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Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Sober St Patty’s Day Event?

It is at 7:30pm on Saturday March 17th, at the American Legion Hall 2nd fl (use side door). This is at 8 Washington St Gloucester Ma 01930.

This Event is for those looking to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in a sober environment. We will have local bands, dancing, Door prizes, and a raffle for two Claddagh Rings!

Food and Beverages will be available for sale to support Sober Connections as well.

For more info they can call Sober Connections at: 978-381-9888

Daniel Driscoll

Don’t forget to visit our sites:

SoberConnections.org our Public Site

SoberConnections.net our Social Network of Recovery

SerenityCircus.com our Retail Online Store! Please consider checking us out and using our Donations Page to help fund our Programs!

Docksiders "Ecycling" day

All Towns are Welcome
      Electronics and Appliance Recycle Day
                      
            The Docksiders Jazz Band
          Sat. March 17, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM
Gloucester High School Parking Lot,
32 Leslie O’Johnson Rd. Gloucester MA

Electronics such as: Monitors, computers,stereos, DVD, scanners, copiers, etc…$5 ea.
Appliances such as: Dishwashers,Dryers,stoves,Microwaves,
Dehumidifiers,Refrig.,AC,Exercise Equipment, Lawn Mowers,
Small Engine items, Snow Blowers,etc……$10 each.
TV<19..$10 TV>19..$15 Console/Wood TV.. $20
Junk Car Batteries.. NO Fee(They will be recycled)
Questions: contact Dennis Wood 508-277-7513 denwaynewood@yahoo.com

St. Paw-Tricks Celebration

sophie

Celebrate the Luck of the Irish by adopting a pet today!  Stop in to
visit our many adorable cats and dogs as we honor St. Patrick’s Day
with our own version of St. Paw-trick’s Week.  Wednesday March 14th
through Sunday March 18th when you visit our shelter try your luck and
pull a four leaf clover to get anywhere from 10% to 50% off of an
adult adoption fee.  Be the start of a rainbow, rescue a pet and be a
hero to your own furry pot of gold!
Attached are photos of 2 of our adult animals available for adoption.
Sophie the dog is an 8 years old sweet mellow girl just looking for a
comfy home to relax in and Cali 1 year old cat is an affectionate
diluted calico looking to snuggle in a home of her own.

Cali

NeedyMeds at the Gloucester City Council

Gloucester, MA (3/13/12) – In the past 2½ years, residents of Gloucester have saved nearly $350,000 on prescription costs with the Gloucester Fund NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card. The partnership between these two groups has also earned the City of Gloucester nearly $3,000 for use in city-wide health-related projects.

At the March 13th meeting of the Gloucester City Council, Rich Sagall, MD, President of NeedyMeds, updated the councilors on the use of the Gloucester-specific card. The card, which is free and distributed at many sites throughout the city, has been used to save on nearly 12,000 prescriptions. The average savings per prescription is close to $30.00.

Nationally, the NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card saved users over $1 million in December and another $1 million in January. In total, the card has saved users over $15 million in three years.

The free card can be used by anyone, as there are no age, income, insurance or residency restrictions. People with insurance or on state or federal programs can use the card if their drugs are not covered or if they have poor medication coverage. The card offers a discount of up to 80% off the cash price of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and medical supplies if written as a prescription, and pet prescription drugs purchased at a pharmacy. The average savings is about 50%.

The drug discount card is accepted at all the pharmacies on Cape Ann and over 62,000 pharmacies nationwide. There is no registration process and all use is anonymous. Unlike many other cards, no user-identifiable information is gathered, offering a high level of privacy protection.

In addition to Gloucester, NeedyMeds is working with Lowell, Chelmsford, Dracut and other municipalities on the North Shore of Boston. NeedyMeds has partnership programs with over 200 local, regional and national organizations.

“Daily we hear from card users who tell us by using the card they can afford medicines they otherwise couldn’t afford,” says Rich Sagall, MD, president of NeedyMeds. He goes on, “It’s very gratifying to see how we are helping so many people who might have had to go without their medications.”

As a non-profit, NeedyMeds keeps costs down and passes the savings on to the card users. Many pharmacists have reported that the NeedyMeds Drug Discount Card offers the best discount of any drug discount card.

About NeedyMeds: NeedyMeds, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, is a comprehensive and reliable source of information on assistance available for people having difficulties paying for their medications or health care. The Web site (http://www.needymeds.org) is visited by over 15,000 people each workday. NeedyMeds has the most comprehensive and reliable database of patient assistance programs available and all of NeedyMeds’ information is always free, easy to access, and updated regularly. Unlike similar sites, NeedyMeds requires no registration. All the information is easily printed.

One of the rare Art Showings by Cape Ann Watercolor Artists (and oils) is at Sawyer Free Library for the month of March. Check it out, Joey!

