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The July, 2012 issue of Soundings, a national boating magazine, features Gloucester’ s fishing history in its Just Yesterday column by Steve Knauth.

Reprinted with permission from Soundings Publications LLC.

Learn Card Weaving and Felting at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck

 

On Saturday, June 16, from 10 to noon there will be a Beginner Cardweaving class for everyone ages 9 and older.  You will learn a simple, ancient weaving form and create a keychain, bookmark, belt or shoelaces to take home.  The cost will be $50 for the class and $5 for materials.  The class will be taught by Susan Loring-Wells, weaver, educator, and former Director of the Fiber Arts Center in Amherst, MA. For more information or to register, contact Susan at susweave@gmail.com and “send checks to Rocky Neck Art Colony, PO Box 60, Gloucester, MA 01931. ATTN Center Management TEAM. For information about other events at The Cultural Center, please consult Rockyneckartcolony.org and click on CALENDAR.

 

On Saturday, June 16 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, there will be a Beginner Family Felting Fun class for anyone ages 9 and older.  You will create colorful felt snakes and/or beads to get a feel for felting and make either a colorful paperweight or belted bar of soap to use as a scrubbie in the bath or shower! The class will be taught by Susan Loring-Wells, weaver, educator, and former Director of the Fiber Arts Center in Amherst, MA. For more information or to register, contact Susan at susweave@gmail.com and “send checks to Rocky Neck Art Colony, PO Box 60, Gloucester, MA 0193, ATTN. Center Management Team. For information about other events at The Cultural Center, please consult Rockyneckartcolony.org and click on CALENDAR.

Man who lives at 245 east main has lost a new little white puppy, about an hour ago. Would you RT? Puppy’s name is Bama.

All you East Gloucesterites be on the lookout.  Leave a comment if you see the white pup

NOAA’s Restoration Center today announced that Gloucester’s Manager of Health Services Charles Max Schenk will receive an “Excellence In Restoration” award for his leadership in the Mill Pond mud flat and salt marsh restoration project, which took place from 1998 – 2012. Click here to read the full press release or visit our website Hot News page. `

 

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As you probably know by now, I am working at the Amesbury Sports Park, a huge, fun events complex with great food, obstacle races, concerts and all kinds of off-the-wall events. I am having a blast on big projects and more fun festivals than I’ve ever done before – and anyone who knows me knows I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I’m working hard to lure my people up to this neck of the woods to check out what the park’s new owners are up to and to see more of my folks around more often. We have just started bridging that off-island gap with the addition of Dan King’s Bandit Kings to our "Rally on the Sun" Sunday Music Series, a Spartan race training style boot camp run by Gloucester’s own Danny Vadala and an exclusive tent rental deal with Taylor Hedges at the Event Company who I’ve worked with on many events in my days with Lat43 and Alchemy.

But you know how we like to keep our people nearby and I’m super excited to share what I’m doing, so I’m pitching you a "friends and family" deal for our next event , June 16th Musical Chairs Festival – to entice you up to my new digs on the northern "North Shore".

I hope you’ll join us – it will be a wicked fun day of music, games, tubing and OGO rides, a mechanical bull, bag drop, paintball range, good food, beer, my company, of course, and a shot at fat cash and a place in history.

Details below.

Come up and see me!

Cheers,Jennifer

Jennifer Goulart Amero

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Hey Joey,

If GMG readers are looking for a summer beach-read, the novel “Purgatory Island”, which starts and ends in Gloucester, might fill the bill.  It’s a fast paced, maritime adventure set during the Civil War.  Purgatory Island is a horrendous Confederate Prison camp.  Three mariners from New England follow different paths in the war, but end up in the camp.  The major character is a Gloucester schooner fisherman, another is a whaler from Nantucket and the third is a schooner captain from Salem.  Fishing on the Grand Banks, hunting whales in the Pacific and transporting lumber on West Coast schooners all play a role in the tale.   No one has ever escaped from Purgatory Island.  Unless the mariners put their heads together and come up with an escape plan, they’ll soon be dead from disease or starvation.

The book is available in hardcover and Kindle editions from Amazon.  The cover paintings will soon be on display at the Annisquam Art Gallery.

