History Meets Technology at the Gloucester Marine Railways From Kathy Chapman

Andrew Williams of 3D Measure is performing a 3D laser scan on the National Historic Landmark Schooner Adventure, which was built in 1926, in Essex, Massachusetts, by the John F. James and Son Shipyard.

http://schooner-adventure.org/

While a vessel is dry-docked, a laser measure can be made of the outside of the hull and deck, collecting "as-built" data. This data is then turned into a 3D surface model.

http://www.3dmeasure.com/

Naval Architects John and Fritz Koopman of Propulsion Data Systems of Marblehead will then use the 3D model together with an internal scan to produce a stability calculations, tonnage and other documentation which can be submitted to the US Coast Guard.

Photos © Kathy Chaman 2012

http://www.kathychapman.com

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Bring Top Chef To Boston Campaign

Buddy Rebecca Borden Forwards-

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Bring Top Chef to Boston tweet campaign. Looks like they are deciding between us and Portland.
I bet if Top Chef comes to Boston we could get them to do an episode/challenge in Gloucester – wouldn’t that be *awesome*!
Whaddaya think??

Fire Yesterday On the Hartz St. Marsh From Barbara and Al Boudreau

Here’s a pic of that scary fire that happened yesterday near Hartz St.  It was over and done in about 15 minutes, but the flames were almost 20′ high!

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This Just In! Cross Fit Cape Ann Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Team Names Announced! Power Snatch and Buns & Guns!

Cross Fit Cape Ann Team #1 Power Snatch Captained By Former All Star Softball Player Jillian Scola and Cross Fit Cape Ann Team #2 Buns and Guns Captained By Heather Fraelick!

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Cross Fit Cape Ann Is Angry About The Statement Passports Team Captain Erik Lorden Issued On His Website-

Screen Shot From http://passportsrestaurant.wordpress.com/  as follows-

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CROSS FIT CAPE ANN IS SPITTING MAD!

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Check Out The 2012 Speedo Bikini Dodgeball Facebook Page Here and Like it!

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MARCH 4TH BE THERE!!!!!

These are the organizations- Mamies Kitchen Muffin Tops, Passports Canadian Bacon, Good Morning Gloucester Rubber Rippers, Sugar Magnolias Team Shameless, The Farm Bar and Grill Ass with Class, Saving Private Ryan and Wood, North Shore Cross Fit Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle, , Ed Collard’s House Doctor’s Blinded By the White, Jungle Silkscreening Jungle Fever, Beverly Athletic Club Kiss Our BACsides, another Farm Team Swiss Farmy Knives, Maestranzi Brothers Red, White and Blue Balls, Muffy White Organizings Hot mess, Cape Ann brewing Nacho Libre, Cross Fit Cape Ann With Two Teams- Buns and Guns and Power Snatch, Dog Bar’ American Bacon and  Beach Gourmet’s Drop It like It’s Hot.

If any other teams have pre tourney pictures they want to submit I’ll run ‘em ASAP!

All of the profits from the sign-ups of the Tournament are going to Next Step, an organization that provides support, education and resources for teens and young adults coping with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. www.nextstepnet.org

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click here for Cape Ann Brewing Coverage Team Nacho Libre

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North Shore Cross Fit Team Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Captain Tracy Conley

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Maestranzi Brothers Red White & Blue Balls Team Captain Frankie Gwynn

Our Hosts The Farm Bar and Grille check them out the Farm’s Facebook Page here

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Farm Team Name- Ass With Class With Captain Ryan Cox

Here are the other squads signed on

We have a Ryan and Wood Distillery sponsored squad (best damn spirits you can consume on the planet) check out their website and live distillery webcam

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Sugar Mags is putting a yet to be named team together- check the breakfast artistry that is Sugar Magnolia’s and like their Facebook page. Also did you know Sugar Mag’s does catering?

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Cross Fit Cape Ann should be the early favorites, we will see if their elite training will put them over the top. Check out their blog here

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Beverly Athletic Club’s Team will look to contend with the cross fit athletes from Cross Fit Cape for the top seed.

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Team Name- Kiss Our BACsides

I will be sponsoring  GMG Team Rubber Rippers featuring our boy Kurt Lubbers and a team of maniacal Coasties.

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Passports Restaurant

Passports Canadian Bacon Team Captain Erik Lorden

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and Ed Collard’s House Doctors Handyman Repair Services

Team Name Blinded By The White

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check out Jungle’s website here

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Mamie’s Kitchen’s Muffin Tops has signed on to the Farm Bar and Grille Good Morning Gloucester Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!

