Joey,

Annisquam’s Bob Cunningham, #13, reports that the Gloucester Frostbite Association’s 2023 season came to an end on Saturday, December 23, after 18 races since late November.  The GFA ’23-’24 season continues out of Lobster Cove with plans for one weekend day of racing through April.  Saturday’s race included “guest frostbite racer Ken Legler who coached the Tufts sailing team for 43 years and has a stellar sailing resume,” said Bob.  Ken was in #17.  Other participants often include several Gloucester High School sailors and a race committee that includes SailGHS coach Hilary Frye and Paul Horovitz.  The boats are retired MIT Fireflies purchased in 2021 by Northshore frostbite sailors. The colorful T on the sail marks the boats as MIT Fireflies.

Carl Gustin

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS, 

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 20

10:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.

Community Programs

Free and open to the public 

Celebrate the fish city’s recognizably salty character with local cultural institutions and businesses during the 3rd Annual Gloucester’s So Salty festival on January 20 and 21, 2024 from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm! Over 1,800 people came out last year to share their salty pride while enjoying free ice sculptures and cultural activities around Downtown Gloucester.

The Cape Ann Museum is partnering with Discover Gloucester and several area cultural institutions and businesses to offer two full days of free programming in the coldest part of the year. Inspired by the annual Salem’s So Sweet event, this two-day event will include ice sculptures, live music, salty treats, free kids’ art activities, and much more.

3rd Annual Gloucester’s So Salty Schedule of Events

Specific times subject to change, check back soon for even more fun activities!

All Weekend Activities:

• Grab a map from the Cape Ann Museum and find all the Ice Sculptures around Downtown Gloucester!
• Start at Mile Marker One with Breakfast in an Igloo or end it with a Sweet & Salty Cocktail in an Igloo, reservations recommended for igloos, 75 Essex Ave Route 133
• Free admission and art activities to the Cape Ann Museum, 27 Pleasant Street
• Strike a pose for a framed photo at Lockwood Studios Fine Art & Design Gallery, 2 & 4 Eastern Avenue
• 25% discount on room rates at the Blue Shutters Beachside Inn, 1 Nautilus Road, Gloucester
• 20% off all salt products at Cape Ann Olive Oil, 57 Main St.
• Grab a piece of Saltwater Taffy at Fireflies Boutique, 100 Main Street
• Salty Poetry Snippets at Dogtown Books, 132 Main Street
• 10% off Select ‘Salty’ Books and a “Salty Blind Date with a Book” at the Bookstore of Gloucester, 61 Main Street
• After Hours: 10% off your experience at Cape Ann Lanes/Laneside Pub & Brewery, 53 Gloucester Ave

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Please join us as we bid farewell to a year packed full of gatherings for one final hurrah on

Sunday, December 31st

Cape Ann YMCA

6:30-8:30pm

Expect an under-sea extravaganza featuring dazzling lights, warm beverages, delicious sweets, exciting music, and a community countdown to 2024

FEATURING:

Light Installation & Show by LuminArtz

Music by Kicked off the Bus

Cape Ann YMCA

7 Gloucester Crossing Road, Gloucester

Gloucester vs Barrington ~ Championship game, Cape Ann Savings Bank Tournament 12/28/2023 (Replay)
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A POEM BY BOB ALVES

She waits for those – Who cannot return

They she gave port – seasons past and once again

She looks back and leaves not without remembrance, for etched are the names – Knelt at the entrance

She is a warm blanket, providing comfort and alike

Well read, silently-still, amid promise – watching leaders voice in the lights

Though garments worn while seasons pass become frail – Life’s renewing cause, She inertly hales

For She will live long and has been taught

Comforted by garments of eld, provides not      

A Nor-easter, a heartfelt sigh   

The clouds forewarn, some may die 

It is now We, silently watched with a grin

She waits for those – Who cannot return

They She gave port – seasons past – and once again

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bob Alves is a graduate of Gloucester High School and Boston College. Bob’s waterfront roots go back to the early 70’s 

when he worked as a dock-boy for John Cluett with his brother Dean at Bickford’s Marina in Rocky Neck. At the age of 15 Bob’s grandmother bought him the first of many boats, a “Montgomery Fish” sailboat. Now in his mid-sixties, Bob continues to be a waterfront activist and enjoys his time with his brother aboard the “Message She Gave.”

COVER PHOTO: iStock Photo donated by Terry Weber Mangos