Who can identify this poop?
Winner gets a Good Morning Gloucester Sticker available down the Dock.
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.
What Kind of Bizzaro Government Spends Billions Beefing Up Airport Security and Then Goes and Passes A Law Allowing Knives On Planes?
Are you fucking kidding me with this????
TSA to Allow Pocket Knives On Planes
Take off your shoes, belts, jackets, laptops, iPads, packs of gum, but don’t worry bro, you’re all good on the knives.
I can’t even begin to imagine how stewardesses feel about this. Who was the politician that even brought this up or lobbied to get this bill voted on? Guy needs to be fired, like yesterday.
It never ceases to amaze me what stuff these politicians go out their way to lobby for when there are so many more important problems to deal with. Want to do something for the people? Force airlines that change your flights after you book a direct flight into a flight that has stops to not charge you a change fee of $75 and the cost of a higher ticket.
Look out for passenger rights in that way instead of letting airlines lure you in with a great direct flight at a reasonable air fare and once you book it swap you off into a flight with a stopover.
What an idiotic thing to go out of your way to change a law for. To actually allow knives on planes after you increase spending for airport security to make planes safer.
The TSA’s budget has increased from $4.7 billion in 2002 to $7.8 billion in 2011.
Poor stewardesses.
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GHS Seniors Hood.com Sportsmanship Scholarship
Joey,
Three Gloucester High School Seniors are currently running for the Hood Sportsmanship Scholarship. Two of the three kids, Zach Smith and Sophia Black, are also Youth Awareness Speakers and positive role models to the younger kids in the City. Please encourage your readers to log on to Hood.com and vote for these deserving students. The top 10 online vote recipients in the State of Massachusetts will then be interviewed by Hood representatives to determine the winner of the scholarships.
Vote early and often, especially for Zachary!
Thank you,
Marianne Schlichte Smith
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Larry from Glosta Joe’s, Jessica Brand and Dennis Alves From Dinner Dealer At Mamie’s Kitchen
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Catherine Ryan confirms Rockaway Hotel as another Gloucester Edward Hopper match with help from the Sibley family
Hi Joey,
I am hoping readers may think about this Gloucester Edward Hopper project when they peruse old family albums. Why? There are still more Edward Hopper locations in Gloucester to uncover, and the photos may help identify the original sites that inspired Hopper. More importantly, the photographs may provide opportunities for us to share and preserve Gloucester stories and create some new ones. As inspiration, I’d like to share photos and a personal account from Liz Fletcher and the Sibley family that has helped to support the identification of the Rockaway Hotel in one of the Hoppers, thanks to its distinctive staircase. The water and rocks endure.
Thank you so much Liz Fletcher and the Sibley family!
Artist Liz Fletcher wrote me:
“How well Hopper caught the higgledy piggledy hillside-clinging way people built these sturdy wooden houses.” She included the photo with her cousin climbing a fence, “because it shows the old Rocky Neck Yacht Club, the rest of the smaller buildings in the foreground of the (Hopper) painting were torn down when the condo conversion was done…The colors of the building are the same as it still was in the 50s, when we used to play there as kids in the off-season — that 4 or 5 story fire escape going up the back of the hotel was scary to climb. And those smaller buildings down at the water’s edge look just like the ones I remember as part of the hotel complex. The beach to the left of those buildings could be Oakes Cove, where they do the New Year’s Day Plunge nowadays.”
From the time artist Edward Hopper created his Gloucester images–in 1912, and then summers in the 1920s–there have been approximately 25 or so positive id’s on Gloucester homes, landscapes and structures that are featured in his art.
This core group of Gloucester Hoppers has been reproduced, studied, and included in important exhibitions. In the 1970s, Art Historian and Curator, Gail Levin, photographed then/now comparisons. Since Levin’s work, many other artists and Hopper aficionados have created series inspired by Hopper’s Gloucester images. But there are so many more Gloucester Hoppers! This quantity is news for Gloucester and for MA. Inspired by the Gloucester HarborWalk, I expanded on that core group to a count of over 100, and have identified the bulk of them. They’re collected into an on-line catalogue with contemporary snapshots and a google map of the locations, which Good Morning Gloucester featured here: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/catherine-ryan-kicks-the-ny-times-in-the-nuts-with-her-killer-edward-hopper-interactive-maps-and-photos-and-other-stuff/
Please contact cryan225@gmail.com if you find any photos that may help identify some Hoppers locations, and capture some additional Gloucester stories.
