon
From: 4:30pm until closing
Thank you so very much in advance. If you need more information please let me know.
Wendy
Hello Joe,
I hope you might include this information about the library book sale in Good Morning Gloucester.
Thank you
Dianne
The Friends of the Rockport Public Library are having a Spring Forward Book Sale on Friday, March 21 from
10 AM to 5 PM, Saturday, March 22 from 10 AM to 5 PM and Sunday, March 23rd from 1 PM to 5 PM.
This sale has an abundance of books in all categories including many children’s and young adult titles, along with history and politics, biography and memoir, art, cooking, crafts, gardening, both recent and well-aged fiction, mysteries, and lots more. Movies on DVD and VHS and music CDs will be on sale as well.
Spring also brings back the popular bake sale with home made offerings for $1 donated by library friends.
All monies raised at the book sales is used to enhance programs at the library including museum passes, children’s programs and cabin fever movies.
The library is located at 17 School Street on the corner of Broadway in Rockport.
Ingredients: 5 Finochio (fennel bulbs) 8 oranges 1/2 cup fresh mint leaves ¼ cup fresh oregano leaves 1 medium onion Juice of 2 lemons ½ cup pitted black olives ¾ cup olive oil 1 tablespoon Masala wine 1 teaspoon sugar ½ teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon fresh ground pepper ¼ cup fresh squeezed orange juice
Directions:
Step 1: using a sharp knife cut both ends of orange, off and discards ends
Step 2: place flat side of orange on a cutting board and place the blade of the knife under the pith of orange and guide the knife in a downward direction removing the skin
Step 3: repeat steps 1 & 2 with remaining oranges
Step 4: place one skinless orange in your hand and insert a paring knife into both sides of orange sections membrane’s to remove skinless orange slices and reserve in a bowl
Step 5: reserve fresh orange juices in a small bowl by squeezing juices from reaming sectioned orange membranes
Step 6: remove the long stems and any outer damaged skins from the fennel bulbs and discard
Step 7: Using a mandolin slice onion very thin and reserve
Step 8: using mandolin slice fennel bulbs very thin and reserve
Step 9: Juice lemons over a small strainer to capture any seeds and pulp
Step 10: chop fresh mint
Step 11: Chop fresh oregano
Step 12: layer ½ Finochio (fennel) slices onto a large platter
Step 13: top Finochio (fennel) slices with 1/2 of the orange slices
Step 14: layer ½ the onion slices over the orange layer
Step 15 Repeat steps 12, 13, and 14
Step 16: Sprinkle chopped mint and orange over the top layer
Step 17: scatter black olives over the top of the salad
Step 18: add reserved orange juice, olive oil, masala wine, sugar, salt and pepper to the lemon juice pulse until dressing ingredients become evenly incorporated
Step 19: pour evenly over the entire salad and finish with a dusting of fresh ground pepper, serve at room temperature or chill in the refrigerator for one hour before serving
Enjoy!
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Gloucester Railway,Rocky Neck photo From Anthony Marks
The burned out hulk of a house at the corner of Washington st. and Mansfield st is finely being demolished after two and a half years. In its place will be a new building with retail space on the first floor and townhouses on the upper floors.
Hey there Joey! Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field Community Garden are co-hosting our first annual seed swap – here’s the info! Thank you for your awesomeness!
Join Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field Community Garden
for our first annual SEED SWAP event!
Come for new seeds, bring your own from last year to trade with friends and neighbors, and get some support perusing this year’s seed catalogues and dreaming of the harvest you will reap from your vegetable garden.
We’ll also be offering a couple demonstrations: seed starting basics and how to make a plastic bottle sub-irrigation system.
WHO: All folks associated with Backyard Growers and Burnham’s Field
PLUS any and all local gardeners who would like to join us!
WHERE: City Hall Auditorium
WHEN: Tuesday, April 1 from 6:30-8 PM
BRING: The event is free, but please make sure you bring seeds to swap!
Gloucester Police Department, Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, and Gloucester U at Gloucester High School have partnered to bring a brand new course to the Gloucester U after-school program! Students will work hands on with GPD and other instructors from the field, travel to various exciting locations, and even have the opportunity to earn 1 academic credit! Click the link below to Register for the Course! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/175dEHKu5mb3oyFkKRXAHcGlHI8XDlKqwL9BZSs9Whns/viewform
Lead Program Coordinator Gloucester High School Library
A Reading & Discussion from David Abel about Poet Edward Marshall
Gloucester, MA – On March 28, the Gloucester Writers Center presents a reading by David Abel from his own work and a discussion about his ongoing research into the work of poet Edward Marshall at the Gloucester Writers Center, 126 E Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 from 7:30-9pm.
