My View of Life on the Dock
Kathy Slifer submits-
Hi Joey ,
Members of our Cape Ann Y Masters swimming group Catherine Mciff, Andi Freedman and Lisa Zraket take a ” racing start and turn” clinic from 5 time Olympian Dara Torres at Harvard last weekend.
Go team !
Kathy Slifer
photo by Lisa Zraket
This month, if you spend $75 at POP, you will receive a coupon for 10% off a 60, 75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage at 161 Main Street!
Likewise, if you purchase a 60,75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage, you will receive a coupon for 20% off at POP!
We all get stressed around the start of “holiday shopping season”. Why not kill two birds with one stone as they say? Shop POP’s extensive array of soothing soaps, lotions and aromatic candles! Then, unwind with a nice massage… all on the same street! Shop local, stress less.
TURNER’S SEAFOOD AT LYCEUM HALL SAILS INTO SALEM, PERMANENTLY MOORED AT ICONIC LYCEUM HALL
This November, Turner’s Seafood family, brothers Jim, Joe, John Jr. & Chris, are bringing four generations of experience, expertise and their passion for all things seafood to Salem, opening an authentic New England seafood restaurant and market in storied Lyceum Hall on Monday, November 18th. Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall expands their culinary footprint adding to their Melrose restaurant grill and market, and up to Cape Ann for their seafood plant and market. Diners will experience the restaurant’s signature seafood cuisine, a lively oyster bar and Salem’s first fresh, locally- sourced seafood market.
“Over the past five years we were casually looking for a very special space to offer our seafood dining and fresh-catch market in the heart of the North Shore. The first time I walked through the Hall I imagined a time past, a true seafood eatery with classic fish and chips prepared the way they should be,” recalled, Jim Turner, owner, Turner’s Seafood, “The genuine seafood model and quality standards that define our Melrose restaurant are the experiences our dining guests and market customers will have with us in our new Salem home, and more.”
As stewards of Lyceum Hall, the Turner family’s seafood heritage and appreciation for the region’s history culminates in a seamless fit between restaurant and the Hall’s architectural bones, influencing their thoughtful approach to the design in developing a welcoming environment, partnering with the esteemed Boston architectural firm, Niemitz Design Group. Dining guests will find familiar amenities long-valued along with new spaces to experience.
Executive Chef Yale Woodson, with a rich background in the culinary arts, especially the sea’s bounty, leads a kitchen team whose menu centerpiece will be a creative mix of appetizers and entrees from Turner’s authentic New England seafood classics paired with Chef’s interpretive culinary spirit for blending available foods of the moment.
“Our team selectively sources and prepares food to please the full range of the senses, stimulating, and striving to create a memorable seafood dining experience for our guests … every visit,” explained Yale Woodson, executive chef, Turner’s Seafood.
And, it all begins very early each morning. Jim Turner and his team inspect and pick from dayboats’ fresh-catch in historic Gloucester and Boston Harbors, immediately coming to their Gloucester seafood plant where it’s expertly handled and processed to demanding quality standards. Within hours, Turner’s delivers fresh seafood to market, arriving in Salem & Melrose ready for market customers and dining guests…minutes to Gloucester.
“We are privileged to continue the Hall’s heritage as a public gathering place for engaging conversation and the finest in hospitality,” noted, Jim Turner.
Hey Joey!
Just wanted to let you and the GMG readers know we’re moving to a bigger space! We had NO IDEA we would get this popular, and we are running out of space here on Maplewood. We’re moving to the former Junque & Disorderly spot at 57 Washington, next to Tacos Lupita and Sclafani’s. It provides us with storage space for all our trade-ins and purchases, and no more tripping on bikes! We should be open the week of Thanksgiving so we will be all set for Christmas season.
We recently started selling Redline BMX bikes in addition to being a new Jamis dealer, and new 2014 models are reasonably priced Christmas gifts for boys and girls! Now we can have a space to actually display them!
