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.

The Most Honest Fisherman I Know Tells It Like It Is…. Again

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Right before our eyes

By dougmaxfield

For some bizarre reason, I have been trying to get a little more involved with fisheries management as of  late.  Nothing crazy, just making some noise regarding topics I know very little about.  Par for the course.

Last night I took part in a conference call to brainstorm about how we should combat consolidation issues created by sector management.  Naturally, folks on the council looking to consume allocation think that the issue of consolidation is a myth.  They claim that the industry is over-capitalized and therefore not making any money.  I’m still waiting for an accurate account of revenues in the day boat fishery to be released; a before and after snapshot of profits.  One that would account for all of the smaller operations that aren’t fishing at all anymore.  Having seen one very well-respected young fisherman sell out recently; and hearing through the grape-vine that several other key players in the Gloucester day boat fleet are planning on  doing the same I’ve got a feeling that the program has benefited exactly who NOAA wanted it to benefit.  Don’t get me wrong: this is not a pity party for those choosing to sell out.  They will be paid huge for their allocations and will be just fine.  No shame in that…they’ve earned it.

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BLOCK PARTY BULLETIN – Update for Your Party!

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POSTER SUBMISSION DEADLINE, AUGUST 1 – The entry deadline for the new Downtown Gloucester Block Party poster is next Monday! Win dinner for two at Alchemy or Latitude 43 – your choice! Submit here for viewing and voting: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/. The winner will be announced on Good Morning Gloucester.
Guidelines: Posters should be any medium, 8 ½” X 11” for duplication purposes and contain the following information arranged as artists like:
·    Downtown Gloucester Block Party
·    Third Saturday of the Month
·    August 20  September 17
·    6 to 11 pm
·    Include: “Free” “Outdoor Dining”, “Music and Entertainment” “Fun for All Ages” – or some arrangement of these (quotes not needed). Give us your own ideas too.
·    http://www.downtowngloucester.com

STREET PERFOMERS NEEDED! Artistic Director, Valerie Marcley is delighted that so many performers have applied for inclusion in the August 20th Block Party. “The Steering Committee and I picture the street filled with entertainers. The stages are booked. We need acts that can stroll the street and entertain. Buskers, magicians, acoustic music, comedians, jugglers – you name it. I bet there are plenty of creative people in town that audiences would cheer! If you’ve got a street act, please email glostablockpahty@yahoo.com.”

THE ELUSIVE VOLUNTEER – The Block party had a few wonderful volunteers who helped beyond what was expected. We need more of you! Do a shift at the Info Table, sell raffle tickets or stage manage. All easy tasks, short shifts and time to enjoy the party yourself. Clean-up was not difficult, but we can use your help at the end of the night when the Main Street turns back into a tidy, dynamic business district. Vendors are also sought – sell your product, promote your business, inform audiences of your service.

RAFFLE – The 50/50 raffle funds the Block Party and the winner receives half the money raised. We need more sales to support the series. Some businesses have agreed to pre-party sales to help us. If you have any ideas to sell raffle tickets, or want to sell during the party, please contact: glostablockpahty@yahoo.com

SPONSORS – While we’re begging – would you or your business like to be a sponsor of the Downtown Gloucester Block Party series? For your generosity you would be included in promotional and publicity materials. Or you may remain anonymous. Email us at the given yahoo link and we’ll discuss your involvement.

THE JULY PARTY – Block Party Organizers received wonderful, encouraging feedback and suggestions from audiences, the City, stores, restaurants and performers. All are considered to make your next party even more successful. We are grateful to all: the acts that gave their talent free to help continue the party series, businesses, the City and the establishing committee – all so cooperative and supportive. Thank again! See you August 20th at 6 pm!

Art Haven Update

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Happy almost August! We’ve been having fun making animals and tables out of paper mache, trying out graphic design with computer programs and designing websites for our artwork!

Here’s a quick update on our upcoming programs at Art Haven for Middle and High School students:

Sign up now!

UPCOMING Art Haven Visiting Artist Workshops!

           Photography Week II (August 1-5)

            Illustration (August 8-12)

Alexandra Daskalopoulos, our Art Haven photography teacher, will be leading students in a week long photography workshop next week. Whether you have taken a photo class with Alex before or if you are new to photography, Alex will help you explore this medium further!

