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Summer arrives today, Tuesday, June 21st, at 1:16pm EDT. Wishing you all a warm, healthy, joyful season!
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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Exhibition of St. Peter’s Fiesta Photos by Greg Cook
Greg Cook Photo
Greg Cook will exhibit his photos of Gloucester’s St. Peter’s Fiesta in the front window of Mystery Train, 21 Main St., Gloucester, from June 23 to July 3, 2011. Cook will be present at a 30-minute exhibition reception that will be held in front of the store window a half hour after the conclusion of the greasy pole contest on Saturday, June 25. So somewhere around 7 or 7:30 Saturday night.
This small exhibit, in the window where the St. Peter’s statue was displayed for many years, features Fiesta highlights from the past three years—from greasy pole walkers to the procession of statues and icons of saints through downtown Gloucester, from seine boat races to a pie eating contest. Over 15 years of photographing the St. Peter’s Fiesta, Cook has taken his camera onto the greasy pole platform and into seine boats, followed greasy pole champions as they were carried up Pavilion Beach and stood next to Cardinal Sean O’Malley in Holy Family Church as he blessed the procession. His photos of St. Peter’s Fiesta are a comprehensive and intimate account of Gloucester’s great summer ritual.
Cook’s photos can be seen at gregcookland.com. In addition to St. Peter’s Fiesta, Cook has spent years photographing community-building spectacles across the region—Chinese New Year Lion Dances in Boston, the Honk Parade of radical marching bands in Somerville, the Festival Betances greased pole climbing contest (vertical versus Gloucester’s horizontal one) in Boston, the monster costumes of the Mirabal Carnival Dancers in Lawrence, St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston, and the Boston Caribbean Carnival. A selection of his photos of Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont from the past three years appeared in the June 2011 issue of the national art magazine Juxtapoz.
Cook lived in Gloucester for 11 years, including a stint reporting for The Gloucester Daily Times, before moving into Boston to write for The Boston Phoenix. He now lives in Malden. He organized a guerrilla exhibit of 21 artists and collectives at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts on June 15, 2011, that was reported widely, including on WBUR radio, the Boston Globe, GoodMorningGloucester, and, nationally, on the front page of the Huffington Post. Cook is the founding editor of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research (which won a 2009 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant), an award-winning cartoonist (his comics have been published in Nickelodeon Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Believer and many other places), and founder of The New England Art Awards, a regional open-source contest supporting art created here.
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Video- Greasy Pole It’s Coming
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Vito G’s Wharf June 2011 From Ernie Morin
Ernie Morin Photos
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Scott Horne On The Touch Of Grey Heads In to the Dock
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Paulding-Ransom Family From Brentwood, California Represent!
California Visiting the Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial (THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS 1623 – 1923)
With a GoodMorningGloucester greeting, the Paulding-Ransom family from Brentwood, California visit Gloucester Thursday before they head to the Boston Red Sox game on Friday night. Rob and Gina with sons Nicky and Joey.
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40 Scottish Lasses on Tour in Annisquam
40 Scottish Lasses on Tour in Annisquam
Fourty music students from St. George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland will fill the Annisquam Village Church with songs from the highlands, standards from the American song book, and other repertoire on Friday, July 1, at 7:30 PM. On tour in the northeast, they play at King’s Chapel in Boston the following day. Blowing into town with their brass instruments (there’s even an all-saxaphone ensemble), the girls bring their youthful energy and fresh sound to Gloucester. Don your plaids and tams, and get ye to the Kirk! Donation at the door: $15. Children, accompanied by an adult $5.
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The Burnham’s Field Gardener Series Part III- Gina Curcuru
The Burnham’s Field Gardener Series Part III
 Burnham’s Field is the largest green space in central Gloucester. Recently there’s been a resurgence of pride in Burnham’s Field, including a new 20-plot garden. GoodMorningGloucester is now running a series of video profiles of the Burnham’s Field Community Gardeners. Here are their stories.
 From John McElhenny
 Burnham’s Field Gardener – Gina Curcuru
 Gina Curcuru reveals her secret technique for keeping birds out of her garden and her strong family ties to Gloucester’s most famous holiday. “Emotionally it’s a good thing to grow something from seed,” she says.
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Special Focus Tours At The Cape Ann Museum June 25th, July 2 and 9th
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Historic Gloucester Harbor Cruise Starting June 23
http://www.capeannharbortours.com/index.html
For more info – contact Schooner Adventure at 978-281-8079
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It’s Fiesta Week At Cape Ann Community Cinema & The Annie
During St. Peter’s Fiesta on Wednesday, June 22nd through Sunday, June 26th, two of Gloucester’s West End venues in the heart of all of Fiesta’s happenings offer up a host of different events to entertain, enrich and enlighten Fiesta-goers.
The Cape Ann Community Cinema (CACC) at 21 Main Street has two films.
Sam Hartson’s new documentary entitled “This Is Fiesta” makes its debut, with shows Wednesday through Sunday at 5:00pm. Hartson is best-known for his “Celebrate Gloucester” concert film.
Also, Gloucester native Sal Zerilli’s documentary about The Fort Neighborhood called “No Pretty Prayer” returns, with shows Wednesday through Friday at 7:00pm, and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30pm and 7:00pm. The film sold out every show at its CACC premiere this winter.
