Josh Bishop Gloucester Sunrise
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Much Thanks to the GHS Fishermen!
The days that the Gloucester High School Fishermen come to lend some hands (and feet) at Cape Ann Youth Hockey’s Learn-to-Skate program are always so special for the beginning skaters! I don’t have a high school skater yet….and my boys have long since graduated from Learn-to-Skate, but I can remember fondly how special they thought it was when they got to skate with the “big kids.” I also remember them grinning ear to ear upon seeing those same big kids working at Talbot Rink’s Open Skate hours. Wicked hero worship. The day one of those High School skaters remembered Thatcher’s name (that happened to be taped across the top of his helmet, but I’ll never tell) was probably a pivotal day in his young skating career. I am very certain there are plenty of parents in the Cape Ann program who fee the same way.
So, this past weekend a new group of High School skaters came to the rink to have some fun with Cape Ann’s newest skaters….and the smiles tell you all you need to know!
Huge thanks to the Fishermen for creating new memories and being such great role models!
These great photos are from Kimberlee Bertolino
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Sealing the Deal on 2018
Our friends the seals at Brace Cove seem to be a good way to say good-bye to 2018. Some of them even seem to be waving. Stay safe everyone!
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Maybe Next Year Craig 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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GloucesterCast 314 With Paula Ryan OBrien, Chris McCarthy, The Rabbit, Jim and Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 12/30/18
GloucesterCast 314 With Paula Ryan OBrien, Chris McCarthy, The Rabbit, Jim and Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 12/30/18
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Topics Include:
GMG is officially 11 years old
Pat Jimmy and Paula brought mimosas this morning
Polar Plunge At Oakes Cove Beach New Year’s Day at Noon
Pledge To Plunge Sheet
Call In from Ralph DiGiorgio
Causeway restaurant eggplant parm
Duckworth’s Closing Jan 1 Reopening January 31st
Feather and Wedge New Year’s Eve
Elks
The Elks game name is a mystery to us
Rockport New Year’s Eve Schedule
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OUR SNOWY OWL HEDWIG FROM ROCKPORT ARTIST DEB SCHRADIECK
While chatting with Cape Ann artist Deb Schradieck and her husband Peter last night at the Good Morning Gloucester holiday bash and amazing bbq, held at Cape Ann Giclee, Deb mentioned she had done a painting of our Snowy Owl Hedwig. The painting is of Hedwig dozing off, nestled under a rocky alcove on Atlantic Road. We would often see her resting, especially during the middle of the day, in between meals. Beautiful capture Deb!
Hedwig has not yet come back to the hotels on Atlantic Road. Folks ask me about this often, whether or not she will return to the same location. Snowy Owls wander widely in their generally north-south migrations. Even if she did return, I think it safe to say, she would look different after another year molting. We would possibly be able to recognize her by habit, but then again she would be a year older, and may have developed different habits. Hedwig is mighty strong, and appears healthy, and as female Snowies are dominant over the males in staking out territory, perhaps as a more mature owl she is spending the winter closer to her breeding grounds. That is my hope for her at least, and that she has many years ahead of making many little Snowy Owlets!
Thanks again to Deb Schradieck for sharing her lovely painting of Hedwig. To see more of Deb’s work, visit her gallery on Rocky Neck and check out her website here: Deb’s Art Gallery.
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Cuties hanging out at Brace Cove
Love visiting these cuties just hanging out on the rocks.
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SNAPSHOTS FROM THE FIRST EVER GMG HOLIDAY BBQ!
A great time was had by all ❤ Thanks again to Anna and James Eves for once again hosting the GMG holiday party at Cape Ann Giclee.
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A useful gift
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Kim DiGiorgio Photos From Last Night’s GMG Holiday Party
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Gloucester Smiles-1114
Fine Art Photographer from Sweden makes Gloucester her home.
Check out her website https://www.ccoylephotography.com/
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Making Sense of the Census
I saw this ad in the Gloucester Daily Times and thought it was worth sharing. The 2020 Census will be held soon and I understand these jobs are interesting and challenging. As you may know, the US Constitution provides for census taking; its main purpose being to determine Congressional representation. The federal census is taken every 10 years and the details become available 72 years later.
The most current census available is from 1940. This screenshot is shows residents of Fort Square and includes many familiar area family names such as Frontiero, Favazza, and Parisi. If you are curious, the 1940 census records are available for free at Family Search, Ancestry and the National Archives. They are very interesting!
