My View of Life on the Dock
The City of Gloucester Health Department is offering FREE flu shots this year. Flu clinics are open to those 3 years of age and older. Please bring your health insurance cards. We do accept those without insurance.
For questions, contact Public Health Nurse, Kelley Hiland, 978-325-5266.
15 Hot Yoga Classes. No weed. No Booze.
ZERO Yoga Experience Required.
and other fun prizes along the way.
You’ll have the opportunity for meditation lessons, a motivational talk, connection with other new people, and a long, silent, guided walk or two during the month. You are not required to do any of that though. Just 15 classes – no drugs, no alcohol.
The depth and breadth of this experience is up to the group and our collective willingness to dive in, and based on the enthusiastic response we’ve already had – we’re in for something powerful.
You will be in the company COOL, CLEAR EYED, FUN, HEALTHY people.
Sober October.
Participation in the CHALLENGE is free – you just pay for your classes. For all of you who haven’t been to our studio yet – you’ll just buy our…
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THE WRITER’S BLOCK
with
John J. Ronan
Season Premier October 4, 2018
1623 Studios and Gloucester resident John J. Ronan have announced the 29th season of the television series, The Writer’s Block with John J. Ronan. The award-winning production is one of the oldest, continuously-running public access shows in New England. In 2005, The Writer’s Block was awarded First Prize for an Educational Program Series by the New England Cable Television Association.
Once more, the season starts with a celebration of young writers: the student-poet winners of the spring’s Poetry Without Paper contest, sponsored by the Gloucester Lyceum! Students from elementary, middle, and high school will read and discuss their poems in front of a live audience of family and fans. The program airs Thursday, October 4, 2018, at 8:00 p.m., channel 12, and is repeated week later. All of the year’s shows present interviews with writers and artists of varied backgrounds.
John Ronan, producer and host of The Writer’s Block, is a former Gloucester Poet Laureate and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in poetry. His most recent book, Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown, appeared in 2017. (theRonan.org)
“1623 Studios is a dynamic force for culture on the Cape and we are proud of The Writer’s Block record,” Ronan declares. “Twenty-nine seasons is a long run in any market, at any level. And with the transition of Cape Ann TV to 1623 Studios, this season will be innovative and fresh, our best yet!”
For more information, send an S.A.S.E. to: The Writer’s Block with John J. Ronan
Box 5524, Gloucester, MA 01930
It was three years ago that we started the Tonno Project. It’s been a great trip so far. We have come a long way. Thanks to everyone.
GloucesterCast 298 With Chris McCarthy, Chris Griffith, Sarah Bedard, James Milord, Laurel Reiter, Mike Codair, Robert Walsh, Patty Amaral, Heidi Dallin, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 9/23/18
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The third annual Cape Ann Plein Air Arts Festival and Competition is nearly here!
Please click on the link below and find the Gala Night ticket links. There are 2: the Premiere Party is $150 per ticket and those tickets are extremely limited, so if you’d like to get up close and personal with the artists and see their art in a more intimate setting, those tickets are for you. The Gala tickets are $65 ea from now until 9.30, and $75 after that. The cost of your ticket can be taken off the price of a painting when you buy one.
Please let me know if you have any questions! I am the Project Manager this year and would love to have you support the eveny (and me!)
Susan
http://www.capeannpleinair.com
Hi Joey,
This little guy showed up at Maritime Gloucester yesterday and is still here today. We’ve managed to give it some water. It has two leg bands, one has the number 4101. We think it is a domesticated pigeon who is lost. We’d love to know how to help it or who might be best to contact. Would you mind putting this out to the community to see if anyone knows who to contact?
Thanks,
Mary F Kay
Greetings!
Tickets are still available for the $25K Game! This game has the best odds around as a total of $25,000 is given away including one Grand Prize of $10,000! The $25,000 game also features a 50/50 raffle, door prizes and much more! Tickets are sold for $100 each and grant you and a guest entrance the night of the event. You do not have to be there to win.
Call the Chamber at 978-283-1601 or stop by the Chamber office at 33 Commercial Street in Gloucester this week to purchase your tickets. The office is open Monday-Friday from 9 AM – 5 PM. The $25K Game will take place on Thursday, October 4 at The Gloucester House Restaurant from 5-7PM. We look forward to seeing you there!
The talented Ryu-Young jazz duo will be at Feather & Wedge this Sunday, September 23, playing music from the great American songbook and other jazz standards.
Sunday, Sept 9/23, 2018
10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917
Rockport, MA Town Administrator Mitch Vieira gives us an update about the final phase of water main replcement on Curtis Street as well as the upcoming Harvestfest in Rockport
We welcome everyone from the community (non CF members) to join us for our weekly Saturday AM Workout! No Crossfit experience necessary!
The cost? Only $5! This fee is donated annually to an awesome local cause.
Learn more about us and our community here: www.crossfitcapeann.com
It’s that time of year again! Our $5 burger Thursday’s run all night – kitchen is open until 9pm. See you there!
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CRAFTERS WANTED!!!
Rockport PTO Holiday Fair
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
If interested, please fill out the information below and return it with your check for $50.00 for a 6-8 foot table. Placement is on a first paid basis.
You must also donate one handcrafted item for a fundraising raffle. This item will be collected at set-up before table assignment.
Return form (you can print this post) and payment promptly as space is limited. Special requests are not guaranteed. Tables will only be reserved with full payment.
For more information email: rebsly@gmail.com.
Make checks payable to: Rockport PTO
Mail payment to:
Rockport PTO Holiday Fair, c/o Rockport Elementary School, 34 Jerdens Lane, Rockport, MA 01966
Sorry, no raffles, bake sales or used items
Name:_________________________________ Phone:_______________________________
Address:_______________________________ Email:________________________________
# of Tables:_____________________________
Type of Craft:__________________________
Special Request:_________________________________________________________
Who knew?
Replica schooner COLUMBIA off Beauport Hotel 9/2/2018
[photo by Phyllis Bezanson]
In 1927 the original schooner COLUMBIA was lost with all 22 hands near Sable Island. COLUMBIA had been launched in 1923 in Essex and was on a salt cod trip, likely for Gorton’s, for her previous trip was taken out there. Gorton’s was canning fish cakes – ‘Ready to Fry’, they were called, and there was great demand for such a convenience food. When I went to work for Gorton’s in 1964 ‘Ready to Fry’ was still popular but fish sticks were gaining fast in popularity.
There is a movie at the Cape Ann Museum showing the smiling crew of COLUMBIA as she departs on her fatal trip to the banks.
Also in 1927, at the site of this new hotel, Clarence Birdseye, who came to Gloucester the year COLUMBIA was launched, patented a process for rapid ‘indirect freezing’ of fish. His patents led to the birth of the frozen food industry and to the creation of fish sticks. His company, then General Seafoods, was purchased by Marjorie Merriweather Post, aided by E F Hutton and Goldman Sachs, becoming General Foods. The Birdseye brand today is known worldwide.
Birdseye’s plant stood here until just a few years ago when it was replaced by Beauport. The plant had a distinctive tower that housed an elevator to carry salt cod to the roof for drying in the sun.
Al Bezanson
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