(Love your blog… the UMass girl’s (Alex Gross) article about learning lobstering was stellar. Karen Nastuk)

Essex Shipbuilding Museum and Schooner Adventure present…

DORY FISHING

on SCHOONER ADVENTURE

presentation by RON GILSON, author of An Island No More

with Ryan and Woods Distillery Rum Tasting

7pm, March 28, 2012,

at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s Waterline Center

Admission $10

Tickets available at the door or in advance at

Essex Shipbuilding Museum Website

Winter – Not Over Yet!

Posted on by Sharon

After the Storm, Long Beach, 1931   Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
In early March of 1931 a severe winter storm traveled across the United States. Chicago endured the second largest recorded snowfall in its history, up until that date. When the great storm reached the East Coast, it pummeled the shores of New Hampshire and Massachusetts with huge waves and extremely high tides. On Cape Ann, the 25 year-old Dog Bar Breakwater experienced 12-ton granite blocks tossed into Gloucester Harbor, and the severing of the cable to Breakwater Light. Long Beach, located in Gloucester and Rockport, had its boardwalk washed away. In the photo above, the Long Beach Hotel sits on the left. Below, the photographer shot toward Rockport in the opposite direction.
After the Storm, Long Beach, 1931   Alice M. Curtis/©Fredrik D. Bodin
As a result of the March 1931 Storm, Dog Bar Breakwater was reinforced with rip-rap on its ocean side, and Long Beach’s wooden boardwalk was replaced with the concrete boardwalk we use today.
 Hampton Beach, NH, March 1931
Printed from the original 4×5 inch film negative in my darkroom. Image #8345-041 (Long Beach showing hotel)
Printed from the original 5×7 inch film negative in my darkroom. Image #88657-134 (Long Beach looking toward Rockport)
Photo of Hampton Beach from the Lane Memorial Library collection, Hampton, NH

Fred
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

chickity check it- evie’s 366 day sketch project

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey!
This is Evie from the tea co. I’m doing a sketch a day project for a year (or in this year’s case, 366 days) and at the end will take said sketches, turn them into a postcard book and start my snail mail revolution that I’ve been blabbing about forever. To you I ask, can I put up my sketches on the good morning gloucester blog?
Hope all is well,
Evie.

http://www.facebook.com/SkarillaArt

We can all use some hope…

Posted on by Matthew Green

…which is represented by an anchor in Christian iconography.  Nice nautical imagery for a stained glass window in Gloucester. I expect we’ll be hearing a lot about hope as this election year goes forward.

"Spes" means "Hope" in Latin

Wherever you find your hope, share it with someone who needs it.  Hope grows when we share it, and the more people are inspired by it, the better chance it has of coming true.

Cole Herbst mural almost done at new Eco Boutique

Posted on by dawntheresa

This mural by Cole Herbst with the Eco Boutique logo and some really sweet flowers and fairies is going up in Eco Boutique’s new space at 186 Main Street – stop in and check it out!

Architectural detail in St. Ann stained glass window

Posted on by Matthew Green

Another detail from a stained glass window in St. Ann’s Church in Gloucester (part of Holy Family Parish).

We usually focus on the people and events in the window and can easily overlook the wonderful attention to detail in the backgrounds…

Eventually I hope to photograph the stained glass windows in other churches in Gloucester. Any suggestions of churches with really great windows besides St. Ann’s?

TONIGHT: Artist Rocky Delforge at Thistle Hill in Rockport!

Posted on by S.D. Kelly

Spring has come to Rockport with one of the town’s first openings of the season! Rocky Delforge is a young Rockport printmaker and artist who is doing some great contemporary work. Yesterday a few of us in town got a preview of his new show and were especially impressed by his massive hand-printed piece depicting downtown Rockport – you MUST see this piece!

The whole show promises some surprises as it takes its cues away from the dominant (if unbelievably beautiful) influence of the nautical. And the show is in a great venue, Thistle Hill on Main Street in Rockport (a few doors down from the Rockport Art Association). Although Thistle Hill is a retail shop, the owner is creating space for Rocky’s show in her efforts to collaborate with a local artist. This is a fantastic idea and what might be the start of a new trend in Rockport: one in which the retail sector and local artists come together.

Check out Rocky’s work HERE.

Demolition happening now at Art Haven’s new space – carpets tomorrow!

Posted on by dawntheresa

Here’s a little video of some of the demolition started this morning at Art Haven’s new space at 11 Pleasant Street. They’re looking for some volunteers to come help rip up carpets tomorrow afternoon if anyone’s interested… Great way to get out some pent up aggression! Just call (978) 283-3888 or email su@orenblu.com for more details or just come down at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon!

Stained Glass Landscape Detail at St. Ann’s Church

Posted on by Matthew Green

St. Ann’s windows are real works of art. There are lots of details that can easily go unnoticed.

Nubar Writes- Turns out the street artists up on Elm St are slackers

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The guys on West Main are hip!

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You may remember this photo from Nubar posted on the 28th of February

Nubar Alexanian Submits- Lots of street art happening on Elm Street lately.

Anybody excited to see somethin happenin in the old office supply store?

Posted on by dawntheresa

You may have noticed they’ve been putting new windows in the old office supply building on Pleasant Street over the past couple months, but did anybody notice all the folks in there taking down ceiling tiles this morning??

