Tree Lighting At 5PM
It’s not too late!
photos-Super K
I Can’t Resist . . .
a good political demonstration. This one in the main square of Buenos Aires turned out to be quite large. It was in support of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina.
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Singing at island hobby
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Happy Santa Lucia Day!!!- Celebrate By Making Santa Lucia Cuccia With Sista Felicia
The Gloucester Times Taste of The Times Is Hosting Felicia’s Video Today check it out-
Click here for the printable recipe as well
December 13th is Santa Lucia Day Learn more About The Day Here
From wikipedia-
Italy
St. Lucia is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse (Sicily), where she was born. Celebrations take place on the 13th of December and in May. St. Lucy is also popular among children in some regions of North-Eastern Italy, namely Trentino, East Lombardy (Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona and Mantua), parts of Veneto, (Verona), parts of Emilia-Romagna, (Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia), and all of Friuli, where she brings gifts to good children and coal to bad ones the night between December 12 and 13. She arrives in the company of a donkey and her escort, Castaldo. Children are asked to leave some coffee for Lucia, some flour for the donkey and bread for Castaldo. They must not watch Santa Lucia delivering these gifts, or she will throw ashes in their eyes, temporarily blinding them. In Sicily and among the Sicilian diaspora, cuccìa is eaten in memory of Saint Lucy’s miraculous averting of famine.
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Big weekend for local music stars: Tonight @ 7:30, Tomorrow AM @ 9
Tonight at Beverly’s Larcom Theatre, Gloucester’s Henri Smith releases his first CD in a decade (recorded live at the Larcom in March) with a concert celebration that will, of course, include dancing a traditional New Orleans Second Line parade in the aisles.
Vickie and I produced the CD and Vickie designed the CD case and disc.
This will be your last chance to get your CD signed by Henri and the band before the holidays. Very good seats still available in the balcony (here) and a few good seats also left in the orchestra (here).
Tomorrow morning Allen Estes & Charlie Farren are Aurelia Nelson’s guests on her 104.9 show Curtain Up at 9am (Worth getting up for!)
You get to hear a new song and a taste of the Solstice experience you can expect next Saturday 12/20 when they perform with young, rising Boston Blues star, Danielle Miraglia in a benefit for Gloucester’s UU Church Meetingbouse Restoration. This will be a festive night of original rock, blues and Americana music with a few traditional holiday sing-along favorites. Tickets are still available. Get them here.
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merry ,HO!!!ho! From Joy Buell
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Bex Made This Lobster Trap Tree
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2014 Middle Street Walk Is Today! Here’s Your Schedule of Events
CLICK MAP FOR ENTIRE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS,Performances and Presentations!
I count no less than 38 events! This is one of the top 4 Gloucester Events of the year and is not to be missed.
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My All Time Favorite Album
Why do you suppose artists don’t release live albums any more? Now all you get is overproduced electronica.
J Geils Band FTW!
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Two Days Left To Subscribe To The GloucesterCast For A Chance To Win A 2015 Dinner Dealer Deck
GloucesterCast Podcast New Subscriber Contest #4 Will Win A 2015 Dinner Dealer Deck. A Dinner Dealer Deck Will Go To One Of The First Ten New Subscribers To The GloucesterCast Subscribe to Enter Here (winner picks up Dinner Dealer Deck at the dock)
To purchase Dinner Dealer Decks Direct From Dennis and Jess and Emerson – https://www.dinnerdealer.com/decks/
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Listen To The 12/7/14 GloucesterCast Here
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Flood Watch From Anthony Marks
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Passports is the Perfect Restaurant for Your Holiday Shopping Respite
When out and about checking off your holiday to-do list, stop in to Passports. The food is always prepared and cooked to perfection, with extra generous helpings, and the ambiance is warm, comfy, and inviting.
India, Laila, and Dawn
Today I met my friend Catherine there and we had a luxuriously long chatty lunch. Despite the hours spent catching up, Laila, our beautiful waitress, never once made us feel anything less than entirely welcome. Catherine had the sumptuous cobb salad, topped with chicken salad, and I had their wonderfully delicious Caesar salad, with perfectly grilled shrimp. Even Passports regular coffee is rich and full flavored!
Happy Dining and Shopping Main Street!
Passports Cobb and Chicken Salad
Passports Caesar Salad
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O Ho Lay Dee Odl Lee O ~ Pygmy Goat Rescue!
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Shopping Local @ Blue River Diamond
Have you stopped by Blue River Diamonds on Main Street lately? The store is stocked with gorgeous jewelry, and the staff is incredibly helpful! My son BJ was impressed with their selection, and was thrilled to find exactly what he was looking locally on Gloucester’s Main Street. Check it out for the holidays !
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Across the Andes
Santiago to Buenos Aires.
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Support Our Local Animal Shelter This Christmas
Support Our Local Animal Shelter
http://capeannanimalaid.org/
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Cape Ann Winter Solstice – The Tradition Continues Next Sat 12/20 – VIP seats still available
Last winter we started a Gloucester Tradition – The Cape Ann Winter Solstice – a tremendously successful kick-off to our Meetinghouse Benefit Concert Series, culminating in a memorable evening with 60s icon John Sebastian, the first ever Gloucester appearance by a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
This winter we continue the tradition featuring three of the area’s top acoustic artists: Boston rock star, Charlie Farren, of Joe Perry Project and Farrenheit, rising Boston Blues star, Danielle Miraglia (whom you may have seen at our Celebrate Gloucester benefit for The Open Door featuring James Montgomery this summer) and Gloucester’s iconic singer/songwriter Allen Estes.
