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

My View of Life on the Dock
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
Feather & Wedge’s weekly jazz evening will feature the music of the Agca-Warsi duo this Thursday. These graduates of the Berklee College of Music will be playing jazz standards, Latin and Brazilian music, contemporary blues and R&B.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
7:30 PM 10:00 PM
Reservations highly suggested! 978.999.5917

Please join us this Thursday September 20th for our September wine dinner at 7pm. Reservations a must. 978-281-3680

Cove Hill (Lane’s Cove) Cemetery Clean-up
Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10am
1052R Washington St, Gloucester, MA (red icon on map)
All Hands Needed!
Please bring work/gardening gloves, bug spray, and wear long pants and if you can, any of the following yard tools:
a rake, a gas or battery-operated weed whacker, loppers, or
weeding buckets, large black heavy-duty plastic bags for leaves and weeds, or
old tarps for collecting and moving debris to a central location, or
lawn mower , or wheel barrow
Questions? Contact ckellyca@gmail.com
At the foretopmast of COLUMBIA _ Gloucester Schooner Festival Parade of Sail
[Photo by Phyllis Bezanson]
It was eighty years ago, while GERTUDE L THEBAUD was racing BLUENOSE in the International Fishermen’s Races, that a photo of Sterling Hayden, navigator on THEBAUD, appeared in the Boston Post. So many women swooned that Hollywood noticed, brought him to the screen, and then, in 1964, cast him as Jack D Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.
One never knows who’s eyeing Good Morning Gloucester.
Al Bezanson



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Don Stone Comes Home August 25 – October 9 Reception August 25th 2-4pm North Shore Arts Association Over 140 works on view – all available to add to your collection. Fish Talk o/c Don Stone, NA 1929-2015 Internationally known modern impressionist painter, Don Stone, was elected to full membership in the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society (Dolphin Fellow), American Society of Marine Artists (Fellow), Salmagundi Club (Honorary Member), and the New England Watercolor Society (Lifetime Honorary Member). In Addition, Stone was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists, Allied Artists of America, the Hudson Valley Art Association, the Rockport Art Association (Lifetime Member), the North Shore Art Association and a number of smaller regional art associations with whom he exhibited over the years. His work has been exhibited in various public museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Mobile, Alabama, and the…
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