My View of Life on the Dock
If you would like to reserve your copy click here (guys, think perfect Holiday or Birthday present) you can reserve your copy now and have a back up present ready to go in the inevitable situation when you forget.
Here’s the link-
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95596299/sista-felicias-sicilian-cookbook?ref=category
Click to check out her video produced by our boy Craig Kimberley-
#GloucesterMA Downtown 50+ year old tradition: The Sidewalk Bazaar! Happening 8/1-3, Go! via @Joey_C Good Morning… http://t.co/54WaQaa8hm
— Discover Gloucester (@DscvrGlstr) July 29, 2013
WED Lobster Fest Menu Single Steamed Lobster $9.95 Twin Steamed $15.95 Baked Stuffed Lobster $17.95 Twin Baked Stuffed $22.95 #gloucesterma
— Seaport Grille (@SeaportGrille) July 29, 2013
VIDEO Gran Prix of Gloucester: City Council Meeting http://t.co/204IX7RB14 // Thanks @towropemedia
— Gran Prix Gloucester (@gpgloucester) July 29, 2013
Poor count estimates plague New England fisheries – via @bostondotcom http://t.co/CNBpmqqLMV
— NE Seafood Coalition (@fish_nsc) July 29, 2013
Made the halfway mark to reaching my goal! THANK YOU EVERYONE @CraigShoots @eves3 @CapeAnnGiclee @Joey_C @donnaard @kimsmithdesigns
— Felicia Ciaramitaro (@SistaFelicia) July 29, 2013
Tyler making buffalo chicken balls https://t.co/DOtAvrGMQf
— Mamie's Kitchen (@MamiesKitchen) July 28, 2013
Sinikka Nogelo #GloucesteMA artist's installation Cape Ann Museum's White-Ellery House Sat, Aug 3rd. #followart… http://t.co/fhioaFLEnc
— ArtsGloucester (@ArtsGloucester) July 28, 2013
Rocky Neck Gallery: BEAUX ARTS BALL! This Saturday, August 3 @ 6-10 PM parade @ 5:30! http://t.co/P3QXFJ1fOq
— Rocky Neck Gallery (@RNGartists) July 28, 2013
Stay cool in #GloucesterMA where the Wicked Tuna Cool Guys have hung out… check out Cape Pond Ice tours on the… http://t.co/9myJi8Z4Tf
— ArtsGloucester (@ArtsGloucester) July 28, 2013
RT @ecotwin1: A green roof AND wind turbines?! #GloucesterMA, you rock! #renewableenergy pic.twitter.com/Mart8PW9CI @MayorKirk
— John McElhenny (@JMcElhenny) July 25, 2013
Champagne toast to Fred
Emilia welcoming Hannah and Craig
Brian, Hannah, Craig, and Emilia
Ed and Emilia
Fred sporting his brand new GMG stonewashed cap
Congratulations Felicia!
Released to grow up and end up at the Lobster Pound someday.
She writes-
The push to finish the cookbook the past several months has been an experience I will never forget. Months ago I began assembling a team of local creative people, to help me physically bring to life my vision for my cookbook “Gifts of Gold.” Each team member is truly amazingly talented in their field, passionate about what they do, generously giving of time and resources. Working together countless hours, to make important deadlines necessary to keep the project on schedule was always done with laughter and professionalism. Everyone had the same goal, and determination to do whatever it would take to get, to have, or provide whatever was needed when we needed it. I am so very proud to live in our community surrounded by so many creative, passionate, and fun people. What “Team Sista” pulled off the past few months is simply incredibly, even more incredible is that it was all done local and on this beautiful Island of Cape Ann we all call home.
If you need any of the following services, don’t walk, run and experience firsthand how incredible they are to do business with. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the following people and Businesses. Please help me support them as they supported me.
James and Anna Eves at Cape Ann Giclee. If you need photo editing of any kind I personally grantee they are the best of the best, dig out your old photos and get them to James.
Cathy Kelly graphic designer gifted in so many creative levels, if you need help with design for any type of publication she is awesome to work with.
