My View of Life on the Dock
“Chronicle” HD, WCVB’s flagship program, well be re-airing a “tweaked-up” version of a story they did last year on the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. It will air on Monday, April 9th at 7:30 P.M, Channel 5.
Here’s a link to Chronicle’s web site to catch it again if you miss it:
Lisa Smith from Cape Ann TV produced this charming video promoting this week’s production of Wizard of Oz at Beeman School directed by Heidi Dallin. Check out the press release below:
The Beeman Elementary School Chorus presents The Wizard of Oz on Wednesday, April 11 and Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:00PM at Beeman School, 138 Cherry Street, Gloucester. All tickets for the production are $5.00 each and will be sold at the door the night of the performance.
This endearing classic story celebrates friendship, inner strength, and the true meaning of home. The play features the classic songs: Follow The Yellow Brick Road, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, If I Only Had a Brain, If I Were the King of the Forest and Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
The production features 25 fourth and fifth grade Beeman students and is directed by Beeman Music teacher Beth Goldberg and Gloucester Stage Youth Acting Workshop director and actress Heidi Dallin.
Allen Estes‘ friend Orville Giddings just always seems so happy even when he’s singing sad songs. Orville is Allen’s guest on Local Music Seen this week. If you have cable you can see them on Channel 12 Wednesday, Friday & Sunday (see schedule here). And you can see them perform on Sunday at the Rhumb Line.
This is a big week for Gloucester. Captain Carlo’s opens on Friday the 13th with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents!
See this week’s full music lineup here.
from: Lois McNulty;
“The Leather Curragh”
The leather curragh was used for fishing, and for ferrying cows to other islands for grazing (among the Blasket and Aran Islands.) St Brendan in the 6th century was said to have used a leather curragh to cross the Atlantic from Ireland to N America!
There is a book by Tim Severin titled The Voyage of the Brendan which describes a 1976 re-enactment of this feat. (they made it!)
Sidewalk Sweeping Day
Please join the Clean City Initiative on our Annual Sidewalk Sweeping Day April 14, 2012 . Sweep all the winter sand off of your sidewalk and into the street for the D.P.W. to come and take it away on your scheduled sweeping day, look for the posted schedule in your local newspaper or online on our cites website. Try to keep it in small piles so the street sweeping machine can sweep it up. Offer to help a neighbor that might need it. Thank you for “Helping to Keep Our Home Port Clean”.
Any questions you can call Patti Amaral Clean City Initiative at 978-412-4201 or visit our website at cleancity.us
Hello, all. My granddaughter and her partner, both deaf, are getting married in the area 5/22. They are looking for a photograher that can get pix plus a book – max cost $1,000.00. Any referrals, folks? they’re getting married at the Emerson Inn – nice venue. Thanks.
Ann Hewitt
MY NAME IS NANCY…I RENT YEAR ROUND AT GLOUCESTER INN BY THE SEA.
JUST WONDERING IF YOU COULD PUT IN A WORD ABOUT ITS OPENING 4/14….ITS AN AWESOME PLACE TO STAY…CLEAN, FRIENDLY..REASONABLE WITH A VIEW THAT IS AMAZING. LIZ, THE OWNER IS SO GRACIOUS AND REALLY CARES ABOUT HER GUESTS….A WONDERFUL PORCH WITH THE SAME INCREDIBLE VIEW AND COFFEE ALL DAY…..
THANKS,
ALSO..ANY DETAILS ON THE JAZZ FESTIVAL COMING IN AUGUST…MY HUSBAND IS A JAZZ DRUMMER..
THANKS AGAIN, NANCY
Yo Joey,
Took this one last night down at Emerson Point, thought you’d get a kick out of it. Stay well and Happy Easter
Tony H the "SinginSarge"
Below the Waxing Gibbous Moon
At twilight I was watching the waxing
gibbous moon when a plane appeared to fly
high above that bulging disk. It happened quickly,
and it left no contrails, so I missed the plane
when I clicked the shutter to capture the scene.
I don’t know where that plane came from or where
it was going – perhaps on a great circle to Europe.
Nor do I know if anyone on board looked out
their windows and noticed our tiny Cape Ann
nearly six miles below and if anyone wondered
if there were people down there looking up at them,
or, if they did, could they imagine who we are
and could they see our backshore, our beaches,
our city with its shops, piers, boats and fishermen,
our granite bed, our salt marshes, our grand
tidal river and our artists and performers,
our craftspeople and caregivers and youngsters
who breathe nearly four hundred years of Gloucester
history. Could they imagine the surf’s sound
at night, the feel of a cool sea breeze during the
dog days of August and the magic of Autumn’s
golden light and spring’s seductive and subtle color?
I wish them safe travels and a hardy adventure and
I hope they remember passing over tiny Cape Ann,
and all that we are, far below the waxing gibbous moon.
Marty Luster
Granddaughter Shanti
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Excellent music choices tonight and lots of it is perfect for dancing, from Ska/Reggae, to Blues, funk and latin. So get up off the couch and get your arse out the door! See full music lineup here.
“Full Pink Moon”
from Renata Greene:
See more photos of Renata’s at http://renatagreene.com/
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Søren Kierkegaard (1813- 1855)
Often described as the Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard, a Dane, was highly critical of the established church in his native country, finding it more concerned with politics than with the divine. During his short life he kept a 7,000 page journal in which his philosophy and theology are minutely explained. Kierkegaard observed that self-examination is the only road to self-awareness. His insistence that one should tirelessly question for oneself how best to live influenced philosophers from Camus to Heidegger, Sartre, and Niebuhr.
Joey,
Here’s a painting I did a while ago. Model was a 1909 Post Card. The view is from Banner Hill, as it appeared then, with the Shoares, Wonson and Booth Fisheries wharves in foreground. Center is Rocky Neck with marine railways on the right and the background is the city skyline and wharves with a Salt Bark being towed out to the channel.
Hope you can use it..
Regards,
Bill
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Good Morning Gloucester 