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.

Brenda Morgan Has Some Nice Things To Say

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Joey,

Thank you for creating Good Morning Gloucester! I visited Gloucester for the first time a little over 13 years ago and totally fell in love with it. I come back every year and always feel as if I am "home" when I turn onto Harbor Loop. I think of Gloucester as my "happy place". I live in North Carolina, but a big chunk of my heart belongs to Gloucester. I look forward to reading Good Morning Gloucester every day. Everything in your posts is so familiar to me and helps me stay connected to a place I love. Keep up the good job!

Regards,

Brenda Morgan

Holiday Gifts From GMG Contributors

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Order Joey’s This Is Gloucester DVD By Clicking Here

Order Sharon’s Cape Ann Wall Calendar Here

Order EJ’s Babson Boulders Calendars Here and Gloucester Fisherman Calendar Here

Order Vickie Van Ness’s Celebrate Gloucester Music DVD Here

View From Captain Joe and Sons Panorama 12/3/11 Taken With My Sony HX9V

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Click the pic for the full sized view

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I love my little pocketable HX9V and all the tricks it has up it’s sleeve.

It’s come way down in price since I bought it this summer to $299

Check it out here-

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Gloucester Fisherman Story From Good Morning America 1982

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Rosalie Parisi forwards-

Joey,

This was taken at your fathers Wharf in1982, it is a story about my family and the fishing industry.

In the end of the video my Uncle Charlie who passed last week is pictured weighing out the boat at our dock.

Uncle Charlie was a rock of a man, the strong type of family man who led the family by example. 

Mae West Quote of The Week from Greg Bover

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December 2, 2011
“I’m all for restraint, as long as it doesn’t go too far.”
Mary Jane (Mae) West (1893- 1980)

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From her beginnings in vaudeville, West moved on to Broadway, writing, directing and starring in the 1920’s hit play Sex for which she was arrested and jailed on morals charges, launching a life-long battle with censorship. Her film career began in the thirties with memorable roles in Night after Night, I’m No Angel, and Diamond Lil. West often wrote or rewrote her own dialogue featuring her penchant for double entendre while up-staging a long string of leading men, including Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, and W.C. Fields. She made no films from the Second World War until 1970 when she appeared in Gore Vidal’s camp hit Myra Breckenridge. Inflatable life jackets are still referred to by her name for their resemblance to her statuesque form.

Greg Bover

Colin Connor and Justin Sander catch some waves between afternoon meetings

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Colin Connor and Justin Sander catch some waves between afternoon meetings. Their compost business BLACK EARTH HAULER, is a food waste recycling service for creators of organic waste on Cape Ann.

Photographs © Kathy Chapman 2011
http://www.kathychapman.com

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BLACK EARTH HAULER
http://www.blackearthhauler.com/

Blue Shutters — Awesome Photos

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Joey

We’ve been asking guests of the Blue Shutters to share their photos, and boy are they coming through! The shots we’ve received in recent months have been some of the best we’ve ever seen, including a new batch just in…from early morning Good Harbor Beach regular Marie Pelletier of Salem , MA ; from Bob Brewer of the UK ; and from Jay Carlson of Florida (a Gloucester native). Here are a few samples — there are many more on the Blue Shutters blog and our Facebook page.

Tony, Patty, Ed and AnnMarie
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Blue Shutters Beachside Inn
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/blue.shutters
Blue Shutters BeachBlog: www.blueshuttersbeachblog.blogspot.com

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You can check out The Blue Shutters BeachCam as well as over 20 other Gloucester Webcams at www.gloucesterwebcam.com

Community Stuff

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Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Xmas Party December 9th

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The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Xmas party meeting on December 9 will feature a talk by Sky & Telescope Magazine Editor-in-Chief Robert Naeye, a perennial favorite. There will be refreshments and the usual good time had by all. The public is warmly invited.
GAAC meets at St Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville, at 8:00 pm on the second Friday of every month, to listen to presentations on astronomy. The church is located at 1123 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA.

My favorite photo of the trip to Peru! From Jackie Ganim DeFalco

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Hi Joey,

I’m not sure if you got to use this one, but I just loved the way this Macauw deep in the Sacred Valley wanted to chew up the GMG sticker!  He personally asked me to get noticed on your Blog in Gloucester, so I had to send this in again.  He’s just so colorful, I thought he’d fit in right next to Homie.  I am also sending (in another email) the last GMG shot from Machhu Picchu since after that, I left my sticker with Pedro our guide!

Best, Jackie

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GMG arrives overlooking Machhu Picchu, the great Inca city in Peru! Jackie DeFalco, Tracy Moore (Atlanta), and Kari Heerdt (North Carolina) represent!

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LOVE IT!!!!!  Thanks Jackie!!!!!

Peter Serkin presents the eagerly anticipated world premiere of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Charles Wuorinen

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Photograph © Kathy Chapman 2011
http://www.kathychapman.com

Peter Serkin, Piano
Sunday, December 4, 3 pm

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Rockport

PROGRAM:

Wolpe: Toccata
Takemitsu: For Away
Charles Wuorinen:  Adagio
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

Peter Serkin
Biography (excerpt from CM Artists New York)
http://www.cmartists.com/artists/peter-serkin.htm

Recognized as an artist of passion and integrity, the distinguished American pianist Peter Serkin is one of the most thoughtful and individualistic musicians appearing before the public today.

Peter Serkin’s rich musical heritage extends back several generations: his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin.

An avid proponent of the music of many of the 20th and 21st century’s most important composers, Mr. Serkin has been instrumental in bringing the music of Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Stravinsky, Wolpe, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Henze, Berio, Wuorinen, Goehr, Knussen and Lieberson, among others, to audiences around the world.

He has performed many important world premieres, in particular, works by Toru Takemitsu, Peter Lieberson, Oliver Knussen and Alexander Goehr, all of which were written for him. Most recently, Mr. Serkin played the world premieres of Charles Wuorinen’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Boston Symphony/James Levine in Boston, at Carnegie Hall and at Tanglewood as well as a fifth piano concerto by Mr. Wuorinen with the Met Opera Orchestra/Levine, also at Carnegie Hall; a solo work by Elliot Carter commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival; and Mr. Wuorinen’s new piano quintet (commissioned by the Rockport, MA Music Festival) with the Brentano String Quartet.

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Elvis spotted in Magnolia!

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Elvis spotted in Magnolia!

From Terry Weber
Last Thursday, about 60 people gathered at the Patio Restaurant in Magnolia to celebrate the 50th birthday party of Gloucester good guy, Ronnie Rodgers. Even Elvis dusted himself off and showed up for this one!  Here is Ronnie walking in to his surprise in the Patio’s function room…

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And Elvis popping up to flirt with the women…
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In the pic below, Debbie almost fainted when meeting the King!

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For all the details and more pics, visit  www.themightyvoyager.com