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Visitors from New Hampshire
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A little different landscape this morning
The Holland America’s Zuiderdam is nestled on our horizon today for a visit.
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CAPE ANN VERNAL POND TEAM BENEFIT CONCERT AND AUCTION TONIGHT AT MILE MARKER w/ Update
Rick Roth writes,
We had a great time on Saturday at Maritime Gloucester. Our snakes were a big hit and we were pretty much mobbed all day. Thanks to our courageous volunteers: Kate, Diane and Jon Bevins, Nick Taormina, Marisa Neves, Colleen Anderson, Marion Healey, Keith Bertone, Wendy Antrim and Abby Cook. Snakes were relatively well-behaved except for Ludwik who pooped in Marisa’s shoe. Snakes today.
We got Charlie Farren and Satch Kerans to play at our benefit concert. We got sponsorships, we booked a great venue. We got a bunch of cool raffle/auction prizes. Colleen printed tickets. Cheryl made the event poster and we hung them up all over the place. We got a hold of the Gloucester Daily Times and we posted on Facebook. We are getting some airtime on 104.9 radio. But, we still need to fill the house to have a really successful fundraiser. Please get the word out however you can. Show up and bring your friends. We are most of the way there, but we need to bring this home.
Friday September 9, 2016 7-11:30pm
CAVPT Benefit Concert/Auction with Charlie Farren all acoustic show. He’s really a talented musician, fun and dynamic performer. Local musician, Satch Kerans will open the show. Rick Roth, from Littleton MA will be there with some of his cool critters. He’s the guy that was at our concert last year. And Gloucester Rick Roth (that’s me) will be there with some critters as well. There will be some auction/raffle action. This is going to be a great show.
Its also a benefit for CAVPT so we need all of you to come out and support us and bring your friends. I’m going to notice if you don’t show up, and I think you all know how I can torment people half to death for non-support of the Vernal Pond Team. Go to the Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team facebook page and check out the event poster. Then share it with all your friends. I’ll be watching.
We will also need lots of volunteers for this: ticket booth, auctio/raffle, critter management and more. Lots to do.
And… presale tickets are only $10. So get them on line at http://www.tinyurl.com/cavpt-26 or at Toad Hall Bookstore on Main Street in Rockport or The Get Outside Center, 186 Main St., Gloucester. $15 at the door.
In other news, speckled kingsnakes started hatching here yesterday. Watch out… they may make their social debut at the concert.
Oh… and I still need redback salamanders.
Images Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team website
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Challenger Hockey Takes to the Ice Again!
This is really such a fantastic program. Please spread the word to any families who you think may benefit from it. Challenger Hockey is a free program for children with developmental disabilities from ages 6-16. It is a wonderful way to introduce these children to adaptive ice hockey while also having a great time.
Please find the application online at the link below. Once there navigate down to the Challenger Program option.
http://capeannyouthhockey.com/Registration/Default.asp?n=32360&org=capeannyouthhockey.com
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FYI: Fisherman wearing Sou’wester and ready to climb in his dory
Jeff Horne writes-
Hi,
FYI: Fisherman wearing Sou’wester and ready to climb in his dory
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/tag/vintage-photos/
My beloved wife Marilyn grew up on a prairie farm in Milo, Alberta Canada, far away from England and the ocean. Her grandmother painted this picture, which seems heavily influenced by the coastal regions of England, perhaps Cornwall. When we married I was fascinated with the eyes that seemed to follow me around the room. My wife described how her sisters used to laugh about the eyes following them and giggling, like little girls do.
I was struck by the resemblance to the fisherman at your website. Who knew!
The picture is as precious as the Mona Lisa, to me
Jeff Horne ( Born in Burnley Circa. 1946)
mandobrit@shaw.ca
http://www.hornejs.shawwebspace.ca/
P.S. Norma. I’m going to get a high quality print made from the and frame it exactly the same, Then, when I return to your family I can still have the painting hanging on my wall. Great solution?
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SPAIN AND THE COSTA DEL SOL MARCH 6-14, 2017
SPAIN AND THE COSTA DEL SOL MARCH 6-14, 2017
FROM $2,599 AIR & LAND
9 DAYS, 7 NIGHTS INCLUDING HOTELS, MEALS,
DAY TRIPS AND AIRFARE FROM BOSTON
Information Session
October 5, 2017 from 5-7pm
The Gloucester House Restaurant
63 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01903
RSVP to: Jean Grobe
888-602-7622
Over forty-eight million vacationers visit Spain each year, making it one of the three most visited countries
in the world. To travel to Spain is to experience sun, superb food, hospitality, and “joie de vivre.” Yet, it is
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civilizations that once made it their home, or to journey through its singular and breathtaking countryside
and delight in the stunning, starkly contrasting scenery, study the customs of its peoples and towns, and
share in their local ?estas and traditions. To travel to Spain is to opt for diversity,
to be the central character in what is sure to be a truly unforgettable story.
This is what makes Spain such a prized destination worldwide and why the
vast majority of those who visit it once return in order to share in the
enjoyment of a climate, countryside and culture which embody a rather
special way of life.
For more details and reservations
contact: Jean Grobe at Connections
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Patriot Rob Ninkovitch at Cape Pond Ice
If you’re suspended from 4 games with the Patriots, what do you do in your sudden spare time? Chill in Gloucester with Plant Manager Larry Memhard at Cape Pond Ice Company, of course! Rob Ninkovitch joins the “Coolest Guys Around” club, thanks to Jamie Marshall.
Scott
Scott Memhard
Cape Pond Ice Company
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HERMINE’S GIFTS!
