A few short clips from our cooking class in Ravello Italy with Mamma Agata and daughter Chiara
and here are some pictures from their amazing home-
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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Don’t Forget To Watch Wicked Tuna Tonight On National Geographic Channel!
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Magnolia MA 1930’s, From George Krewson
Hi Joe!
The attached is from a brochure that my Dad, the owner, had printed for soliciting guests for the Oceanside back in the 1930’s. The poem was writted by my uncle, Elber Krewson. It may not be readable, but if you can enhance it in some way to make it so, I think your readers would appreciate reading about the glorious little hamlet.
Best to you,
George Krewson
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MUG UP #1 In The Books
I could only stay for a short bit as I had to work but managed a few pictures and despite the incredible temptations of carbohydrate laden goodness surrounding me I stayed true to the diet and ate Kathy Chapman’s lettuce and flowers that she brought.
Greg Bover Bringing The Thunder with this powdered sugar GMG Logo Cake (he also bakes when he’s not banging out harpsichords in his spare time)- #Boom!
Alicia Cox’ Re-Di-Cu-Lous World’s Greatest Coffee Rolls (don’t ask me how I resisted but I did) EJ’s Deviled Eggs, Muffins, Brownies, Cakes Coffee, you get the idea!
Sista Felicia made some killer cookies from what I hear and everyone had a great time catching up. The first of many Mug-Ups this summer!
Nice to see the Greeleys make an appearance!
It was also great to see Jenn Cullen in attendance. Oh wait she didn’t come? Shocker! 
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Watch The Maritime Gloucester Pier Dedication To Harriett Webster Streaming Live at 2:00PM Sunday
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What Up Homie?
I see you looking at me looking at you. Don’t think I don’t.
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May 23rd at 6pm Cape Ann Olive Oil Company will be hosting Mamie’s Kitchen for their cooking seminar!
Hey Joey
May 23rd at 6pm Cape Ann Olive Oil Company will be hosting Mamie’s Kitchen for their cooking seminar!
Mamie’s Kitchen will be using the authentic olive oils and balsamic vinegars from Cape Ann Olive Oil Company!
Come in for marinara sauce and meatballs, salad, focaccia and tiramisu!
Did I mention this is a FREE event!
RSVP now! Limited space available!
Contact Lauren or Eric: 978.281.1061
or email: capeannoliveoil@gmail.com
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Community Stuff May 20
Hi Joey –
Please help us spread the word about the Cape Ann Half Marathon and YuKanRun.com races.
The Building Center has generously agreed to return as the Premier Title Sponsor this year.
So far, early registration for The Building Center TripleThreat Race Series has been very strong and this is going to be a great day of racing!
Enjoy spectacular views as you race along Cape Ann’s scenic coastline in Rockport and Gloucester. Register for the Half Marathon, 5K race, 1-mile – or all three! Run three epic races in one day! Compete in The Building Center TripleThreat Road Race Series to earn coveted prizes and bragging rights!
Participate in any of the three races and earn a YuKanRun.com technical race shirt.
Finish 2 or more of our 3 races will also receive a custom YuKanRun.com runner’s visor.
Complete all 3 races will also receive a custom Buidling Center TripleThreat finishers award mug.
With all that running, you deserve it!
Schedule of Events
August 5, 2012
Rockport High School
24 Jerdens Lane
Rockport, MA 01966
7:00am Packet Pick-Up
8:00am 1-Mile Race Start
8:00am Walkers (Half Marathon)
8:30am 5K Race Start
9:15am Half Marathon Start
11:30am Awards Ceremony
Thanks so much for your help!
YuKan Sports, LLC | P.O. Box 780 | Rockport | MA | 01966
Seaward Inn continues its Sunday Morning Live Series beginning May 20th —
brunch and live music are from 11am -2pm.
This Sunday, May 20, we are featuring 18 year-old saxophonist and
clarinetist Alek Razdan, who started performing at the age of 8, sitting in
at local jam sessions around his hometown of Rockport. Alek Razdan and
A-Train put on an eclectic and energetic show, intended to allow audiences
of all ages to have a great time. Alek performs frequently at venues around
the Boston area but this Sunday you can catch him at Seaward Inn, 44 Marmion
Way, 978-546-3471, visit www.seawardinn.com for musician and menu listings.
