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Friday report from Mike Dyer aboard the Ardelle… They are lazily making their way down the Chesapeake and are eating like kings! It turns out Harold has some moves in the kitchen and likes to cook. He’s been whipping up pies in his woodstove. Bob Brophy brought all sorts of goose meat and they’ve had goose stew, goose sausage and even goose benedict this morning! For lunch today Harold came up with a goose shepherd’s pie. Mike says this is the calm part of the trip and their making up caloric intake from when they were in rough seas and nobody had time or desire to eat. It was pretty hairy but the Ardelle was solid and he wouldn’t have missed that part of the trip for the world. –Sarah Willwerth-Dyer Photos by Pierre Erhard

Follow along on the Facebook Page-

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Friday night, Ardelle is safely tied up at Schooner Heron Charters dock, Solomon, MD. after making great progress down the Chesapeake Bay all day. -Len Burgess

Friday night, Ardelle is safely tied up at Schooner Heron Charters dock, Solomon, MD. after making great progress down the Chesapeake Bay all day. -LB

Linn Parisi from Discover Gloucester Snapped this iPhone photo of Meike from Geo Saison Magazine- while on her visit to the dock.  GEO Saison is Germany’s #1 Travel Magazine and Linn is guiding her around.

Hi Joe,

Found this photo of your father and cousin Lisa from Detroit and myself at the Taormina/Ciaramitaro wedding in 1964.

Hope you enjoy…..

Carlo Moceri

The F\V Lily Jean out of Gloucester one of the stars of the new Reality Series “Nor’Eastermen” on the History Channel October 4th.

Gloucester house premier party,of history channels show, Nor’eastermen.Oct 4th at 7.30 pm.

Tell Chris You Saw It On GMG! $5 Tuna Melt, $5 Chicken Salad!

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Holy Family Parish Presents:  The Vienna Boys Choir; Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Join us as Holy Family Parish travels to Springfield ’s venerable Symphony Hall for their one-of-a-kind program featuring classic and contemporary Christmas favorites performed by the Vienna Boys Choir.

Experience the beauty of twenty-four of the world’s youngest voices in one of the world’s oldest musical traditions.

The Vienna Boys Choir has been thrilling audiences all over the world for more than 500 years.  While providing the music for the Sunday Mass in Vienna ’s Imperial Chapel – which they’ve done since 1498 – the choir also tours internationally, performing each year in some of the world’s finest concert halls.

Package includes:  Round-trip transportation from Gloucester , Lunch prior to the concert, Gold seating at Springfield Symphony Hall for the 1:30 PM performance – $135 per person.

Deadline: Monday, October 15, 2012.  Don’t miss out, space is very limited!!

For more information please contact Rosa Ladd at 978.580.4455 or rladd@necb.com

Reservation forms with detailed trip information are available at Holy Family Parish Church office at 60 Prospect St. , Gloucester .

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Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe is delighted to announce the productions scheduled for its fifth season. The company has grown over the years and ranges in age from teens to eighties: students, businesspeople, teachers and other professions held together by a love of theatre and the works of William Shakespeare. New participants are always welcome either onstage or off.

The season opens November 1 at the Gorton Theatre (Home of the Gloucester Stage Company) with "Shakespeare In Two Acts", a program of comedy and tragedy juxtaposed, consisting of "Visiting Lear" an adaptation of "The Tragedy of King Lear", directed by Ray Jenness and "Love on a Midsummer Night", a twenty- first century take on "A Midsumer Night’s Dream", directed by Nick Neyeloff. "Visiting Lear" opened CAST’s first full season, was enthusiastically received and requested to be performed again. The action is set in a nursisng home, where an elderly man abandoned by his family drifts in and out of Lear’s tragedy.

"Love on a Midsummer Night" uses four players to portray Lysander, Demitrius, Hermia, Helena, Oberon, Bottom, Puck, and Titania in a tangled plot of love and deception. A narrator steps in and out of the action commenting on the follies and foibles that unfold.

Performances are November 1 – 4 and 9 – 11, with opening night a pay what you will performance.

The next production is Shakespeare’s timeless political drama, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", also to be performed at the Gorton Theatre on February 28, March 1,2,3,8,9,10. There are still some roles open and backstage help is needed. Anyone interested may email the director, Joseph Stiliano, at cast2008@prodigy.net .

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, CAST will celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday with"Shakespeare Shout!" and evening of selected readings by members of the company and an invitation to the public to bring their own favorite pieces to read. Time and venue for this season’s birthday celebration are to be announced.

