Dijon Mustard Horseradish Marinated Grilled Salmon & Farm Fresh Corn With Lime Infused Couscous

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Check out today new recipe on my New Recipe Website!  http://www.sistafeliciaskitchen.com/ Click link below for recipe details!

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Top Dog AND Beer….Does it Get Any Better?

Posted on by Nichole S.

I took an early morning drive to snap a quick photo of the new seating area at the Top Dog on Bearskin Neck this morning.  While there I had a nice little chat with the owner.  He told me, after inquiring about Joey, that they have a new yellow awning coming to shade the area I had just photographed…and, oh, the small fact that they’ll soon be serving beer.

I’m sorry if you don’t share my enthusiasm, but come on!  A loaded dog or fried clams, cheese fries, AND an ice cold beer on “the Neck.”  Quintessential Summer!

Evidently, for now, they’ll be serving Sam Summer, Harpoon IPA, hopefully some Cape Ann Brewing Company beers, and Switchback from Vermont.

Good times.

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HomieCast 18 with Craig Kimberley, Rick Doucette, Eric Lorden, BJ Mohan, Alecia and Stan Mauer and Joey C Taped 7/11/16

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HomieCast 18 with Craig Kimberley, Rick Doucette, Eric Lorden, BJ Mohan, Alecia and Stan Mauer and Joey C Taped 7/11/16

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Topics Include:

HomieCast 18 Feast- Eric’s King Salmon, Pork Tenderloin and Raviolis From New Local Pasta Maker, Pastaio via Corta (see Craig’s video here)

Eric watering his tiered garden with rainwater barrels details.

Weber Kettle Club– Rescue-Restore-Respect

The Pimping Of Craig’s Grill Custom Handle & New Style Lid Bale He Got At Foster’s Grill Store On His Older Performer

Foster’s Grill Store Potential Local Weber BBQ Event With Joey’s www.northeastbbq.com

New England Revolution To South Boston?

Hanna’s Sweet Cornhole Present To Craig

Horribles Parade Recap and Why It’s Important To Support The Horrible’s Parade

Eric’s 50th Pirate Party Booze Cruise

The Mauers Arrive From Iowa

Jeep/Ski Mobile/Motorcycle/Boat

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Cape Ann Community Bulletin Board Listings For 7/12/16

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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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.

Thacher Island Association Annual Lighthouse Cruise

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This is the last call for reservations for the “Lighthouses of Cape Ann” tour around the Cape on Wednesday July 13 at 7pm departing from Captain Bill’s Whale Watch, 24 Harbor Loop,Gloucester. This three hour narrated cruise up the Annisquam River and around the Cape will pass all six lighthouses, including the Twin Lights of Thacher Island, before returning via Eastern Point to Gloucester Harbor. Tickets are $30.00 per person. Credit cards accepted .Call 617-599-2590 for reservations. All proceeds go toward the maintenance and restoration of both Thacher and Straitsmouth Island lights.

Thursday Night Chamber Auction

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Chamber Auction Thursday, July 14: A Celebration of Cape Ann!
Includes a Special FREE Auction Preview Event on Wendesday, July 13.
Register Here.

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The Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Auction celebrates its 29th run on Thursday, July 14 beginning at 5:00 PM at The Essex Room at Woodman’s, 125R Main Street, Essex. For added fun a FREE Auction Preview/Business After Hours, will also be held at The Essex Room, on Wednesday, July 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. This special Auction Preview evening will be a great opportunity to mingle with friends, preview this year’s Live Auction treasures and get an early start on Silent Auction bidding.

This Thursday’s main event will bring together bidders from across Cape Ann and the North Shore in hopes of going home with marquee auction items. Led by committee chair Tony Corrao, the auction committee’s preparations are humming along. Over $100,000 worth of donated items are already in hand and great new packages have been arriving daily from Chamber members and friends.

