Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Al Bezanson Submits-

Maine Boatbuiders Show March 14-16th

If they don’t have it you don’t need it

http://www.portlandcompany.com/boatShow/

Beloved Demons: Confessions of an Unquiet Mind

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

For more information got to Go to http://gloucesteru.weebly.com/new-course-offerings-session-2.html or Contact:

Samantha Whitney 

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.

www.rockportlibrary.org    978 546-6934

submitted by Dianne Anderson

Friends of the Library board member

THIS WEEKEND! DEMAND YOUR SPRING! AT POP GALLERY!

Using Grandma Felicia’s China Espresso Cups

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! 

QUESTIONS: Contact Lara atlara@backyardgrowers.org

or Courtney atburnhamfieldcommunitygarden@gmail.com

RSVP on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/BackyardGrowersProgram/posts/795394827156520

For more info on Backyard Growers: www.backyardgrowers.org

For more info on Burnham’s Field Community Garden: www.burnhamsfield.org/community-garden

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

For more information got to Go to http://gloucesteru.weebly.com/new-course-offerings-session-2.html or Contact:

Samantha Whitney 

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.“

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.

Making a new mast for the “Story”.

Making a new main mast for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum flagship schooner L. H. Story.

Saturday, March 8th, shipwrights and volunteers were very busy in the Waterline Center at the museum preparing and glueing together large planks for a new main mast.
Check out the process with these photos by Len Burgess and Jim Dietrich…

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Since its founding, Addison Gilbert Hospital has benefited from a tradition of community partnership and generous philanthropic support, which has kept our hospital thriving and the Cape Ann community safe and healthy. Lives are saved and bodies are healed there every day.

As part of Addison Gilbert’s future planning, the hospital intends to invest in new equipment, technologies and programs that will help to keep pace with a rapidly changing healthcare landscape that offers dramatic improvements in medicine. For those of us who consider Cape Ann home, whether year round or for part of the year, this translates into better care and better outcomes.

To support these goals and the overall health of the community, the Dusky Foundation has announced the $350,000 Dusky Leadership Challenge. We invite you to join us and others by becoming a member of the Addison Gilbert Society, a select group of community leaders who care deeply about our hospital. Membership in this society means you are making a difference for those whose lives depend on the availability of top notch care, right here in our community.

We hope you will consider joining us today as a member of the Addison Gilbert Society by meeting the Dusky Leadership Challenge with a gift of your own. Your contribution, along with $350,000 from the Dusky Foundation could realize as much as $700,000 in vital support for Addison Gilbert Hospital.

Already this year, funds from the Addison Gilbert Society supported the purchase of a new CT scanner, an essential diagnostic tool that has enabled us to provide free lung cancer screenings for individuals who fit a high risk profile. We can do so much more.

To learn more about the Dusky Leadership Challenge, please call 978-236-1624.

Linzee Coolidge, Trustee, Dusky Foundation

Cynthia Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President, Addison Gilbert Hospital

“Scenes of Cape Ann”

In collaboration with Cape Ann Giclee and the donations from local artists, Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, is looking to bring the residents of the memory impaired unit back home through a program entitled “Scenes of Cape Ann”
We are looking for images of familiar places and events on Cape Ann to bring memories and comfort to the seniors on the Alzheimer’s unit.

We are looking for 30 photographs which will be enlarged on canvas, and displayed on the unit. Should additional images be donated they will also be displayed as we plan to develop a DVD of “Scenes of Cape Ann” to be shown for the residents on the memory impaired unit.

An open house art show “Scenes of Cape Ann” will be held on Saturday, May 17th 2-3PM at Seacoast exhibiting the canvases by Cape Ann Giclee. A DVD of all the donated images will be shown for the residents, their families and the community. All contributors will be welcome to attend.

Plaques will be developed with the donor Artists names.
Any Artists interested in participating in this project please submit your photographs to info@capeanngiclee.com by March 21st to allow time for image selection and canvassing. When submitting images please 1.- do not send more than 10 images – if you have more than 10 and have a website with your images you can send us a link 2. – send only low res images files for now – if we select you we will ask you for the high res file at that time and 3.- make sure that the images sent have a high res file available and can be printed at a large size – approximately 20” x 30”.

For additional information contact:
Alison Cox, Activity Director, Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center @ 978-283-0300
Or Cape Ann Giclee @ 978-546-7070

Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation 292 Washington Street
Gloucester MA 01930
Located on the campus of Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, offering a friendly and elegant setting with an extensive program of short-term rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care. Our 142-bed rehabilitation and 24 hour nursing care program also offers compassionate care for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders, provided by a certified staff in a secure and therapeutic environment. Our professional skilled clinicians are dedicated to ensure comfort, dignity and the well-being and health of our residents.