Calico #Lobster Caught By The F/V Ryan Zachary Today August 16, 2018

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From Maine Science Today-

So when you’re looking at a lobster, you’re looking through one layer of yellow pigment, one layer of blue pigment, and one layer of red pigment, which looks like a solid layer of muddy reddish-brown.

So what happened to make this particular lobster blue? In a lab you can make a lobster blue by not feeding it astaxanthin, in the wild it different colors are cause by genetic mutations. Lobsters can be blue, red (while still alive), yellow, and even split-colored. The chances of seeing some of these colors are very slim.

But it doesn’t matter what color it is when it’s alive — it will still turn bright red when cooked.

Here are the odds of catching a different colored lobster:

  • Blue: 1 in 2 million
  • Red (live): 1 in 10 million
  • Yellow: 1 in 30 million
  • Orange and Black Calico: 1 in 30 million
  • Split-colored: 1 in 50 million
  • White/Crystal/Albino: 1 in 100 million

Read more: http://marinesciencetoday.com/2013/10/18/what-makes-a-lobster-worth-500/#ixzz5ONouWePe

This Weekend in the Arts

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Layerings and Landings

An exhibition of luminescent paintings and three-dimensional photography featuring the beauty and mystery of our natural environment.  Aug 15 to Sept 11

 

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Reception: Saturday, August 18, 2018

Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck welcomes four artists:
Kathleen George, Jon MacAdam, Rosemary Scott-Fishburn and Eric Smith as Summer Artists

“Layerings and Landings”, an exhibition of luminescent paintings and three-dimensional photography featuring the beauty and mystery of our natural environment.

Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck, 53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA 01930

The Rocky Neck Art Colony is pleased to present a show called Layerings and Landings, curated by Gallery 53 member and abstract landscape painter, Kathleen George. The exhibition features works created by four friends who each delight in making art about Land. The public is invited to the Opening Reception on Saturday, August 18 from 6 to 8pm. The show is open Sundays to Thursdays from 10am to 6pm and from 10am to 8pm Fridays and Saturdays. All works for sale.

For more information call 978-290-2639 or email gallery53@rockyneckartcolony.org

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‘SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR’

– a collection of wild and whimsical earrings by Tin Can Sally – on display at:

Local Colors Artists’ Cooperative, 121 Main St., Gloucester, Aug. 25 – Sept. 14.

EARRINGS
EARRINGS – by Tin Can Sally

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Harbor Loop Summer Concert Series 2018 w/ Sara and Randy & Alligator Wine 6-9pm 8.16.2018

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Sarah & Randy

6pm

Alligator Wine

Grateful Dead Tribute Band

Band Members
Chad Verbeck – rhythm guitar & vocals
Tim Kierstead – lead guitar & vocals
Sparky Warsnip – bass & vocals
Lee Sullivan – keyboards & vocals
John Normandin – drums
John Frazee – drums

 

https://www.facebook.com/alligatorwine/

Thursday night! The Rhumb Line presents the amazing Johnny “Bluehorn” Morricone 8:30pm 8.16.2018

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Once again shivering me timbers with his unique trumpet solos and lush voice. Guaranteed to twist up your eustachian tubes. But, wait! There’s more! Ricky “King” Russell, Boston’s most prized blooze promulgator, drops through the roof to add his two cents. As does Steve Bankuti, top notch goatskin tickler.We’ll have a blast!

Johnny Bluehorn

courtesy photo

 

Ricky King Russell

 

40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732

http://www.therhumbline.com/

Message in a bottle retrieved 8/15/18

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Message in a bottle retrieved 8/15/18 by our Lobsterman Dave Jewell aboard the F/V Lady J. According to the note it says Flow Test Put Off 8/2/2018 off Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor. If found please contact Donald Cann 64 Union St Rockland MA. 02370. The bottle was retrieved off the Back Shore, Gloucester MA. If you know Donald Cann, let him know. If he included an email address it would have been fun to send him this video. Let’s try to find him online and tag him. I’ll keep the note inside at the dock.

Boston Globe comes to #GloucesterMA for a perfect weekend

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“How to spend a perfect weekend in Gloucester and the other cape”, by Christopher Muther, Boston Globe. 

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Article describes some Gloucester highlights: Cape Ann Museum and Harrison Cady exhibition, Gloucester Beaches, Stage Fort Park, Half Moon Beach, Gloucester Shuttle, Cape Ann Cinema, Gloucester Stage, Schooner Thomas E. Lannon, Hammond Castle Museum, Perfect Storm, Wicked Tuna, Rocky Neck, Latitude 43, Lobsta Land, Zeke’s Place, Willow Rest, Beauport Hotel, Ocean Hotel at Bass Rocks, Beth Williams, and (couldn’t get a reservation at) Duckworth’s Bistro.

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Detail from Harrison Cady on exhibition Cape Ann Museum 

 

Lost Fishermen Service

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Gloucester Daily Times article marking the annual Lost Fishermen events of Aug 1921 include the the names of the men lost in the previous year.  There are many recognizable family names included: Ivan Murphy, Manuel Veator Cardos, Dennis Muise, Michael Green, William F. Parker, Walter L. Goyetche, William Pierce, Eugene Boudrow,  Antone E. Brown, and Thomas Kenney. I count 6 widows and 16 children left behind to mourn.

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How’s it going?

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How’s it going? Feeling a bit off, unbalanced, in your work, Homelife, relationships?

