Photographers at Good Harbor Beach
Visitors to Gloucester from Houston Texas
Visiting from Houston Texas
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Generous Gardeners Plant Sale
On Stacy Boulevard near the tennis courts.
Beautiful
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DOCKSIDERS TONIGHT AT GLOUCESTER CITY HALL!
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Operation: Safe+Boat Today
Gloucester Station Coast Guard is hosting an event today on Harbor Loop 10 am – 2 pm which will feature signal flare demos, live helicopter search and rescue, live music, search and rescue boat tours, K9 demos, Beverly dive team, free lunch, as well as other health and safety information. Sounds like it’s going to be a great day, so stop down to check it out.
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GloucesterCast 334 With Michael Dekoster, Lara Lepionka, Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 5/17/19
GloucesterCast 334 With Michael Dekoster, Lara Lepionka, Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 5/17/19
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Topics Include:
Tulip ‘thief’ gives flower painting to garden guard Article In the GDT by
Maritime Gloucester News Safe Boating Day On Harbor Loop
Gig rowing programs and summer programs for children at Maritime Gloucester Link for more info here
Backyard Growers News Veggie Warrior Program- Link Here
Grow Festival Sunday June 9th info
Family Carnival this weekend at I4C2 as a fundraiser for July 3rd and Labor Day fireworks sponsored by the Gloucester Fund. Details here: https://www.thegloucesterfund.org/fireworks-3/
Adventureman Jamie McDonald recently completed a world record breaking 524 miles treadmill run to continue fundraising for children’s hospitals. This was the adventure that landed him in the hospital with a number of ailments related to this punishing run. Last we heard, he’s out of the hospital but still not 100% well. I told him we’d have a shout out to him on today’s podcast. If you would like to donate, it’s not too late. Link here:https://www.adventureman.org/donate/
Weighing in on the current internet debate: do you wash your legs in the shower?
An excerpt from the article in Forbes magazine–
Regardless, in general, arguments against “washing your legs” included:
- The water and soap from the top part of your body and your genitals will flow down to your legs anyway.
- Washing your legs with soap too often will strip them of the protective natural oil layer.
- What are you doing to make your legs so dirty every day?
- Water and soap flow down is not enough to clean your legs
- What, you are not cleaning your legs?
- Do you realize how dirty your legs can get?
Migration in Massachusetts
Coral Belles Hanging Planters Next To Hummingbird Feeders
Important Library Meeting Monday May 20th 6-8:30 PM-
Family fun tomorrow! TOHP Burnham #EssexMA party 10am-noon, and Motif #1 all day #RockportMA
TOHP Burnham Essex Public Reception Saturday, May 18 10AM-NOON
Temporary Public Art: Alexia Parker
Fun Fridays: May 10, 17, 31, June 7 4PM
Author James McKenna & Illust. Juni VanDyke If I were Series 5/10; llust. Alexia Parker Bike’s Big Adventure and Pumpkin Carving 5/17; Author & Illust. Barbara McLaughlin The Long Way Home 5/31; Author Diane Polley & Illust. Marion Hall Let’s Go! Animal Tracks in the Snow 6/7
TOHP Burnham Library, Essex
30 Martin Street, Essex, MA 01929
978.768.7410
Days/Hours: M1-7,T1-5,W1-7,Th10-5,F1-5,S10-12
https://essexpubliclibrary.org
Essex Bicentennial display also on view.
snapshot scenes from Fun Friday May 10th and today below and TOHP Burnham hall installation views, Alexia Parker paper collage series, Hometown, for Once Upon a Contest group exhibition.
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Rockport Motif #1 Saturday, May 18 all day
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APPLE BLOSSOM SUNRISE
The view out our bedroom window at sunrise this morning, before all was overtaken by (more) rain clouds.
BTW, the RTHummingbirds and Orioles are loving the nectar from our crabapple and flowering fruit tree blossoms 🙂
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Greenbelt | Essex County’s Land Trust
Sawyer Free proposed building in the news | annual meeting Monday
Gloucester Daily Times article Sawyer Free trustees eye renovation by Ray Lamont here
Glouceser Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library 2019 Annual meeting Monday May 20 6-8PM
Prior post Febrary 4, 2019 with some questions
Besides the local new Cape Ann Museum build I’ve mentioned, here is a another recent comparable. Bowdoin’s new Roux Center for the Environment is approximately 30,000 ft’. The planning phase took 9 months. The build out took 14 months and the project cost less than 15 million (seeded with 10 million from the Rouxs). The Sawyer Free project is more than double that cost and the planning phase is many times past.
