
One of my favorite Boulevard images.
My View of Life on the Dock

One of my favorite Boulevard images.
How lucky are we toΒ take a walk and see such beauty.

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You’ve taken care of everyone else!! Isn’t it time you did something fun for yourself ? Ongoing adult Art Classes in a small group, drawing and watercolor painting for beginners. May and June, 6:00-8:00 pmΒ Β Β (6 week Workshop ) a demonstration at each class, with instructor Kathy Roberts at her studio in East Gloucester. Contact 978-853-7825 or email kathygroberts@yahoo.com for more details!
Three years ago (!) almost to the day, Deborah Cramer’s NY Times op edΒ , “Silent Seashores”Β was published and her horseshoe crab and Red Knot poetic missive βThe Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journeyβ advanced a global ecological message to the masses. “I hope I never walk beaches empty of sandpipers and plovers. But it is possible that may happen. In the case of some shorebirds, it is increasingly likely. This is why we must commit the money and muscle needed to give these birds safe harbor. If we do, we just might keep our shores teeming with shorebirds.”Β Β Deborah Cramer is aΒ Β visiting scholar at M.I.T., and resides in Gloucester.
The New York Times, published another mighty call to arms making use of today’s improved visual storytelling tools. “Shorebirds the world’s greatest travelers, face extinction” is breathtaking and devasting digitial photojournalism about shorebird extinction by John W. Fitzpatrick (Director Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology) and Nathan R. Senner (scientist University of Montana). Stuart A Thompson designed the superb interactive graphic element. The indeliable header pulses with a bird on a wire, a “common snipe” it’s captioned, peering, chest beating, and then a sickening struggle. The bird’s caught, and we’re its snipers. Do. Not. Look. Away.
While you’re checking out this NY Times must read on line, think about Gloucester, Deborah Cramer, and Kim Smith. How one person can and continues to make a difference.Β Among many other projects, Smith is leading the effort to protect piping plovers at Good Harbor Beach.Β Let’s support the laws in place to safeguard the natural world.Β No dogs year round may be easier to remember. Honor system, volunteers, and enforcement (without “teeth” and more funding) are not working. If compassion, art, rules, and legacy aren’t persuasive, there’s always the bottom line. Natural culture all about us is a strategic resource.

When I know that Seaport Grille is at the end of my long drive from New York, I feel as though I found that legendary pot of gold.Β Especially fond of the Seaport Coffee, which I may have mentioned in the past…….Β Anyhow, yesterday’s stop at Seaport Grille was improved immensely by the fact that my cousin and her girls were also there for dinner! It so happened that I was led to the next table and there was my cousin! Serendipity in action. I could have been seated elsewhere.Β She could have decided to go elsewhere. Instead, we were able to share a great meal. I am very happy to be back home.

GloucesterCast 278 With Heidi Dallin, John Hillner, and Wendy Waring, Kimberly Voltero, Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 4/27/18
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Free Tickets To Cape Ann Community CinemaΒ β 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 youΒ can click here to go directly to the website
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Plug In Cape Ann ToursΒ With Kimberley Voltero
Plovers In The Parking Lot Does not Bode Well. No Bueno.
Madame DefargeΒ Opens May 11th At Gloucester StageΒ John Hillner, and Wendy Waring To Purchase Tickets
The Studio Half Off Is Happening!
Coffee Cup Plug From Cape Ann Coffees
Gloucester Pride Stride This Sunday!
Paul StGermain Becoming A Member Of The Thacher Island Assoc, Book:Β Lighthouses and Life Saving Stations On Cape Ann