Rick Moore and Donna Ardizzoni at Circle Consultanting Group provide incredible computer services, they are the best computer problem solves.
Craig Kimberly the best videographer on planet earth his eye behind the camera is like no other!
Hannah Kimberly a gifted writer, proofreader and professional educator.
Cape Ann Museum houses so many treasure from Gloucester’s history its truly a magical place and destination must for everyone.
Ryan Wood Distilleries, their Folly Cove Rum is delicious visit them and take a tour!
Gail McCarthy and the Gloucester Daily Times.
Charlie Carroll Photography, his still life photos are stunning.
Kim Smith photography, “The Butterfly Lady” you simply must see her documentary.
Audrey’s flower shop Heather, David and Dee always creating beautiful arrangements for all types of occasions.
Gallo productions, for start of the art, top quality, video production needs.
Cruiseport Gloucester, another Gem in our city, beautiful location for celebrations. For all your beauty needs visit Soft Touch Salon, Envouge Salon, Elite Nails and Vanesssa Linquata. Kahn Studio on Rocky Neck, always a fun art gallery to visit!
Thank you for all you support
Sista Felicia
To order yours and support her effort- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95596299/sista-felicias-sicilian-cookbook
Click here to check it out and reserve yours
Check out the video and reserve your copy today!!!
Huge help from so many FOB’s that I’m scared to death to try to compile a list for fear of missing someone but I’m sure Felicia will put together a nice thank you soon.
Dinner Dealer Founder Jessica brand writes-
I’ve yet to meet Felicia but I have to tell you that her kickstarter video was so heartwarming. I could listen to her talk for hours. They way she talks about Italians cooking for memory, I know exactly what she means. I only lived and worked in Italy for 6 months, a long time ago, but I experienced first hand what she was talking about. So incredible, I couldn’t resist sending you a note.Buona fortuna!
Jess
Hi, my name is Hannah Scialdone Kimberley, and I am a resident of Gloucester, MA. I grew up with my grandparents in Virginia, who inspired so much Italian American pride in our family. One of the greatest gifts my grandfather gave us was the publication of his 1987 cookbook, A Neapolitan Peasant’s Cookbook, which not only left us with a wonderful collection of recipes, but also educated others and us about what it means to come from Italian Heritage and live in America. What started as a gift to his family, my grandfather’s book gained local and national recognition. In fact, his book was selected as one of 17 books on the National Italian American Foundation’s reading list during a conference at the Smithsonian Institution on life in an Italian village.
My grandparents have passed on, but their traditions remain with me. I now live in Gloucester with my family, and I came across a story so similar to my grandfather’s, that I am compelled to bring it to your attention. A local woman in our town, Felicia Ciaramitaro, has written a cookbook that includes recipes passed down for generations. Like my grandfather, she met with her family members and learned their recipes – often stopping them half way through the cooking process to actually measure how much a relative’s “handful” amounted to so that she could record precise measurements for their previously unrecorded recipes. Without my grandfather, our family recipes and traditions would have been lost. I am betting the same goes for the Ciaramitaro family.
While I am not related to the Ciaramitaro family, I believe that Italian cultural preservation is more important now than it ever has been for the national Italian American Community. In the face of atrocious stereotypes created by programs such as “The Jersey Shore” and “Housewives of New Jersey,” it is up to us to keep our culture not only alive, but also maintain it in a positive public light. From her Kickstarter Page Sista Felicia’s Kitchen and her write-up in our local blog, Good Morning Gloucester, it seems that all Ms. Ciaramitaro needs is more publicity and support to keep yet another positive Italian American tradition alive for all of us.
I am asking that you highlight her story on your Facebook Page and/or website, so that your fans might know more about “a unique & colorful cookbook that will bring to life lost recipes & traditions from Ms. Ciaramitaro’s Sicilian kitchen to yours.” These recipes are Felicia Ciaramitaro’s “Gifts of Gold,” which she has written for us all.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration, and for all that you do for keeping Italian American culture and heritage alive and well in our country.
