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Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.
Cookbook Gala Prep! One Day Left To Get Sista Felicia’s Cookbook Launch Gala Tickets- You Can Get Them Here At The Dock or At Mamie’s Kitchen!
Daphne Papp Photos-
Assembling Centerpieces!
Cookbooks-
Cookie Being Made-
Centerpieces with Frank Ciolino Made Banner Held By Dee Noble and Skylar-
Making The Red Pasta
For Anyone That Has Yet To Purchase A Ticket I Have Them Here At The Dock
Captain Joe and Sons
95 East Main St
Gloucester MA
You can come get yours here.
Here she is at Cruiseport Working Out the details of the ridiculous menu.
Lots of her recipes will be served- She tells me the menu will be coming to post soon. Every last detail she’s been working on feverishly to make it a spectacular event. Huge huge thanks to Sheree DeLorenzo and her staff at Cruiseport for catering to her special requests to make this night a night to remember.
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Community Photos 8/27/13
News Flash! East Gloucester Overrun By Mutant Hyper Breeding Bunny Rabbits- Feds Calling In Bunny Rabbit Expert To Take Care Of The Situation
If anyone has driven down Moorland Road at 4AM they know the situation. You got Bunny Rabbits Cross Crossing the Road Like A Bunny Rabbit Version of the eighties video game Frogger.
It’s not if you’re gonna eventually run one of these mutant hyper breeding bunny rabbits over, it’s when. My when just happened to be this morning on my way to work.

Replace Frog With Furry Brown Bunny Rabbit
So the call went out to the Feds and I word is that they’re sending in an expert to take care of the situation-
Blood Drive hosted by Gloucester Fire Fighters and Jalapeños was a success!
Tina Ketchopulos forwards-
In response to the Marathon bombing and emergency need to replenish blood supplies, Jalapeños and the Gloucester Fire Fighters held an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Saturday, August 24 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The community blood drive was held outside Jalapeños, 86 Main Street, Gloucester. The American Red Cross blood donor van was be parked at 86 Main Street. Palazola’s Sporting Goods provided parking spaces in their parking lot for donors. Jalapeños provided a $20. gift card to those who donate that day. Addison Gilbert Hospital provided a gift bag to each donor.
Attached are photos from Saturday’s blood drive of volunteers and donors!
Community Stuff 8/27/13
The online portion of Bluenose Gala Celebration and Auction is now open. The auction will run until September 2, 2013. Proceeds go to Maritime Gloucester in order to support our efforts to inspire students and visitors to value marine science, maritime heritage and environmental stewardship through hands-on education and experiences. Auction items range from exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin!
http://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/AuctionHome.action?vhost=maritimegloucester
Make Your Bid to Support Maritime Gloucester!
Now is your chance to not only get all the great items you want, but to do it knowing you are helping support our organization and mission.
Inspiring Discovery. Embracing History. Exploring Science. Living Stewardship.
Dream Repeater: Toys Falling
IlaSahai Prouty and company
Don’t miss Flatrocks Gallery’s show Dream Repeater: Toys Falling, a group show curated by IlaSahai Prouty in it’s final week.
In her on-going project Dream Repeater, Prouty creates artworks in various media based on bits of collected dream narratives. For this show, she has invited other artists to join her.
Prouty’s work deals with the ways repetition can intensify and expand meaning. “I’m exploring how a short snippet of a dream, essentially a short story, can grow to become something larger and more mythic.”
Last summer, Prouty’s Dream Repeater work, “Goldilocks, Save the World,” was installed at the Cape Ann Museum’s White Ellery House. This year, she returns to her home town to present a collection of works based on a dream called Toys Falling. “I have been working with these dreams myself, and I wanted to expand the project – to see where others might take the dreams, and how they look through other peoples eyes.”
Each artist in this show agreed to create work in response to the dream text. The show will include sculpture, painting, encaustic, illustration, mixed media, poetry, video, printmaking, quilting, and story telling.
Participating Artists are: IlaSahai Prouty, Caroline Bagenal, Rocky Delforge, Adriane Herman, Bo Hyung Lee, Vicki Paret, Doris Prouty, Hans Pundt, Sarah Slifer Swift, Stephanie Williams, Heather Atwood, Emily Wheeler, Tim Averill, and Peter Hickman.
IlaSahai Prouty grew up in Lanesville, Massachusetts. She is a former chair of the Art Department at the Waring School in Beverly, Mass., and considers herself an artist with Cape Ann roots. She has an MFA from the California College of Art in San Francisco, California., and is currently Resident Artist at the Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Prouty is also an Assistant Professor at nearby Appalachian State University.
Flatrocks Gallery is located at 77 Langsford Street/Route 127 in Gloucester, MA. Hours are 12-5pm, Thursday through Sunday, and by appointment. The gallery is focused on continuing the long tradition of artists in Lanesville, and is committed to offering works of art to the community that challenge and engage.
Hello,
I’m helping out in the search for a missing coonhound/shepherd mix named Zadie. Missing since the end of May. She is now 10 months old. She has been spotted multiple times in Gloucester recently. I was wondering if you could post the attached poster on your Facebook Page. They also have a FB page. The family is desperate to find her and miss her very much. Thank you for any help in finding Zadie. Thank you so much!
Jan Jaroma

