My View of Life on the Dock
Hi Joey,
Attached is picture of a 1910 postcard, I just purchased on-line through E-bay, of the Oceanside Hotel at Magnolia. Interesting to know that construction was started in 1878 and the hotel was destroyed by fire in 1958. My Dad, George Krewson Jr. purchased it in 1931 and sold it in 1945. For this aging guy those truely were the “good old days.”
George Krewson III
I always say Don’t Buy- Adopt Your Next Pet! So Psyched!!!
Our girl Alicia Pensarosa has been posting the Pet of the week on GMG for the past year and it looks like this one has a really happy ending!
Here’s a link to Cape Ann Animal Aid
CLICK TO SEE OUR AVAILABLE ANIMALS…
Here was the post Alicia put up not long ago-
Hello! My name is Tuqui, I am a happy and outgoing girl. I love spending time with people and going for walks. I think I am part retriever and Boxer. As an adult rescue, I am looking for a home with more of an adult slant, like one with children heading into their teens. I am a large dog and I weight about 55 pounds. I am at the Cape Ann Animal Aid, located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter in Gloucester. Check our website at:CapeAnnAnimalAid.com
Do you know we have a “Wish List” and some of the items on it are:
Wet food for cats and dogs, Stainless steel cat litter pans, Stainless steel & ceramic pet dishes Cat cleaning wipes, ‘Like new’ towels and blankets, durable plastic dog toys, rope toys, paper towels bleach, garbage bags (all sizes) and dishwasher tabs and soap are just a few of the items we need.
My only item on my own ”Wish List” is a family to love me just like my Cape Ann Animal Aid family does!
Although I’m sure there will be other Mug Ups scheduled over the winter, this will be the Grand Finale Last Hurrah Mug Up at Khan Studio and the GMG Gallery on Rocky Neck for the season. 77 Rocky Neck Ave. Gallery 3 – Sunday, 10/13 9:30am. The coffee will be hot and the eggs deviled. To those of you who have said: “I’ve always to go to a Mug Up at your gallery”, this is your last chance. Come for some Sunday morning GMG fun and cameraderie. Bring along something to share.
Here’s all the info you need-
October 12, 13 & 14
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. daily
download brochure
download map
Get Some!
Hi Joey! One more posting would be awesome!
Backyard Growers is in the home stretch to win $10,000 for Gloucester’s school gardens! Please vote once a day until Tuesday, 10/15! And thanks! VOTE HERE = http://goo.gl/CKY3Nk
Here are a couple short youtube videos for your amusement and in thanks for your continued support! We have put rolly pollies on the payroll! And my kid is as sick of me as you are! (No rolly pollies or small children were harmed in the filming of these videos)
Rolly Polly wants you to vote
Sick of school gardens
Register here: https://maritimegloucester.org/orders/register2.php?id=47
Discover the spooky side of Gloucester’s marine life! During this family-friendly educational program, we’ll be offering monstrous art projects and a chance to meet some live local sea creatures. Learn about scary deep sea creatures and the giant marine life of the distant past as we create a Sea Monster Chalk Mural. Paint a 20-foot long wooden sea serpent and discover the legend of the Gloucester Sea Serpent, said to have visited Gloucester Harbor in 1817. During our Creature Feature, children will get a chance to touch or hold exciting sea life, such as spider crabs, sea stars, and lobsters, as they learn amazing facts about these animals. The event will be hosted in our newly renovated Marine Science Classroom, which now features a giant squid mural and a vast collection of shells and skeletons of the sea!
Hi Joey-
While out walking today I was struck by the beauty of the Sage Floral Studio store front. People should check out their new location at 274 Main Street, Gloucester for unique gifts and flower arrangements. As you can see by my photos, the shop is gorgeous inside and out!
Sinful Gloucester From Anthony Marks
Imagination Station transforms popsicle sticks in artwork to support SAILS!
When the upcoming 5th graders visited O’Maley last spring to learn about the SAILS program, which promotes building a respectful community through Service, Acceptance, Integrity, Leadership and Success, they each wrote their name on a colorful popsicle stick. This fall, the students in the Imagination Station classroom took the popsicle sticks and turned them into a work of art to support the SAILS initiative. The colorful mosaic mural is on display in the commons at O’Maley. Inspiration through Art!
This is the ghs varsity soccer team on Friday, 10/4 at their cancer benefit game. They won their game and they wore pink shirts for two team moms with breast cancer and wore teal arm bands for me…I was recently diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer.. I was very touched. My son, third from right, bottom row, Treigh Worell, is the goalie.