Best, Hannah Scialdone Kimberley
Gloucester, MA
Amanda, Felicia, and Pat
Visiting Gloucester? Have friends in from out of town? You’re probably complaining to yourself that the weather isn’t cooperating, right? Not to worry! There’s lots to do in Gloucester and Cape Ann when the weather is lousy. Just be glad you’re not on Cape Cod, where there really isn’t much to do except go to the beach.
Just to see what he’d say I asked a friend, who grew up in Gloucester and now lives in NYC (owns a bar and writes for a New York Time Blog) why would New Yorkers come here instead of Cape Cod. Here’s the mini rant he wrote back:
You nailed it Ray! Below the video, we’ve listed another 15 things you can do on a rainy day. Just be glad you don’t live in England, where you wouldn’t expect the sun. As John Lennon put it in the Beatles classic, “I Am the Walrus”:
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the English rain.
SEE 15 RAINY DAY IDEAS BELOW VIDEO:
Glazed – Paint Your Own Pottery & Glass Fusing
184 Washington St
Gloucester MA 01930
Phone 978-283-5751
Cape Ann Lanes
53 Gloucester Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930-2256
(978) 283-9753
Cape Ann Art Haven
180B Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
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Gloucester Cinema
74 Essex Avenue (Rte. 133)
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9188
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA
Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-281-0470
Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester, Mass. 01930
Tours on the hour. Last tour at 4:00 p.m.
Cape Ann Foodie Tours
617-902-8291
Cape Pond Ice – Ice House Tour
104 Commercial Street
Fort Point Wharf
Gloucester, MA
978-283-0174
Ryan & Wood Distilleries
15 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA
978-281-2282
Sargent House Museum
49 Middle Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 281-2432
Rocky Neck Art Colony
Rocky Neck
Gloucester, MA
Cape Ann Community Cinema
21 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-309-8448
Live Music – At over a dozen locations
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Check out the video and reserve your copy today!!!
A unique & colorful cookbook that will bring to life lost recipes & traditions from my Sicilian kitchen to yours. My Gifts of Gold!
Funds raised through Kickstarter will allow me to realize the first step in my dream of publishing a series of four cookbooks that includes recipes and stories I learned growing up in a Sicilian family. When I became a mother of twins, I was compelled to collect the stories and the recipes I felt were being left behind because I wanted my children to be raised with all the same traditions and rich cultural heritage I had experienced.
What started out as a gift for my children quickly evolved into a hardcover 250 plus page restoration of Sicilian culture and foods. Through my cooking videos onGoodMorningGloucester.org and Media Program Network (MPN), a demand has developed for a text copy version of all my recipes so they may be shared with others within my community and beyond.
My first book is ready for print; it is written, is loaded with photographs, and awaits funding. Monies raised will pay for current expenses related to editing, book design and layout, photography, and publication.
With your help, Kickstarter will enable me to bring my passion for all things Sicilian to your kitchen to share with your loved ones. This book embodies my commitment to ensure the past is not lost but is forever saved for future generations.
I’m taking requests for different colors email me here with your combination (Marty Morgan I know you want the scoop neck Dark gray but I forgot the size so shoot me an email)-Request your color/style/size example: navy/scoop neck/large
When I called the rep I asked her to tell me what the top three premium women t-shirts are for softness and quality. So I ordered a bunch up and we narrowed it down to one brand and two different styles from that brand v neck and scoop neck.
The regular GMG email is messed up so use the contact form to make a request and I’ll place the order for your request for any sizes/colors/styles that aren’t listed as in stock from the ordering page.
Click here to use the GMG Store contact form- http://gmg.storenvy.com/contact
The three color GMG logo will be on the left chest, small and classy.