HUGE thanks to you and all the GMG contributors and readers for the support we’ve gotten since we opened a few years ago. We knew Gloucester needed a bike shop, but we didn’t realize how much support Gloucester gives to local business!
Kathleen T
Big Mike’s Smaller Half
I think folks have forgotten how great this restaurant is. It used to have lines so long and now no. We had dinner there the other evening and the fried clams were as perfect as one could ask for, the onion rings were totally delicious, the corn bread yummy, the baked crab – out of this world, the scallops scrumptious and the Sicilian Chowder, the best one has ever had. We have a lot of fine restaurants on Cape Ann, and we go to all of them, but this gem is being forgotten. Also, the beauty of this restaurant is that you can carry on a conversation without a lot of noise. We talked with the owner, and he said, “no one is coming over the bridge anymore”. That is quite sad because this has the freshest fish that you could ask for and cooked by an excellent chef. Their prices are very affordable, and we would love to see lines there once more. Sandy and Eben Andrew
Catherine Ryan submits
Hi Joey,
It’s not beach balls and rubber duckies. Great time lapse visualizations of how garbage moves around our oceans to the 6 largest patches (they used surface drifter buoys with GPS sensors).
“What we found is patches are international problem…It’s not that plastic from one country ends up in one particular patch; quite the contrary, all of the plastic ends up in all the patches and all are interconnected in a way we didn’t know before”. One big evolve take away: invent plastic that disintegrates. Less intimidating do it yourself adjustments: easy stuff at home here http://www.plasticfreeguide.com/
More garbage patch info and docs worth a look: Look for this artful, full on feeling, elegiac nature doc from photographer Chris Jordan http://www.midwayfilm.com/index.html 
Or Angela Sun’s (still in progress) chatty, more entertainment tonight-like still unflinching delivery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pRy88R-4BI
http://plasticparadisemovie.com/
In Gloucester all things eco green visit Maritime Gloucester and Oceans Alliance for their efforts, and the Farmer’s Market. Tons of GMG contributors and other local media. Plenty of volunteer clean up orgs. And see local artists’ work such as Karen Ristuben’s art (9 videos are here http://vimeo.com/user2947114/videos including:
Trash Calendar
Deposition of the Ocean as Witness
North Pacific Gyre Voyage
In Gloucester all things eco green visit Maritime Gloucester and Oceans Alliance for their efforts, and the Farmer’s Market. And see local artists’ work such as Karen Ristuben’s art (9 videos are here http://vimeo.com/user2947114/videos )
Look right here, too, GMG is stewardship—business, arts, nature, beauty, community! See Joey’s photography and posts: it’s not just Good Morning Gloucester, but Wake UP Gloucester! Look at the wide range of MA Green stories from lobsters to rosa rugosa https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/the-rosa-rugosa-is-starting-o-come-alive/ to solar powered lobster pot haul https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/video-next-generation-lobstermen-brett-and-jake-donovan-and-their-solar-powered-lobster-pot-hauler/. Then go right down the GMG mast head.
Kim Smith’s naturalist take whether how NOT to approach a seal or the indelible imprint on all butterfly musings evermore https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/wow-and-wondeful-150-milkweed-plants-ordered/
EJ’s sensitivity to our surroundings is there often—and she spreads awareness, most recently her OA posts –Jane Goodall! https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/ocean-alliance-and-jane-goodall/
Donna’s photography, too, and volunteer dedication https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/what-community-is-all-about-burnhams-field-clean-up/, https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/one-hour-at-a-time-gang-city-clean-up-saturday/
And Fred, Marty, Kathy, Felicia, I mean ALL GMG. Reverent.
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2013
CAT Collaborative’s Fall Play, Homestead Crossing Explores the Power of Reflection and Continuity of Self
If you were given a crystal ball at 20-something would you want to see you and your spouse at 50-something? At 50-something would you look back to see your 20-something self and spouse? Would you have the courage to look at what you would become? Could endure you how you had changed from your youth?
