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Chickity Check It!- Let Us Eat Fish By RAY HILBORN In the NY Times
Thanks to FOB Kevin Henry who forwarded this to me-
Let Us Eat Fish
By RAY HILBORN
Published: April 14, 2011 NY Times
THIS Lent, many ecologically conscious Americans might feel a twinge of guilt as they dig into the fish on their Friday dinner plates. They shouldn’t.
Over the last decade the public has been bombarded by apocalyptic predictions about the future of fish stocks — in 2006, for instance, an article in the journal Science projected that all fish stocks could be gone by 2048.
Subsequent research, including a paper I co-wrote in Science in 2009 with Boris Worm, the lead author of the 2006 paper, has shown that such warnings were exaggerated. Much of the earlier research pointed to declines in catches and concluded that therefore fish stocks must be in trouble. But there is little correlation between how many fish are caught and how many actually exist; over the past decade, for example, fish catches in the United States have dropped because regulators have lowered the allowable catch. On average, fish stocks worldwide appear to be stable, and in the United States they are rebuilding, in many cases at a rapid rate.
click here to read the whole article at the NY Times Website
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More of The Rosemarie From The Archives Of The Cape Ann Museum Provided By Fred Buck
Fred Writes-
joey – here’s a rave review the bessemer corp. gave the boat and her owners in june of 1938. i’ve sent copies of this and some other material to mary ann for her father.
fred buck, cape ann museum photo dj
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2011 VISITOR MAP HAS ARRIVED!
The 2011 Visitor Map from The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Is in. This is the Chamber’s version which will be distributed all over. You can go down there and pick some up and hand them out to your friends or visiting relatives.
HOT OF THE PRESS!!
The new 2011 Visitor Map is here!
Please feel free to drop by the office to get your
2011 supply, or attend this month’s BAH and pick some up there!! Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2011 season.
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Chickity Check It! Magnolia Photos and History Through The Decades From Tim Moran
Hi Joey,
Thank you for your GMG web site and what you do to keep us former residents “in the loop”.
My name is Thomas (Tim) Moran. While I currently live in Dallas , TX , my roots go deep into Gloucester , more specifically, into Magnolia.
My two sisters (Marcia and Alison) and I spent every summer between the mid forties and the late fifties (1944 – 1958 for me) visiting our grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Ringer, at the head of the beach on Shore Road in Magnolia.
My grandfather, W.H. Ringer, was a principal of GHS when it was downtown, long before it moved to its present location by "the cut".
As I was looking at some pictures of the Fisherman’s Memorial the other day, I remembered that my mother, Beth Ringer Moran, at age 99, is probably one of the few still alive who, at age 13, was at the statue’s dedication in 1925? She also remembers walking across the cut bridge from their home on Kent Circle to the high school every day in high heels and skirts, which is what ‘girls’ wore to school then. She says it was very cold in the winter!
I wonder if anyone knows anybody else who was also there and is still living. That might be a good question for your web site.
My sisters and I have returned to Magnolia many times through the past 50 years and will return again, hopefully within the next few years.
I invite you to peruse a web page that I put together after sister Marcia, my wife, daughter, and I last visited in the fall of 2004. Tim Moran’s Magnolia MA History
Tim Moran
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Local Music Seen with Allen Estes Returns Tonight at 6:30pm Featuring The Bandit Kings Unplugged
Dear Joey,
Cape Ann TV has fixed the problems they had and Local Music Seen with Allen Estes returns tonight at 6:30pm featuring The Bandit Kings – unplugged. Music is excellent, harmonies superb, camaraderie shines through and everybody looks great too!
More info and air times here: http://localmusicseen.com/
(L-R) host Allen Estes with Bandit Kings: Ann Marie, Renee Dupuis, Dan King, Dennis Monagle, Joe Cardoza
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Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s 4th Annual One Day Digital Photography Workshop! May 7th
Hi Joey, thanks so much for including my photos in your site and directing viewers to my flickr site. I’m retired and have found it’s a great enjoyment to be involved in photography. I volunteer at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum and have been documenting there vast collection of artifacts with digital photos and also covering the many events they have though out the year.
Each year 3 local guys and myself teach an all-day digital photography workshop at the museum’s Waterline Center. All the proceeds go to support the Museum. It’s a hands-on all-day workshop and has been very well received.
Is it possible for you to include the information and the enclosed photo montage for the workshop on your site? It would be a great help to the Museum.
Here’s the information and photo…
Thank You, Sincerely, Len Burgess
Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s, 4th annual…
One Day Digital Photography Workshop!
Learn the basics and professional advanced skills of
digital photography in one day!
For beginners or advanced photographers
Grab your digital camera, and give yourself a day off to really learn the secrets professionals use to get great pictures. You will learn composition, portraiture, and how to use light to your advantage. This is not a lecture but a hands-on workshop, where we will give you photo taking “assignments” around the shipyard. Using a low-key, creative, collaborative approach, we help you learn how to better use your camera and capture the image you see — an image you’ll be proud to frame.
You’ll need to bring:
1.) A digital camera (from simple point and shoot to the best DSLR).
2.) Your data cable to connect your camera to our computer.