Here’s the very limited inventory I got just to try out sizes and quality-
Sista Felicia and Amandacakes model our product samples (yet to be emblazoned with GMG Logo)
Features:
Black Med 1, Lg 1
Dark Gray Med 1, Lg 1, XL 1
Indigo Med 1 Lg 1 Lg
Light Pink Med 1
Alicia DeWolfe models the Scoop Neck version
Features:
Black Lg 1,XL 1
Navy Med 1, Lg 1, XL 1
Check to see if your preferred size/color/style combination is already in stock on the ordering page here- http://gmg.storenvy.com/
Next Monday 7/29, we’re filming two Local Music Seen with Allen Estes shows for Cape Ann TV at their studio at 38 Blackburn Center (see map). Filming will begin around 2:30pm. Allen’s guests will be Joe Thomas & Memory Lane of Giuseppe’s, who hosted the very popular Noise Magazine Singer Songwriter Shuffle. There will be a break after filming Joe & Memory and then we’ll begin filming a show with very talented, young singer/songwriter Alexandra Valenti as Allen’s Guest. Here’s Alexandra at the Singer Songwriter Shuffle.
People are welcome to attend as guests. If you’d like to attend, please be there by 2:30pm. And please be patient as we have to test sound and lights and often we have to move stuff around and mess with various gadgets to get things just right.
If you’d like to be notified, by email, of all future Local Music Seen with Allen Estes tapings (along with other concert info before the public knows) you can join our gimmeLIVE Concert Club here.
By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer Gloucester Daily Times
The 1986 setting for the play “North Shore Fish” — now showing at Gloucester Stage resuming Wednesday night — hints at a foreboding crisis in the fishing industry that started as a trickle in the mid-1980s, and has become a veritable deluge in 2013.
But while the dwindling fish landings feeding into the background story for the Israel Horovitz play continue into the 21st century, it is under dramatically different circumstances.
Local fishermen today are fighting to maintain their livelihood against the pressures of a federal bureaucracy they believe wants to shut them down, but the workers who manned the plentiful fish processing plants in the 1980s and in Horovitz’s play faced a vanishing way of life due to automation, foreign competition and eventually, yes, a dwindling number of landings.
In the mid-1980s, millions of pounds of fish were landed daily by the Gloucester-based fleet — compared to the landings at the Cape Ann Seafood Exchange on Harbor Loop last Thursday, which was 7,700 pounds.
For the entire article click here to read it at The Gloucester Daily Times Site
George and Charles Ryan, Catherine and Cliff’s twin nine-year old sons, are avid GMG readers. They particularly enjoyed the Steak Bomb Challenge posts!
Friday’s reception for the Semi-finalist Group Exhibit, hosted by the Sawyer Free Library and Carol Gray, was well attended and beautifully organized by Catherine Ryan. The wonderfully appetizing and tasty hors d’ourves, dips, crostini, and fruits and cheeses were provided by Matthew Beach of Beach Gourmet
Carol Gray, Sawyer Free Library Director
Thank you Mayor Kirk, Carol, Catherine, and the Gloucester Committee for the Arts for the exhibit, which is interesting and very informative to see all the semi-finalists responses to the public call to art. The exhibit is up and running through July 30th at the Matz Gallery of the Sawyer Free Library. Click HERE for the Library’s summer hours.
Finalist Bartek Konieczny and Family
Catherine Ryan
Semi-finalist Juni Van Dyke and Her Son Sean
Finalist Justin DeSilva
Finalist James Calderwood
Bartek Konieczny Daughter’s
George, Catherine, and Charles Ryan
Rob Newton writes:
Here’s an up-to-the-minute update as to what’s going on at the Cape Ann Community Cinema right now! The Penultimate Campaign Update:
It is so amazing (and a little overwhelming) to see this two-month capital campaign coming to such a positive end. Thanks to the support of our hundreds of our dedicated “Patron Saints,” we have raised $28,727 for our crowdfunding campaign via the online platform Indiegogo. As of today, counting all the offline pledges,we are now over 95% of the way to our goal of $30,000. We have just 1 day left until this campaign is history.
Please visit our Indiegogo page for the specifics as to how we will invest the money we raise through this campaign, as well as a list of 12 keen thank-you gifts (which range from bumper stickers to a private movie party to free admission for a year).
If you have not donated yet and would like to––or if you’d like to donate again––just click on the picture of the door above.
I’m so lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and grateful that I will be able to continue to serve this community I love so much.
