Nichole’s Picks 9/24 + 9/25
So this weekend is a cinch. Thanks to the abundance of Trails and Sails Events, I didn’t have to do any work at all! I started to try to pick my three favorite events…but then I had four. And then five… and so on.
Below you will see many of the Trails and Sails Listing, but before you check those out, also remember that this Saturday is the once per year SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM DAY LIVE!
Thirteen Boston area museums are included…as well as our own Cape Ann Museum! Other great destinations such as Battleship Cove in Fall River and the Ecotarium in Worcester are also included. Check out all participating Massachusetts museums HERE. Maybe check out southern NH as well.
“The Museum Day Live! ticket provides free admission for two people. Museum Day Live! is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket.”
Here is the entire listing for the “East Region” Trails and Sails Events. To see other regions as well follow this link
Arts Fest
Hosted by Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Read on for more info and directions
September 24, 2016, 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM(Open Doors)Historic Essex Walking Tour
Hosted by Town of Essex
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September 16, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)September 17, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)September 18, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)September 23, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)September 24, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)September 25, 2016, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM(Open Doors)Kayaking the Essex River Basin
Hosted by Essex River Basin Adventures (ERBA)
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September 25, 2016, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PMNarrated Sightseeing Cruise
Hosted by Essex River Cruises & Charters
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September 17, 2016, 8:30 AM to 10:00 AMClimb Up City Hall Tower
Hosted by Gloucester City Hall Restoration Commission
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September 24, 2016, 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM(Open Doors)September 25, 2016, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM(Open Doors)Gloucester’s HarborWalk: Select one of three walking tours
Hosted by Gloucester HarborWalk
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September 16, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 17, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 18, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 23, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 24, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 25, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)Historic Art Trail Walk
Hosted by Rocky Neck Art Colony
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September 18, 2016, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PMHistoric Ice House Tours
Hosted by Cape Pond Ice Company
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September 16, 2016, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PMSeptember 17, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PMSeptember 17, 2016, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PMSeptember 18, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PMSeptember 23, 2016, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PMSeptember 24, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PMSeptember 24, 2016, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PMSeptember 25, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PMIt’s Not a Weed: Food, Medicine and Magic of Wild Plants
Hosted by Magnolia Library & Community Center & Iris Weaver
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September 24, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PMOcean Views Walk from Ravenswood to Rafe’s Chasm
Hosted by Cape Ann Trail Stewards
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September 24, 2016, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PMStep on FISH NET: Gloucester’s Award-winning 300ft Street Art Mural
Hosted by Gloucester Committee for the Arts
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September 16, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 17, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 18, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 23, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 24, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)September 25, 2016, 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM(Open Doors)Talking Walls of Gloucester
Hosted by Gloucester Committee for the Arts
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September 24, 2016, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMSeptember 25, 2016, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMThe Evolution of Architecture in Gloucester
Hosted by Cape Ann Museum
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September 23, 2016, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AMSeptember 24, 2016, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AMTour of The Babson Boulders In Dogtown
Hosted by
Read on for more info and directions
September 17, 2016, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PMSeptember 25, 2016, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PMManchester Walking Tour
Hosted by Manchester Historical Museum
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September 17, 2016, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AMHistoric And Cultural Rockport
Hosted by Rockport Cultural District
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September 18, 2016, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PMSeptember 25, 2016, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PMROCKPORTQuarry Tour
Hosted by Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation
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September 17, 2016, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
As always, for a comprehensive list of family activities, please visit our friends at North Shore Kid
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Thank Goodness We Still Have The Tommy O Designed Outriggers For Captain Mike Tupper
Gotta Keep The Patients Upright In Rough Seas!
Above the latest patient- Mike Tupper back on An Even Keel Thanks To Tommy O’s Engineered Personal Outriggers.
Tommy O displays the prototype built back in 2013 for a vertigo addled Pete Mondello-
and here’s a happy Pete ready to go fishing-
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Gloucester Seniors bring home the Olympic Gold!
Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you know that the GLOUCESTER PACE SITE WON THE OLYMPIC GOLD last Thursday at the PACE Olympics! We are hoping to get some coverage for this huge accomplishment in Good Morning Gloucester and hopefully a picture!
I know you were unable to attend Element Care PACE Olympics on Thursday, 9/15 so I’m sending along a few photos of Gloucester residents who participated in the PACE Olympics and a write up below in case you are interested in covering it as a news or sports story. The attached photo’s include:
- Trophy shots of the Emerson team including some with Bob Wakefield, Element Care CEO
- Paul Scola, a Vietnam Vet who said “I love PACE. It takes care of all my needs. I’d recommend it to other vets.”
- Our Albanian seniors said “We love PACE and the Olympics which take us back to when we were young.”
Element Care PACE Olympics Write Up
Eleven Gloucester residents haven’t given up on their Olympic dreams and they are all over 55 years of age! In fact, they participated in the 5th annual Element Care PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) Olympics on Thursday, September 15th, 10am – 1:30 pm. and won Olympic Gold, bringing home the trophy to Gloucester! (Note: Element Care’s headquarters are in Lynn at 37 Friend Street)
The Gloucester Olympians include 7 over age 70, 2 over age 80, a 68 year old Vietnam veteran and members a local Albanian community who competed on one of seven teams representing Element Care PACE centers on the North Shore and Merrimack Valley. This year’s PACE Olympics consisted of four games: Bocce, Bean Bag Toss, Fast Ball Relay and a new event, A Healthy State of Mind, a three-part relay race consisting of a two-person puzzle competition, a cup and plate stacking challenge and a ping-pong sinker race. “We offer a wide variety of events so people of all ages and abilities can compete,” said Bruce Jankowitz, Element Care’s Director of Marketing.