Just like last year, a portion of the proceeds support the Meetinghouse Restoration Project.
There are still a few VIP seats left. VIPs get premium seating in the first 5 rows of the center section, exclusive early entry and a commemorative VIP laminate.
Enjoy a festive night of original music, traditional holiday favorites and a few surprises as you help Gloucester’s Meetinghouse become a world-class concert and performance venue.
Here are some videos to give you a taste of what you can expect:
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Ready, Get Centered Street, go! 1 Center Street is open for Middle Street Walk
Hi Joey,
Get centered during Gloucester’s Middle Street Walk this Saturday. One Center Street is open and filled with friends, social imagination, wellness and artistry! Glance at the list of tenants at Kate Seidman’s building—many GMG readers are already big fans and customers.
1 Center Street, 3rd floor:
Ten Pound Studio silk painting studio with classes every Tuesday
Bradley Royds music recording studio
Jennifer Lee Levitz Studio and Reikki practice
1 Center Street, 2nd floor:
Loren Doucette, Art Showroom, Studio and Teaching Lab ( beginning Artist Way course to discovering recovering your creative self in 2015 along with private art lessons) 978-879-6588, Lorenadoucette@gmail.com Loren Doucette adds: “We are looking for teachers and students to be a part of this great creative cooperative space! Our goal and mission is to practice, teach and share creative well-being!”
Jeffrey Marshall, Art Studio. Jeffrey was invited to have a January show at the Cape Ann Museum and will be the First Cape Ann Artist of Distinction in Residency 2015 – for the Rocky Neck Art Colony
Stephen Baglioni, LMT, clothed sports massage office, http://www.massagetherapyunlimited.com/
Bob Tobin, weekly Kempo Karate classes (Wed & Sat)
Sarah Slifer Swift, rehearsal space, AND she runs Monday Morning Dance Rave 8:30-10am each week. Very fun!
Yoga with Peter Martin starting in January 2015.
Street:
Kate Seidman’s Art Room Boutique
IF YOU GO
What: OPEN HOUSE at ONE CENTER STREET
Where: 1 Center Street (between Main and Middle)
When: Middle Street Walk 2014, 10AM-4PM
Who: Loren Doucette, Stephen Baglioni and Peter Martin are hosting an OPEN HOUSE as part of the Middle Street Walk. Stop by!
Kate has owned 1 Center Street since the early 1990s. Challenge for GMG readers: Do you know the prior occupant(s) and story of this historic building? Write in your comments if you know!
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Family and Friends Day At POP Gallery
A Weekend of Family FUN!
After Saturday’s festivities with the Middle Street Walk and the Lobster Trap Tree Lighting in downtown Gloucester, be sure to come back down to Main Street on Sunday for Family & Friends Day from 12 to 5 pm!
POP will serve FREE cocoa for the kiddies and Yule Fuel for mom and dad! Santa will also make an appearance at our store after 4 pm!
We’re very excited to offer 20 % OFF select sale items and clothing! Plus, 10% off ALL PURCHASES of $50 or more!
There are many great gifts for young and old at POP, so make sure you come take advantage of this SALE at 67 Main Street, THIS SUNDAY!
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Backyard Growers Final Stretch For Push For Global Headquarters
We need a Backyard Growers Headquarters
Help us expand our GARDEN EMPIRE!
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States Food
BREAKING NEWS! Generous donors have stepped up to offer a 3:1 match to help us reach our $15K goal! For every $10 you give, our matching donors will give $30!
Backyard Growers has become RADICALLY AWESOME. Here’s why—In five short years we have evolved from providing a handful of neighbors with backyard gardens TO THIS:
- Over 1,300 Gloucester elementary school students plant, harvest, and eat from their school gardens each year.
- Built O’Maley Innovation Middle School’s first school garden with over 200 6th graders to support the science curriculum.
- Built West Parish School gardens at Burnham’s Field. When West Parish moves, the gardens will join Burnham’s Field Community Garden, which will be managed by us!
- Expanded the Gloucester Preschool garden, providing early hands-on gardening and healthy snack experiences to over 90 preschoolers.
- Providing afterschool programs through Gloucester U at the high school, O’Maley Academy at the middle school, and at Beeman and Veterans Schools through the YMCA.
- We now serve the entire Gloucester school district—from preK to high school. Other school districts have expressed interest in adopting our model!
- Since 2010, 150 new gardens built in Gloucester for families, community groups, organizations, and schools, helping hundreds of people learn how to grow their own food.
What we need and how it will benefit the people we serve
Backyard Growers is a small, scrappy non-profit organization. We know how to do a lot with a little. Our main base of operations is my house. And when I say my house I mean my kitchen table, my small office, the hall, the living room, the bedroom, the basement, the yard, the driveway, and sometimes spilling out into the street. Backyard Growers also exists beyond my house! Thank you to The Open Door for providing space for our FoodCorps service member, and to the city and school district for storing some of our stuff.
All of this to say, we have officially burst our seams and are in need of an OFFICIAL BACKYARD GROWERS HEADQUARTERS. We are currently looking for a space. We need to raise $15,000 to pay for the first year of rent and associated costs. Our own space = centralized operations = more efficient program and operations management = strengthened programs/more people served/strategic organizational growth.
Good Morning Gloucester 