The community has been consistent about addressing the bathrooms for sometime. In 2014, the “immediate objectives will be working with the library’s board, staff and volunteers to review the library’s collections for relevance; revamping the building’s public and staff spaces; overseeing installation of a modern heating and air conditioning system, and mentoring staff in their professional development…”
Round up of new library building coverage prior to November 2018:
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SUMMARY AND SCENES FROM THE NOVEMBER 15, 2018 PUBLIC MEETING
- November 9, 2018: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2018/11/09/weigh-in-sawyer-free-public-library-seeking-ideas-for-next-steps-since-the-summer-2018-thinkgloucester-conversations-november-15th-2/#more-493728
- 2018: various notices for the library’s ThinkGloucester ward meetings
- Jan 12, 2018 NEW MBLC poster includes preservation examples and combos: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/01/12/new-libraries-of-massachusetts-mblc-poster-includes-preservation-examples-and-combos-zoom-in/
- Jan 10, 2018 Sawyer Free at Crossroads Building Plan meetings: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/01/10/sawyer-free-at-a-crossroads-new-building-meetings-tomorrow-january-11-at-400pm-and-630pm/
- January 3, 2018 Fitz Henry Lane and other art removed from the library building (January 2018): https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/down-the-lane-fitz-henry-lane-art-shuffled-from-gloucester-sawyer-free-library-to-cape-ann-museum/
- July 13, 2017 MBLC Update on the proposed new building plans- https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/07/13/mblc-update-on-the-proposed-new-building-plans-for-the-library/
- June 12, 2017 Spacious and beautiful- Sawyer Free a must see in 1885 travel guide | 123rd Annual meeting tonight! https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/06/12/spacious-and-beautiful-sawyer-free-library-a-must-see-in-1885-travel-guide-123rd-annual-meeting-tonight/
- June 2, 2017 “…As we step back from our original plan for a new building, we need to make crucial decisions about the library’s future.” https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/06/02/sawyer-free-library-annual-meeting-june-12/
- Jan 3, 2017 – Proposed building plans in the news and plans for what became library’s lovely 1972 Monnell building addition: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/no-finer-place-for-sure-downtown-proposed-building-plans-sawyer-free-library-city-hall-whoa-in-the-news-plus-the-1973-appeal-led-by-joseph-garland-universal-access-and-archives/. “Before the current 2015-16 library outreach, the library hosted extensive visioning sessions throughout 2013. I went to a couple, and I was invited to take part in a focus group on schools and the library. A completely new library and jettisoning of the historic Saunders library building was not an expressed community value. What were some common discussion points? A strategy for digitization of historic archives and newspapers, more staff, more hours of operation (Sundays), better bathrooms, parking issues, air conditioning, electrical work, maintenance, security, maximizing technology/ content access with schools, ditto Cape Ann TV, and attendance were some goals that were mentioned. So it was a surprise to see…”
- 2013 post about the 2013 library outreach and Lisa Smith (then) Cape Ann TV video
- 4/17/09 Original detail saved and restored on beautiful Saunders https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2009/04/17/sawyer-free-library-renovation/
- Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, Fundraising Committee, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:00 – Noon, Byers Davidson Room, Saunders House, 2 Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930,
Prior post with 1973 brochure ed. Joe Garland
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Job Fair Flier
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Sawyer Free proposed build in the news | annual meeting Monday
Gloucester Daily Times article Sawyer Free trustees eye renovation by Ray Lamont here
Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library 2019 Annual meeting Monday May 20 6-8PM
Prior post Febrary 4, 2019 with some questions
Besides the local new Cape Ann Museum build I’ve mentioned, here is a another recent comparable. Bowdoin’s new Roux Center for the Environment is approximately 30,000 ft’. The planning phase took 9 months. The build out took 14 months and the project cost less than 15 million (seeded with 10 million from the Rouxs). The Sawyer Free project is more than double that cost and the planning phase is many times past.
