Let us be respectfully reminded:
Life and death are of supreme importance.
Time swiftly passes by, and with it,
our only chance.
Each of us must aspire to awaken.
Be aware.
Do not squander our life.
– Charlotte Joko Beck
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Did You Know? (Saling Away)
That Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery will be packing up and closing for the season on Sunday, October 16? We want to thank all of you who came to the Gallery this season, contributed food and your presence to make our Sunday morning Mug Ups and other events so much fun, and especially to those who purchased our work. As someone who makes her living as an artist, every bit of support and patronage is greatly appreciated. The Gallery will be open Friday and Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 and Sunday from 11:00 to 5:00 pm, when final pack up will done. Paul Frontiero, Jr. has asked me to let people know that proceeds of the sales of any of his artwork at the Gallery will be donated to the Holy Family Parish Dominican Republic Mission in memory of his son, Paul III; a special way to make a donation, and own a wonderful piece of Paul Frontiero, Jr.’s artwork in the process. I will not take any commission on sales of Paul’s work, so 100% will go to the Mission.
Other galleries at 77 Rocky Neck on Madfish Wharf that will also be open for their final weekend include Wendie Demuth Photography, Diana’s Gallery and Gallery 5 (Ben and Jon MacAdam and Jeff Cluett). The Rocky Neck Gallery at 53 Rocky Neck will be open for its final day on Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 pm with 10% off members’ work. Last chance to support your local art colony and pick up some great deals on unique gifts.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
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wooly bear
Ted Reed asks-
Hi Joey
Is this wooly bear caterpillar showing us that it’s going to be a colder than normal winter, or a warmer than normal winter?
Ted Reed
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Open Door Autumn Breakfast October 27th
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Music on the Speedwell
Hi Joey,thought you might like to share this with GMG fans. I took the video aboard Laura Ritchie’s beautiful ,classic MV Speedwell , just off Annisquam on Saturday evening. Musicians Tom Eaton ,mandolin, Jay Keefe, fiddle, Laura Ritchie , accordion , Jim Lonsbury , guitar do a fine job of putting the sun to bed! By the way , my brother is the infamous Toby!
Yrs,Laurie Keefe
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Support For Paul III and A Way To Honor Paul II
We all support you in this difficult time.
Photo by Kathy Chapman 2011
I contacted Father Matthew Green at Holy Parish about setting up a way to donate in honor of Paul Frontiero III.
As you know Paul the III went on medical missions to the Dominican Republic and was scheduled to return there in two weeks time. In honor of the way Paul III gave of himself all the way through his life we set up a place where people can contribute.
Here are photos from Paull III last visit to The Dominican mission-
Father Matthew wrote back with this information-
People can send donations for the mission to the Dominican Republic to the "Holy Family Parish Mission", at this address:
60 Prospect St.
Gloucester, MA 01930
Thanks and God bless!
ARRANGEMENTS: His funeral Mass will be celebrated in St. Ann’s Church, Holy Family Parish, on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 11 a.m. Family and friends are cordially invited. Visiting hours will be held in the James C. Greely Funeral Home, 212 Washington St., Gloucester, on Friday, from 4 to 8 p.m. The burial will be held privately. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to a charity of one’s choice. Online condolences may be given at:www.greelyfuneralhome.com.
GMG contributors and FOB’s who would like to go to the wake together can meet at Cape Ann Brewing at 6:30PM and head to Greely’s from there.
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Taking a Break
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Monarchs in Magnolia check out www.monarch-butterfly.com
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Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews Sam Frontiero
On the next Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews Sam Frontiero, a former fisherman and Gloucester resident. They discuss the fishing industry, the perils and rewards of being a fisherman, and the changes he has seen.
Cape Ann Profiles can be seen on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Friday, October 14 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, October 16 at 2:00PM. It repeats on Friday, October 21 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, October 23 at 2:00PM.
Upcoming guests include Greg Bover of C.B. Fisk other Cape Ann personalities who have a story to tell.
