My View of Life on the Dock
Thank you all who came out of Sunday morning for the Magnolia Community Farmers Market on Lexington Avenue, Magnolia, Gloucester, MA. It was well attended and lots of fun. Hope to see you all Sunday, June 27, 2021. June 27, 2021 10 -1, Lexington Avenue will be alive with fun and great food and gifts.
Episode 105-The Mini Viva!!!
Weeeee’re baaaaaack! Did you miss us?!
FIESTA CAST 6 BABYYYYYYY!
We got Alicia, BSide and of course our resident Fiesta Mayor/Queen Samantha Barrett! Even Emmet stops by to give us some impressive VIIIIIIIIVAS! Props to Samo and ‘The Crazy Hat Ladies’ for our epic intro!
Probably our shortest episode ever and shortest Fiesta Cast…It’s not MINI VIVA FER NUFIN?!
We chat about live music being back (we see you Neon90s),
Can we also talk about how Sam refuses to have a gap in “Pin Life” and made her own again this year?!
The Island Cowboy is back in the saddle and Runaround Sound got the band together to give us 3rd of July feels on the Boulevard!
Shoutout to @glostagear for the amazing shirt also featured on our cover!
Be safe this weekend and be kind to hospitality, like Sam says “Don’t be a gahgutzah”
See you soon Mom’s Kitchen!
#stpetersfiesta #fiestacast #neon90s #johnjeromemusic #captaincarlos #glostagear
I was able to fulfill a long-time dream of taking a ride out to Thacher Island on the rides offered by the Thacher Island Association yesterday. What a day! It was a wonderful photo opportunity so I was glad to be able to go with a photography friend Melissa Cox. If this is one of your dreams, I suggest you check out their website which is very robust and offers reservations for these rides.
We were on the island for almost 2 hours and walked all over, including climbing to the top of the South Tower (156 steps). It was a lovely day for a walk. However, the birds (mostly gulls and some geese) were VERY aggressive protecting their young, so the docents recommend you take a big stick with you! And we used ours once or twice as poor Melissa got dive-bombed more than once.
The ride out and back was delightful. The captain allowed the young man to drive the boat which was thrilling for him. The children were on the tour with their great-grandmother (!) and climbed the tower with her. I noted nearly no one gets to climb a lighthouse with their great-grandmother!!! So it was a special day all around.
Eric Hutchins checks in with good news about the American eel count at Millbrook Meadow! To volunteer contact Eric at: eric.hutchins@noaa.gov
Join the Sawyer Free Library for a virtual story time with Wally & Tessie from the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday, June 30 at 2:00 pm and explore stories in a new and exciting way!
The mascots of the Boston Red Sox, Wally and Tessie the Green Monsters, will encourage and inspire us to get reading and have fun! Register here and a zoom link will be sent out prior to the program.
For more information, visit sawyerfreelibrary.org.
Adventureman: Running America by Jamie McDonald
Praise for Jamie McDonald:“Very impressed by your appetite for pain”
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
‘Inspiring… incredible’Sir Steve Redgrave
“Extremely Tough”Sir Ranulph Fiennes
In 2018, Jamie McDonald embarked on his greatest adventure yet: running the equivalent of 210 marathons, solo and unsupported, coast to coast across America. An impressive feat for anyone, let alone someone who was told as a child they might never walk again.
Running through 22 states, Jamie battled 50-degree heat in desolate deserts, dodged rattlesnakes and mountain lions, had several near-death encounters and suffered an injury that left him no choice but to run 300 miles barefoot. Oh, and he did it all dressed in his superhero suit as his alter ego, Adventureman, running to raise funds for sick children.
Though his journey was mentally and physically exhausting, America gave him the surprise of a lifetime, and the heart-warming kindness and generosity he encountered along the way gave him that glimmer of hope he needed to persevere against all odds.
And as if that wasn’t enough, Jamie then took on one of his most demanding challenges to date – one which would require him to dig deep to find the secret of resilience, as he attempted to smash one of the toughest world records on the planet – the greatest distance run on a treadmill in one week. He successfully ran 524 miles (10 miles more than the previous record), running all day and most of the night for a week!
Explore the beautiful landscape of Cape Ann with Gloucester artist Loren Doucette in the “Taking Liberties on the Landscape: An Expressive Plein Air Workshop” on Tuesdays, July 6-27 from 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/3iwc7Vs.
Gloucester High School.
Grand entrance while the other lobby and entrance construction is underway.
The entrance on the other side will be closed (BEFORE reno photo below). Temporarily. Ditto the city’s Albert Bachelor Civil War-era coat which must be safeguarded so it’s not damaged during construction. This textile was used to teach a tangible expression of agency and grit.
“AFTER THE 2014 DISCOVERY, Ms. Sanders returned to the bank again and again over the next few years. She determined that when twilight and spring’s highest tides coincided, whimbrels began arriving on the island en masse. In May 2019, she assembled a team to count the birds. They began late one afternoon as the sun was setting. Long lines of whimbrels streamed onto Deveaux, the flocks extending as far up the river and south over the ocean as they could see. When darkness halted their work, they still heard the murmuring calls and rustling wings of incoming birds. On a night when a clear sky and a nearly full moon bathed the island in light, they counted 20,000 birds — half of the entire Atlantic population.
To understand why so many whimbrels gather on Deveaux and what makes the island vital to their migration, the scientists needed to know where the birds went during the day and how they used the island at night.’
Deborah Cramer, New York Times
Fantastic interactive journalism featuring shorebird discovery in South Carolina
Resides and works in Gloucester, Ma.
Visiting Scholar, Environmental Solutions Initiative – MIT
Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage (W.W. Norton)
Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World (Harper Collins/Smithsonian Books)
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey (Yale University Press)
Saw the pretty heron on Shore Road yesterday on my walk. The heron just stood there knowing walkers were admiring this beautiful bird.
Hazy, hot and humid….
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Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, June 23… 6pm start
My Musical Guest: LIZ FRAME!
This week, we feature one of my all-time favorite musical guests.
The amazing Liz Frame. Every bit as smart and sassy as any songwriter you’d ever expect to find, with a performance and delivery that backs it all up 1000%.
We have brother JB to thank for bringing her into the Rhumb Line fold. He knows “great” when he sees and hears it. Once again… we go 6 to 9pm. ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……better than ever before!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
6/30 Ron Schrank
7/7 Lisa Marie
7/14 Bill Gleason (w/Ken Steiner)
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
Good Morning Gloucester 