3.) The software that came with your camera. 4.) Your instruction manual
(if you can find it). No matter whether you are just a beginner or have been shooting all your life, you will leave a better photographer.
Your workshop leaders are: Barry O’Brien, Len Burgess, Tony Schettino and David Delorey. The proceeds from the course directly support the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.
When: Saturday, May 7, 2011 Time: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Where: Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Waterline Center, 66 Main Street, Essex, MA 01929
Please enroll by: Monday, April 25, 2011, limited to 15
Full Day Course Fee: $ 45.00
To enroll: call Barry O’Brien at (978) 282-8222
For questions: call Barry’s cell phone at (617) 967-1227
There will be coffee served in the morning. You will be on your own for lunch, bring a bag lunch or eat in a nearby restaurant.
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Adam Bolonsky Sends In Striper Fishing Video
Hi Joey,
I just posted a short video of Marvin Tighe (Rocky Neck) striper fishing off Flat Rocks at Rockport.
He lands a schoolie and gives some commentary on bait.
Kayak Fishing for Striped Bass: Trolling the Tube and Worm-
A Local Gloucester, MA Kayak Fisherman Offers Some Insights Into Trolling the Tube and Worm
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Chickity Check It! GloucesterAlumni.org
Dave Marsh stopped by the dock the other day and pointed out a website they developed for Gloucester School Alumni.
This from the welcome page-
Gloucester Alumni Association welcomes all persons who have attended Gloucester, Mass. Public Schools to use this website.
Please register using the menu on the left margin. Once you have registered,full access to the site will be granted within 24 hours by email message. Information provided to the Alumni Association is edited for accuracy and appropriateness. Information is protected and maintained under our Privacy Policy.
Tell Us Your Story
Members are encouraged to submit information about their experiences or other information that is relevant to Gloucester’s Schools. After registering as a member of the site, submit information of interest to the Alumni Community by using the Create Content menu on the left hand margin. The Create Content menu is created by the registration process.
Check it Out Here- http://gloucesteralumni.org/
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The Latest From Kim Smith- Butterflies of Massachusetts
I wanted to share with you a fabulous new resource—the Butterflies of Massachusetts website. Created by Sharon Stichter, Butterflies of Massachusetts “offers a comprehensive review of the current status of butterflies in the state. It is designed as a resource for all those interested in these charismatic insects, including butterfly enthusiasts, conservationists, biologists, land managers, and wildlife professionals.” I find the Species List particularly useful for learning more about the earliest recorded sightings of Massachusetts’s butterflies, frequency and distribution, and caterpillar hostplants. My readers residing outside of Massachusetts but along the East Coast will find the information on the Butterflies of Massachusetts website nearly equally as valuable. Ecologically speaking, the Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic coastal plain are largely self-contained, allowing unrestricted north-south movement of individual butterflies and migratory populations. The information found on the new Butterflies of Massachusetts website represents many years of data compiled by Sharon Stichter and the Massachusetts Butterfly Club.
Check Out Kim’s Blog Here For The Full Post
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Chickity Check It! Melissa Smith Abbott’s GloucesterJournal
Dory Report From Laurel Tarantino
Hello Joey,
It’s me again, Jimmy T’.s Secretary and I’m not sitting in his lap! We got the Practice dories painted up and ready for the next step, which is "Launch Day" Saturday, April 2nd. Hopefully that will go as smoothly as everything else has gone. We couldn’t have done it without our much appreciated volunteers. We’d love it if more folks would be so kind as to help out on launch day too. Boats will leave on trailer from Eastern Avenue Storage @ 10:AM brought to the ramp in East Gloucester behind Martinetti Dentist for launching, from there, they will be rowed to their Summer Home at St. Peter’s Square Dock. We need trailers, rowers, and folks to taxi rowers back to their vehicles. Last year things went great and we were done in well under two hours. Seeing the boats back in Harbor Cove will be a welcome sight, like Spring bulbs pushing up through the ground are now. It won’t be long!
Thanks so very much once again Joey, for your precious time and wonderful exposure.
For more info on how to get involved with the International Dory Rowing Check Out Their Website- http://www.internationaldories.com/index.html
Chip Noton & Marge Robertson "Gettin’ her Done"
"Bottoms Up" Jimmy T. & Gina Lampassi
Gina "Upright!"
Erick Dombrowski, Chip Norton, Nancy Dudley & Mark Duval
"Inspector Tarantino"
Reflection of Columbia in the Gertrude L. Thebaud
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Chickity Check It!- Never said about restaurant websites blog
Beth Swan alerted the GMG to this beauty of a blog a couple of days ago. Check It Out, and this BTW should be mandatory reading for all restaurateur and website developers.
The irony of it all is that I bet some of the people it is intended for may still not even get it after they read it much like how they can’t comprehend the value in tweeting a 140 character daily special “because it takes too much time”
Click to go to-
Never said about restaurant websites
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Roger Babson Riddle Video From Thomas Soucy
Thomas writes-
Located in Cape Ann Massachusetts there exists a ghost town called “Dog Town”. In that wooded area there exists an unusual hiking trail that includes viewing about 30 boulders that have carved inscriptions.