Well…. BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Art Haven signed a lease for the space at 11 Pleasant Street last Friday and is going to be EXPANDING to have high school and adult programming at the new space! Kids from the RAYS program were there this morning starting the first step of development: taking down ceiling tiles. Work is underway, and the planned open date is EARLY MAY with studios for rent, an art materials thrift store, classroom space, and a multi-use room for all kinds of events!

If you’d like to know more or even want to help out, you can call the Main St. studio at (978) 283-3888 or email arthaveninfo@gmail.com (Or just stop in and say hi!

There’s something fishy about this snow storm…

Posted on by Matthew Green

Being in March, these fish don’t seem to think the snow will last long.

They've been out of water so long, they'll take anything they can get...

It looks like they’re lifting up their heads to drink in all the snow they can, while it lasts.

From the lovely fountain in front of the Sawyer Library on Dale Ave.

Heyday of East Gloucester Square, 1930

Posted on by Sharon

East Gloucester Square, 1930 Anonymous/©Fredrik D. Bodin

I’ve been saving this photograph for a blizzard. Nary a snow storm’s come along, so I’m posting it now as a reminder of what winter could have been. The camera lens is pointing down East Main Street, with Highland Street in the center left, and the curve on the right at the telephone pole leads to the current laundromat and Duckworth’s Bistro on East Main. The store on the extreme left is J.C. Dade’s Hardware. The view is remarkably similar today. At one time the Square had three markets (Dutch’s, Powler’s, and First National); Wishnick’s barroom, Kirby’s pharmacy, Mrs. Fine’s seamstress shop with pants pressing, Jensen’s Shoe Repair, and two physicians (Doc Quimby, with Doctor Torrey next door). I’d like to thank Paula Parsons and Deb Callahan for this negative, and the East Gloucester fisherman who shared his childhood memories of East Gloucester Square. Please comment with your own remembrances.
Printed archivally from the original 6×7 centimeter film negative in my darkroom. Image # A9267-056.
Fred
Fredrik D. Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday

Posted on by Sharon

Come celebrate Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday
with a screening of
Henry Ferrini’s film on Kerouac, “Lowell Blues”
introduced by Peter Anastas
with a reminisence of when Kerouac visited Olson deep in the 1960s.
Monday, March 12, 7:30 p.m.
126 East Main Street
(please park across the street)
For more info call Annie Thomas, 978-283-7738
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Digital Camera Basics Course By Kathy Chapman

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Digital Camera Basics Course

This should be a fun class in the new state-of-the-art computer lab at Rockport High School.

http://www.kathychapman.com

RockportPhotoClass

Young Artist of the week!

Posted on by dawntheresa

This young artist of the week is a very talented 14-year-old photographer  named Sarah. Sarah does digital and darkroom photography, and did a great series of graffiti photography last fall for the TAG gallery opening [one pictured below]. Above are some of her photos on display at Nights on the Neck last summer, but you can see more of her work at the TAG gallery at 180B Main St.

If you know of a young artist that should be featured here, email dawn.gadow@gmail.com  with a short description and a photo of some of their work!

Community Stuff Sunday

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Splendor of Asia – Photographs
An exhibit of photos from Nepal and India is up at Lone Gull Coffeehouse at Gloucester main st. Holding the Buddha’s nose – Virtue or Misdeed? and other beautiful images are on display in the month of March. Come around and let Jurek Schreiner’s colorful glimpses of Asia infuse some warmth in you during these cold and grey days. Click here to get a taste of them online.

Holding the Buddha's nose - Virtue or Misdeed

Art by Peter Reis

Posted on by Matthew Green

In the time I’ve lived in Gloucester, I’ve been walking around and exploring the local stores, galleries, etc. little by little.  For some reason, I have neglected the eastern part of Main Street; I always end up walk west, on the strip from around Alchemy to the Annie. So the other day, I decided to head in the opposite direction.

One of the treasures I found is Peter Reis art space at 222 Main Street. He was about to close up, but he saw me looking in the window and invited me in.

Besides being a very friendly and welcoming person, creates beautiful works of art, ranging from paintings on canvas for hanging on the wall….

to painted wooden toy chests…

and even a beautiful bronze crucifix!

His work on display incorporates saturated colors and strong geometry, which makes it very striking (and to my taste). Although some of the paintings are straightforwardly representational, most are somewhere along the spectrum of surrealism or self-reference: paintings of fantasy space-scapes, paintings of paintings that merge into the scene, paintings that are paintings of themselves, a pool table with fruit instead of pool balls… It’s really fun to look at!

So, stop by the gallery if you have a chance. It’s well worth it.  He also has a good website: http://artbypeterreis.com/artwork/

New Jason Burroughs fishing boat painting

Posted on by dawntheresa

Now up at Pleasant Street Tea Co – Click on the pic to see more of Jason’s work. He’s been cranking it out lately, making some awesome maritime stuff –

This one’s already been sold to a friend, but gives a better idea of the newest style he’s been working in –