Breaking news: Seas too rough for Holland America Zuiderdam port of call today.

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Update and thanks from  Jeanne Hennessey Assistant to Sheree Zizik, Beauport Hotel, Beauport Princess Cruiselines, Cruiseport Gloucester, and Seaport Grille:

Good Morning, All!!

Unfortunately, we just received word from the Holland America MS Zuiderdam that they deem the seas too dangerous. They have cancelled their call to Gloucester. Thank you all again for all your wonderful work making the passengers of the Zuiderdam fall in love with Gloucester. I heard nothing but wonderful reviews of the city and how welcomed they felt.

Nichole’s Picks 10/1 + 10/2

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Pick #1: Salem Food Truck Festival

11:00-6:00 on both Saturday and Sunday

Get all of the facts HERE

The Salem Food Truck Festival is a two-day event being hosted in the Salem Common in historic downtown Salem, Ma. The event will feature 25 food trucks, live music and family fun. With a range from grilled cheese to whoopie pies, there is sure to be something for everyone! Save the date and save your appetites for one of the area’s biggest food truck events!

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Pick #2: Family Day at the Bird Banding Station at Joppa Flats, Newburyport

Read all about it HERE

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Sun, Oct 02, 2016 9:30 am – 11:30 am

Location:

Bird Banding Station, Plum Island

Instructors:

Ben Flemer – Banding Station Manager; Lynette Leka – Naturalist

Audience:

All (suitable for children 6 – 18 years)

Members:

Adult $8.00, Child $5.00

Nonmembers:

Adult $10.00, Child $6.00
Nonmembers can join today during checkout and take immediate advantage of member prices.

Come for an exciting visit to the Joppa Flats Bird Banding Station on the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. See Mass Audubon scientists capture, measure, weigh, examine, and release migrant songbirds. Learn about migration, habitat use, and scientific research at a real field station. The station operates only during the height of migration in spring (April and May) and fall (September and October). Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Instructions and Directions:

Meet at Joppa Flats Education Center. Bring binoculars and cameras. Please be prepared for the weather, and protect yourself against mosquitoes and ticks.Joppa Flats Cancellation Policy: Please notify us at least 24 hours prior to your program if you must cancel. If you cancel less than 24 hours ahead, we can only offer a refund or credit if we subsequently fill your space. We cannot transfer your payment to another registration with less than 24 hours’ notice.

Registration is required.
Register online or call 978-462-9998 to register by phone.
Register by mail: program registration form (PDF 66K)
For your own security, DO NOT send credit card information via email.

For more information, contact:

 

Pick #3: Vintage Baseball at Spencer Peirce Little Farm

Get the facts HERE

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Saturday, October 1, 11:00 a.m.

Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm, 5 Little’s Lane, Newbury, Mass.

Watch the four teams of the Essex Base Ball Association, the Newburyport Clamdiggers, Lynn Live Oaks, Lowell Base Ball Nine, and the Portsmouth Rockinghams, play baseball using 1860s rules.. At these fun, historically accurate games, players pitch underhand, a ball bounced once and caught is an out, and no gloves are allowed.

Snacks, baseballs, and cards are available for purchase. Grass field seating: bring blankets and lawn chairs, no reserved seating. Weather permitting, please call.

In partnership with Essex Base Ball Association andIpswich Ale Brewery.

Free to Historic New England members
$5 nonmembers

Please call 978-462-2634 or buy online.

As always for a more comprehensive list of family activities please visit our friends at North Shore Kid

Rockport Public Library: 2 bookbinding illustration journal workshops with Jeannie Hunt on Saturday

Posted on by Catherine

Rockport Public Library Cape Ann Reads programming:

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10AM Saturday October 1 Adult workshop

1:30PM Saturday October 1 Teen Workshop

Space is limited. Please call Rockport Library 978-546-6934 to register

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Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 9/29/16

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Welcome To Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board

Joey C ~

A place where non-profit Cape Ann organizations can post press releases directly and then those press releases will be reposted to http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com . This is not an advertising space for businesses, fitness or wellness organizations, or music listings.