Rich Sagall is a physician and the president of NeedyMeds, a national non-profit that provides information on programs that help people unable to afford their health care costs. He also publishes Pediatrics for Parents, a children’s health newsletter.
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Chris Coyne Fine Art at Harvestfest 2011
In conjunction with Harvestfest 2011 in Rockport this weekend, local Artist
Christopher Coyne will be showcasing his newest work in his Gallery at 37
Bearskin Neck.
Opening reception is this Saturday the 15th of October from 7-9:30pm.
Admission is free, light refreshments served.
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Join Terry and Wylinn Palmisano at their 3rd annual awareness event for Juvenile Diabetes
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Renewal of Newell Golf Ball Drop
Dean Salah Writes-
Hey Joey, Dean Salah, don’t know if anyone has told you about the newest
fundraiser the GFAA is conducting to raise further funds for The Renewal Of Newell.
Anyway it is a golf ball drop whereas for a $20 donation you get a numbered golf ball of which they are only selling 500 tickets and the 500 golf balls will be dropped from a helicopter.The three balls closest to the "pin" will win large cash prizes!! The drop will happen at Newell stadium right after the pee wee championship football game at the stadium.
Tickets are $20 each or 3 for $50.
Tickets available at George’s Coffee Shop. Lets continue to support this endeavor so we can make the new field
a reality!!
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Umm honey, there’s a skunk in the batting cage
Sista Felicia discovered this skunk trapped inside thhe batting cage in the back yard.
Any guesses as to how her and Bro In Law Barry got it un-stuck?
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Roseway on the Railways
Hi Joey,
I walked to the end of Rocky Neck on Tuesday and found the Schooner Roseway hauled up on the rails. She sailed into the harbor on Columbus Day. She’s pretty easy to identify under sail due to her dark red sails. The crew members that I spoke to told me that they’ll be here about a month before they set sail for their home port in Saint Croix, USVI.
The Roseway is owned and operated by the World Ocean School, who uses the vessel as a base for their educational programs that are designed to educate, inspire and encourage the value of teamwork. They offer Summer Day Programs for kids in Boston & multiday expeditions worldwide. When in Saint Croix, weekly academic programs that focus on math, science, language and history are offered to junior high school students. She was built in Essex at the James’ Shipyard and has a wonderful history which you can read through here: http://www.worldoceanschool.org/all-about-roseway/roseway-history
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Angela & Rose
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Did You Know? (Roseway)
That the Schooner Roseway hauled out this morning at Marine Railways? She’s a beauty. Stop by the Railways and check her out. Here’s some interesting history about her.
History of the Schooner Roseway
In the fall of 1920 a Halifax, Nova Scotia, newspaper challenged the fisherman of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to a race between the Halifax fishing schooners and the Gloucester fleet. Therefore many schooners, such as Roseway, built at this time were not strictly designed for fishing but in order to protect American honor in the annual races.
Roseway, 137′ in sparred length, was designed as a fishing yacht to compete against the Canadians by John James and built in 1925 in his family’s shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Father and son worked side by side on Roseway, carrying on a long New England history of wooden shipbuilding. She was commissioned by Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts, and was named after an acquaintance of Hathaway’s “who always got her way.” Despite her limited fishing history, Roseway set a record of 74 swordfish caught in one day in 1934.
Roseway was built and maintained to an exceedingly high standard, using a special stand of white oak from Hathaway’s property in Taunton. She had varnished rails and stanchions and had a house built for her every winter. She was so well maintained that the coal for the stove was washed before being stored in the bunker. This kind of treatment, which contributed to her longevity, was unheard of in the commercial fishing fleet.
On December 7, 1941, just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Boston Globe reported the purchase of Roseway by the Boston Pilots Association. In the article, the Pilots described Roseway as “sturdily constructed of oak, the craft is fully capable of withstanding the battering of heavy seas and onslaughts of terrific gales that pilot boats maintaining the lonely vigil off Boston Harbor are called upon to meet.” Clarence Doane, agent for the Boston Pilots, stated that Roseway “approaches as close as possible to specifications of the ideal pilot boat as any vessel. . . .”