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Team Name Mamie’s Muffin Tops

Check out the delectable dishes from Mamie’s Kitchen here

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Team Name- Hot Mess

Here’s her website- http://www.muffywhite.com/

Beach Gourmet Catering

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Matt Beach will be opening up shop after last year’s horrible Washington St fire in the location of the former Connors Pharmacy and check out the progress at the reconstruction here

The T Shirt Design Front (the date is going to be correct March 4th)-

Pinky Schooner Ardelle Launch Video From Len Burgess

This is a short, six minute documentary of the launch of the Pinky Schooner Ardelle at Essex, MA. July 9, 2011. Produced by Len Burgess for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.The opening music features three players from the North Shore Celtic music scene: Steve Levy on banjo, David de la Barre on whistle and Linda Shields Swicker on guitar playing a set of Irish reels. The Waterfront Park String Band as well as Daisy Nell and Cap’t Stan with the Crab Grass Band entertain the crowds after the launch. The day’s play-by-play MC was Barry O’Brien. Included in the documentary are 3 great points of view of the actual launch courtesy of Kirk Williamson and GateHouse Media.

–Len Burgess

Community Stuff Tuesday

The Hood® Sportsmanship Scholarship™ Program rewards eighteen deserving high school students with $5,000 towards furthering their education at a two- or four-year accredited college or university.

There are 3 students from Gloucester High School that deserve your daily vote, you may vote for more than one student!!

Angelo Bertolino, Phillip Curcuru, Sean Kennedy

Please go to http://www.hood.com/ Vote now Scholarships

We invite you to help us select the finalists! Vote once a day, now through March 15, 2012, at 3 PM EST, for the students whose essay you think deserves to be a finalist for the Hood Sportsmanship Scholarship.

The ten students from each of the 6 New England state (MA, VT, ME, NH, RI, CT) who receive the most votes will be selected as finalists. The finalists will be interviewed by a panel of judges and three students from each state will be selected as winners. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony and entered into the Hood Sportmanship Scholarship Hall of Fame.

Hood Milk has helped kids grow healthy and strong for more than 160 years. For the third consecutive year, we’re proud to offer $90,000 in scholarship funds to celebrate the integrity and sportsmanship of New England students as they continue their education. Support them with your vote!


Chorus North Shore 80th Commemorative Concert in Gloucester on 3/4

The 2011-2012 concert season marks the 80th year since the founding of Chorus North Shore and the 50th Year for Sonja Pryor as Artistic Director! 

March: Commemorative 80th Anniversary Concerts

Chorus North Shore conducted by Sonja Dahlgren Pryor presents “BRAVO! ENCORE! Favorites from Chorus North Shore: 80 Years of Choral Performances”

with Frederick A. MacArthur accompanist.

Saturday, March 3, 2012, 8:00 PM at Our Lady of Hope Church, Linebrook Road, Ipswich

Sunday, March 4, 2012, 3:00 PM at St. Ann’s Church, 70 Pleasant Street, Gloucester

Tickets Available online at www.chorusnorthshore.org , or call 978 890-7091 or at the door

$20 General Admission, $17 Senior/student

The concerts celebrate 80 years of music making by the chorus and Sonja Dahlgren Pryor’s 50th year as conductor.

For more information visit www.chorusnorthshore.org

The concerts are supported in part by grants from the Gloucester, Essex, and Ipswich Cultural Councils , local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

You may remember that the Chorus started in Rockport  in 1931 as the Community Carol Choir.  Then in 1932 it became the Rockport Community Chorus, a name it retained until 1983 when it became the Rockport Community Chorus of the North Shore to better reflect that its membership came from the greater north shore area, and then in 1995 it became Chorus North Shore and started having rehearsals in Ipswich as that location was more centrally located for its members.


