Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

August is Festival Month on Cape Ann!  Did you know that the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce organizes the following fun events?

• August 3 – Festival By the Sea in Manchester
• August 10 – Gloucester Block Party
• August 18 – 39th Annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival
• August 30 – Gloucester Block Party

As a kid, a rainy summer day in Gloucester in the 1960s meant a movie at the theater on Main Street, Candle Pin Bowling by the dreaded rotary, a museum, or arts and crafts at home with WSBK on the TV as background noise. When it came to arts and crafts, it was a mix of writing and addressing postcards my mother insisted my sister and I send to friends and relatives before school started in the fall, and my weird, creative, warped mind screwing with those postcards. My mother blamed it on MAD Magazine, which is why I read it. Years later I would work for MAD, so there you go, mom!

 

Decades before the computer, email or Photoshop, I would sit and cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers, then using gobs of Elmer’s Glue to paste them onto the postcards. Each one a piece of art. No longer would I hear how anyone got the same postcard, and considering there were only six different postcards available at Mal’s (then Ame’s, now a giant Stop& Shop), it was quite an accomplishment.

 

During the 1980s I was able to make color copies of postcards I was still defacing. I now have folders full of them, from cities around the country, but Gloucester will always be my favorite place to make the recipients wonder if the town is a little too weird.

 

“Kaboom” J. Schneider

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So Chris has spent $520 on bait, traps, buoys, supplies and a newly lost gaff that needed to be replaced.

He’s hauled a total of three times since June 8th and he has caught a total of 8 lobsters in the ten traps he purchased (8 of which he can still find)

So we’re at a cost of $65 per lobster which was far better than his cost per lobster average after his second haul which was stuck at $250 per lobster.

Is it ok to keep one if you really really really like it or do you have to re-plant it somewhere?

Found this gem a couple days ago and I’m having a hard time letting it go…

So mean.

Saturday, August 10^th 3-7pm at Rockport’s American Legion Hall Bandstand on Back Beach
Menu: hot, boiled lobster, clam chowder, corn on the cob, a roll, watermelon, and a soda or water. There will also be a cash menu of burgers, hot dogs, chips, beer and wine.
Live entertainment by Two Weeks from Everywhere
Advance tickets are $27.50 person, $35 per person. Advance tickets are available from the John Tarr Store, Village Silversmith, any Rockport Rotarian, or by calling 603-721-1038.
Proceeds will benefit Rockport Rotary Club’s community and international service projects.
Lobsterfest will be followed by the town of Rockport’s annual fireworks show, and the town will be illuminated for the occasion.
More information is available by visiting www.rockportrotary.org.

As a kid, a rainy summer day in Gloucester in the 1960s meant a movie at the theater on Main Street, Candle Pin Bowling by the dreaded rotary, a museum, or arts and crafts at home with WSBK on the TV as background noise. When it came to arts and crafts, it was a mix of writing and addressing postcards my mother insisted my sister and I send to friends and relatives before school started in the fall, and my weird, creative, warped mind screwing with those postcards. My mother blamed it on MAD Magazine, which is why I read it. Years later I would work for MAD, so there you go, mom!

Decades before the computer, email or Photoshop, I would sit and cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers, then using gobs of Elmer’s Glue to paste them onto the postcards. Each one a piece of art. No longer would I hear how anyone got the same postcard, and considering there were only six different postcards available at Mal’s (then Ame’s, now a giant Stop& Shop), it was quite an accomplishment.

During the 1980s I was able to make color copies of postcards I was still defacing. I now have folders full of them, from cities around the country, but Gloucester will always be my favorite place to make the recipients wonder if the town is a little too weird.

“Kaboom” J. Schneider