My View of Life on the Dock
Celestino Basile 
GloucesterCast 379 live From Beauport w/ Jeanne Hennessey, Chris McCarthy, Pat & Jimmy Dalpiaz, Scottie Mac, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 1/26/20
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Beauport Annual Wedding Showcase Tonight At Cruiseport
1606 Restaurant
Mom’s Kitchen potentially opening next Monday Feb 3 pending city inspections!
Movie out of town at Mall OUTRAGEOUS COST. $36 for two tickets. $14.99 for a pretzel!
Movie 1917 Directed By Sam Mendes
Movie Joker online rental $5.99
Dinner at Thai Choice
Please call Kathleen or Courtney – 978. 282 .1455 to reserve your seating.
January 30th: French Wine Dinner at Feather and Wedge!
Please join us and Andrew “The Wine Bear” Ehrlich as we taste a selection of four fine French wines, each thoughtfully paired with a course prepared by our chef, Justin Plumadore!
Always engaging, Andrew will educate us about the regions, the wineries, the wines and pairing qualities. We hope that you can join us for what will be an enjoyable, interesting and sumptuous evening! Menu can be viewed here.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Have a great game day with Super Bowl Catering from Tonno Restaurant
Orders must be placed by 1/28/2020 and must pick up by 2/2/2020. Call us NOW! 978-879-4795
Do you have your Serenitee card yet? It’s free and earns points at participating restaurants. PLUS you get freebies now and again! There’s also an app. Here’s the link to sign up
Hand blowers vs. paper towels
What would you have liked your name to be?
The secret to hanging mirror/picture on the wall
Packed house at Chamber event
Jim and Pat going to Whole Paycheck Foods for the first time—Prime members 10% discount..use your Whole Foods or Amazon app for QR code to get discount
Jim and Pat review Antique Table in Manchester
It’s official- Rabbit and I are going to visit Adventureman
Santander going in where Orange Leaf was
Fantastic butcher at Tendercrop Farm
Recap Art Haven Lobster Trap Tree Big Buoy Family Fun Night
Cape Ann wildlife report including Heron, Owls, Dovekie
Monarch Butterfly film update
what: A wine tasting seminar of Tuscany, Italy led by Ciro Pirone presenting its renowned wines & foods, singular geographic areas, spirited culture and traditions focused on the major, celebrated Sangiovese grape of Tuscany, the centerpiece of the region’s great wines …Chianti Classico, Montalcino, Montepulciano while demystifying the Super Tuscans wines, so loved but still so misunderstood.
-Ciro’s seminar will include take-home materials to continue the learning experience with maps/facts, information about Tuscany… related specifically to the wines and areas covered in the seminar
-9 wines (Chianti Classico, Montalcino, Montepulciano Super Tuscans) will be tasted designed to gain an understanding of the variety of different Sangiovese grapes from the regions’s different terroir including a flight of very distinctive SuperTuscans (Merlot, Cabernet, and Sangiovese based).
-Accompanying the tasting will be Savour’s specialty appetizers… cheeses, charcuterie and condiments
why: It’s the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of Tuscany’s cultural heritage, through…
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PSA: if your dog eats a roll of poop bags or a long string of dental floss you’re supposed to let it naturally pass rather than potentially rip out it’s large intestines
Could it be that our winter resident juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron is surviving by ice fishing??
I was concerned and did not not think the young heron could possibly find enough food after Niles Pond froze solidly over. The pond was thick with a heavy layer of ice, so thick people had been skating.
Several days ago when out for a walk, I heard a krickly sound coming from the reeds along the pond’s edge. A beautiful Red Squirrel ran across my path. A few moments later, the same krickly krickly sound, only this time when I peered in, there was the juvenile BCNH, sleepy-eyed and shifting on the cold ice. 
Off he flew into the trees to warm in the sun.
Sleeping in the morning sun
I walked out onto the ice adjacent to where he had been standing and there, very clearly, was a trail of his perfectly delineated tracks. Not only that, but there was a hole in the ice, surrounded by several sets of his tracks. Having observed BCNH during the summer months standing stock still in one place for hours on end, I can just imagine that he must have stood over that hole for hours waiting for his dinner to swim by. Simply amazed!
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My camera lens was too long to get a close up of the tracks. I was only able to take these cell phone pics, but you can still see very clearly the heron’s tracks in the snowy ice, and the ice hole.
Cape Ann is located at the tippy northern end of their year round Atlantic coastal range.
CONGRATULATIONS! to Cape Ann Art Haven for the wonderfully successful Big Buoy Party. Great turnout, welcoming venue (Cruiseport), delicious refreshments, a multitude of art activities, live music, and a super fun vibe made for a great family night. Thank you Traci Thayne Corbett and Crew for all that you do for the kids!
Since it was a little chilly outside, took this photo from the open window. The reflection on the silver truck was very pretty.
Flowers and chocolate are a Valentine tale as old as time, and even though we love all of that jazz (especially when the two are combined into one beautiful candy arrangement), it gets a tad boring.
That’s why we’re completely intrigued by the idea of a bouquet made entirely of pickles.
OK, to be fair, there are some nifty peppers thrown in there too. And some fresh dill, I think? I don’t know, I can’t always identify fresh herbs on sight, all I know is that it looks BEAUTIFUL and perfectly sour and delicious.
Today Sunday Jan 26 at the Elks. Join us for the fun!
There may be fewer boats out in the winter months, but it’s still pretty active in the harbor. Always happy to see them coming home!
There are seasonal and year-round homes and condos for sale in Gloucester and Rockport right now. The Cape Ann Waterfront Guide is an easy way for you to receive up-to-the-minute information on pricing, size, bedrooms and the pulse of the market, all via email.
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Kenny MacCarthy / Bob and Sue McDermott / Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty
Photo: sunset from Rowley Shore Road, Gloucester MA by Kenny MacCarthy
Come On Down, Drink And Be A Part Of The Studio Audience!
Niles Pond icing over
Debris from the demo of the 13,500 SF property (and parking lot) on 206/209 Main Street, formerly known as Cameron’s restaurant, is being trucked away from sorted piles, scrap metal here, mixed materials there. Action Inc. and North Shore Community Development Coalition ‘s new apartment building will meld in a few street level commercial spaces. (Read about the latticework of buildings on this stretch of Main here and see photos then and now below. I think it will be both changeless and changing as the saying goes.) I’m confident the charm and great karma of Cameron’s meals and happy celebrations will carry forward for the residents and business owners coming to this corner of Main and Elm.
In the meantime I was delighted to find some (poor) snapshots with my mom inside Cameron’s. I’m sure there are more and better Cameron’s photographs out there!
photo snapshot captions – fuzzy glimpses of Cameron’s restaurant interior on St. Patrick’s Day 2009 (kids playing fiddles now in their 20s!) & 2010. There must be photos out there!
The eagle was removed, repaired and painted in 2017 in preparation for a new and most fitting site– flying high for Cape Ann Veterans Services. Who carved Cameron’s iconic eagle sign?
GMG reader David Collins shares the answer about the artist who hand carved the eagle as reported in the Gloucester Daily Times 2017. Carl Goddard of Nahant carved the eagle in 1967.
Artist studios across the street will have a front row for the construction progress.
Good Morning Gloucester 