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tuesday evening artist salon at The Annie – Gloucester

ramani rangan writes

Dear fellow artists – I would like to invite you to an Artist Salon every first and third Tuesday evening of the month at The Annie, Gloucester. Please go to www.capeann.org website and looking to the right go to ‘Cape Ann After Dark’ and then scroll down to ‘Beyond Imagine’ and you will see the invitation.  I look forward to see you. Come chat and share about art and more among other artists, be well, Ramani Rangan.    

http://www.capeann.org

The GloucesterCast Podcast Episode 14

The GloucesterCast Podcast Episode 14

Click here to play or save the podcast 

Taped February 20th, 2012 with hosts Joey Ciaramitaro from GoodMorningGloucester.organd Kenny MacCarthy from www.CapeAnnInfo.com

Topics:

Charles De Gaspe Beaubien Letters to the Editor In the Gloucester Daily Times

Harbor Walk

The Fort Discussion

Bikini Speedo Dodgeball

Hearts All Over Town

Local Real Estate Buys

Mug Up at Donna Ardizzoni’s

Kenny’s No Sugar- No Caffeine Diet

Joey’s Juicer

 

 

Let’s Not Mince Words- THE GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER RUBBER RIPPERS DODGEBALL SQUAD IS GONNA TEAR YOUR FACE OFF!!!!

You Gotta Love The Odds For Our Team With Such Perennial Dodgeball All Stars Such As Menacing Mitch, D$, AJ the Animal, Slammin’ Sammie and 15 Year Michigan YMCA Intramural All State Dodgeball Champion Kurt Lubbers Leading the Charge!

Note: Other Teams May not To Witness this Video.  We Don’t Want them To Soil Their Panties. Don’t Blame Me If You Click On It, You’ve Been Warned!

BRINGING THE HEAT!!!

FEAR THE RIPPERS!!!!

I hope to see all my GMG FOB’s at The Farm March 4th to Cheer wildly at The Farm Bar and Grille!  I want Posterboards, I want bull horns,  I want some serious support for our Fellow FOBs.  I’m just gonna put it out there that if you don’t show up to have fun and cheer on our Rubber Rippers consider yourself crossed off my XMAS card list!  (and you don’t want that do you?)

Let’s Go Over The Competition’s Weaknesses Shall We?

Mamies Kitchen Muffin Tops– The Sugar Induced Coma After Ingesting Mamie’s Kitchen World’s Greatest Coffee Roll Will Make This Team a Pushover!

Passports Canadian Bacon– Too Pretty To be Taken Seriously

Sugar Magnolias Team Shameless– Inexperienced

The Farm Bar and Grill Ass with Class– Too Drunk To Compete

Saving Private Ryan and Wood– One Shot Of Knockabout Gin Will Send This Team Reeling

North Shore Cross Fit Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle–  Seriously?

Ed Collard’s House Doctor’s Blinded By the White – Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! The Only Shot This Team Has Is If The Glare From Their Pale Legs Blinds The Other Team, (or they die laughing first)

Jungle Silkscreening Jungle Fever– Woozy From Sniffing Ink- Non-Factor

Beverly Athletic Club Kiss Our BACsides– BACsides are Gonna be blistered with Dodgeball marks

Farm Team Swiss Farmy Knives– Farm Knives?  Could we get a more effeminate sounding team name? You’re not scaring anyone in this competition!

Maestranzi Brothers Red, White and Blue Balls– More concerned about the team’s outfits than competing and Team captain needs to pull his head out of his ass and get back in the game!

Muffy White Organizings Hot Mess– The Uber Type A Muffy will be so encompassed trying to figure out the proper Dodgeball rules that they won’t be able to focus on pure play and will lead to Hot Mess’ demise.

Cape Ann Brewing Nacho Libre– Have you drank more than three Fisherman’s Brew?  If you have you know that the impairment which ensues will be this team’s undoing.

Cross Fit Cape Ann  Buns and Guns and Power Snatch– So Angry about Passports Call-Out they’ve lost all their focus

Dog Bar American Bacon – Andy Mullholland in a Speedo?  Enough said.

Beach Gourmet’s Drop It like It’s Hot– More concerned with renovation, may be distracted!

Check Out The 2012 Speedo Bikini Dodgeball Facebook Page Here and Like it!

 

If any other teams have pre tourney pictures they want to submit I’ll run ‘em ASAP!

All of the profits from the sign-ups of the Tournament are going to Next Step, an organization that provides support, education and resources for teens and young adults coping with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. www.nextstepnet.org

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Swanie from T-Max

Joey,

Good to see you at Lupita.

I was telling you I was over at Rocky Neck Park and wasn’t even aware of it, but there was this swan standing five feet from me. We hung out together for about an hour and I took a lot of photos. This one is my favorite.