The community has been consistent about addressing the bathrooms for sometime. In 2014, the “immediate objectives will be working with the library’s board, staff and volunteers to review the library’s collections for relevance; revamping the building’s public and staff spaces; overseeing installation of a modern heating and air conditioning system, and mentoring staff in their professional development…”
Round up of new library building coverage prior to November 2018:
-
SUMMARY AND SCENES FROM THE NOVEMBER 15, 2018 PUBLIC MEETING
- November 9, 2018: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2018/11/09/weigh-in-sawyer-free-public-library-seeking-ideas-for-next-steps-since-the-summer-2018-thinkgloucester-conversations-november-15th-2/#more-493728
- 2018: various notices for the library’s ThinkGloucester ward meetings
- Jan 12, 2018 NEW MBLC poster includes preservation examples and combos: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/01/12/new-libraries-of-massachusetts-mblc-poster-includes-preservation-examples-and-combos-zoom-in/
- Jan 10, 2018 Sawyer Free at Crossroads Building Plan meetings: https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/01/10/sawyer-free-at-a-crossroads-new-building-meetings-tomorrow-january-11-at-400pm-and-630pm/
- January 3, 2018 Fitz Henry Lane and other art removed from the library building (January 2018): https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/down-the-lane-fitz-henry-lane-art-shuffled-from-gloucester-sawyer-free-library-to-cape-ann-museum/
- July 13, 2017 MBLC Update on the proposed new building plans- https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/07/13/mblc-update-on-the-proposed-new-building-plans-for-the-library/
- June 12, 2017 Spacious and beautiful- Sawyer Free a must see in 1885 travel guide | 123rd Annual meeting tonight! https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/06/12/spacious-and-beautiful-sawyer-free-library-a-must-see-in-1885-travel-guide-123rd-annual-meeting-tonight/
- June 2, 2017 “…As we step back from our original plan for a new building, we need to make crucial decisions about the library’s future.” https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2017/06/02/sawyer-free-library-annual-meeting-june-12/
- Jan 3, 2017 – Proposed building plans in the news and plans for what became library’s lovely 1972 Monnell building addition: https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/no-finer-place-for-sure-downtown-proposed-building-plans-sawyer-free-library-city-hall-whoa-in-the-news-plus-the-1973-appeal-led-by-joseph-garland-universal-access-and-archives/. “Before the current 2015-16 library outreach, the library hosted extensive visioning sessions throughout 2013. I went to a couple, and I was invited to take part in a focus group on schools and the library. A completely new library and jettisoning of the historic Saunders library building was not an expressed community value. What were some common discussion points? A strategy for digitization of historic archives and newspapers, more staff, more hours of operation (Sundays), better bathrooms, parking issues, air conditioning, electrical work, maintenance, security, maximizing technology/ content access with schools, ditto Cape Ann TV, and attendance were some goals that were mentioned. So it was a surprise to see…”
- 2013 post about the 2013 library outreach and Lisa Smith (then) Cape Ann TV video
- 4/17/09 Original detail saved and restored on beautiful Saunders https://goodmorninggloucester.org/2009/04/17/sawyer-free-library-renovation/
- Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library, Fundraising Committee, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:00 – Noon, Byers Davidson Room, Saunders House, 2 Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930,
Prior post with 1973 brochure ed. Joe Garland
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Mapleleaf Fans Losing Their Minds With Jealous Rage Over The Bruins Going To The Stanley Cup Is Gold…
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Our First Workshop
On Saturday May 4th, 2019 we had our first workshop. We’ve been working on putting these together for a while, and we couldn’t be happier with how everything went. Our new showroom has a conference room that provides the perfect classroom space. We have been working on pursuing these educational workshops because we feel that there is a need for this kind of continuing education. We know that this is a skilled trade, one that requires education and training that is hard to find or expensive.
Keep Reading: https://www.grandbanksbp.com/blogs/blog/our-first-workshop
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Around Town #106
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Visitors to Gloucester from North Carolina
Visiting from North Carolina
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Gloucester Smiles – Breakfast at Two Sisters
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The Inns of Rockport Cookbook
From Helene and Dan Duffy
WWW.beechtreebb.com
978-546-2864
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Lanesville
We took another little pitstop on the way home from baseball last night. There are so many amazing nooks and crannies around Cape Ann to enjoy and discover.
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Gypsy Moths dying in so many ways
This oak is on the south edge of Carlson’s Quarry in the middle of ground zero of last year’s gypsy moth infestation in Rockport. The leaves were ompletely munched, they leafed out again in August.
Today they look very happy. The overwinter gypsy moth egg masses are about one tenth in number or less of last year. And the ones that were still viable look like this photo. 10-15 tiny holes where the new catapillars crawled out instead of 50-200 holes.
So the rain, hard freeze cycle we had this winter was tough on them and the wet spring is supposedly great for the fungus e. maimaiga. That fungus will be active once these caterpillars get to be full sized and it eats them from the inside out releasing spores from the cadaver.
If you see stiff caterpillar cadavers hanging vertical, leave them be. They will release spores and kill more. If you see the caterpillar stiff and hanging send in a photo and you win a GMG bumper sticker. Start looking mid June. I saw some of the little bastards in Lobster Cove, Annisquam yesterday and the fungus has to wait until they are fat and worth eating.
Good Morning Gloucester 