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GOOD MORNING GLOUCESTER QUESTIONNAIRE WITH MANNY SIMOES
How long have you lived in Gloucester?
Immigrated to Gloucester in 1954 from the Azores, I left in 1968, and returned 40 years later in 2008. (Total of 20 Years)
What is your favorite season In Gloucester?
SUMMER and FALL
Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?
Sit at the end of the Breakwater.
What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?
Maria’s Restaurant 35 Pearl Street Gloucester MA.
What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?
Destinos Sub Shop 129 Prospect Street Gloucester MA
What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?
Any Restaurant downtown, then we can walk home
What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?
We enjoyed Giuseppe’s Ristorante and Piano Bar, however it closed so we are looking for another favorite, it’s always fun to look.
What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?
Sugar Magnolias 112 Main Street Gloucester MA
What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?
Schooner Festival
In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?
By Boat – We have Season Tickets to the Water Shuttle from Cape Ann Harbor Tours. Hop On Hop Off or just Ride around, Best Deal in Town.
Who is your favorite local artist?
Jeff Weaver
Which is your favorite local beach?
Good Harbor Beach.
Who has the best chowder in town?
Fish Chowder at Causeway Restaurant 78 Essex Ave Gloucester MA
Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?
The Gloucester Clam and Cape Ann Images
Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?
Haddock
What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?
Okay – I take a walk up and down Main Street, than I find a quite place to eat not on Main St..
What is your favorite local band?
I prefer to listen to solo singers Allen Estes, Chelsea Berry, Fly Amero and Henry Allen.
What about Gloucester sets it apart from anywhere else?
The People. It is very easy to meet those that live and visit Gloucester. I enjoy the history and the multi-cultures that make up Gloucester, and I was born on an Island so I like living on an Island.
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DON’T MISS THE FINAL PERFORMANCE OF THE TEMPEST!!! #eastgloucesterelementary
The East Gloucester fifth grade class play is one in which the younger grade students look forward to participating, beginning in their earliest elementary years. This year’s play, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by Dawn Sarrouf, does not disappoint, and is simply beyond outstanding. Every minute is filled with action packed stellar performances by the fifth grade students, exquisite costumes, imaginative lighting and special effects, and all playing to a rhythmical back stage drum beat.
Don’t miss the final performance on Monday, April 4th at 6pm at the East Gloucester School auditorium.
Friends, family, and fans
Marissa and Kathy
Martine and Maria
Lotus and Jason
Orlando
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View from Cape Pond Ice of Ten Pound Island
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Alicia Unleashed Episode 21 taped 4/3/2016 with B- Side, Darcy and Hostess Alicia Cox
Alicia Unleashed Episode 21 taped 4/3/2016 with B- Side, Darcy and Hostess Alicia Cox
Topics Include:
Alicia lost her voice, Recap Talia’s Sweet 16 event, #teamtalia16, Talia calls out Alicia, Whose video is better Errika or Talia?, Tyler stole the show, #teamtalia16, Willow Rest Caterer, Local DJ Jack LoPocolo, Talia’s poofiest dress ever, Decorator Lenni, Everyone was intimidated by Tylers amazing dancing, Talia’s # is trending, Local Photographer Alessia LoGrasso, Review from Sista Felicia, cute cake snatcher, Darcy has not seen snow in 8 years, Back in day we never got snow days, New sidewalks, Joey SURPRISE, Ringtone app, Williow Rest Pizza, Black list, Syracuse Basketball and Bridget’s Bracket, Thnak god for disclaimers, Never pray for strength, Alicia can’t breathe for 5 minutes, Darcy makes fun of Alicia for 5 minutes, Wonder Woman give me strength or Patience, Darcy and Bridget reminise, Darcy not dressed for snow, Invitation and RSVP etiquette, Dodgeball week
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Quote of the Week – Lao Tzu
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao Tzu (5th century BCE)
Often credited as the author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of the Taoist school of philosophy, Lao Tzu, which means “old master,” may have been a legendary figure, and the book a compilation from many sources, but its effect on Chinese history and culture is profound. Traditionally, he is held to have been a contemporary of Confucius, and a government official who, tiring of the corruption around him, became a hermit late in life. Asked to record his wisdom on his return to civilization he produced the Tao Te Ching, which through allegory, paradox, and analogy teaches that freedom from desire leads to spiritual advancement and an awareness of the Tao, or the true nature of things. Another saying attributed to Lao Tzu, “The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.”
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WINTER IN REVERSE
New England springs are well known for their predictably unpredictable nature and, on that note, what a difference a day makes!
