I’m literally exhausted watching him work on his sailboat all day long every day. The thing might have 10 hours away from the dock actually sailing but ill guarantee he has about 5000 hours in messing around with all the parts on it.

Greasy Pole, The Musical! Opens TONIGHT! …and The Annie is air-conditioned for your comfort! Ahhh!
Joey!
Hard to believe, but we’ve outdone ourselves! 2 new songs, 2 new scenes, bigger band, bigger cast (with some favorites returning from last summer’s smash success!), this is a show not to be missed! Join us for opening weekend. Great way to start the summer with a bang!
Get out of the heat and get your arts in here!
In The Art Parlour we have the stunning Fiesta-themed art of Alice Gardner, plus a pictorial timeline of the Greasy Pole Tournament, 1931-present, on loan from Joey Palmisano and The Cape Ann Museum archives.
This weekend The Annie is the coolest place to be on Cape Ann!

I usually eat at between 6-7pm. I love the Cupboards French Fries.

If looking over the Harbor

Having a seat

While enjoying a treat

Look at your feet

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Doria and John Heath of Eliot, Maine represent curbside at Bodin Historic Photo on Main Street. John grew up in Manchester, where his family operated the Kettle Cove Fish Market, about which I posted on GMG this past Wednesday. John’s brother, Doug, still lobsters out of Manchester Harbor.

Yum!

Rockport High School Class of 85 and 86 26/27th reunion

RHS Class of 1985 and 1986 are planning their 26/27th Reunion (‘cause that’s how we roll!) for Saturday, July 7th.  Both classes would like to extend the invitation to Rockport teachers—people who helped guide us and mold us into the people we are!  If you are interested in attending this event, please contact Trish Fears Ruffner pfruffner@comcast.net or Aran Parillo teep@mac.com for more information!  Proceeds from this reunion will be donated to Educational Foundation for Rockport.

Tina Ketchopolos forwards-

Joey:

Here are some photos from the 10th Annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life at Newell Stadium on Friday afternoon.    This special event raise $75,000for the fight against cancer.

		2012 Relay for Life at Newell Stadium Pics From Tina Ketchopolos VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL

Master Shipwright Harold A. Burham of Essex, MA, receives 2012 NEA National Heritage Fellowship

National Endowment for the Arts Announces

2012 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Recipients

Basketmaking for me is about innovation and creativity within the context of a traditional art form,” said basketmaker and 2012 NEA National Heritage Fellow Molly Neptune Parker. The same words apply to all recipients of the 2012 NEA National Heritage Fellows, which recognizes folk and traditional artists for their artistic excellence and efforts to conserve America’s culture for future generations. The fellowships are the nation’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, and include a one-time award of $25,000.

Throughout their careers, these artists have honored the history of their art forms while also incorporating their own creativity and innovation to carry the art forms into the 21st century. For example, Harold Burnham, 11th-generation in a line of boat designers and builders, creates his vessels using hand tools and incorporating locally harvested wood, just as members of his family did some 300 years ago. However, while rooted in the past, Burnham’s designs demonstrate his own blend of form and function. Another 2012 fellow, Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez, learned to play the accordion from his father, a giant of this early Texan-Mexican tradition, but then went on to collaborate with contemporary musicians such as the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Ry Cooder.   

A Talk with Local New England Writer, Brunonia Barry of Salem

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7 PM

Reservations are required for this small circle discussion with Brunonia Barry, the New York Times and international best selling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places.

Ms. Barry started her career in self-publishing and will discuss her career path, the pros & cons of self-publishing, and her ultimate transition to traditional publishing. She will also discuss her previous books and her upcoming novel. A question and answer period will follow her talk.

Ms. Barry’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She was the first American author to win the International Women’s Fiction Festival Baccante Award and is the recipient of the Ragdale Artists’ Colony’s 2012 Strand Invitational Fellowship. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The London Times and The Washington Post.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Ms. Barry now lives in Salem, MA, with her husband and her “only child,” a 17-year-old Golden Retriever named Byzantium. She is currently at work on her third novel to be released in July 2013.

Event Details

Seating is limited to twenty persons and requires a reservation. Please request a reservation by emailing Terry Weber at bartlett103@yahoo.com. Once your reservation is confirmed, you will receive a confirmation email. Call 978 559 1712 with any questions. Light refreshments will be served. Location: Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA.  Time and Date:  7 PM. June 26, 2012

The Gloucester Fleet

The “Jennie C.”