Now’s the time to put yourself first, your inner self. Be mindful of the journey not the end result and balance will follow.

Book an Ayurveda wellness consultations where we “Introduce you to yourself” Ayurveda Wellness Healing, LLC also offers a variety of therapeutic bodywork therapies:


Abhyanga
Swedish Massage
Marma Point Balancing
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On a dreary day like today – one of the above would feel delightful 💜

“Blockage is disease/Flow is health”😊

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2018 Seafood Throwdown at this week’s Cape Ann Farmers Market!

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SEAFOOD Throwdown (1)For our 10th annual event, the cook off will feature veteran competitors Common Crow and Feather and Wedge, represented by chefs Mike Duggan and Ryan McGovern respectively.

The challenge before them? To create a unique dish using a mystery locally caught seafood that will be revealed at the event.

Completed dishes shall be presented to a panel of judges who will score based on taste, use of the whole animal, presentation, and originality. Who will this year’s winner be?

Check out the event here! 

PLUS

While the Throwdown chefs are hard at work, market goers will be able to feast on freshly prepared seafood dishes and learn about place-based consumption at the Eating with the Ecosystem 18-foot kitchen skiff. This seafood non-profit got their start in Rhode Island but aspires to become a voice for all New England commercial fishermen. Their five-anchor philosophy mirrors the same principles that the…

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SNOWY OWLS IN MASSACHUSETTS IN AUGUST!?!

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The Snowy Owl Project shares that not one, not two, not three, but four Snowy Owls remain in our area! This is highly unusual for August because most Snowies have left Massachusetts by May.

They are finding finding plenty to eat. The owls are being closely monitored and thus far have no health issues. This is the time of year that Snowy Owls molt, so if you see one, it may be brown and missing some feathers.

Hedwig in the moonlight

Tragically, a Snowy Owl was recently rescued at Logan Airport and was taken to Tufts, where it died of rodenticide poison. That brings this year’s total to eight that have been killed by rat poison. Imagine if in every region, this many were killed annually by rat poison. It’s no wonder the species is struggling, despite occasional irruptive years.TOXIC LUNCH!

Photo Dan Vickers

Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge shares the following:

Do you have unwanted mice and rats around your home? Do you also have birds of prey and beloved pets using that same area? If you do, consider the potential deadly consequences of using toxic rodenticides on more than just the rodents.

Dan Vickers snapped this photograph of a Red-tailed Hawk eating a poisoned rat. The blue color you see in the gut of the rat is a fat-soluble dye used in anticoagulant rodenticides. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for rat poisons to accumulate in the food web. Once this hawk consumes the poison, it too can die.

Please help minimize wildlife exposure to pesticides and consider the collateral damage and danger for other mammals, birds of prey, domestic pets, and humans.

Follow this link for more information and safer rodenticide alternatives:

Poisons Used to Kill Rodents Have Safer Alternatives

A second generation of ultra-potent rodenticides creates a first-class crisis for people, pets, and wildlife.

 

 

Music on Meeting House Green Willie Alexander/ August 24, 2018

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FROM GARAGE BAND TO THE BEAT OF ROCK ’N ROLL, WILLIE ALEXANDER AND THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY ORCHESTRA ROCK MEETINGHOUSE GREEN, AUGUST 24

 Gloucester-based singer/pianist Willie Alexander plays with his Persistence of Memory Orchestra at the free Gloucester Meetinghouse Summer Concert on Friday, August 24, 6 – 9 pm.

 Alexander has played and raved through more musical eras than most musicians have survived. With deep roots in ‘60s bands such as the Lost and Bagatelle, becoming a member of Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground in 1971, Alexander’s music fuses punk, rock ’n roll, jazz and blues, with hip-hop laced with techno. Together with his Persistence of Memory Orchestra, Alexander will have you hopping and jiving under the fairy lights of Meetinghouse Green. His music is zany, soulful and rocks you out of your chair. Fun for both young and old concert-goers.

 As always, the concert is free but in the spirit of giving to the community, the audience is invited to make free-will donations to the Grace Center, a local day resource center serving adults in crisis in the Cape Ann area. Breakfast and lunch are served to adults in need, Monday to Friday, at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.

 Bring cash or a checkbook, beach chairs or blankets. Fresh, all-natural food is provided by The Common Crow. In case of rain, the concert will be held inside the Meetinghouse. Parking is available in lots nearby and at St. Peter’s Square.

 Music on Meetinghouse Green’s sponsors include Linzee and Beth Coolidge; J.J. and Jackie Bell; Michael and Mary Bresnan; JoeAnn Hart and Gordon Baird; Harry and Mary Hintlian; Charles Nazarian; Dick and Doris Prouty; Sandra Ronan; Brent and Linda Wilkes; Tom and Kristin Zarrella; and our corporate sponsor Cape Ann Savings Bank.

 

SUPPORTING THE CAPE LICENSE PLATE AT THE BLOCK PARTY!

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Cape Ann License Plate got some support from Lt Govenor Karyn Polito, Mayor Sefatia Theken, Governor Baker, and State Senator Bruce Tarr. Get your own Cape Ann Plate at Lovecapeann.com.

They also stopped at our booth at the Block Party to learn all about the Low Number Plate Online Auction that begins August 20th – September 3rd. Plated from 1-100 can be previewed at Lovecapeann.com.