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.
NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION – EXHIBITION IV “SMALL PAINTINGS” & MUSIC AT EDEN’S EDGE CONCERT- A TRIBUTE TO VINCENT FERRINI
North Shore Arts Association presents Artists Members Exhibition IV “Small Paintings”. The show will run from Sunday, July 24th through Saturday August 6th. Artists Members Exhibition III will continue through Saturday, July 23rd in the main gallery.
North Shore Arts Association is proud to host Music at Eden’s Edge on Saturday, July 23rd during their summer-long 30th Anniversary Celebration with the annual Norbert and Francesca Benotti Memorial Concert at 8 pm. This performance pays tribute to the late Vincent Ferrini, whose poetry inspired “Listening to the Sea Winds!”
North Shore Arts Association has a thriving artist membership of over 350 contemporary artists recognized nationally and worldwide. They come not only from Cape Ann, but throughout North America. NSAA’s historic old building, located at 11 Pirates Lane in Gloucester, provides the opportunity to view the largest collection of paintings and sculpture on Cape Ann.
North Shore Arts Association is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sundays from Noon to 5:00 pm. The gallery extends its evening hours to 8 pm on Fridays through August. In addition to exhibitions, NSAA also offers demonstrations, workshops, lectures, critiques, an art auction on August 6 and more. Please call 978-283-1857 or visit www.nsarts.org for more information.
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Run Gloucester Chosen as Race to Run by Runner’s World
Considering The Huge World-Wide Circulation Of Runner’s World This Is A Great Article For The Race and Gloucester PR In General
Click the photo to read full sized. I have a nice photo credit for my man at the wheel pic 
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Grandma Ethel Needs To Put Down the Crack Pipe
Grandma Ethel’s Lobster Rolls Rock
A Recipe from Island Creek Oyster Bar
It all started out innocently enough. It seemed reasonable when you quickly scanned over Granny’s ingredient list and hey, I can even let a lobster roll that has celery in it ride without calling them out but there it was, looming. The devil in the details-
PICKLES!!!!!!
Ingredients
4 1¼-pound lobsters, steamed
1 c. mayonnaise
½ c. pickles, diced small
½ c. celery, diced small
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. celery salt
2 tbsp. kosher salt
2 tsp. white pepper
6 tbsp. butter
8 hot dog buns
She was doing so well.
- regular hot dog rolls- check
- butter- check
- mayo- check
But then the train veers off the tracks
Celery, lemon both no-nos, but the issue which is unforgivable here is glaring- the addition of goddamn pickles to a lobster roll.
Unforgivable.
Once again I will refer to a simply acronym which tells it all- KISS
Keep It Simple Stupid
There is no need to get all crazy just to be different. You can understand how some bananahead out in California could make this kind of mistake. But someone from the Northeast?
For shame!
At least it’s not as bad as last week’s debacle from the broads in California who tried to pass off a lobster roll using frozen lobster meat, celery, onions, lemon and jalefuckingpenos.
Or Bucky From Ohio who details a lobster roll made on a French baguette.
Granny must think she has Tiger Blood ala Charlie Sheen if she thinks sneaking such ridiculous ingredients like pickles into a lobster roll is gonna go unnoticed.
Not Here- Not Now Granny. It’s Lobster Roll Eatin’ Season and We Ain’t Gonna Let You Lead These Poor Unsuspecting Folks Down A Lobster Roll Road Paved With Pickles Of All Things!
Here’s how to do it Grannycakes
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Beautiful Industry- Viking’s Office Door At The East Gloucester Marine Railways As Seen From Inside The GMG Gallery Khan Studio
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Missing Person- Truck Found
Gloucester, Truck Found 1/4 Mile From Exit 14 on the Southbound Side of 128.
Male 49 years old 6 foot tall, bald, wearing shorts and a t shirt and wearing glasses.
Allergic to bees.
Truck ticketed on 128 before 3PM yesterday July 18th
Any information please contact Gloucester Police 978-283-1212
answers to Jay- Photo please be on the look out
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The Jersey Exile Does Block Party
Barbara Bodin Paints During The July 2011 Block Party
Fred Bodin Writes-
Barbara Bodin, Fred Bodin’s sister, paints outside his galley in the West End during the Block Party. Barb is visiting from Martha’s Vinyard to take painting workshops at the North Shore Arts Association. And, of course, spend some quality time with her brother. The view is of diners in front of La Tratoria.
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It’s Calling You- Can You Feel It Pounding In Your Heart? It’s Gloucester…
A collection of photos taken between 4-5AM from December 2008-July 2011 in Gloucester MA
Ask Yourself-
What Are You Missing If You’re Not Here?
You Only Have One Life- Start Living It!!!!
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Good Morning Gloucester Old Cuban Cigar and Folly Cove Rum Sail Aboard The Thomas E. Lannon Pics From Terry Weber
Click On Terry To See The Slide Show!
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Gloucester Views From Up High- Beacon Marine From Kathy Chapman’s Studio
In the heart of God’s Country (East Gloucester) Kathy Chapman found herself this incredible space to work and live. Yeah, I think I could be inspired working out of a studio space like this 
Kathy Chapman
Photography and Graphic Design
Web portfolio: http://www.kathychapman.com
Kathy showed me some of the multiple exposure work that she is doing and believe me when I tell you that post seeing her captures I was completely humbled by her awesomeness.
