Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
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August Block Party 2018
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Turkish Visitor To Gloucester With Enormous Instagram Following
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Volunteers Needed At Gloucester Visitor Center
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MIXED: A Cocktail Competition to benefit Action Inc.!
There can be only one: 8 bartenders, 4 rums, one winner. Join us as 8 of the North Shore’s best bartenders battle to create the ultimate cocktail. You’ll watch as they mix their drink for the judges and you’ll get to sample some of the cocktails for yourself and help crown the “crowd favorite”.
While you’re sampling cocktails, Mile Marker One will provide some hearty appetizers (included in the ticket price) and post-competition, enjoy the live band we’re bringing with us!
It gets better: Proceeds from the night will benefit Action Inc, a non-profit based in Gloucester that offers affordable housing, homelessness prevention, fuel assistance, energy conservation programs, education and job training.
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Weekend Event Notice For August 11-12 From Chief John McCarthy
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Can someone explain to me why Ginger Beer is so expensive?
With the rise in popularity of Moscow Mules, I’d think there would be an enterprising soda maker that could exploit this opportunity and sell it for half the cost and still make money.
Twin Lights Bottling Co, are you up for it?
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Our Annual Fine Art Auction will be Saturday, August 11 – a great party supporting a great cause! Welcome back Auctioneer Extraordinaire Rick Doucette! Tickets are on sale now! www.nsarts.org/Auction_2018.html Here’s a SNEAK PEEK . . .
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NSAA Annual Fine Art Auction will be Saturday, August 11 – a great party supporting a great cause! Welcome back Auctioneer Extraordinaire Rick Doucette! All lots are on view at the gallery and online. Tickets are on sale online, at the gallery and by phone 978.283.1857. Save $! This is tax free ($2,500 and under) weekend in Massachusetts. www.nsarts.org/Auction_2018.html
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LOCAL FILMMAKERS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR MUSICIANS AT BLUES FESTIVAL
LOCAL FILMMAKERS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR MUSICIANS AT BLUES FESTIVAL
(L to R) Craig Kimberley, Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Ted Reed in Pontotoc, Mississippi
When Gloucester filmmaking team Ted Reed and Craig Kimberley set off by car this past May to explore Mississippi’s Blues Trail, they knew they would be meeting up with some legendary blues musicians. What they didn’t expect to find was that there was a way to help blues musicians who had fallen on hard times. That’s why they will be running an information table at the 7th Annual Gloucester Blues Festival this Saturday, August 11, at Stage Fort Park.
“I had made a film in my college student days with the idea to go find as many of the old Delta Blues musicians that were still living, and put them on film before they were gone. This was only a few years after some of the ugliest battles in the civil rights movement had been fought there, and it was a different south then, certainly a different Mississippi. I found some of the blues most iconic performers—Furry Lewis, Son House, Sleepy John Estes—living in grinding poverty, receiving almost nothing from their recordings. Furry Lewis told me, ‘You don’t play the blues to get rich.’
“This year, I happened to watch my early film for the first time in decades, and realized I had what is now some great archival footage. Wouldn’t it be interesting to return to Mississippi and see what had changed?”
Over the course of exploring and documenting milestones along the Blues Trail, founded by the state of Mississippi in 2006 to mark historic places in the evolution of the blues, Reed and Kimberley were made aware of the Mississippi Blues Foundation, an arm of the Mississippi Blues Commission. The Foundation, through its Benevolence Committee, has a mission to “raise and expend grant funds to provide assistance to any blues musician in need.”
“There was nothing like this when I traveled down there before. The blues was a cultural treasure the state government had swept under the rug. Now, they’ve realized that music fans from all over the world want to visit where the blues was born, and they had better do something to preserve it.”
It was when Kimberley and Reed had the opportunity to interview the chairman of the Mississippi Blues Foundation Benevolent Committee that they saw Mississippians had recognized the need to support blues artists, and they decided to do their part at this year’s blues celebration in their home city.
“We’re going to be handing out information about how people who care about the blues can keep the music alive by helping the musicians who need their support,” Reed says.“
“Getting a chance to help out some of the remaining unsung blues musicians, as well as raise overall blues awareness in our home town is pretty special,” Craig Kimberley says.” “Once we dug into the blues trail, met some living legends, and visited some of the oldest juke-joints in the south, we knew we had to increase our involvement.”
In addition to informing festival attendees about the Mississippi Blues Foundation, and the Mississippi Blues Trail, they will also be raising contributions for the national Blues Foundation, based in Memphis Tennessee. That organization’s Handy Artists Relief Fund (as in W.C. Handy, widely regarded the Father of the Blues) also provides relief to blues musicians who are in need of help with their medical care as well as funeral expenses. Both funds channel 100% of their donations to the musicians.
The filmmakers hope to see as many of Gloucester’s music fans at the festival this weekend. “Festival organizer Paul Benjamin offered us his support right from the start,” Reed adds. “He’s a regular contributor to the Blues Foundation and really believes in what the foundation is doing.”
“Being able to support National Blues Foundation, the Mississippi Blues Foundation, as well as the fantastic blues movement right here in the northeast, is truly positive and exciting. Come join us in Gloucester this weekend!” says Kimberley.
Kimberley and Reed are planning to return to Mississippi in the fall to shoot additional scenes and interviews, and hope to release the film sometime in 2019.