The web address will be http://www.capeanncommunity.com

To have your community organization news posted here, contact Joey C who will grant access for you to post directly.

Domestic Violence Awareness Event 10/4

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Educator’s Open House at the Cape Ann Museum

September 27, 2016 ~ Cape Ann Museum

Calling all local educators!

Wednesday, October 5 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant St., Gloucester

As you sail into the new school year, come see what’s happening at the Cape Ann Museum!
Additional local educators will be on hand to discuss the collections and share ways of enriching your classroom.

Schedule:

4:00 – 5:00    Explore galleries and speak with museum staff and other local educators
5:00 – 5:30     History of Art on Cape Ann and Cape Ann Museum presentation
5:30 – 6:00    Wine and cheese reception

This event is free and open to all educators.

Please RSVP to Liza Browning: (978) 283-0455 x16 or lizabrowning@capeannmuseum.org

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Image: Fitz Henry Lane, Gloucester Harbor, 1852. Oil on canvas. Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass. Deposited by the City of Gloucester, 1952. Given to the City by Mrs. Julian James in memory of her grandfather Sidney Mason, 1913 (DEP. 200).

Tonno Restaurant Specials for the Week

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

More Cape Ann Dining News-
http://www.capeanneats.com

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Hello Everyone,
Here are this weeks specials for Tonno Restaurant, 2 Main St Gloucester.  (the Old Blackburn)

Also, Thanks to everyone that has stopped by this summer.  We are on to fall now, which is most every chefs favorite season.  If you have not checked us out or were waiting for the summer crowds to end then now is the time.  We have been getting better at what we do every day.

Blue Fin Tuna Belly with apples, lemon, extra virgin olive oil and fennel.
Chicken Liver Crostini with Marsala poached pears
Mushrooms with Polenta and Parmigiano
Chanterelle “la Plancha” with buratta
Cavatelli, Lobster, roasted squash and brown butter-sage
Short Cut Rigatoni with Tuna Genovese
Halibut, roasted baby rainbow carrots and spinach
Wine Special- Meomi Pinot Noir

Come check us out.

With Love,

TONNO

P.S.-All our Tuna is Local Caught Blue Fin when available…

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Artist Workshop Emerged on Main Street

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

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Kat Masella Ecaustic Artist and Teacher operates the Northeast Art Workshops and Retreats

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Seen here is Kim English an award wining American Plein-air painter see more at Tutt Art about Kim English.

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BREAKING NEWS: GHS KURT LICHTENWALD NAMED MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER OF THE YEAR BY MassTEC!

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The Gillnetter

Katelyn Moore, Staff Writer, Editor
September 28, 2016

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The Massachusetts Technology Education and Engineering Collaborative and its members have awarded Gloucester High School’s science and engineering teacher, Kurt Lichtenwald, with the 2016 “teacher of the year” award.

Along with his award, MassTEC deemed GHS’ STEM program, run by Lichtenwald, John Barry, and David Schneider, the 2016 “program of the year.”  STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Each year, MassTEC partners with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and chooses from schools across the state to recognize one program and teacher that excels in educating students about formal technology and engineering studies.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS LITTLE BLUE HERON ON CAPE ANN?

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REMINDER- LYDA KUTH EVENT THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE CAPE ANN MUSEUM

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Architect Eleanor Raymond: A Pioneer in the Field
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

The life and accomplishments of Eleanor Raymond (1887–1989), a pioneering woman in the field of architecture during the mid-20th century, will be the subject of a talk presented by documentary filmmaker Lyda Kuth. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art and Landscape Architecture for Women, Eleanor Raymond was a noted innovator partnering with solar energy researcher Dr. Maria Telkes to design one of the first successful solar-heated buildings in the Northeast. On Cape Ann, Raymond designed homes for artist Natalie Hays Hammond, anthropologist Carlton S. Coon and a summer cottage for herself overlooking Gloucester’s outer harbor. Lyda Kuth is an independent filmmaker and Executive Director of the LEF Foundation, which supports New England independent documentary filmmakers. She has been recognized by the Massachusetts Cultural Council with the prestigious Commonwealth Award and honored by Women in Film and Video New England with an Image Award.

