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.

Incredible Black and White Saint Peter’s Fiesta Altars 1939 and ??? From Hilary McKinnon

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Hilary writes-

These were probably taken by my mother’s side of the family Vigrinia Frontiero (nee Piscatello) daughter of Michael and Mary Frontiero the larger one may be by her as she always had a camera glued to her hand and the one from ’39 I couldn’t say I don’t think she’s quite that old and won’t tell me anyways. She lived on Gould court most all of her life until she got married in ’53 and I came along in ’54. My bedroom widow faced the church, that we were forbidden to enter but I saw it about 3 years ago during a my granddaughter’s christening. On your video of the Sargent house you can see it off to the left on the opening shot, although you mentioned it being a stones throw away. Great video, another place they never let me in, steps like that can be seen at the library too I think.

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Community Photos 10/26/12

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October Afternoon in Annisquam From Elinor Teele

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Squam Creative Services
Freelance Copywriting, Fiction and Photography

Just Sailing By photo by Anthony Marks

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Community Stuff 10/26/12

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The News From Rocky Neck via Judy Robinson Cox

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Hi Joey,
If folks are looking for an affordable winter coat, some essential new "career wear" or just want some new duds to change up their wardrobe they will find lots to like St. John’s Rummage Sale this weekend.  Have some fun, find some bargains,  and keep some $ in your pocket.  Still need to put that Halloween costume together? The flyer with all details is attached. Thanks for getting the word out!
Your friends at St. John’s Church, Gloucester

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Flu Clinic  – November 13 Addison Gilbert Hospital

The Gloucester Health Department will conduct a free flu clinic at Addison Gilbert Hospital, 298 Washington Street, Gloucester on November 13 from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Appointments are not necessary.   Guests should enter the hospital through the Fisher Lobby entrance.  There is no fee and appointments are not necessary.  Please wear short sleeves.  The clinic will be available to those six months of age and older.

Cape Ann Community Forum

Cape Ann Community Forum
Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport
Date: October 30, 2012 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Lahey Health System will host a community forum discussing the future state of healthcare, payment reform and its impact on hospitals and healthcare delivery systems.  Presenters will include Denis Conroy, Vice President of System Integration for Lahey Health System and Cindy Cafasso Donaldson, Vice President and Executive Director for Addison Gilbert Hospital.  All residents are encouraged to attend this presentation which will be followed by a question and answer session.

Addison Gilbert Hospital Reunion
All current, former and retired employees, medical staff members and volunteers of Addison Gilbert Hospital are invited to a Addison Gilbert Hospital reunion on Saturday, November 10 at The Gloucester House Restaurant, 63 Rogers Street, Gloucester, from 4 p.m. – 9 p.m. Buffet dinner $25. per person.  Cash bar.

Please RSVP by November 1.  Checks should be made payable to: AGH Reunion Committee and mailed to:  AGH Reunion Committee,  Cape Ann Savings Bank, 109 Main Street, Gloucester, MA 01930.

Please bring your memorabilia, there will be a display table for photos, etc.

Plans are being made for transportation options for those who do not drive.  For further information, please contact Judi Gross 978-283-2406 , Shirlee Farina 978-283-4782 or Judy Brosnan at 978-546-6204.

Gloucester MA Harbor At Dusk South Channel 5:34PM 10/24/12

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Taken With the Sony NEX-5N and  24 mm Zeiss F1.8.  Shot from Captain Joe and Sons, Gloucester MA

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USCG Gloucester Chief Commanding Officer Manny Munoz Offers Some Hurricane Sandy Advice To Mariners

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Pat Meier-Johnson Paints The Ice Company

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Hi Joey,

Thanks so much.  I love your blog!

After taking a course at the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, we came to Gloucester to spend a few days. My husband and I went walking around 5:30am one morning this summer and shot some pictures. One was the Cape Pond Ice house, the basis for the attached painting.

Cheers,

Pat Meier-Johnson

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Pat contacted me a couple of days ago asking me what I could tell her about the Ice Company-

Hi Joey,

We visited Gloucester this summer and I am working on an oil painting that features the huge ice building on docks. What can you tell me about it? Would you like me to send you an image of my painting when it’s done?

Pat

Rather than write out a long explanation I just did a search in the GMG search box in the right hand column of the blog  and forwarded her the link (there’s probably 60-70 Cape Pond Ice Features We’ve done on Cape Pond Ice, some very interesting videos as well-

Cape Pond Ice Search On GMG

A Beautiful Fall Morning In Annisquam from William Dorey Langer

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Community Stuff 10/25/12

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Gloucester Youth Leadership Council is now recruiting. Applications will be accepted online https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG1sS21tY2VacVBINXZWWWZKeHQyVGc6MQ  or on paper until 11/9/2012. For more information contact:

Caitlin Kreitman
Healthy Gloucester Collaborative
Youth Coordinator
978-491-9052
Facebook.com/HealthyGloucesterCollaborative

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The Kids That The GMG Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament Helped

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Aria McElhenny writes-

Hi Joey, Frankie and Ryan,

As the weather starts to get chilly, here at Next Step we all start thinking about one thing: bikini & speedo dodgeball.

Thought you guys and the 2012 tournament participants might like a reminder of how their hard work raising funds at the tourney had an amazing impact on teens with cancer. The video below is from our summer youth conference for teen cancer survivors. These youth spent four days together learning how to manage their disease, laughing, riding a zip line and sharing their stories. The music in the video is an original song written by the youth and recorded at the conference.

Way to go dodge-ballers, you changed a lot of lives this year.

Thanks again from all of us at Next Step,

Aria McElhenny
Development Director

Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/NextStepFund

The Next Step Fund
For Young People With Cancer and Blood Disease
www.nextstepnet.org

For those new to GMG here is a recap of the Tourney from Craig Kimberley-

Doesn’t The Judith Sargent Murray House Look So Much More Inviting Without The Big Iron Bars On The Street?

