Good Morning Gloucester

Come down the dock Sunday morning at 9AM.  95 East Main Street Gloucester
Captain Joe’s
Linda Amero photo –

Baby daughter goes to college on Sunday so she asked three friends up for lobster. Dad goes to Joey’s Dock and ten lobsters leap off the transom directly into my five gallon pot.

Erich Archer forwards-
Hi Joey,

This year Henry Ferrini, Ruth Mordecai, and Susan Steiner produced an amazing film about the arts in Gloucester. In response, Cape Ann TV created a new program called The Cape Ann Art Forum. The show is a panel discussion with rotating guests about local arts. Episode 1 featured poet Patrick Doud, photographer and painter Kathleen Gerdon Archer, painter Ruth Mordecai, gallery owner and artist Ken Riaf, sculptor and activist JoAnn Castano, and myself.

The film and the panel discussion will air back to back on Cape Ann TV starting Monday at 9am and 9:30pm on channel 12. A complete list of showtimes is available on our website www.capeanntv.org

Here is an excerpt from The Cape Ann Art Forum:

Here is an excerpt from Arts Gloucester:

Find me at http://www.ardizzoniphotography.com

Chances are the best times they had this summer were spent on a Gloucester Beach- let them represent in pride sporting one of these bad boys!

Get Your Child One At The GMG Store- https://gmg.storenvy.com/

This photo reminds me of Fred. Obviously, the hand’s firm grip on the rigging captures Fred’s immense inner strength, determination and fortitude. But beyond that, as the darkness creates a mood of mystery in the photo, I always found a bit of mystery in Fred  Although we spent many hours together, (especially during the last year and a half) Fred didn’t speak much about his life. We mostly talked about cameras and gadgets. We shared our opinions on photography, both as a technical skill to be mastered and as an art form to soothe our souls, inflame our passions and inspire our thoughts. Much of Fred was a mystery to me.

We often talked about the importance of Fred’s work and our moral duty to preserve the past. His collection of ancient glass negatives allow us a visual connection and visceral contact with the past. I told him that what we do on GMG is much in the same vein. The tiny slices of time we post will, I fervently hope, be preserved so that 150 years from now people in Gloucester will have the same opportunity to travel backwards in time and pay us a digital visit.

Finally, this photo hides the subject’s face. In a sense we are all anonymous; we all hide our faces. The strengths, weaknesses and characteristics that shape us; that bundle of quirks and mannerisms, visions and quests that are the mold into which our bodies fit are what we are and are what we will remember when our loved ones pass away.

For the past several years, Fred and I attempted to locate a twelve foot high boulder that appears in one of his historic prints. We were able to piece together the approximate location from visual information in the photos and from handwritten notes that accompanied them. But, by the time we were ready to venture into the woods on foot to further our search, Fred’s declining health intervened and we never found the boulder.

This search was Fred’s idea, his adventure, his attempt to enter the old photo and be at the same place where it was created. It seems just too sad to pursue this exploration and journey without him. But the memory of the excitement it stirred in Fred will always be with me as will his friendship, wisdom and mystery.

   
    
   
RIP Fred your GMG Famiky will forever keep you in our hearts❤️