Cape Ann Theatre Collaborative’s fall play, Homestead Crossing, by Sudbury, Mass. native William Donnelly creates a “crystal ball” to view the 50-something married couple of Noel and Anne with the by-happenstance meeting of 20-something Claudia and Tobin. Both couples reflect each other across the spectrum of aging and remembrance of youth. Each couple transforms the other into deeper knowing and fuller remembrances. The quiet disconnect of comfortable middle age marriage and the youthful exuberance of setting out on a collective dream meet in a delightful twist! Donnelly’s “jeweler’s eye” explores who we are at the start of relationships and who we are as we age into them. Homestead Crossing abounds with humor, poignance and the deep wisdom of life’s journey when lived fully and honestly.
Our cast features Emma Cavaliere as Claudia, Pauline Miceli as Anne, Tom Rash as Tobin and Marc St. Pierre as Noel.
When: November 15, 16, 17, ( 21st Benefit performance for the Lanesville Community Center, 8pm), 22, 23, 24 Fridays/Saturdays 8pm and Sundays 3pm
Where: Gorton Theatre (home of Gloucester Stage Company), 267 E. Main St., Gloucester, MA
General Admission: $15
Door Sales: Cash/Check Only
Reserve: CATcollab@gmail.com
Buy Tickets Online: www.catcollaborative.org
The Gloucester Writers Center is holding two College Essay nights in November for High School Seniors. Writers in the community will work one-on-one with seniors at two different times and locations to give feedback, advice, or a shoulder to cry on. Free, no appointment necessary. Bring your draft, at any stage, even if it still just in your head. For more information, contact JoeAnn@joeannhart.com.
Thursday, November 21
Show up anytime between 7 pm and 9 pm.
The Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main St, next to Richdale, park on Chapel St.
Tuesday, November 26
Show up anytime between 5 pm and 7 pm.
The Sawyer Free Library, downstairs in the Friend Room.
Historic Businesses of Cape Ann Open House
The Cape Ann Museum is pleased to present an open house at 16 Rogers Street, Gloucester as part of their Who We Are is Who We Were: Historic Businesses of Cape Ann series on Saturday, November 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visit the working studios of sailmaker Josh Bevins, furniture restorer Dean Snell and artist Jeff Weaver to learn more about these occupations that have been a part of Gloucester’s working waterfront since the 19th century. Light refreshments will be served. This program is free for members, $10 nonmembers. Reservations are required. Please call 978-491-7872 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.
Sailmaker Josh Bevins has been involved with sailmaking since he was 14 years old. A Marblehead native, he got his start with Cressy’s Sailmakers. He fell in love with Gloucester during the eighties when he came through for boat repairs. He set up shop twelve years ago and has been working out of 16 Rogers Street for the past ten years. Dean is an electric bass player who has been happily married for thirty years.
Furniture restorer Dean Snell lives in Gloucester with his wife and three children. He moved here soon after getting a fine arts degree at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He first worked as a carpenter and then apprenticed with John Ockenga, maker of prized North Shore cabinets, in the 1980s and went on his own in 1992. Located on the historic Gloucester harbor, the Restoration Works at 16 Rogers Street specializes in restoration and repair of all kinds of furniture, from fine antiques to pieces worth saving simply because of their sentimental value.
Artist Jeff Weaver was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. He began drawing and painting at an early age, accepting portrait commissions by age fourteen. In his high school years, he won awards in drawing & sculpture in the Boston Globe state-wide art competitions. After graduating from high school, he entered the Boston Museum School. In 1972 he took up residence in Gloucester, sketching and painting the waterfront on an almost daily basis. In his early years in the city, he supported himself at various waterfront jobs, as well as from commissions for boat portraits from fishing vessel captains, and for murals in commercial establishments and private homes. This eventually led to many years of commercial work, including over 30 murals painted in different parts of the city. Returning to fine art pursuits in the 1990s, Jeff again focused on depicting Gloucester and its environs in various media. He currently operates a studio/gallery at 16 Rogers Street on the Gloucester waterfront.
