REMINDER: KIM SMITH PROGRAM AT THE ROCKPORT ASSOCIATION AT 6PM MONDAY EVENING

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This new, more conservation-oriented talk is based on my ‘Friend of the Earth’ speech at Salem State University.

The event is free and open to the public. I hope to see you there!

Ice Ice Baby

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Ice, Ice, Baby! During the recent 2018 July 4th Heat Wave, ice was being distributed however possible, including a Tesla Model X ice wagon heading to the Market Restaurant in Annisquam, and Cape Ann Marina’s stainless 2 ton flatbed (they hoped to beat the Cut drawbridge). The vintage Harvey Cape Pond Ice truck was last seen down Thurston’s Point:

“Anything is Possible” …. Join Us in Supporting Reid’s Ride and the Reid R. AYA Cancer Alliance.

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Reid R. Sacco AYA Cancer Alliance – Altering the course of Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. 

AYA Cancer Alliance Mission –bring better care and treatments to each and every adolescent and young adult battling cancer so that each is given the chance to survive and thrive. Changing the way adolescents and young adults with cancer are treated, one patient at a time if need be. 

You can participate in and support Reid’s Ride by cycling, volunteering, donate, cheering on cyclists along the route, or Come to Stage Fort Park, Gloucester MA Sunday, July 15th and meet ‘the force’ behind Reid’s Ride –    

Join Reid’s Family, Lorraine, Gene, Weston, Deb, Frank Sacco, and Reid’s many cousins, friends and volunteers. A wonderful group of organizers and participants for this 28-Mile fundraising Bicycle Ride from Lynnfield MA high school to Gloucester MA, Stage Fort Park.

So much positivity behind this group…

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Our Annual Fine Art Auction will be Saturday, August 11 – a great party supporting a great cause! Welcome back Auctioneer Extraordinaire Rick Doucette! Tickets are on sale now! www.nsarts.org/Auction_2018.html Here’s a SNEAK PEEK…

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Synergy at Cape Ann Motor Inn Long Beach: Salty Frank’s Dogs, Cape Ann SUP, and The Cow mobile ice cream parlor

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Veritable foodie and water sports holiday corner at the Cape Ann Motor Inn Gloucester side of Long Beach in the summer of 2018.

returning fav

Water sports galore: Cape Ann SUP returns with their awesome crew ensuring the beach is festive with all that good energy

summer of 2018 Cape Ann Motor Inn Cape Ann SUP, Salty Frank's Dogs, The Cow_20180707_©c ryan (6)

new this summer:

Salty Frank’s Dogs will be on site Tuesday through Sunday fair weather days, and weekends after Labor Day. The menu changes up daily and goes beyond dogs (lobster rolls, mozzarella sticks, chicken…) One photo shows  looking back to his childhood: his family stayed in the first house on the front cottages row. There used to be a store on the ground floor.

 

 

Testing the waters this weekend:

The Cow: mobile scooped ice cream parlor frappes, iced coffee and more

 

 

Check out the Cape Ann Motor Inn’s live beach cam 

back and side Cape Ann Motor Inn; North Shore Music Theater flies Aladdin banner

 

 

 

 

Here are tonight’s specials @TonnoGloucester

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Here are tonight’s Specials!
-Tuna Belly Crudo with tomato water, herb oil, shaved fennel, pickled shallots
-Smoked Tuna ciccioli
-Crostini with grilled peaches, coppa, toasted hazelnuts, chili honey ricotta
-Squash Blossoms stuffed with herbed Ricotta -Melon, sopresetta, cucumber, prosecco
-Burrata, utopia farm heirloom tomatoes, aged balsamic
-Tuna conserva salad, heirloom tomatoes, marinated potatoes, asparagus, roasted zucchini, tonnato dressing
-Grilled 8oz top sirloin, crispy fingerling potatoes, grilled zucchini and summer squash salsa
-Short-cut Rigatoni, @captjoe06 lobster, corn and pancetta
-Saffron Halibut, cherry tomato agrodolce
-Chocalate almond torta
-Vanilla bean cheesecake

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Best Jazz Brunch at Feather & Wedge this Sunday | July 8 | Scollins-Warsi Duo

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Join us for brunch this Sunday and hear the phenomenal  Scollins-Warsi jazz duo with Kevin Scollins on guitar and Sahil Warsi on double bass. These very talented Berklee-trained musicians will play selections from their extensive set list including great jazz standards, modern jazz, contemporary blues and R&B.

Sunday, July 8, 2018
10:30 AM 2:30 PM

Reservations highly recommended! 978.999.5917

Scollins - Warsi

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Meg Colby Team Massachusetts! USA medalist!!!

