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What colors do you see? Repeat Saturday
What colors do you see?
In the movie Pearl Earring the artist Vermeer asked his maid who was modeling for him. “Look at the clouds what colors do you see?”
She replied “white” he told her to squint and look again. She saw many colors then.
What colors do you see when you look at the Snow?
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BOSTON MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE MARINA EVANS ON THE RADIO SUN 9AM
By now, you probably already know that local rising star, Marina Evans has been nominated for Female Performer of the Year at the New England Music Awards.
Tomorrow (SUNDAY) you can hear Marina on Aurelia Nelson’s excellent radio show, “Curtain Up” at 9am on North Shore 104.9FM.
It’s worth getting up for.
Here’s a video of Marina on another radio station with her husband, Bernardo Baglioni.
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There’s a new band in town! The Fabulous Supersonics and they are making their debut tonight @ The Dog Bar 3.7.2015
We are called the “Fabulous Supersonics” and we are:
John Fatello – guitar and vocals. John was, most recently, the host of
the popular Open Mic night at the Franco-American Club in Beverly. He
has also backed up such blues luminaries as James Cotton and others in his career.
The band features veterans of local bands Quits, the Nor’easters and Points North. And the Diva, Westward Ho of the Diva Hos. We are covering tunes from Steely Dan to the Stones. Eric Clapton to Stevie Wonder. With a dash of Iggy Pop and Tom Petty.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1544228705855772/
The Dogbar is located at 65 Main Street in Gloucester. Rear entrance is
located on Rogers St.
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Cape Ann TV Is Looking For Gently Used Rugs
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Happy Birthday Paul Morrison!
Haaaaapy Birthday!
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99 Years Ago – March, 1916
These shovelers are working on a snow bank along Washington Street in the Riverdale neighborhood of Gloucester. The sun and warmer weather we’ll have next week will make a small dent in our snow cover. I remember snow still on the ground in April after the Blizzard of 1978.
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Daylight Savings 2015 Begins 2:00AM Sunday March 8th
Robin Jones Submits-
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Maritime Gloucester Sea Scouts news
Hi Joey,
Our troop of Sea Scouts just completed a sea survival course in Groton. I wonder if there’s anyway you can give them a shout out? I think they’re very proud of what they did (and had a lot of fun). What photos we have were taken with a cell phone so are not great, but they get the idea across (I’ve attached some here).
Here’s what we posted on our website about it:
Maritime Gloucester congratulates our North Shore Ship 5 Sea Scouts on completing the Sea Survival safety course at Survival Systems USA in Groton, CT. The course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to enable anyone to care for themselves in a sea survival situation.
While the skills around hypothermia mitigation were individually challenging and the group sea surface formations enlightening, the highlight of the event was the group raft rescue in simulated rough seas, complete with high gusty winds, lightening, helicopter sheer winds, deafening noises, and driving rain all assaulting the small raft in the dark. Apparently it’s not uncommon for participants to yell “Do it again!” when the simulation ends and they crawl out of the survival raft, all smiles, shaken but happy.
It would be great if you could include them in your posts, but I know you have a lot going on!
Tracy
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The Pulse of Cape Ann Art seARTS Annual Meeting Tuesday March 10
The Pulse of Cape Ann Art seARTS Annual Meeting Tuesday March 10, 6:00-8:30pm, at Bass Rocks Golf Club Community invited as seARTS reviews the past year and looks ahead to plans for 2015 seARTS will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday, March 10, at the Bass Rocks Golf Club, inviting the community to join in a review of the past year and a look ahead to plans for 2015. -class center for economy by bridging its maritime heritage and a future powered by the arts. We are looking forward to meet the every changing needs of our members but also to provide a public forum for community expression. Artwhich will feature guest speakers from the arts community and regional and state government, including: – Matt Swift, Owner and Gallery Director of Trident Gallery – Tom Daniel, Community Development Director for the City of Gloucester – Richard Maloney, Assistant Professor and Director ad interim of Arts Administration for Boston University – Meri Jenkins, Program Manager for the Massachusetts Cultural Council The annual meeting which begins at 6pm and is scheduled to run until 8:30 is a unique opportunity to learn about cultural happenings across our community and join in discussion about the future of the arts on Cape Ann. chance to see the Art@Bass Rocks show — works of artists participating in the 2014-2015 Art Loan Program. seARTS will also vote on new directors including a new Vice-President, Anita Blackaby who has a long history in running non-profit organizations. Among the 2014 highlights to be spotlighted at the meeting: – The Arts & Cultural Exchange – The Bass Rocks Arts Loan Program – The Partner With an Artist Program – The Wearable Art & Home Décor Show & Sale – The seARTS Uncorked: The Art of Food and Wine Pairing benefit – And updates on seARTS cultural partners The meeting is open to the public. Light appetizers will be served and there will be a cash bar. Eventbrite, info@searts.org or 978-281-1222. About seARTS -class center for working artists. Established in 2000, seARTS is working to help powered by the arts. For more information on seARTS, visit http://www.searts.org .