The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to this remarkable place. Founded in 1873, the Museum’s collections represent the history of Cape Ann, its people, its industries, and especially its art and culture. The Museum is closed for renovations until summer 2014. For more information visit www.capeannmuseum.org
HELLO FRIENDS:
The Frenchman is currently featured on Whizbuzz and has a great review in InD Tale magazine. Both links are below.
http://www.derekhaines.ch/whizbuzz/2013/10/b-b-boudreau-the-frenchman/#comment-341
http://www.indtale.com/magazine/2013/june/#?page=82
Enjoy! Books available at The Bookstore, 61 Main St., Gloucester and Toadhall, 47 Main St.,
Rockport.
Antiques, furniture, collectibles, art, and more will be available at a tag sale at the Unitarian Universalist Society of
Rockport, 4 Cleaves Street, Saturday, November 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The sale will be held in both the
upper and lower levels of the church and will feature the work of local artist William Reynolds Beal.
Cat Ryan submits-
Hi all,
Here are few deadline events that may interest you, and some wonderful Gloucester news. So many updates are possible because of the strong support and lead from the City of Gloucester through the office of Mayor Kirk. Click the logos to follow the links—orange seems to be in fashion for these logos! What amazing partnerships surround us; please share the links with your friends. Good Morning Gloucester, the Gloucester Daily Times, the Cape Ann Beacon, Cape Ann TV and other local media have helped tremendously in spreading the word for our creative art, businesses, and orgs.
Sincerely
Catherine
November 14, 2013 FREE special conference on rising water issues and natural systems: The Great Marsh Symposium at the Crane Estate, Ipswich, MA, Great House at the Trustees of Reservations, Ipswich, MA, hosted by The Great Marsh Coalition. Essex National Heritage is a member. There’s a tour from the great roof after! FREE
Wednesday, November 20, 2013, Smart Growth Alliance Conference at the ABX convention center, Boston. Celebrating Smart Growth projects across the Commonwealth and ten years of Smart Growth. I’m going as a participant. I’ll also be speaking about arts/culture updates in Gloucester for one of the panels. Gloucester’s successes via its Community Development department and the HarborWalk public spaces inspired this invitation.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Montserrat Gallery, Beverly: The Creative Economy of the North Shore (CEANS) is hosting a networking reception. Feature of the night: arts and culture curator, and non profit advisor, Ricardo Barreto, will speak about the NEA public art process that led to 75 nationally known artists submitting public art ideas. We’ll meet the artist awarded the project, too, Anna Schuleit Haber. FREE
You may have missed Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s hosting for MOTT’s Director Betsy Wall. A big focus of this reception described the excellent platform of their website. Please add in your businesses and orgs ASAP—the North Shore and Gloucester can do more! If you have questions feel free to email me! Immediate exciting impact: MOTT has asked multi talented Gloucester resident and artist Kim Smith to be a guest blogger on their fantastic website. Also, her video of the schooner festival will be added to their YouTube channel. The Chamber is also working on a campaign for a Cape Ann license plate. They’re working with legislature to see if the restrictive parameters for logo design can revert to offering the entire background as part of a winning design (as we see with Cape Cod or the MA Environmental Trust’s Right Whale).
Harbortown Cultural District is featured in the November 2013 issue of their publication Horizons as part of a submission for one of its regularly published “ten” lists. You can find the article here They introduce the ten districts as “the creative heart of many communities. Here are some in the region worth visiting.” The other districts on the list cover 7 states: New Haven’s Audubon Arts District, Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts, Lowell’s Canalway, New York City’s East Fourth Street, Providence’s Downtown, Hartford’s Downtown, Baltimore’s Mount Vernon, Portland’s Arts, and Pittsfield’s Upstreet. The article also credits the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s (MCC) cultural districts program. www.gloucesterharbortown.org. The author selected this district because of the HarborWalk.