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Saturday’s Pics of the Maasdam and Schooner Lannon via Susan LaRosa
First cruiseship photos from West Gloucester.
Susan LaRosa
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GMG Has Been Nominated For For a Best of Northshore (BONS) Award For Best Blog
If you feel the the hard work, quality of material, timliness of updates and positive energy that our team brings day after day without fail consider voting for us. Thanks.
Once at the page there is a drop down box, you’ll see Good morning Gloucester. It’s pretty simple.
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Remembering Harriet Webster: Pier Dedication Sunday 2:00PM and Broadcast Live Via Webcam
I got up a half hour early today to get this photo for Harriet-
Gloucester At Dawn 4;30AM 5/19/12
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Theodore Roosevelt Quote Of The Week From Greg Bover
May 17, 2012
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt, (1858 – 1919)
The 26th President of the United States, TR was born wealthy, but also sickly, suffering from asthma his entire life. To compensate, he embraced “the strenuous life” and was famed for his exuberance and activism. He was elected to the New York State Assembly one year after graduating from Harvard University, and became a force for reform in the Republican Party. He was Vice President to William McKinley and at 42 became the youngest person to hold the office of President when McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He is widely credited as the prime mover behind the completion of the Panama Canal, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. A life-long naturalist, Roosevelt was essential in the creation of our National Park System. His refusal to shoot an American black bear that had been tied to a tree created a meme that lives on today in the stuffed Teddy Bear.
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Field Of Dreams?
This can’t be the same Swinson Field I grew up being a terrible little league baseball player on could it?
Melissa Pierce Forwards-
Hi Joey!
Attached are a couple of pics from my sons t-ball game this morning at Swinson’s field. The grass was so high the kids could hardly play ball.
Many other fields were like this as well. Including where the Y kids play t-ball at O’maley. Although not quite as bad. We were all hoping by sending this to you that something might get done about it. Perhaps the grass can be mowed? Thanks!
Melissa Pierce
Any minute now I expect Kevin Costner to come out of the grass.
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Video- Coast Guard medevacs 60-year-old man southeast of Gloucester
The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 60-year-old man from a charter vessel 19 miles southeast of Gloucester, Mass., Thursday.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Boston command center received a call at 12:16 p.m. from the 75-foot charter vessel Yankee Clipper, reporting that a 60-year old man aboard was experiencing chest pains.
A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter crew and a Station Gloucester 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew immediately launched to assist.
The man was safely hoisted from the 47-foot Motor Life Boat to the helicopter and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"Helicopters provide the Coast Guard the capability to assist mariners in urgent need of medical care in a prompt, timely and effective manner," said Lt. j.g. Jared Carbajal, Public Affairs Officer at Air Station Cape Cod.
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Salmon and Spinach- Power Up Baby! Send In Your Healthy Easy To Prepare Meals- I’ll Post ‘Em and Rate ‘Em
Send in your pics, bonus points if you include the recipe.
I’ll rate them based on three criteria: Taste, Easy To Prepare (if you can make it in an office without a stove or microwave you get bonus points), Nutrition Value.
Who wants to join me in my quest to get fit?
For The First Four Weeks I will award one prize per week from our GMG Swag Bag to the highest rated pic/recipe.
Contest winner will have to pick up their award and if not claimed within two weeks it gets awarded to the next person.
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Get Your Butt To Motif # 1 Day Today- You Will Not Be Disappointed!
For more information about specific events, click HERE to go to the website.
2012 Motif No. 1 Day Schedule of Events
All Day Activities
Kids’ Art Zone art activities for children
Dock Square Chowder Stand
Mini-Motif Scavenger Hunt
Sidewalk Chalk Competition
Try Your Hand Interactive Art Event
Scheduled Events
9 am
The Motif No. 1 Day 5K to benefit Rockport Elementary Schools Health & Wellness programs!
