GloucesterCast 269 With Pat Dalpiaz, Chris McCarthy, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/24/18

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GloucesterCast 269 With Pat Dalpiaz, Chris McCarthy, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/24/18

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Free Tickets To Cape Ann Community Cinema – Share this post on Facebook for a chance to win two free tickets to Cape Ann Community Cinema, The Cinema Listings are always stickied in the GMG Calendar at the top of the blog or you can click here to go directly to the website

Jazz Brunch Sunday At Feather and Wedge

Dinner At Tonno

Chris McCarthy High School Buddy Moved To Gloucester

Craig and Ted Reed Taped A Commercial For Foster’s Grill Store

A Mouse Ran Up Kim’s Dress- Have A Heart Trap

Soul Rebel Project Released It’s New Album Yesterday- To Buy It

Loving Our Airfryer- Baked Haddock Recipe Link To Purchase The Airfryer We Got Here

Kudos to Tallys for assistance with Pat’s car after one of the recent storms.

Follow up on podcasts we listen to: what’s on your iPod or iPhone besides GMG?  Serial Podcast, Dirty John

Pat and Jimmy are looking for some help moving furniture into our new place–maybe college kids looking for extra cash? Contact through FB message on GMG or podcast FB post??  It would probably be Easter weekend.

 

Niles Pond Causeway Restoration, Pebble Beach Restoration

Brant Geese

Theresa Coen Missing still

PLEASE DON’T POISON MY DINNER

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Several friends have asked whether or not I was freaked out by the mouse running up my dress and out my coat sleeve. No, I wasn’t. Surprised, but not panicked, and just happy the frightened little thing did not bite me.

We live in an old house and are occasionally visited by mice, despite my husband’s best efforts at sealing any cracks that may develop in the almost one hundred and seventy five-year-old mortar of the granite foundation. Our cat, Cosmos, before he suffered severe brain damage from a coyote attack, was the best mouser ever. Now that Cosmos has retired, Tom uses Have-a-Heart traps.

I have written about this topic previously, but never in a million years would we use a rodenticide. The first reason being is that if one of our beautiful raptors (including owls, hawks, falcons, and eagles), eats a rat or mouse that has ingested rat poison, the raptor will most surely perish. For example, the majority of Snowy Owls that die in our region and are autopsied, have been killed by rat poison. Secondly, most rats, after ingesting poison, will return to their nest ie., that cozy spot behind your wall. Working in theatre for many years, I encountered more than a few rats, as well as well meaning types who decided to kill rats with rodenticide. If you have ever smelled a dead rat laying behind an inaccessible theatre wall, you would never again use rat poison (and the odor lasts for weeks!).

RATS – Raptors Are The Solution

Beautiful Fish: Haddock -By Al Bezanson

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Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) drawn by H. L. Todd

“Haddock are very plentiful all around the open Gulf (of Maine), as well as on all the offshore banks, especially on Georges where they greatly out-number the cod. This is, in fact, one of the two species that now rank at the top among Gulf of Maine fishes, from the commercial standpoint; the rosefish (Acadian redfish) is the other.”

From Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) online courtesy of MBL/WHOI http://www.gma.org/fogm/Melanogrammus_aeglefinus.htm

 

Massachusetts landings declined from 130 million pounds in 1966 to 7.7 million pounds in 1973.  Landings in 2016 were 10.7 million pounds.

Cumulative 1950-2016 reported Massachusetts landings were 3,064,610,662 pounds with a value of $639,412,505  (NOAA)

Acadian redfish in the same period, 1,576,336,078 pounds valued at $128,657,587

The 2002 edition of Fishes of the Gulf of Maine reports that the growth rate of haddock increased within 30 to 40 years, since about 1960 when they were more abundant, reaching an average size of 48-50 cm in 3 years compared to 4 years.

BENEFIT FOR FRANK HAWKS on April 7th @ The Franco-American Club in Beverly, MA – Tickets $20 presale / $25 at the door. Five bands will be performing. Check out this flyer on how to get presale tickets. We can “will call” tickets to save them at the door for you. Please bring an I.D. to pick them up

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If you can not make it to this even and want to help go here > https://www.gofundme.com/frankhawksfund and thank you!

BEHIND THE SCENES- TED REED AD SHOOT FOR FOSTER’S GRILL STORE

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Just hanging around grabbing a few clips while the real film guys shoot an ad for Foster’s Grill Store. The Ted Reed TV with Craig Kimberley shooting production will be about a bazillion times more professional than my behind the scenes clip I threw together in 20 minutes.

Jazz Brunch at Feather & Wedge, Sunday March 25, Featuring Steve Lacey

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Feather & Wedge announces the return of NYC jazz guitarist, Steve Lacey this Sunday, March 25 from 10:30 to 2:30 PM. Steve will be playing songs from the American Songbook along with some originals. If you missed Steve’s first performance at Feather & Wedge, make sure you catch him this time around.

10:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Reservations suggested. 978.999.5917

Feather & Wedge, 5 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966

Steve Lacey

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Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900 A special exhibition opening this spring at the Cape Ann Museum On view March 31, 2018 – Sept. 9, 2018

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(Left to right) Logbook from the Schooner Lark, 1799, Cape Ann Museum; Daguerreotype of Abigail Trask and her friend, late 1840s, Manchester Historical Museum; Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1839, Sandy Bay Historical Society and Museums;  Certificate from teacher for Amanda Babson, January 1823, Cape Ann Museum.

In the first major exhibition to bring together historical and archival material from nine Cape Ann institutions, Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann Before 1900 illuminates the area’s wide-ranging stories from Native American life to the first European settlers in the 1640s, the temperance movement, African American history and civil rights, women’s history, the advent of railroad and mass transportation as well as work, literary, and cultural life during Cape Ann’s early years.

As the region prepares for the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement on Cape Ann in 2023, the Cape Ann Museum seeks to highlight significant historical materials from its own collection as well as…

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THE WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE THAT RAN UP MY DRESS -By Kim Smith

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Well hello there little mouse! My husband Tom was releasing a mouse that was caught in his have-a-heart trap. He first opened opened the front door of the trap, with no sign of movement within, and then the back door. After a few minutes passed, out ran the little mouse, but then he froze in his tracks, only several feet from where I was standing. As I was motionless taking his photo, I think he must have thought I was a tree. He suddenly ran up my leg, up under my dress, and poked his head out from beneath my coat. It’s too bad I was holding the camera and not my husband!

Thinking about hantavirus, and just to be on the safe side, I changed my clothes and washed immediately.

Off towards the woods he ran.

Studies show how the increasing Eastern Coyote population has impacted White-footed Mice, Red Fox, and the explosion of Lyme disease. In areas where the Eastern Coyote has outcompeted the Red Fox for habitat, Lyme disease has increased. Coyotes not only kill Red Fox, they simply aren’t as interested in eating mice as are the fox.

 

 

Answer: Both the White-footed and Deer Mouse carry hantavirus, not the House Mouse. To be on the  safe side, if you find rodent droppings in your home or office, do not vacuum because that will disperse the virus throughout the air. Instead, wipe up with a dampened paper towel and discard.

 

Read more about the White-footed Mouse and Lyme disease here: The Mighty White-footed Mouse

Surfs Up!

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Brrrrrrrrr–today’s early morning Gloucester surfers on the back shore–the water temperature is 40 degrees.

Beautiful Fish: Trumpetfish -By Al Bezanson

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The head occupies almost one-third and the snout about one-fourth of the body length.  The mouth is small, situated somewhat obliquely at the tip of the snout, and the lower jaw projects a little beyond the upper.

There are only two records of the trumpetfish from the Gulf of Maine: a specimen taken at Rockport, Mass. (north side of Cape Ann) in September 1865, preserved in the collection of the Essex Institute, where it was examined and identified by Goode and Bean[90] and a second taken on the northern edge of Georges Bank by the trawler Flying Cloud on October 6, 1947, in a haul at 70 fathoms.[91] Like other tropical fishes, however, it is not so rare west of Cape Cod, and a few small ones are taken at Woods Hole almost every year.

From fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) online courtesy of MBL/WHOI http://www.gma.org/fogm/Fistularia_tabacaria.htm

Boston Globe on #GloucesterMA Dogtown

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Dogtown has inspired artists working in all media. This photo shows some of the panels comprising the Dogtown Commons section of the Frederick L. Stoddard monumental “conventionalized treatment” (his favored descriptor) of Gloucester and the region — two story “mural fresco in situ, completed in 1934 for Saunders House, Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Public Library, under the auspices of the WPA. The city of Gloucester was awarded an impressive array of WPA-era pursuits- from creative expression in all media to civic construction projects.

Boston Globe article: A Plan to keep Dogtown wild and Free by Sarah Shemkus 

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THIS WEEK IN ROCKPORT

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Thursday, March 22 – Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

AROUND CAPE ANN

LOOKING AHEAD, SAVE THE DATE

Feather & Wedge Restaurant and Bar
  • Sunday, April 1: Easter Brunch & Dinner | For reservations please phone 978-999-5917 or visit their website
Shalin Liu Performance Center
  • Saturday, March 31: MET Opera in HD: Cosi fan tutte
  • Friday, April 6: Ann Hampton Callaway
  • Tuesday, April 10: Bolshoi Ballet in HD: Giselle
  • Wednesday, April 11: Landmark School benefit: Ingrid Michaelson
  • Thursday, April 12: VanKujik Quartet
  • Friday, April 13: Jesse Cook
  • Saturday, April 14: MET Opera in HD: Luisa Miller

EVENTS

Rockport Community Easter Egg Hunt
The Shaman Show
Motif No 1 Day
Third Annual Cape Ann Plein Air