Also, we are very excited to welcome Amy Rizzico to Art Haven as the visiting artist for Illustration the following week. She is a local artist on Cape Ann and has a portfolio which can be seen at: www.rizzico.com. She is a "versatile artist with experience in design, illustration, painting and other media."  She has illustrated children’s books for other authors and for herself.  She has also used illustration for design projects in her professional career.

We are excited that so far we’ve had students commit to both weeks for the full day program in coordination with "The Annie," so we’ll also be writing and performing a play with the theme of "Murder on Rocky Neck!"

Photography Week I

Come learn more about photography, illustration and participate in the performing arts as well!

Classes are from 1-4, Monday through Friday and it’s $75/week.  For the full day program with the performing arts morning, the day runs from 9am to 4pm and the cost is $375 for the two-week session.

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Youth Open Studio

We also have Youth Open Studio happening throughout the summer on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 5:30-7. This is a great opportunity for students in grades 7-12 for continued exploration and self-guided long-term projects! This is offered at $60/ month or $10 to walk in.

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Teen Artist Guild

TAG students

For advanced students in grades  8-12, we have the Teen Artist Guild (TAG) youth entrepreneurship program. This is designed for students to create artwork and learn strategies for selling their artwork. Students  sell their work at the Farmer’s Market, in our gallery and at other venues. Please contact us for more details!

TAG program

Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached at kearadesign@hotmail.com. Dawn Gadow, the Art Haven Executive Director, can be contacted at (978) 283-3888 or arthavendirector@gmail.com.

Paper Mache and Graphic Design weeks were a success!

The Burnham’s Field Gardener Series- Kathy Hegarty of St. Ann School

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The Burnham’s Field Gardener Series

Burnham’s Field is the largest green space in central Gloucester. There’s been a resurgence of pride in Burnham’s Field, including a new 20-plot garden. GoodMorningGloucester is running a series of video profiles of the Burnham’s Field Community Gardeners. Here are their stories.

By John McElhenny
Burnham’s Field Gardeners – Kathy Hegarty of St. Ann School

Kathy Hegarty is a 5th grade teacher at St. Ann School, across Pleasant Street from the Burnham’s Field Community Garden. St. Ann students have a plot in the garden, which they visit almost every day to see how their plants are doing and learn where the food they eat comes from. “A hundred children have had their hands in this dirt,” Hegarty says. “It’s really making quite an impression and developing some lifelong gardeners.”

St. Ann School students around their garden plot at the Burnham’s Field Community Garden.

Oh Joyous July! Kim Smith Is Excited!

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Kim Smith Writes-

Dear Friends,

Have you noticed the sheer numbers of our winged friends? Returning this evening from a swim at 6:45, I bumped into three Monarchs nectaring and a Red-spotted Purple (all in pristine, newly emerged condition). Early evening is an unusually late time of day for butterflies on the wing, especially when skies are slightly overcast. This, after a day of observing and shooting numerous numbers of butterflies, caterpillars and hummingbirds–and never leaving our garden. I work for a bit, but then the garden calls and I’m out the door with both video and still cameras. If this fabulously warm weather keeps up, I think we are in for another banner year with the butterflies, and skippers too.

Currently, we have 22 Monarchs, in various stages of their development, residing in our kitchen, and seven Black Swallowtail caterpillars and chrysalids.

Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring at native Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)

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Check out the rest of Kim’s Butterfly and caterpillar ramblings at her blog-

Kim Smith Designs

Lobstering Out of Gloucester MA On the Trapper John Sped Up Times 8

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Backman Steve Redfern Baits Bags and Stacks Lobster Pots On The Stern Of The Lobster Boat Trapper John

Filmed with the Kodak zx3 and mounted using the Kayalu Ram Mount

Sign Up For The Most Fun Striper Tournament of The Year! The Rhumb Line Striper Tourney Saturday August 13th, 2011

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Great Prizes, Great Banquet, Great People!  This is the striper tournament you don’t want to miss!

Scott Alexander Representing for Eric Clapton On His Yacht Anchored Off Nile’s Beach

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John Hiler Says It’s Eric Clapton’s Yacht so it must be (I guess) Smile

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The News From Rocky Neck Via Judy Robinson Cox

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Ben MacAdam Gallery Five Madfish Wharf by Joey C (click image below to play video)

Click to see Ben McAdam Video

Madfish

Music at the Madfish

Thursday, July 28– 9:00pm to close ~ Soul Rebel Project

Friday, July 29– 9:00pm to close ~ Greg Luttrell

Saturday, July 30– 9:00pm to close ~ Mighty Mystic

Mighty Mystic

Sunday, July 31 – 9:00 to close ~ Jack Lee and Diversity $5 cover charge

Wednesdays, August 3 – 8:00 to close ~ Mama D’s Karaeokie

MUSIC AT THE STUDIO

All shows start at 9 pm

The Studio

Friday, July 29, Steve Amazeen Blues Band

Saturday, July 30, Erin and Soul Drivers

Summer Artist Series

Paintings by Zygmund Jankowski through August 2

Rocky Neck Gallery, 53 Rocky Neck Ave.