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs180/1100801339212/archive/1120322317954.html
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BIKINI-SPEEDO DODGEBALL 2013 – THE MOVIE #gloucesterma
For all of you folks that have never witnessed THE MOVIE for 2013, please take the time to do so. You will be entertained.
(for ease of playback on a video of this length, click the play button, then pause it for a few seconds, it speeds up the loading process)
And please come out and support this years event, it’a for the NEXT STEP, they change lives…you could, too!
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Helping Our Fine Feathered Friends Make It Through These (Hopefully) Last Weeks of Bitter Cold
Outside my office window is a pair of stately hollies, our “Dragon Ladies;” aptly named for their prickly foliage, and adjacent to the hollies is a sweet scented flowering crabapple. The autumn fruits of this particular crabapple are chunkier than most and, I simply assumed, must bear the worst tasting fruit imaginable because year in and year out, the fruit is never, ever eaten by the birds. When flocks of robins arrive in our garden in late January, the winterberry and hollies are stripped bare of their fruits in a day, or two, at the most, after which the robins head to our neighbor’s sumac and then further down Plum Street to our other neighbor’s smaller and much better tasting crabapples.
Not this year! A pair of robins is setting up house along the garden path and they vigorously defend the crabapples from other robins. In late winter, robins typically switch over to worms, but with the ground still frozen solid, they are continuing to look for tree fruits. Unfortunately, much of it has been consumed.
Repeatedly, I noticed that our robin couple was struggling to eat the crabapples. They would snip off a stem and then drop it onto the brick path below and peck and peck and peck. A robin’s bill did not evolve to crack open grains and as it seems in this case, nor for penetrating our unusually hard crabapples. A great deal of energy was being spent to get a morsel of food, which is never a good thing because it can leave a creature weakened and at risk of freezing to death.
Robin in flight
I picked a few berries and made a crabapple mash, placed it under the tree and, within hours, all the fruits were devoured! Now when feeding the pets and filling the bird feeders each morning I pluck a small handful of crabapples, mash, and place in the pie tin below the tree. I’ve experimented with adding blueberries and raspberries to the dish, but the robins prefer the crabapples.
If we move very slowly when walking down the path, they now allow us to come quite close—and what a treat to observe from this distance—beautiful, beautiful robins!
Do you think we will be rewarded with a nearby nest? I hope so!
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Live From Cape Ann Giclee
James Eves owner of Cape Ann Giclee creating another amazing design using the ” Sista Felicia Logo” for a special treat that will be served to Sista’s guests at this years Private St. Joseph Feast !
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Looking over to Rocky Neck
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Celebrate our primary care physician, Dr. Kevin Delahanty’s 1st year at PACE in Gloucester!
You are cordially invited to celebrate our primary care physician, Dr. Kevin Delahanty’s 1st year at PACE in Gloucester!
Monday, March 30th from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Please join us for an Open House at our Gloucester PACE site on 29A Emerson Avenue (next to Pathways for Children and across from The Open Door)
Light food & refreshments will be served as well as open bar.
Your RSVP by March 26th to Carol Pallazolla is appreciated by calling cpallazolla
Thank you and see you there!
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Oracle Rubber Duck Says: Winter of Our Discontent is Over!
It’s March! What’s so awesome about March Rubber Duck? It’s followed by April! And April is when we start making “Seasonal Openings 2015!” From Top Dog usually the last day of March to The Rudder right around Tax Day with Lobsta Land, Capt Carlos, Dairy Train, sprinkled in between. What tastes like spring more than a Fish and Cheese sandwich at The Cupboard? And the snow will melt soon! Look at WeatherSpark for next week:
So here is my lineup starting today for things to do to get you in the mood.
Friday March 6: Stones Pub for a Blue Duck Spring Burger. (Blue Cheese Portabella mushrooms, bacon, hold the sprouts between your knees.
Saturday March 7: Wash the car at Maplewood Carwash. It’s not for the car, it’s for you. You will feel better! Drive home slowly. Do not splash.
Saturday March 7: There is something else big today, what is it?
Sunday March 8: Spring Forward! That’s right, drive home from work and the sun is still shining!
Monday March 9: Big Apple announcement. Buy a watch? A retina MacBook Air?
Tuesday March 10: If you are going to grow tomatoes from seeds, sow them now!
Wed March 11: Run around in shorts! It’s 44 degrees out! After this winter that will feel like 85!
Thurs March 12: Have you ever seen Uranus? I have never seen Uranus! But you can this week. As Mars and Venus set in the evening if you scope them out with binoculars they will be very easy to find. Venus is wicked bright. Very close by will be an unblinking tiny blue dot. That is Uranus! Now you can say Rubber Duck showed you Uranus!