Thank you
Wendy Worell
Cape Hedge Beach, 10/9/13
Photo by Matt Cegelis
Hi Joey,
I wanted to let you know of a project that is happening in Manchester. Thom Smoker has been my son’s voice teacher and he has also done work with area schools. They are trying to raise $10,000 to get their business off the ground at Manchester Athletic Club. I have attached their fundraising website for you to view and to possibly put on your blog. Thank you. I always enjoy reading Good Morning Gloucester and find so many interesting events and information.
Patti Gillis
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulcovecfa/jumpstart-soulcove-center-for-the-arts
Ken Chen & Janaka Stucky
Gloucester Writers Center Poetry Salon
On October 25, 2013 at 7:30 pm the GWC will present poets Ken Chen and Janaka Stucky reading from their work at 126 East Main Street, Gloucester.
Ken Chen‘s debut poetry collection, Juvenilia, won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His work has been published or recognized in Best American Essays 2006, Best American Essays 2007, and the Boston Review of Books. He is the executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Janaka Stucky is the Publisher of Black Ocean, as well as the annual poetry journal, Handsome. He is also the author of The World Will Deny It For You and Your Name Is The Only Freedom. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have appeared online at The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He lives in Boston.
Our quarterly Poetry Salon is hosted by poet Kate Colby, and brings a diverse selection of practicing poets from Boston, New York and beyond to local writers and listeners.
Foosball Tourney Sunday October 20th!
Hi Joey,
In addition to being a stop on the Cape Ann Artisans Tour this weekend, The Sarah Elizabeth Shop is having a 30% off T shirts sale. All of our T shirts are 100% cotton American Apparel brand and printed with historic block prints from the shop and made in the U.S.A. The one that Katharine is wearing is “Motif #1” from 1974, by Sarah Elizabeth Holloran, a former Folly Cove Designer. They are normally $24 and are now $16.50. Get them while they last! Once they are gone, I won’t be carrying them anymore and where else are you going to find such authentic designs on T shirts made locally that celebrate what’s excellent about Cape Ann? The places are getting fewer and further between.
Thanks very much!
Julia Garrison owner and operator -The Sarah Elizabeth Shop
5 Whistle Stop Mall Rockport, MA (978)546-1037
RESTAURANT MANAGERS/CATERS – YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO MISS THIS!!!!
SMOKIN’ JIM’S BAR-B-Q IS HOLDING A 3-DAY TENT SALE OF RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT!!!
5 Cunningham Rd., Gloucester (2nd left off Washington St. towards Addison Gilbert Hospital
SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Oct. 12, 13, 14 9:am to 4:pm
Double Well Soup Warmer, Heavy Stainless Hotel Pans – all sizes, depths w/lids Bain Marie Stock Pots
Sautee Pans BBQ Utensils Kitchen Utensils/Cutlery, Ladles, etc. Chafers with lids and inserts,
Polyethelene Food Storage Containers with Lids French Fry Cutter Paper Goods
Packaging, 3-oz. to 32-oz Portion containers, Gorgeous, Workable antique slicer!!
ALSO
CUSTOM-BUILT ORIGINAL SMOKIN’ JIM’S GRILLS
Large and Small Coolers Five 6-ft. Folding Banquet Tables 8-ft. Solid Table Wall Shelving, Café Tables
Counter Tops 6-ft. and 4-ft. Heavy Stainless Work Tables Storage Shelves , AND MORE
PLUS
1-door ‘TRUE’ Sandwich/Salad Prep Refrigerator – 8 pans
HENNY-PENNY Heated Holding Cabinet (used 3-months)
MUST SEE THIS STUFF! COME AND ENJOY JIM’S BBQ AND BARGAINS! RAIN OR SHINE!
ALSO : Household items, Antiques and Collectibles, Lawn Equipment, Tools
Al Bezanson submits-
This is a long piece but a thoughtful reflection for mariners and anyone else
http://threesheetsnw.com/lateentry/2013/10/07/mario-vittone-on-the-illusion-of-experience/
Al Bezanson
Dave Jewell aboard The Lady J landed this blue lobster today!
Maddie Jewell displays the lobster her daddy caught.
Hi Joey!
How the holy heck are you? Still with the killing pace at the dock?
Say, I just posted on my FB page that I’m (finally) teaching hat-making classes at the shop. Yes, at the shop. Cozy, eh?
How do you feel about a GMG boost? Next 2-day workshop is Oct 19 & 20.
Do you wanna come learn how to make hats, btw? Always room for curious minds.