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What Up Homie?
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Lisa Ramos Represents! Down In Sanibel
Joey, I brought my GMG sticka to Sanibel last week to represent at Blind Pass. Funny thing happened on the way back to get coffee. I went into the Sanibel Bean shop. They have great photos of people all over the world holding theirs too. But then when I told the lady that I have just done the same with my Good Morning Gloucester sticka and showed it to her, and asked for a Sanibel bean bumpa sticka and I would take a pick in front of the fishermans statue for her, she could not understand what I was asking for.
Lady -"What is it you would like dear?"
Me- "A bumpa sicka"
Lady "A what?"
Me – " A BUMPA STICKA!"
Lady – "what?"
Me- pause "Oh sorry a bumperrrr stickerrrr"
Then I got one of hers and gave her my GMG sticka.
Lisa Ramos
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From The Donna Ardizzoni Files–Donna & Rick Loving Living Here
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Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar Coming to Main Street August 4th, 5th & 6th
The Gloucester Downtown Association is happy to announce that they will be coordinating the 53rd Annual Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar scheduled to take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday : August 4th, 5th and 6th from 9:00 am to 5:00pm each day rain or shine. The Bazaar has become a Gloucester tradition that incorporates shopping, outdoor dining, music, children’s activities, artists and crafters along side local non-profit organizations.
Shoppers will be able to choose from a wide array of goods and diners will find plenty of great food. In addition to the traditional sausages, pizza, popcorn and slush, a number of Main Street restaurants will be creating special menu offerings and serving outdoors.
Local non-profit organizations continue to be an integral part of the event with church, school, health, wellness, and civic organizations represented. Planned children’s activities include miniature train rides, giant inflatable, face painting, jugglers, and the popular Cape Ann Vernal Pond snakes and let’s not forget the dog parade on Saturday!
Plan to come down one day or all three and help us create an event that is A True Celebration of our Downtown. There promises to be something for everyone.
To download an application go to businc.org and click on Sidewalk Bazaar applications or contact Grace Giambanco Numerosi at 978-337-7117 or email her at gracegiambanco@hotmail.com
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Leonardo’s Chicken Kabob Sub
Leonardo’s has been quickly climbing up my local sub shop rankings.
So crazy how many great places we have to get sandwiches.
Virgilios, Sclafanis, Destinos and Leonardos sit atop the leader board followed closely by at least 10 other very worthy other sandwich joints.
I think the way they toast their buns gives them a nice touch.
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The Thomas E. Lannon Photo From Len Burgess
A beautiful sight out off of Gloucester Harbor.
Len Burgess
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Bob and Dave Featured on The Cover Of “I Love My Bike” Book
Bob and Dave have moved their eclectic vintage stuff and classic bike shop to the bottom floor of the Beacon Marine Basin.
While visiting Bob and Dave Bob let me know they were featured on the cover of the “I Love My Bike Book” that’s them in the bottom right portion of the cover posing at the Eastern Point Lighthouse-
Here is a little about the “I Love My Bike” book from it’s authors on it’s website–
Matt and I love everything about bicycles. Our excitement for all things cycling is only surpassed by the great friends that we have met along the way. It is with this sentiment that we set out on a journey to find people with strong bonds to their bikes and cycling community to be a part of a photo book.
Last fall, we began photographing our cycling friends around Boston, and taking short treks to New Hampshire, New York City, and Philadelphia to track down people riding their bikes. We met so many great people on these first trips. Almost everyone we stopped and asked to be photographed with his or her bicycle answered, “I love my bike!” Every person that we shot gave us the names of at least two of their cycling-obsessed friends that we should include in the book, and before we knew it, we started getting more emails than we could handle from bicycle-lovers all over the world.
With the help of friends, old and new, and some very gracious sponsors, The Ace Hotel, Open Bicycle, and Print Brigade, we have been fortunate enough to have the means to travel to big cities and little towns to find fellow purveyors of humankind’s greatest invention: the bicycle.
Along our travels, Matt and I have had the tremendous pleasure of being in the company of so many people of great importance to their respective cycling cultures—many of whom are our personal heroes– but they stand side by side with a community of people who are, quite simply, bicycle enthusiasts like us.
The book that we are creating is not about a singular style of bike or type of cycling, but rather about all of us in a grand kinship of bicycles. We want to capture the strength, will power, and grit as well as the creativity, sense of humor, and whimsy of riding a bike.
Matt and I have had so much fun meeting cyclists of all ages and backgrounds, and also taking in a few solitary moments with the landscape of the places we have traveled to. Our sincerest thanks to all of the bicycling folks that we have met along the way.
If anyone is interested in being a part of the book, we would love to meet or go for a ride!
Brittain and Matt
Here is a video about the project featuring it’s authors.
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Like Father- Like Daughter Stoga and Alysha, Gloucester Fishermen
Note the guts and scales on Alysha’s forearm- she’s not afraid to work.
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Gloucester At Dawn Good Harbor Beach 4:50AM 7/17/11
Good Morning Gloucester 