AERIAL SHORT FILM: MYSTERY BY THE SEA – THE TOOL FACTORY

With all the mystery and unknown floating around the fate of the tool factory, I thought I would go take a look…from the sky of course. Officially, it’s the Cape Anne Tool Company. I imagined that most people don’t really know what the entire property looks like, or it’s scope. Within seconds I quickly realized the scale of the place. My mind raced about what could be. You can just imagine all of the possibilities that could be created there, besides a massive residence or condos. I could see a stunning waterside park and recreational space, or perhaps preserving it’s rich fishing history of pigeon cove would be perfect! I hope you enjoy!

(DJI Phantom2, HD-3D gimbal, Gopro4 Black…all footage in real time speed)

Financial Impacts Of Gran Prix Of Gloucester Felt Long After Race Has Packed Up and Gone

Peter Fortune- Annisquam

Hello Again Joey:  I have been scouring the internet for more relevant articles and photographs
for the listing on the Annisquam Village wooden bridge over Lobster Cove I wrote about previously :
http://bridgehunter.com/ma/essex/bh63113/http://bridgehunter.com/ma/essex/bh63113/ .
I did just come across and added to that site the wonderful 2013 article on Cape Ann, Gloucester and
The Village of Annisquam by Peter Fortune. I highly recommend checking it out for Cape Ann history
buffs and anyone who wants to understand SQUAM (starting on page 15). It is very enjoyable reading.
Download and read it at this link directly- http://www.fortunearchive.com/Boating/Top%20Cruising%20Spots/Cape%20Ann.pdf
Regards Bob Lindberg

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Here’s Your List Of Discounts Available In #RockportMA For Shop Rockport Event

Rockport retailers should all take 30 seconds and whip out a quick thank you for all the hard work Dawn Noble from La Provence has put into this year’s Shop Rockport Event

 

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Hi Joey C & GMG Readers!
There’s tons of great things happening in Downtown Rockport TONIGHT, Friday, December 5th, during our Annual Shop Rockport Event from 4-9pm!  We have 47 shops, galleries & cafes participating in the fun!
Here’s just a small sample of some of the great promotions that will be offered…..
La Provence – 20% OFF Store-wide, double raffle tickets & FREE Shop Small tote with every purchase.  Wine, cheese
& homemade snacks!
Sea Again – 20% OFF store-wide & double raffle tickets & FREE Shop Small tote with every purchase
Bearskin Neck Leathers – 20% Off Dansko shoes and a free gift!
Christmas Dove – Refreshments & drawing for giveaway of a Margaret Furlong angel ornament!
The Pewter Shop – Every $40 spent, you will receive one of our handcrafted Christmas ornaments for free!! (11.95 value) Lots of cookies will be out to snack on too
Camera Corner – 25% OFF all binoculars; 25% OFF Canon, Sony & Nikon batteries and chargers; 25% OFF all memory cards.
John Tarr Store – 20% off Storewide, free gift wrapping
Good Dog Gallery – 20% OF ALL SALES from SHOP ROCKPORT night to be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid &.Raffle of 3 special items and treats for dogs and people!
Tusinski Gallery – Wintry Pebble Beach Reception & $20.00 2015 Pebble Beach Calendars by Karen Tusinski!
Bean & Leaf Cafe – Raffle for chance to win $25 B&L gift card and stainless travel mug! Also save on gift cards, $5 free for every $20 spent!
Stone Angel Boutique – 15% off of your total purchase and raffle prizes
Tuck’s Candy & Gifts – Free Christmas Tins with the minimum $15 purchase of Candy, specials on Beanie Boos, Jewelry, and more. You can also fill out a FREE raffle ticket to win a Big Teddy Bear!
Tuck’s Candy Factory – 20% OFF store-wide
Sand Castles – B.O.G.O SALE buy clothing item and get the second 1/2 off!
Village Silversmith – 15% off all merchandise at both, & lots of snack, drinks, and fun
The Art Nook – 10% OFF local art and handmade gifts
AliKat – All Clothing 20%-50% OFF
Toad Hall Bookstore – 20% OFF 
We hope to see you in Downtown Rockport!  Tell em’ Joey C sent you!
Dawn @ La Provence
Joelle @ Sea Again

    Peabody Essex Museum Art Basel New York Times Theo Jansen’s art walk in Miami

    Hey Joey,

    Coming to theaters December 2015, have you seen the new Star Wars trailer? Museums kindle interest with trailers, too, and there’s one in Miami that may go viral.

    This week the art scene is all about Art Basel Miami, the annual contemporary art fair juggernaut. With so many international artists, galleries, exhibits and events, it can be difficult to get any coverage at all. The single event the New York Times Magazine featured last weekend to build anticipation for Art Basel Miami was the Peabody Essex Museum prelude for Theo Jansen’s 2015 national tour. The story quickly climbed to the #1 most emailed articles for the NYT magazine. Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are on most media short lists as a must see experience at this year’s Art Basel Miami (e.g. Huffington Post Art Basel to do list)

    Trevor PEM

    PEM is featuring Dutch artist Theo Jansen at Art Basel Miami to herald the national museum tour for Strandbeests, managed and debuting at the Peabody Essex Museum in the fall of 2015.