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Look For Gloucester’s Hometown Distillery Ryan and Wood On Chronicle Tuesday Night

Tuesday, February 21: Made in New England

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From the channel 5 website:

The chip business is a dog eat dog business, but Needham based Food Should Taste Good is taking a bite out of the big guys’ profits. Shayna Seymour discovers how they’re doing it. Plus … it’s time to make the bread – and bagels and muffins – at Panera Bread. We’ll go inside their 24 hour baking operation. A Melrose woman makes canine comfort her priority, and the spirits of Cape Ann are brewing at a Gloucester’s Ryan and Wood Distilleries.

Ryan and Wood Will Be Sponsoring The Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Team “Saving Private Ryan and Wood”  March 4th at the Farm Bar and Grille.  We have all the brackets filled- twenty teams of bikini speedo dodgeball madness!!!!!!

Check Out The 2012 Speedo Bikini Dodgeball Facebook Page Here and Like it!

Ryan and Woods- check out their website and live distillery webcam

Cardiologist Mario Motta’s Planetary Telescope From Karen Pischke

Hi Joey.

I LOVE E.J’s. art featured in today’s (2/18) blog! FANTASTIC piece E.J.! Cape Ann is especially GREAT for celestial viewing and one of the many things I LOVE about Cape Ann. Cardiologist Mario Motta M.D. chose Cape Ann as the site for his planetary telescope! (See- http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/eyes_on_the_skies/.) This month has been especially beautiful, with many bright planets visible with the naked eye. I hear Mercury will be most visible starting Feb 20 – beginning of March.

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Imagine that?  That’s a serious telescope, right here in G-Town!

Community Stuff Monday

Karen Pischke submits-

Enjoy a cup of coffee and ‘Joy’ at the Lone Gull this month! The month of February the Lone Gull on Main Street, Gloucester is hosting work by Gloucester photographer Michael Chamness of Wings & Waves. His series of ‘backyard birds’ gives you an ‘up close and personal’ view. I particularly like the ‘Love Doves’ and the Baltimore Oriole. If you look close at the breast of the Oriole you’ll see a ‘heart.’ As an ‘Animal Totem’, the Oriole represents ‘Joy’ and is thought to bring ‘positive change’ and ‘a renewed sense of joy’ into your life.


Gloucester resident, Nanci Milone Hill’s first book will be published by Libraries Unlimited on March 28th. 

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Women’s fiction covers numerous topics of importance in the lives of women—friendship, love, personal growth, and familial relationships. For this reason, the genre is a hotbed of engaging subjects for book group discussions. Reading Women: A Book Club Guide for Women’s Fiction brings together information on over 100 women’s fiction titles, providing everything a book group needs to encourage focused, stimulating meetings.

Reading Women marshals information that has been, up to this point, either nonexistent or scattered in book club guides. Readers will learn the difference between women’s fiction, romance, and chick lit, as well as why these genres provide a rich trove of discussion topics for book groups. Specific entries cover titles from all three genres, offering an author biography, a book summary, bibliographic material, discussion questions, and read-alike information for each book.
Nanci currently serves as the Director of the Boxford Town Libraries.  She writes bi-monthly columns for Public Libraries and Library Journal.  She is a regular contributor to NoveList, an EBSCO Readers’ Advisory database.


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On the next Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews Mike Rogers and Kathleen Toomey, founder of Bike Gloucester, a non-profit that encourages and promotes bicycling in Gloucester. In addition, they accept unused bicycles for distribution to those unable to afford one.
Cape Ann Profiles can be seen on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Friday, February 24 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, February 26 at 2:00PM. It repeats on Friday, March 2 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, March 4 at 2:00PM.
Rich Sagall is a physician and the president of NeedyMeds, a national non-profit that provides information on programs that help people unable to afford their health care costs. He also publishes Pediatrics for Parents, a children’s health newsletter.

The GMG T-Shirts Are Finally In!!!!

We used Hanes Beefy T’shirts- ring spun cotton, the highest quality t shirts we could buy.

We have sm, med, lg, xl and maybe a xxl.

They are $20 and if need to be shipped in the US $4 or you could pick it up at the dock and save the shipping.

The Dock address is Joey c/o Captain Joe and Sons 95 East Main st Gloucester MA 01930

Thanks so much!!!

Sizes are selling fast and I didnt order a ton so let me know asap if there is a certain size you need  🙂

if you want to order one email me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com

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And Dog Bar Makes Twenty! Bikini Speedo Dodgeball All Filled Up With Teams For Our Brackets!

This is gonna be bat-shit bananas! 

