Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Eli Hughes and his friend Griffen explore the Babson Boulders in Dogtown on Saturday. Will they do as the rock instructs?Caroline Haines

Hi Joey,This bag was pulled out of the water a few days ago behind Maritime Gloucester by one of the gig rowers. Looks like some clothes and keys among other things, and a season of…….. "LOST". Hmmm…….MLazaruz

Hi Joey, I love your blog especially for the beautiful nature photos.  I want to recommend a local poet’s work, and website, http://susanvgabriel.com/home.html, (and book) for the same reason.  Susan Gabriel of Hamilton has a breathtaking book and website, worth a plug on your blog.I would also give a plug to local Manchester, celeb, Wendy Booker, a truly amazing woman who just released a new book, and she is a fascinating and inspirational speaker.

New Altitude: Beyond Tough Times to the Top of the World by Wendy L. Booker

Thanks for taking the place of my morning newspaper.

Dot Sieradzki, ManchesterPS I am a librarian, hence the book references.Benjamin Franklin once sniffed that he”had no use for a man with but one spelling for a word.”

Someone call children’s services

Learn to Row !!

With the International Dory Racing Committee

This May is your opportunity to take advantage of a free seminar hosted by the GloucesterInternational Dory Racing Committee. Every Wednesday at 6 PM and Sunday at 9 AMexperienced rowers will teach novices the proper rowing techniques required to row a Banks Dory right in Gloucester Harbor. This is a “hands on” seminar with all equipment and the dories provided by the IDRC, but you must be 13 years or older and complete the attached sign-up forms by April 25th. Here is what is in store for attendees:

· Tools of the trade – oars, thole pins, thwarts, etc.

· History of dory rowing – from the Grand Banks fishing to 2013 racing the Canadians

· Basic boat handling

· Stroke technique and pace

· Navigation

· Racing techniques and turns

· And more!

Our first day is Wednesday, May 1stat 6 PM, meeting at the Town Landing, St. Peter’s Square, in Gloucester and class size is limited, so sign up today and learn t

“That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

A native Parisienne, de Beauvoir studied mathematics and languages at a time when very few women did. She went on to study philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote her thesis on Gottfried Leibniz. During further studies she met Jean-Paul Sartre with whom she had a life-long relationship, but never married. Her 1943 novel She Came to Staymade her name as an existentialist writer, but her treatise The Second Sex, six years later, solidified her standing as a founder of Feminism, even though an early English translation, hurriedly done, distorted her message. She remained politically active until late in life and is buried, with Sartre, in Montparnasse.

Greg Bover

How long before the PC Police get the best KMART Commercial in the history of KMART commercials pulled?

The ad agency that put that together deserves the highest ad agency award there is.

Hi Joey,
Exciting news! The Open Door has been nominated to compete for a
$20,000 grant from Walmart this month. The more votes we can get, the
better chance we have of winning. You and Good Morning Gloucester
readers can help us win by voting for us through Facebook every day
this month. Will you help us spread the news?
Vote by clicking here: http://bit.ly/14ChKoQ
The funds will be used to support PowerSnack, an after-school supper program.
Here’s how it works:
Now through April 30, go to http://bit.ly/14ChKoQ to vote for our
project. You can vote once a day, so please vote as often as you can.
This funding is critical to our work and will help us ensure that all
children have access to the food they need to thrive.
Thanks again for all your support!
—
Julie LaFontaine
Executive Director
The Open Door