My View of Life on the Dock
According to our boat guide these are the last three boats of the fleet. They go out for rockfish, flounder, monkfish and sometimes dredge for oysters.
Someone picking oysters out of one of the many oyster beds:
Bringing in Oysters for Don’s Seafood Restaurant:
That Gloucester citizens read their favorite poems, in an event sponsored by the Lyceum Committee with Poet Laureate Rufus Collinson, which included our generally fearless leader and poet, Joey C., reading his poem (written with the help of The Bean and Sloop Maddie Mad), titled “Good Morning Gloucester”? You could never tell by watching the video that he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs beforehand; but he did an excellent job, and his poem was so real and so homie that you couldn’t help but love it. There is a line in his poem that I think is pure genius; it says: “… it’s all just a sheer embarrassment of cultural events that bedroom communities can only envy”. So true. Bravo Joey!
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Way To Go Ann-Margaret!
State Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante is pleased to announce that she and Chairwoman Sarah Peake of the Joint Committee on Tourism , Arts and Cultural Development have successfully obtained an addition $ 1 Million to the appropriation for the Massachusetts Cultural Council and an additional $5 Million to the Regional Tourism Councils, thus fully funding the budget of the regional tourism councils.
This Wednesday, the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, of which Representative Ferrante is a member, will hold its hearing on Gaming Legislation. Representative Ferrante will seek through this process to continue to work with Chairwoman Peake to secure additional designated revenues for arts, tourism and culture among other needs.
Thanks to Bob Hastings From The Chamber for forwarding this along.
In support of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, the Gloucester Medications Disposal Program will host a medication disposal event, sponsored by the Healthy Gloucester Collaborative. This event will take place on Saturday, April 30, 2011, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., in the parking lot of the Rose Baker Senior Center, Six Manuel F. Lewis Street, Gloucester . In the event of rain, the program will be held inside the Rose Baker Senior Center.
Plan to clean out your medicine cabinets to keep youth safe and protect a clean water supply.
Items Accepted: Prescription and over-the-counter medications, medication samples, vitamins, veterinary medications, narcotics and liquid medications. Items not accepted: Sharps, thermometers, IV bags, bloody or infectious waste, inhalers, hydrogen peroxide and personal care products.
Sharps may be disposed of in the main entrance of Addison
Gilbert Hospital , at the Sharps Kiosk 24-hours-a-day.
For more information go to Healthygloucester.org
Just Some Quick Photos With Videos To Follow (until I ran out of memory on my camera)
Kudos to Mayor Kirk for getting all the players to the table to work COLLABORATIVELY for the better of the entire City. Also big ups to Sheree DeLorenzo the host at Cruiseport who gives a ton back to the community.
Hey Joey,
I am just getting the word out about a fundraiser to help pay for the final expenses of Nathaniel Holscher. He tragically died in a car accident on Jan. 23 in Danvers on 128. His mom is having the fundraiser and local pizza shops donated pizzas. It is this Saturday April 30th from 7 to 9 PM at the Gloucester Y. Come on over and swim, workout, play some B-ball. Suggested donations are $10 per person / $25 per family. If people want to contribute but can’t come to the event – send gift to: Nathan Holscher Fundraiser c/o Cape Ann Savings Bank 109 Main Street Gloucester, MA 01930 thanks.
Thanks for the plug if you can fit it in and God bless you!
Ron
Dr. Anne Lewis, the Cat Doctor of Gloucester at 276 Main Street, wants to remind all cat owners that it’s time to protect your cats against fleas and heartworms. Heartworms are transmitted by mosquito bites and can cause very serious heart and lung disease. Even indoor cats can be at risk. Prevention is very easy with a topical medication applied to the back of your cat’s neck once a month.
Dr. Anne is offering a special promotion until May 31st. If you purchase a year’s supply, you will receive four additional doses free (a $60. value) and a $50. rebate coupon for a total savings of $115. Please call the office today at 978-283-4949.
Hey Doc, you got anything that can prevent Fishercat feedings?