For more information, please contact Ted Reed, 978-578-2834 or at ted@tedreed.tv
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“Greet the Schooners” Friday August 31 at 12:30 pm
“Greet the Schooners”
Join us aboard Cape Ann Harbor Tours’ M/V King Eider on Friday August 31 at 12:30 pm for a 1.5 hour trip as we escort S/V Bluenose II and S/V Columbia when they sail into Gloucester Harbor all dressed out. You can’t miss this kick off event for the Gloucester Schooner Festival 2018!
Get your tickets online now, Click here to purchase
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Nancy Dudley Submits May 1983 Photo Of Fred Bodin With His @WeberGrills Go-Anywhere
Hi Joey, I am enjoying your blogs as always and have attached a photo just for fun. It is a very old, moldy and underexposed kodachrome and I am not sending it for a blog post hopeful, just to accompany some info. I don’t know if you knew your old friend of blog Fred B. was nuts about Weber cookers. Around the end of the 1970’s or beginning of the 80’s he had a Smokey Joe and then discovered whatever the rectangular one is- ( sorry, I am not into grills). He referred to it as THE WEBER, all caps bold and italic whenever he spoke of it which was often and to whoever would listen. He would demonstrate not only it’s juicy but grilled cooking features, but his favorite feature the utter GENIUS legs which would fold up to lock on the lid, as well as how it’s shape…
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Awesome Gloucester and Awesome Rockport Collaborate to Create a Weekend of Awesome Giving!
3rd Pay It Forward Pink Envelope Initiative
Awesome Gloucester and Awesome Rockport Collaborate to Create a Weekend of Awesome Giving!
The Pink Envelope Initiative is coming to Gloucester and Rockport this weekend!
Two years ago, several members of the Awesome Gloucester and Awesome Rockport chapters met to discuss a new way to share with the communities of Rockport and Gloucester ways to be Awesome. In addition to Gloucester’s monthly and Rockport’s quarterly micro-grant competitions which are given away to successful project pitchers, the group conceived this “guerrilla philanthropy” initiative to bring more attention to the Awesome Foundation’s credo: to forward the interest of Awesome in the universe.
The idea is simple: to distribute 123 pink envelopes containing undisclosed amounts of cash across the neighboring communities of Rockport and Gloucester. Together, the two Awesome chapters will give away a total of $2000 in free cash over the course of a single weekend. The dates of distribution are August 11 and August 12.
In addition to the cash, each envelope will contain a brief note requesting that recipients (a) do something awesome with the money and (b) share a story about what they did via email or through social media.
The envelopes will be hidden as well as placed in clear sight all over two communities. It’s the intention that this “pay it forward” initiative will persuade the lucky envelope finders to help spread the interests of Awesome on Cape Ann. Founder of both Awesome chapters Sal Zerilli says: “This will be the third straight year we’ve run this experiment in community philanthropy. We’ve decided to do it again because the community response the past two years has been awesome. Trustees from both chapters are excited to see how our fellow community members pay it forward this year. Like in previous years, we’re hopeful that people will share stories on social media about the awesome things they do with the cash.”
Since its inception in 2014, Awesome Gloucester has awarded $1000 micro-grants each month. To date the chapter has funded 66 projects and awarded $66,000 to local initiatives. Awesome Rockport has been awarding quarterly micro-grants since 2015, supporting 13 projects and awarding a total of $13,000. Projects have included the Cape Ann World War 2 Portraits Project and Little River Little Library in Gloucester, and a Buddy Bench at Rockport Elementary School and a solar powered light at Millbrook Meadow in Rockport.
Residents and visitors alike should keep their eyes peeled for these pink envelopes all over Gloucester and Rockport this upcoming weekend!
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Summer is in full swing at CAFM!
Don’t miss the Cape Ann Farmers Market!
Thursdays 3:00-6:30 at Stage Fort Park
Soak up the summer with your friends at this week’s market. All the best fruits, veggies, flowers, cheeses, and treats, plus get a locally raised burger, a lovely gift for a friend, or try some local cider!
PLUS support the Cape Ann Farmers Market by becoming a member in August, and we’ll enter you to win a men’s Patagonia rain jacket!
Become a member, check out our vendors, and sign up for our weekly market updates at: capeannfarmersmarket.org
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Trash Patrol In The Harbor
Joanne Moceri-Taveira submits-
thought you might like to share this pic of my husband, Steve, and I, taken by crew on the Lannon. We are on trash patrol in the harbor. If everyone in pleasure craft picked up a least 3 pieces of the disappointingly large quantity of plastic, we could begin to make a difference.
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Just cut another Bluefin caught by FV Betsy G out of Newburyport
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Lights out by 10pm
Ayurveda Wellness Healing, LLC knows that sleep and the times that we sleep are vital in our overall health.
One should be in bed by 10pm as our bodies metabolize waste products after this hour. Between 11:00pm and 2:00am our immune system revitalizes itself.
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Wednesday August 8th, 2018 Is Nights On The Neck- Stephanie Tashjy and Sharon Scott Give Us The Low Down On GloucesterCast 291
I can’t wait to bring the girls down!
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Captain Pete Mondello, always futzing around on the F/V Allison Carol.
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Baby Skates
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