Happy Mother’s Day to all the women who make our lives more beautiful with their love and kindness each and every day. The wish is for today but the love is for always. Rock On Moms!
YOU DIDN’T THINK I’D ACTUALLY WANT TO LIVE IN THAT DUMP DID YOU?
YOU DIDN’T THINK I’D ACTUALLY WANT TO LIVE IN THAT DUMP DID YOU?
Dad Piping Plover spends considerable time showing Mom how good he is at nest-building.
Mom nonchalantly makes her way over to the nest scrape.
She thoroughly inspects the potential nest.
Dad again rearranges the sand. Mom pipes in, “Honey, I think I’d prefer that mound of dried seaweed over there, nearer the blades of seagrass. And can you please add a few seashells to the next one, rather than bits of old kelp.”
Rejected!
Here we go again!
Five Piping Plovers have been observed at Good Harbor Beach. They are battling over territory and beginning to pair up. The male builds perhaps a dozen nests scrapes in a single day–all in hopes of impressing the female. Hopefully, within the next week, they will establish a nest; the earlier in the season Plovers begin nesting, the greater the chance of survival for the chicks.
Dave Rimmer from Essex County Greenbelt reports that although many nest scrapes have been seen, no nests with an egg on any of Gloucester’s beaches have yet been discovered. He suggests that perhaps the cooler than usual spring temperatures are slowing progress.
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Not one, but two, potential nesting sites have been roped off for the Piping Plovers. The second site is near the Good Harbor Beach Inn.
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C.B. Fisk
When C.B. Fisk has their open house, Rick and I always try to go. As many times as we have been there, we always learn something new. Thank you C.B. Fisk and FOB Greg Bover for opening your wonderful shop.
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Tree down on Linden ave
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This Week in the Arts
Cape Ann Museum Annual Meeting
Tuesday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m.
The Cape Ann Museum spent the year 2016 connecting with its audiences through engaging programming, exciting special exhibitions and community collaborations. The Museum welcomes the public, members and friends to join us in celebration of the accomplishments of 2016!
At 7:00 p.m., author Peter Anastas will present Paper Trail Redux: A Stroll through the Archives of the Cape Ann Museum. Anastas will reflect on the experience of cataloging his own papers in the Museum Archives and will share stories about local writers, including Barbara Erkkila, Joe Garland and Vincent Ferrini, who have each donated their papers to the Museum Archives.
The presentation will be followed by brief reports on activities of the past year and an invitation for Museum members to elect a new slate of officers to the Board.
Refreshments will be served. This program is free and open to the public.
Stevens Brosnihan awarded Goetemann Residency
Opening talk, Wednesday May 17, 2017 7:00 PM z
at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street
Closing talk, Wednesday June 14, 2017 7:00 PM
at the Goetemann Residency Studio, Madfish Wharf, end of Rocky Neck Ave
The committee of the Goetemann Artist Residency, a program of the Rocky Neck Art Colony, is pleased to announce the selection of Stevens Brosnihan as the first resident of the 2017 season. Each year a Gloucester area artist is invited to spend a month at the Goetemann residency studio on Rocky Neck. Brosnihan was selected as a Goetemann Resident and Gloucester Invitational Artist of the year and receives the use of the residency’s live/work studio on the Madfish Wharf on Rocky Neck from mid May to mid June this year.
Brosnihan, a Gloucester resident, received a BFA from New Mexico State University and an MFA in painting and drawing fro the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is also known as a photographer. He describes his artistic life and practice as follows; “Life on our urban farm is a tangle of processes and outcomes, accidents and events, projects, festering mounds, islands of chaos, moments of ecstatic beauty and tireless tedium. Within this domestic framework and within my community, I create art, write, debate, ponder and collaborate. Some works punctuate ideas, others diffuse into the patterns of daily doings. Projects are sometimes fleeting or ongoing eventualities. The dust seldom settles and when it does we use it to write our stories.”
The public will have the opportunity to hear about his life as an artist at a talk at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street at the beginning of his residency on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 7:00 PM. The public is also invited to share Brosnihan’s residency experience at the end of his stay at an informal gathering at the residency studio on the Madfish Wharf at the end of Rocky Neck on Wednesday June 14, 2017, at 7:00 PM. Both events are free to all.
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Pole’s Hill
On Saturday, The One Hour at a Time Gang, cleaned and picked up on Pole’s Hill. What a beautiful spot. Here a couple of photos of the view from up there. Even though it was cloudy so pretty.
For more information please follow the following link.
http://www.ecga.org/explore_our_properties/view_property/1082-robinson_reservation-poles_hill
One of the views from the top
View of O’Maley from Pole’s Hill
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Gloucester Smiles-629 Happy Mother’s Day
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Visitor from Upstate New York
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Gloucester Smiles-607 In the Garden
Devoted Dogs Elle and Emma
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On The Lucy Brown Davis Pathway
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SEASIDE SUSTAINABILITY AWARDED EXCELLENCE IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Congratulations to Eric Magers, so well deserved!! Seaside Sustainability was given the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs 2017 Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education.
Learn more about Seaside Sustainability’s programs here.
And recent GMG podcast with Eric here.