The beautiful new Motif No. 1 posters have arrived featuring a block print from Folly Cove Designer Sarah Elizabeth Holloran. This image of Motif no. 1 was used courtesy of Isabel Natti. Remember the interview Joey did with Isabel a while ago? Check the first video in the series out by clicking this link to learn about the Folly Cove Designers and Isabel’s shop, the Sarah Elizabeth shop. It’s a great story, and a few of Sarah Elizabeth’s designs are available along with Ms. Natti’s own block prints, one of which is of a herring plant that follows the whole production cycle, circa 1970s.
The Motif No. 1 Day posters were produced in a limited run, and can be purchased at www.rockportartfestivals.com for $20 each, with all proceeds going to support Motif No. 1 Day itself.
One reason I wanted to visit Chincoteague was to see the ponies on the beach. On Assateague Island there are 150 ponies that run wild in the marshes and along the beach. They are managed by the Volunteer Fire Company with vaccines and annual auctions to thin the herd. The legend is that the ponies of Chincoteague are descedents  of horses that washed ashore from a wrecked Spanish galleon off the coast of Assateague Island 300-400 years ago.  The book and movie, Misty of Chincoteague, made the Island famous and a tourist destination. The book was written in 1947 by Marguerite Henry based on a real family of Chincoteague.
Here are the ponies we saw from the road into Assateague Island
and by Boat on Assateague Island
That Edith (Johnson) Dean of Rockport was president of Cape Ann Tool Company for its final quarter century of operation? She died at the age of 80 on March 7, 1989 at Oakwood Nursing Home in Manchester. In 1956, Edith J. Dean established the LINDLEY I. DEAN SCHOLARSHIP at Norwich University in memory of her husband, Lindley I. Dean, Class of 1911. The scholarship is awarded annually to freshmen or sophomore students from Massachusetts, with preference to students in the Corps of Cadets from Essex County, who demonstrate financial need, promise of success, scholarship, and character. Also, in the 1960’s and 70’s the Rockport Art Association presented a Lindley Dean Memorial Award, which presumably was funded by Edith Dean in memory of her husband. Painter Carl Peters won the award in 1967 and 1971. In 1942 Lindley Dean was the Vice President of Rockport National Bank and President of Cape Ann Tool Company (Polk’s Rockport City Directory 1942), that is the only mention I could find of him, other than the memorials established by Edith.
The Cape Ann Tool Company, whose 100-ton drop forges had produced made-to-order parts for everything from autos to spaceships, was liquidated in 1987 after years of being undercut by foreign competitors, chiefly Japanese and German. It was established in the 1880s in Rockport’s Pigeon Cove section. I have loved this building since I first saw it, and although many people probably think it is an eyesore, I love the colors and textures of the rusted section, and the old West ghost town look of the main part.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Due to fog the cruiseship MS Maasdam has announced that it is cancelling the Gloucester port-of-call and heading directly to Maine, the next destination on the itinerary. The next ship visit is scheduled for July. We will keep you informed of upcoming port calls.
In other news, we are pleased to announce that USA Today just published an article on cruise ship visits to Gloucester this morning. You can read it here. More good work by our PR firm, Matter Communications. Thanks to Lauren Van Dam of Matter for her work on the piece.
Bob Hastings, Executive Director
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce
http://travel.usatoday.com/cruises/post/2011/04/gloucester-massachusetts-cruise-ship-port-tour-excursions/167847/1
My RANT!
Let me start by saying, “I Love Joey” Not in a alternative lifestyle way. Which in my opinnion there is nothing alternative OR WRONG ABOUT THAT AT ALL. I’m a big fan of George Takei from Star Trek too. I’ve only been officially part of GMG for almost 1 1/2 years now. I thought this blog thing (GMG) would’ve died out by now. Now I feel obligated to post everyday or as often as my mind will allow. I’m not a socially active soul. I haven’t met many people who read GMG everyday. I don’t let too many people in on that I post for GMG. I don’t go to too many GMG social events. The Few that I have met all tell me what a great job we do for this Community. I usually respond by telling them it’s all Joey’s doing. I really don’t think to much about the “community” when I post. I just post Some Photos of the Area, a little art stuff and some wise ass stuff I hope will get Joey some Shit. So far I haven’t succeeded in taking this Blog down yet, But I’m still working on it. Joey, being one of the most outgoing guys I know can’t understand how I can be so socially introverted and I can’t understand how he can be so outgoing and out front. Maybe we make the perfect couple.