Saturday March 14: Pi Day! Biggest Pi Day ever because it is 2015 which means 3/14/15 9:26AM and 53 seconds all nerds head’s will explode with nerdiness!
Sunday March 15: Ides of March: Greg Bover posts an awesome quote from Caesar or Brutus et tu?
Tuesday March 17: Saint Patrick’s Day! Plant your peas! Still two feet of snow in your garden? Start digging. You have to plant them on Saint Patty’s Day or the world will end.
Wednesday March 18: EJ and Brenda Malloy and Jeff Amero and everyone else who has been rubbing it in on Facebook that they are in Florida will be dragging their sun tanned butts back to Cape Ann!
Tuesday March 31: Get your boat in the water by today and you win a prize!
Friday, March 20: at 6:45 PM EDT First Day of Spring, Equinox, equal day, equal night!
Wednesday April 1: Seasonal Openings really get underway. You can make it. Meet me at the Rudder or The Studio, who is going to open first?
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Book Recommendation “IRON MEN WOODEN SHIPS”
Book Recommendation
This is an Awesome Book with great photos. Highly Recommended!
Tell him GMG sent you!
To purchase on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CAPE-ANN-BOOKS-GLOUCESTER-MASS-FISHING-CAPTAINS-/141594890919
“IRON MEN
WOODEN SHIPS”
From the Author;
“IRON MEN WOODEN SHIPS SKIPPERS OF GLOUCESTER MASS. THE BOOK HAS 89 PAGES, EACH PAGE FEATURES A SKIPPER AND HIS BOAT WITH INFORMATION OF THE SKIPPER AND THE BOAT.THE PICTURE OF THE SKIPPER MEASURES 6″W BY 3″3/4″H.THE BOAT IS FEATURED UNDER THE SKIPPERS AND IS ALSO 6″W AND 3″3/4″H. THE COVER PHOTO IS THE FISHERMEN STATUE TAKEN DURING THE STORM OF 1978.THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN IN THE EARLY TO MID 70’s.ALMOST EVERY BOAT HAS SUNK AND ONE LOST AT SEA WITH ALL HANDS.IT IS TRULY A ONE OF A KIND AND UNIQUE BOOK.MOST OF THE SKIPPERS HAVE PASSED AWAY SOME RETIRED TO THERE HOME COUNTRY AND SOME ARE STILL IN GLOUCESTER.THIS BOOK WILL BE A HANDSOME ADDITION TO ANY BOOK SHELF. THIS BOOK IS ALSO SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.”
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VIDEO- COYOTE PARTY AT BASS ROCKS GOLF COURSE #GLOUCESTERMA @UNIVERSALHUB
Video From Dwight Hebert
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BREAKING NEWS: SMITHEREENS PRE-SALE AVAILABLE TO FOB’s
Like to rock? Remember the mid ’80s? On Saturday, April 25, you can party with the hitmakers who who lit up alternative rock radio in the ’80s and ’90s right down the road at Downtown Beverly’s Larcom Theatre. That’s right folks, The Smithereens, with monster powerpop hits like “Behind the Wall of Sleep,” “A Girl like You,” “Blood And Roses,” “Only a Memory,” “Blues Before and After” and more are coming all the way from Jersey to Beverly just for you!
Tickets don’t go on-sale to the public until tomorrow (SAT) at noon, but FOB’s can get the best seats NOW by clicking RIGHT HERE. Best of all, tickets are only $25, $35 and $45. Check around and you’ll see this is the best Smithereens deal you’re gonna get!
Here are 2 of their top hits:
And here’s a great one from their NEW CD!
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Goodbye Winter Auction – March 7, 2015 @ 6 Lexington Ave. Magnolia Village – Gloucester, Ma.
Made my way over to Walt Kolenda’s Antique Shop @ 6 Lexington Ave. because I had my eye on these boots, but they were way to big : ( probably a size 10ish
Then low and behold I saw these beauties tried them on and SCORE! I love them. I bet they are close to a 9 but fit way better and cant wait to wear them out.
Here are a few more plus a wicked cool pair of I Dream of Jeannie slippers.
You just have to see these boots and shoes in person. You know, touch and feel. Tis a shame that they are not my size.
I found this sweet vintage necklace and had to have it. Saving it for dress up.
Oh, and take a look at this lot of wicked cute glass figurines. Some are so tiny.
The shop is set up very nice and so many items are up for auction. Like the poster says, (antiques, art, jewelry, boots, collectibles, small furniture, glass, china, metalware, rugs, lamps, postcards, ephemera and much more).- Enjoy your bidding!
Check out the website for more info and items.
http://www.capeannauction.com/
Good Morning Gloucester 