Twenty teams of men and women in bikinis and speedos trying to annihilate each other medieval style on the Dodgeball Court Behind The Farm Bar and Grille On March 4th with the profits from the entry fees  going to www.nextstep.org which provides help for teens and young adults afflicted with life threatening illnesses.

Can you imagine 20 teams of 5 and then all of their supports of how much insanity and fun that is going to be?  This is going to be the entertainment event of all of 2012!!!!!

Word Is That One of Gloucester’s Biggest Supporters Of Live local Music Andy Mullholland Will Be Sporting The Speedo and Leading His Dog Bar Squad “American Bacon”.  Andy caused quite a stir with the team name which is a direct shot across the bow of his Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Seafood Throwdown Nemesis Erik Lorden From Passport whose Team had already been named “Canadian Bacon”.  There will be no love lost between these mortal enemies on the Dodgeball Court.  Question Is- Who Will Bring The Meat?

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We do not know how athletic these teams will be compared to the many Cross Fit and Athletic Club Squads but they will surely win the straight sexy points with their many fans!

Mark Your Calendars Now!  March 4th at Noon!  The Farm Bar and Grille for The Ultimate Spectacle that will Be-

The Second Annual GMG/Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!

 

All of the profits from the sign-ups of the Tournament are going to Next Step, an organization that provides support, education and resources for teens and young adults coping with cancer and other life threatening illnesses. www.nextstepnet.org

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click here for Cape Ann Brewing Coverage Team Nacho Libre

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North Shore Cross Fit Team Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Captain Tracy Conley

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Maestranzi Brothers Red White & Blue Balls Team Captain Frankie Gwynn

Our Hosts The Farm Bar and Grille check them out the Farm’s Facebook Page here

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Farm Team Name- Ass With Class With Captain Ryan Cox

Here are the other squads signed on

We have a Ryan and Wood Distillery sponsored squad (best damn spirits you can consume on the planet) check out their website and live distillery webcam

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Sugar Mags is putting a yet to be named team together- check the breakfast artistry that is Sugar Magnolia’s and like their Facebook page. Also did you know Sugar Mag’s does catering?

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Cross Fit Cape Ann should be the early favorites, we will see if their elite training will put them over the top. Check out their blog here

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Beverly Athletic Club’s Team will look to contend with the cross fit athletes from Cross Fit Cape for the top seed.

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Team Name- Kiss Our BACsides

I will be sponsoring  GMG Team Rubber Rippers featuring our boy Kurt Lubbers and a team of maniacal Coasties.

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Passports Restaurant

Passports Canadian Bacon Team Captain Erik Lorden

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and Ed Collard’s House Doctors Handyman Repair Services

Team Name Blinded By The White

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check out Jungle’s website here

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Mamie’s Kitchen’s Muffin Tops has signed on to the Farm Bar and Grille Good Morning Gloucester Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Tournament!

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Team Name Mamie’s Muffin Tops

Check out the delectable dishes from Mamie’s Kitchen here

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Team Name- Hot Mess

Here’s her website- http://www.muffywhite.com/

Beach Gourmet Catering

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Matt Beach will be opening up shop after last year’s horrible Washington St fire in the location of the former Connors Pharmacy.

The T Shirt Design Front (the date is going to be correct March 4th)-

Mug Up At Donna’s

The Spread

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EJ’s Famous Deviled Eggs

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Erika’s Sausage and Cream Cheese Bombs

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Vickie Van Ness and Peter’s Quiche

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EJ, and Donna’s Ass

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Len Burgess

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Captains Courageous Festival Request For Partners

Request for partners for a new version of the Captains Courageous Festival

A new and broader version of the Captains Courageous Festival, to be held on September 22, 2012, will offer special events throughout the city that highlight Gloucester’s and Cape Ann’s Maritime Heritage. This festival will highlight literature, music, art and history. There will be multiple offerings throughout the day at many venues on both sides of the harbor to show off all Gloucester has to offer. Some events will have paid ticket entrance but most will be free. Tours, dramatic readings, theatrical productions, movies, special presenters, concerts, children activities, art displays etc will be on the schedule.

We are looking for venues (galleries, stores and restaurants) for poetry and dramatic readings as well as music performances. We are also looking for musicians who would be willing to offer programs that tie into Gloucester’s/Cape Ann’s heritage. 

If interested in offering something to the festival, please contact Beth Welin at Schooner Adventure
978-281-8079
bwelin@schooner-adventure.org