Hi Joey,
I got this from my cousin Pete Lucido, Joe’s The Barber’s son, who is working on a project for his Dad:

This year marks my father’s 50th (yes, that’s right, 50th) year as a barber in the City of Gloucester!!! He got his start at McLean’s Barber Shop on Main Street and then opened his own shop in 1976 on Washington Street. He has been in his current location since 1985. I would like to compile all of your favorite memories or stories of my dad as a barber and surprise him with a book. If you have pictures of you, your children or grandchildren, etc. getting their haircut from my dad those are welcome too! Please send a message or email me at lucido48@yahoo.com with your favorite memory (or memories). Thanks for your help!  

Pete Lucido
Can you please help spread the word?
Thanks! 

Rose LoPiccolo
Recycling Coordinator
City of Gloucester

Great music – Great Weather – Great Art, Crafts, Food & Beer

Vickie S Van NessSent from my phone

Hi Joey:  Not to be outdone by your elegant, new understated GMG shirts (can’t wait to get into mine), Cape Pond Ice has a “Wicked New” offering:

NatGeo’s Wicked Tuna film crew has been shooting some great footage of Cape Pond Ice staff with block ice and crushed ice flying in all directions, including onto several old (and new for Season Three – shhhh…  that’s top secret  information !) Wicked Tuna boats and tuna processors’ trucks, before air shipment to Japan (packed on Cape Pond Ice, of course). The excitement is like a new “Perfect Storm”.
Not to miss out on the wave, you can be among the first to own our new “Wicked Tuna / Wicked Ice” Cape Pond Ice t-shirt design, printed in three colors on a brilliant “Comfort Colors” 100% cotton Sapphire blue.  The back reads:  “2013 – Wicked Coolest Guys Around”.  Order on-line at www.capepondice.com or swing by our 104 Commercial Street, Gloucester shop, open every day through the Summer.
See link below:

http://www.capepondice.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CPI&Product_Code=Wicked+Tee&Category_Code=T

Lost Tortoise!

She answers to the name Penny

or contact: Frontiero@hotmail.com

August 2 2013

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”

  – Abraham Maslow 1908-1970

A New York native and professor at Brooklyn College, Maslow moved to Brandeis University during the 50’s and 60’s. He created a humanistic school of psychology that advanced self-actualization as a path for personal growth, almost Taoist in its then revolutionary rejection of materialism. At a time when most academic psychologists studied dysfunction, he looked at how self-motivated, well-adjusted people ordered their lives. His books include Toward a Psychology of Being (1968) and The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971), and his “Hierarchy of Needs,” a pyramidal diagram showing the interrelated nature of personal necessities, has become an iconic graphic. Among his many other memorable quotes: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

Greg Bover

Hi Joey,

I’m a new-ish Gloucester resident ( and long cape ann appreciator ) come over from great neck in ipswich.
photographer, writer, musician, yoga-ist, pet rescuer, social scientist, long time house cleaner & interior design/ clutter buster, future counselor, yoga & health teacher and all round cool person, lol. I look at your page regularly and have been meaning to send some photos and such.
Gloucester is fascinating, and i’m glad to be here.

I have 2 hounds, one, DUNCAN, an american-english coonhound ( lemon-spotted, no less !), southern rescue,
a really serious tracking/hunting dog. ( pacifist tho, he doesn’t kill, or end the hunt ). One of the business plans i was about to emBARK on
is an exercise excursion for dogs, or dogs and humans, led my self and my hounds thru the woods… at an appropriate level of fitness.
these dogs not only lead a good outdoor work out, but they can show you where many different animals live and the paths they travel, etc.
We enjoy the beaches, and the woods and quarries daily, and get to know the woods and the people and animals in them better and better. This would be an important element of our excursions.

Sadly, i think Duncan has gone off to do the research on his own. The two hounds slipped out the back of our Lanesville Home. I woke up to find the little one home on the couch looking dazed 2 days later. Duncan has now been gone a week. He was last seen & heard baying/ singing up by Nelson’s quarry last weekend. He knows how to live in the woods, as he did in Virginia, and i have a feeling someone has seen him and is putting out food in hopes he’ll come. And that he’s eating the food and taking off to track again. he’s like an addict when he tracks. So i’m writing to you
in hopes that some of your readership may have seen or HEARD him ( very distinctive sing-song-y bay)
and in hopes that some of them might have good knowledge of Dogtown and the Quarry area that they might want to show off.
I don’t feel i can just leave him out there alone. I’m hoping some people might want to help me search for him, create some search parties.

Duncan is such a special dog to me. I’ve lost a lot lately, but at least i still had him. Now he’s running around dog town somewhere and i’ve got to somehow find him before he gets his foot caught in a pile of rocks or something. If anyone has seen, heard or can help make search parties for him please contact me
at: suburban_seaqueen@yahoo.com( and should i include a phone # ?)
Thank you in advance !!

alexandra stella d’maris

Ed Kraus Photograpy                                           Tor Johnson Photography

The sounds of Hawaii and Cape Ann come together for just one night as Grammy Award winner and native Hawaiian John Cruz travels east to join Cape Ann singer/songwriter Brian Alex for one night of stories and songs at the Manchester, MA Community Center on August 16th.

