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Is there such a thing as too much Rubber Duck?
Rubber Duck and her sister were chatting before Thanksgiving about, wait for it, … … …
Rubber Ducks.
RD was wondering if she was suffering from over exposure and so she thought that a poll might be worthwhile to gauge what the GMG reader thinks. This is a multiple choice poll so you can vote for any or all. Here at GMG we listen to our readers.
[edit] I have received email and text requests for the address to send Joey a Rubber Duck. It’s easy. Click here to select multiple cheap ducks or go to Toodeeloos and then ship to:
℅ Joey’s Rubber Ducks
Captain Joe & Sons
95 East Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930-3860
Click and mail as low as $2.95, or 26 ducks at a time. Do it now.
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Our Hearts are Broken Today
As are many today doing same, my thoughts and prayers turn to the children and teachers that were gunned down in Connecticut, and their broken hearted families.
The children belong to all of us, and as our President said, “Our hearts are broken today.”
Reaching for a Helping Hand
Today I had planned to announce the winner of the book give-away and to post a beautiful essay about Niles Pond written by Gloucester resident and celebrated author JoeAnn Hart; will save all for tomorrow.
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Come kick off your Sunday evening with Bradley Royds @ The Rhumb Line 6:00-9:00 pm
Bradley Royds ~ Solo acoustic with special guests
Always love hearing Bradley do this one and many of his covers as well.
http://www.therhumbline.com/index.htm
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Ellen DeGeneres Quote of The Week From Greg Bover
December 13, 2012
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958- )
A Louisiana native, DeGeneres began her public career as a stand-up comedian after a number of working class experiences as a waitress, house painter and bartender. She had a sitcom for several years before her syndicated talk program The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which has won multiple Emmys. She has appeared in several movies and is in demand as a voice actor, especially since her award-winning role as Dory in Finding Nemo. Her wisecracking ability to think on her feet has made her a memorable host of the Emmys and the Academy Awards. She famously came out as a lesbian on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1997 and is married to Portia Rossi. DeGeneres is an animal rights activist and owns a vegan tapas bar in Los Angeles.
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O’Maley Happenings From Christine Leveille
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Community Stuff 12/15/12
Dear Joey,
I want people to know that I am still having multiple sales in the Sarah Elizabeth Shop this weekend. Could you please post these sale flyers for me?
Thank you very much. I appreciate your help in getting people to shop local!
Julia
The Sarah Elizabeth Shop
5 Whistlestop Mall
Rockport, MA
Joey,
Dan Driscoll here from http:VisitCapeAnn.net and Facebook’s Capeann Ma. I am hoping you could spread the word about a Fun contest for local Cape Ann Residents to participate in, as well as for any Local Merchants that might want to get involved in as well (For prizes and Merchant Exposure. )
We are having a contest for people to post their Outside Christmas Decorations and the photo with the most likes by Midnight on Christmas Eve will be the Winner. Currently we have a $100 dollar Prize from Driscoll’s Jewelry & Gifts (local merchant that uses Amazon) as well as a $25 Gift certificate from Sunbanque of Gloucester. If we get allot more prizes from local merchants we will expand the winner’s list as well.
the Facebook contest is here:
http://www.facebook.com/WhoHasTheBestOutsideChristmasDecorationsInCapeAnn
We at VisitCapeAnn.net Value Local Residents, Local Events, and Local Shopping within our Community, and like you in Gloucester (whom we have emulated!) want to show the world how great it is here! Our Main site’s traffic fluctuates during the year between Tourists looking to find out more about visiting Cape Ann and the things to do and visit, as well as many local residents thru our Facebook page.
Thanks for sharing this, and We love and Support Good Morning Gloucester and try to promote it at any chance we get!