“This is one of the premier summer gatherings on Cape Ann,” said Carol Morse, a staunch supporter of the Chamber Auction for many years, adding: “This year’s Auction promises to be another great success and one of the best nights of the summer.”

Original paintings by Cape Ann’s leading artists, including Ken Knowles, Robert Gruppe, John Terelak, and Carole Loiacono; tickets to Red Sox, Bruins and Patriots games; exciting trips and adventures, including a South Africa Photo Safari; many vacation packages to fun places, including New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Portland, ME, Niagara Falls and Newport, RI; a select Afghanistan rug from Landry & Arcari; a beverage center from Doyon’s; and great shop and dine packages from Cape Ann shops and eateries are just some of the auction highlights. Plenty of other fun and unique items will also be up for bid.

For a complete list of auction items and to register to attend please visit capeannchamber.com or call 978-283-1601. Tickets for the 29th annual Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce Auction on Thursday, July 14 are $30 per individual or $300 for a reserved table of 10. The 29th Annual Cape Ann Chamber Auction is sponsored by Cape Ann Savings Bank.

Rose Baker Artist Honorees

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July 11, 2016 ~ oldfolks76

Juni Van Dyke has selected Bob Quinn and Barbara Maddix as the Rose Baker Summer Artists and they are being honored with an exhibit of their work in the lobby of the Rose Baker Senior Center. Juni is the instructor and Director of the Rose Baker Art Program and every two months she selects one or two artists from the Program for this honor.

Bob Quinn (l) and Barbara Maddix (c) with Art Director Juni Van Dyke standing in front of the summer exhibit.

Even before Bob Quinn enrolled in his favorite high school class, mechanical drawing, he knew art would always be an important part of his life. Over the years, Bob has developed enviable skills in leather carving, metal work, stained glass, and computer graphics and video. His professional career was in marketing and advertising which allowed him to put his creativity and artistic eye to work in the business world.

Bob admires the many notable Cape Ann’s artists, and has used their work to inspire his own personal style of drawing, sketching, and watercolor.  Bob’s style is straight forward, unencumbered, and charming.  On exhibit at Rose Baker are works that delight the eye and reflect the subjects he loves most:  Gloucester and all that is of the sea.

After retiring from a long career assisting one of Boston’s most prominent judges, Barbara Maddix has followed her lifelong interest in art.  Barbara joined the Senior Art Program over 24 years ago. Now in her nineties, Barbara is still an active member of the Art Program.  Some of her most recent contributions to the Program include creating ceramic bowls for Gloucester’s Empty Bowl Dinner and creating numerous iconic scenes for Art Program’s Neighborhood Quilt Project.

Barbara’s paintings are joyful and childlike.  They are rendered with exuberance and a unique sense of color that reflects Barbara’s happy outgoing love of life and the world around her.

The summer show is on display from now until the end of August in the main lobby of the Rose Baker Senior Center at 6 Manuel F. Lewis St in Gloucester. The show can be viewed weekdays from 9am to 4pm.

GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY HITS A HOME RUN WITH THE LAST SCHWARTZ!

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GSCLastSchwartz0010The Last Schwartz, in its New England premiere at Gloucester Stage, introduces us to the Schwartz siblings—Nora, Ben, Gene, and Simon—who have inherited the family home from their parents. Along with Bonnie, Ben’s wife, they meet at the house over a weekend. Tension fills the air as Nora is determined to keep the home while Ben, a businessman, wants to sell it. Meanwhile, Simon, who is autistic, spends his time staring into a telescope and dreaming about space travel.

Into this powder keg comes Gene and his pot-smoking California wild child girlfriend Kia. Like a heat-seeking missile, Kia explodes the delicate balance that the siblings have managed to construct, ripping the lid off passions long suppressed by family decorum and the stern order that Norma, the oldest of the Schwartz siblings, has maintained during the year since their father’s death. Secrets are revealed, promises broken, and conflicts erupt as the four Schwartz siblings, joined by Kia and Bonnie, struggle to find a way forward.