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Today, April 2nd
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Gloucester Smiles ~ from Sugar Magnolia
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I guess the college basketball game has changed a whole bunch in the past 20 years
Watching last night’s Final Four matchup between Syracuse and North Carolina and a couple games before this in the tournament (a small sample size I admit) it seems the game has changed a ton in the last twenty years.
I’m not going to pretend I know more than lifelong basketball minds but this is what I do know-
Back when I used to watch a ton of college basketball, if players launched off balanced three pointer after off balanced three pointers instead of trying to work the ball inside for a better percentage shot, those players that launched threes would be riding the pine.
A coach back in the day would sit those players down in a hurry.
Maybe they just didn’t feel like they could work the ball inside so the theory is to just launch threes and hope your team gets on a hot streak? But how many games in a row can you count on lower percentage shots to bail you out?
Anyway it was a nice run for Syracuse and fun to watch.
#GoOrange!
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Watch the De Wolfe Kids Nae Nae!@ #TeamTalia16
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Boiled coffee From Al Bezanson
Boiled coffee has been the preferred morning beverage on GREEN DRAGON for most of the 53 years I’ve owned her. On fishing vessels it was/is the way to go as well. About fifty years ago I was aboard the dragger DELAWARE when provisions, including a boxed, new giant percolator, arrived from Gloucester Grocery. Bert Cluett was the cook. The first thing he did was unbox the percolator and fling the innards over the side at the state fish pier. The general feeling was that sooner or later some of the parts would go missing, not to mention the extra work of cleaning them, so you might as well get rid of them forthwith.
It just came to my attention that my neighbor of long ago, Joseph Burnett, patented a product for discerning coffee drinkers. Only ½ cent per day per family.
The patent likely expired long ago, so here is an opportunity for someone to challenge the K-cup market and add value to cod landings.
Al Bezanson
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FOR VEGANS!
Cake Ann is now offering vegan cakes and cookies by special order. Egg and butter free, if anyone can make a delicious vegan cake, it’s Inga!
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Live blogging 04/02/2016 Gloucester Fleet
Busy night at Capt’n Joe’s
04/02/2016 5:31pm
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Sky and Ocean Contrasting Colors
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Craigslist 2009 @WeberGrills Performer Deluxe Upgrade Update New Metal Table and Stainless Table Charcoal Bin Holder Cable
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The 2009 @WeberGrills Performer Clean Up and First Cook #BBQ
She started out dusty, faded blacks,rusty vents with a stained thermostatic plastic table-
She got a though rough detailing that you can follow in the link at top of this post.
So yesterday she looked like this-
Today the updated Performer table and stainless charcoal basket cord arrived.
The swap out took all of five minutes and the results are very pleasing. If I owned an older Performer it would be the first thing I’d do is order the newer style table.
The newer style metal table comes with bolts that are darker than the bolts that came on the original as you can see in the picture. I was torn deciding between keeping with the silver ones that were in great shape still or using the newer black ones that shipped with the metal table. In…
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Charcoal Deal Alert- @Kingsford Blue Bag $12.99 For Two 18.6 lb Bags @Lowes
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2 x 18.6 lb bags of Kingsford Blue Bag for $12.99 is roughly 34 cents a pound and a great deal. Sale ends April 11th
Verified- Got two 2-packs today at Danvers MA Lowe’s-
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Where was I Painted?
I needed a change of scenery from my chair So I got another painting out of the storage unit that my dad’s paintings are stored.
I removed the painting of “Good Harbor Beach winter” scene and replaced it with a painting my father did En Plein Air from the late 70’s of a Schooner docked in Gloucester Harbor.
Can you guess where this painting below was painted from?
CLICK HERE to check out information on my Dad’s paintings that are for sale
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Boston Globe complimenting Gloucester’s gorgeous WPA era murals
Did you see? Wonderful John McElhenny’s My View article to the Gloucester Daily Times thanking great work by the CPA committee and residents? And more this week in the Boston Globe? Nice to be the successful model. “In Gloucester, residents have leveraged funding for 80 units of affordable elderly housing in an old grammar school, replaced historic lead glass windows at the Cape Ann Museum, and restored Depression-era WPA murals at City Hall.” Read more of the Boston Globe article here
Since April is National Poetry month it seems extra fitting to pause on the Charles Allan Winter mural–which by the way is notoriously difficult to photograph in that site. Nice job by photographer Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe.
In 1931, he and his wife Alice Beach Winter, also a successful artist, came to live in Gloucester year round having spent summers since 1914 and building their Mt. Pleasant studio in 1922. Poetry was the third mural Winter completed in Gloucester.
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Gloucester Smiles ~ 206
Good Morning Gloucester 