I took this and slowed the video to one quarter actual time so you could see the strikes. About a third of the way through you can see a seagull gliding across the screen. I’ll have to do more of these. Feel free to forward to friends or family who may be out of town.
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.
Salting Herring Video
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Rich Mandelbaum Represents!
Rich is the man behind http://www.northshoretonight.com/ and also a chef beside Ken Duckworth at Duckworth’s Bistrot
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Katy and Marade Represent!
Seriously Marade?
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Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Meeting, June 10 2011
Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Meeting, June 10 2011
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets at 8:00pm on the second Friday of the month, at St Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville, on Cape Ann.
This month, join us and NASA Solar System Ambassador Ted Blank to find out all about the Cassini mission to Saturn!
The Cassini spacecraft has been returning stunningly beautiful images and undreamed of new discoveries since it arrived at Saturn in 2004, and the mission team has just received funding to continue operating the spacecraft until 2017. Find out why Cassini started its journey by being launched in the wrong direction (on purpose!) and what incredible things we have learned so far about Saturn, its rings and its moons. Learn about science instruments on board and the plans for the risky maneuvers planned during Cassini’s final orbits when it will pass inside the rings headed for a terminal encounter with Saturn’s atmosphere. Kids and adults will find this overview fun and exciting.
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Cape Ann Museum Presents St. Peter’s Fiesta – Inspired Family Fun Day
Viva San Pietro! Visit the Cape Ann Museum on Saturday, June 11 to learn more about Gloucester’s historic St. Peter’s Fiesta. The second Saturday of each month is family fun day from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Drop by to enjoy free admission for family members, gallery exploration handouts, and art & history activities, including Fiesta inspired oar decorating, a Fiesta parade map activity, and a Greasy Pole challenge. Light refreshments will be served throughout the day. This program is free and open to the public.
The Cape Ann Museum is located at 27 Pleasant Street in Gloucester. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Museum is closed on Mondays, and on major holidays. Admission is $8.00 adults, $6.00 Cape Ann residents, students and seniors. Children under 12 and Museum members are free. The Museum is wheelchair accessible. For more information please call: (978) 283-0455. Additional information can be found online at www.capeannmuseum.org.
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Feng Shui and The Anatomy of The Home
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BOSTON DERBY DAMES ROLLER DERBY BOUT June 11, 2011
BOSTON DERBY DAMES 
ROLLER DERBY BOUT
Bout 5- Double Header!
June 11, 2011
Boston Massacre vs. Gotham Girls, NY
Nutcrackers vs. Wicked Pissahs
WHO: Boston Derby Dames
WHAT: Full Contact, Flat Track Roller Derby
DATE: Saturday, June 11, 2011
WHERE: Shriners Auditorium, Wilmington, MA
TIME: Doors open 4 pm
Bout 1, 5pm: Nutcrkcrackers vs Wicked Pissahs
Bout 2, 7pm: Boston Massacre vs Gotham Girls
After party at 9pm with DJ John Barera
TICKETS: $16 online and at the door
Bout #1
Boston Massacre vs Gotham Girls
Boston versus New York rivalry is as old as time, and the roller derby world is no different. Boston last met Gotham at the 2010 East Coast Extravaganza, where they shocked the WFTDA world and the Gotham Girls by hanging with the perennial power house for 60 minutes of hard-hitting derby. With a thrilling new squad, the Massacre is hoping to finally exact revenge for season for season of blow-outs.
Bout #2
In their first meeting back in March, the Pissahs beat the Nuts by over 100 points. But since then, the Nuts played two incredible close games against the Cosmos, and the Cosmos gave the Pissahs a serious run for their money in April. That may mean this game could be a nailbiter, with the Nuts pulling out their first win of the season over a team that’s been undefeated since February 2010.
Get your tickets online today!
For more information or to purchase tickets visit:: www.bostonderbydames.com
The Boston Derby Dames are Boston’s first and only all-female, DIY, skater-owned and operated flat track roller derby league and proud members of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.
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Sam Hartson To Present- “This Is Fiesta” at Cape Ann Community Cinema
Sam Writes-
I don’t know how energetic that video is, but I thought it captured more of an epic moment. That feeling that so few know when they’re carried on the shoulders of their friends, lifting that once-seemingly unattainable flag high into the air and realizing they’ve earned a incredible achievement and can now be called a champ. What must he have been thinking, feeling. His mind, likely abuzz with euphoria and optimism and thoughts of what comes next. Fused permanently into Fiesta history and united with nearly 100 years of champions and culture. Only a select few know what it’s like to ride down Fiesta’s main artery and down the fort into the heart of that incredible Fiesta energy.