Dan
PS for Merchants interested in adding a prize to this contest:
We are having a Local Cape Ann Christmas Photo Contest of Local Cape Ann Residents outside decorations. We are looking for Local Merchants who would like the Opportunity to donate a small prize that the winner/winners could pick up at YOUR location, as well as show our 1200 plus followers some of the local merchants who are committed to the Local Community. We are planning a few contests thru-out the year as well. The contest Facebook Page is here: http://www.facebook.com/WhoHasTheBestOutsideChristmasDecorationsInCapeAnn
Love to be able to support all of our Local Businesses!
SEACOAST NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER ‘S HO-HO HOTLINE
This holiday season, children of Cape Ann have a direct line to Santa’s workshop through Seacoast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center ‘s Ho-Ho Hotline. From
December 17 through December 21, from 3-5 p.m., children’s calls will be answered by Santa, Mrs. Claus or one of their elves.
While Santa, Mrs. Claus and their helpers won’t make any promises to the children, they
will listen to the children’s wishes and encourage them to be on their very best behavior.
The phone number for Seacoast’s Ho-Ho Hotline is 978-281-3086.
Carol Mckenna writes-
You might like my new poetry book ~ Pass the word please ~ Thanks ~ Happy Holidays
namaste, Carol
Here is the link in case link below doesn’t work ~ http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3858176
for more info- http://www.cynthiacurtispottery.com
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GMG Special Cross Promotion- Free Copy of Ron Gilson’s An Island No More For The First 8 People That Order Two or More This Is Gloucester DVDs
A review-
With all the book talk lately, I thought I would share one of my favs from Ron Gilson.
Readers of An Island No More will immediately recognize this memoir as no routine historical account of Gloucester. It is a deeply moving essay of an author’s experience of the fishing industry as it affected the everyday life of its citizens. Gilson transports the reader into decades that cover depression, war, prosperity and, finally, decline. Gilson’s story is a poignant personal insight into many vignettes of the characters which fill his historical account. Using the fishing industry as a metaphor for life, Gilson reveals the life of a city over four decades. This historical approach is the strength of his work. Only a native of Gloucester could have written such a memoir.
As I read Gilson’s history, having been away from my home- town over fifty years, I was immediately taken back into time. Gilson’s account rings with such an authenticity, a virtual new experience of that time and place came back to me. In short, this history will engage the reader at all levels of emotion.
Dr. Richard J. Elliott
Professor Emeritus
University of New Orleans
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Can this tiny thing of heavy cream really cost $3.69????
This isnt a quart or a gallon. This is like the really small size. $3.69 ????? If there’s anyone at Market Basket get me a price check STAT. This one was at Shaws
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Fish on Fridays
The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.
This week we continue with our documentary photographs and videos from Gloucester’s Steve Connolly Seafood. Salmon is cut fresh for the retail counter and boxed for shipping. http://www.steveconnollyseafood.com/
Video and color photos © Kathy Chapman 2012
BxW photos © Marty Luster
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Damn You Morrison!!!
You’re crossing the line pulling in mom in your duck sickness.
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This is GMG’s 26,000th Post
Screenshot from the Good Morning Gloucester editing Dashboard-
26,000 Posts.
Wrap your mind around that one.
That’s like 26,000 pages of a novel that you’ve had access to for nothing. If you consider we post an average of one food post per day for all these days that’s thousands and thousands of basically bringing you the best food offered in these parts and showing you what local restaurant to get them.
If you consider one or two art posts per day that’s thousands and thousands of posts showing you all the fantastic artists and art happenings in our area.
If you consider the multiple music listings per day from Joanne, Peter and Vickie, that’s thousands and thousands of posts promoting local musicians and music events in our area.
If you consider the Did you know and old photographs and history in which we’ve connected the dots for you through the efforts of contributors like Fred Buck and Fred Bodin, Geno Mondello, Al Bezanson, that’s thousands and thousands of historical posts about our area.
If you consider the landscape photos bringing you daily the geographic natural and urban beauty that our area offers us in all four seasons that’s thousands upon thousands of posts.
And all never having asked a dime. Doing it for the love of helping those in our community- businesses, artists, musicians, athletes, photographers.
I couldn’t be prouder of our team.