Check Out This Article About The Wine Trap–
If there are two things that I love dearly in this world, it is lobster and wine. And when both are elegantly intertwined (Quite literally), art is born. Enza Iacono of Gloucester, MA found a way to achieve this sustainable brilliance, and her creations are both aesthetically pleasing as well as fun and functional.
Lobster Trap Gifts was born in 2016, and originally began as a hobby. The only daughter, and youngest of of six children, Enza grew up in a commercial fishing family, dating back to the 1900βs. She has fond memories of awaiting dockside, the return of all five brothers as well as her father, from their various voyages at sea. And although Enza never became a fisherwoman herself, she has found another way to exercise her own unique hand at the trade β Her own expression of a sincere love and passion for the ocean.
And we have whiskey to thank for the ingenuity behind Lobster Trap Gifts, an idea that began from Enzaβs husbandβs desire for a shelf to display his collection. The shelf was constructed from lobster trap wire, supporting the whiskey and complete with door and closure β True to a genuine lobster trap.
For wholesale inquiries:
Enza Iacono
P.O. box 207
Gloucester, MA 01930
OR
info@lobstertrapgifts.com
No one paid attention to our signs that we added to the nesting area yesterday. My friend Deborah CramerΒ stopped by to see the PiPl and watched half a dozen dogs running through and playing in the nesting area. When I returned to the beach at 6:30, the PiPl were in the parking lot, again driven out of the nesting area by off leash dogs. Very frightening when an SUV drove past and they didn’t budge.
While the PiPL were in the parking lot, I thought would be good time to reinforce the signs with duct tape. When at the nesting area adjusting signs, there were more dogs owners allowing dogs to run through and completely ignoring the signs.
Reading the federal regulations from the USFWS:
“Pets should be leashed and under control of their owners at all times from April 1 to August 31 on beaches where piping plovers are present or have traditionally nested. Pets should beΒ prohibited on these beaches from April 1 through August 31 if, based on observations and experience, pet owners fail to keep pets leashed and under control.”
All the signs in the world won’t make people who don’t care, care.
Tomorrow, especially at high tide, and as the skies are clearing, I am afraid will be another terrible situation for the PiPl. If you would like to lend a hand, please email me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com or just come. I will be there for the better part of the day and will show you what to do. High tide tomorrow is at 10:54 am. Thank you!
Congratulations to Iain Kerr and Ocean Alliance!Iain writes,
“On Monday April 30th 10:00 pm East Coast time our 2017 Sea of Cortez, Parley SnotBot field season will be featured in the National Geographic channel show. One Strange Rock.
I think that our presence in this show will be brief.
Yesterday we learnt that our Intel / Parley SnotBot production Below the Surface won a webby (this is like an Emmy but for web produced products).Β
Β Onwards Upwards.
PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN MILLER
Lyricora returns to the Annisquam Village Church
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The Snipe Eel has been taken in deep water at many stations off the east coast of North America between latitudes 31Β° and 42Β°N., longitudes 65Β° and 75Β°W.Β Capture near Bermuda of a snipe eel clinging by its jaws to the tail of a large red snapper has suggested that such may be a regular habit of this curious species.Β Maximum length about 3 feet.
One specimen taken from the stomach of a codfish caught on Georges Bank in 45 fathoms is the only Gulf of Maine record, but several have been taken in depths of from 300 to 2,000 fathoms on the seaward slope of the bank.
From Fishes of the Gulf of Maine by Bigelow and Schroeder (1953) online courtesy of MBL/WHOIΒ http://www.gma.org/fogm/Nemichthys_scolopaceus.htm
Al Bezanson

Just received another email from NOAA.Β Β Very exciting
Thank you so much Donna, we really appreciate it!Β We directed an aerial survey over that location today based on your report and we found seven right whales in that vicinity, all of which we were able to photo document for research purposes.
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Thanks again!
Yesterday I received a survey email from NOAA asking about the whale that I saw off of Shore Road and Rafe’s Chasm.Β They saw the information of Good Morning Gloucester.Β Sent NOAA the grainy photos, wish they were better but with the rain and wind it was not easy to get a decent photo.Β Also sent them the times of the sightings.Β Today I received the email below.Β We are lucky to have Ocean Alliance right here in Gloucester and Iain Kerr came over.Β https://www.whale.org/
Mariners are urged to use caution and proceed at safe speeds in areas used by right whales. Federal law prohibits operating vessels 65 feet or greater in excess of 10 knots in certain areas and times along the US east coast. Approaching right whales closer than 500 yards is a violation of federal and state law.
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVE DMA ZONES AND SHIP STRIKE REDUCTION
REGULATIONS VISIT:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/shipstrike
DETAILS OF SIGHTINGS CAN BE VIEWED AT:
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/psb/surveys/
DETAILS OF ACOUSTIC DETECTIONS FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY:
http://www.listenforwhales.org/
***NEW NUMBER TO REPORT RIGHT WHALE SIGHTINGS IS 866.755.NOAA***
Right Whale Sighting Advisory System
NOAA Fisheries
ne.rw.survey@noaa.gov
866.755.NOAA
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Our friend Charles Neville is gone. He was a generous spirit who shared his soul and his tremendous wisdom with everyone he knew. Vickie and I were blessed to know him for just over 10 years, and in that short time we felt the warmth of his heart, the power of his music and the brilliance of his infectious smile transform every audience who had the great pleasure of being in the house while he was on stage. We are deeply grateful toΒ Henri SmithΒ for bringing Charles to Gloucester and Beverly and introducing him to us. Here’s a taste of what it was like to be in his presence — filmed at Celebrate GloucesterΒ in 2010 andΒ at the Larcom in Beverly in 2013.
The Cape Ann License Plate will be a Stage Fort Park for Pride Stride giving you an opportunity to show your love for Cape Ann in two ways. Order a plate and you get $15 from Cape Ann Community Foundation for the Non-profit of your choice. So come out and walk and drive for the Love of Cape Ann.


Cape Ann.

Feather & Wedge invites you to join them Sunday, April 29, 10:30 to 2:30 for a Jazz Brunch featuring jazz guitarist Harry Wagg Β Harry will be performing a variety of traditional jazz, contemporary classics and original tunes, all arranged for solo guitar.Β Reservations suggested! 978.999.5917
