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In the Harbor

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In The Harbor June 26, 2011

The Tug Volans

from; Tugboatinformation.com

Built in 1980, by Main Iron Works of Houma, Louisiana (hull #353) as the David Foss for Foss Maritime.

In 2006, Foss Maritime acquired Constellation Maritime of Boston, Massachusetts and the David Foss was transferred to operations in Boston where she was renamed as the Volans.

Powered by two Caterpillar D-398 diesel engines with Caterpillar 7261 reduction gears at a ratio of 4.61:1 turning via 7(in) by 21(in) 10.5(in) shafts, two Coolidge four bladed 76(in) by 76(in) fixed pitch propellers for a rated 2,379 horsepower.

Her electrical service is provided by two 50 Kw generators driven by two GM Detroit 4-71 engines that are skin cooled and are fitted with a PTO and hydraulic pump. The tug’s capacities are 25,583 gallons of fuel oil, 395 gallons of lube oil, 453 gallons of hydraulic oil, and 3,283 gallons of water.

 

 

Testing out new blog themes

Posted on by Sharon

 

I’ve been looking for a collage type theme. Let me know what you think about this one. I’m not sure I like the dates on the collage.  Check out the photos of the Orchard St. Fiesta!        http://slowephoto.com/     Thanks!   —Sharon

R. DUCK’S SECRET LIFE: A GMG Special Report

Posted on by Marty Luster

Is it possible that R. DUCK, the suave debonaire duck-about- town we have all come to know and love is really someone much more sinister? A GMG investigative report now has photographic evidence that beneath that smooth and yellow, dare we say “sexy” exterior,  lies the mastermind of an impending invasion of Cape Ann.

Here is a GMG exclusive photo of the invasion force in their landing crafts ready to wreak duck havoc on the unsuspecting citizens of Cape Ann.

Not here! Not now! Not on our long weekend!

Warning: Deep Thoughts Ahead (Paul Kelly Talks About Summertime Philosophy)

Posted on by S.D. Kelly

In this short video, Paul Kelly — a teacher, worker at Apple Street Farm in Essex, writer, and all-around great guy — talks up the Philosophy & Writing Camps he offers to high school students in the summertime. He meets with small groups of students at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem a few hours a day to use the collections there as inspiration for developing skills in writing and discussing Plato, Aristotle and all the rest of those famous guys. Paul says high school students eat this stuff up; they love discussing the big ideas, according to him. The first camp start next week, from Tuesday July 5th – Friday July 8th. For more information, go to Paul’s website: www.philosophy4.com

 

Did You Know? (Discover Gloucester Bag Finds New Home)

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Gwen Wilcox and David Manis from Somerville found their way to Rocky Neck for the first time, at the direction of their Gloucester friend, Peggy.  Gwen purchased Joey C.’s photo of the walkway to Good Harbor Beach at dawn and won the famous Discover Gloucester bag.  David got my “Winter Plunge” painting print.  They also got GMG stickers for themselves and their friend Peggy (of course they have to check it out and tell all their friends in Somerville now that they will be famous on Good Morning Gloucester). 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

 

Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race Organized by Boston Marathon’s Dave McGillivray

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro
Registration continues at www.rungloucester.com for Aug. 21 road race along ocean in historic Cape Ann

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Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray says runners who participate in this year’s Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race on Sunday, August 21 will enjoy one of the most scenic road races in the country – with more than five miles of ocean views in New England’s most famous seaport.

“It’s one of the most picturesque race we manage, just spectacular scenery nearly every step of the way,” said McGillivray, whose firm DMSE Sports directs the BAA Boston Marathon, the upcoming July 4 Harvard Pilgrim 10K at Patriot Place in Foxborough, Mass., the sold out TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K in Maine and the recent Run for the Dream Half and 8K in Williamsburg, Va.

Registration for the race, created by DMSE Sports and now in its second year, is ongoing at www.rungloucester.com.

McGillivray, who ran across the U.S. for charity – twice – and manages more than 30 races a year, recently shared some thoughts about Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race, his work and the value of running.  [He also spoke recently about the race on this brief video posted today on You Tube: http://youtu.be/F-WwpQa0978.]

Q: What are your thoughts heading into the second year of the Run Gloucester! 7-Mile

Road Race?

A: I feel like we had a successful inaugural race, lots of positive comments from runners, strong support from the town, almost 1,000 runners taking part. Now we’re trying to build on that success to establish this road race as a real can’t miss event for runners across New England.

Q: How did you end up creating a new road race in Gloucester in the first place?