Hope you’re well, and that you had a fantastic summer – cuz it is gone, baby, gone. *sigh*
Best to you,
Scouter-Outer
Check out Karen’s Scout Vintage Finds on Facebook here- Scout Vintage Finds Facebook Page
here’s an interview with scout from a couple years ago-
Linn Parisi Submits-
Hi Joey,
I thought GMG readers would appreciate this blast from the past seen today in The Yarmouth County (Nova Scotia) Vanguard newspaper. 45 years later: We’re still waiting. Think it will ever happen?!
Linn
45 YEARS AGO
The latest on a proposed second ferry service between Nova Scotia and New England was that Gloucester, Massachusetts, still might be the American destination for the new ferry, although Portsmouth, New Hampshire, seemed a likelier candidate, the Vanguard reported in its Oct. 9, 1968 edition. The Nova Scotia port for the service had yet to be announced officially, the paper said, but it looked like Yarmouth would get it, given the terminal facilities already in place here and the town’s location vis-à-vis the highways to the valley and south shore. The new ship was being built in Sweden.
Phil Scannell is looking for some info-
Last week we took a boat ride up the Annisquam and after passing Rust Island we spoke of and Island on our left as we header to Ipswich Bay with lots of small cottages and did not see anyone, one of our passengers said that there were no utility’s on that Island and you can only get there by boat – Is this Island called Pierce Island ? and what is the story and or history of it Thanks hope all is well .
Best Phil
and follow up-
I did find this a bit interesting on Pearce -Merchant-Durneys Island I spoke to Gene at Dory shop he told me originally he heard it was once owned by one Family and the Island was given to Pearce after the civil war by President Lincoln for something he had done. that’s as far as I have gone so far. Best
Sheila Hurst has some nice things to say-
Good Morning Joey: Thank you for every day making my day with Good Morning Gloucester.
P.S. I’m one of those dreaded “summer” people and miss Gloucester terribly when our family isn’t there.
THE CAPE ANN YMCA CELEBRATES NATIONAL
“LIGHTS ON AFTERSCHOOL” WITH A FLASH MOB
The 14th Annual National Rally for Afterschool Programs
Children, parents and community members will join together at a “Lights On Afterschool” flash mob event at the Cape Ann YMCA on October 17 at 4:15 to celebrate the achievements of afterschool students and draw attention to the need for more quality afterschool programs to serve the millions of children nationwide who are unsupervised and at risk each weekday afternoon.
To further spotlight the “Lights On Afterschool” initiative, kids and staff at Cape Ann YMCA afterschool programs at each Gloucester and Rockport elementary school will also show off their flash mob skills with dance moves to today’s hottest songs.
Cape Ann Executive Director Tim Flaherty said, “Lights On Afterschool celebrates the remarkable work being done by students who attend our afterschool programs and is a powerful reminder that afterschool programs keep children safe, inspire them to learn and relieve working parents of worries about how their children spend their afternoons.”
In every Gloucester and Rockport elementary school, the Cape Ann Y offers quality, affordable licensed care where kids learn values and skills taught by caring adults. There are also a variety of clubs that appeal to every kid’s interest: Block Buster Lego, drama, clay animation, No Cook Cooking, Fit Club, swimming, sports, reading club and many more. The programs run from the closing school bell until 6:00pm Monday through Friday and are open on holidays, school vacations and half days. The Y is the trusted choice for hundreds of Cape Ann families. Financial aid is available for those families in need. For more program information, contact Brian Flynn at flynnb@northshoreymca.org.
In Massachusetts, according to America After 3PM data released by the Afterschool Alliance in 2009, 18% of school-age children are in afterschool programs, while 26% are unsupervised in the afternoons and another 13% are in the care of brothers and sisters. According to the survey, the parents of 36% of children in the state who are not already in an afterschool program would enroll their children in one, if a program were available to them—an indication of the considerable unmet demand for afterschool programs in the state. For more survey results, visit www.afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM.cfm.
Your $20 Donation to support the Meetinghouse
Green Iniatives is Appreciated, but not Required
Info @ http://www.GloucesterUU.org
Advance Ticket Registration: http://www.MaritimeGloucester.org
Please Join us for a Reception to follow in the Meetinghouse Vestry
downstairs, with Exhibits & Green Refreshments
Christine Leveilee submits-
Washington, DC trip fundraising Bake Sale
O’Maley 8th grade students held a bake sale at Market Basket in Gloucester on Saturday, October 5th. The community response was tremendous, and the bake sale was a great success. A second bake sale is planned for October 19th at the same location.