CAST’s final production of the season will be "Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", Tom Stoppard’s brilliant dark comedy featuring Prince Hamlet’s university classmates who are unwittingly caught up in the intrigues at Elsinore. Directed by Ray Jenness, it will play on May 10,11,12,17,18,19 at the recently restored Rockport Community House, where Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe staged its first productions.

More information on CAST may be found at capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and Facebook.

Joseph Stiliano, founder and artistic director

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Click below for the News From Rocky Neck via Judy Robinson Cox

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Free Admission To Cape Ann Museum

Hi Joey!

I thought GMG readers would be interested to know that this Saturday is Museum Day. The Cape Ann Museum will be offering free admission to those who print out a Smithsonian Pass.  Let me know if you need any more info, but the website does a pretty good job explaining!

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Dear Joe,

The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts is pleased to invite you to our fourth Fall Benefit, "Celebrate Emerging Stars!" on Saturday, October 27, at the Bass Rocks Golf Club. We will have two fabulous sets of musicians performing as part of an uplifting evening of art and music. We hope you’ll take this opportunity to get to know seARTS and see first-hand how we encourage and support the arts in Cape Ann. Early bird tickets are available on line or by mail (see details below). Click poster at left for a larger view.

Highlights for this celebration include performances from the 17-piece Cape Ann Big Band (right) which has recently played several "sold out" performances at Shalin Liu.

They will be opened by the Beverly High School Jazz Sextet (left). Profiles of all musicians will be featured in upcoming seARTS eblasts.

Both visual and functional art from a diverse nominated group of emerging artists of many genres and generations will also be showcased and for sale. Hearty hors d’oeuvres from Tim Hopkins Catering will accompany a cash bar at the event.

We will also have some fabulous raffle prizes, including jewelry items from Mahri, Beth Williams and other designers, museum passes and a gift certificate from Duckworth Bistrot, a five-star cafe in Gloucester.

The Board and the Bands
Left to right: seARTS Board Member Susan Boles, Board Advisor Seyrel Williams, seARTS Chair Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, Carlos Menezes Jr. from Cape Ann Big Band, Liam Beaudoin from Beverly High School Jazz Sextet, Adam Costa, BHS Band Director, Board Member Kristine Fisher.

Don’t miss out on this unique experience to celebrate Cape Ann’s emerging art and artists.

The schedule for the event is as follows:

• 6:00 PM: Art Show Walk-Around and the Beverly High School Jazz Sextet
• 7:00-9:00 PM: Hearty Hors D’oeuvres, Art Sale & Music by Cape Ann Big Band

Additionally, if you would like to consider a small sponsorship, we would most appreciate your consideration for any of the sponsor/donation options we have listed below. We would love for you to be able to join us personally – but if you can not, this is a way to show your support and be present in another way. We are pleased to announce our first $1,000 sponsorship from our fellow Board member Susan Boles of Axis Promotions and hope this will inspire you to do the same.

This is seARTS only fundraising event of the year and thus is a critical component of our funding sources so show your support for the Arts on Cape Ann and join us for a fun evening of colorful art and music!

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Free Cape Pond Icehouse tours this Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Trails and Sails

Hey Joey, head’s up, as I’m sure you know, this is the last weekend of the Essex National Heritage Area Trails & Sails.

There are lots of great free events going on, rain or shine, including free Historic Icehouse Tours at Cape Pond Ice Company, 104 Commercial Street on the Fort, where we’ve been serving Gloucester’s fleet since 1848.  Icehouse Tours are this Friday at 2 pm, Saturday at 11 am and 1 pm, and Sunday at 11 am. Folks should wear practical footware and bring a sweater or sweatshirt for when we are in the Icehouse.  Tours last about 1 hour, and include video of natural ice harvesting, and our role in the Perfect Storm.

Tour details and directions at: http://www.capepondice.com/info.htm and complete Trails & Sails event listing at: http://www.essexheritage.org/ts/

Thanks, Scott

Joey can you let your readers know.

