Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Good morning! Nice to see you yesterday afternoon at my PT job slinging liquor at “the Locker!” Getting organized this morning and attaching a copy of the cool letterhead used by Consolidated Lobster Company back in the 1930s Not exactly sure when my grandmother, Aune (Hakkila) Gray worked there, but believe it was when she was young, before she married my grandfather Don Gray. My mother was born in 1937.
It’s pretty snazzy letterhead – raised type and nice color. I love that the lobster is holding a top hat and a cane. I think you had a GMG post several years back with a photo of one of Consolidated’s delivery trucks. Great history. Located in Bay View. I have a few copies of the letterhead if you’d like one.
Happy Summer, Joey! See you around town. I am pretty sure I am working one shift on the Water Shuttle for Capt. Steve Douglass this summer, so will shout over if we pick up passengers at Cripple Cove!
Bev Low

Here is a link to my e-commerce shop at Cape Ann Giclee-

UPDATE:

THE FREE GMG NIGHTLY EMAIL PRINT FUNDRAISING IS FUNDED! ($851 OUT OF $799) THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO PURCHASED PRINTS! ANY MONEY RECEIVED FOR PRINTS AFTER TODAY WILL BE PUT TOWARD NEXT YEARS’ EMAIL NEWSLETTER COST. ANY PRINTS ORDERED NOW WILL NOT BE DONE BEFORE FATHER’S DAY GIFTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING THE BLOG!

I created two new prints which are now available at the Cape Ann Giclee Website all of the profits from the sales of these will go toward paying for the email service that used to be free but now will cost me $799 per year.

New Prints Available:

Do you have stuff to sell and want to support the awesome Lanesville Community Center? Come join our multi-family yard sale on Saturday, June 26, from 9-1 at the LCC, 8 Vulcan St., Lanesville. Bring your own table, register, donate $20 to the LCC and enjoy the profits from your sales.  If you don’t have anything to sell, come join us on the beautiful grounds for great finds. So far, we know there will be art and jewelry making supplies, appliances, clothing, linens, household goods, tools, garden stuff, and vintage items, and the list grows!
Hope to see you there! Questions? Call or text Mary Beth at 978-879-7108See you there!

THE FREE SERVICE THAT SENDS OUT THE GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER NIGHTLY EMAIL IS SHUTTING DOWN JULY 1.

The daily GMG emails that you have been receiving for over 13 years have been sent out using a free service. As you see above the service that sends out those emails for free is being terminated. A replacement service is going to charge me between $799 and $999 per year.

This is the pricing from Feedblitz, a replacement service for the service that I’ve been using for free since the blog started. This is being discontinued in July (see the notification at the top of this post and the new pricing below).

That’s way too much for me to absorb on top of the blog hosting fees, podcast hosting fees, podcast studio software fees, url registration fees and so on.

I HATE ASKING FOR MONEY. I MEAN I HATE, HATE IT.

I can offer prints through Cape Ann Giclee which if we sell 20 or so I think we’d be covered after I pay for the printing.

I can keep track of how many are purchased and keep people updated on how close we are. Father’s Day is the 20th.

If you order a print and we get to that level I don’t have to run a fundraiser. You’d actually be killing two birds with one stone. You’d get a print for yourself or the dad/s in your life and we can keep putting out the email blast for free.

If you value the work the entire team puts in please consider placing an order for a print. I put over $3000 into producing the podcast in the past two years. Yes I love doing it, and I love supporting our local sports teams, local restaurants, local businesses and countless other causes. But this is an expense I did not anticipate.

Here is a link to my e-commerce shop at Cape Ann Giclee-

I will keep everyone updated as to the sales and promise to keep any sales over the amount needed for this 12 month period to put toward next year’s email distribution subscription fee.

I’m not asking for something for nothing, I just know how important the email blast is to a lot of people. If you have any questions feel free to email me at goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com

I’ll keep this post stickied to the top of the page and keep it updated with the sales.