Regards,

Tony Marolda, Annisquam

The men’s open division final, which was whittled from 9 teams to 3 teams on Saturday, ran tonight off Niles Beach. 1. Mick Cote/John Swift 9:05 2. Ray D’Amico/Joe Cominelli 9:07 3. Erik Dombrowski/Glenn Harrington 9:09

The race was the most exciting I have ever seen with the boats neck and neck all the way out and making the turn all together at 4:38. Conditions were difficult with 12 – 15 winds from a little East of South and serious chop. An unattended power boat was anchored in the couse making navigation difficult particularly for the Dombrowski/Harrington crew. The lead changed several times on the way back to the beach with all three boats overlapped at the finish. The New Jersey team of Mick Cote/John Swift will be going to Lunenburg. Well done everybody!

ESSEX FLOATILLA  Opportunity

With Jimmy T

June 16, 2012

There are 3 Premium Seats available in the Dory Boat being rowed by International Dory Boat Racer James Tarantino. If you can’t or don’t or won’t SUP or Kayak down the Essex River, then get in touch with us quick to reserve your’ seat. $80 Round Trip. This offer can be divided among 2 people as well, in case you want a bit of both!! Soak up some sun and some stories about the Historic Dory Boats on the River.

Contact SUP at;

 http://www.facebook.com/events/407188932659646/

Phone: 978-233-1SUP

or email: http://www.capeannsup.com/contact.html

http://www.capeannsup.com/index.html

Call Me Ishmael

Not long ago I took one of my usual walks

to the waterfront .  It was not, as Ishmael says,

during a damp, drizzly November in my soul, but  in

the real chill of a drizzly Gloucester afternoon.

 

Despite the gloom, I found myself not alone

on the Harbor Cove boardwalk near Lat 43.

At the far end, among the traps, sat a man feeding the gulls,

looking out over the bulwarks of the nearby boats.

 

The scene reminded me of the rest of Ishmael’s

opening observations: there is something

that draws “almost all men in their degree  *  *  *

to cherish the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”

 

Those feelings compel us to choose the water’s edge

even when a snug room or restaurant  is nearby and

might  provide some comfort, say a cup of soup or tea;

but we decide to stay outside to watch and feel and wait.

 

We, who, unlike Ishmael, cannot “sail about a little

and see the watery parts of the world” still drift to

beach and marsh and wharves just to gaze and stare,

and let our senses absorb and our imaginations soar.

 

© Marty Luster 2012

Sarah asks-

Dear Joey,
I don’t know if you can help me or not but I thought I would ask you and your readers who may be fishermen if they can help me save my new Sperry boat shoes.

I was walking along Magnolia Beach when my foot sank into the seaweed and mud with my new leather and partial canvas boat shoes.  My shoe actually came off and I couldn’t even see it in the muck and I had to dig it out. The smell is horrific (maybe sewage empties into Magnolia beach?)

I tried washing them with dishwashing liquid and leaving them out in the sun but they still smell.  I know fishermen get into more smelly situations than what I described.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Please send me a link.

Thank you.  I don’t have much money and any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

-Sarah

Hello Everyone,

The Cape Ann Painter and Photography Group will meet at 9AM at “The Annie” (thank you Henry!)  on Monday June 11 at 9 AM.  We will have a social/coffee 1/2 hour from 9 – 9:30 and then the meeting will begin at 9:30 and end at 11.  We will continue our custom of having a “check in” so everyone can have a chance to  speak and share what they are working on.

Hope to see you there.

Alice Gardner

Hi, Joey!
Greasy Pole, The Musical! opens our 2012 Season at The Cape Ann "The Annie," back by popular demand!
Bigger cast, two brand new songs, and some surprises you won’t want to miss!
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, and can now be purchased online at www.GreasyPoleTheMusical.com!
We still have ad space in our >>> PLAYBILL <<< for anyone interested in promoting your business or placing a message to the ensemble.
We sold out last year’s show to more than 2,000 people, so you will want to buy advance tickets to guarantee yourself a seat. Each ticket sold and playbill ad bought is a donation to The Cape Ann "The Annie" to help us keep bringing you original works that are by, for and about our own amazing, unique and diverse community. We are a 100% community-supported non-profit organization, which makes us very proud indeed. Thanks to You & GMG for all your support last year. Great things are coming in our new season, so be sure to join our mailing list at www.TheAnnie.org.
Get your arts in here!

Henry Allen  Director

www.TheAnnie.org
978-381-HERE