Good afternoon the Giambanco Family, Sefatia, Marianne, Rosaria, Grace, Anthony and many other helpers, thru AGH is pleased to announce that we are cooking this Sunday at Open Door and we added to our family adopted Sista Felicia will help cook all are welcomed to come and enjoy the day, not only will be cook and serve we enjoy the company of all and eat like a family.. All are welcomed and dinner will be served at 4.. Thank You Sefatia

Event Designed to Honor the End of the Summer Ban on Dogs on Gloucester’s Beaches and Help Raise Money for the Gloucester Dog Park

The Friends of Gloucester Dog Park announced that it will host a ‘Paws on the Beach’ celebration in honor of the end of the summer ban on dogs on the city’s beaches. The event, which is being held at Good Harbor Beach on Saturday, September 29, will feature coffee and treats donated by Mamie’s Kitchen. Members of the Cape Ann community are encouraged to bring their dogs to play on the beach and support the Gloucester Dog Park.

“Summer may have come to an end, but for dogs, beach days are just beginning,” said John Dugger of The Friends of Gloucester Dog Park. “Many dogs really enjoy the beach – whether it be running in the sand or splashing in waves. We are excited to bring the community together to exercise and socialize their dogs on one of the most beautiful beaches in the Northeast.”

Dog guardians should bring and use waste removal bags (barrels are located at the end of the foot bridge).

Friends of Gloucester Dog Park t-shirts and signature red dog park bandanas for dogs will be available for sale, and gift baskets will be raffled to benefit the Gloucester Dog Park.

Additional donations can be made online at www.gloucesterdogpark.org or by sending a check to The Gloucester Fund at 45 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA 01930 with the memo line: “Dog Park.”

If you find yourself in need of a good used vehicle, call or stop in and see Peter Anderson at Meineke, 168 Eastern Ave., Gloucester.  My old Annie girl reached the point this summer where taking her to my mechanic to repair the things that had started going would have cost more than I though it was worth for a 1997 van, although she still had alot of life left in her.  When the battery and windshield wiper motor went so I could no longer drive her or pass inspection, and I didn’t want to keep borrowing Brenda Malloy’s cool art car, I knew it was time.  Peter had a nice 2000 Plymouth Voyager in my price range, so I now have wheels and am mobile again, thanks to Smokin’ Jim Yancy who brought me to see Peter and Elynn Kroger who brought me over to pick her up.  It is so great living in a community where you can get the things you need and have good people all around you to offer help when you need it.  There really is no place on earth like Gloucester.

On another happy note, Eric and Sheila from Rockport ended up buying my old Annie van  and Eric is going to make the repairs and fix her up for Sheila to drive.  I had put her on Craig’s List, and Sheila who is a FOB saw the Good Morning Gloucester sticker on her bumper and told Eric to go check her out.  I look forward to seeing her moving on the roads of Cape Ann again.

E.J. Lefavour

Don’t forget the 2nd Annual Christopher Cutler Rich Golf Tournament Monday, October 15 with a 12 Noon shotgun start registration begins at 10:30 a.m. at Bass Rocks Country Club.  Check our website at: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com or call us at 978-564-3486.

 

Hi Joey,

While we were at the Eastern Point breakwater on Saturday, this guy walked by us like he was on a mission.  He was going to have fish for dinner for sure.

The breakwater is a great excursion because you get some exercise and see a Gloucester from a unique perspective.  B likes to go and check out what the fishermen are catching, and loves looking through the tackle boxes.

Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid

Dear Citizen,

We are interested in your views about the future use of certain municipal buildings in the city.  Please take a few minutes to complete the Municipal Building Survey. 

Click here to take the survey. 

The survey will be available until October 5.  For anyone without access to a computer, the survey is available on computers located in City Hall outside the Mayor’s office, the Sawyer Free Library, and the Rose Baker Senior Center.   Visit the city’s website ( www.gloucester-ma.gov) and look for the link on the home page. 

Thank you.

Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk

City of Gloucester

9 Dale Avenue

Gloucester, MA  01930

978-281-9700

During the Captains Courageous Festival this weekend, we had the real pleasure of readings by Gwendolyn Carr.  The reading started and ended with her poem, Gloucester with manywonderful poems sandwiched in between, all on the subject of water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gloucester

I live close to the shore,

close by the men,

who go to sea,

who weather sun and storm

alike — they say they are free.

But are they free?

Or only slaves of water,

that vast expanse

which calls them every day.

They cannot stay away,

but must set out

to ply their trade,

to bring their living

to the shore.

They can do no more.

Their fathers did it,

so must they

live to obey the water.

I live close — close enough

to watch them though.

My danger lies on land.

Gwendolyn’s books can be purchased at Gordon College Bookstore and The Bookstore at Beverly Farms.