Tommy O From The Yankee Fleet Outfits Captain Pete Mondello With A Pair Of Outriggers
Captain Pete has been having some severe a type of vertigo that makes him so dizzy it takes him to his knees. In the past couple weeks he’s had to come in from fishing a bunch of times.
So what does Tommy O do? Hand crafts Pete his very own set of stabilizing outriggers right down to the cables with the birds hanging off the ends.
Tommy O displays the prototype-
and here’s a happy Pete ready to go fishing-
Up-close action on a schooner – catch a ride
Al Bezanson writes-
You can ride on a schooner in Gloucester on Labor Day weekend and be part of the action. Or you can spend +++ the price of a schooner ticket to attend a major league ball game and watch highly-paid athletes with your binoculars. Folks that work aboard these schooners are the real deal, with great skills, doing what they love for little or no pay.
Here you see the fors’l being furled on ADVENTURE following last Saturday’s shakedown sail.
Tickets here on various schooners http://gloucesterschoonerfestival.net/?p=408
Brianmoc Covers The 2013 Bluefin Blowout (Click Photo For Slide Show)
Sista Felicia’s Cookbooks Have Arrived!!!!!!
International Dory Races. Luneburg, Nova Scotia. Photos From Senator Bruce Tarr
2013 Gloucester Schooner Fest Info! Get Down There- You’ll Be Glad You Did!
This Year Schooner Festival is Gonna Be Huge, Just Huge!
The First Annual Lobster Bake, the Races, The Activities, the Photo Taking Opportunities, the Weather, The Facilities, It’s A Total No-Brainer!
I have tickets to the $12 1st Annual Public Lobster Bake Saturday August 31st here at the dock or you can go to www.gloucesterschoonerfestival.net for more info on that

Curtis Sarkin From Maritime Gloucester Forwards This Info-
Joey,
Thanks so much for all the Gloucester Schooner Festival posts! Maritime Gloucester can’t wait to host this weekend!
The festival was highlighted in Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday!
The Gloucester Schooner Festival was named best Festival/Fair of 2013 by Northshore Magazine! Be sure to visit this weekend and see over twenty schooners in Gloucester Harbor. Northshore Magazine writes, “Given the long history of commercial and recreational boating in North Shore waters, it makes sense to recognize Gloucester’s Schooner Festival as the ultimate celebration of our maritime ties (in its 29th year, its glory is undeniable). With the goal of involving young people and supporting programs that get them on the water, all manner of vessels — new and old, large and small — take to the waters with sails flying high.”
Sail on a visiting schooner this weekend during the Gloucester Schooner Festival! Schooner Roseway, Schooner Virginia, and Schooner Tyrone will all be offering special sails out of Maritime Gloucester. You can also sail Schooner Ardelle, the flagship of Maritime Gloucester, for a great view of visiting schooners. Tickets are selling fast, so reserve a spot today!
Friday tickets: https://maritimegloucester.org/orders/orders1.php?date=30.8.2013
Saturday tickets: https://maritimegloucester.org/orders/orders1.php?date=31.8.2013
Sunday tickets: https://maritimegloucester.org/orders/orders1.php?date=1.9.2013
Be sure to like Maritime Gloucester and the Gloucester Schooner Festival on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!
https://www.facebook.com/MaritimeGloucester
https://www.facebook.com/GloucesterSchoonerFestival
https://twitter.com/MaritimeGlou
https://twitter.com/GlSchoonerFest
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Curtis Sarkin
Marine Science Educator
Maritime Gloucester
The Latest GMG Sticka Unboxing Video With Julie Shewsberry
Huge Thanks To Our Boy Shewsberry!
Tremendous Colors on the new ones- and I’m All Out Of The Blue with the pink wing so if you have one of those they are now collectors items.
Community Stuff 8/26/13
Adventure Sails! More From The GMG Community
James Lowell Submits-
And then came the highlight- Gloucester’s own Adventure
Len Burgess Photos-
Some photos of the Adventure taken from the schooner Ardelle Sat. morning.
The closeup of the people on deck shows how many it takes (between 20 and 30 of them) to raise the foresail.
Len Burgess
Hi Joey,
The Adventure had her 2nd shakedown sail on Saturday. Donny King was kind enough t o take me out his Scotia Girl so I could take some pictures. Here are a few, plus a couple from onboard during the 1st shakedown sail.
Mary Barker
Beating To Windward
If you go aground, work yourself off. Cast off all self-pity and beat to windward again and again, so that in the fullness of your years, you can come about and run downwind free and easy with the tide.
A Doryman’s Day by R. Berry Fisher
My good friend Ron Gilson and I had a long conversation this morning. Even though Ron is in his eighties we have a strong connection and I appreciate his wisdom and advice.
As Ron was leaving he turned back to me, pointed his finger in my direction and recited the above quote word for word exactly how it was written in A Doryman’s Day by R. Berry Fisher.
Ever since high school, 1985 my favorite quote was one from Alexander Pope- “For Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread” It had meaning to me for all these years and still does.
But when Ron uttered the quote from A Doryman’s Day I immediately knew this was my new favorite quote.
I’m beating to windward Ron. Beating to windward.
Thank you for your words of inspiration.
Sail on BRILLIANT!
Mystic Seaport’s BRILLIANT will be berthed at Maritime Gloucester during the Schooner Festival. This beautiful schooner is now skippered by Capt. Nicholas Alley, who took first place in a previous Gloucester Race while in command of VIRGINIA. There are some great opportunities to sail on BRILLIANT with her very congenial crew. At the moment there is space for a Gloucester-Boston sail after the Schooner Festival. Check it out here
http://www.mysticseaport.org/learn/sailing/brilliant-programs/adults/
I got this photo at Mystic Seaport during the WoodenBoat Show this summer.
Al Bezanson




