At a pace that feels like you’re on a roller coaster, playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer delivers a potent blend of laughs and bitter revelations. The ensemble cast is uniformly brilliant, creating vivid characters that feel like people you know and may even be part of your own family. With expert direction by Paula Plum, evocative lighting design, and a set that looks exactly like your grandparents’ musty old house, The Last Schwartz delivers comedy and heartbreak that’s perfect for a midsummer night. Run, don’t walk, to the Gloucester Stage Company to be a part of this delightful and touching experience.

Starring Brianne Beatrice (Bonnie), Andrea Goldman (Kia), Gabriel Kuttner (Herb), Paul Melendy (Simon), Glen Moore Gene, and Veronica Anaxtasio Wiseman (Norma.)

Now through July 30. For more information and to purchase tickets visit the Gloucester Stage Company website here.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO MIKE FORGETTE AND SEVEN HILLS MUSIC, “WALK MY WAY” 26K VIEWS AND COUNTING!

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In just three weeks, Seven Hills Music “Walk My Way,” featuring Mike Forgette, has received over 26,000 views. Click here for a free download of the song.

On Friday night you can hear Mike Forgette and his band Over the Bridge at Katrina’s at 9pm. 

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Cocktails on the Harbor to Benefit Addison Gilbert Hospital

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Cocktails on the Harbor.

A Harbor Cruise and Silent Auction to Benefit Addison Gilbert Hospital.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

6 – 8 p.m.

Cruiseport Gloucester

6 Rowe Square

Join us for an evening cruise around Gloucester Harbor

on the Beauport Princess

in honor of Bob and Jan Crandall, founders of the Addison Gilbert Society.

This elegant evening will feature delicious food, live music and coveted silent auction items.

Cast off is promptly at 6:30 p.m.

RSVP by July 15.Tickets are limited!

To purchase tickets, please visit AddisonGilbert.org/CocktailsOnTheHarbor.

Please contact Michelle Hinchey at Michelle.D.Hinchey@Lahey.org or 978.726.6534 for more information.

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Piping Plovers Found Dead in CT. MA conservation plans eased and peaceful

Posted on by Catherine

The US Fish and Wildlife Service, Massachusetts Wildlife, announced a new statewide piping plover conservation plan last Friday.

Thank you to the GMG reader who saw the news on TV, and wrote a comment on the Disney-Pixar post. Massachusetts may be the model for North America. The MA Wildlife report includes the conservation approach implemented in Cape Cod last year, home to 60+% of MA piping plover population.  I don’t have the tv station’s coverage, but I included the WBUR wire pick, and piping plover reports from CT, NH, and ME. Kim Smith is covering the pair on Good Harbor Beach. Nesting Piping Plovers have been seen on Coffins Beach and Revere Beach.

Currently, the Atlantic coast population (North Carolina to Eastern Canada) of piping plovers continues to hold steady just under 2,000 pairs. The Massachusetts State Department of Fish and Wildlife targets maintaining 625 pairs with greater intervention should the population fall below 500 pairs.

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Piping plovers were not rare enough to be described as a ‘wild’ species in 1895 in Daniel Giraud Elliot’s North American Shore Birds. He wrote that where the species had been formerly ‘most abundant’ the piping plover was “found chiefly on the more retired parts of the cost where it was free from molestation…its acquaintance with man has caused it to be at the present time, in most places where it is found, a rather wary bird.” The fattened birds were “palatable, yet sometimes sedgy in flavor.” Skunks and other predators, influx in summer population, and loss of habitat were concerns. Plastic trash is a striking difference now. At least we don’t eat them.

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Three Piping Plovers were recently killed in their nesting habitat at Griswold Point in Old Lyme CT. It’s believed a fourth was intentionally stepped on in Bluff Point State Park in Groton, CT. “People ignore the signs.”

