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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.
Virginia McKinnon’s Book “A Gloucester Fisherman’s Daughter Growing Up Sicilian American in the Oldest Seaport in America
Hi Joey, Finally at 93 years old I became a published author. I have sold over 100 books.
This makes a great Christmas gift for $25.00, including the Gloucester400+ Anniversary LOGO.
My book is for sale at the Book Store, 61 Main St, Cape Ann Museum, and Dogtown Book Shop.
My short stories are of my heritage growing up in Gloucester, all true life stories. Also I include my late husband’s WWII experiences in the Asiatic Pacific. I am available by email, mckinnon02@msn.com
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I’m pretty happy with my beef stew
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@FishermenGHS News:
Good day for the Fishermen at Sons of Italy Tournament, who finished 12th overall & many of strong JV efforts. Mike Toppan took home a 2nd place finish, & Jayden Toppan won his second SOI championship at 220. First Gloucester wrestler to repeat a championship at SOI.
Great 2-0 team win for Girls
at Medford. Goals for Parsons & Jewell, assist for Bouchie. Shutout for Cusamano Defense did great job get getting the puck out of the zone & controlling the game.
Congratulations to Northeastern Conference All-Conference selection Nicole Gardner.
Congratulations to Northeastern Conference All-Conference selections Frank DeSisto, Caleb DeCoste, Christian Howell & Kayden Souza and NEC All Stars Nick Carey & Michael Toppan!
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Sausage Biscuits and Gravy While Watching World Cup At George’s Coffee Shop
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Ring in the New Year on the water with Beauport Cruiselines!
Champagne toast, DJ entertainment, Mac & Cheese Bar, Chinese food station, and more. Purchase your tickets today at BeauportCruiselines.com.
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2022 Good Morning Gloucester Shop Local Series- Shop Loro
Kate and I are going to feature one or two local places to buy holiday gifts each day highlighting the fact that there’s no need to buy your presents online or trudge up to the mall.
There’s excellent places to shop right here in Gloucester.
Previous videos:
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-FIREFLIES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- TOODLEOOS
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES LOCAL COLORS
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES MYSTERY TRAIN
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- GOODLINENS STUDIO
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MARK ADRIAN SHOES
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SWEATS OF GLOUCESTER
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BOOKSTORE OF GLOUCESTER
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BRASS MONKEY
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- CAPE ANN OLIVE OIL
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- DESIGN OF MINE
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BANANAS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-POP GALLERY
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-SAMPLE THIS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-PASTAIO VIA CORTA
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SHORE NUTRITION
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- THE DRESS CODE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MERMAID TALES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- FLOTING LOTUS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BLUE RIVER DIAMONDS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SUPER CUTE BOUTIQUE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- ALEXANDRA’S BREAD
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- NELSON’S
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MACDADDY COMPUTERS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BEX MINI LOBSTER TRAP TREES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- LOBSTER TRAP GIFTS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- PAULINE’S GIFTS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- HOUSE OF THE RAVEN
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SAVOUR WINE AND CHEESE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SHACKTEAU INTERIORS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- THE WEATHERVANE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- CAPE ANN GICLEE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- GLOUCESTER HOUSE GIFT SHOP
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- ALL PURPOSE FLOWERS
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Join Us For The Stream Of The GloucesterCast 9:00AM Sunday 12/18/22 Link to join here- www.facebook.com/goodmorninggloucester
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Click title for Video Tour and pictures inside Soon To Open In Gloucester MA, Oak To Ember
OAK TO EMBER
9 Rogers Street
Gloucester. MA 01930
info@oaktoember.com
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Rockport Ambulance, Harbor, Police Blood Drive Wednesday December 21st
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heading out …photo: trudy clemens
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Beauport Hotel Flash Sale
Flash Sale! From December 18th – December 22nd, take advantage of our best available rates starting at $150* and relish in a relaxing getaway before the hustle and bustle of the holidays.
Get ready to lounge by the fireplace, take in the hotel’s sparkling Christmas décor, enjoy seasonal sips at the 1606 bar, and wake up to the relaxing sounds of the waves. A festive seaside escape awaits!
To book, follow the link below.
*Valid for December 18th – December 22nd, 2022 only. Based on availability, may not be combined with other offers or applied to existing reservations.
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Gloucester Fishermen vs Swampscott Big Blue Boys Varsity Basketball (replay) 12/16/22 From Cape Ann Live
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News from your YMCA!
| As the holidays approach and with 2023 is just around the corner, we are reminded of all we accomplished together in 2022.As a memberof your local Y, you are part of so much morethan a place to workout.You share in a mission to strengthen the community, every single day! While you enjoy your membership today, your Y is committed to creating lasting change for tomorrow. We provide$1.2 million in financial assistanceso everyone can enjoy YMCA membership, programs, & services.
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| We providedmore than 150 free membershipsto individuals & families who are coping with cancer.In collaboration withThe Open Door, we providedmore than 16,000 free meals to children through the Summer Meals program The Y is a place and a purpose.Learn more>>Keep an eye out for a special swag item to thank you, our members, for being part… |
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2022 Good Morning Gloucester Shop Local Series- All Purpose Flowers
Kate and I are going to feature one or two local places to buy holiday gifts each day highlighting the fact that there’s no need to buy your presents online or trudge up to the mall.