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Still Life, Watercolor by Zygmund Jankowski

The Rocky Neck Gallery’s Summer Artist Series continues with "Zyg’s Expression,"watercolors and oils by the late Zygmond Jankowski.

Jankowski opened a summer gallery on Rocky Neck in 1964 (at 5 Madfish Wharf, now Gallery Five and most recently Eugene Quinn gallery) and moved to Gloucester permanently in the 1970s. He taught at various universities, art associations and at home in his studio. Ranging from abstract to more realist impressionistic and expressive oil paintings, water colors, and mixed media on paper, his works burst with color. Today his paintings are included in major corporate, museum, and private collections throughout the country and in Europe, including the Cape Ann Museum and the Charles Demuth Museum in Pennsylvania. He has won numerous prizes in juried shows and in 2007 had a one-man show at the Cape Ann Museum. The Rockport Art Association honored his memory with a solo show in 2010.

Born in South Bend, Indiana in 1925, he studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts where he was taught by Victor DeWilde, George Post and Otis Oldfield. Throughout his career Jankowski painted various interpretations of certain themes, each time emphasizing a different element, such as rhythm, space, shape, and color. "You stand as referee between the scene, your emotion and analysis. Your goal is to experience a feeling of excitement for the first stroke to the last." He also said of his work, "These are paintings, NOT pictures. Cameras take pictures.

Goetemann Artist in Residence

WED, August 3 : Kathy Minhsin Liao Studio Talk

Open Studio Hours this weekend
Saturday 7/30, 4-8pm and Sunday 7/31, 4-8pm

Kathy Minhsin Liao
Quiet is the night, 72"x96", oil on canvas, 2011

Kathy is an incredible, extremely creative, inspirational artist. All Rocky Neck artists are encouraged to come to this talk, and/or stop by and meet Kathy during her open studio hours on the weekend.

Summer Artist Series

August 3-16: Slipping the Knot, watermedia paintings by Martha Wakefield

RECEPTION: SAT, August 6, 5-8pm, Gallery Talk, 7pm

Martha Wakefield, Slip 2
Slip# 2, watermedia by Martha Wakefield

This body of work is an exploration of loss—of love that once was vibrant has slipped away. To denote this spirited soul I am utilizing a slip—an article of clothing that conveys intimacy with the wearer. A slip can be utilitarian or sensual, revealing the beauty of the female form without portraying nakedness. It has an intimate relationship with the wearer acting as a second skin but also acts as a protective or proper barrier to the other influences. I am using color, shape, line and layering to convey a sense of someone wearing, moving, and living in such a sheer skin of fabric—yet one who remains hidden from our view. The garment holds the memory of a loved one; we sense a presence though in truth she has slipped away from the knot of life and family. All that remains is the clothes.

Martha Wakefield, a former fashion executive, is a visual artist working in watercolors, acrylics and oils. She is a juried member of the Cambridge Art Association and the Rhode Island Watercolor Society. Martha has studied with Wolf Kahn, Stuart Shils and William Lawrence. Her work has been accepted into numerous juried shows and is in many private collections in United States and Canada. Her paintings have been featured in the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Wild Apples: a Journal of Nature, Art, and Inquiry, and The Palette Magazine where she is a staff writer. A juried member of the Rocky Neck Gallery of Gloucester, she is also is represented by the Hope Gallery of Bristol, Rhode Island.

The public is invited to a Reception and Artist Talk on Saturday, August 6 from 5 to 8pm. Martha will give a gallery talk at 7pm.

Guest Artist at Khan Studio

Phototraphy by Ruth Curtis through August 4

Khan Studio / Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, Madfish Alley

Ruth Curtis

Ruth Curtis will be the featured guest artist at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck, G3 from July 22, through August 4, 2011 with an Opening Reception on Saturday, July 23rd from 3:00-6:00pm.