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Gloucester’s very own Meg Colby rocked the pool in the 100M freestyle, 200M freestyle, 100M backstroke and the 100M freestyle relay. Meg swims for Cape Ann Special Olympics Sharks, the Gloucester Highs and part of Team Massachusetts.She made the whole Cape Ann Community and Massachusetts proud bringing home three silver medals and one bronze. Meg all your training paid off! You took Seattle by storm!!! Welcome Home 🏊‍♀️

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Around the Globe from Gloucester

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During a recent podcast we mentioned Jerome Rand’s recent return to Gloucester after an almost 9 month voyage during which he circumnavigated the globe. Joey wondered if there had been other such voyages with Gloucester ties.  Of course, this set me off to research.

The simple answer is yes, there have been other such voyages.  The most prominent I could find are Captain Irving Johnson’s voyages in the pre-war 1930s on the schooner Yankee from his home port in Gloucester.  Yes, that was plural…voyages.  He and his crew made seven total trips around the world, the first three on the 92 foot wooden schooner Yankee from Gloucester.  Here is a link to an article you might find as interesting as I did.

As I noted, these were 18 month trips with a good size crew.  I found a ship manifest at Ancestry listing some of the crew from the 1939 voyage listing actor Sterling Hayden as a member of the crew.

Yankee 1939 with Sterling Hayden

 

His wife Electa (Exy) usually accompanied him as a crew member, though I do not see her on this list.  These trips are well documented if you are interested including this book available at Amazon.

Westward Bound cover

Mr. Rand’s voyage, however, was a much different experience.  He traveled solo on the Mighty Sparrow and without any additional technology to assist.  He also traveled non-stop making the journey in about half the time of the Yankee’s trips.  Wow.  Kudos to all with that innate urge to sail and challenge themselves.

I Support My Local Police Sticker

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Saw this sticker downtown this morning and knew I wanted one for the truck.

Found one on Amazon and I’m ordering it-

Here’s a link to purchase on Amazon and show your support for the people who serve and protect us

SAINT PETER’S FIESTA SUNDAY AWARDS CLOSING CEREMONY

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Congratulations to seine boat race champions Iron Village, Rowgue, and Uproar, congratulations to Greasy Pole winners Frankie Tarominga (Friday), Mike Sanfilippo (Saturday), and Randy Sweet (Sunday), and congrats to all the proud family members!!!

JULY 20% OFF SALE AT CEDAR ROCK GARDENS!! THIS WEEKEND ONLY

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Hello,
Happy 4th of July! We are sure you all enjoyed the enormous amount of sunshine this week, very thankful for this bit of rain today!
We are having a 20% off sale on all our plants this weekend (July 7th & 8th). Below is a list of what we currently have in stock.
We have a great selection of hanging baskets and window boxes with annual and perennial herbs and flowers. We also have our new wave of fall vegetables ready to go into the garden for succession planting. Our native perennials selection is stocked up and attracting all the pollinators you can imagine – bring them home to your gardens!
Hope you are having a wonderful summer!
All the best,
Elise and Tucker
Cedar Rock Gardens
CedarRockGardens@gmail.com

Products in stock

Coast of Maine Potting Soil
Coast of Maine Garden Soil
Black Earth Compost
North Country Organics ProGrow
Neptunes Harvest Crab Shell
Neptunes Harvest Fish Emulsion
Neptunes Harvest Rose & Flowering Formula
Neem Oil
Captain Jack’s Dead bug
Inseticidal Soap
Diatomaceous Earth
Row Cover
Hay Bales
Seeds

Fruits
Raspberries

Vegetable​s

Broccoli arcadia
Broccoli Imperial
Brussels Sprout
Cabbage Faro 1
Cabbage Mix
Cabbage Napa (minuet)
Cabbage Red Express
Cauliflower Purple of sicily
Cauliflower Snow Crown
Celery Tango green
Cucumber Diva
Cucumber fanfare
Cucumber Marketmore 76
Cucumber Tasty Jade
Eggplant Beatrice
Fennel Fino
Greens  Our mix
Kale Red Russian
Kale Toscano
Kale Winterbor’
Lettuce
Melon Cantaloupe Sarah’s choice
Melon Halona
Melon Watermelon Sugar Baby
Pumkin New England pie
pepper Poblano
Pepper Ace
Salanova
Squash Winter Acorn Jet
Squash Winter Buttercup Burgess
Squash Winter Butternut Waltham
Squash Winter spaghetti
Squash Summer Multipik
Squash Zucchini Alexandria
Squash Zucchini Bush Baby
Squash Zucchini cocoselle
Squash Zucchini Costata Romanesco
Squash Zucchini Spinless Perfection
Cabbage Rubicon
Summer Squash Zephyr
Asparagus
Tomatillo Toma Verde
Tomato Big Beef
Tomato Black Cherry
Tomato Brandywine red
Tomato Carbon
Tomato Carmello
Tomato Celebrity
Tomato Cherokee Purple
Tomato Glacier
Tomato Jaune Flamme
Tomato Juliet
Tomato Mr Stripey (Tigarella)
Tomato Paul Robeson
Tomato San Marzano Gigante
Tomato Stripped German
Tomato Sungold

