Good Morning Gloucester

Up the creek…

“The Pivot and the Hustle” with Boston artist, Lisa Goren

May 20, 2021, 7:00pm – On ZOOM (contact Nella Lush, Experimental Group, Chair, via email experimentalgroupraa@gmail.com  for invite)

Rockport Art Association & Museum’s Experimental Group, 12 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966   www.experimentalartgroup.com

The Experimental Group of Rockport’s Art Association & Museum is happy to host a zoom presentation with award winning artist, Lisa Goren. Learn how Goren has moved forward with her art during these difficult times. Listening, creating, and accepting that a change was needed and then taking that change to the public, as a part of her artist persona.

Artist Bio:

Lisa Goren was raised in NYC and has been working in Boston, Massachusetts for the past 25 years. She is the current Vice-President of the National Association of Women Artists (Mass. Chapter). During the Pandemic, she has been working on smaller paintings of ‘Animals Taking Over during the Quarantine’ as well as portraits of health care workers (chosen to be in The Best Art Created by Washington Post Readers During the Pandemic by Washington Post).  Lisa has also been published in the New York Times, http://nyti.ms/1PAO5mr. 

Don’t miss Lisa’s current show featuring over one hundred works at the Cotuit Center for the Arts thru May 1, 2021.

The Experimental Group is a creative forum, its main mission is to increase public awareness and to foster self-expression by bringing artists together to explore and share ideas that cultivate creative freedom. The EG is encouraged and supported by the Rockport Art Association & Museum.  

If you would like a zoom invite to the event, please contact: Nella Lush, Experimental Group, Chair, via email experimentalgroupraa@gmail.com  The Rockport Art Association & Museum (RAA&M) is one of the oldest and most active art organizations in the country. The Association has a long and distinguished history that has spanned 100 years.

Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative on Main Street in Gloucester is calling all Artists, Makers and Designers to become members. Please check out or website at local-colors.org for more information and how to apply.

This spring day was like summer

I’m not sure where American gets off considering itself a premium airline. Planes are ancient. They charge for baggage. We got no food service. Delays.

At least Spirit you generally get cheaper flights.

I think American sucks.

All the people that fly Spirit and have a delay forget that Jet Blue and American have delays as well only you pay way more.

Jet Blue at least they have TVs and WiFi free.

There’s no reason to pay more to fly American if your only options are Spirit and American.

I’d pay more to fly Jet Blue but not American.

And before anyone starts in saying that Spirit nickle and dimes you-

Spirit starts off with a super low fare and you pay ala cart for what you want 99 percent of the times you can still fly cheaper on Spirit plus the upgrades than flying American.

F American.

The Magnolia Pier shows off its springtime beauty. I love it there!

The pink house….

The good folks of the North Shore and especially Ipswich have joined forces with True North Brewery in Ipswich to make our Hook-A-Cure / Dana-Farber Blood Drives a HUGE success.

In our first two drives, we had enough blood donated to easily save over 200 people!

Even under Covid protocols, so many people requested an appointment, we had to turn people away! Something we never want to do.

So to solve the problem, True North expanded the drive into a two day event to hopefully accommodate all who want to join us!!

For those returning, we send a deeply felt Thank-you and look forward to seeing you again! For those brand new to our Drives, know that beside the obvious, True North gives out a Pint of their wonderful brews for every Pint of donated blood!

Just to insure you know how important a blood donation can be…here is a quote from a Cancer patient we know:

“As I sit here and listen to the nurses reading off Lot Numbers of the blood they’re preparing to administer, I’d be remiss to not take the opportunity to (again) remind my dear friends: if you can give blood, please do. YOU WILL SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE…someone who is somebody’s parent, spouse, child…someone who is somebody’s everything.”

You never know the impact of your kindness…be somebody’s everything!

So please join us and register for either Friday, April 30th, 2021 at tinyurl.com/TrueA30 or Saturday, May 1st, 2021 at tinyurl.com@TrueM1. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Brigham and Woman’s Hospital Blood Mobile, will be at True North Ales, 116  County Road, Ipswich, Ma. from 8:30 to 3:00 both days.

“Donate your blood for a reason, let the reason to be life”

Also known as Prospect Street Cemetery, this is a very small and bleak looking cemetery sitting next the the AM VETS building. The few stones are old and clustered within a few feet of each other. A Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County, Massachusetts published by the Essex Society of Genealogists (1991) describes it as “Small, abandoned, barren-looking cemetery sloping downhill from street with stone wall & iron gate. Marker at gate illegible.” It also notes that a list of names was published in the Gloucester Daily Times June 18 1925.

Unfortunately I could never actually recommend a stroll through here. Many have apparently taken advantage of the wall to hide garbage and poop bags thrown into the enclosed area. It’s also not a very big area and it would be a very short walk if you decided to take it. But several Gloucester families have their dead buried here and it deserves recognition as one of our cherished resting places.

Good morning Joey

I was looking at some old pictures and came across this post card of Fisherman’s Wharf

In the summers of my 7^th grade till senior in high school I spent summers fishing on my dads boat the Debbie Rose

With Family

My uncle John Randazza Captain (AKA Johnny Boy )

My Father Sal Randazza Jr (Engineer)

My Grand father  Cook (AKA Tootise)

My Cousin Anthony Randazza

We were quite the crew

Young and Old

I can remember waking up at 1:30 Am every day except Fridays(New York Fish Market Closed On Weekends)

My Father and I would listen to the NOAA Forecast and he would tell me if I could go with him Weather permitting

Just between you and me my father always said yes hoping I would get sick and not want to go anymore

I spent many of days over the rail sick as a dog

He could see back then that there was no life in fishing in the future

Then we were off to Dunkin Donuts and there was the rest of Fisherman’s Wharf  Boat Crews waiting there till someone made a move

It was usually the crew of the Debbie Rose or Tom Testaverde on the Sea Fox That made the  move

My grandfather would already be on the boat waiting for us 

So off we go in a line to Ipswich Bay to fish

I would see some of the best sunrises that time in my life

We would steam for close to 2-3 Hrs

That’s when the net went over and was towed for 2 hrs

The net was then hauled back and the sorting and cleaning and packing of fish began

We would make 3 tows and head in to make trucks in afternoon that headed to New York fish market

My father always had a 5 gallon bucket of fresh fish to bring home for dinner and to give some to friends and family

These are the days I will never forget

I currently have a boat and fish with my wife rod and reel for ground fish in the same spots I fished with my dad

The good old days

Sal Randazza III