But anyways, I get a call from him the other night. He tells me he wants me to be a part of a Big event coming up around May 20th. I told him to think again. So he trys to lay a guilt trip on me on how I never support him in this type of event. For Joey it’s an awesome thing, for me it’s a Gut and Mind Turning thought. I even find it hard just thinking about it now that I wanna Puke! So I told him to bring a carboard cut out of myself to the event and it would probably do a better job. But, Like any other couple Joey and I have had some disagreements. It usually ends up like the animated video in this post.
Now I’ll get to the reason for this long winded and bad grammar ridden post. Just because I can’t handle crowds or accept any kind of recgonition does’nt mean I don’t support the guy. I DO! I just do it in a different way than most. Like my favorite photoshop altered photos of Joey sitting on a toilet or posting whatever crap I can when he needs it while he’s on his 7th week of Vacation. That’s the way I support him. I love you Joey C. (Many people say it. but I truly mean it!) I would have never have gotten my Name out there as much as I have without GMG. Even if there are about ten Paul Frontieros in this town. Also, I will now also apologise to the other Paul Frontiero’s If you have ever been confused with me, Please forgive me. If you see Joey please tell him what a great job he’s doing! and leave me out of it! This GMG thing is probably the best thing that’s happened to me since returning to my Home Port about 6 years ago. But you will probably never meet me. I mean no disrespect. OK! End of Post, The Bruins are on! GO B’S!!!!
That according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission there were 37 known vending machine fatalities between 1978 and 1995, for an average of 2.18 deaths per year? Over the past decade there were a total of six recorded shark attack fatalities in the U.S., for an average of .6 deaths per year. Therefore, barring a drastic reduction in the frequency of vending machine fatalities since 1995, vending machines are more deadly than sharks by a factor of almost four, and that doesn’t take into consideration deaths caused by eating the junk that comes out of them. So swim freely this summer without fear, but beware of those vending machines! Today also happens to be Administrative Assistant Day (I remember when it used to be called Secretary Day), so if you are an Administrative Assistant and your boss asks you to get him or her something from the vending machine, show them this and tell them to get it themselves, or give you hazard pay.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Just came back from a motorcycle road trip to Chincoteague, VA. Chincoteague is home to Misty the Pony, Â Assateague Wildlife Refuge, fresh oysters and blue crabs! Long ride, but a fun trip! More posts from the trip to come.
This is a video of us going over the causeway to Chincoteague Island (warning could cause motion sickness).
Video of Main Street Chincoteague Island
Hello Joey,
Could you post this reminder for our seminar series?
Please join us for the second to last seminar in our 2011 LPRC Fish and Fisheries Seminar Series. We are very excited this week to welcome one of our UMass Amherst colleagues; Dr. Francis Juanes will be speaking about "Feeding Ecology of Piscivorous ("Fish-eating") Fishes: Does Size Matter?" The talk will be held Thursday at 7pm at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.
Thank you for your support and we hope to see you there!
Emily Chandler-Large Pelagics Research Center
Dave says,
This time around, we feature our main man from Ipswich: the one and only ORVILLE GIDDINGS. We’re forcing him to change out of his overalls and put down that rake. This cat has a smile that makes Chernobyl look like a busted light bulb. Singer, dancer, vogelizer, and celebrity landscaper, too. It’s always a raised pleasure dot every time he joins us.
 Fooling around behind all this will be that highly polished hood ornament: Mr. Steevie Chaggaris, on the eggbeaters and other symbols. Stee-vee has just spent a harrowing nite in the Rockport cooler after getting stopped for refusing to wear a Greek fishing hat.
 Of course, Greg Tee and myself will be there, too, to round everything off to the nearest eighth note. Don’t forget…it’s steak nite too, so if you’ve got a hankerin’ for some beefsnake, this is the place to be. and again, thank you all for your continued support.
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