Start at Captain Carlos with Cripple Cove Quartet at 5. Walk out the door to catch Alek Razdan & A-Train at Harbor Loop at 6:30, followed by Johnny Carwash. Then you can walk to Rhumb Line to see Punk legend, Wille Loco, with Dave Sag.
The beautiful juvenile Harbor Seal was found on a foggy morning in midsummer. The seal was beached at the high tide line and its breathing was heavy and labored. It had no interest in returning to the water and needed only to remain at rest.
For the next six hours the seal struggled to survive the world of curious humans.
Learn what to do if you find a seal on the beach.
Written, produced, edited, cinematography, and narration by Kim Smith.
The Good Harbor Beach Seal PSA was created because of the lack of understanding on the part of my fellow beachgoers on how to mangae a seal encounter. Please help get the word out and please forward the link to friends and neighbors in other communities, whether or not the community is located by the sea. It was the folks from out of town that did not understand that the seal needed simply to be left alone. Thank you!
Although the Good Harbor Seal was not injured, help was needed with the gathering crowd. I called our local police, who in turn sent Lieutenant Roger Thurlow from the Environmental Police. Has anyone had experience with a marine stranding, and if so, is the following the best number to call: Northeast Region Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Stranding and Entanglement Hotline ~ 866-755-6622? I will post your hotline recommendations here.
Technical note–The video was filmed without a tripod because I was afraid the tripod would look like a gun and didn’t want to further stress the seal. After reading more about Harbor Seals, I learned that their big brown eyes are particularly adapted to sight in murky water (i.e. harbor waters), but that their eyesight is not that good on land. In retrospect, I don’t think that the seal would have associated the tripod with a weapon. Also, I filmed at a distance much further away than my camera’s capabilities, which caused much vignetting around the edges of many of the clips. I didn’t want to stand close to the seal and be the filmmaker-who-becomes-part-of-the-problem, and not the solution.
Felicia (Ciaramitaro) Mohan grew up in a family surrounded by simmering pots of pasta and bubbling brews of tomato sauce, all created by mothers and grandmothers who never used a recipe.
Their style of cooking, straight from their memory, included a pinch of that ingredient, or a handful of another, and so on.
But two generations later, out of fear of losing these heirloom recipes forever, Mohan — at the urging of her husband Barry — set out to make a cookbook of sorts for her twins, Amanda and BJ. From that seed sprouted her effort to make such a book. But she never imagined that the original scope of the work would grow exponentially.
Ok so this might just be the coolest land and sea limo going. Sweet Shots Secret Spots Tour Company, Operated by Violet Gray and Corey Newman (flanked in my case by their 2 year old Dahlia and their pup Bogie), SSSS is a two part operation combining a 6 passenger Jeep and a 6 passenger Chris Craft boat giving tourists the flexibility to start from and get to pretty much anywhere on Cape Ann.
Our tour was a two part excursion – one with kids and one without. Narrated by Violet, who’s worked for both the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce and many local eateries in the area, we got “in deep” with the local scene – which is saying something when you consider she was touring around a bunch of townies! Here’s what me 8 hour tour looked like:
Thank you notes from a butterfly program I gave recently. What fun it was, and what a wonderful surprise to find in my mail box. The mind of a child is the most extraordinarily beautiful sponge!
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The weather for Saturday looks great for the Blues Festival. This is only in its second year and already one of Gloucester’s largest events, bringing world class blues to Stage Fort Park and introducing you to young, rising blues stars.
You really don’t want to miss this year. Click here for videos of all this year’s performers.
Tickets available at the Gate only and the gates open at 9am. A special children’s ticket is available at the gate only to youngsters 6 to 12 for $5. Children under 5 admitted free.
World-class blues will reverberate through Stage Fort Park on Saturday with some of the nation’s finest performers playing from the Gloucester Blues stage. Located right on the waterfront on beautiful Cressey’s beach, the event will have a beer garden and outstanding food and craft vendors. Gates open at 9AM – MUSIC starts at 11AM
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This is Max, a 12-year-old cat dressed in a shark suit, riding on top of a Roomba vacuum.
“He loves to the ride the Roomba,” Max’s owner, Helen Arnold of Houston told Good Morning America. “He does it pretty much every day. Sometimes I put it away, and if the Roomba is hidden somewhere in the corner, he just sits there and looks at me.”
Max’s shark impersonation is more precious than ferocious as he dons his adorable shark costume, which was actually originally intended for Arnold’s pet dog.
“I do costumes for Halloween and my dog’s name is Shark, so we’ve been looking for a shark costume for him,” Arnold, 33, explained. “But I haven’t found a good shark costume for a dog, so I bought this one and it didn’t fit him so we tried it on the cat.”
Arnold and her husband rescued Max from behind an abandoned house as a kitten. They first discovered his love for riding the Roomba five years ago when they purchased the vacuum.
“One day he was riding it when I got home,” said Arnold. “It was scary. He knows how to press the button.”
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Through a program called Bailee’s Backpacks, seven-year-old Bailee Militello is working with Senator Bruce Tarr, Action, Inc., North Shore 104.9 and the Gloucester Block Parties to help needy Gloucester children get the supplies they need to start school off on the right track. Check out the video, filmed by Lisa Smith at Cape Ann TV, yesterday.
You can also see this video streaming on Cape Ann TV’s wicked cool new on-line streaming feature here.
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We try to let you know when there’s an opportunity to save money, enjoy music close to home that you can’t see every day and catch a rising star in an intimate local venue before he/she makes it big.
Perhaps you missed last year’s premiere of the Gloucester Blues Fest. Click here for some videos that will give you a sense of how much fun it was.
The Gloucester Blues Festival is only in its second year and already it’s one of Gloucester’s largest events, bringing world class blues to Stage Fort Park and introducing you to young, rising blues stars.
You really don’t want to miss this year. Click here for videos of all this year’s performers. And you really don’t want to pay extra just because you forgot to get your tickets early.
This just in from Lisa Smith at Cape Ann TV. She and Vickie were at the library visioning meeting last night at the Rose Baker Senior Center. Here’s a picture Vickie took of all the ideas generated at that meeting: And here’s Lisa Smith’s report, and a wonderful video starring her daughter April!
Excite Your Children About Exploring the Library!
Last night there was a huge turnout at the Rose Baker Senior Center to create a vision for the future of the Sawyer Free Library. Many ideas were exchanged and a constant theme that was brought up is that we need to get more children into the library to exploit this rich resource. Here is “A Little Tour of the Children’s Room at the Sawyer Free Library”, made by kids for kids. Show this to your kids!
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Good Morning Gloucester 