My View of Life on the Dock
Anthony Marks writes-
Hi Joey
In case anyone misses the farmers market on Thursdays at Stage Fort
Park, Marshall’s Farm Stand has a farmers market at Gorton’s on Rogers
Street every Monday and Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. I tried their
native corn and it was sweet and tender! It’s the best i have had this
season.
Best, Anthony
Note from Joey C:
Check out The Marshall’s Farm Stand Website
they also have a CSA which you can find out about here
Theatre in the Pines will present the musical theatre presentation of "Cabaret," directed by Nan Webber, at the Shalin Liu Performance Center , 37 Main Street, Rockport . Performances will be held on Friday, September 13, Saturday, September 14th at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 15 at 3 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at Toad Hall Book Store, 47 Main Street, Rockport and
The Bookstore of Gloucester, 61 Main Street, Gloucester.
Rockport’s First Fireworks show is approaching! The firework’s which is called "Illumination Night" will light up the town at 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 10th off Granite Pier. Anyone interested in donating towards the cost of the fireworks are welcome to send donations to: Rockport National Bank, Rockport Firework Fund, c/o Marcia Budrow, 37 King Street, Rockport MA 01966.
Please join us on Saturday, July 27th beginning at 6pm to officially welcome artist Larry Martin-Bittman to The Art Nook Gallery. Larry is originally from Prague, and has been a Rockport resident for over 20 years. His work reflects his love of both his native country as well as his current hometown on Cape Ann.
Come by for wine and food while we enjoy the vibrant, whimsical work of this talented artist!
The Art Nook 58 Bearskin Neck Rockport, MA
Flatrocks Gallery News:
We will be showing the documentary film Albert Alcalay:Self Portraits by Allen Moore, RobTranchin and Rob Eustis
on Tuesday 7/23 @ 8:30pm
Somebody’s listening on that there Schooner Festival Committee and I like it!
Info is available at: https://www.facebook.com/events/566816513361472/
Last year I proposed this happen and the awesome folks at The Schooner Festival are making it happen-
Last August from your boy Joey C-
Posted on August 6, 2012 by Joey C
One of the highlights of the Block Party for me was a visit by these newlyweds. Phil is from Gloucester and Silvie is from the Czech Republic. They live in West Gloucester. Phil works in the corporate world, and Silvie is a holistic healer. She’ll be hosting an event called "Power, Women, & Wine," featuring healers, artists, and readers at Savour Wine and Cheese on September 19th. Call Silvie at 978-412-5400 for more info. It’s funny, 25+ years ago I hosted an opening at my first gallery in East Gloucester (next to the Last Stop). It was called "Ducks, Battleships, & Wine." Guy thing. Paul Morrison and Rubber Duck liked this: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=487382774681119&set=a.115850935167640.27287.109638072455593&type=1&theater
GMG Stonewashed caps are in!!! Let Me Know If You Would Like To Pick Them Up.
You can come down the dock and pick yours up any day from 5AM-8:45AM or 10AM-12:00PM at our lobster dock.
If you want it shipped I can ship it instead.
I’ll also have them tonight at our "East Meets West" Show at Castle Manor Inn at 6PM Info- https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/east-goes-west/
For pick up-
Captain Joe and Sons, 95 East Main Street, Gloucester MA
Also I’m placing orders for specific sizes of the new GMG Dry Fit Shirts short and long sleeve, Navy, White or Black.
If you would like to be assured that one in your size and preferred color is available for that first printing you’ll need to order by Thursday.
To pre order GMG Dry-Fit shirts for first week of August Delivery-
http://gmg.storenvy.com/
Fred writes-
Here’s my measure of our Block Party. This was a family event, and dicey weather was a factor. But the proof is in my sink. Big crowds, respectable sales, and boy were they thirsty. All of the wine glasses I had out were used, all the wine and beer was consumed, and it was a very successful event. One thing is for sure — we have a lot of happy drunken fruit flies in the back room.
Surfing
Very early SUP at Good Harbor. -Len Burgess
Hey Joey
The fish in this bucket are pollock caught from the state fish pier.
Best Anthony
By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times
The 1986 setting for the play “North Shore Fish” — now showing at Gloucester Stage resuming Wednesday night — hints at a foreboding crisis in the fishing industry that started as a trickle in the mid-1980s, and has become a veritable deluge in 2013.
But while the dwindling fish landings feeding into the background story for the Israel Horovitz play continue into the 21st century, it is under dramatically different circumstances.
Local fishermen today are fighting to maintain their livelihood against the pressures of a federal bureaucracy they believe wants to shut them down, but the workers who manned the plentiful fish processing plants in the 1980s and in Horovitz’s play faced a vanishing way of life due to automation, foreign competition and eventually, yes, a dwindling number of landings.
In the mid-1980s, millions of pounds of fish were landed daily by the Gloucester-based fleet — compared to the landings at the Cape Ann Seafood Exchange on Harbor Loop last Thursday, which was 7,700 pounds.
For the entire article click here to read it at The Gloucester Daily Times Site
Free Taylor Swift Concert Tickets! The Magnolia Library And Community Center is now on Facebook! LIKE us on Facebook, post a message and be entered into a drawing for two tickets (retail value $126 ). The tickets are for Saturday, July 27 at Gillette Stadium, Section 301/Row 18. The winner will be notified Tuesday evening, July 23rd
$20 gets you a t-shirt and entry and cookout at the infamous Rhumb Line Striper Tourney Weigh In Cookout if you sign up by Saturday night.
Dear Joey,
Barb Silberman asked that I send along some photos from Block Party at the
Sargent House Museum. This was a big night for us because this was the first
time Judith Sargent Murray’s plays have returned to life after 200 years.