Friday at 9:00pm, the Cinema’s “Opera On The Island” program presents (in glorious HD) Giuseppi Verdi’s “La Traviata” from Milan’s La Scala.
Saturday at 9:00pm, The Earl Foote Band hits the stage for a rare appearance. Foote is half of the Cape Ann favorites Earl & Arch, creators of the essence of Gloucester song “Gloucester ‘Til The End.”
All Fiesta shows at CACC are considered special events, and are priced at $10.00 (no passes accepted). Tickets are available at the Cinema or online at www.CapeAnnCinema.com.
Across the street at The Annie at 1 Washington Street in Gloucester, the Henry Allen TheatreWorks Cape Ann production of “Greasy Pole: The Musical!” concludes its run. The show is a funny, bright and poignant 45-minute musical history of the Fiesta sporting event known as The Greasy Pole, in which competitors, known as “walkers,” attempt to traverse a greased-up 45-foot telephone suspended off the end of a platform in Gloucester Harbor off of Pavilion Beach. Henry Allen of The Annie and Keith Palazzola wrote the book, and Rob Newton of the CACC and Kitt Cox wrote the music and lyrics. The show runs Thursday at 6:30pm & 7:30pm, Friday at 6:00pm & 7:00pm, Saturday at 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 6:00pm & 7:00pm and Sunday at 7:00pm, 8:00pm, 9:00pm & 10:00pm. Tickets for all performances are $15.00, and are available at The Annie or online at www.TheAnnie.org.
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Old Picture of Shores Wharf From Bill Hubbard
Joey,
It’s great to see the old pictures of the waterfront you run occasionally.
Here’s one of my favorites. It was taken from E. Main Street looking out over Shores’ Wharf to Smith Cove and Rocky Neck with the city skyline beyond. One of these days I’m going to have to paint it. The card is dated 1935 which is the year I was born and, I remember that view but, with a house just to the left foreground.
Bill Hubbard
Visit my artists website at: http://bill-hubbard.fineartamerica.com/
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Chickity Check It! North Shore Kid Camp & Summer Program Guide
Hey Joey,
School let out on Friday for a lot of kids, and Summer started for a lot of families that afternoon. I just wanted to share our camp guide with parents that still may be looking for a summer program or camp for their child this summer, or are looking to fill any gaps that may have come up in their scheduled activities. A lot of programs and camps are full already, but there are plenty out there that still have openings…
North Shore Kid has developed THE tool for parents searching for the right camp or summer program for their child. The North Shore Kid 2011 Summer Program & Camp Guide is an easy-to-use, searchable, extensive resource online that includes:
- Featured camps
- Stories about camps and summer programs
- A proximity search that will list camps within a radius that you determine based on a zip code you enter.
- A category cloud that will list camps in that category when you click it.
Our guide includes many camps and summer programs from the North Shore of Massachusetts, Cape Ann, Boston and beyond. Our listings typically include information like a synopsis of the camp and its location (with a map on the click through). Additional information includes contact phone numbers & emails, website links, registration download links, facebook pages and twitter links. We have also put a lot of work into our tagging system in an eefrot to help parents focus or expand their searches based on program activities and philosophies. Listing range from focused sports camps to typical day camp settings to high tech computer summer programs to island camps!
Parents who are looking to save time and focus on the right program for their child should check it out here: http://www.northshorekid.com/camps
Enjoy,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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and so it begins 2011 st peter’s fiesta jr seine boat practice 4:40am 6/20/11
For The Continuing Good Morning Gloucester Fiesta Coverage Click Here
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Scotty Clayton- 1986 Greasy Pole Champ
The former champ turns 50 days after his walk next Sunday
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This Is What We Live For
Prints available at Tiny Island Beach Glass 44 MAIN ST GLOUCESTER MA
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Where Zat?
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the baby bird from donna ardizzoni
many of you will remember last week donna sent us a picture of the baby robin’s eggs under her porch
well lookey here, just in time for father’s day-
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Greg Bover’s Quote of the Week from George Carlin
June 18, 2011
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
George Carlin (1937-2008)
A five-time Grammy award winner, Carlin’s often dark humor can be heard on 20 albums, in six books, and appears in ten movies. A native New Yorker, he made his name on the Ed Sullivan Shoe and the Tonight Show, first with Jack Paar and later and even more frequently with Johnny Carson, for whom he often substituted as host. Carlin was the first host of Saturday Night Live. His best known routine was Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television, for which he was arrested and fined on several occasions. Liberal, brilliant, thoughtful and reflective, he took stand-up to a new level while supporting free speech and free thinking. He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2008.
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Cape Ann Skeptics in the Pub Will Meet June 21st
he next meeting of Cape Ann Skeptics in the Pub will be Tues., June 21st.
The program will be “Whose Bridge is it anyway?” presented by John Dugger, AIA.. It will be on the age-old conflict between engineers, architects, contractors and the general public over who’s in charge and who should be in charge. He will delve into the history of the myth of "expertise" and how to get it.
As usual the Skeptics will meet at 6:00 at the Dog Bar, 65, Main St. Gloucester. The program begins at 6:30. We hope to see you there for this special presentation. Visit the website at www.capeannskeptics.com
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