Joey, Hi my name is Ambrose Orlando and I am getting a group of hopefully quite a few people to go down to burnhams field and clean up on April 21 at 9am if u could give us a shout out on ur page that would be greatly appreciated.ThanksAmbrose
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@MayorKirk: tweets VB interviews Stephen Lynch and gives shout out to Gloucester!
@MayorKirk: VB interviews Stephen Lynch and gives shout out to Gloucester! http://www.myfoxboston.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=8751248#.UWMTTY_t7AE.twitter
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Gail Levin, author of Hopper’s Places Has Some Nice Things To Say About Our Catherine Ryan’s Work
What exciting work all the sleuths in Gloucester are doing tracking Edward Hopper’s footprints! I sure wish that I had had the power of the internet when I was first doing my research on Hopper in the 1970s and early 1980s, but there was no internet presence then. Most folks I encountered in Gloucester had never even heard of Hopper. Congratulations to all the people finding Hopper’s presence and to those who conceived of the website.
With best wishes,Gail Levin, author Hopper’s Places, Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonne, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, and other books
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Tweet of The Day From Fitness Motivator
What’s my secret? It’s a new diet pill called “GET UP and work your butt off EVERY day!”
— Fitness Motivator (@Fit_Motivator) March 9, 2013
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Officer Cliff Alves getting ready to run the 5k on Sunday morning.
Officer Cliff Alves getting ready to run the 5k on Sunday morning. The Gloucester Police department had a great group of men and women in the race!! Maybe next year I’ll join them!! Thanks for posting.
Melissa Cox
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Does anyone still use fax machines?
If you’ve moved away from fax machines what have you replaced it with?
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Community Photos 4/8/13
Hi Joey!
A few of us just graduated from the “Become an Expert” wine series at Savour Wine and Cheese on Prospect Street and had such a great time I wanted to share… The classes were so full of information as to taste, production, food pairing, along with many laughs – they just flew by, we learned more than we’ll ever remember and made friends as well! Kathleen was a wonderful instructor and her shop is just beautiful!!
Evelyn
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Muffy White Offers To Take Your Spent Whiskey Bottles
Dear Joey,
Today my family and I walked 1/3 of a mile from our home on Haskell St. down Mooreland St. and picked up 4 lawn bags of garbage. Gross right?
The amazing thing is what we found among the general waste we found 161 small bottles of Seagrams 7.
One Hundred and Sixty One!!
Not an accidental "oops my recycling blew away"…
I am truly amazed at the litter that is everywhere in Gloucester RIGHT NOW!
This is not a complaint but a plea —
People please step outside and if something doesn’t belong on the ground, pick it up.
When you have trash please do not litter!
This our home, your home, your children’s home…
Every day should be Earth Day,
Muffy White
p.s. IF you are on Mooreland St or Haskell St and do not know how to dispose of your small/large liquor bottles, please drop them by our house we will be happy to help!!
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Cape Ann Youth Hockey Wins Chsmpionship
Photo from Mike English
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Community Stuff 4/8/13
April Vacation Week at Maritime Gloucester
Register today for our great new April Vacation Week programs, exploring sea life, wind power, art, and more!
April 15: Crustaceans and Hermit Crab Crafts (Pre-K – 1st grade)
April 15: Coral and Crystals (grades 2 – 5)
April 16 & 18: Science Exploration through Art (ages 6 – 10)
April 17: Wind Power and Fish Windsocks (Pre-K – 1st grade)
April 17: Wind Turbines and Sail Power (grades 2 – 5)
April 19: Marine Mammals and Sock Seals (Pre-K – 1st grade)
April 19: Marine Life in Gloucester Harbor (grades 2 – 5)
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EDWARD HOPPER GLOUCESTER MATCH WITH HELP FROM GMG TIP???
Catherine Ryan submits-
Thank you again Sibley family! The recent GMG Hopper post of the Sibley family helping to identify the Rockaway Hotel in an Edward Hopper drawing generated more discoveries! For reference, here’s the Hopper Rockaway image and a link to that previous GMG post-
Catherine Ryan confirms Rockaway Hotel as another Gloucester Edward Hopper match with help from the Sibley family
Posted on March 17, 2013 by Joey C
There are several Edward Hopper examples in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , including this beauty, the 1926 House by ‘ Squam River . Can you name its Gloucester location? There are notes indicating that it’s in the general direction heading into Annisquam.
IT’S NOT. I admit to clinging to this suggested area with some unreasonable hope because of personal bias (my parents lived on Wheeler’s Point for 30 years, and the charm and might of its full panoramic vista). I climbed around friend’s properties, sought views from Pole Hill and multiple high vantage spots. But I could not connect that landscape anywhere to this Hopper image.
All it took was reading one tiny email description from a GMG reader – I didn’t even need to visit the spot—to know immediately how right it was. I’m sure some other readers may know it, too.
Hint #1:
For one thing, many of these Gloucester Hoppers are views seen from a succession of magnificent granite sentinels. They are sites of great natural beauty conditioned geographically by glacial stone. This particular location has a massive sweep of boulder outcroppings.