Herbs

Arugula
Basil Compatto
Basil Genovese
Basil Lemon Mrs Burns
Basil Lettuce Leaf
Basil Mixed paks
Basil Purple Osmin
Basil Spicy Bush
Basil sweet genovese (perfume)
Basil Sweet Thai
Basil Kapoor Tulsi (Holy Basil)
Bronze fennel
Catmint (Nepeta mussini)
Catnip
Chamomile
Chives Garlic
Cilantro
Cutting Celery
Dill Fernleaf
Dill Superdukat
feverfew
Lemon Balm
Lovage
Oregano
Parsley Forest Green Curly
Parsley Italian Survivor
Sage Pinapple
Salad Burnett
Scarlet Bee balm
Summer Savory
Sweet Marjoram
Thyme English Winter
Thyme Garden  ( Winter)
Thyme White Creeping
​Thyme red creeping
Valerian
Winter Savory
Zino Fino Fennel
Horse Radish
Jerusalem Artichoke
Lavender Elegance Purple
Lavender Hidcote Blue
Lavender Munstead
Lavender Provence
Lovage
Lemon Grass
Sage Salvia Officinalis
Salad Burnett
Variegated pineapple mint

Perennial Flowers

Asclepias Tuberosa
Penstamon Digitalis
Geranium “Karmina”
Geranium Maculatum
Echinacae “Sombrero Flamenco Orange”
Echinacae “Cheyanne Spirit”
Baptisia “Carolina Moonlight”
Aster Divertata “Eastern Star”
Verbena “Homestead Purple”
Agastache “Blue Fortune”
Seedum “Aurumn Fire”
Coreopsis “Sunkiss”
Rudebekia “Prairie Sun”
Yarrow
Joe Pye Weed “Big Joe”
Beardstongue “Rondo”
Columbine “Origami Bue”
Echinope Ritro

Flowers

Ageratum Red Flint​
Ageratum Tall Blue Planet
Alyssum purple/ lavender mix
Alyssum Snow Crystals
Angelonia Angelface Blue
Angelonia Angelface Perfectly pink
Angelonia Angelface Wedgewood Blue
Angelonia Super Blue
Angelonia Super Pink
Begonia Dragon Wing Red
Begonia Bossa nova Orange
Begonia Solenia Red
Browalia endless sensation
Calibrachoa superbells Blue Moon Punch
Calibrachoa superbells Double Orchid
Calibrachoa superbells Double Ruby
California poppy champagne and roses
California Poppy Thai Silk series Apricot Chiffon
California poppy double solar flare
California poppy orange king
Celosia Cramer series burgundy
Celosia Flamingo Feather
Celosia Fresh look gold series
Coleus Big Red Judy
Coleus Gnash Rambler
Cosmos Bright lights
Cosmos Double click mix
Cosmos psyche mix
Cosmos Sea shells
Cosmos Sensation Mix
Cosmos Diablo
Dianthus Ideal Select Cherry Picotee
Dianthus Ideal Mix
Gomphrena Globosa QIS White
Lantana Bandana Cherry Sunrise
Lantana Luscious pinkberry blend
Lantana Bananarama
Lantana Lucious berry blend
Lantana Lucious citrus blend
Lobelia Riviera Rose
Marigold Giant Yellow
Marigold Snowball Hybrid
Mariold Giant Orange
Nasturtium Empress of India
Nasturtium Kaleidescope Mix
Nasturtium Wbird Cherry Rose
Nasturtium Wbird Golden Yellow
Nasturtium Wbird Mahogany Red
Portulaca sundial Fuchsia
Portulaca sundial Gold
Portulaca sundial Mango
Portulaca sundial Peppermint
Portulaca sundial scarlet
Salvia Coral Nymph
Salvia homium rose
Salvia Victoria White
Sunflower Autumn Beauty
Sunflower Pro Cut Orange
Sunflower Sunrich gold
Sunflower Firecracker
Sunflower Florenza
Sunflower Soraya
Sunpatients vigorous majenta
Sunpatients vigorous orange
sunpatients vigorous white improved
supertunia bordeax
Supertunia rasberry blast
Supertunia royal Magenta
Supertunia Vista Bubblegum
Supertunia Vista Silverberry
Supertunia Picasso in pink
Verbena superbena Royal Chambray
Verbena superbena Royal Peachie Keen
Verbena superbena Tucana Raspberry
Verbena superbena royal whitecap
Vine MG Cardinal climber
Vine MG Heavenly Blue
Vine MG Moonflower
Vine MG President Tyler
Zinnia BG Purple
Zinnia BG Orange
Zinnia Dreamland mix
Zinnia Profusion double Fire
Zinnia Profusion White
Zinnia Profusion Yellow
Zinia Profusion Apricot
Zinnia State fair mix