The games are extremely competitive with participants practicing at least 2-3 times a week, some even daily leading up to the event. Each team was supported by cheerleaders decked out in their team colors with noisemakers, necklaces and pom poms. Just like the international Olympics games, the PACE Olympics offered a variety of games, multiple rounds of competition, intense training and athletes who come together to compete for the gold or in this case the PACE Olympic Trophy that was presented by Bob Wakefield, Element Care’s Executive Director to Element Care’s Emerson PACE center in Gloucester. The PACE Center at Buffum in Lynn won the trophy last year.
“The goal of Element Care’s PACE Olympics is to promote wellness and a healthy, active lifestyle for older adults so they can live in their homes and communities, safely and comfortably, for as long as they can, keeping their stays in hospitals and nursing homes as minimal as possible,” said Wakefield.
The PACE Olympics were held on Thursday, September 15th at Danvers Indoor Sports. PACE at Element Care in Gloucester is located at 29A Emerson Avenue (next to Pathways for Children)
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LAST NIGHT’S SUNSET WAS BANANAS!
(To use a favorite expression of Joey’s). As the fog was dissipating in the setting sun, whichever direction the camera was pointed, we were treated to a breathtaking view.
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Dance of the Snowy Egret
Snowy Egrets in the morning fog
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“Dance of the Snowy Egret” sounds poetic but in actuality, they were arguing over the best spot to fish.
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Waiting For A Good Shot
I don’t know if this intrepid photographer got what he wanted.This was Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before the fog turned pink (see Catherine’s post below). The combination of dense fog and sun certainly created a highly evocative, warm and mysterious atmosphere along the Boulevard.
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High Tide on the Annisquam
The fog was so thick in Magnolia on Tuesday could not even see the pier, went over to the Annisquam near Wingaersheek Beach and it was clear.
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Clock Strikes Ten will bring Gloucester three sets of classic Cheap Trick tunes this Friday, September 23rd at House of Mitch starting at 9pm.
If you love the hits, or you love the deep cuts, they’ve got ’em all! This is the first Gloucester show for Clock Strikes Ten which has been nominated as “Tribute Band of The Year” for six years running. Clock Strikes Ten features Gloucester local Tony Goddess (Papas Fritas, Jenny Dee & the Delinquents) on bass, Boston-based John Powhida (The Rudds, John Powhida International Airport) on lead vocals and guitar, John Brookhouse (The Dirty Truckers, Worshipper) on lead guitar, and Johnny “Rock” Lynch (The Neighborhoods, Watts) on drums. 9pm start.
WHAT: Clock Strikes Ten (Cheap Trick tribute band)
WHERE: House of Mitch (18 Rogers Street, Gloucester)
WHEN: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
TIME: 9:00-midnight
EXAMPLE: Clock Strikes Ten at Johnny D’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx78qyK-EdE)
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Saturday’s Clean Up
Hi kids:
We will be doing Dogtown on Saturday, I will be at the DPW Hazardous Waste Day.
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: Dogtown
When: Saturday, September 24,2016
Thanks all
Donna
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Wednesdays with Fly Amero ~ Bradley Royds is this week’s Special Guest @ The Rhumb Line. 7-10pm 9.21.2016
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, September 21st – 7pm
Special Guest: BRADLEY ROYDS!
photo by Louise
With his signature clear, pure voice, brilliant, witty lyric… and
overall boyish charm, Bradley Royds deligthts us once again.
Has he ever failed to do so? Well… no. I’ll be there, folks…
and I can’t wait! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
9/28 – Chick Marston
10/5 – Fozzie Hill
10/12 – Toni Ann
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
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evanescent pink fog
7pm from where I was standing at the cut bridge and Stacy Boulevard (Western Avenue), 9/20/16
The weather had me stop and the special had us stay. Not a bad vista waiting for our ‘two for Tuesday’ buy-one-get-one-free pizzas from Poseidon’s after a Magnolia soccer practice.
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The Lovely Inspection Ladies
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Visitors from Pennsylvania
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Gloucester Smiles-368
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On the road again…
Neil and I are headed out early today with another fun adventure to the Great North Woods of Maine! We will be spending the rest of the week in Baxter State Park with some photog friends hoping to see some change in foliage, some great views of Mt. Katahdin and maybe even a Moose or two! Here are some photos from our visit to the area a few years back.
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So cool! Sawyer children’s library is closing early because they’ll be on the road visiting the elementary schools for meet the teacher
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Pet of the Week- Ashes
I’m a Super Senior kitty with a super power that I think you’ll love…it’s the super power of “Lap Warmer”. I love to sit in your lap and sometimes I can even sway you to share a bit of the chicken from your plate with me! I do have a thyroid issue that requires medication and routine blood work so I am considered a ‘special needs’ adoption. Because I’m a senior cat, I’m looking for a quieter home with adults (no kids under 10 years). I know that I’m an older cat but I have a lot of love to give and I’d really like to spend the last chapter of my life in a loving and safe home. Can you see me fitting into your home? Then come meet me today! For more information on all of animals available at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter please visit our website: capeannanimalaid.org
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Little Bruins
Cape Ann Youth Hockey is happy to once again be promoting the “Little Bruins Learn to Play Hockey Program.” Only $100 affords your child four weeks off on-ice instruction, full CCM equipment, and a professional fitting. A fantastic opportunity!
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Ed Collard’s Idea of A Selfie
GMG on Vulture Peak AZ. For a good idea of my hike Google hiking vulture peak as.
Here’s a youtube video of Vulture’s Peak
Good Morning Gloucester 