Category: Good Morning Gloucester

Just came across ongoing demolition at the former Mobile convenience store site on Essex Ave. such an interesting process.

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Sharing information provided on Facebook regarding CATA fares (FREE!) throughout the holiday season!

The holidays are fast approaching and I thought it might be fun to share some of my local shopping experiences with you. For the first installment, we went to Cape Pond Ice to pick up some gifts for some favorite people. I had in mind exactly what I wanted so it was intended to be a quick stop. We immediately noticed the inside of the store (located on Commercial Street) has recently been reconfigured. It looks even better! The merchandise is neatly displayed and easy to navigate. We got what I had planned on and Jim got himself a new hat. These are favorite items for family and friends so it makes the perfect gift especially for those who love Gloucester but live elsewhere. Thanks Scott and team! Well done, as usual.

Send a self addressed and stamped envelope to:

Joey Ciaramitaro

95 East Main St

Gloucester MA

If you include a little note we love to read them on the GloucesterCast podcast

My beautiful wife Kate and I are going to feature one or two local places to buy holiday gifts each day highlighting the fact that there’s no need to buy your presents online or trudge up to the mall.

There’s excellent places to shop right here in Gloucester.

Finally November…

Rocky Neck Art Colony Festive Public Community Feast and Members Meeting

Wednesday, November 16,  Feast: 6:30 – 9 PM, Member Meeting: 6-6:30 PM

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA 01930

Rocky Neck Art Colony invites all to gather in creative community to celebrate the season and the artists of the current exhibitionFeast: The Art of Dining Together.Please bring along an artful plate of finger food or a food sculpture! Beverages will be offered by RNAC. Music provided by DJ Tracy Sousa.

Meeting for RNAC Members (6-6:30PM, followed by a Community Feast that is free and open to all (6:30-9 PM).

Upcoming Events and Workshops

New Book Celebration of two major Cape Ann Poets:

The Gloucester Writer’s Center and Windhover host poets Jay Featherstone & Martha Fox at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts for a reading, book signing and gathering

Sunday, November 20, 4:00-6:00pm located inside the stained glass CHAPEL (which is heated), on Windhover’s campus

Critics have hailed Martha Fox’s poems as “evocative” and “strikingly beautiful,” and Jay Featherstone’s as “incisive and often shattering.” Join us to celebrate the release of new poetry collections by Fox and Featherstone with a reading, book signing, and wine/cheese reception in Windhover’s historic Chapel. Copies will be available for sale (cash/check). 

Jay Featherstone lives in Gloucester. His chapbook, Vermeer Paints My Mother, is now out through Fenway Press. Two previous full-length collections are Glass (Fenway Press) and Braces’s Cove (New Issues). A Harvard graduate, he served as speechwriter for anti-Vietnam War presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy; as editor of the New Republic; and as headmaster of the Commonwealth School. He has taught at Harvard, Brown, and Michigan State and is well-known for his pioneering work on teacher education. His writing and poems have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Education Review, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. 

Martha Fox lives in Rockport. Her new book of poetry, This Arc of Assurances, was released in October by Grayson Books. Previous volumes include the chapbookTides/The Land Sighted, with poet Thomas Lux, and the book If the river’s this high all summer (both Pym-Randall Press). Her poems appear widely in literary journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic, and Ploughshares. After completing an MFA at UC Irvine, she served as an NEA Poet in the Schools and continued to teach young writers for decades. 

The event is free but rsvp’s are welcome at windhover@verizon.net

For questions, please contact Lisa Hahn at windhover@verizon.net or by calling 978-546-3611

Wednesday, Nov 16, from noon- 2pm T Max will be back at the Whale’s Jaw spinning up a whale of a time with John Hicks and Mark Chenevert.

Whale’s Jaw – 17 Railroad Ave, Rockport MA

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Sharing information from the Present Facebook page. Opening Sunday Nov 20 at the site of Last Stop Variety 273 East Main St.

Looking forward to the Magnolia Women’s Club Fair. Thank you for shopping local.

It’s been beautiful here these last several days. I wanted to return to Half Moon Beach at Stage Fort Park to see what it looks like in fall. I thought you might enjoy this too. You can see what GMG Jim does when I am working on the Good Morning Gloucester blog posts.