My View of Life on the Dock
Heard people were looking for the snowy owl in East Gloucester. Located him on top of the F/V Endeavor today and grabbed a couple of shots. Would have loved to climb aboard the ship for a better shot, but the hubby said No! Had to stay on the dock!
Janelle Favaloro
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GloucesterCast 165 With Kim Smith, Alicia Cox, Leslie Heffron, Donna Ardizzoni and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 12/27/15
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And it’s not just smokers who are being targeted either. Those caught engaging in equally mindless but unfortunately no less common littering activities will also face fines.
Both inconsiderate chewers who spit their gum onto Italian streets and coffee drinkers who scrunch up their receipts and throw them on the floor will be fined between €30 and €150.
The legislation states that fines will hit people found throwing “small pieces of litter any place that isn’t a bin: including the gutter, floor, and water”.
The measures passed on Tuesday with 169 of Italy’s MPs voting in favor, 32 against and 11 abstaining.
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Morpheus Returns- A Group Winter Show
Closing reception: Sunday, January 3, 4-6 p.m.
Artists represented: Alison Landoni, Thomas Philbrook, Skip Montello, Jim Wickey, Ben Wickey, Nancy Jarvis,Sinikka Nogelo, Pam Courtleigh.Law Hamilton,Dale BlankSho
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I only had my cell phone with and wish so much my movie camera was back from the repair center. He/she was fairly high up in the tree so it’s really not that bad for a cell phone camera. The hawk did not at all seem to mind my interest and stayed for a while before flying towards the Lighthouse.
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There were 400 registered polar plungers to Strike out ALS. Very inspirational seeing these 400 polar plunges and Pete Frates being at the beach with his wife, child and all those swimmers sending him love.
To help donate please follow the link below:
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New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day is my favorite time of the year.
Represents new beginnings and renewal for the upcoming New Year.
Here’s what we have for the 2 days of celebration!
I encourage restaurants and anyone that can add to this list!
Ohana NYE Price Fixe Menu 3 Course Dinner $45 With wine pairing $80
NYE Lobster Specials At Seaport Grille & NYE Party Cruise On the Beauport Princess 8:30PM-12:30AM
2nd Annual Family Fun Night at Mile Marker One
Free swimming and party favor for the kids
Lat 43 NYE Party
20% of the ticket sales go to Gloucester Education Foundation
Ohana New Years Eve Menu
3 Course Dinner $45 With wine pairing $80
Foreign Affairs NYE Dinner
Manchester by the Sea
Franklin Cape Ann NYE Dinner
Downtown Rockport New Year’s Eve
Celebrating the New Year with family, friends, and neighbors. Six hours of continuous entertainment in downtown Rockport. 6 PM – midnight.
For music rundown on New Years Eve visit Gimmesound web page
New Year’s Day Brunch At Seaport Grille & New Year’s Day Jazz Brunch Buffet Cruise On The Beauport Princess 11:00AM-3:00PM
Katrina’s New Year’s Day Music Brunch
11:30am to 2:30pm Music by Brian King
Foreign Affairs New Years Day Brunch
Bloody Mary Bar 10am to 2:30pm
New Year’s Day 11:00 am Rocky Neck Plunge at Steven’s Lane and donations to Open Door Food Pantry. Always a great turnout and fun to watch (and plunge if you’re so inclined). After warm up party at the Cultural Center.
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Strike out ALS.. swimmers are waiting
Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
FOB Nicole and her son Anthony
Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
Meeting on Rum-Row 1922
Former Gloucester fishing schooners H. L. Marshall on left and Arethusa on the right meet on Rum-Row, 3 miles off the New York/New Jersey coast with the 75 ft. Coast Guard Patrol boat CG-100 based out of Gloucester, Ma. in 1932. The Marshall was 100ft. and the Arethusa was 110 ft. Both schooners had been hi- line Gloucester fishing schooners before being acquired by the notorious rum-runner, Bill (The Real) McCoy from Florida.
In August 1920 McCoy took the money he and brother Ben had invested from selling their fleet of motor and tour boats in Florida, went to Gloucester and purchased Marshall. She was a 90 ft. semi-knockabout twin-screw schooner built at the James Yard in Essex, Ma. with a speed of 7 knots and a liquor capacity of 1500 wood cases or 3,000 in burlap pakages. He paid $16,000 for the vessel and $4,000 more to refit her and sailed her to Nassau. As she entered the harbor and before she could be warped into the dock, she was boarded by an old friend, Billy Hain who offered to pay $10 per case for McCoy to take 1500 cases of whiskey to Savannah. When he said he needed clearance papers to ship frfeight from the Bahamas, Hain showed him just what he needed; papers clearing 1500 cases of Rye to Halifax. Five days later, the Marshall was and McCoy had $15,000 in the bank.
In 3 months, after clearing over $35,000 in just three months, he boarded a train and headed for Gloucester to buy another schooner and he knew just the one he had to have. The Arethusa was for sale and laid-up at a pier in Rockland, Me. She had been appraised at $42,000 but the strapped owners agreed to take $21,000 and it would cost him $11,000 more to fit her for sea. New sails, replaced the old auxiliary, added a 10’ bowsprit to handle a big flying jib and a gleaming coast of white – she looked like a yacht as she put to sea from Gloucester. On arrival in Nassau, Bahamas she was renamed Tomoka for the river in Florida where the McCoy boatyard was located. Then she was registered under the british flag and sailed shortly for her maiden trip as a Rum-Runner. The Tomoka/ Arethusa was also built in Essex at the Story Yard in Essex.
The CG-153 was a high speed 75 ft. cutter of a class built specifically to battle the rum-runners off Americas’ coasts. She was one of the 20 boats in her class to be stationed on the Atlantic Coast in Gloucester, Mass. They were berthed at CG Base #7 off East Main Street at the old Parsons’ wharf.
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Hi there, thought you might like these pix from kayaking this morning on Lobster Cove (Christmas morning). Amazingly calm and of course incredibly warm. Feel free to post if you think people might like them.
Best,
Rob Leavitt
Record warm temperatures all along the East Coast allowed for luxuriously warm Christmas Day beach fun. Matt, Liv, and Tom took a hike to the the Lighthouse and back and here are some pics. If you spent Christmas Day at a Cape Ann beach, send us your photos and we would love to post! Email image to kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com
This photo was sent to us by friends at Good Harbor Beach.
If any of our readers spots a Snowy hanging around, and you have a spare moment, please, please email me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com. I would really love to get a good Snowy Owl capture for a current film project. Thank you!
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