My View of Life on the Dock
@Surfsidelb: @Joey_C Happy customer, and GMG reader Tony Ashdon picks up the first $9.99 lobster roll of the day at Surfside! http://p.twimg.com/A0RUT0aCYAA3eug.jpg
Matty Picked Those Lobsters This Morning at the Dock. Doesn’t get any fresher. No frozen meat at Surfside baby.
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978-526-8900
Unless you don’t want that $50 gift card,
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The Friends of Gloucester Dog Park will be staffing an information table in front of the Visitor’s Center at Stage Fort Park on the following Thursdays from 3pm-5:30 pm: August 16, 30 and September 13 and 27. We will have lots of activities and dog park merchandise for sale including t-shirts, bumper stickers and our red signature bandanas for the dogs.
Back by popular demand on August 16 will be David Feldman of Skillful Hands, a certified dog massage therapist. He will be givng free dog massages and talking to pet guardians from 3- 5pm. You are also encouraged to walk around the dog park site and let your best friend ‘sniff’ it out for themselves. It’s a great opportunity to get an up close and personal glimpse into the entire process behind the makings of Cape Ann’s first dog park. Come see for yourself what the excitement is all about.
The dog park is being built entirely by private donations. Please consider making a donation by mailing a check to The Gloucester Fund (in memo line write dog park),
45 Middle St., Gloucester, MA 01930. Also visit our website at www.gloucesterdogpark.org for information, updates and to join our mailing list.
Johnny Pesky, who during a six-decade-long association with the Red Sox as player, manager, broadcaster, coach, and executive became one of the most popular figures in the team’s history, died Monday. He was 92.
RIP, Johnny!
Michael and Katie Goot are here in Gloucester on their honeymoon from Clifton Park, NY. Michael is a reporter for the Daily Gazette and Katie is an RN. They are staying at the Peg Leg in Rockport and love it here. They bought one of my glass paintings, Moonrise Over Wingaersheek, for their new home and life together, and hopefully will become regular friends of Good Morning Gloucester.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Joe The Woodcarver
Seated by Pavillion Beach, Joe carves each
piece with the care and skill and memories
that more than forty years in Gloucester
have instilled in his mind and in his hands.
With his family sitting near him he lays
out large and small sea- horses, whales
and mermaids while chatting with a stranger
about the sculpted wood now emerging .
He talks about his collection of old photos
and the pictures he has taken with the
camera of his eye, while his knife fashions
from one of those pictures a fearsome white shark.
From eye to mind to hands to knife, Joe
whittles for each a life by the sea; images
of the world around us and beneath us
as we pass a lovely afternoon on Pavillion Beach.
© Marty Luster 2012
More picture-poems at http://matchedpairs.wordpress.com
August 9, 2012
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
Born in rural India during the British raj, Krishnamurti was discovered, nurtured, educated and promoted by Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant of the Theosophical Society as a “World Teacher” whose coming they had foretold. As the leader of the Order of the Star in the East he spoke widely in Britain and the US on Theosophic teachings, but in the late 1920’s, renounced his assigned role and dissolved the Order. Krishnamurti spent the rest of his long life as an independent speaker on spiritual matters, expounding the view that ritual and dogma are not necessary for the pursuit of self-knowledge. Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Depak Chopra, Bruce Lee, IndiraGandhi and Jackson Pollock all cite him as an influence on their thinking. “Truth is a pathless land” he said. He died at his long-time retreat in Ojai, California.
Sunday, August 19th Mug Up will be a Food Competition – Anything containing Cape Ann Blueberries. Interested Judges, please make yourselves known. Contestants get out there blueberry picking or better yet go to the Farmers Market Thursday and get your fresh blueberries for your favorite award winning blueberry recipe.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
was caught in the cookie bowl Friday at Fred Bodin’s reception?
Ed
Hi Everyone,
Happy August!
This is an reminder that our meeting will be held on Monday, August 13, 9-11 at the Annie. The first 1/2 hour will be a social time. Please bring your own coffee or tea!
We will continue our custom of having everyone “check in” and share what they would like to about their work.
Newcomers are always welcome. See you then.
Alice Gardner
Eddie Vaan Shaw takes his 3-neck guitar into the crowd and sits in the lap of a blues fan. Check it out:
If you’re at the Blues Fest, you just heard the best Zydeco ever performed in Gloucester — maybe the world! Watch the video and see what Dikki has to say about Gloucester.
New Orleans Blues Great Kenny Neal says this is the first festival he’s hung out at for a very long time. Usually he just shows up for his set. Watch the video and see why. And you can find out how to get a satin pillowcase with Kenny on it!
I just shot this video of the Gloucester Blues Festival Stage being set up at STAGE FORT PARK. Sun is out. The field is dry. Gates open at 9am. Click here to see previews of today’s show.
You really don’t want to miss this show.
Fred Bodin writes-
Yesterday I closed the gallery for the 1 pm ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the new Gloucester HarborWalk at Saint Peter’s Park, as I had contributed several of my photos to multimedia content accessed on it by QR codes. It was very hot in the sun, and I knew it would be while with so many dignitaries’ speeches. The speakers to the left of our Mayor Carloline Kirk, who’s at the podium, are looking pretty wilted – earning their money, I guess. Left to Right: Carolyn Kirk, Mayor of the City of Gloucester; Tim Murray, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, State Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante, HarborWalk Cambridge 7 architect, and city volunteer Lise Breen.
Good Morning Gloucester 