Poet, editor, and bookseller David Abel is the author most recently of Float (Chax Press), Tether (Barebone Books), andCarrier (c_L Books). A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, entering its thirteenth year, with Sam Lohmann he publishes the Airfoil poetry chapbook series. He is the proprietor of Passages Bookshop, and was an inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art. Recently he curated the exhibitions Chax Press: Publishing Poetics for Pacific NW College of Art and Object Poems for 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
The Gloucester Writers Center was founded in 2010 to save the late poet Vincent Ferrini’s home and turn it into a working writer’s center. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and celebrate Cape Ann’s rich literary legacy and to encourage writing and the belief that all voices count.
If you would like more information about what the Gloucester Writers Center does or any of the recent events, workshops and classes visit gloucesterwriters.org
“The Gloucester Writers Center is a working writer’s center in a working town.“
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I wrote to you in November 2012 about a fishing tag from the Net Profit, from when it was owned by the late Joe Ciaramitaro.
Last Thursday I found a tag from F/V Endeavour. When I looked it up on Google it looks as though it comes from your area, so I thought that you might be interested. I don’t find many of the rectangular tags, all the ones that I have found are mounted on a board on my garage wall. I thought that you might know some of their owners or where they come from.
As you will see from the photo we do find quite a lot of lobster trap tags. Here in Perranporth Cornwall most of the them are from Newfoundland and Labrador. We have had a lot of storms this winter & unusually high tides for the last three months. This has resulted in large quantities of plastic being washed up – some from across the Atlantic & a lot from more local places.
Chris Easton writes- Dear Joey, Earlier this year I found a fishing tag which I think may be yours. It reads F/V NET PROFIT 7918 JOE CIARAMITARO along the bottom. I enjoy walking along the strand line on my local … Continue reading →
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HeraldNews – Last Saturday’s Division 3 South boys’ basketball final between Westport and Cardinal Spellman at UMass Boston might be best remembered for a most conspicuous incident which occurred before the teams even tipped off. Just after public address announcer Joe Rocha had started to introduce the Spellman starters, South tourney director Karen McDonald completed a quick march to the scorer’s table, grabbed the microphone, and spoke directly to some of the younger Westport fans in the bleachers directly behind the Wildcat bench. These fans had, when the Spellman intro started, turned their backs to the court, one of those orchestrated moves (like holding up newspapers) fans do. McDonald obviously saw it as a violation of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s fan sportsmanship policy, one that is read over the PA before games. In what seemed like an order in the guise of a request, McDonald asked the fans to turn back around.
Joey C shared with you:
I was a terrible terrible athlete in High School. Like bottom 10% terrible. Like-last guy picked on the pick up teams terrible.But what I lived for was rooting for my buddies in High School and College. I was the guy organizing the parties and getting bus loads of students to travel to our College Basketball tournament games (with kegs in the rooms for breakfast and kegs on the buses).
One of my favorite memories is when we went to Merrimack. We started drinking in our dorm room meant for 2 people at 7AM and had 50 or so coeds getting fired up for the Tournament Basketball game. We ripped the sheet my bed and spray painted “Merrimack Sucks” on it. We took the busses up to Merrimack and me and my buddy George Iocano walked the perimeter of the basketball court holding the MERRIMACK SUCKS sign around the court as the teams were doing their warm ups. George got arrested or fled out the door and I took off my super thick geek glasses and sweater and mixed into the crowd, thankfully unarrested. Crowd went nuts.
Gloucester High in the early eighties hockey games when they’d throw fish out on the ice. Or the chants, Oh My Lord What Fun. That’s what made it so crazy and fun.
Those we’re good times. Great times. Times you talk about when you get old with your buddies. That’s what makes high school and college athletics great. The insanity when your team makes the Tournament.
For this school administrator to try to squelch this school spirit is ludicrous. Guy had to be a total dweeb in High School. No other way to explain it. Guaranteed this school admin was the guy getting wedgied on a daily basis.
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Good Morning Gloucester 