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PLEASE I BEG OF YOU-

I’m not trying to be cute.  I’m not trying to be funny.

I am begging for your mercy.

There is a search box.

I swear to god on everything I’ve ever held true to me THERE IS A SEARCH BOX ON THIS SITE.

PLEASE

PLEASE

PLEASE

Before you email me to ask if I posted your announcement because you didn’t see it or if there was something that you heard about that might have been on GMG last week, last month or last year.

I SWEAR IF YOU TYPE THE QUERY INTO THE SEARCH BOX THERE IS A FANTASTIC CHANCE YOU’LL FIND EXACTLY WHAT YOU”RE LOOKING FOR!

If you are looking at the nightly feed in your email box because you subscribe just click on any of the titles of the posts  in your email and it will bring you to the blog (GMG), once there or if you are viewing this post on the blog right now, guide your eyes to the right hand column and scroll down from the top until you see the words “SEARCH”

In the box directly to the right of the word “SEARCH” type in your query.  I bet you find what you’re looking for.

I swear it will take you less time to do this search than to type out an entire email to me asking where that particular post is.

For example, say you were interested in finding out about the Awesome art exhibit by Kathy Roberts at Alchemy.

You would go to the search box in the right hand column and type in Kathy Roberts.

and my guess is that any of the posts having to do with Kathy Roberts would come up in chronological order as they have been posted with the newest posts on top, just like the way the blog works.

Thank you for your consideration for my sanity.

Hi Joey!

We now have more than 1500 Brazilians in Gloucester!   I have lived and worked in Brazil, going back and forth for the last 20 years and my kids have dual US and Brazilian nationality. I am also fluent in Portuguese. So I decided to form a Yahoo Group GloucesterBrasil to help this community get better connected and integrated with the rest of Gloucester and Cape Ann.  This group will use Portuguese and we will keep members informed as to what is happening, important links like the GoodMorningGloucester Blog, where to get help, etc. etc. etc.  Please let your readers know that if they are Brazilian, have Brazilian friends or just love Brazil they can join by sending me an email to kirstin@sparx3.com, calling me at 917-523-9163 or going to Yahoo Groups and applying to the GloucesterBrasil group.  Thanks!!!!!!

Kirstin Elaine Myers

check out Brian’s site here-

www.brianmoc.com

Hi Joey,
Once again Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative is running ‘Local Hearts for Charity’ from now through Feb. 16th. Attached please find the Press Release and a few photos. Don’t know if you could run all this for us – but if so we would greatly appreciate it.
Photos: Kate Webster making Valentine Cards and ‘Two Lips’ by Lois Hertzler.
Thanks. You’re a peach!
Tin Can Sally
P.S. Good Morning Gloucester is the best – nationwide!

For the third year, Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative members will be celebrating the Valentine season making original Valentine’s Day cards and offering them for sale at the gallery at 121 Main Street in Gloucester.  100% of the proceeds from the cards will go to a local non-profit charity in the Gloucester/Cape Ann area.  The members are donating their own materials, talent and time to offer these original and unique items for a deserving organization that is solely determined by those who purchase a card. 

Since there are so many worthy organizations in the area, members decided to invite the community to help in the process of voting for an organization when they purchase a card. Since it wasn’t practical to list the hundreds of  non-profit organizations on the ballot, the members listed 5 specific organizations (Action, Inc., The Gloucester Fisherman’s Wives Association, Pathway for Children, Cape Ann Animal Aid Association, Wellspring House, Inc) with a 6th option for the customer to “write-in” a non-profit charitable organization of their choice that benefits the Gloucester/Cape Ann area. The one organization that receives the most votes will receive all the proceeds from the sale of the cards.  The customer has the opportunity to cast a vote for each card purchased. Cards are available January 17th with new ones arriving throughout the event.

"The Valentine season has taken on an all new meaning to me," says Kathy Bucholska, a jewelry designer and mixed media artist.  "Since we have been doing this event, I see Valentine’s Day in a whole new light. What was once a frivolous card "holiday" to me has become an opportunity to help the community. It’s also a chance to give gratitude to not just that significant other as is traditional, but also a chance to show appreciation to a special friend, parent, mentor or even a new acquaintance who has shown kindness.  I kept this in mind in designing my cards."

Kate Webster, a fiber and mixed media artist, is shown creating her Valentine cards for the event.  She says, "What I like best about our event is that our customers get to choose the non-profit organization of their choice."

Bonnie Gray, a painter, took photographs for some of her cards.  One is a photo of two friends walking across the beach with the Twin Lights in the background. It reminded her of the importance of friendship. Lois Hertzler, a photographer, created a card called "The Dance" which are two tulips intertwined.  She says it symbolizes to her the meaningful interaction between friends during this season as well as the interaction between Local Colors and the Community. The original photograph is on display in the gallery.

Virginia Townsend, a potter, created a mixed media card showing red wool sheep which was inspired by her love of Ireland and her desire to celebrate this Cape Ann event.

The cards will reflect a variety of media from photographs, collages, mixed media and printed cards of original paintings and other work celebrating the Valentine season.

The Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative celebrates 23 years on Main Street and has 16 artists who do a variety of work.  The current members offer the following work:

Donna Amero: Stained Glass
Stephanie Bowens: Fiber Art
Kathy Bucholska: Jewelry, amulets and mixed media
Pat Doherty: Painting
Bonnie Gray: Painting
Lois Hertzler:  Photography
David Katz:  Photography
Rusty Kinnunen: Painting
Bob Kulchuk:  Wheel-thrown pottery, wood turning and fused glass
Joe Higgins: Fish prints
Ann Schlecht: Various jewelry including beach pebbles and beach glass
Sally Seamans:  Tin Art, Jewelry & Mobiles
Jim Sousa: Photography
Darren Taylor: Woodworking, Functional Art Furniture
Virginia Townsend: Pottery, Basket Weaving
Kate Webster:  Fiber, Paper & Mixed media Art & Jewelry

Local Colors Cooperative Gallery offers unique work at studio prices since the members contribute their time and efforts to the gallery without the additional cost of employee and management overhead.  You can also find us at http://www.local-colors.org and friend us on Facebook: Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative

Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative, 121 Main Street, Gloucester, MA is currently open daily 10 am to 5 pm.  978-283-3996  

Known as The Goddess of Mercy, Gentle Protectoress, Bodhisattva of Compassion, even the 
savior of seamen and fishermen, she holds many titles. The spelling of her name varies, but it is 
not so much the arrangement of letters as it is the effect that her spoken name produces on those 
with a Buddhist background, similar to a reaction in the West when one is speaking of the Virgin
 Mary.

That the Bay View Cemetery was established in 1728 and is the third oldest cemetery in Gloucester?  The Ancient Burial Ground, also known as First Parish Burial Ground and Old Bridge Street Burial Ground, was established in 1633 and is the oldest cemetery in Gloucester.  The Second Parish Burial Ground, also known as the Thompson Street Burial Ground, located in West Gloucester, is the second oldest burial place in the community, having been established in 1716.

I always feel a little sad when I pass this cemetery; it is so forlorn looking.  It has a nice fresh sign though.

E.J. Lefavour

Send in your self portrait pensive nose picker  pic for a chance to win one of Sharon Lowe’s Over-The-Bridge t Shirts or you can opt for a swift kick in the nuts.

Deadline Sunday night.

send pics to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com

Bill Hubbard Enters The Fray

      Celebrate the Cape Ann Symphony’s Sixtieth
with the great
Soft Touch Dance Band!
All the swinging favorites from
the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and beyond

Saturday, February 4, 2012
Cruiseport, 6 Rowe Square, Gloucester
7 – 10 PM

Senator Bruce Tarr will lead a Live Auction

Abundant Hot and Cold Hors d’Oeuvres, Cash Bar,
Champagne and Birthday Cake

Reservations $50.00 per person.

To reserve: go to capeannsymphony.org. or call 978-283-6750

Or mail to: Diamond Celebration, P.O. Box 1577, Gloucester, MA 01930

PLUS Special Prizes throughout the evening
Put on your Best or Most Outrageous Bling (prizes!)
and come celebrate our 60th year of bringing
the Joy of Music to Cape Ann!

We invite you to an evening of music and poetry with
Michael Gregory on Wednesday, FEBRUARY 1st at 7:30 pm
at the Gloucester Writers Center
126 East Main Street, Gloucester
(Please park across the street as there is no parking at GWC.)
For more information call 978-283-7738 <tel:978-283-7738>  or check out our website at gloucesterwriters.org <http://gloucesterwriters.org/>

January 19, 2012

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Born to poverty in Algeria, then a French colony, Camus lost his father the following year in the First World War. His precocious brilliance was recognized with scholarships to the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy. During the 1930’s he was active in the French Communist Party and the Algerian People’s Party and began WWII as a pacifist, later joining the fight against the Axis. He gained prominence with his books The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus and is often linked to the Existentialism of Sartre, although Camus himself referred to his philosophy as Absurdist, which posits that we ourselves must create meaning in our lives . He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, but was killed in an automobile accident two years later.

Greg Bover

Hi Joey,

ASP is super fun for all…great for kids with cabin fever!

Skip

from deb clarke;

Preserves

“Copper Paint Manufactory” on left:  petroluem based

wax, copper leaf, fish scales, styrofoam particulate sealed

in 3″, 3oz jars.  copyright clarke 2012

gloucester ma

 

 

“LePages Mucilage” on right: petroluem based

wax, aluminum leaf, fish scales, styrofoam particulate sealed

in 3″, 3oz jars.  copyright clarke 2012

gloucester ma

 

 

the paint company is out of business.  part of the iconic building is demolished;

 building being rehabbed by the Ocean Alliance, a non-profit 

 

the glue company is out of business. the property is now occupied by 2 gated communities.

 

the prosperity/demise of both companies followed the tides of the Gloucester fishing industry.

the wax is from vigil candles collected from various candlight vigils, services etc held at or in association with the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist church.

the styrofoam particulate is from a styrofoam buoy for The Cape Ann Art Haven’s auction January 24th at Cruiseport, Gloucester.

jars:  purchased at Ace Hardware, Gloucester Crossing, Gloucester MA

http://debbieclarke.blogspot.com/

That there are (at least) two good reasons to dig out your dancin’ shoes this Saturday night?  The Annie is holding a benefit big band swing dance and auction (I donated a painting for the auction), and the Lanesville Community Center is having a January Thaw dance party with music by “The Merj”.  Two great community venues to turn out for and support.