Roger Babson (1875 – 1967), a descendant of the Dog Town hamlet’s earliest settlers was a founder of three colleges, eccentric and moralizer. He even spent time trying to discover ways to defeat gravity…
Source: Dog Town a Village Lost in Time by Thomas Dresser
As a ‘moralizer’ Babson hired out of work quarry people to carve sayings on boulders in Dog Town. The appearance of the carved boulders seemingly has no pattern. But after some thought we discern three groupings: ideals, ideas to implement them and truths.
- The ‘ideals’ are: Integrity, Loyalty, Industry, Spiritual Power, Initiative, Intelligence and Kindness.
- The Ideas put forward to implement the ideals are shown after each Ideal boulder.
- Also the truths, when appropriate, are shown.
As a ‘moralizer’ Babson left us with a riddle. What is he telling us by his legacy of boulder inscriptions in Dog Town (a modern day ghost town)?
During his life he tried to find ways to “defeat gravity”. Hatred is gravity. Hope, faith and love are uplifting or anti-gravity (as are his wonderful sayings)!
What follows is a video that depicts the Babson Boulders:
here is a pdf to go with it-
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Beth Williams Studio Lobster Bead
Beth Williams of Beth Williams Studio created this lobster bead after I read her tweet that she had just made a fish bead and I had suggested she make a lobster one.
The power of Twitter I tell ya!
So now I plan to head over to her studio and talk to her about the lobster bead. Why? Because I learned about it by casually following her on Twitter. Funny how that works, huh?
Check Out and Follow Beth William’s Studio On Twitter-
http://twitter.com/#!/BWilliamsStudio
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The Gloucester Daily Times Cover’s Well Traveled Letter that EJ Broke The Story On Today
Chickity Check It-
This piece of mail gets through – 65 years later
By Francis X. Quinn Staff Writer
History buffs in Gloucester have turned up a decades-old mystery involving the U.S Postal Service.
As amateur sleuth E.J. Lefavour posted on the GoodMorningGloucester blog over the weekend, a correspondent named H. Grimsland of Chicago mailed a First Day of Issue Roosevelt Memorial envelope and 1-cent stamps to Mrs. S.E. Lawrence of 123 Leonard St. in Gloucester on July 26, 1945.
That may not seem too remarkable — but the envelope only arrived in Annisquam last week, more than 65 years later, according to Lefavour.
For the rest of the story click the highlighted text to see it on the Gloucester Daily Times website
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Chickity Check It!- Kat Valentine Digs Up A Great Piece On How To Blog
click on the graphic below to check it out-
Click here for the post-which Ket highlighted at http://parlezmoiblog.blogspot.com/
7 Dos and 7 Don’ts for New Bloggers
Nathan Bransford has spoken. He says it’s never too early for writers to start using social media. Perhaps one day we’ll all be issued Twitter accounts in the womb.
Since Nathan is a Thought Leader in our industry (according to Klout) I have a feeling a lot of writers are scrambling around this weekend, trying to set up blogs.
If you’re a non-geek who doesn’t have a clue where to begin, I wrote a post last December on How to Start a Blog that people have found useful..
Here are some further dos and don’ts for creative writers who are thinking of plunging into the blogosphere.
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Bill O’Connor’s Son B Makes Easter Center Piece At The Home Expo
Hey Joe,
I snapped this photo of your sister and my son (who calls himself ‘B’) making an Easter center piece at the home expo today. He had a great time and your sister is lovely! My wife was so happy that I came home with a photo of her son and a true Gloucester celebrity!
Enjoy!~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Chickity Check It! The Rocky Neck Gallery New Blog
This woodblock print, designed by artist, Sigrid Olsen, is our logo. See this as our imprint on Facebook and Twitter and please follow us (here and there) for news and updates about the gallery and the artists.
We have an exciting summer ahead with plans for artist demos and talks, festive Nights on the Neck and a new Summer Artists Series showcasing solo and group art shows in addition to the gallery’s artists’ works. We are looking forward to 18 weeks of sunny summer days falling into beautiful autumn afternoons, salty sea breezes, fun nights, art, music, friends and family coming together on Rocky Neck. Stay tuned for more updates on all of the above and we’ll be seeing you, soon, in Gloucester on the Neck
Click here for The Rocky Neck Gallery Blog
Rocky Neck Gallery Facebook Page
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GMG Topside Grille Art Show This Summer
Doug Silva who has been making some fantastic changes as manager at his father’s Topside Grill invited our posse to fill the newly renovated space with our photos. If you haven’t heard by now from Paul Morrison’s Seasonal Restaurant Openings list, The Topside will be opening April 1st.
We stopped by Saturday morning to drop off our work and I’ll be posting some images of each of our contributors with their pieces all week long. You can check it all out for yourself (and get some great grub) on the 1st at Topside grill.
The GMG contributors who will have work for sale- Sharon Lowe, Alicia Pensarosa, David Cox, EJ LeFaveur, Donna Ardizzoni.
Here Manny gets an interview with Doug.
We start with Alicia Pensarosa and Mike.
Good Morning Gloucester 