Ruth’s passion is to share her love of the outdoors and nautical landscapes with others, and truly capture the beauty that surrounds us everyday. Lighthouses, small town scenery, sailing the ocean, and vivid moments are all captured in her work. Ruth brings to life the moments and images you want to treasure for life and pass on through the generations. Her work has been showcased throughout New England and has won over 150 photography awards. For more information seewww.ruthcurtisphotography.com.

Ellen Lefavour, Khan Studio | www.khanstudiointernational.com | 857-891-9054

Must See! “A Maritime Mystery: The Case of the Crusty Rusty Arm” Tonight At Cape Ann Farmer’s Market

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Dawn Gadow submits-
Hey Joey – I’ve got a video for you! This is the video of our performance of The Mermaid Robot of Gloucester at the Farmer’s Market two weeks ago for all to enjoy! The second performance of Summer PlayCamp is tomorrow (July 28th) at 6:00 at the Stage Fort Park gazebo. It’s gonna be an awesome one called “A Maritime Mystery: The Case of the Crusty Rusty Arm”. The kids have written the whole play and made the sets, props and costumes for it over the past two weeks and the only performance is at the Farmer’s Market, so you can’t miss it!

Alrighty, I think that’s all for now. I promise to send more things your way soon 🙂

Cheers,
Dawn

Gloucester Photos Released By Boston Public Library

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Thanks To www.universalhub.com for forwarding the link to GMG

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Gloucester fishing schooner getting ready to sail for mackerel

File name: 08_06_007003

Title: Gloucester fishing schooner getting ready to sail for mackerel

Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1930 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.

Genre: Glass negatives

Subjects: Fishing industry; Piers & wharves; Fishermen; Fishing boats
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

Collection: Leslie Jones Collection

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.

Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

Bait, beer and…yoga?

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Heather Fraelick reports-

That’s right. Parker Street isn’t just for fishermen anymore. Treetop Yoga Studio has moved to 7 Parker Street, upstairs from our friends at CrossFit Cape Ann. The newly renovated studio is a cool 1200 square feet of practice space, environmentally friendly cork flooring, an expanded retail shop, and plenty of parking. Not just for experienced yogis, Treetop Yoga offers 27 yoga classes each week, plus workshops – something for everyone.

This weekend, July 30th and 31st, Treetop Yoga is breaking in their new location with a celebration that includes:

  • Free classes all weekend!

  • Sunday, July 31, 5:30-6:45pm A Benefit Concert Class for Pathways for Children, with live music.

  • Sunday, July 31, 7:00 p.m. Grand Opening Summer Soiree with raffles, light fare and a grand prize of unlimited yoga for one month ($150 Value.)

The yoga is FREE this weekend – if you’re new to yoga or have never been to Treetop’s studio, now is a great time to visit their new location!

"Like" them on Facebook too for regular studio news and information: https://www.facebook.com/treetopyoga

Treetop co-owner and teacher, Katy O’Brien, get acclimated to the new location with a few students before class.

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Trapper John Setting 100 Lobster Pots At Double Speed

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Chris Orsillo Uses The Kayalu Ram Saltwater Camera Mount To Film at 720p 60fps

The mount has worked flawlessly so far and I can’t wait to make a ton more videos mounting the camera in creative places now that I don’t have to worry about the mount I use rusting up in salt water conditions.

I pair it with the refurbished $79 saltwaterproof Kodak Playsport Zx3 which can actually take video under water for the perfect solution for the dock and on our lobster boats. The Kodak Playsport also takes 720p 60 frames per second video which allows me to edit slow motion or speed up the video . That feature isn’t even an option on many $1,500 DSLR’s. Adam Bolonsky turned me on to that camera after I found out he shot our footage from Saturday’s Greasy Pole with it.
Here is some of the footage he captured with it-

Here’s a link to buy it. I bought the refurbished one for $79 here-
Kodak Playsport ZX3 Refurbished

Pet of The Week From Cape Ann Animal Aid

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I am Alicia reminding you about the Gloucester Dog Parade on Saturday, August 6 at 10 a.m. as part of the Sidewalk Days.

The theme is "Super Heroes".  Every dog will win a keepsake.

Entree fee is $10. Pre-registration is encouraged by calling 978-283-6055 or info@capeannanimalaid.com.
I am a 16-month-old tiger cat who is black-and-grey.   I am resting at the Cape Ann Animal Aid located at 260 Main Street in Gloucester.   I have just finished raising my beautiful litter of kittens who have all found loving homes and I am hoping the same for myself.

I am receiving excellent attention at the shelter, but I still could use a day at the spa!

Alicia