    Will there be a chance to marvel at these curiosities in our natural world? Will we encounter a herd at Good Harbor, Wingaersheek, or Singing beaches? I’m not sure. These graceful engineered beings seem a good fit for visiting our shores and inspiring wonder. Does anyone remember the Crane’s Beach dune buggy scene from the 1968 Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway?

    PEM ranks in the top 10 largest collections in the country and is growing fast. I’m not sure where the Jansen exhibit will be installed within the museum, but I bet connections will be past, present and future all betwixt and between.  I am anticipating and looking forward to the Jansen exhibit calling forth my memories of the dinosaur fossil skeletons and mounted installations. I remember feeling awestruck by the scale of the objects within the spaces and purpose. “That every mariner may possess the History of the World”.

    Special congratulations to PEM curator, Trevor Smith, for the Theo Jansen exhibit. On December 5th, he’ll be with Theo Jansen as part of Art Basel Salon discussions. Trevor launched the FreePort contemporary artist commissions at Peabody Essex Museum in 2010. He helped as a juror for the Gloucester HarborWalk Public Art Challenge.

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    Decorating the Trees, Manchester by the Sea

    The tree decorating for the Festival of the Trees is ongoing. Remember that the official lighting of the Freedom Tree and the Festival of the Trees is this Sunday.

    SUNDAY: The 3:30 holiday concert performance at the First Parish Church. Immediately following the performance at 4:30 will be the official lighting Manchester’s Friendship Tree and the Festival of the Trees on town hall common to officially kick off the holiday season.

    Former GDT Delivery Boy Bite Into Show Biz and IS A SEMIFINALIST FOR DORITOS SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL!

    Violet Gray submits-

    Hey Joey, 

    My brother Chuck, (formally your parents paper boy) turned Hollywood Actor has not one but two entries that have made it into the semifinals of the Doritos Crash The Super Bowl contest. 

    This link explains the contest

    This is Chucks submission:

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    This is another submission featuring Chuck as lead Pirate:

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    Chucks self styled press release:

    Former GDT Delivery Boy Bite Into Show Biz

    My name’s Chuck McCarthy. I grew up in Gloucester and delivered papers for the GDT. My sister Violet lives there still, and my father lived there up to his death. He also delivered papers for the GDT and was very active in local and state politics. If you knew him, you may have been put off by my email address… as he is dead and wasn’t very good with computers when he was alive.

    One Of The More Amazing Things You’ll See Today: Artist Spent 10 Years Carving a Giant Cave With His Dog

    Check out all the images by clicking on the one here-

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    I’d love to know the background story.  What a gift.  What a legacy.

    Great Gift Idea- Shirts Illustrated Glosta Sweatshirts At Ace Hardware Gloucester Crossing

    Super soft and cozy warm

    For More Info- click here

    Festival of the Trees in Manchester by the Sea

    This is the second year of the Festival of the Trees in Manchester. The trees were set up and strung with lights today (Sunday) and will be decorated between 4:00 to 7:00 PM this Wednesday 12/03/2014.  Trees are set up on the green in front of the Town Hall and are sponsored by Town merchants and groups within the Town like the Boy Scouts, the Athletic Association, the Hooper Trust and many others.

    Last year there were a total of 24 trees decorated and lit. This year there are 45 trees! The official tree lighting ceremony will be next Sunday December 7th with the lighting of the Friendship Tree and the Festival of the Trees at 4:30pm. It would be wise to arrive early and get a good spot as if last year was any indication, this year will be an even larger celebration!

    These will also be great times to walk through Town and finish, start, or develop ideas for Christmas presents as you walk by all the shops.

    Thank You Nichole Schrafft for the Beverly Tree Farm Recommendation!

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMany thanks to Nichole for her wonderful recommendation to purchase Christmas trees at the Beverly Tree Farm. Nichole wrote of her family’s tradition in this week’s “Nichole’s Family Picks of the Weekend.” Although we don’t have little ones any longer living at home to enjoy the wonderful hospitality provided by the Bertolon Family, I needed a freshly cut tree that will last through an extended holiday season. Usually our tree goes up the second week or so in December, but as our daughter won’t be home for Christmas she asked if we could get the tree up and decorate while she is visiting.

    The dork that I am, I showed up at the farm by myself and without saw–I thought it was pick your own, not saw your own, too! Fortunately, the very sweet Mrs Bertolon had just the solution, which was to select from a small pile of trees that folks had cut the previous day, but had left behind.

    My next dilemma was the fact they place the tree on top of your car, but for liability reasons cannot tie it down for you. After watching the dad in the car next to mine expertly tie his down, I attempted to secure ours. I couldn’t have been more inept and within a few moments, the super nice dad had successfully tied mine down, too (he mentioned that he formerly worked at a tree farm). Thank you beautiful family from Marblehead!