Excellent podcast webinar from the Massachusetts Cultural Council on how to build audiences with ArtsBoston Audience Initiative project. The link also has a copy of the presentation if you don’t have time to listen. When you do find an hour to sit with the audio, there’s a lot of good information (and maybe one dog barking in the background at some point and one swear whoops!) There’s a sliding scale fee to sign up and share audience lists. Gloucester businesses/orgs should do it. Local mention: If you listen to the entire broadcast you’ll hear artist and seARTS Chair Jackie Ganim-Defalco ask a question and mention Cape Ann Artisans! Update: In September, the Massachusetts Cultural Council worked with legislatures to append the state budget, requesting an increase in $500,000 towards marketing. The request was tabled for now. But what’s important is the advocacy, the communication, and the ideas are out there! It is so important to share. Mention and coverage of arts and culture across many elections and in the media has significantly increased and improved.
US Travel Association. Please text to show your support for this Jolt Act. It affects Gloucester and all MA residents! I can’t believe that Brazil, Romania and Poland have trouble with visas! Text from your phone today 877-877, “travel”, and send to sign up for the Power of Travel coalition if you want to help there.See Good Morning Gloucester coverage here
Essex National Heritage outstanding Essex Trails and Sails is not surprisingly already planning for next year. They were thrilled with Gloucester participation and the Block Party overlap, and hope to have even more partners and more promotion for 2014. Update coming soon and please plan for it next year! Their website and social media platforms are excellent opportunities.
November 1-17, 2013, save time for Cape Ann Community Cinema’s 6th Cape Ann Film Festival 
Adam Bolonsky submits-
Poll: the following story is true or false:
True: I was there and I saw it happen. We made frogs’ legs stew out of the frogs stuck in the mud
False: no way a 12-gauge shotgun could scare that many seagulls
Probably true: winters in Gloucester were a hell of a lot colder back then. Most winters kids from Magnolia iceskated to GHS by way of Normans Woe and the Blynman Canal
Reporting in the Gloucester Daily Times more than a few years back, none other than Joe Garland was accosted downtown by Ray Davis, deliveryman for the Railroad Avenue Market:
Ray jabbed a finger in my chest and asked why I didn’t mention the day Niles Pond disappeared.
“You mean the day back in the twenties when Jack Prentiss tried to drain it to under twenty acres so it wouldn’t qualify as a Great Pond and he could claim if for his private puddle?
“Naw,” said Davis. “This was way back, a terrible hard winter. Niles froze right deep. Came on so fast an awful crowd of gulls there got their feet froze in. Next morning one of the guys was tramping through that way, and thought mebbe he could save ’em if he could scare ’em off.
“So he went home and got his twelve-gauge shotgun and went back and fired both barrels up in the air. Them gulls all started flying at once, and they lifted the whole of Niles Pond right up off the bottom and flew away it over Brace Cove to the no’theast.”
This just in-
Hi Joey-
I arrived home from Iceland last evening and was catching up on GMG posts when I saw that Sarah Clark had posted some great photos of other fisherman statues. She commented that she wished she had a GMG sticker when she had taken them so I must have taken this photo for her!
Best-Janet (Rice)
Original email-
Sarah Clark submits-
Hi, Joey,
Here are a fisherman and fisherman’s wife statues from Alesund, Norway. Next to them are two views of the fishermen’s statue in Reykavik, Iceland. Wish I had thought to have a Good Morning Gloucester sticker when I took these! Just thought folks in Gloucester might enjoy these.
Hey Joey- Someone sent photos in from Marini Farms recently. Thought you
might like to see what the corn maze looks like from the air. It’s
surprisingly elaborate. I shot this from a helicopter a couple weeks
ago. Don’t worry about the copyright watermark if you’d care to to put
this on your GMG website!