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The Connecticut Department of Energy and Conservation monitors the piping plovers.  The Connecticut Audubon Society doesn’t maintain piping plover information, however they do have an incredible osprey project to report. Tom Andersen told me that the CT Audubon Society has built up a network of more than 300 volunteers to find and monitor osprey. An intern has plotted the work of these citizen scientists on this Osprey Nation map. Nests have grown from 200 to 500. I think I’m inspired to do a map of the piping plovers if someone in MA or in the state office hasn’t done it already!

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Massachusetts may be the national model.

Read WBUR on the MA Wildlife press release with a focus on Nauset New Plan Allows Beachgoers More Room While Protecting Piping Plovers

David Abel wrote about it back in January for the Boston Globe (January 21, 2016)  Beachgoers may get break as plovers rebound:  

“In Orleans, after years of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in fees for stickers to drive on town beaches, local officials independently sought and obtained a federal waiver last year to allow a limited number of vehicles back on the beach.” 

“For Russ Hopping, who oversees about 27 miles of beaches from Ipswich to Nantucket for the Trustees of Reservations, a federal waiver would mean more than getting rid of some fences on their beaches. It would mean fewer headaches. With some 60 plover pairs on their beaches last summer, Hopping hopes new flexibility would translate into fewer complaints and greater protection for the birds. 

“That we’ve reached the point that this opportunity even exists represents a conservation success story for Massachusetts,” he said.

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South shore and Plum Island stories have been contentious (e.g. WBZ’s 2010 story in Plymouth Are they protecting the plovers or their view? )

The town of Duxbury canceled their annual 4th of July beach bonfire because piping plover pairs returned and were nesting year after year. “Most Duxbury residents said they understand the need to cancel the bonfire for the bird. Since the birds return every year, the committee said next year they’ll consider a new tradition of having the beach bonfire at another time.”

NEW HAMPSHIRE

There are 7 pairs  reported in NH right now in Seabrook and Hampton. “Since protection efforts began in New Hampshire in 1997 through 2015, 99 nesting pairs of plovers have fledged 127 chicks on the state’s seacoast.”

MAINE

The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and Maine Audubon  report Piping Plovers first sightings in 2016 on beaches at Kennebunkport, Kennebunk and Old Orchard Beach. They’re sending an estimate about nests.

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search for Kim Smith’s exceptional documentation and photographs on Good Morning Gloucester about the one nesting pair on Good Harbor Beach

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2016 Gloucester Garden Tour

Posted on by David B. Cox

This year spectacular garden tour took place on Eastern Point and was beautiful with such an array of gardens and homes. I was only able to get to four of the eleven.Next year I will try to make it earlier to cover more. It was too much pleasure to take in and  try to  see and  photograph in a couple of hours. Fun fun fun! Congratulations to the Generous Gardeners and all the home owners and gardeners involved.

Motif Monday: Gloucester Crossing

Posted on by Catherine

It’s not common to integrate a bridge into New England homes. From where I was standing, a few of the intriguing thresholds in Gloucester and Rockport that announce their entry. Whether simple or ornate, necessary or whimsical, or both –who doesn’t like a journey and a bit of suspension? I enjoy thinking about themes of transition, space and connections.

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Local bridges and architecture in two drawings by Edward Hopper

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Republican Convention (1879)

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Boston, Sep. 12, 1879

You are earnestly requested to meet several gentleman at lunch at Parker, at one o’clock sharp to consult on the best method of securing harmony in the Republican Party at the convention and the election. Your presence is especially important.

Yours truly

E, N. Kinsley esq     J. M. Forbes NHS

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It appears it was in preparing for the 1880 Presidential election Election

Republican Chairman – George F. Hoar from Massachusetts

President / Vice President nominees – James A, Garfield / Chester A. Arthur

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(The Letter was Purchased at Main Street Arts & Antiques 124 Main Street Gloucester)