10 am
The Motif: Why it Matters presentation on the Motif by artist and historian Les Bartlett at the Rockport Art Association.
Community Event: Toad Hall 40th Birthday Celebration! Meet at 10 o’clock in front of Toad Hall for a walk to Millbreak Meadow to enjoy face-painting, books & CUPCAKES!
10:30 am – 12 noon
Instrument Petting Zoo at the Old Firehouse Trust. Sponsored by Rockport Music. For more click HERE.
11 am – 3 pm
Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest throughout downtown. Registration located at the corner of School & Main Streets.
11 am
The Merrimac Valley Rounders in Dock Square. A lively mix of bluegrass & Americana.
11 & 11:45 am
The Way We Were a multimedia presentation by the Rockport High School Band in Harvey Park at the First Baptist Church
12 pm – 1 pm
Free Community Concert at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Sponsored by Rockport Music.
12 pm – 2 pm
Photography Exhibit Reception at the Rockport Art Association.
1 pm
The Rockport Legion Band in Harvey Park.
Folly Cove Designers Feature in the Old Firehouse Trust.
- Design Showcase: the Sarah Elizabeth Shop Rockport block printer Julia Garrison is the new owner of the legendary Sarah Elizabeth Shop and will be showcasing her work as well as the work of Isabel Natti and the Folly Cove Designer Sarah Elizabeth, printed on the original Folly Cove Designers’ acorn press.
- Film: Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place with the film’s producer, Christine Lundberg. A short documentary on the legendary Cape Ann author & designer. The producer, Christine Lundberg will be at the screening.
2 pm
Alek Razdan & the A-Train Orchestra on Bearskin Neck.
Artist Rocky Delforge painting in Dock Square in a collaborative work created on the spot.
Brad Byrd playing an acoustic set in Dock Square on Bearskin Neck.
3 pm
Carrtunes in Dock Square. Dixieland Jazz from the 20s, 30s & 40s.
3:30 pm
"In Search of the Motif" reading & book signing by author LM Vincent at the Old Firehouse Trust.
4 pm
Sidewalk Chalk Contest Winners announced in Dock Square
Words Before Dinner Event at the Old Firehouse Trust. Original poems inspired by life on Cape Ann. Twin Lights Soda, a Cape Ann original, will be on hand.
5 – 5:30 pm: A Community Festival Finale
Rockport Home Movies with Twin Lights Soda. Film from the collection of Pierce Sears of the Thomas Wilson Beverage Co. Located at the Old Firehouse Trust. Complimentary Twin Lights soda available at the screening.
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Jimmy T Aims To Break One Man Dory Race Record In Essex River Race
The race registration is 9 – 10 am and the race is followed by an Open House at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum from 11 to 1:30 pm with Woodman’s chowder, hot dogs, beer and live music.
This Saturday!
Get Out On the Water…Paddle or Cheer for the Essex River Race
Row or paddle your small boat in the upcomingEssex River Race, a 5.5+ mile open water event that begins with a check-in between 9:00 – 10:00 am at the Town Ramp on Route 133. The race loops behind the barrier beaches of Ipswich and back through one of the most scenic tidal areas in New England. Serious and casually oriented participants are equally welcome. View the start and finish of the race from the new sidewalks along the Causeway, or enjoy a great view from Conomo Point! For more information visitwww.blackburnchallenge.com/Essex.html
Celebrate the Race and an Open House
at Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Around 11 am, as the first rowers cross the finish line, stop in for a free Open House at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. There will be Woodman’s famous clam chowder, hot dogs, beer from Chebacco Liquor Mart, live music and more until around 1:30 pm. Mingle on the yard with oarmen, paddlers and museum supporters.
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The Case For Pickles
So you know when you have that brief moment of weakness and you’re hungry and you know you just gotta eat something but it’s not breakfast, lunch or dinner time?
You face decisions all day every day about what you’re gonna eat.
I’m not trying to preach here, just offer what has been working for me to keep my diet clean.
Pickles.