That’s what I tried to capture in “This is Fiesta”. It’s an understanding of Gloucester on that tremendous weekend. A perspective, a feeling. An emotion. There’s something in the air in Gloucester that just seems to overflow and pour into the streets of the hot and humid city in late June. The people are happier, electricity flows through their veins as well as through the lights around the altar, the core of St. Peter’s celebration that continually pumps music and excitement from its speakers and from the voices of hundreds of young guys and girls whose screaming voices can be heard miles away as they pay enormous amounts of money to ride and play at the carnival. Fiesta is less an event and more an experience, and everyone experiences it differently. So the film offers a different perspective and serves as an inspiration to really explore the events of this magnanimous cultural spectacle that is entirely unique to the fishing port. It encourages the audience to want to know more and to make their fiesta experience an original and memorable one.
Screen Captures From Sam Hartson’s “This Is Fiesta”
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THE 25th BLACKBURN CHALLENGE Coming July 23
The Blackburn Challenge, to be held on July 23 this year, is the premier human-powered open-water event on the east coast of North America. In 2011 the event will be especially exciting. Not only is it the silver anniversary running of the event, but is also the 6th annual North American Open Water Rowing Championship (NAOWRC).
One of the reasons why this event has been recognized as one of the best open water races in America is due to the venue – a 20 mile circumnavigation of Cape Ann Massachusetts – a course that inevitably serves up a wide variety of conditions on the water. The first three or so miles of the race are along the protected and tidal Annisquam River, resulting in something akin to a head race, but with plenty more interesting obstacles to avoid (mooring and navigation buoys, boats, docks, etc.) and a 17 mile open water race after it. Once the river empties into the open waters of Ipswich Bay, the wind strength and direction play a decisive role in determining the conditions of the day, which range from relative calm (it’s never a flat water event) to very rough (staying upright and afloat trump the idea of competition). The last couple of miles from the Dogbar Breakwater at the entrance of Gloucester Harbor to Pavillion Beach, are usually plagued by confused boat wakes from numerous fishing, whale watch and pleasure boats going in all directions. Each year at the Blackburn brings us a very different story, making the event so interesting for open-water aficionados. One thing that thankfully remains the same each year is the fun time after finishing – cold beer, massages, good music and food and the inevitable harrowing stories from the event. This is an event not to be missed!
All event information may be found at the event website: www.blackburnchallenge.com
Rich Klajnscek
President, Cape Ann Rowing Club
Click here for our links to Good Morning Gloucester’s year round coverage of The Blackburn Challenge
Photos from last year’s Blackburn Challenge from David Cox
GMG’s PAUL MORRISON ON HIS QUEST FOR BEER!
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The Lobster Pool Restaurant Rockport MA
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PR for Gloucester is Getting Gloucester Noticed
PR for Gloucester, the effort to promote Gloucester and boost our economy through positive media coverage, recently won two awards that highlight how well it’s working and the great articles that have been written about Gloucester in the past year.
You may remember PR for Gloucester was started by Tracey Muller, owner of the Bass Rocks Ocean Inn, Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bob Hastings and other Gloucester businesspeople. They hired the public relations firm Matter Communications to take back control of Gloucester’s image.
Over the last year, PR for Gloucester and Matter landed 46 positive articles about Gloucester and dozens of our businesses, reaching a total audience of 127 million people. Stories about Gloucester appeared in USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post,CapeCodToday.com, PlanetEyeTraveler and a bunch of other outlets. People around the country read these stories and then come shop in our stores and go out on our whale watch boats and eat in our restaurants. This kind of coverage is good for all of our businesses.
People are noticing PR for Gloucester’s success. This week, PR for Gloucester and Matter Communications won a Bell Ringer award, which is given by the Publicity Club of New England to successful PR campaigns. It’s the second award in two weeks. Last week, PR for Gloucester and Matter also won a Communicator Award, a national prize that honors excellence in communications.
The best part about all of this is it’s an effort that Gloucester businesses and the Cape Ann Chamber started themselves to put out a positive image of Gloucester, bring visitors here, and help all of our businesses. If you want to donate to help keep PR for Gloucester going, contact Bob Hastings at the Chamber at h@capeannchamber.com.
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Caffe Sicilia
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Eddie Salting The Herring
Bare handed. Covered with stinging wet salt and herring guts in the warm summer heat.
It’s a tough job but hey, Eddie’s a tough guy.
you know the drill- click the pics for larger versions
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Catherine Ryan Talks About Our Lady
Catherine Ryan writes-
I really like your cropped close up portraits of the our lady of good voyage in CAM and the craske Fisherman sculpture, by the way. Hard to do something new with these and I think you LOVE Gloucester so much they’re really portraits, alive for you.
