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Chickity Check It! Karen Ristuben’s Plastic Ocean – North Pacific Gyre voyage & blog

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Karen writes-

Hi Joey,
To follow up from when I saw you last on the Neck, I’m on my way to Hawaii to meet up with the marine research sailboat SeaDragon (http://www.panexplore.com/) and marine scientists from Algalita Marine Research Foundation (www.algalita.org) to sail from Hawaii toVancouver through the North Pacific Gyre, where our plastic trash accumulates.  More about the multi-media presentation/performative lecture that I’m creating about the issue can be found on my website – www.karenristuben.com, as well as a blog that I’ll be updating throughout this journey.
I can’t believe I forgot to bring a GMG bumpersticker!!  Maybe I’ll just put the GMG logo on my computer screen and "represent" from the N. Pacific in a week or so!!
Hope you have a great July….
Karen

Parade of FACES at Horribles Parade (2011)

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Click on Photo below for Slide_Show and find your Face  

Note: All photos can be download if you stop the slide_show, for your personal use.

Welcome Vixen- Vixen Will Get a Lift Tomorrow Afternoon At High Tide At The Maritime Heritage Center

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

World traveler gets a lift at GHC tomorrow afternoon at high tide.The Halabisky’s talk about their adventures

Hillary Frye Writes

               In the early fifties,when my Uncle Jimmy,fresh from the Navy,with a beautiful young wife,decided to sail around the world,he sought out the best in the business.  Designed by John Atkin and built by Joel Johnson by hand in Black Rock, CT,34′ 71/2″LOA, gaff cutter-rigged with tillered helm, she was born to circumnavigate;Made for the Trades.

              Legend has it that all documentation of that first global loop,fell victim to the jealousy of a troubled woman.

            I remember seeing Vixen for the first time at Dinner Key Marina in Miami with a “FOR SALE”sign posted in her rigging.We were living there at the time,so saw her every day.I was a child and knew she was my uncle’s boat and what she’d done,but was really too young to appreciate the scope of her accomplishment.

          My uncle had become enamored of Africa and returned there leaving her behind.  When my family returned to Dinner Key the following year,Vixen was gone.

          Her name cropped up occasionally in the classifieds of assorted yachting journals,then sort of faded away.My uncle pretty much lived out the rest of his life in Africa,primarily Rhodesia,until the uprising,when he moved to South Africa.  He visited us,here in Gloucester,maybe a handful of times,before his death in 2005.

       My brother,Dave,like his uncle,a devotee of fine things nautical,ocean-going vessels in particular,decided to “google”Vixen,and he came up with a hit.That put us in touch with her current owner/skipper Bruce Halabisky,who has just now completed her(at least)second circumnavigation at her birthplace in Black Rock.

        He and his wife became a family on the way,adding to beautiful little girls to the crew.

       How Vixen got to Juneau,Alaska,remains a mystery to me.(maybe Les knows;I’ll ask him)In 1989 she was discovered in a boatyard in Port Townsend,Wash.,by a sympathetic boat-building professor with a connoisseur’s eye for poetic lines,Leslie Schnick.From then on,he directed all of his resources and energies to her refitting and upgrade,restoring her to the condition of her original purpose.She won prize after prize in the classic boat shows, becoming quite the star on that circuit.

        Meanwhile,Bruce was researching his own project;planning to build his own world traveler.When he saw Vixen at a show,however,he knew he’d found the vessel he would’ve designed and built himself.He and Les struck a deal:and once they hit Hawaii,there was no stopping her;Vixen was going around again.

                                                 Welcome Vixen

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Somewhere along the Line We Passed 9 Million Views

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

With all the excitement lately I lost track of the next milestone- 9 million views.

We passed it a couple of days ago while we were prepping for the Horribles Day Parade

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Did You Know? (NOTN)

Posted on by God's Morning

That this Thursday is July’s Night on The Neck on Rocky Neck?

Come celebrate post-4th of July with unique summer fun on Cape Ann’s historic Rocky Neck Art Colony in East Gloucester. Thursday 7/7, from 5 to 9pm, is ‘Night on the Neck’– a summer series orchestrated by the Rocky Neck Art Colony, held on the first Thursday of each month, June – September. Taking place all along Rocky Neck Avenue, galleries and shops will be open and serving refreshments as well as hosting street-side entertainment by musicians, authors, sea shanty singers, dancers, as well as various artistic demonstrations.