A: We wanted to produce a new DMSE-owned event, looked at the August race calendar with the TD Bank Beach to Beacon followed by the Falmouth Road Race, and decided it would be unique to add a third major seaside road race. We looked for a coastal town and it was DMSE’s Ron Kramer who came up with Gloucester. Ron showed the course to me and I knew right there we had the makings for something special.

Q: How does managing an event like this one stack up against something like the Boston Marathon?

A: Although Boston is a major event, given the experience of the staff, the Organizing Committee and all the volunteers, and the number of years we’ve been doing it, it isn’t overly difficult to organize. It’s just a lot of work. Creating first time events can be a greater challenge, that is, producing an event from scratch, from nothing. I was pretty anxious to get the first year over with. Now we have a better sense of what we’ve got and it’s a great race.

Q: How has the Gloucester community been in its support of the race?

A: The community was and continues to be very supportive of the race, which is the most important ingredient for a successful race.  
Q: What is the best way to prepare for a race like the Run Gloucester?

A: Probably no different than most, just make sure you are at a fitness level where you can cover the 7-mile distance. 
Q: Do you suggest running every day to get ready or several times a week?

A:  Depends on initial fitness level, however, consistency is key so running at least five days a week is recommended. Simply put, anyone training for the race should set a goal, develop a plan to reach that goal and then stick with it.
Q: What are the advantages to a course like Gloucester?

A: The Gloucester course is a rolling, loop course with incredible, inspiring ocean views.  It doesn’t get any better than this course.

Q: What is the best part of the course, in your opinion?

A: The start and finish by the Fisherman’s Memorial at statue and of course the sections with ocean views. 
Q: Will there be prize money this year?

A:  Yes, to be determined.
Q: Does the race need volunteers and if so, in what areas?

A: Yes, the race welcomes anyone willing to volunteer. Go to our website at www.rungloucester.com and sign up!
Q: Were there spectators along the course last year?

A:  Yes, many residents came out of their homes to cheer on the runners and the start / finish line was crowded with family and friends. It was really amazing.
Q: How is this year shaping up – anything new?

A: Registration continues online at www.rungloucester.com – we’re hoping more folks from nearby towns come over to Gloucester to run this course. We’re trying to improve upon last year’s success. 
Q: What motivates you to run in a race – any suggestions for folks considering Gloucester?

A:  Running helps raise self-esteem and self-confidence in everyone who engages in it.  I began running when I was 12 when I didn’t make the basketball team – haven’t stopped since – it’s been a very fulfilling part of my life.  
Q: What will the race beneficiary – the Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association (GFAA). – do with the money it receives, if you know?

A:  Funds raised by the GFAA will be used to help finance the refurbishing of Newall Stadium. It’s a great organization and very deserving.

Q: What is the long-term goal/vision for the Run Gloucester event?

A:  Ideally, we want this race to become the last leg of a major, national-class, three-race Triple Crown summer series here in New England.

Q: If you can get one thing right when directing a race, above all else, what would that be?

A:  It’s all about the course, getting the course right…runner friendly, minimize local impact, involve community, aesthetically appealing, not too complex to manage or for the runners to negotiate.

Q: How do you know, what are the clues, that an event has been a success?

A:  The immediate positive comments from runners are a sure sign, plus positive comments from the local community. We received a lot of positive feedback our first year, so we’re looking to replicate that on Aug. 21.   

Q: You’ve run a lot of different marathons and road races in your career on courses throughout the U.S. and around the world, how does this course stack up and what aspects of the course stand out?

A: The out-and-back layout of the course is so convenient, plus it’s a relatively flat, rolling course with these beautiful ocean views that just can’t be found at many other races anywhere.

Q: Some of the views along the Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race course are just breathtaking. In your experience, does the beauty of a course matter to runners?

A: Is it critical? Maybe not. But I think it certainly enhances the whole experience. I think a lot of runners will tell you when they’re out there pushing their body, part of the exhilaration and motivation comes from their surroundings. That’s why runners seek out scenic spots to train. Who doesn’t like the idea of running along the ocean?

Q: Anything else about the race you’d like to share?

A: Hoping everyone who loves running as I do signs up at www.rungloucester.com! 
The Run Gloucester! 7-Mile Road Race also features a Kid’s Fun Run the morning of the race. This year’s sponsors include the Gloucester Times, North Shore 104.9 and Addison Gilbert Hospital. Others who wish to be a race sponsor this year may contact Alan Steinberg, Sponsor/Event Consultant at DMSE Sports, Inc., 561-676-3531 or by e-mailing him at alan@dmsesports.com.

For additional information on this year’s race, visit the race website at www.rungloucester.com. Also, find the race on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RunGloucester. 