Hint #2
These two houses in the Hopper drawing are still standing and exact.
Hint #3
If there is one Hopper, chances are there are others within close proximity. Here’s two other Hopper drawings, all from the same general perch.
Who had the keen eyes? Thank you to Kathy and Jeff Weaver for identifying the sight line for the Gloucester Edward Hopper image, House by ‘ Squam River in the collection of the MFA. It’s no surprise to me that artist Jeff Weaver—who has a history of Gloucester veduta painting himself, and who knows a great thing or two about extraordinary detail, composition, surface and color as bearer of light– would have a tip! You can see more of Jeff’s work here http://www.jeffweaverfineart.com/. Gloucester creates many optimum sites for plein air study, and artists continue to evolve their work into unmissable interpretations of reality.
And here’s the Answer:
You are looking past Centennial across the landscape of Newell Stadium and Gloucester High School . (Perhaps this might be a possible new funding source for Newell Stadium? This same stadium and field site is the landscape featured in an iconic Gloucester Edward Hopper work of art. )
There’s another famous Gloucester artist with a link to this same location, and a nice connection for Gloucester high school, and our students to know. Thanks to Fred Buck for sharing this Strople photo from the collection of the Cape Ann Museum and their archives for the Gloucester HarborWalk’s Virginia Lee Burton marker. It’s a contemporaneous photograph of the GHS high school being built. The steam shovel was the model for Virginia Lee Burton’s beloved Mary Ann from Mike Mulligan ©1939. Follow back the plume of smoke- “Mary Ann” is turned away from the viewer.
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Tweet of The Day from @InspireYou77
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
— Inspirational Stuff (@InspireYou77) March 13, 2013
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Only At Super Walmart
Putting those baby seat cupholders to good use.
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Annisquam Spring ~ Happy Easter!
A little late but still a beauty
Fred Bodin submits-
Annisquam Village Church, 1941
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street Gloucester, MA 01930
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Stepping Up for City Hall – a Bananas Fundraising Event
Good Morning Joey,
Event visionaries Kathy Slifer and Jan Bell along with the amazing Maggie Rosa have once again teamed up to provide an exciting event of fashion and fun to benefit our City Hall restoration efforts. They have enlisted the mastermind of style, Richard Leonard, and his Bananarettes, to produce an elaborate and high class revue, Stepping Up for City Hall. You will feel you have been transported to Broadway from the minute you step into our historic Kyrouz Auditorium, and you will leave uplifted and entertained. Tickets on sale now for the two limited-seating shows, Saturday evening May 4th and Sunday afternoon, May 5th at Bananas. All details are contained in our attached flyer. Don’t miss out – tickets are selling fast!!
—- Friends of City Hall
Here are the reviews from the last one this team put together-
Glam O Rama Reviews and Props From Maggie Rosa and Erika Hansen
Posted on November 19, 2009 by Joey C
From Maggie Rosa-
Gloucester has many treasures – two of them were celebrated in a unique way this past weekend as vital contributors to the vibrancy of Gloucester’s downtown.
At the invitation of Kathy Slifer and Jan Bell, maestro and treasure RIchard Leonard staged one of his renowned Bananarettes shows in our treasured City Hall as a fundraiser for the restoration of CIty Hall. During the two shows, one on Saturday evening and one on Sunday afternoon, the genius of Leonard to excite and tantalize with a hint of naughty but nice thrilled all in attendance.
City Hall was transformed from the center of city government to its second function, the center of our community. During its almost 140 year history City Hall seen circuses, Buffalo Bill shows, many parties and the 375th City Anniversary Sculpture Show but as Maggie Rosa, Chair of the City Hall Restoration Commission, remarked during the shows “Nothing, nothing can match the excitement of a Bananas show in City Hall – truly an historic event in an historic building.
From Erika Hansen-
Joey, you totally get how important this event was!
As you know, I have been looking at things that “lift my heart, open my mind and take my breath away” and the Banana Glam O Rama Fashion Show at City Hall did all those things and more!
I am intimidated to even take a stab at recording it, out of fear that I am not doing it justice, but I can’t resist your plea so here goes:
As Jackie Hardy commented, from the moment the lights dimmed and the music started, there was a palpable feeling that we had been transported to Broadway.
And then the first set of gorgeous women glided onto the stage looking like a 30′s Hollywood extravaganza come to life.
The production values were incredible: everyone and everything looked and sounded stunningly gorgeous against the dramatic backdrop of City Hall’s Kyrouz Auditorium. (And the silhouettes underneath the “Build not for today alone, but for tomorrow as well” quote were astounding!)
As a producer/director, Richard Leonard channeled Florenz Ziegfeld and Busby Berkeley; as a performer, he channeled Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy. Most importantly, he added his own inimitable flair and essential Richard Leonard-ness to all of the above and gave us the show of a lifetime!
Each routine was masterpiece: from Carmen Miranda to Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell to (yes!) Tom Jones…and all points in between.