The little carved wooden one has the boat and baby—given to Piatt Andrews (he and Gardener helped pay/raise funds for build out after fire) wonder why both and who worked with Halfdan H on it
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Inside The Saint Peter’s Club With Anthony Saputo
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Pumpkin–Cape Ann Animal Aid Pet of the Week
Pumpkin – Pet of the Week
My name is Pumpkin and I am a twenty-month-old cat. I have a lovely pumpkin and black coat which is truly beautiful. If you would like to meet me, I am at the Cape Ann Animal Aid (CAAA)at 260 Main Street in Gloucester. The CAAA is a non-profit shelter caring for
homeless cats and dogs. Check out our website at capeannanimalaid.com
Please consider adopting me! I am so looking forward to having a forever family to love. I am a calico cat and you probably already know we are known to bring good luck!
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Anita Coullard Dziedzic Represents!
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ART IN THE BARN June 9th-12
Hi Joey,
So many Greenbelt employees connected with Gloucester say you are THE news source on Cape Ann. We hope you can assist in publishing information about Greenbelt’s annual blockbuster – Art in the Barn, which will take place NEXT weekend, June 9-12. Details attached. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks much.
Mary Williamson
Director of Community Engagement
GREENBELT PRESENTS 22nd ANNUAL ART IN THE BARN
Artisan Showcase and Sale June 10 – 12 to benefit Essex County Greenbelt
Essex, MA, May 26, 2011: Essex County Greenbelt, the region’s premier membersupported
land conservation organization will present the 22nd Annual Art in Barn artisan
showcase and sale, June 10-12, at its Cox Reservation Headquarters in Essex. For one
weekend every June, the barns and grounds at the Cox Reservation are transformed with
color and form as paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolor, monoprints, ceramics and pottery,
jewelry and sculpture in wood and iron decorate the surfaces and surroundings of this iconic property. Even the conference room within the LEED certified, “green” headquarters will be transformed into creative jewelry display space, inviting all to discover the work of over 150 participating local artisans.
Greenbelt welcomes the public to Art in the Barn to see and purchase the diverse work of
talented artists from throughout the region, inspired by the natural landscapes and light that have drawn artists to Cape Ann and Essex County for decades. In fact, it is not unusual to see painters set up, palette in hand, on the many Greenbelt public reservations throughout the region. Renowned regional landscape painter and teacher, David P. Curtis, who frequently uses the Cox Reservation as his instructional “studio” confirmed, “For any plein air artist to have nature as an inspiration is important, but this location in particular, provides compositions and designs, which are ever varied and inexhaustible, to any creative individual.”
“The Cox Reservation has been an inspirational painting location for many years for many
artists – especially its namesake, Allyn Cox and his father Kenyon, two of America’s most
famous mural artists,” Mr. Curtis added. “From rolling meadows and open vistas, to the
intimate scenes of wildflowers along old stone walls, the Greenbelt has offered artists,
photographers and nature lovers, a beautiful tranquility that acts as a safe haven from the
world’s distractions,” he continued. And you could say the Greenbelt offers the ambiance of
particular state of mind. As Plato said, ‘It is beauty I seek, not beautiful things.’
Given its long-running popularity, Art in the Barn draws artists in every medium, and at
every experience level and price point. The participating artists submit to a rigorous
application and jury process for admission. The event continues to draw strong audience,
with crowds often numbering 4,000 attendees over three days. “Art in the Barn offers the
public a marvelous opportunity to see and purchase the work of fine regional artists, while
supporting Greenbelt’s important land conservation work,” said Sheilagh Doerfler,
Greenbelt’s Operations Manager, who manages the Art in the Barn event. “It’s one of many ways Greenbelt can connect people to the land and landscapes we cherish here in Essex County, and one way we can take a small piece of its beauty home with us!”
Sidebar: The schedule for the Art in the Barn 2011 event is as follows:
Public Exhibit: Friday, June 10, 9:30 am to 4 pm;
Wine & Cheese Reception: Friday, June 10, 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Exhibit: Saturday, June 11, 9:30 am to 6 pm
Public Exhibit: Sunday, June 12, 10 am to 4 pm
Since 1961, Greenbelt has been working with local individuals, families, farmers and
communities to protect ecological areas, farmland and scenic vistas. Greenbelt has protected more than 14,000 acres of local land in the last fifty years and has had a direct role in 75% of all land conserved during most of the last decade. For more information about Greenbelt programs visit http://www.ecga.org or call 978-768-7241
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Lobster Pool Restaurant
Dog friendly, family oriented, BYOB with unparalleled sunset views, the Lobster pool has a lot going for it. Simple, fresh, timeless- The Lobster Pool.
video coming tomorrow
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