I’m looking for pictures of the homes and neighborhood around the Fort. Hopefully we can identify all of them, and who knows maybe inspire a gift of an original Hopper back to Gloucester for the Cape Ann Museum .
The most recent Hopper location I’ve identified is near Russell’s Florist and right before Lee’s Restaurant, on Eastern Ave. , as you’re heading into Gloucester downtown.
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2013 GMG/FARM BAR AND GRILLE BIKINI SPEEDO DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT HARLEM SHAKE VIDEO
The Details (also available on The Event Facebook Page Here)
Shot and Edited By Kim Smith
EARMUFFS MADELINE!
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Gloucester Maritime Summit 2013
The City of Gloucester today released a video highlighting the City’s ongoing efforts to expand and diversify the maritime economy. The video provides an overview of the recent Maritime Summit.
Like many working waterfronts, Gloucester faces challenges, especially with its historic fishing industry. Recently 150 stakeholders gathered to exchange ideas and advance a vision for Gloucester’s maritime economy that celebrates traditional fishing while embracing innovative opportunities in technology, life science research, and robotics. The Summit provided a showcase for innovation on the waterfront. More than 20 experts made presentations about the role of research, technology, and science in the future maritime economy.
By combining historic waterfront resources, the spirit of innovation, and an unparalleled natural setting, the city of Gloucester is ready to set sail into a brighter tomorrow.
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SPECTACLE AT SPINDRIFT! 2013 GMG/FARM BAR AND GRILLE BIKINI SPEEDO DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT ONE FOR THE AGES!
I’m still having trouble processing just what went down yesterday.
First off we cannot thank enough Rick Doucette and his staff The Cape Ann YMCA for hosting this year’s tournament. For their help setting up and with the transportation back and forth to the Wingersheek parking lot. Camp Spindrift if you haven’t been there since you were a kid is the absolute perfect spot for a corporate outing, wedding, pig roast (next year during the tourney) or any other time you are looking for intimate space for your event. Contact Rick at The YMCA to book your event at Camp Spindrift.
Then you gotta talk about the team that put this thing together over the past three months. Frankie Gwynne has worked relentlessly pouring over the minute details and making sure everything ran smoothly, designed the flyers and T Shirts just a tremendous amount of thanks to Frankie. Ryan Cox (AKA Mr Bentley) the MAN who just says yes, Can we do it? YES, every time, organizationally Ryan made so much happen. Brad Atkinson and the Farm Staff who set up the fields.
Matty K, the worlds Greatest DJ. Soup, the Bracketologist who made sure we had the right teams lined up to go.
My co-contributors from GMG including super patient Kim Smith who shot the Harlem Shake video. Craig Kimberley who shot and will undoubtedly bring the most entertaining Dodgeball video and interviews that anyone could ever produce, David Cox Brian O’Connor and Donna Ardizzoni who must have shot a gazzilion photos which y’all will see soon. My boy the Rabbit who shot lots of photos as well.
Desi Smith from the Gloucester Daily Times who took time out of a packed weekend to come cover the Tournament, CBS Boston who has a gallery from the event.
Bill Kubichek who graced us with the Evil Knevil speedo get-up and rousing National anthem to kick things off and Aria McElhenny from Next Step.
Lauren Mears from Jungle Silkscreening who got our t shirts printed way below budget and included high quality dry-fit technical t’s for the event.
Jen Amero who helped spread the word as well.
Hope I didn’t forget anyone, I probably did, my head is still pretty foggy.
But the event doesn’t take place without the competitors who brave the cold and donate their money to the cause. Our competitors that take the time to plan their team’s themes , pick out their entrance music and put together their costumes. It was just a whoooole lot of fun.
The Farm guys including Ryan Cox, Brad Atkinson and Noah Goldstein have created an incredible family of regulars who make that place special. You walk into the Farm and no matter who is behind the bar you feel welcome, and like you’re part of the Farm Family-
Farmers for life.
Frankie Gwynne- You Are The Man!
Congratulations to two time back to Back Champions- Blinded By the White- sponsored by Ed Collard’s Housedoctor’s Handyman Services.
Tons of pictures and videos to come-
We can start with some from Lowell Peabody-
and a video before things got started from Kim Smith-
Brian O’Connor Photos-
The Details(also available on The Event Facebook Page Here)
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Have You Voted For The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour As The Best Annual Festival/Event in New England?