Founded by McGillivray in 1981, DMSE Sports, Inc. is a leader in sports event management, specializing in creating, marketing and producing mass participatory athletic events throughout the U.S. and abroad. McGillivray has produced or consulted on more than 900 events throughout the world, including 24 Boston Marathons; 13 TD Bank Beach to Beacons, the 2004 and 2008 USA Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, the 1990 Triathlon World Championship, the 1998 Goodwill Games Triathlon, and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. For more info, visit www.dmsesports.com.

Dave McGillivray

Good Beach on a Bad Day: Boogie Board Family Rips it up at Good Harbor Beach

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Contributor Adam Bolonsky writes-

Ahh, nor’east storms in summer. The day turns to slop, the sky grows overcast and grey, and then rains. But surf is up! Mom and dad and daughter take boogie boards and wetsuits to make good during a bad day at Good Harbor Beach.

Or is "bad day at Good Harbor Beach" both a non-sequitur and an impossibility?

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Help Find Amber DeVoe

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Find-Amber-DeVoe/182175848505384

http://jamaicaplain.patch.com/articles/police-jamaica-plain-mom-amber-devoe-is-still-missing

Some indication that this missing mom could be in the Gloucester area, if anyone has seen her, there is a number to call for the JP Police.

E.J. Lefavour

Did You Know? (Horribles Parade)

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That the Ancient and Horribles Parade was founded in 1927 in Glocester, RI (not Gloucester, MA) and named as a parody of the more somber Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, the oldest military organization in the United States? Calvin Coolidge, U.S. President when the parade was founded in 1927, was a member of the original Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.  The Parade features both traditional Fourth of July floats and marchers, such as veterans and fire trucks, as well as often irreverent, satirical displays commenting on political and cultural issues, as local residents and costumed marchers parody news and cultural events along US Route 44 in Chepachet village.  Nothing is sacred as Glocester locals spoof local and national politics during the famous Ancients and Horribles Parade on the Fourth of July. The parade first wound its way down Main Street in Chepachet in 1926 and has continued to delight Glocester residents (and many others) each and every year since. 

This year is the 66th Annual Fishtown Horribles Parade in Gloucester, MA, so the parade started here in 1945, 19 years after Glocester, RI had its first Ancient and Horribles Parade in 1926.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Brian Wilson Band Member Returns To Rockport

Posted on by Joanne

Gloucester, MA: Rockport native, Nelson Bragg will return to Cape Ann following the latest leg of his Canadian tour with the Brian Wilson Band. An LA resident now, Bragg returns home to play music and enjoy the 4th of July festivities.

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• Bragg plays percussion with Dan King and Tony Goddess on Wednesday, June 29 at the Dennis Monagle Sessions at Minglewood Tavern in Gloucester (9pm, 25 Rogers St, Gloucester, MA, free).

• On Thursday, June 30 Bragg joins Dan King at the new Jalapenos Restaurant in Saugus (7-9pm, 168 Broadway St, RT 1, Saugus, MA, reservations recommended).

• On Friday, July 1 Bragg will sit in with groove, funk band, Down & Derby, live at The Studio on Rocky Neck. Derby features longtime friend and Rockport native, Brian O’Connor (9pm, 51 Rocky Neck Ave, Gloucester, MA, free).

Photo by Sharon Lowe

http://slowephoto.com/

• And ,on Sunday, July 3 Bragg will sit in with live 80s band, SAFETY, at a private engagement.

Bragg has been playing and touring with Brian Wilson since 2003 when he was asked to play percussion on the Beach Boys singer’s Grammy award winning solo album, Smile. The Grammy was for the “Best instrumental” category–Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow featuring Bragg on virtually all of the whistles and sound effects at the top of the piece. In 2005, the Smile two-DVD set was released featuring a full-length documentary of Brian Wilson’s Smile story and the making of it both in 1966-67 and newly in 2004. That documentary aired on Showtime in October 2004 and was directed by Beach Boys and pop authority David Leaf. A live concert performance of Smile is featured on the second disc.

Nelson Bragg has continued on for many tours worldwide including Smile performances (12 nights at London’s Royal Festival Hall) and two nights at Carnegie Hall (broadcast on NPR radio, nationally on Thanksgiving Day 2004), two nights at The Sydney Opera House, The Hollywood Bowl 3 nights w/The L.A. Phil – 2008, Royal Albert Hall, The Montreaux Jazz Festival, The New Orleans Jazz Festival, The Newport Folk Fest, Brandenburgh Gate – Berlin for the worldwide Live 8 benefit and at The 2005 Glastonbury Festival in the UK, setting attendance records. Bragg has also performed with the band on several television appearances including Late Night With Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. Recordings include Brian Wilson’s Christmas album All I really Want For Christmas released in 2005 and “That Lucky Old Sun” released in 2008. In 2006-2007, the band performed the Pet Sounds album in the U.S. and Europe, celebrating its 40th anniversary. Beach Boy Al Jardine joined the band for the U.S. leg of those concerts.