It was a perfect mix of costumes, beauty, talent, humor, music, history and culture.
A special shout out to my sissy, Elise, whom many thought was a dancer by the way she moved so gracefully across the stage. She epitomized 30s glamour and as Sue Ferhmann said (looking striking and elegant herself in a classic tuxedo), it doesn’t hurt when you look like Elise!
And to Maggie Rosa’s very apt assessment that this event was a celebration of 2 Gloucester icons: Richard Leonard and City Hall, I add a third: Margi Green’s legs! Her already popular Relax and Lengthen stretching classes at the Arts & Wellness Center (222 Eastern Ave.) will now have waiting lists I’m sure!
I could go on and on (but I won’t!)…instead I will just leave you with this point: my daughters, who were mesmerized for the entire performance (although my younger daughter did cover her eyes with her program during Tom Jones‘s gyrations!), were so inspired that they promptly acted out their own version of the spectacular Sisters act they had just witnessed (nuns (!) singing the song made famous by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen in White Christmas). As event visionary and organizer Kathy Slifer put it, “that’s what it’s all about!”
Banana Glam O Rama Pics From David Cox
Posted on November 19, 2009 by Joey C
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Lots Of Stuff Happening at The Cape Ann Farmers Market- Mark These Dates!
Cape Ann Farmers Market
Hi Joey-
I was hoping you could post these for us-We even have a nifty infomercial!!!
We have our first ever Early Spring Market on April 20 at the UU on Middle Street and our 5th Annual Dinner and A Movie Fundraiser on April 28th.
Thanks for all you do
Niki Bogin
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Susan Sontag Quote of The Week From Greg Bover
“Do stuff, be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention, attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
Educated at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford, Sontag was known as the “Dark Lady of American Literature.” Although she described herself as a novelist, she was a prolific essayist and critic as well, not only of literature but also photography, the Vietnam War, patriarchy and Western Civilization. Her articles and short stories in the New Yorker magazine brought her widespread fame and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. Sontag was married to writer David Rieff from 1950 to 1958, but was openly bisexual in a time when it was not generally accepted, and had a long-standing romantic relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz. Sontag’s last novel, In America, was given the National Book Award.
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Tweet of The Day From @TinyBuddha
“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” ~Joan Borysenko
— Tiny Buddha (@tinybuddha) March 21, 2013
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Cape Ann Youth Hockey Girls U12 and U14 Teams Update From JD Perry
Hello Joe,
I’d like to send you some updates for the upcoming Cape Ann Youth Hockey Girls U12 and U14 teams through their end of the 2012-13 season playdowns, which take place at the Ed Burns Arena in Arlington.
Regardless of our overall success during this post-season, this has already been a highly successful season in many ways. The vast majority of these girls — who come from Cape Ann and all over the north shore — skated together for the first time this year. Beyond the development in skill over the course of the season, many strong friendships have been forged between the girls.
Thank you for supporting the local sports scene in general and, specifically, the new Girls Hockey program. Over the coming days, I will send additional information on the post-season results as well as registration information to sign up and play in the 2013-14 season.
The first post-season game was played to victory by the U12 team two weeks ago, beating Arlington in a 1-0 battle. Jesse Alexander scored with an assist from Grace Bertagna and Callie MacLaughlin earned a shutout for the game (synopsis at bottom of this post). They will be playing Lexington/Bedford in the championship game this Sunday morning, April 7, at 10:00).
The U14s skated to victory last night, April 4, beating Medfield 3-1 with two goals from McKinley Karpa and the insurance goal coming from Crystal Mahan in the third period. Goaltender Hannah Corcoran stood on her head with acrobatic saves to shut the opposition out until the third period.
As reported by Kathy Cincotta, Director of the Middlesex Yankee Conference Girl’s Hockey League:
MYC Playdowns went off as scheduled tonight (Wednesday, March 20 @ 7:00 )at the Ed Burns Arena in Arlington featuring Arlington U12 B vs Cape Ann U12 from the U12 Mid South II Division and Wellesley U14 A vs Dover Stars U14 from the U14 Mid North Division.
Arlington U12 B and Cape Ann U12 descended on the rink early for their game, body-slamming each other, munching on candy and trying to convert their birth month to numbers. Both teams hit the ice gunning for a spot at Champ weekend and what a game it was. Back and forth play, snipers out in full force, but defense and goalies were the key to this game. Game was tied 0-0 until half way through the 3rd period when Cape Ann finally wizzed one past Arlington. That would be all they would need to secure a win. Hats off to both goalies, Arlington’s Casey Smith, and Cape Ann’s Callie McLaughlin (Ms. 0) who both had stand on their head’s games. We say a sad goodbye to Arlington and wish the best to Cape Ann at Champ weekend. Scoring: Cape Ann – GraceBertagna, Jesse Alexander, Callie McLaughlin.
On behalf of CAHY Girls program,
JD Perry, CAHY Girls U14 coach
Good Morning Gloucester 