I’m not sure that it’s the Best Annual Festival In All of New England or Even Gloucester But It Sure As Hell Beats The Heck Out of It’s Competition In The List of Nominations
Here are your nominees-
Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour – Cape Ann, MA
Lowell Folk Festival – Lowell, MA
Maine Whoopie Pie Festival – Dover-Foxcroft, ME
Sea Music Festival – Mystic, CT
Six Flags New England Fright Fest – Agawam, MA
Seems like a kinda random list, no????
No Rockland Lobster Festival? No Big E? No Topsfield Fair? No Newport Jazz Festival? No Hemp Festival on the Boston Common? No King Richard’s Faire? No Saint Peter’s Fiesta? But You Have The Very Prestigious Maine Whoopie Pie Festival?
Anyway, if we’re basing it just off of these choices it’s obviously The Cape Ann Artisans Studio Tour. No Brainer. Support Our Artists (and Artisans)
You can vote here-
The Cape Ann Artisans Tour Is A Must Do Event Every Year For Shizzy.
It’s funny when we were having the discussion with the people from the mass Cultural Council as to whether Downtown Gloucester deserves to be designated a Cultural district one of the things I brought up was our ridiculous number of Cultural events to attend here in GTown.
and that’s why I find it funny that the Cape Ann Artisans Tour is nominated in this category. Because in many other communities The Cape Ann Artisans Tour would be their number one event of the year, hands down no contest. But because we are so spoiled here we have monster events just about every other week and sometimes multiples in one week that would blow all of the other nominations out of the water.
It’s in no way shape or form a slight to The Incredible Cape Ann Artisans Tour. It’s just a testament to how insanely rich we are with community organizations that band together and put on incredible annual events that we get to enjoy.
So vote and bring home yet another feather in the Cultural Cap of Gloucester.
Vote here
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Statues & Plaques of Gloucester From Peter Dorsey
Joey,
Possibly the largest plaque in the City of Gloucester is found 20 feet high set into the side of a 60′ high by 200′ wide glacial outcropping mass of granite at Stage Fort Park. This park is where the first settlement on the Eastern Shore of what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first settled in 1623. The inhabitants came from Dorchester, England (which is in the Dorset region), and were first engaged in fishing. The wide open fields were used for drying the fish. This large rock outcropping was used first by the native inhabitants as an ancient ritual area, and is the most prominent geological feature in the area.
The bronze plaque and the extraordinary granite carving that surrounds it was placed there in 1907 by the Citizens of Gloucester to commemorate an important piece of arbitration and peace-making by the soon-to-become important governing citizen, Roger Conant. The peace-making efforts by Roger Conant enabled the settlement to continue peacefully between two groups of citizens who both wished to fish for cod in those coastal waters. I have provided close up photographs of the wonderful chiseling that produced links of chain and anchor elements out of the granite face into which the plaque was fastened.
There is a historical marker sign that was erected in 1930 which re-commerates Roger Conant’s action of peace-making for the 300th anniversary of the settlement.
Peter Dorsey
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Check out Massachusetts HED’s promotion for the Creative Economy Industry and sign up!
Catherine Ryan Submits-
Hi Joey
Check out Massachusetts ’ Housing and Economic Development’s re-tooled creative industries website.
Congratulations to everybody there and to Massachusetts ’ Creative Economy Industry Director,
Helena Fruscio, for the recent roll out of a new initiatives, PR and website!
I hope they add a home page prompt box directly linking to the MCC’s Cultural Districts and vice versa
Also check out their good work featured today at the Massachusetts Creative Economy Council which is an advisory council to HED.
If you haven’t heard about today’s featured panelists, you should!
Blair Benjamin, Assets for Artists
Debi Kleiman, MITX, MITX Up
Tim Loew, Mass Digi, Games Challenge
Wendy Northcross, Cape Cod Chamber, Arts App
Sign up for HED’s MA Creative Industries newsletter and Facebook.
And Check out their GOOGLE MAP http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=212937354807807480167.0004b61af2b463c7aeb9e
I wrote them to add pushpins for some of our creative networks:
- Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
- All of the North Shore Cultural Districts
- seARTS
- HarborWalk
- Good Morning Gloucester J
Come on Cultural Coast : Gloucester , Cape Ann and North Shore : Email them to add in yours!
http://www.mass.gov/hed/economic/industries/creative/createmass.html
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Live Blogging 2013 Bikini Speedo Dodgeball At Camp Spindrift Come On Down
About To Kick Off
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Open Bowl Painting Going On Now
Hi Joey,
Everybody is having fun painting bowl for the Emtpy Bowl dinner at the Open Door on Emerson Ave! Come paint your own! The bowl painting is free and ends at noon!