In the spring of 1942, Roseway was fitted with a .50-caliber machine gun and assigned to the First Naval District (New England). All lighted navigational aids along the coast were turned off during the war, and it was up to the Pilots and Roseway to guide ships through the minefields and anti-submarine netting protecting the harbor. At the end of the war, the Coast Guard presented a bronze plaque to the pilots in honor of Roseway‘s exemplary wartime service.
She served the pilots well for 32 years and was the last pilot schooner in the United States when she was reluctantly retired in 1973, to be replaced by smaller steel powerboats.
In 1973, Roseway began her transformation to a Windjammer when she was bought by a group of Boston businessmen who rebuilt her below-decks to meet Coast Guard passenger-carrying requirements. In late 1974, she went up for sale and was purchased a year later in Boston by captains Jim Sharp and Orvil Young. In record time, the two captains had added fourteen cabins, creating accommodation for 36 passengers and were under way in the summer of 1975. In 1977, Roseway and the Adventure (built in Essex in 1926) starred in the television remake of Rudyard Kipling’s Captains Courageous, filmed in Camden.
After captains Young and Sharp sold her, she continued in the tourist industry in Camden until a few years ago when she was repossessed by the First National Bank of Damariscotta.
In September 2002, the bank honored a request by the World Ocean School and donated Roseway to be used as a platform for the school. In the early morning hours of November 21, with a crew of two on board, she was harnessed to a tug boat in Rockland harbor and towed to Boothbay Harbor. The following day at the first high tide, she was hauled out of the water on the railway at Sample’s Shipyard where she underwent a complete restoration.
After a two-year restoration of the ship, the school embarked on the maiden voyage to the Great Lakes during the summer of 2005. This voyage was a trial for the ship as well as an opportunity to build support and exposure for the developing School.
In May 2006 Roseway and the World Ocean School relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where program development continued as Roseway was open to the public for the summer season doing day sails and charters.
In November of the same year, Roseway embarked on a passage to St. Croix USVI where she spent the winter serving island students. St. Croix has now become the new winter home port for Roseway. She still summers in the Northeast, primarily in Boston, providing education programs and day sails for the public.
After 84 years of service, she is one of only six original Grand Banks schooners, and the only schooner specifically designed to beat the Nova Scotians in the international fishing vessel races of the 1920s and 1930s. She is a registered U.S. National Historic Landmark operating in Boston and St. Croix, USVI.
from http://www.worldoceanschool.org/all-about-roseway/roseway-history
E.J. Lefavour
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Gloucester Area Astronomy Club Meets Friday October 14
Mars is back! This month’s speaker will be John Sheff, who will tell us all about the 2012 apparition of Mars. With an approaching opposition for Earth-based viewers and the launch of the most ambitious Mars missions ever, Mars will once again be clamoring for attention. What can we, as amateur astronomers, expect during the Mars apparition of 2012? What can we, as space enthusiasts, expect of the upcoming missions to Mars? In this talk John will give an overview of Mars as a target in our telescopes and a destination for our planetary probes in 2012.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets Friday October 14 at 8:00 in St Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville, 1123 Washington Street.
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Gorton’s Duckie Bakes. Who Knew? Photo From Kellie Rich
Kellie Rich writes-
Ok I’ve been holding off sending a pic of my rubber duckie in cuz well I have no clue what to name him lol. After seeing Donna’s Red Sox duckie I figure its time for mine so here he is making cupcakes. Thanks Kellie
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Last Minute Auction – Tray Lots, Table Lots, Choice & More!
Last week’s auction was a HUGE success! To make room for an important upcoming estate auction, Walt Kolenda is clearing out the house.
17 Kondelin Rd. #7, Gloucester MA
(Cape Ann Industrial Park)
Oct. 12th, Wed. Eve. 6pm (inspection 3-6)
(Auctioneer ID #1587)
978-395-7077
See more info and photos here:http://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/1260032.html
Here’s the Times article on the new auction house and the auction post on GMG last week.
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ELKS – Annual Golf Tournament Teams – Cape Ann Golf Club
Good Morning Gloucester 