View from Fort Square 2018, perhaps not much changed from 1940.
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Our Grandfather Captain Joe Ciaramitaro
The man that started it all. Photo forwarded by cousin Joe Marcantonio
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Life in the phat lane…I just cant!!!!! @northeastbbq This prime rib was like butter….Smoked to perfection video from The Rabbit
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CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR ON TUESDAY 1/1 – FEATHER & WEDGE WITH BRUNCH & MUSIC BY BRIAN ALEX
Celebrate the New Year with brunch at Feather & Wedge featuring special musical guest Brian Alex. Brian Alex is well known locally as both a solo artist and a member of the World-Pop act Entrain. Brian has recorded with Paula Cole and Donna Summer, shared the stage with Bo Diddley and Bob Weir and opened for many famous headliners including Sheryl Crow, Matchbox 20 and Huey Lewis.
Brian’s music combines a unique pop sensibility with both rock and reggae, and a whole lot of soul.
Tuesday January 1, 2019
11 AM – 3 PM
Reservations highly recommended. 978.999.5917
Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966 978.999.5917
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ROCKPORT NEW YEAR’S EVE MASTER SCHEDULE AND GET YOUR BUTTONS HERE!
CLICK HERE FOR THE ROCKPORT NEW YEAR’S EVE MASTER SCHEDULE
Get your buttons for Rockport New Year’s Eve by clicking the “Get Tickets” button below or by visiting one of the ten locations listed below. The button price for adults will increase from $15 to $20 after December 25, so get your buttons now! (The price for youth ages 13 – 18 will remain $10, and kids age 12 and under are free). Might there be someone on your gift list who would like to attend Rockport New Year’s Eve?
IN ROCKPORT:
Bean and Leaf Cafe, 12 Bearskin Neck
John Tarr Store, 49 Main St.
Katie’s Gift Shop, 3 Mt. Pleasant St.
Rite Aid Rite Aid
Smith Ace Hardware & Lumber, 3 Station Square (at the lumber desk)
IN GLOUCESTER:
Building Center Stores, 1 Harbor Loop
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, 33 Commercial St.
Common Crow, 200 Eastern Ave.
Hometown Ace Hardware, 231 Gloucester Crossing Rd.
House Of The Raven, 141 Main St.
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Sorellanza Wants to Sing for You!
Sorellanza Concert New Year’s Eve!
Rockport Congregational Church
Shows at 6 & 7 PM
Join us for an eclectic a cappella journey of inspiration, ferocity, wonder
and a bit of reverie, too! Patti Pike, Musical Director.
Click to Purchase Buttons, Volunteer
or see Rockport New Year’s Eve Schedule
And so the shortest day came
and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing, to drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees.
They hung their homes with evergreen.
They burned beseeching fires all night
long to keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake they shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us – Listen!
All the long echoes sing the same delight, this Shortest Day, as promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
They lighted candles in the winter trees.
They hung their homes with evergreen.
They burned beseeching fires all night
long to keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake they shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us – Listen!
All the long echoes sing the same delight, this Shortest Day, as promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
(by Susan Cooper)
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Countdown to Once Upon a Contest Reception at Cape Ann Museum
SAVE THE DATE! RECEPTION IS ONE WEEK AWAY
Cape Ann Museum reception for the four libraries of Cape Ann Once Upon a Contest: Selections from Cape Ann Reads travel show, Saturday, January 5th, 2019, 3-5PM
photo credit: Installation partial view of “Once Upon a Contest: Selections from Cape Ann Reads” travel show debuted at Cape Ann Museum, December 2018. © c ryan
Photo shows from left to right: in the foreground illustration by Leslie Galacar for Where in the World is Catherine Abigail written by Michael LaPenna; illustration for “Why does my dog…” written and illustrated by Mary Rhinelander; back wall left hint of temporary public art mural by Bonnie L. Sylvester, a Cape Ann tableau as walk-in installation, by the manuscripts (Sylvester illustrated The Tree in Dock Square by Jean Woodbury); back wall right drawing for Beauty on the Wing written and illustrated by Kim Smith; illustrations by Juni VanDyke for two books from the If I were … series by James McKenna; and a lower left corner from an illustration for The Best Way Home, written and illustrated by Barbara McLaughlin.
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