Sawyer Free Library: Week of November 1, 2015

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Matz Gallery Artist for November:

 Twenty Years On: The Analog Photography Work of  Alexander Thompson

Elephant's Freind resize  Alexander Thompson is among the anachronistic holdouts in photography. Using only film, in real cameras, Alexander develops all of his own work. His images are a broad mix of the personal, the generic and the clichĂ©. But all of them hold true to a vision Alexander has pursued since before he ever picked up a camera.Once a floundering art student, with more enthusiasm than talent, a chance discovery of a cache of cameras and darkroom equipment in an attic changed his course in 1995. “People ask if I’m a professional photographer when they see me setting up the somewhat elaborate cameras I use. I tell them that ‘professional’ would mean I make a living at it, so no.” Alexander calls it an obsession driven by love. He is always looking, and


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Cod decline From Sam Frontiero

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Nothing irritates me more then reading about cod decline and overfishing contributing to it. Now we have climate issues.

As a fisherman for 40 years it’s obvious that fish run in cycles.

When you have a fleet that is a handful of boats, a quota that has taken 90% of cod landings taken away from the fisherman, you don’t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that the cod landings are going to be nill because of no quota to bring them in. Last year the boats could have caught in one day the amount limited to them to bring in and then a 75% reduction was added on to completed devastate the industry.

The climate and overfishing is a myth that keeps coming up with these scientists accusations. No fleet left, enclosed areas, month shut downs, and no quota, are the biggest reasons for diminished cod landings. It’s the government that frauds the public with these findings. How can the landings show any increase when they don’t let you bring them in. Let the boats bring in whatever cod then can and we’ll see how much hey have declined. That will never happen.

                                                                              Sam Frontiero

GMG Sticker is a Godsend

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Joey,
I can’t tell you how many times the Good Morning Gloucester sticker has helped me find my car!  Best to all of you in my favorite place on earth!
Sharon and Chuck
The Villages, Florida

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Editor’s Note:


As long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can’t drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I’ll drop one in the mail for you.
Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)

LIVE FROM EAST GLOUCESTER!

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VIDEO: Morocco Part 2

Posted on by Marty Luster

The second of three videos of our recent  tour of Morocco.

This is a little longer than usual, but there is much material, including our exciting two days in the Sahara tent camp.

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First Parish Burial Ground 1644

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

This sacred burial ground has so much history.    When we clean in there you cannot help but to stop and look at the grave sites.

 

November 14, 2014 First Burial Parish

Isabel Babson was a Midwife

October 10, 2015 Isabel Babson headstone

Revolutionary War

October 10, 2015 Revolutionary war

Sarah and William Coas

October 10, 2015 Coas

Join us! There will be magical chicken and waffles! — Jazz Brunch wih Henry Allen & Adria Smith @ Katrina’s Sunday Nov. 1st

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Happy Halloween From Sista’s Kitchen!

Posted on by Sista Felicia

  

Who doesn’t love Old Fashion Dot Penny Candy? Last night while decorting Halloween Cookies I discoverd how crazy easy they are to make at home! As I cleaned up my work space I noticed perfectly shaped droplets of icing that broght me right back to my childhood days of shopping at Berthas Candy Store located on Gloucester’s Rocky Neck! As a child  Sugar Dot Candy were one of my most favorite penny candies sold!   

   At midnight After peeling off  and eating each and every dried dot shaped Royal Icing from my work space,  I decide to pip my left over Royal Icing onto a clean sheets of Parchment paper, in the same fashioned pattern I remebered buying at Berths On Rocky Neck! This morning I searched the internet for a clip art  shaped Corn Corn, and confected these adorable Candy Corn Shaped Sugar Treats!

  
 I can’t wait to  gift them tonight to a few Special Gobblins in my life during tonights Halloween Festivities! 

  
Fun, easy, and yummy  way to use up leftover Royal Icing! 

   
    
    
 

Isaac Asimov Quote of the Week from Greg Bover

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
Isaac Asimov (1920?-1992)

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Born in Russia, Isaak Yudovich Ozimov immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three. A voracious reader of science fiction, he began writing as a pre-teen, selling his first piece in 1939 to Amazing Stories Magazine. He would go on to become one of the most prolific of sci-fi and hard science writers, publishing an astonishing 500 books in nine of the ten categories of the Dewey Decimal System, while simultaneously holding a tenured position as Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University. Recognized as one of the most brilliant men of his age, he was Vice President of Mensa, and opined that Carl Sagan and Marvin Minsky were the only two people he knew who were smarter than he. In his science fiction work he is perhaps best known for his Foundation Series and for I, Robot which propounds the Three Laws of Robotics, incorporated by an entire generation of writers from Roddenberry and Clarke to Ellison and Silverberg. He was a six-time winner of the Hugo Award and has a crater on Mars and an asteroid named in his honor.

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Rusty & Ingrid Handmade Fine Art Screen Prints

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

Rusty and Ingrid have opened a new studio on Lexington Avenue in Magnolia. Rusty and Ingrid live in Gloucester and design and make limited edition fine art screen prints.  On Sunday, November 1, 2015, they are having a Grand Opening at 31 Lexington Avenue from 3-9.  There will be a demonstration of screen printing during that time.  Come by and visit.  For more information please follow the link below.

http://rustyandingrid.com/events/2015/11/1/grand-opening-rusty-and-ingrid-studio-gallery
October 30, 2015 Rusty and Ingrid

From The New york Times- “Cod’s Continuing Decline Linked to Warming Gulf of Maine Waters”

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Cod’s Continuing Decline Linked to Warming Gulf of Maine Waters

By ERICA GOODEOCT. 29, 2015

Rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine contributed to the collapse of cod fishing in New England, and might help explain why the cod population has failed to recover, even though fishing has largely ceased, according to a new study.

But the quotas, the study’s authors say, were based on population estimates that did not take into account the temperature changes and therefore were set too high. Even when fishermen stayed within the quotas, they were in effect overfishing, the researchers write in their report, which appears in the Oct. 30 issue of the journal Science.

“The failure to consider temperature impacts on Gulf of Maine cod recruitment created unrealistic expectations for how large this stock can be and how quickly it can rebuild,” the researchers write.

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