Thanks to Paul and Betsey Horovitz for this photo taken during their Saturday sail. Not bad to be out sailing along the Annisquam River and Jones Creek on October 15th. I had fun playing with their great photo with my watercolor app.
Northern Lights Photo From Rob ackerman
Hi Joey,
My name is Rob Ackerman. My mom is Lisa Freed. I am a freshman at Endicott College studying elementary education. I love taking photos as well.
Last night October 13th, I went to old garden beach and took some photos of the northern lights. Thought you enjoy seeing them!
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Props to the Team For Great Weekend Coverage!
Rockport Harvest Festival, Magnolia Indoor Farmers Market, CycloCross, Cape Ann Plein Air. Nice work guys!
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Ohana/Ryan & Wood Dinner
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Ohana/Ryan & Wood Dinner
Sunday Nov 6th 5:30pm-8pm
151 Main St, Gloucester, MA 01930
Ohana is having a special 4 course dinner paired with cocktails made with products from our friends at Ryan & Wood www.ryanandwood.com
The evening will feature a talk by Bob Ryan on Ryan & Wood products, his business.and the craft distilling industry. Bob is a very informative and engaging speaker.
Please call for reservations – 978-283-3200
Four Course Dinner
November 6th, 5:30 pm
$45 Food
$80 Food & Drinks
Vegetarian or Dietary Restrictions can be accommodated
1st Course
Truffled Ricotta Cavatelli
shemije, spinach, pecorino butter, truffle shaving & fried poached egg
Lemon Drop Martini
Beauport Vodka or Knockabout Gin
2nd Course
Scallop & Shrimp
pumpkin puree, lemon gremolata verde, maple almond brussel
Amy’s Cosmopolitan or French 75
3rd Course
Duck Leg Confit
farro risotto, cranberry puree, roasted vanilla pear, citrus vin juan
Ginger Manhattan or Moscow Mule
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GloucesterCast 204 With Jim and Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 10/16/16
GloucesterCast 204 With Jim and Pat Dalpiaz, Kim Smith and Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 10/16/16
Topics Include:
Jim and Pat
Magnolia Farmers Market
Tall Ship Lynx and Liberty Star sister ship to the Liberty Clipper
GHS Football 2016 Coupons
Halibut Point and Topside Grill
Day Trip to NYC
Cape Ann Plein Air Gala at Rockport Art Association
Picked up my first redhead affectionately named “Ginger” by Kate
Fosters
Elise Jilson and Tucker Smith From Cedar Rock Gardens Harvest Party
Full Hunter Moon
Halloween
Daylight Savings Time November 6th
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Here’s The @WeberGrills O Code ’92 Redhead Kettle Restore Live Blog
10/16/16 The subject:
Condition: lots of rust on the legs/triangle. Missing ash sweeps rusted in ash sweep bolt. White paint dots on the faded lid. Usual cruddy bowl. Missing handle. Rusted/oxidized lid vent. Missing ash pan.
Tools:
4AM:
Tackle the bowl with dish soap/water razor scraper/steel wool/sponge/paper towels.
Next, what’s left of the old ash sweep system is rusted in place. Break out the oscillating tool and cut off the bottom nubs that went through and it broke free.
Now it’s time to clean the bottom of the bowl using the razor scraper/steel wool.
Having the legs removed start sanding them with 150 grit sandpaper using long strokes just as is advised in the Weber Kettle Club restoration guide, and then moving up to 250 and then finishing with steel wool and then polishing.
Legs and triangle before-
A finished leg on the left and an unfinished on the right-
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UNVEILING OF THE EAST GLOUCESTER QUILT!
Pete Kovner at the Cape Ann Museum exhibit
Monday, the 17th, at 2:00pm, Juni and her amazing quilt makers will be unveiling the East Gloucester Quilt, number fifteen, their last and final piece. The simple ceremony honoring those who helped in its creation will take place at the Rose Baker Senior Center. The public is welcome to attend. I am looking forward to the Big Reveal! 
Greasy Pole detail
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MAGICALLY WONDERFUL HARVEST PARTY AT CEDAR ROCK GARDENS
Elise, Samantha, Pam, Woody, and Franny
Snapshots from Elise and Tucker’s fabulous and fun harvest party, just getting underway. Where earlier the produce had been planted, long tables with tantalizing pot luck offerings were arranged. Bales of hay with planks laid across made for practical seating. An assortment of lights and lanterns illuminated the grounds and the big oak tree was ready for moonlight dancing to begin beneath its boughs. 
Favorite photo from the party, Big Sister Franny giving Woody the “pesky little brother look,” with Mom Samantha Goddess, and Samantha’s Mom, Pam Wood.