Did You Know? (Avery & Mann)

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That Wendie Demuth’s Photography Gallery at 77 Rocky Neck is located in the space that once housed the galleries of historically significant painters, Milton Avery and Ward Mann? 

Milton Avery was born at Sand Bank, New York, today known as Altmar, on 7 March 1893. After studying for a while at the Connecticut League of Art Students in Hartford under Charles Noel Flagg and at the Art Society School there under Albertus Jones, Avery worked in manufacturing and with an insurance company until 1924. During the early 1920s, Avery spent his summers in Gloucester at Rocky Neck Art Colony, where he met his wife, Sally Michel, also a painter. In 1925, he moved to New York City and married Sally a year later.

He had his first one-man show as early as 1928 at the Opportunity Gallery in New York. The decades that followed saw him show work at numerous exhibitions mounted by New York galleries and American museums. Milton Avery’s preoccupation with French Fauvism and German Expressionism led him to develop a simplified formal idiom distinguished by clarity of line and an expressive palette. Whereas Avery’s early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.
As the American upholder of Matisse’s colouristic doctrine, Milton Avery developed the French artist’s decorative colour surfaces into subtly toned colour zones, thus breaking the ground for the Colour Field painting of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, both of whom were friends of his. Even though his style was close to abstraction, Milton Avery nonetheless clung to representation throughout his entire career. Classical motifs and subject matter in portraits, still lifes and coastal landscapes were his main thematic areas and genres.  Prolific as a painter, graphic artist and ceramist, Milton Avery received numerous awards from American art institutions before he died in 1965 although he only really became famous posthumously. Now he is acclaimed as one of the most influential US 20th-century artists.

Ward Mann was born in Detroit on October 3, 1921, Ward Mann was introduced to drawing and painting at the Detroit Institute of Art. Encouraged by his parents and teachers, at age twelve his work was accepted in an open exhibition of the Scarab Club in Detroit.

During WWII, he volunteered and served as a commissioned officer in the US Army Air Corps. After service, he earned his engineering degree from the University of Michigan, College of Engineering. He then had a productive career as an engineer while raising three sons.

His childhood interest in art lingered. In 1963, after relocating to Webster, New York, he made a career change. A self-taught artist, he began achieving recognition in major exhibitions and by various art organizations. In 1974, he joined the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony and opened the Ward Mann Gallery on Rocky Neck at what is now called Madfish Wharf, 77 Rocky Neck. Renowned for his marine paintings, he traveled and painted extensively in Europe, Greece, Norway, South America, and throughout the United States. 

His professional, signature memberships include Oil Painters of America (OPA), the Salmagundi Club (SCNYC), the International Society of Marine Painters (ISMP), and many other art organizations. He’s listed in Who’s Who in American Art and in Who’s Who in the East. He died October 13, 2005, in Webster, New York.

Wendie is in the company of some excellent artistic spirit at 77 Rocky Neck, G4.  Stop in to see her very unique, Cape Ann and world view photography, and to visit her historically significant space within the Rocky Neck Art Colony.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION NEW MEMBER EXHIBITIONS & Charles Movalli Painting on Raffle for Know Breast Cancer Campaign

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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North Shore Arts Association presents Members Exhibition III’s Opening Reception on Friday, July 1st 5:00pm – 7:00pm. The show will be on display through July 23rd. Also opening is the Associate Members Show, July 1st through July 16th. The Opening Reception will be held Friday, July 8th 5:00pm – 7:00pm in the Gordon Grant Room. NSAA is proud to display artist Charles Movalli’s painting which is being raffled to raise money for “Know Breast Cancer” campaign.

The “Know Breast Cancer” raffle is a fundraising effort to help provide breast cancer awareness education to women of Essex County. Raffle tickets are $25 and can be purchased by cash or check at the gallery. This is a great cause with the chance to win a beautiful painting.

North Shore Arts Association has a thriving artist membership of over 350 contemporary artists recognized nationally and worldwide. They come not only from Cape Ann, but throughout North America. NSAA’s historic old building, located at 11 Pirates Lane in Gloucester, provides the opportunity to view the largest collection of paintings and sculpture on Cape Ann.

North Shore Arts Association is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sundays from Noon to 5:00 pm. The gallery extends its evening hours on Fridays, June through August, until 8:00 pm. In addition to exhibitions, NSAA also offers demonstrations, workshops, lectures, critiques, an art auction on August 6 and more. Please call 978-283-1857 or visit www.nsarts.org for more information.