Thanks-
Dave Stotzer
Save the Date
Rockport High School DECA is sponsoring ……………
3rd Annual Sea Shells and Jingle Bells Holiday Inn and Home Kitchen Tour
Sunday, December 8, 2013
1-5 PM
6 Homes and 4 Inns on tour —all new locations
Tour starts at Rockport Inn and Suites 183 Main Street Rockport
Tickets available online at www.rhsdeca.com or at the Holiday PTO Fair on November 16.
Ticket prices: $20 in advance and $25 on the day of the event
For more information call 978-546-1234 or email slarsen@rpk12.org
The Gloucester Writers Center presents Endicott Writers Night on Wednesday, November 20th 7:30 p.m., at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center. The featured writers are a group of students and professors from Endicott College who demonstrate the breadth of literary talent on campus.
Our first reader, Dan Sklar, is a creative writing professor at Endicott well known not only for his colorful poetry, stories and plays but also for his ability to inspire students through his positive attitude and free spirit. Recent publications include the Harvard Review, New York Quarterly, Ibbetson Street Press and The Art of the One-Act. His one act play Lycanthropy was produced at the Boston Theatre Marathon in 2012 and was reviewed by the Boston Globe. Ibbetson Street Press published Flying Cat (Actually Swooping) Poems, Stories and Plays this year.
Our next reader is Endicott student Meghan Perkins, well known around campus for her work ethic. She is scheduled to graduate with a B.A. in English and a minor in Environmental Studies in December 2013. She has been published in the Endicott Review, the Ibbetson Street Press, the Somerville News, the Small Press Review and the Gardener News. Post-graduation, she hopes to follow her goals of writing academically and creatively, helping the environment and traveling the world.
Our other student reader, Emily Pineau, is a junior whose poetry has appeared in the anthology, Like One: Poems For Boston, and in newspapers and literary journals such as the Somerville News, The Endicott Observer, The Endicott Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Muddy River Poetry Review, and Notes from the Gean:Monthly Haiku Journal. In 2012 her poem ,“I would for you” was nominated for a pushcart prize. In 2013 the Ibbetson Street Press published her poetry collection, No Need to Speak. The Aurorean chose No Need to Speak as the Editor’s Chap/ Book Choice to be featured in their October/2013 issue.
Our last featured reader is Doug Holder, a writing professor at Endicott College and Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. He is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and a well known writer in the metropolitan Boston area. His latest collection of poetry, Eating Greif at 3AM (Muddy River Books) was released in October of 2013. Holder’s poetry and prose have appeared in Rattle, Main St. Rag, Caesura, Long Island Quarterly, Toronto Quarterly, the new renaissance, the Café Re-view and others. He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University.
After our four writers are finished reading there will be an open mic for all Endicott students who show up and would like to read. There will also be refreshments served.
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 in the belief that all voices count. The Gloucester Center is “a working writers center in a working town. 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
Food and Nutrition Staff at Addison Gilbert Hospital were ready for staff and their visitors
on Halloween in costume. Everyone who has eaten the delicious meals prepared
by staff know their professional and caring personalities are available everyday of the
year; not just on Halloween!
L to R
Cheryl Christo, Veronica Ellyson, Jill Carpenter and Jack Lombardo
Ginni Spencer submits-
I took this photo on Saturday morning (November 2nd) on Lobster
Cove. I believe it is a Great Blue Heron — it was huge!
Ginni Spencer
THANKSGIVING HARVEST MARKET
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 2013
9 am to Noon
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church
On Saturday, November 23rd, from 9 am to 12 p.m., the Cape Ann Farmers Market will host a Thanksgiving Harvest Market at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on 10 Church Street (on the corner of Middle and Church). Over 20 vendors, including Alprilla Farm, Trupiano Sausage, Herrick Farm, Seaview Farm Meats, & Craquelins Crackers, will be selling fresh produce, soups, baked goods, crafts, meats, cheese, herbs, smoked fish, pasta, and guacamole. All fresh, all local, in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
An all-natural turkey, donated by Common Crow, will be raffled off to benefit the Farmers Market.