Member cost is $10 per lecture / $25 for the series; Non-member cost is $15 per lecture / $40 for the series. Reservations are required. To purchase tickets or for more information please call (978)283-0455 x10 or email info@capeannmuseum.org.

Tickets can also be ordered online at Eventbrite.

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One Hour at a Time Gang

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

Hi kids:

Hope everyone is well. Last week great group started the cleanup.

When: Saturday October 1, 2016
Time: 8:00 – 9:00
Where: Dogtown, near the compost area

Please bring gloves.

Thanks kids

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Wednesdays at the Rhumb Line – 7pm with Fly Amero ~ This week’s special guest: Chick Marston 9.28.2016

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Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, September 28th – 7pm
Special Guest: CHICK MARSTON!

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I was about 13 years old when I first met Chicklet Marston.
Jonathan Pope picked up a gang of us and drove to his house
in Rockport to see if Chick wanted to buy his metal-flake blue
Fender Stratocaster. Chick, a well-schooled acoustic guitarist
with a Berklee Conservatory background, had never played an
electric guitar in his life. He had no idea what to do with the
thing, fumbling all over it – and I was left wondering what all
the fuss was about with this supposedly “great player”. Well…
couple weeks go by, him playing his vintage 1936 Martin 0018,
and I find myself going to music school BIGTIME, soaking up
all I could from this brilliant, classic American folk & blues
picker. His thumb was a perfect metronome on the bass
patterns. The music he played was simple and poignant.
He went on to introduce an entire world of music to me that
changed my life and helped build my character as a more
well-rounded musician. Staple Singers. Doc Watson. Jelly
Roll Morton. Mississippi John Hurt. Odetta. On and on and
on. Chick Marston will forever be my mentor and hero. Most
people around here, I think, just don’t know what they got.
This is no shit. ~ 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…
10/5 – Fozzie Hill

10/12 – Toni Ann

10/19 – Orville Giddings

Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward…..to seeing you there 🙂

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Look for this young man on the GHS gridiron, as a defensive back.  He worked hard at Cape Pond Ice all summer long.

If You Like Driving …

Posted on by Nichole S.

After leaving a hockey rink a few weeks ago (go figure) we saw this car driving by Gordon College.  We walked a fine line between tailgating to figure out what the heck it was…and staying back and never knowing.  Luckily, since I was not driving, we were able to snap some pics.

Turns out here.com is an app that you can download to find maps and driving directions, I guess.

Maps have always been at the heart of our mission. Only the maps we are creating today are very different from those we grew up with.

Powered by our leading location cloud and enriched with dynamic data, maps from HERE are becoming increasingly real time – capturing the changing world like never before.

We believe they will play a critical role in improving mobility for people and enterprises, making driving safer and more enjoyable, and reducing emissions.

Little known fact…I am a HUGE fan of Sunday driving.  I have always loved jumping in the car and touring Cape Ann.  When time allows, I always drive the long way.  And, whenever possible, I opt to avoid the highway.  Even now, I love the days that the boys and I aren’t in a rush to get home after school/work.  Nothing makes me happier than driving home through Beverly Farms, Manchester, Magnolia, Gloucester, around the back shore, and home to Rockport.

So, don’t think for a second, that I didn’t check to see how one goes about getting a job from here.com that allows you to simply drive around in your free time to record whatever it is one is recording to help gather information to make said maps.  They aren’t hiring in our hood right now.

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