John Cruz is the Grammy and Hoku Award winning artist behind such songs as “Island Style” and “Shine On” and was described by top selling recording artist, Jack Johnson as “one of my favorite songwriters in the world.” Brian Alex, the popular lead singer, guitarist and chief songwriter for the Boston Music Awards winning band Entrain. Brian is working on songs for his first solo project and is looking forward to debuting more of them in August.

This special one-time pairing follows Brian’s very successful “Stories and Songs” acoustic concert at this same venue in May. That show went over so well for both audience and artist that Brian decided to do something “extra special” for summer 2013 in Manchester and John was happy to team up and add a set of his own to the night.

For the evening, expect Brian to feature songs from his forthcoming CD, “Destination Unwind” along with other fan favorites. With song titles like “Sitting Here in Paradise” and “Destination Unwind,” expect feel good summertime tunes and the tales behind them. John is working on a new and as yet untitled CD as well so expect John to feature new music well as songs from his two Hoku Award winning CD’s “Acoustic Soul” and “One of These Days.” Showtime is 8:00PM with doors at 7:30PM and tickets are available at BrownPaperTickets.com.

More on John Cruz:

John Cruz grew up in Palolo Valley on Oahu but his ties to the Northeast were formulated in 1983 when he moved east to attend the University of Amherst. It was during this time on the East Coast that he developed his own style as a songwriter playing clubs between New York, Boston and Martha’s Vineyard where he even played in an early incarnation of Entrain.

John returned to Hawaii in 1995 and came to fame in 1996 when he released his first album, Acoustic Soul. That CD spawned the radio hits “Shine On,” “Sitting in Limbo” and “Island Style,” which has become a local anthem known around the world. John won two Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1997; one for Contemporary Album of the Year and one for Most Promising Artist. Then, in 2005, John added a Grammy Award to his list of honors when his original song “Jo Bo’s Night” was featured on the compilation CD Slack Key Guitar Volume 2, which won the first Grammy ever awarded for Hawaiian music.

John’s second album, One of These Days was released in 2007 and the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts gave the CD its highest honor in 2008 by awarding John the Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Contemporary Album of the Year and just last year Honolulu Magazine named the album one of the “Top 25 Greatest Hawaii Albums of the New Century.”

More on Brian Alex:

From the Northeast to Key West, BrianAlex is known as the energetic lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter for the Boston Music Award winning band Entrain. Brian’s quirky personality and unique pop-savvy style has been a significant and colorful piece of the World-Pop act Entrain, since 1995. Brian’s latest Entrain compositions “Lucky Just to Be Alive” and “Reason to Feel Good” can be heard on 92.5 The River, Martha’s Vineyard’s acclaimed WMVY and regularly on Kenny Chesney’s “No Shoes Radio”.

With a desire to record and release some of his own feel good summer songs, Brian launched a PledgeMusic.com campaign to fund the recording of his first solo project “Destination Unwind” and he will be featuring songs from that CD at select solo acoustic shows this summer.

In addition to his work with Entrain, Brian, has recorded with the Missing Persons, Donna Summer and Paula Cole and shared the stage with artists such as Bo Diddley, Bob Weir, President Bill Clinton and Edwin McCain.

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If you are interested in an artist interview or would like more information about Brian Alex (www.brianalexmusic.com), John Cruz (www.johncruz.com) or the event, please call Ed Kraus at 978-810-0054 or e-mail Ed.Kraus8@gmail.com

Hi, Joey,

Gloucester Education Foundation sent 40 Gloucester students in grades 5-7 to the MIT campus in Cambridge a few weeks ago for the annual Summer Engineering Adventure. GEF has been sponsoring this program in conjunction with the Gloucester Public School District and MIT for several years. It gives our students the opportunity to experience real-life science and engineering in action. During the week-long program, students learned about light waves and holograms; designing and programming a 30-second video game; building strong bridges using just a few pieces of paper and some plastic cups and applying principles of geometry; programming LEGO Mindstorms robots; programming a photobot—a light-sensing robot; and designing, building and testing mechanisms for ship propulsion.

Students also toured the MIT campus and learned about educational opportunities in science and engineering and what life is like for students on a large urban campus.

Here are a few photos taken during the week.

https://picasaweb.google.com/105974289063252500954/GMG?authkey=Gv1sRgCIni6-mhzs3zxAE

Christina

This Just In- The Super Crazy Soft Feminie Cut T Shirts Came In and Our Printer Colleen From Good Harbor Graphics Is Going To Bang Out A Few to Have At The Bazaar Today.  For anyone who placed an order, they should be shipping this week!

These mason jars look like that coveted blue beach glass. Beautiful on a countertop with the light streaming through the window.

Here’s The Sidewalk Bazaar Lineup-

Leslie Heffron writes-

Hi Joey  – Speaking of blue ball mason jars….when you’re not drinking your sister’s delicious iced tea out of the Perfect Ball Mason jar, put red zinnias in it.  Here’s a colored pencil drawing of the beautiful blue jar that’s down at my exhibit at The Bookstore of Gloucester.   FOB   Leslie Heffron