Photo, left to right:
Mathew Beaton – Secretary of Energy and Environmental Education
Eric Magers – Executive Director
Kris Scopinich – Director of Education Mass Audubon
Don Siriani – Legislative and Communications Director Commonwealth of MA
State Officials Recognize 33 Programs for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education
From the office of Energy and Environmental Affairs:
BOSTON – At a State House ceremony, Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Matthew Beaton today honored 33 energy and environmental education programs at Massachusetts schools and nonprofits as part of the 23rd Annual Secretary’s Awards for Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education.
“Hands-on energy and environmental educational programs improve students’ problem-solving skills and create lifelong passions for science and the environment,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “Our administration is proud to recognize the students, teachers and nonprofits raising awareness and coming up with creative solutions to our pressing energy and environmental issues.”
“These educators are engaging students in real-world environmental and energy issues and bringing topics they learn in the classroom to life,” said Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. “The programs recognized today are developing students who will make a positive and lasting impact on their communities, schools and the environment.”
Winners competed for $5,000 in awards, funded by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust with the intention to fund further environmental education initiatives at the schools. EEA solicited Excellence in Energy and Environmental Education Award nominations in early 2017. Schools and organizations that voluntarily incorporate environmental education into public or private school curricula are given priority.
“The outstanding educational programs honored today immerse students in important issues like energy, recycling and wildlife conservation,” said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Beaton. “It is more important than ever that we teach the next generation the importance of preserving and protecting our natural resources.”
The project applications were scored by the Secretary’s Advisory Group on Energy and Environmental Education, a group of environmental educators from state agencies, non-profits, industry and academia.
“Not only are these schools teaching students important lessons about protecting the environment, they are also providing them with valuable knowledge and skills in STEM subjects that could spark their future career choices,” said Education Secretary James Peyser.
SEE ALL RECEIPIENTS AND READ MORE HERE Continue reading “SEASIDE SUSTAINABILITY AWARDED EXCELLENCE IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION”
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Happy Mothers Day To Our Constant Never Failing Always There For Us Mother Pat Ciaramitaro
Thank You For Everything Mom. When they write sappy Mother’s Day cards to sell in stores you’d never think that there could be a woman that could live up to those impossibly high standards. But there you are, every day doing what you do, being the very definition of the mother that does everything and gives everything for her family. Always, without fail, you come through.
You are amazing.
I love you with all my heart
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Plenty Of Seats Inside At The Lobster Pool For Mothers Day
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Visitors from Rockport
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BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL NEWLY BUILT C.B. FISK PIPE ORGAN OPEN HOUSE
Today’s grand open house for two new C. B. Fisk pipe organs was a joyful event, crowded with well-wishers, fans, friends, and musicians. Opus 148 will be installed at Christ Church, Cincinnati, and Opus 150 at Benjamin Franklin’s Christ Church in Philadelphia.
Listen to the music!
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What a treat to hear Opus 148 played by Nami and violinist Harold Byers.
Morgan Faulds Pike and David Pike, C. B. Fisk Senior Vice President and Tonal Director
Nami Hamada, organist and organ builder, and Harold Byers, former violinist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Chair of the Music Committee at Christ Church.
Greg Bover speaking about Opus 148
Thibaut Lenfant and Rick Isaacs
Sarah Tuvim helped restore the exterior case of Opus 150
Morgan’s brother, Tom Faulds, and friend Carole Crowther
Scale model of Opus 148. Morgan Faulds Pike, sculptress of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Memorial, carved the oak angels and panels for Opus 148. See more here.
Angels for Opus 148
Opus 150 and scale model
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Searching for treasures at low tide
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Musician Carlos Menezes- one of world’s greatest middle school band teachers!
O’Maley bands and choruses killing it. Great job Gloucester!
And no wonder. Listen to this teacher and share: Carlos Menezes delivers an awesome introduction inspired by his students and the extraordinary Charles Allan Winter WPA-era mural at City Hall.
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Packed and happy house
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Amazing organ
CB Fisk
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Alicia Unleashed- EPICsode 60
Taped 5/12/2017 with Sam, Rachel, B-Side and Hostess Alicia Cox
We went back! BACK TO THE 90’S!
We revisit all things 90’s right off the bat with O’Maley School’s “ShamRock” which was the OG Lip Sync Battle (it was a competition). B destorys her yearbooks.
Whatever happened to the Steve Kercher Band? Where are they now? Who has that music video vhs?
Hot Plate: The Vape Store is gone. Now it’s a nail salon!
HAPPY Nurse’s Appreciation Week! National Teacher’s Day! National Military Spouse Day!
Dating Dictionary: B explains the 2 new terms “Haunting” and “Situationship” we even talk about a man of Alicia’s Summer past (sorry Mr. E).
What generation are we? We have determined we are the “Oregon Trail Generation”. We are not MILLENNIALS! We need to find STARTAH JACKETS ASAP! We also need to find some Watermelon Color Z Cavaricci.
We still haven’t learned our lessons. Bridget and Sam invented podcasts, we’re convinced.
We play “Would your rather?”, we talk our Top Hearthrobs of yesteryear, Favorite teen books, pen pals, our “first time” on the information super highway.
We touch base on some of the BIGGEST 90’s news stories (briefly). Also we celebrate the 20th birthday of so many of our favorite songs!
Opening song: Mark Morrison-Return of the Mack
Closing Song: Semisonic-Closing Time
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1/2 Price At The Studio Being Extended Again For Tonight!
Good Morning Gloucester 