From 2008:

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Hi Joey,

I know this is short notice but any chance you can announce the groundbreaking event at Rockport’s Pigeon Cove Ledges. This was the expiring affordable housing complex for 30 elders in Rockport that Harborlight Community Partners purchased last December. We are breaking ground on renovations to make major safety and modernizing  improvements including a sprinkler system and an elevator. We’ve got Representative Tierney, Bruce Tarr and local officials from Rockport coming.

Hi Joey
Oasis Rockport has put together a contest for June and would love it if you could help put the word out there.  I am offering a FREE couples photo shoot to one lucky couple who has been married at least 50 years, to honor those who have stuck together through good times and bad.  I would like people to send their nominations to weddings@oasisrockport.com along with a brief story of their relationship.  I will pick one lucky winner at the end of the month.

Joey, Thankfully I still get handmade cards!! This one I can eat.

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The schooner Harvey Gamage casts off from Maritime Gloucester for another “floating classroom” lesson. Where was it when I went to school?

That Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects that needs people like you for projects like ours to succeed? 

Kickstarter was founded in 2008 by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler and  is based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.  As of May 2012, Kickstarter had more than $230 million dollars pledged and more than 23,000 successfully funded projects.  On May 18, 2012, The Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android raised $10,266,845 to become the most funded project in Kickstarter history.

Kickstarter is a crowd funding website that has funded a diverse array of endeavors, ranging from indie films, music and comics to journalism, video games, and food-related projects.  One of a new set of fundraising platforms dubbed “crowd funding,” Kickstarter facilitates gathering monetary resources from the general public, a model which circumvents many traditional avenues of investment. People must apply to Kickstarter in order to have a project posted on the site, and Kickstarter provides guidelines on what types of projects will be accepted. Project owners choose a deadline and a target minimum of funds to raise. If the chosen target amount is not pledged by the deadline, no funds are collected (this is known as a provision point mechanism). 

Money pledged by donors on successful projects is collected using Amazon Payments.  Kickstarter takes 5% of the funds raised as their fee; Amazon charges an additional 3–5% for processing of pledge payments.  These amounts are built into the project goal amount, as are costs of completing the project and fulfilling backer rewards.  Kickstarter claims no ownership over the projects and the work they produce; however, projects launched on the site are permanently archived and accessible to the public.  After funding is completed, projects and uploaded media cannot be edited or removed from the site.

There are presently two active projects on Kickstarter based in Gloucester: 

My Tales of Bong Tree Island book project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997277714/martines-owlpuss-interviews-and-tales-of-bong-tree

and Alison Woitunski’s Feel Good Food and Yoga project

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/feelgoodfoodandyoga/feel-good-food-and-yoga?ref=home_location

Two prior Gloucester based Kickstarter projects included Karen Ristuben’s Plastics in Our Ocean to raise awareness of global ocean pollution and Dennis Lanson’s Opus 139 Project  film about the C.B. Fisk Pipe Organ Company and its collaboration with Harvard University.

Please back and be a part of this awesome Tales of Bong Tree Island project, destined to go down in history, and receive a great reward (for a $25 pledge you will receive a signed copy of this 128 page full color illustrated historical fantasy based on Edward Lear’s poem The Owl and the Pussycat and the eternal gratitude of the owlpusses of Bong Tree Island and explorer Martine Bates of Gloucester).  You can pledge as much as you like, or as little as $1.   348 people pledging $25 will fully back the balance of this project goal. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997277714/martines-owlpuss-interviews-and-tales-of-bong-tree

As a comparison, this is White Flour Book, a children’s book project in Chapel Hill, NC by David LaMotte that successfully funded a couple of months ago with 592 backers pleding a total of $37,805 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidlamotte/white-flour-book?ref=category.

Seems to me there should be at least 348 Good Morning Gloucester FOB’s willing to pledge $25 to help Tales of Bong Tree Island project succeed, as well as a group who would like to help Alison succeed with her project, Feel Good Food and Yoga.   I have backed two Kickstarter projects myself, and it is very rewarding and fun to be a part of the success of someone’s creative endeavor.

Many together can accomplish what one alone cannot do.  Because it requires the collaboration and support of many people, I find the Kickstarter model to be a very exciting way to accomplish a project.  Now that you know about it, I hope other creative people with projects on Cape Ann will look into launching Kickstarter projects as well. 

Thanks!  The deadlines for both these projects is July 11.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

http://whereisbongtreeisland.wordpress.com/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997277714/martines-owlpuss-interviews-and-tales-of-bong-tree

My Apology

To the two emailers and any other reader who was offended  by my post “Gonads Wanted” please accept my sincere apology. Thank you for your polite and reasoned words. You hit a Nerve in my brain. I promise I will change my ways.

“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
Sid Caesar