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Barb Silberman and Judith Nast Show GMG Readers What’s Up At The House On The Hill

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Judith Sargent Murray’s Writing Closet and Concealment Shoes Found In The House

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Heres your first view of downtown from the second section of the turbine erection From Steve Spencer

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Heres your first view of downtown from the second section of the turbine erection via Steve Spencer

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Only On GMG Baby!  Stay tuned for your insider pics, much more to come!
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Panorama Time!
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Three Generations of Lovely Ladies Represent! at Bodin Historic Photo

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Fred Bodin writes-

Saturday night I had a visit from these wonderful women, all from Cambridge and the North Shore. L-R: Lauren (granddaughter from Reading), Elaine (daughter hailing from Newburyport), Jean Ann (the Mom, from Lynnfield), Lynn (daughter on Rocky Neck), and Charlene (daughter in Cambridge). When I asked them to gather for a photo, they spontaneously picked up Jack Sullivan’s 48" gold leafed Cod. So Gloucester! They’re now friends of GMG and you’ll see them at my gallery events.

Gloucester Lobster Boat Cabaret V Buoy Found By GMG Reader On Hampton Beach NH

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Michelle Klaver forwards-

We found one of your buoys yesterday that washed up on the shore of Hampton beach. Nh.

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Taken From The Outdoor Deck At The Seaport Grille Cruiseport- Turbine Panorama (Must Have Been Photoshopped)

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What you are looking at is a mirage.

This isn’t really happening because as we all know Marine Industrial Activity and Non-Marine Industrial Activity Can’t Co-exist.  You can’t have all this marine industrial activity and loud cranes operating right in front of the area where people are eating their lunch on an open air deck.  That’s just preposterous!!!

What’s Next?  Dogs and Cats Living Together?

From Ghostbusters-

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!

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BTW, that Fishing boat in the left of the frame?  Must have also been photoshopped, you can’t have fishing oats tied up at places where there are open air-restaurants.  No-way- No how! Photoshopped or mirage- you make the call.

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Poll- Is it time to short Microsoft in light of what is bound to be a colossal failure with Windows 8?

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I’m rooting for Microsoft I really am.  I’m an unabashed fan of Windows 7.  I don’t like Windows 7 OS, I LOVE it.  But the more I read or can’t read about Windows 8 the more it makes me think it’s going to be an abysmal failure.

Before Windows 7 came out there was a bunch of videos showing what it could do in slow real time usage explaining the features of the Windows Live essentials suite of apps it came with.  With Windows 8 there are a couple of videos out but it’s all super fast animations without explanations as if they are hiding things.  Why? if you are so proud of it why not plaster what makes it so great in easy to understand demo videos rather than videos of people dancing around with the newly released Surface?

I want it to be great, I really do but my gut tells me it’s going to be horribly accepted.

The Latest Review of What Microsoft CEO said was going to be the best laptop ever- the Surface from Gizmodo-

Microsoft Surface RT Review: This Is Technological Heartbreak

It doesn’t look good.  Is it time to short MSFT?

Here is the stock quote from the minute I composed this post-

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It’s been as low as 24 and as high as 32.95 but it is relatively cheap selling for only 15 times earnings.

So here we go, Microsoft Over/Under Poll-

On April 24, 2013 will Microsoft stock be over or under $28.01 per share?

I want to be wrong.  I want Windows 8 to blow me away with how awesome it will be for the next desktop or laptop I’ll be buying.  Maybe I’m just frustrated that I haven’t been able to see a laptop unit operate using it.  Please Microsoft, prove me wrong, I’m rooting for you.  My gut tells me you’re putting way too much stock into a touch interface much like the TV industry put too much stock into creating 3D TVs that no one cares about.

Old Gloucester Postcard From Alice Gardner

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Hi Joey,

I found this old postcard of downtown Gloucester at a flea market in New Hampshire recently. I thought you would be interested. It is great that Gloucester still has so many of the old buildings – beautiful! Alice

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Gloucester Sports 10/24/12

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Cape Ann Youth Hockey Invites Kids Age 4-9 to Talbot Rink in Gloucester to participate in Try Hockey for Free Day on November 3rd.

Cape Ann Youth Hockey invites boys and girls ages 4 to 9 years old to Talbot Rink on Saturday, November 3rd at 8am for a Try Hockey for Free clinic to experience ice hockey for the first time and learn the basics of the sport in a fun, safe environment.

Try Hockey For Free Day is part of Come Play Hockey Month. This program, designed to provide youth hockey associations a national platform to introduce new kids to the sport, is a joint‐effort between USA Hockey, the National Hockey League, and NHL member clubs. With Total Hockey and Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports, the official sponsors of Try Hockey For Free Day, USA Hockey has 500 locations offering kids between the ages of 4 and 9 years old this unique opportunity.

CAYH looks forward to introducing new families to our sport! Every participant will receive a special gift from CAYH and a hockey jersey from USA Hockey.

Families are finding it tough to find the extra funds to allow the kids to try hockey.  Pure Hockey is going to help make the day exciting for the kids and take some of the financial pressure off the parents by offering pre-registered participants a goodie bag containing a tee shirt, lanyard, sticker, bracelet and a coupon for a 50% discount off their youth starter package (while supplies last). The package contains a helmet with mask, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, pants, stick and bag. They also throw in a free pair of skates!

Advance on-line registration is required and space is limited.

To register for Cape Ann Youth Hockey’s Try Hockey for Free clinic, please visit www.TryHockeyForFree.com.

Please contact Kristin Michel at registrar@capeannyouthhockey.com with any questions.

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