I reached out to Mayor Kirk this morning for a statement about the greasy pole.
Here is her response.

The Greasy Pole will be rebuilt. I have already met with members of the Fiesta Committee this morning and assured them the city will be their partner. It will take a community effort though. We need the Fiesta Committee, the Waterways Board and the city to all step up to the financial challenge. The Greasy Pole represents a tradition and culture that we cherish in Gloucester, and we won’t let it vanish.

Regards, Carolyn Kirk Mayor

The Sawyer Free Library’s Annual Art Auction

You can place a silent bid Bid on your favorite Painting all Through the Month of September until Oct. 5th. The live Auction Will take place on October 5th 2011 including The preview party, with a lot of great food, drink and Entertainment will begin at 6pm and the live Vocal Auction Starts at 7pm. This is the time to get a great painting by one your favorite Cape Ann Artists for a great price.

Go and Check it out at the Sawyer Free Library!

CLICK HERE FOR THE SAWYER FREE LIBRARYS FACEBOOK PAGE

On Sunday morning, Oct 2nd, Greenbelt’s own Becky Dean will lead a one-hour walk at Greenbelt’s latest project site – 125 Bray Street, the proposed 6.5 acre expansion of our Tompson Street Reservation. The public is welcome to join Becky from 9-10am to learn more about the project, which will enhance the reservation trail system and further protect wildlife habitat in this 300-acre community resource.  RSVP to becky@ecga.org. Directions can be found at http://www.ecga.org/Events/walks.html.

Thanks.

Mary Williamson

Director of Community Engagement

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

On the next Cape Ann Profiles show host Rich Sagall interviews  Bob Ryan and Dave Wood, the founders of the Ryan and Wood Distiller. They discuss how and why they got into the distillery business, how they make their products and the ins and outs of the distillery business.
Cape Ann Profiles can be seen on Cape Ann TV Channel 12 on Friday, September 30 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, October 2 at 2:00PM. It repeats on Friday, October 7 at 10:30AM and 7:00PM and on Sunday, October 9 at 2:00PM.
Upcoming guests include Sam Frontiero, a retired local fisherman, 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.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. . . Henry David Thoreau

Friend of the Blog, Lois McNulty from Newburyport and friend, Elaine O’Grady from South Beach, FL represent at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery on Rocky Neck.  Lois and Elaine met and became friends while they were in the Peace Corps together in St. Lucia from 2008-2010.  Lois first connected with the blog when Joey posted from St. Lucia while on vacation with his family.  Elaine is friends with Jane Gibbs, FOB Linda Coleman’s sister-in-law.  The web of connecting people through the blog is ever growing and expanding.  The day will come when everyone everywhere will know someone who is a friend of Good Morning Gloucester.

E.J. Lefavour

Up, Up and Away!

KiteSurfing at Good Harbor Beach 09/28/2011

. . . at Long Wharf on Jones Creek.

 Chris and Barb from Pittsfield, Ma. spent a delightful 6 hours cruising Jones Creek, the Annisquam and Lobster Cove in their kayaks. They visited the Annisquam Light and Wingaersheek Beach. Chris and Barb experienced the full range of the tide, leaving at morning high and returning near dead low. See below.

The Out of Africa exhibit continues at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery through October 6.

E.J. Lefavour

http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/goodmorninggloucester%20gallery.htm

Do you remember when it looked like this?

"Not all those who wander are lost.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(1872-1973) from The Fellowship of the Ring
Click the picture for the Tolkien Wikipedia page

Tolkien, 1916   
Tolkien was born to English parents in the Orange Free State (now part of
the Union of South Africa). His father died when John was three and his
mother when he was eleven. Subsequently raised by a guardian, he attended
Exeter College at Oxford, served as a signals officer in World War One, and
worked as an etymologist on the Oxford English Dictionary, later spending 34
years as a professor at Oxford University, first of Anglo-Saxon and later of
English. Although he first gained academic recognition as a translator and
interpreter of the epic Beowulf, his book The Hobbit, originally written in
the 1930’s for the enjoyment of his children, became one of the most popular
books of the 20th century. The sequel trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, made
Tolkien first a cult figure and finally a reluctant celebrity. In 1971 he
was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

Mirror mirror on the sea, who’s the fairest homie you see.  I think the fairest homie must be me.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com