I had to leave Cedar Rock Gardens early to attend the Cape Ann Plein Air gala, which Catherine covered. Scroll down to see her photos posted earlier today. The Rockport Art Association was overflowing with art enthusiasts, friends, and family and it was so exciting to see beautiful scenes from all around Cape Ann rendered by these master painters. Congratulations to Karen Ristuben, the project manager, and to all who helped make Cape Ann Plein Air a fabulously successful event. I do have to say though that Cape Ann’s own JEFF WEAVER rocked the house with his stunning paintings of the waterfront and downtown.
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Walking Shore Road at dusk
Shore Road at Dusk
Almost full Moon
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FOB Pat and Jimmy
Look who came to visit at the Indoor Magnolia Library’s Farmers Market?
GMG Pat and Jimmy, by the way, love Jimmy’s GMG Jacket. Thanks for coming and happy to see you.
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Gloucester Smiles-393
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Visitors from Ohio
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Scenes from Cape Ann Plein Air Gala
Photographs from last night’s gala. The exhibition continues today from 10-5 and straight to Paint Essex from 4-8PM.
Jeff Weaver
Marjorie Hicks
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Sunday drive…
Got up a little early this morning and decided to take a little “Sunday drive” up to Vermont to check out the foliage. Got up at 4am and headed out on a solo journey with my camera. Stopped through Newburyport first to check out the massive moon but wasn’t low enough yet so I headed on up to Woodstock VT to Jenne Farm. Here’s a little phone grab…now I am onward to Route 100 to see what things are looking like!
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Young kids race at cycle cross
Stage fort park..
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When you need any parts for your @webergrills on the North Shore , what’s better than online shopping?
When you need any parts for your @webergrills on the North Shore , what’s better than online shopping? Going straight to Foster’s Grill Store where the pricing is the same or better and they have what you need at their fingertips.
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AT BURNHAM’S FIELD, WAY MORE THAN A SIGN BY JOHN MCELHENNY
GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES
By John McElhenny
October 13, 2016
Kids created it and a vandal destroyed it.
The Burnham’s Field Community Garden mural stood for three years, a 20-foot-wide sign painted with red, purple and blue flowers beneath a cloud-filled sky and a bright afternoon sun. Designed and painted by kids at Cape Ann Art Haven, the mural was a sign of the rebirth that had taken place at Burnham’s Field, the largest green space and playground in central Gloucester, right across Pleasant Street from St. Ann’s church.
Burnham’s Field in past years had become a rundown, graffiti-covered playground where drug use thrived. Families stayed away and parents were afraid to let their kids play there. That all changed when the field was renovated. Two new playgrounds were built. A new lighted paved path for joggers and little bike-riders circled the field. Basketball courts were resurfaced. Two community gardens sprang up. New backstops and benches were built for the softball fields. Trees and flowers were planted. And families and kids returned.
The new mural hung just inside the community garden in full view of the softball diamond where high school teams and adult softball leagues batted and threw. Elderly residents of Sheedy Park passed under the sign as they made their daily walks around the field. Neighbors looked out their windows and saw the new mural and sent their kids down to run on the grass and roller skate on the courts.
“We’re bringing Burnham’s back,” people said.
Then someone took a hammer or a rock and punched holes the size of watermelons through the purple flowers and cloud-filled sky.
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GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY BRACE COVE
Lovely and peaceful Brace Cove sunrise this morning
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Gloucester schools consolidation: public discussion update Monday at Veterans Elementary 6:30PM
The School Committee’s consolidation concept was approved for next steps. From the Gloucester Daily Times announcement for the next two meetings: “The plan calls for consolidating East Gloucester and Veterans Memorial schools into a new building, likely on a 43-acre site in Swinson’s Field and The Pines or — after more recent talks — on an extended site around the current East Gloucester School and extending down to East Main Street.”
EGS and Veterans Memorial Consolidation Public Forum: Monday October 17
Ward 1, @Veterans Elementary, 6:30PM
School Committee with City Council: Tuesday, October 18
O’Maley Innovation Library, 7pm, “Not a public hearing. Workshop to glean needed financial and other information for future school building plans. Discussion will include presentations on school needs and on city financial projections.”
Questions and comments swirled from the meeting at East Gloucester Elementary school. The Scaling Up conference brought to mind further points of discussion.
Some topics all sides: the budget; swing space; use existing footprints; build one at a time; build all at once; Swinson’s Field and The Pines; design; wildlife; waterways; traffic patterns (East Main after school gets out is “mightily backed up”); the possible historic designation of Rocky Neck; Gloucester’s Green Community designation; Get Fit walk to school movement; Tiny House Tiny Community; small schools increase property values; small schools and learning environments; Smartgrowth; Why So Big? Rethinking design concepts and sustainable community development; experience; big school will save money; big schools can feel small; the state is paying so much, but not for long; all kids deserve what West Parish students get; etc.
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Beach toys
Love the swan on the deck, kayaks and the small skiff at high tide. Ready for next summer.
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