There’s excellent places to shop right here in Gloucester.
Previous videos:
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-FIREFLIES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- TOODLEOOS
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES LOCAL COLORS
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES MYSTERY TRAIN
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- GOODLINENS STUDIO
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MARK ADRIAN SHOES
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SWEATS OF GLOUCESTER
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BOOKSTORE OF GLOUCESTER
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BRASS MONKEY
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- CAPE ANN OLIVE OIL
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- DESIGN OF MINE
2022 GOOD MOORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BANANAS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-POP GALLERY
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-SAMPLE THIS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES-PASTAIO VIA CORTA
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SHORE NUTRITION
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- THE DRESS CODE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MERMAID TALES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- FLOTING LOTUS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BLUE RIVER DIAMONDS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SUPER CUTE BOUTIQUE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- ALEXANDRA’S BREAD
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- NELSON’S
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- MACDADDY COMPUTERS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- BEX MINI LOBSTER TRAP TREES
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- LOBSTER TRAP GIFTS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- PAULINE’S GIFTS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- HOUSE OF THE RAVEN
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SAVOUR WINE AND CHEESE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- SHACKTEAU INTERIORS
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- THE WEATHERVANE
2022 GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER SHOP LOCAL SERIES- CAPE ANN GICLEE
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If You Watch The GloucesterCast You’re Familiar With Our Bananas Rating System- I’ve now developed an upside down banans rating system with examples
If Something Is Bananas Is Really Good- Bananas Bananas Is Really Really Good- Triple Bananas Is The Gold Standard. If something gets the Bananas Bananas Bananas rating this is the ultimate in crazy bananas good stuff.
We also use it in regards to things being bananas in a crazy WTF kinda way and I edited a standard banana in a graphics program to create an upside down banana so we can use it to describe stuff we find bizarrely bananas.
behold the upside down bananas emoji edited by Joey Ciaramitaro:
Edited with transparent background for use on flyers, etc.
Now for example a Triple Bananas Rating I think we can all agree on are the $1 Oysters during bar bites hours at Tonno.
That is bananas bananas bananas in an exceptionally good way
A Triple Upside Down Bananas Rating example would be the 10 knot speed limit for boats 35 feet or larger.
That is bananas bananas bananas in an exceptionally terrible way.
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How’s your Christmas Going?
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HYMN FOR GLOUCESTER AT 400
John Ronan submits-
Hi Joey,
Attached is my poem “Hymn for Gloucester at 400,” an anniversary poem I will read at the kickoff Jan. 15, 2023. I sent it to the GDT and the 400 stories site and – because you’ve got more reach than anybody!!! – I wanted you to have it, too.
Have a good Christmas and keep up your excellent work.
Best and Health,
John
Hymn for Gloucester at 400
by John J. Ronan
The Man at the Wheel beholds an ocean,
As past the ocean steady eyes
Transfix a deeper, distant horizon
The cenotaph dead will tell you is time.
He sees the Normans, Basques, the Grand
Atlantic Banks, Champlain, a Frenchman
Presaging Smith’s Tragabigzanda,
Rechristened quickly the kinder Cape Ann.
Sees Gloucester’s birth and Fisherman’s Field,
A lively Dogtown, early sloops,
Colonial pride and commonweal
In Blynman’s Canal and early schools,
In Murray, Rogers, fish and trade,
Despite the crush of Crown attacks
By savage British troops, charades
Of regal honor, legal tax,
Until he sees on Lexington Green
Both Minute Men and Minute Women
Renounce with arms a king and queen –
The war of independence, won!
The newly minted nation begins
As Gloucester’s helmsman now admits
Italians, Irish, Poles and Finns,
The Scot, the Swede, forgiven Brits
Pursuing life and liberty, happiness,
Divergent faiths and customs welcome:
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist,
The tempest-tossed, rejected, welcome
Where titled idlers must start anew,
Where slowly slave and native claim
Their rightful freedoms, overdue,
And hand-me-down hate is shamed.
The helmsman looks on years of peace
And war, on commerce, art, as sons
And daughters succeed ashore, at sea.
His watch is ended, his watch begun.
As even now, he guides with skill,
This mettled man, heroic cast
Of eye to windward, tacking still
The open ocean’s future, past:
The ebb and flow and undertow
Of sorrow, Patriot, Andrea Gail…
And yet Fiesta, Horribles, hope,
September schooners under sail.
Below the bronze, Atlantic waves
Anoint the helmsman, his wife, a boy
And baby, fifty states their wake,
Our bright and spangled land in convoy
As we, helmsmen, helmswomen, astride
With Him the foam-flecked deck, converged
As one on time’s horizon, recite
America’s prayer, the citizen pledge,
And salt of serious earth, as sea-salt hands,
Acclaiming to fourth and future jubilees
This weatherly granite, Gloucester, proudly stand
At history’s helm and brave the blustering seas.
SIDEBAR:
John J. Ronan is a former Poet Laureate of Gloucester, a Professor Emeritus at North Shore Community College, and host of The Writer’s Block at 1623 Studios. He wrote the first draft of this poem in 2018 and has been revising it since as the anniversary nears. The form is loosely based on what the English minister and hymnologist, Isaac Watts, called long hymn meter.