26 MF THOUSAND!!!
#BOOM!
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Jon Butcher and Fly Amero @ The Rhumb Line 12-12-12
It was not your average night at The Rhumb Line this past Wednesday with Jon Butcher joining Fly Amero. There was not an empty seat in the house. The music was excellent and Jon Butcher fit right in and felt at home. Jon mentioned that he loves Gloucester and he is now living there. I certainly hope that means we will be hearing more of him around these parts. Here are some of the places Jon Butcher has been and will be soon. Also check out the link to his webpage. Sat 12/1- GUITAR CENTER EVENT, Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA Sun 12/2- w/ PARKER WHEELER, The Grog, Newburyport MA Mon 12/3 – WBCN/AMERICAN REVOLUTION, House of Blues, Boston MA Fri 12/7- w/ ROBERT CRAY, Blue Ocean Concert Hall, Salisbury MA Sat 12/15- FARREN BUTCHER INC , Chan’s, Woonsocket RI Tues 12/18- CHRISTMAS BUZZ BALL, The Palace Theater, Manchester NH Fri 12/21- FARREN BUTCHER INC , Voices, Lowell MA http://www.jonbutcher.com/index.html Fly shared about the loss of loved ones close to him in the Orleans’s music world and Jon sang of loved ones in his songs. Plus Jon shared with the audience that he has a new “Jon Butcher Axis ” recording that he is working on and is due out some time next year.
After Fly’s opening set Jon shared the stage. Later Allen Estes and J. B. Amero followed with Dan King. It was quite the night and just as magical as one could ever hope for.
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Two Buddies Show Photos by Anthony Marks
Thank you so much to everyone that came out to support EJ and my show at Alchemy. Thank you Anna and James Eves from Cape Ann Giclee for their quick turnaround and super high quality work creating my photos into canvas wraps (you don’t have to be a professional photographer to visit James and Anna at 20 Maplewood Ave and have a canvas wrap of your work created)
I’m really proud of the work. Really proud of it.
Unfortunately we had a boat that stayed out lobstering past the time that the show ran so I could only manage to stop in to say hi in between offloading lobster boats and didn’t get out of work til after the show was over. For the brief time I could stop in it was great to see many of our FOB’s and people from the Gloucester Education Fund who 10% of the proceeds of the sale of our work at Alchemy will go to.
if anyone else has photos from our opening could you send them in to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com I know Charlie Carroll was snapping away and Jason Grow was taking photos as well. I’d love to see what I missed.
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New Year’s Resolutions, Put Your Thinking Caps On
My New Year’s resolution is to decrapify my desk, workspace and closets.
Criteria? If I haven’t used it or looked for it in 3 years it goes.
How bout you?
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Jon Butcher thanks Gloucester
To Whom It May Concern,
I want to thank everyone who came down to the Rhumb Line to see Fly Amero, Weds night 12/12/2012. Fly was gracious enough to invite me to sit in with him and, as a consequence, I received one of the warmest welcomes I’ve ever experienced from all of the musicians, artists, local media and others who were in attendance. As someone who has spent most of an adult life traveling the world without the benefit of establishing permanent roots, I am both humbled and honored beyond words to be received so warmly and with such genuine affection by this special and unique community. So, to the Rhumb Line, to the incomparable Fly Amero, to Laurinda Mahoney, Allen Estes, Dan King and to all of the wonderful residents of Gloucester MA, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You’ve all made this old guitar picker very happy.Sincerely,
Jon Butcher
[new resident of] Gloucester MA
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Uhmmmm, I’m Not Sure If It Was The GMG Promotion All Week But This Was The First Men’s Night I Recall That Did Big Business
Kudos For Downtown Merchants For Sticking With It and Keeping The Doors Open Late.
I’m Telling You Downtown Gloucester Is Just Getting Better and Better!
#Boom!
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Live at Minglewood The House Of The Raven Represents!
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Downtown Gloucester Mens Night Live!
Good Morning Gloucester 