Loaded with flavor. When refrigerated have a nice snap to them. Zero Calories. So instead of grabbing the bag of chips, or the candy bar- pickles.
Disclaimer: I may turn green eating so many pickles as my cravings tend to perk up every second I sit down. Now I know how EJ feels about carrots.
I got the industrial sized jar at Costco. There might be a hundred spears in there.
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Spawn of Eider
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Community Stuff May 19th
Atlantic Vacation Homes has a Facebook Page they would like you to know about-
http://www.facebook.com/atlanticvacationhomes
CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA HOSTS ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY
Film describes positive way forward for our schools
On May 21, 2012, the Cape Ann Community Cinema at 21 Main Street in Gloucester will screen the documentary AUGUST TO JUNE: BRINGING LIFE TO SCHOOL (www.AugustToJune.com). This intimate portrait is a buoyant contrast to films like “Waiting For Superman” and other recent negative portrayals of public schools. With humor and empathy, the film delves deeply into what a meaningful education entails, and asks viewers to question current test driven trends.
AUGUST TO JUNE has won praise from local and national educators and policy makers. Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and other books, (and called by Time Magazine "perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores."), says of AUGUST TO JUNE: "It is one thing to deplore the assembly-line model of schooling, with its emphasis on mindless compliance and rote memorization. Far more useful is to see the alternative take shape in front of you. In ‘August To June,’ we have a visual record of a community of learners, a series of moments – discoveries and setbacks – through the school year that accumulate like sparkling beads on a string. The result is as engrossing as it is illuminating."
Gloucester resident Jay Featherstone, author of Schools Where Children Learn, and emeritus faculty leader Michigan State University’s acclaimed teacher education program called it "…a flat out gorgeous, beautiful movie, a brilliant poem of childhoods in motion over time.”
The film was chosen for inclusion in CINESTRAT 2011 (Spain’s social change documentary film festival) and was featured at the Save Our Schools conference during their call to action in Washington, D.C.
Cape Ann’s much-publicized debate over the new Gloucester Community Arts Charter School has dominated public conversation about education. This screening of AUGUST TO JUNE, as well as the conversation with filmmakers Amy and Tom Valens afterwards, gives those who care about the future of education and high stakes testing a chance to watch and discuss a positive vision for the future.
AUGUST TO JUNE follows 26 third and fourth graders for one entire school year, as their teacher, her colleagues, and parents encourage curiosity and creativity, build a community of learners, work to honor each child and catch opportunities to develop respect for differences. It takes place in a California public school, but its message is universal. The film is the jumping-off point to broaden local and national conversations about public schools beyond test scores.
The filmmakers are available for interviews at (415) 488-9244, or by e-mail at tomvalens@comcast.net and amyvalens@comcast.net.
A press kit, trailers and more information can be found at www.AugustToJune.com.
This special Cape Ann Community Cinema event has an admission price of $12.50 all seats ($10.00 for Cinema Members) and will include dinner, a movie and a discussion afterwards with filmakers Tom and Amy Valens.
AUGUST TO JUNE screens at Cape Ann Community Cinema at 21 Main Street in Gloucester on May 21st. Doors open for dinner and vintage educational films “from the archives” at 6:00pm; AUGUST TO JUNE screens at 7:00pm with a discussion immediately following.
To view a trailer and learn more about AUGUST TO JUNE, visit www.AugustToJune.com.
(Rockport, MA) May 14, 2012— Peter A. Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockport National Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiary Rockport National Bank is pleased to announce that for a third consecutive year Rockport National Bank has been recognized by American Banker Magazine as one of the top 200 community banks in the United States.
The May 2012 issue of American Banker highlights the top 200 Community Banks in the United States. Though 36 states are represented, Rockport National Bank ranked number 69 was one of only 6 banks representing Massachusetts. Being recognized as a leading performer during these economic times is evidence of our commitment to both our customers and shareholders, states Peter Anderson.
Rockport National Bank has been serving the Cape Ann community since 1851. The Bank now has four full service locations on the North Shore including Rockport, Gloucester and Beverly. For additional information visit http://www.rockportnational.com.
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