Tropical storm Hermine’s rain has breathed new life into Cape Ann’s drought depleted freshwater ponds and brackish marshes. Perhaps it was her winds that delivered a surprise visit from the Yellow-crowned Night Heron, a rarity for Massachusetts as we are at the tippy northern end of their breeding range. Towering waves accompanied by a tumbling undertow tossed from the deep sea gifts of nutrient rich seaweeds, mollusks, and tiny crustaceans, providing a feast for our feathered friends. See all that she brought!
Yellow Crowned Night Heron, juvenile
Muskrat! Eating tender shoots and going to and from his burrow, via refreshed canals along the wetland banks.
Wind and weather worn Red Admiral Butterfly, drinking salty rain water from the sand and warming its wings in the sun.
Sanderling breakfast
Immature Great Blue Heron, Two Snowy Egrets, and Great Egret (far right)
A multidue of minnows for the herons and egrets
The Wingaersheek Piping Plover family has not yet begun their southward migration. Here they are foraging in the bits of shells, tiny clams, and seaweed brought to the shoreline by Hermine and not usually found in this location.
Injured Cormorant and Gull finding refuge and food at the pond bank.
Seaweed Swathed Pebble Beach in the lifting fog
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HANDSOME TRANSOM
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From the Fitz Henry Lane
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Schooner Festival 2016
An unbelievably beautiful event this years race out in the ocean waters off Cape Ann. It was incredible to see these wonderful vessels sailing under such conditions with the swells and wind filling their sails.
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Crane on Main. Charles Fine Arts @196 Main Street now open. Downtown artist and artisan rental options.
Updates on Main Street:
The roof replacement is underway at the Gloucester police station. The crane is lifting supplies.
196 Main Street went from this
to this
Charles Fine Arts at 196 Main Street opens with ‘The Friends and Family Show’, a group exhibit displayed until September 24th, by appointment. Artists studios are available to rent. http://www.charlesfinearts.com
Artist and artisan studio and gallery spaces:
For over 25 years, artists have pooled together to rent gallery space at Local Colors 121 Main Street. Established in 1978, the gallery operates as a co-op, sharing resources and all operations and administrative duties. They are the staff so there is always an artist on hand! The monthly rent split among the invited artists is modest as Cape Ann Savings (109 Main Street) owns the building and is a stalwart community and arts supporter. The roster is full right now.
Gallery display of another sort is part of goodlinens plans for 130 Main Street and will be installed along the right wall as you enter (photo below was looking left). A curated small selection of artisans will be invited to rent on a monthly basis for a modest fee. Owner Jo Anne Chirico designed special matrices currently in stages of fabrication. Look for three artisans in focus by October.
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2nd Annual Gloucester Harvest Musical Festival September 17th 2016 11AM – 9PM 65 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA
Nadia Robertson
Henry Allen & the New Swingset
http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/15773235
Allen Estes
Back Eddy
Liz Frame and the Kickers
Zepparella
Danielia Cotton
8 shows in one day for twenty dollars!
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Artist bio click it > http://www.gloucesterharvestmusicfestival.com/#artistbio
Tickets click it > http://gimmelive.com/?c=80
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Evan Goodrow rocks the Dave Sag’s Blues Party tonight @ The Rhumb Line 8:30pm 9.8.2016
Thursday night let’s welcome back Mr. Evan Goodrow to the Rhumb line stage.It’s been a while since Evan has been here as he has been in recovery from a horrifying hair-conking accident. But, rest assured, he’s doing fine and just slavering to regale you with his high-energy antics. Always takes me a day or two to recover. Dave Moore provides mortar,and I play the trowel.
http://www.nimbitmusic.com/evangoodrow/
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
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Sand to City Workshop
Want to learn a new fun skill, sign up for the a workshop at Sand to City.
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Post storm Hermine 2016: see the sea of seaweed and mosses on Long Beach
During the last days of summer, the sands at Long Beach shift to form a ledge that we affectionately call the ‘August shelf’. The slant is a challenge walking or running and a ramp or jumping platform if the tide is right. Children engage in all manner of parapet building and collapsing. The ocean remains warm and the waves can seem bigger. These marks –annual gifts from nature– gently nudge us to fall. This year, as a result of tropical storm Hermine, there is a bonus shelf of seaweed brought in by majestic tumultuous waves. Don’t miss a fantastic chance to inspect species common to Gloucester, Cape Ann and the East Coast. Seagulls and clothing pop against a uniform blanket of red. From a distance, the deep color of the seaweed seems the natural inspiration for the architectural details of Cape Ann Motor Inn.
Look closely as there are so many species intertwined and clumped together teeming with texture and color! Be inspired to create: the Cape Ann Museum includes volumes of pressed seaweeds and mosses. Learn more: Isabel Natti did the algae plant drawings for The Sea is All About Us, a pioneer book on local marine life and shores by Sara Fraser Robbins and Clarice Yentsch. Visit Maritime Gloucester to learn about life at the shore. Garden: a friend collects some seaweed for her beds. Eat: I haven’t tried making my own seaweed salad but I have eyed Irish moss pudding recipes. Pudding anyone?
Irish Moss pudding: 1 cup (dead, rinsed, cleaned, possibly soaked) moss with a quart of milk in a double boiler for 15 – 30 minutes, strain out the moss. Add sugar to taste, and optional flavoring (citrus, coffee, vanilla, green tea, whatever you like). Pour into mold and refrigerate or blend a health drink. The consistency is thicker relative to time.
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Loren Doucette Art Popping up on Center Street
You can contact Loren at her:
Website: Loren Doucette Art
Email: lorenadoucette@gmail.com or call 978-879-6588 or visit her Pop-Up shop on 3 Center Street Gloucester MA
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Cape Ann TV on location at Neptune’s Harvest
Lisa Smith from Cape Ann TV sets up her camera in Neptune’s parking area, also known as the seagull dance floor.
Good Morning Gloucester 