My View of Life on the Dock
Dean Salah Writes-
Our next Georges By Night event is Sat May 28th featuring music
by David Doc Vincent w/Johnny Car Wash and a full course Chicken
Madeira Dinner. Tickets are $30 per person and available by advance
reservation only, at the coffee shop. Tables for larger parties are
always available. Info@ 978-281-1910 or 978-944-2794
This week’s GMG blogs led me to make it a point of planning a trek up to G-town this weekend.
I was happy to read about Capt Joe and Sons Partner with an Artist opportunity, and the opening of Khan Studio on Rocky Neck.
My son Freddo and I made the drive up, and as I was coming off of Rt. 133 onto Stacey Blvd. I had the excitement and anticipation of a little kid. Though the fog was quite heavy over the harbor, the sun was shining outside of that fog mist.
On to Capt. Joe and Sons, where I had the pleasure of meeting Artist Abby Ytzen and had the good fortune of being able to purchase her book, Gloucester Fishing 1626-2011. The book is full of nuggets of information on the history of Gloucester fishing as well as stats on the types of boats and native area fish. Nice meeting you Abby and thanks for signing your book. Then, at long last, I had the pleasure of meeting Joey C. who was hauling lobster traps to and fro in the back of the warehouse. I didn’t want to disturb Joey’s work routine so I thought I’d just say a quick hello and goodbye. Joey, it was ever so nice meeting you. You’d given me the impression through the blog that you were a kindred community spirit, and meeting you in person just embellished that fact. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day.
Down the road and on to Rocky Neck. Our first stop was the Imagine Gallery, as Freddo wanted to purchase one of those funky hats he saw last fall when we visited the gallery and met Brenda for the first time. Nice to see you again Brenda. You emanate such great vibes!
Down Rocky Neck Ave and on to Khan Studio, where we had the pleasure of meeting E.J. Lefavour for the first time and making her acquaintance. Fabulous gallery. This is a must stop by and visit if you go to Rocky Neck. I’m a huge fan of E.J.’s work, and she displays it so nicely in this great studio space. E.J. also has a special feature of the Good Morning Gloucester gallery (it rocks), plus a guest artist space which was also wonderful, and that rotates every 2 weeks. I scored a copy of E.J.’s new book, Did You Know? and she also signed it for me. I recommend purchasing this treasure trove of tidbits of info on the historical aspects of people, places and things of Cape Ann. I also purchased one of Sharon Lowe’s fabulous photo prints. A small pitstop at Weiler Photo Gallery, where Joseph Weiler has some dramatic large black and white framed photos. He told me he still uses film, not digital. Rock on, Mr. Weiler.
Back down to Main Street where Freddo purchased a book at Dogtown Bookstore, I purchased some copper earings at Tiny Island Beach Glass, and tee shirts for myself and my daughter, Mel, at Harbor Goods/Life is Good store. Nice to meet you Julie, and thanks for inviting me to the block parties!
Back down Stacey Blvd and Rt. 127, the scenic route home…
It won’t be long until next time G-town…
Did you know that Meg is a regular GMG FOB who has been a devoted follower since the blog was only a few months old? Meg and her son, Freddo came into Khan Studio and the GMG gallery on Rocky Neck today to represent (and buy a Did You Know? book and a Sharon Lowe print). Meg, you may remember represented from China on the blog awhile back.
E.J. Lefavour
http://www.khanstudiointernational.com
Please Welcome Avery Abigail to The World!
Event: 3v3 Youth Basketball League for youth in grades 6-12
When: June 5 (Skills night) from 6:00-8:00; Tuesdays June 21 – August 9 from 6:00-8:00
Where: Community Church of East Gloucester, 7 Chapel Street
Registration Fee: $25 prior to May 31; $35 after May 31
Contact Person: Patrick Keeley
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Patrick at 978-283-6147 or kmkeeley@juno.com
Through May, come into the store and get 20% off any one regularly priced item. Limit one discounted item per day per customer. Offer ends May 31st 2011.
Thanks! Robert
— Coveted Yarn
121 E. Main St. Gloucester, MA 01930
(978)282-8809
www.covetedyarn.com
info@covetedyarn.com
New Extended Hours: Mon – Fri 10:00AM – 9:30PM
If the world doesn’t end today there will a post at 7:30pm today giving the Location of Tonights “Art, Rock”. This one will be too easy. After hunting for it, stop by the Kahn\Gmg Gallery to report in. 🙂
Good Luck!
Last night 13 members of our wonderful community were honored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Gloucester for their outstanding service to the community of Gloucester and beyond, including our boy Joey. It was a great gathering of people who love Gloucester and wonderful to see everyone getting the recognition they deserve. The Church did a wonderful job putting together the event.
Here is a video of Joey accepting his award.
A free event to kick off the Motif No. 1 Day festival!
7 o’clock tonight at the Old Firehouse in Dock Square, downtown Rockport. A short film, Twin Lights soda…a great way to start the celebration of the arts in Rockport!
The DPW has been getting numerous discolored water complaints from residences on Western Avenue, Hesperus Avenue, and Ocean Highlands. The discoloration has been brown and yellow water associated with iron from unlined cast iron water main. Iron in the water poses now public health threat; however, it is aesthetically unpleasing and can stain clothes. DPW crews have been flushing mains to clear up the water and have fixed a leak at Castel Hill Road/Hesperus Avenue and replaced a fire hydrant on Ocean Highlands.
Yesterday the DPW employed a leak detection specialist who found three water leaks on service lines to residence on Ocean Highlands and DPW crews have started working on those leaks. No other leaks on Hesperus or Western Avenue were found.
The DPW is investigating the water main piping near Ravenswood entrance and hopes that leads to clearing up of the discolored water at that area of Western Avenue.
If you have any questions please contact Karen or me.
Thank you
Lawrence A. Durkin, P.E. – Environmental Engineer
City of Gloucester – Department of Public Works
Office of Water Compliance
50 Essex Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone 978-281-9792, Fax 978-281-9724
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
Douglas Hofstadter (1945- )
Best known for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter is the Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Indiana University at Bloomington and was for many years a columnist (Metamagical Themas) for Scientific American magazine. Much of his work centers on how the mind processes language and the interaction of form and content, with frequent excursions into the philosophic nature of music. He is the son of Nobel Prize winner Robert Hofstadter.
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To read more about Alek, click here . And to hear the music, click here!
Hey Joey. I need votes for the Mass Challenge competition. We down from 800 applicants to 291. They will choose 100 by May 24th.
Groupize.com is semi finalist in Mass Challenge Startup competition. Vote by 5/23 next round
http://masschallenge.org/node/21760
Good Morning Gloucester 