From Jackie Bennett:

ANTHONY WELLER OBITUARY

The American musician and writer, Anthony Weller passed away on June 3, 2021, at age 63, as a result of complications from primary progressive MS, which he had battled since 2006. A longtime resident of Gloucester, MA, Weller also lived on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and in coastal Italy.

Born on September 18, 1957 in Macon, Georgia, Weller was the son of Gladys Lasky, a British ballet scholar and George Weller, an American war correspondent and novelist. Anthony Weller was a jazz and classical guitarist, he first studied the guitar at Phillips Exeter (class of ’75) with Walter Spalding and began playing professionally at 18. He took a degree in music at Yale, then moved to New York, where he was active in both genres. Weller also trained extensively as a composer with Julián Orbón, and wrote works for piano, orchestra, voice, and chamber ensembles, as well as for solo guitar. He left NYC to live in Amsterdam and Paris, before settling in the Boston area.

On classical guitar Weller was a longtime disciple of the virtuoso Rey de la Torre, one of the great guitarists of the 20th century and the most eminent disciple of Miguel Llobet. He performed and taught the world over and premiered the work of composers Julián Orbón, David Erlanger, Steven Kinigstein, and Robert J. Bradshaw. He also performed with the Boston Artists Ensemble, and with flamenco guitarists Valdemar Phoenix and Peter Regis in Guitarramania. He contributed a master class and a concert to both the 2004 and 2006 Newport Guitar Festivals.

Weller’s main jazz studies were with Allen Hanlon and Ike Isaacs; he also studied with Pat Martino and Tuck Andress. A greater influence were his friendships with London guitarist John Etheridge, with whom he gave concerts in the USA and the Middle East, and with legendary solo guitarist Tommy Crook of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He regularly collaborated with Turkish Cypriot pianist Arman Ratip, playing a hybrid of jazz and Turkish folk music.

While often performing solo, Weller was also part of four prominent groups. As a member of the Jon Jarvis Trio, he recorded with violinist Stéphane Grappelli and appeared in New York’s JVC Jazz Festival and at Birdland. He was a co-founder of Chamber Jazz, with trombonist Philip Swanson and reedman Michael Rossi. Starting in 1995, he was the guitarist with the trio of eminent trumpeter Herb Pomeroy. More recently he joined forces with vocalist Maggie Galloway and bassist Bob Nieske. He also performed frequently with clarinetist Billy Novick and bassist Thomas Hebb. In all, Weller released fifteen CDs, both classical and jazz.

While in New York he began to work as a journalist, traveling extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, the South Pacific, Central America, and the Caribbean. Over the years he wrote more than one hundred and fifty articles for National Geographic Traveler, The Paris Review, Forbes, GEO, The New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, and many other periodicals. He received a Lowell Thomas Award for foreign reporting in 1993.

In 1996 Marlowe & Co. published Weller’s novel, The Garden of the Peacocks; the next year they released a travel memoir of India and Pakistan, Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber; and in 1998 another novel, The Polish Lover. A third novel, The Siege of Salt Cove, was published by W. W. Norton in 2004. His last published novel, The Land of Later On, appeared in 2011.

Weller edited and wrote a long essay for First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (Crown, 2006, introduction by Walter Cronkite). This was the reporting by his father, George Weller, which had been blocked by censors at the time [September 1945] and thought lost to history until Anthony found copies among his late father’s papers. Acclaimed by historians, it was named by Kirkus one of the best books of the year. In 2009 Weller edited an enormous follow-up compilation for Crown of his father’s finest 1941-45 reporting, Weller’s War: A Legendary Correspondent’s Saga of World War II on Five Continents.

In 2021, Weller’s first book of poetry appeared, a set of forty sonnets to his wife, Sonnets of Death and Love, with images by artist Mary Heebner.

Weller is survived by Kylée Smith, his beloved wife of 24 years, and by a large community of friends and fans for whom his absence leaves a gap that will never be filled. The grace, determination, and courage with which he endured his cruel disease was an inspiration to all who knew him. A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please contribute in Anthony’s name to the charity of your choice.