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.
Community Photos 7/23/13
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
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Let’s unload some fish, shall we?
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Chickity Check It!- “Tale of 2 fisheries on stage and at the dock Play’s ’80s packing plant a far cry from today” By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times
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
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Community Stuff 7/23/13
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
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2013 Rhumb Line Striper Tourney This Sunday!
$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.
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Sargent House Museum Block Party Pics
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
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Rusty Shatford represents! With His New GMG Cap
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.
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Lots of Stuff Happening At Cape Ann Museum
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.
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Blackburn Challenge 1991 From Fred Bodin
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
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Schooner Ardelle Date Night This Friday, July 26
Schooner Ardelle Date Night
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.
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Pre-Ordering GMG Dry-Fit Style Short & Long Sleeve Shirts Now Online
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.
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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.
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Chickity Check It! Trash Paddler’s account of The 2013 Blackburn Challenge
Sunday, July 21, 2013
A Sizzling Blackburn Challenge 2013
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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Bob Lukach Represents!
Hey Joey! The GMG mesh hat is so cool (literally). I love it. Thanks again. And thanks for reserving one of the stonewashed hat for me also. Just email when they come in and I’ll pick it up at the dock.
Keep up the tremendous work you do with the GMG blog. It’s what we all need in these crazy times now.
Best to you and your family!
Bob Lukach
Seabrook, NH
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Toby Pett Serves Up A Cup of Lobster and Clam Chowder That Would Absolutely Decimate The Field In The Essex Chowder Fest
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Even The Dog Fish Are Dying For A Little Beach Time In Magnolia
Bob Quinn submits-
I occasionally walk on Magnolia Beach and this morning I ran across this Dog Fish. the seagulls were pecking on it but couldn’t get through the tough skin……. Enjoy
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Toby Pett Serves Up A Cup of Lobster and Clam Chowder That Would Absolutely Decimate The Field In The Essex Chowder Fest
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Community Photos 7/21/13
Fry-day, High Noon, Good Harbor Beach.
Best-Janet Rice
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Block Party-Dinner At Ohana- Face Painting By Susan at Toodeloos
Congrats To This Year’s Block Party Committee. I know how much work it is to pull these things off and you guys are making it better and better every year.
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Wonderful evening at the Main Street Block Party from Frank McCall
Hi Joey,
Thanks to GMG, Tricia and I heard about the Main Street Block Party. We arrived with our niece and nephew about 8:30pm. As we approached Main Street, I snapped the attached photo of the new public artwork project on Parsons Street with City Hall in the background. A GMG article stated the artist is James Owen Calderwood. It was a wonderful point of entry onto Main Street which was alive with entertainment, shopping, and dining. We enjoyed appetizers and a drink at LA TRATTORIA & PIZZERIA of the WEST END and then purchased a beautiful piece of artwork (stained glass by local artist Donna Amero) at Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative. Thanks for all the great info on Good Morning Gloucester! Looking forward to picking up my stonewashed GMG Cap next week!
Best regards,
Frank McCall
Editor Note:
Here’s a link to the artist-
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