North Shore Folklore Theatre, Co. made this possible by performing Act 5 of
"the Traveller Returned" (1796). To round out the evening, we had some folks
in costume, catered supper picnic boxes from Beach Gourmet, and historic
lawn games.
Thanks, Joey!
-Kimberlee
FOB Frank Ciolino surprised rusty with his new cap at Fort Square Café- Yet Another of Gloucester’s Killer Breakfast Joints!
I’m looking forward to winter when I can get back to my breakfast haunts like Fort Square Café, Mamie’s Kitchen, George’s, Willow Rest, Charlie’s Place and Sugar Mags.
Photo from an earlier Music in the Courtyard featuring Renee & Joe, 2013.
Friday, July 26
Music in the Courtyard, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Join us in the Museum’s sculpture garden for an afternoon of acoustic music with local performer John Rockwell. This program is free and open to the public.
Saturday, July 27
Hopper’s Houses Walking Tour, 10:00 a.m.
Take a docent-led stroll past select Gloucester houses made famous by painter Edward Hopper. $10 members; $20 nonmembers. Space is limited. Reservations required.
August 5 – August 9th, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Science Explorations Through Art with Maritime Gloucester
For children ages 6-12, Mornings will be spent at Maritime Gloucester exploring wind and energy. Projects will include turbines, windsocks, sails and kites. After lunch, students will travel to the Cape Ann Museum to explore wind in Art, make wind powered kinetic sculptures and other projects. For more information contact Maritime Gloucester at (978) 281-0470 or info@maritimegloucester.org.
Saturday, August 3
Tin — Relics and Remakes by Sinikka Nogelo, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contemporary Art Installation at the White-Ellery House. This program is free and open to the public as part of Escapes North’s 17th Century Saturdays.
Wednesday, August 7
Fitz Henry Lane’s Sunset Harbor Cruise, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
A narrated tour of Gloucester Harbor aboard the schooner Ardelle. This program is offered in collaboration with Maritime Gloucester. Members only, $20. Reservations required. For more information call (978) 281-0470 or visitmaritimegloucester.org.
Saturday, August 10
Fitz Henry Lane’s Gloucester Walking Tour, 10:00 a.m.
Join Museum docents for an informative stroll through this 19th century maritime artist’s Gloucester neighborhood. $10 members; $20 nonmembers. Reservations required.
Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here:
A Picture Postcard Tour of Cape Ann During the Gilded Age, 3:00 p.m.
An illustrated talk with Manchester Historical Museum Curator John Huss and Cape Ann Museum Archivist Stephanie Buck. This program is free for members or with Museum admission.
This may have been the Seine Boat with hibachi and keg.. Notice there are two extra passengers. The one in the bow is the bartender, and the one in front of the cox is the grill chef. Rowing is always a good time. If you’d like to row, visit Home page: MaritimeGloucester: Oceans of Discovery, Gloucester, MA
That’s where I rediscovered the joy of rowing.
Fred
We are pleased to annonuce Schooner Ardelle Date Night, this Friday, July 26, from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Parents can enjoy a beautiful summer sail on Glouceser Harbor while kids ages 4-12 stay onshore with our education staff for fun activities in our Aquarium. Reserve your tickets today.
I’m Told The Shirts Are Going To Printer In Two Weeks Time. Same Three Color Logo As The GMG Caps. Left Front Chest Logo
The pictures you see on the Pre-order website show the multiple sized paper cut-out logos laid out on top of one of the black shirts we used to determine which size we were gonna go with. We ended up going with the smallest understated and classy size logo size.
I only ordered a couple of each size in Large and XL. If you pre-order your size/color combo I can get those to the printer in time for the first shipment.
To Pre-Order Click Here
No compromise quality and design.
All I wear down the dock from Spring To Fall are Dry fit moisture wicking short and long sleeve shirts. High quality, moisture and odor control for comfort.
Cotton T-Shirts are only comfy under the most perfect of conditions. Dry-Fit shirts regulate body temperature and keep you a bajillion percent more comfortable on those hot days.
But they’re not just for hot days. I wear my long sleeve dry fit shirts as a base layer under a cotton sweatshirt and its perfect for those cool days when you’re working hard. Nothing worse than a cool day when you work up a sweat and then if you don’t have a dry-fit base layer that moisture just gets trapped in your cotton sweatshirt and then once you stop working you get a horrible chill. A dry Fit base layer regulated your body temp throughout cool and hot –sweaty/not sweaty work days.
So I ordered up three different brands because all I’m ordering is top of the line stuff that I would wear personally. I’m crazy fussy about the gear I wear and if the GMG logo is going on something I’m just flat out insisting on the best. Bottom line-End of story. You can rest assured that if I’m ordering it it’s gonna be quality and these are QUALITY.
The sun had just climbed above the horizon (at left) as I paddled down the Annisquam River to Gloucester High School where rowers and paddlers would register for this year’s Blackburn Challenge. The event is named for Gloucester fisherman, Howard Blackburn, and it commemorates his desperate mid-winter rowing of a banks dory 60 miles to refuge back in 1883. Howard Blackburn’s principal adversary was bitter cold temperatures that took a costly toll on his fingers and toes. Nonetheless, he toughed it out and prevailed. Participants in yesterday’s event faced the opposite extreme….HEAT!…and plenty of it!!! The questions going through my pre-event mind were "is it prudent to wear a Personal Floatation Device (PFD) while exerting in this kind of heat?" and "do I have enough drinking water onboard?" My answers: PFD would be strapped to my deck and 100 ounces of water proved adequate.
As participating boats congregated near the starting line, a bit of a traffic jam occurred when human powered boats of all types were passing under a raised drawbridge (most probably a "don’t do")…
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Good Morning Gloucester 