    The Farm is only open tomorrow, Sunday, and next weekend, December 6th and 7th, or only as long as this year’s crop of harvestable trees last.

    For more about Nichole’s family’s experience read her post here and visit the Beverly Tree Farm website here.

     

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    Images courtesy Beverly Tree Farm Website

    Bob Lindberg–Bridgehunter Annisquam Lobster Cove Bridge

    Happy Holidays Joey:
    FYI, I have updated and added more photos to the
    posting on the Annisquam Village Lobster Cove Wooden Bridge in Bridgehunter
    which will forever be a favorite childhood playground of the Lindberg family
    members as well as many more Annisquam residents and visitors  . Mike actually had a picture of kids
    jumping off bridge which I included in posting.
    I think it will bring smiles and stir happy memories and allow everyone to revisit the beautiful bridge
    and its history. Happy Holidays ! Bob Lindberg
    see
    http://bridgehunter.com/ma/essex/bh63113/
    Be sure to look at all the old pictures and also
    A comprehensive Written historical and descriptive data can be found in
    http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1300/ma1327/d…

    Click for full sized photo-

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    Law & Water Gallery opens a new exhibit of Sam Feinstein’s paintings of Gloucester’s inner harbor in the late 1940s

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    Law & Water Gallery opens a new exhibit of Sam Feinstein’s paintings of Gloucester’s inner harbor in the late 1940s. Geometry of Port will be shown through February 2015.

     

    Sam Feinstein with his wife, Barbara, and a friend in Gloucester surrounded by his work.

     

     

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    Time To Start Following The Beauport Hotel On Twitter For The Latest In Construction Details

    Electricity Update #5: Video Walkthrough- Energy Efficiency Assesment and Free Stuff At Mom’s House

    The ongoing series of finding ways to cut Home Energy Costs and Be More Comfortable In Your Own Home Part 5

    In this video you’ll see the things Kevin From Next Step did to inspect and replace inefficient things in my mom’s house.

    If ever there has been something I stand behind as being 100% no-brainer and you’d have to be crazy to not take advantage of it’s this.  Not only is it incredibly interesting, but the immediate money in your pocket saving and free lightbulbs that look exactly like the old inefficient ones that they are replacing. To know all the places where you are losing heat so you can take steps to correct those things.  If you want to have insulation work done or weather sealing to have Mass Save pay for 75% of THAT. To know that you can elect to have any of it done or not and to know you are already paying for it on your electric bill in the line item “Energy Efficiency Charge” and then not take advantage of it.  You would have to say to yourself “That person is crazy to not want to do this.”

    I was blown away with what my mom got, how interesting it was and how much I learned about energy savings and teh construction of my mom’s house.

    If you want to take advantage of awesome programs available to you right now for zero out of pocket then watch the video and sign up for your own energy efficiency assessment and get a ton of free lightbulbs, power strips, electronic thermostats that will turn down the heat at night or while you’re at work automatically, and efficient showerheads.

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    Here’s the video walkthrough and conclusions of my Mom’s house so you can see what you can expect to learn and receive again, for zero cost-

    totalcostzeroOh, I Forgot To Mention The Free Electronic Thermostats That They Will Provide and Install Free Of Charge.  My Mom has nine of the standard dial thermostats that they are going to come in and replace free of charge with programmable ones that will turn them down at night automatically and when you are off to work and then turn them back up just before you wake or come home from work for even more savings.  They are going to replace and install 9 of them for a total savings of $1062. and that is not to mention any of the monthly savings she will receive from not having to go around and turn down the thermostats herself every day.  No frickin brainer city.  A grand+ in savings for zero dollars.

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    Henry Allen’s North Shore Folklore Theatre Company ~ After School Acting Program

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    KIDS ACTING
    PLAYWRITING
    DIRECTING
    THEATRE DESIGN
    PROGRAMS for ages 4-13 starting THIS WEEK! Resister NOW.
    Special holiday rate!! $225 per 6 week session! Sibling and MLCC Member
    discounts apply!

    Budding Artists, Mondays, choice of TWO 90 min sessions, 1:15 & 3:30
    Ages 4-8
    A.S.A.P. – After School Acting Program Thursdays, 3:30-5:30 Ages 9-13
    The YouthArts Conservatory Lab is also enrolling, ages 14-21. First
    session begins over holiday break!

    BREAKING NEWS: Charlie Farren to headline Cape Ann Winter Solstice – Get Tix Tomorrow (SAT) At the Cape Ann Farmers Market Before they go on sale to the public

    Just Announced: Boston Rock Star Charlie Farren of FARRENHEIT and THE JOE PERRY PROJECT will headline this year’s Cape Ann Winter Solstice concert hosted by Allen Estes with Rising Boston Blues Star Danielle Miraglia (who blew the crowd away with James Montgomery at this year’s Celebrate Gloucester benefit for The Open Door).

    You can get tickets to this very special event at The Cape Ann Farmers Market’s first Indoor Market is tomorrow (SAT) 10am – 1pm at Gloucester’s UU Church. Just go to the Farmers Market and look for the UU Church table.

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