Thanks,
Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Mamie’s Kitchen Dodgeball Day Specials Include Blinded By The Epic Fail And Ed Collard’s Sorry Scramble!
The Dodgemother Alicia DeWolfe Basically Just Cuckholded Ed Collard’s Blinded By The White Squad
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Community Photos 3/16/13
Hi
I grew up in Magnolia/Gloucester and was in town last weekend visiting family. I took this shot at Good harbor Beach Sunday morning and my sister suggested I share it with you. It was an absolutely beautiful morning on the beach!!
Now that I live in Vermont, your site keeps me connected to all that I love and miss about my home town – thank you!!
Best
Jennifer (Cavanaugh) Mathieson
Charlie Carroll Submits
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Dodgeballers and Friends of Dodgeballers- Send In Your Pics from Today
We will be live tweeting pics today. If you come, tweet your dodgeball pics and add the #Dodgeball hashtag. I’ll feature your pics on GMG.
Or you can forward your pics and youtube videos to goodmorninggloucester and I’ll feature them.
Teams send in photos getting ready this morning too!
Are You Ready For This???????
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Ryan Cox and Brad Atkinson Prep The Dodgeball Court T-Minus 15 Hours Til Tournament Time
Are You Ready For Some Dodgeball?
Camp Spindrift Saturday at 11AM
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Statues & Plaques of Gloucester From Peter Dorsey – Chester Grant Stone
Joey,
In my travels around Gloucester there is one memorial stone that I do NOT recommend that anyone try to visit or to even look at closely. The best place to see this stone marker is right here on Good Morning Gloucester.
The reason for this is because the marker in question is located at the outside edge of inside of the first traffic circle you come to on Rte. 128 when you come into Gloucester; called Grant’s Circle. The only other way to see it is to park in the Friendly’s parking lot, hop over the traffic barrier at the side of the circle, and carefully negotiate on foot through two lines of circling automobile traffic. You could peer out the window of your car as you drive around the circle, BUT I DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT EITHER!! The stone marker is a tall dark, possibly slate or polished granite stone with a carved relief portrait of Chester Grant, for whom the circle is named ” This Circle, Erected by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1956, is Dedicated to Honor Chester H. Grant, 1897 -1954, A Soldier and Devoted Citizen”. Chester Grant served in World War I in France from 1917 to 1919. He was, “cited 3 times for Meritorius Conduct Under Fire and Received the Silver Star with Palm.” The silver star, known as the Croix de Guerre or the War Cross is a French Military decoration to honor people who fought bravely with the Allies against the Axis Force during World War I. “As a Public Official for the City of Gloucester – Displayed Great Ability in the Performance of His Municipal Duties.” There is a flag pole behind the stone marker with a light which shines on the flag from the underside at night.
Peter Dorsey
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Newlyweds Mike and Carolyn Blair married moments ago in Aruba!
Terry Weber submits-
Newlyweds Mike and Carolyn Blair married moments ago in Aruba! They send their love to Gloucester/Magnolia!
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Don’t Be The Dope That Misses Saturday’s GMG/Farm Bar and Grille 3rd Annual Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament
I personally guarantee you will have the best time you’ll have all year.
IT IS A SPECTACLE TO BEHOLD.
We will be filming another contestant and fan Harlem Shake Video, get there by 11:00AM to be in the Harlem Shake Taping. If you have a funny helmet, mask or costume bring it because it will make the video that much more nuts.
The Details(also available on The Event Facebook Page Here)
Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:30am until 4:30pm in EDT
HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOO!
The Farm Bar & Grille and Good Morning Gloucester together with YMCA Camp Spindrift present the 3rd annual outdoor bikini/speedo dodgeball tournament to benefit Next Step, a charity that provides aid to children and young adults with life threatening illnesses (www.nextstepnet.org)
57 Atlantic Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
2012 Video from Craig Kimberley
This year we filled up the 20 team brackets in under 20 hours because anyone at all that went last year knew just how insanely fun it was.
Pics from 2012-
Kim Smith’s 2012 Video-
Good Morning Gloucester 