Live Blogging From The Gloucester Waterfront Festival!!!

For more info about the Waterfront festival –

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Look for the GMG tent Under the Huge Red Balloon they have flying-

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Amandacakes submits some of her favorite tents-

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F/V Orion and Team All Funked Up are all fired up for the 2nd Annual Bluefin Blowout in Gloucester

F/V Orion and Team All Funked Up are all fired up for the 2nd Annual Bluefin Blowout in Gloucester. Game time is 12:00 a.m. out of Cape Ann Marina Friday August 23. Time to have some fun, fun, Funky!

For more info- www.bluefinblowout.com

Todd Tanger and Aurelia Nelson from 104.9 Represent! With Sista Felicia

Listen to Sister Felicia’s Interview With Aurelia This Sunday at 9:00AM!

Click here to listen on the 104.9 website

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Hector Berlioz Quote Of The Week From Greg Bover

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)     suggested by Rick Isaacs

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Born in France, Berlioz was initially sent to Paris to study medicine, but spent the majority of his time in the library of the Conservatoire, in which he later enrolled to study composition. He himself was influenced by Beethoven, Gluck, and Mozart, among others, but would go on to have a profound effect on symphonic music, especially in powerful instrumentation, along with Liszt and Wagner, his contemporaries. Much of Berlioz’s work was inspired by the poetry of Byron, Goethe, and Shakespeare; his best known work, Symphonie fantastique, was inspired in part by Thomas deQuincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater.  Later in life, Berlioz came full circle, returning to the Paris Conservatoire to serve as Head Librarian. Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov all gave credit to Berlioz for work that pre-figured their own.

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Harbortown Cultural District next big event Tues August 27th, 6PM at the Cape Ann Museum

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Don’t forget

CAPE ANN MUSEUM * IS THE NEXT BIG HARBORTOWN CULTURAL DISTRICT EVENT

Date:   August 27, 2013

Time: 6PM

Please RSVP for the head count party prep

Let’s support our GHCD partner! The Cape Ann Museum, a Harbortown founding partner, has generously offered an exclusive after hours treat.

Come wander the hallways, rooms, expansive permanent collection and not one, but TWO well-thought and expertly curated, rotating exhibits, all the while sipping a beverage and enjoying your fellow GHCD cohorts. Museum Director Ronda Faloon will lead a tour of the Museum’ s renovation plans, with the most up to date and exciting reveal and news. Let’s put it this way…their campaign is inspiring! Take your own mental “before” snapshots and be ready for the Museum’s “after” plans:  aiming for an even better visual, intellectual and cultural classic for downtownGloucester.

Along with socializing, having a bit of wine, cheese and fruit (compliments of the Museum), we’ll also mesh this event seamlessly with a partners meeting. We’ll do some GHCD business while we’re hobnobbing and doing business!

Questions, please contact

Judith Hoglander, Co-Chair, judith@nii.net

Bob Whitmarsh, Co-Chair, since2013@comcast.net

Visit www.gloucesterharbortown.org      general email: harbortowninfo@gmail.com

*Gloucester Harbortown Cultural District founding partner institution

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Hi Joey,

I thought I would share this shot of the house around the corner from you that is going through some major renovation!

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

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Jewels Of Gloucester offers Free Watch Batteries For Our Fishermen

Hi Joey! As part of our first anniversary we are replacing watch batteries for free to show our gratitude to our locals. If you can, post the ad attached here, or go to our Facebook page and share the ad I posted there. We are thrilled to be part of this great community and wanted to give something back.

Thanks,
Jim

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The Waterfront Festival Is Going On ….NOW!!!!

Absolutely gorgeous day for the Gloucester Waterfront Festival!  too cool for the beach but perfect for the waterfront festival.

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The GMG Tent Is Set UP!

For More Info About The Waterfront Festival-

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Community Stuff 8/17/13

Flu Clinic at Rockport Council on Aging

The Rockport Council on Aging will host a Health Clinic on Tuesday, September 24th from 12 Noon – 4:00 p.m.  at the Rockport Senior Center, 58 Broadway.   The Rockport Board of Health will provide flu shots for those 18 years of age and older.  Please bring your Medicare card and supplemental insurance card for the flu shot.   Diabetes screening and blood pressure screening will also be offered by Addison Gilbert Hospital.

Yeah I Just Paid For My Dinner Dealer Deck With One Use At Cape Ann Brewing #Boom!

$19.50 for a Dinner Dealer Deck good through the end of the year paid off in one use with an extra fiddy cents in my pocket on a $20 savings at Cape Ann Brewing.

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Who Wants To Guess Who’s Underneath This GMG Kayak?

Kim Bertolino Submits-

While taking pictures of my son and friends at Lanes cove i encountered a gentleman that asked if i would take a photo of the bottom of his kayak and send it to you…He said you would know who he was.

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Sargent House celebrates Block Party from 6-8pm

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This Saturday, 8/17, the Sargent House celebrates Block Party from 6-8pm.
SHM will have costumed actors roaming the garden, historic lawn games for
kids, and first floor Open House during the festivities on Main Street.
Boxed lunches by Beach Gourmet will be for sale; bring your blanket to
picnic on our scenic lawn.
At 6:30pm Henry Allen’s North Shore Folklore Theatre Co. will perform an act
from Judith Sargent Murray¹s 1795 play “The Medium” on the Block Party
stage. Judith¹s plays were the first plays by an American woman to be
staged. They have never been performed in Gloucester, and have rarely been
exhibited since their original debuts at Boston¹s Federal Street Theater.
Witness history in the making!
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Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard, Ph.D.