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LOCAL COLORS ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE, in appreciation of our wonderful customers, is offering a chance to win a $50 gift certificate on ‘LADIES NIGHT’, Dec. 1, and also on ‘MEN’S NIGHT’, Dec. 8. You are sure to find the perfect holiday gift in our great variety of original art that includes oil paintings, watercolors, photographs, jewelry, fine furniture, stained glass, mobiles, pottery, fiber arts, metal arts, mixed media, holiday ornaments and greeting cards. So please join us for light refreshments and a chance to win. 121 Main Street, Gloucester, MA.  Hours: every day, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.  Call 978-283-3996 or visit  www.local-colors.org

from  http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime/lad.htm ;

Originally dedicated in 1893, Our Lady of Good Voyage was built for the Portuguese community in Gloucester, after they petitioned the Roman Catholic Church for the establishment of a place to worship dedicated to the Madonna. Large numbers of Portuguese immigrants migrated from the rugged Azores Islands and began settling around Gloucester’s Inner Harbor as early as 1829 to work in the city’s active fishing industry. By 1888, approximately 200 Portuguese families lived in Gloucester making it the largest Portuguese colony on the East Coast. According to the story of Our Lady of Good Voyage, a stranded fisherman in the rough Atlantic Ocean broke one of his oars and could not return to his homeport. He sought help from the Madonna and the sea miraculously calmed allowing him to reach port safely. click below for More:

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime/lad.htm

Here is the GMG team’s tickets that we filled out downtown this Sunday.

Here are the details from the Gloucester Daily Times-

Following last year’s hugely successful introduction of a $1,100 holiday shopping spree sweepstakes, the Gloucester Downtown Association, spearheaded by two Main Street merchants — Palazola Sports’ Linda Palazola and Kids’ Unlimiteds’ Christine Orlando — has joined forces with more than 40 of Gloucester’s downtown retailers, to offer shoppers a chance to be this year’s winner-take-all.

The seasonal promotion, which offers holiday shoppers a free raffle ticket for every item purchased from participating merchants, starting tomorrow and running through Saturday, Dec. 10, culminates in a grand prize drawing immediately following the 5 p.m. lighting of the Lobster Pot Tree at Court House Square, outside the police station.

Theatre in the Pines presents "The Cradle Song" by Gregorio & Maria Sierra on December 1, 2, 3 & 4.   Thursday, Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. at Spiran Hall, corner of School and Broadway in Rockport.

Tickets $15 for adults; students $10.

Tickets available at door and at Toad Hall Books, Rockport, and The Bookstore, Gloucester.

The nuns of a Spanish Dominican convent are faced with  the dilemma of raising a baby girl left on their doorstep.  They name her Teresa, after the order’s patron saint. But  Teresa grows up too free-spirited to remain in the cloister.  Comedy and pathos join as one in this lovely play.

Don’t miss it!

Our final week at Jemil Beauchamp (1091 Washington Street, Gloucester) is upon us. We’re trying to clear out the store, and so that means that the deals just got even better.

While the paintings and handmade bags will remain at 40% off, everything else is being sold at cost. What we paid for it is the price for you. If we paid $5 for that Dolce and Gabbana rugby jacket, that’s the price.

And we don’t just have women’s clothes and antiques, either, since this is also our moving rummage sale. So I’ve got a very nice Altec Lansing speaker set that hooks up to your computer for $75. We’ve got a box of tools, $4 a piece, we’ve got chairs and books, purses for $5 a piece. We’ve also got some bigger furniture items like an old armoire for $40 and a folding table for $15. Lots of great stuff in wonderful condition. If we can’t get rid of it, it’ll cost us money to throw it away, so make us an offer if you need to.

Thank you,

Kurt and Jenny

This weekend is "Christmas by the Sea" Weekend in Manchester by the Sea, MA – the kickoff to the holidays in town.  The weekend’s events start on Friday night with a local "shop around" event which offers incentives to people for browsing and shopping at retailers in town.  On Saturday, Santa arrives by boat into Manchester harbor and then there is a Christmas parade in which the children march with santa to the community center for a Santa meet-and-greet. Finally on Sunday, we will light the "Friendship Tree" in the center of town.

This Saturday night, December 3rd, I (along with my band) will be hosting a fundraising event at The Landing at 7 Central – a Manchester restaurant & pub.  Our band will be donating our time and performing from 9 to midnight in order to collect new, unwrapped toys for Pathways For Children (http://www.pw4c.org) in Gloucester. Each guest who brings a toy will receive a raffle ticket and will be entered to win one of several Meat Prizes throughout the evening.  Also, if guests do not bring a toy, they can purchase raffle tickets and the money raised will be used to purchase toys. Currently, several Manchester and Gloucester restaurants and businesses have donated grass fed ground beef, roasts, etc..  We are still looking for donations of meat that will be raffled off throughout the night.

I am writing in hopes that you will make a donation.   I think having some seafood donated by Captain Joe & Sons would be a fun play on the Meat Raffle concept and would tie back nicely to funds being donated to Gloucester’s Pathways for Children.  All who donate – whether a restaurant, butcher or local business – will be recognized and would be more than willing to hand out coupons, collateral or any other info you would like throughout the night.  Should you choose to donate, I can pick up your donation on Friday or Saturday.

They are really good..

TIME TRAVELS

Each time I walk through Gloucester, it’s like tripping through time;

whether down by the docks, or out along the back shore,

or up along Main Street, Middle Street or in Dogtown,

Eastern Point, Lanesville or, more to the point, Rocky Neck.

 

One afternoon in July, camera in hand, I headed out

Rocky Neck Avenue cloaked in the peace of Smith Cove

and the universe of color, texture and form  in

the galleries, shops and displays  all along the way.

 

As I approached Alma McLaughlin’s gallery and

raised my camera to my eyes, I was surprised to

find that time had been reversed and the last hundred years

on the Neck had vaporized; it was as it had been.

 

But the strangest part of this sight and gentle afternoon

was that I was not alone on Rocky Neck Avenue,

visiting the old sites and scenes of a century past.

Like a lantern dimly lit, a woman  came in view

and joined me on my  serene trip through time.

 

We did not speak, but both briefly paused to appreciate

the bright creations that adorned the walls of the gallery

that could be seen through the orderly glass-paned store front;

in a building, a street,  we had come so far to see.

Marty Luster

Aren’t we just being given the most gorgeous weather to be thankful for.

E.J. Lefavour