Hi, Joey,
The Gloucester Education Foundation held its annual Celebration last Friday evening, October 5, at the North Shore Arts Association. We had a great turnout–about 170 friends and supporters showed up to celebrate GEF’s work on behalf of the Gloucester Public School District.
Since its beginning back in 2005, GEF has generated $2.7 million in support to benefit the District. On hand to speak to the crowd were GEF President Maggie Rosa; Dr. Richard Safier, Superintendent of the Gloucester Public School District; and Courtney Richardson, Director of Education at the Cape Ann Museum, who spoke about a new collaboration between GEF, the Museum and the schools.
Heidi Dallin was there with her drama students from Gloucester Stage, all of whom generously volunteered their time to help serve the guests. Two of them, Jordan Westling, who is a student at Gloucester High, and Talia DeWolfe, who is at the O’Maley Innovation Middle School, also took turns at the podium to address the audience about their experiences in GEF-funded programs.
Click pic below for slide show-
Hi Joey –
The PR for Gloucester team at Warner Communications has introduced a Gloucester business to the 700,000+ monthly readers of Parade.com – Rebecca Wallace and her Main Street business, The Well for Integrative Medicine, are featured in Resuscitate and Repair Your Summer-Parched Skin, Part 1! We’re delighted to see the inclusion of hyperlinks to The Well’s website – and especially the mention of their location in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Best, Ariane Doud
Account Director
Warner Communications
Richard J. King is senior lecturer in literature of the sea with the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport. In 2004 he published an article in the Log of Mystic Seaport (Vol 55), “The Most Valuable Bird in the World.” (Domestic birds excluded.) I was quite astounded when I read it at the time, and have just now enjoyed his new book, published by the University of New Hampshire Press, “The Devil’s Cormorant.”
With all due respect to the beautiful GMG icon, one has to admit its eating habits don’t set a great example for a blog that so often features fine food. But the cormorant ___ ahh ___ only the freshest fish will do.
Overview from the publisher of The Devil’s Cormorant
Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff faces, feed on thousands of different species, and live beside both fresh and salt water in a vast global range of temperatures and altitudes, often in close proximity to man. Long a symbol of gluttony, greed, bad luck, and evil, the cormorant has led a troubled existence in human history, myth, and literature. The birds have been prized as a source of mineral wealth in Peru, hunted to extinction in the Arctic, trained by the Japanese to catch fish, demonized by Milton in Paradise Lost, and reviled, despised, and exterminated by sport and commercial fishermen from Israel to Indianapolis, Toronto to Tierra del Fuego. In The Devil’s Cormorant, Richard King takes us back in time and around the world to show us the history, nature, ecology, and economy of the world’s most misunderstood waterfowl.
@AndreaWBZ: Sat, October 12 has been declared MA Lobster Day by @MassGovernor. #yum http://twitter.com/AndreaWBZ/status/388335903082434561/photo/1
Time to Celebrate!
It’s Been 30 Years … and We’re Going Stronger Than Ever!
Please join us in our closing event of the year; we’ve had a wonderful 30th Anniversary year and the upcoming Fall Studio Tour will be the icing on our cake … you can help us to celebrate in style!
With the holidays and gift-giving season just around the corner, experience the best local hand-made fine craft and art New England has to offer. Enjoy ongoing demonstrations by many of the artisans; pottery, glass beadmaking, mosaics, painting, fabric printing and copper sculpture are just a few of the artforms being demo-ed during the tour.
Plan to spend a day (or two or three!) exploring the beauty of Cape Ann, an area that has captivated artists and craftspeople for centuries. Our rich artistic traditions are woven into the foundations of our history – come celebrate those traditions with us – share our delight in the Cape Ann environment and our joy in the work we do.
Cape Ann Artisans are part of a vibrant, thriving arts community.
We invite you to come visit, explore our exquisite natural surroundings,
and experience the fine art and craft this unique and special place inspires.
Len Burgess submits-
Hi Joey, here’s a few shots from the Topsfield Fair on Tuesday. –Len
Hi Joey,
Twilight at low tide was absolute tranquility in Wonson Cove Tuesday night.
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
Hi Joey-
We were lucky tonight, The rain stopped just in time for us to enjoy an evening row in our beautiful Harbor.
Best-Janet Rice
gloucestergigrowers@gloucestergigrowers.com
Hi Joey,
I work at Bass Rocks Golf Club and take sunrise pictures every morning. The members keep telling me to send them to you. How do I do that? I have one attached.
Thanks so much. Hope you have a great day. J
Michelle Polito
I think Michelle figured it out 
Good Morning Gloucester 