Highlights of this free public event include: 

Bird Mancini at the Madfish Wharf, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.

7-8:30pm: outdoor concert 

“A cosmopolitan fusion of blues-tinged rock, Latin-flavored Bossa Nova, country folk balladry, and woolly psychedelia!”  Listen: http://www.birdmancini.com/ 

Moira Kelly, Traditional Celtic Harpist. 

Moira is a Celtic singer/ harper/ rhythm guitarist, originally from the coast of CT.
She has been playing, teaching and giving harp workshops from Florida to the NYC metro area to Ireland’s green countryside, to the sunny coast of Melbourne, Australia and back to Boston/North shore.  She now lives in Gloucester.

6-7:00 at Madfish Wharf, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.

Goetteman Gallery, 37 Rocky Neck Ave: 7:15pm Local author Carole St. John will be speaking on  ‘Owning the artist within.’

Rocky Neck Gallery presents “The Quarrymen” featuring Matt Natti on the Didgeridoo, Eli Natti on Upright bass and Jim Corcoran on the hand drums. 

Elynn Kroger Gallery, 15 Rocky Neck Ave

Live music:  Lisa Landry 5pm to 6:30 pm – Janet Young 6:30pm to 8pm – Jeweler, Skye Fresh, will be demonstrating techniques and selling her wares   

Imagine Gallery, 43 Rocky Neck Ave.

7:15 Rick Drost, accoustic guitar player and singer 

Sailor Stan’s, 1 Wonson St. – music and dinner 5 – 9pm 

Sea Shanty Singers at Schooner Adventure in The Marine Railways: 5 – 9pm 

Alma MacGloughlin Antiques, 77 Rocky Neck Ave.: Paco, Flamenco guitarist and Concertina player

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Did You Know? (Call for Fishermen)

Posted on by God's Morning

Call for Fishermen for 2012 Gloucester Fishcake Calendar

That Adam Bolonsky came up with a great idea that Rocky Neck East End Madfish Wharf Girl artists Wendie “Bomb Diggity” Demuth, E.J. “Did You Know?” Lefavour and newest addition to the Neck, Gigi “Spicey Meatball” Mederos are running with?  We are going to put out a 2012 Gloucester Fishcake Calendar (Gigi came up with the name) full of your favorite and hottest looking Gloucester’s Finest Kind.  This is a call to all of you who know and love some of those strong, good looking, manly professional harvesters of the sea (fishermen, lobstermen, clammers, shrimpers, if it comes from the sea and they bring it home for a living, we’re looking for them) to be nominated to be featured in this one-of-a-kind, definitely destined to become world famous, Gloucester Fishcake Calendar.  We need to move quickly to have the calendar ready to distribute to the world by September, so if you want to nominate your favorite fisherman or lobsterman, please email khanstudio@comcast.net, call 857-891-9054 (EJ at Khan Studio and the GMG Gallery) or stop by 77 Madfish Wharf at your convenience – we’re here all the time.  This is going to be real, Glosta, oldest working seaport, finest kind, fishing capital of the world stuff.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Patti DeRosa of Randolph, MA and Livio Guardi of Florence, Italy @ The Seaward Inn, This Sunday

Posted on by Joanne

The SEAWARD INN, Rockport, will feature Patti DeRosa of Randolph, Ma. and Livio Guardi of Florence, Italy, an International Acoustic Duo, Sunday Morning Live, July 10th. from 9:00 a.m. to Noon. Their unique blend of American, Mediterranean and global acoustic music has been captivating
audiences in the U. S. and Europe. Savour the flavor as they create an intoxicating musical sound   during a Breakfast Buffet by the Sea.
Please visit blog.seawardinn.com or call 978-546-3471.

2011 Fishtown Horribles Parade GMG Style From Craig Kimberley

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The float would not be what it was without  our awesome community minded businesses who helped with the dough to make it possible-

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gimmesound.com — local live music listings.  Find every live music show in Gloucester and Cape Ann — listen to music on-line & download — all for free.

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The Lone Gull is a family owned coffeehouse located on Main Street in historic downtown Gloucester, Massachusetts. Our ideal location makes us a great place to stop for a drink or a bite to eat, to chat with friends, or to have a business meeting. We offer free wi-fi to our customers, extremely comfortable couches and chairs, and a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere.

Passports Restaurant

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Ed Collard House Doctors Handyman Services