See you soon,
Rob (and Zoë Annabelle), Nicole, Anne-Marie, John, Bianca, Owen, Rachel, Gillie, Deborah, Karen, Fiona, and Mary
DONATE YOUR TIME
Our volunteers greet visitors and serve our patrons at special events, and other volunteer positions may be created based on interest and special skills. Volunteering at CACC is a life-changing experience, and we rely on the generosity of our volunteers to keep our programs going. For more information, please call Rob at(978) 309-8448.
Whether or not your high school or college has a for-credit internship program, training with us in an invaluable experience and résumé credit. For a commitment of just 120 hours, you will get a hands-on look at all aspects of Cinema operation, plus all the movies you can watch. An internship at CACC culminates in a movie night that you plan start-to-finish! Call Rob at (978) 309-8448.
This may have been the Seine Boat with hibachi and keg.. Notice there are two extra passengers. The one in the bow is the bartender, and the one in front of the cox is the grill chef. Rowing is always a good time. If you’d like to row, visit Home page: MaritimeGloucester: Oceans of Discovery, Gloucester, MA
That’s where I rediscovered the joy of rowing.
Fred
I’m Told The Shirts Are Going To Printer In Two Weeks Time. Same Three Color Logo As The GMG Caps. Left Front Chest Logo
The pictures you see on the Pre-order website show the multiple sized paper cut-out logos laid out on top of one of the black shirts we used to determine which size we were gonna go with. We ended up going with the smallest understated and classy size logo size.
I only ordered a couple of each size in Large and XL. If you pre-order your size/color combo I can get those to the printer in time for the first shipment.
To Pre-Order Click Here
No compromise quality and design.
All I wear down the dock from Spring To Fall are Dry fit moisture wicking short and long sleeve shirts. High quality, moisture and odor control for comfort.
Cotton T-Shirts are only comfy under the most perfect of conditions. Dry-Fit shirts regulate body temperature and keep you a bajillion percent more comfortable on those hot days.
But they’re not just for hot days. I wear my long sleeve dry fit shirts as a base layer under a cotton sweatshirt and its perfect for those cool days when you’re working hard. Nothing worse than a cool day when you work up a sweat and then if you don’t have a dry-fit base layer that moisture just gets trapped in your cotton sweatshirt and then once you stop working you get a horrible chill. A dry Fit base layer regulated your body temp throughout cool and hot –sweaty/not sweaty work days.
So I ordered up three different brands because all I’m ordering is top of the line stuff that I would wear personally. I’m crazy fussy about the gear I wear and if the GMG logo is going on something I’m just flat out insisting on the best. Bottom line-End of story. You can rest assured that if I’m ordering it it’s gonna be quality and these are QUALITY.
Although I wished I could have stayed longer, the brief hour that I was there at the Block Party last night was so much fun. A cooling and most welcome breeze arrived just as the party began and everyone was there to have a fabulous time. Many thanks to the “Block Heads” who bring us this wonderful event–times 3! Don’t miss the next two upcoming Block Parties, August 17th and September 21st.
Kirk Family and Friends at Jalepenos
Alex Becket of Dr. Bones’ Circus of Marvels
Alicia at her studio open house yesterday; also open Sunday from noon to 6:00
Ryan Family
Eloise and Madeline
Skyler Corbett and her Mom, intent on choosing a design at Toodeloos
Face painting with Susan at Toodeloos
Phoenix
Melissa Cox, with her usual sense of humor
Thanks so much Diane for keeping us updated!
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Just in case you haven’t noticed, North Shore 104.9’s “Curtain Up” host, Aurelia Nelson, has been inviting Cape Ann rock stars to be her guests more frequently of late and it points to a trend of featuring locals on the station as a whole (see some examples here).
Tomorrow (SUNDAY) at 9AM, she does it again, this time with Festival By The Sea producer Chris Langathianos and headliner Chris Trapper. You’ll get a sneak preview of festival highlights and hear Chris perform. Definitely worth getting up for — even if you stay out late at tonight’s Block Party.
And just in case you’re not quite sure which of tonight’s excellent shows to catch, here’s a list of all live music to help you decide.
Good Morning Gloucester 