The market is held in conjunction with other activities during the Middle Street Harvest Festival. Events, including concerts and a cupboard fair, will take place throughout the day at venues along Middle Street.
For more information go to www.CapeAnnFarmersMarket.org, or call Nicole Bogin at 978-290-2717.
Matthew Parisi submits-
Joey,
I saw your post of the fisherman’s statues from Norway. In Gloucester their are quite a few folks from Buarcos, Figueira da Foz, Portugal. It’s where my Portuguese family came from. Anyway, they have both a Fisherman’s statue and a Fisherman’s Wife statue. Thought you would be interested!
Best regards,
Matt Parisi
and here are the ones from Scandanavia we posted the other day-
Posted on November 5, 2013 by Joey C
The EDIC is pleased to announce to the City that an Innovation House is going to be established in Gloucester. The Innovation House is a creative concept developed by Mr. Jon von Tetzchner, the founder and former CEO of Opera Software (a web browser company that under Jon’s leadership grew to over 300 million users). Last year Jon and his family moved to Gloucester and settled in Magnolia. He has decided to acquire and convert the Inn Magnolia into his second Innovation House. His first is in his homeland of Iceland. The Iceland facility houses 18 early stage start-ups and Jon’s entrepreneurial efforts are also coordinated with a similar effort in Norway, where 60 start-ups are already housed.
His Gloucester Innovation House will be a place where Gloucester start-ups can get a beginning within an environment that nurtures creativity and it will also be where European ventures might come to establish their first presence in the United States. Jon is just completing the acquisition of the Inn Magnolia and internal modifications will need to be completed, but it will soon be operational.
Jon’s decision to reside in Gloucester and establish one of his Innovation Houses here will be news literally heard around the world within the high tech internet business sector. Our City should feel proud that the core of our heritage … Courage from our fishermen and Creativity from our artists … is also a description of the high tech entrepreneurial spirit.
It is very important to note that the Innovation House would not have come into existence without the impressive, professional support from many members of the City government team. Jon’s requirements were unique and without the creativity and effort from the City the right solution would not have been found and eventually approved by the City Council. In particular the EDIC and Jon thanks Mayor Kirk for her leadership and Jim Duggan, Tom Daniel, Gregg Cademartori, and Bill Sanborn for their knowledge and invaluable expertise.
Thomas F. Gillett
Executive Director – Gloucester Economic Development and Industrial Corporation [EDIC]
Hi Joey,
Mary Barker stopped by and took some great photos at our last dance. We want everyone to know that there is another contra dance on Sunday, November 10 at the Baptist Church on Gloucester Avenue. The dancing starts at 7:00 following a 5:00 pot-luck supper. The dancing is fun and appeals to all ages. And it’s okay to come and just listen to the music. All are welcome! Come check it out!
Thanks for all you do!
Rose Sheehan
Cape Ann Contra Dance
“A Sense of Place” — paintings by John and Pamela Lang Redick
November 5-30
Time & Tide at Post Road Framers, Route 1, Rowley
Opening Party!
Saturday, November 9 5-7pm
Contact: Kristina Brendel 978 238 8848
Do opposites really attract? Or do they just fit together so well that it seems that way?
John and Pamela Lang Redick create art together, often side by side in the same location. But their paintings are as different in technique and style as can be. John’s free flowing paintings resemble marbleized paper, the liquid paint creating liquid images, most often of the ocean or mountain lakes. Pamela’s meticulously detailed paintings capture both natural man-made elements that might be overlooked by the casual observer, in her hand tree bark becomes mosaic.
The couple’s work is on display now through November 30 at Time & Tide at Post Road Framers in Rowley. The opening party on Saturday, November 9, 5-7pm, offers a chance to meet these fascinating artists and to see their intriguing artwork.
In 1999, Senator Harry Reid, a survivor of his father’s suicide, introduced a new resolution to the United States Senate. With its passing, the US Congress designated the Saturday before American Thanksgiving as National Survivors of Suicide Day; a day in which friends and family of those who have died by suicide can join together for healing and support.
In recognition of suicide’s worldwide impact and that sites are organized on every continent, our program is called International Survivors of Suicide Day.
At hundreds of local gatherings on six continents, survivors of suicide loss gather together to remember their loved ones and offer each support.
At each of these community centered events, organizers show a 90 minute DVD created by AFSP that features the personal stories and advice of other survivors and psychiatric professionals.
Survivors of suicide loss are also able to watch from the comfort of their own homes, as we stream the program on our website.
To learn more about International Survivors of Suicide please visit www.afsp.org/survivorconference.
There will be a gathering on Cape Ann this year:
November 23,2013 at Addison Gilbert Hospital, from 12 -3:00pm. Food and beverages will be served. A suggested donation of $15 will be received at the door.
To pre-register please contact the event facilitator: Anita Pandolfe Ruchman, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner @ A Tender Place~Mind,Body,Spirit, Therapy. 978 546 6599, apr822@verizon.net.
What kind of psychopath designed cold capsule packaging? What type of punishment would be enough payback for this rotten bastard?
They should create a new sport at the Olympics- line up a bunch of sick people and see who can get the goddamn capsules out of the packaging the fastest. We can watch people get frustrated and snap while trying to get them open.
Old people must go apeshit trying to get these little fuckers free.
Somewhere the inventor who undoubtedly got paid bazillions of dollars coming up with the concept is laughing an insidious laugh knowing the pain, torture and humiliation he inflicted upon the world with his diabolical cold capsule packaging patent.
I picture him like Vector in Despicable Me vying to be the world’s number one villain.-
Sicko.
Catherine Ryan submits-
I didn’t know this was from Gordon College design!
“It’s such a forward-moving thing,” said Victor Calise, commissioner of the New York mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities (update name?!). New York City has agreed to start using a more active logo designed by activists at Gordon College in Wenham, on the north shore of Massachusetts. “The movement initially started when the group behind the new logo started placing its stickers over old handicapped signs around the Gordon College campus, and eventually stickers of the final design were distributed throughout nearby Boston.”
James writes-
You guys aren’t going to believe this-
But your average margin of error for your “unofficial” just-for-fun completely non-scientific poll was 2.48.
That’s better than Rassmussen
That’s better than Gallup
The only four errors of the poll were, and I predicted two of these:
-undershooting Romero: anybody knows that the Godmother is Queen. A huge portion of her people don’t take online polls.
-overshooting Lundberg- He still did well, but your sample favoured him higher than reality.
-Kimberly was a fluke, possibly due to her association with GMG. Known online but not IRL perhaps
-Favazza fizzled. The surprise of the night. Don’t know what happened there.
BUT OTHERWISE THIS THING WAS SO FUCKING SPOT ON
And the two big errors were easy to spot.
Amazing!!!!
jamesdowd says:
Here is the spreadsheet where I take the raw GMG numbers and compare them on the left to the outcome. On the right, for fun, I took the GMG numbers and then try and “correct” them- I did this the day before the election to see how accurate I could be, if I could improve on the raw. It turns out, if you were betting- GMG came in at a 2.48 margin of error, and my “corrected” numbers at 3.78 in the candidate-based questions. You would have been better off going with the GMG raw even thought it had some obvious errors like the Romero whiff and over-reporting/under-reporting support for some school committee candidates. GMG also loved it some Lundberg more than the rest of Glocuester, but it didn’t matter in the outcome.
My hypotheses as to why this is revolves around the fact that GMG probably accurately reflects the opinions of a large class of “likely voters” and is therefore more likely to push through the noise with it’s large sample size. It’s limits might be that it underepresents SoRo (south of the Rotary) to the favor of Eglo, Magnolia, Wheeler’s and outsiders. But still- 2.48? Amazingly close predictor.
Good Morning Gloucester 