My View of Life on the Dock
If you missed Gloucester’s Jon Butcher on Aurelia Nelson’s 104.9 radio show “Curtain Up” this morning, you can catch him on Carmelita’s Bay State Rock tonight at 11:30 on WAAF! Plus you’ll hear brand new songs from his upcoming CD, which you can get SIGNED on Saturday when he debuts the music LIVE @ the Larcom, just down the road in Beverly (tix still available here).
Here’s a song you won’t likely hear tonight, but you WILL on Saturday:
Perfect waves and snow. This is football weather!
Joey, we just finished a short film that was shot in Gloucester. Lead actor is based in Montreal but he maintains a summer home here. The film played on Thursday night as an Official Selection of the Cape Ann Film Festival (http://capeannfilmfestival.wordpress.com). Festival runs through Nov 16. Not sure if you post these sort of things to your site but if so then the information and link are below (film poster is attached):
“Stillwater”
Official Selection of the 2014 Cape Ann Film Festival
Synopsis: A man returns home after 20 years to find out what happened to the girl he loved and the money he lost.
Directed by Jon Halverson and Richard Notkin
Starring: Richard Notkin, Patrick Halverson, Kevin Noonan, Kristine Halverson, Mark Stafford and Constance Ross
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 13 minutes, 32 seconds
Thanks,
Jon
So, in case you need to leave town, this is what it looks like over the bridge right now. First snowfall of the year = wackadoodle drivers. Be careful.
Big seas and spray off of Rockport
Cat Ryan submits-
Main Street’s best-dressed list:
Fred Bodin’s masterclass in pirate chic layering, shopping super local over time from his longstanding retail neighbor, Bananas.
Yesterday, as I was doing some framing in the gallery, I saw a great picture across the street. I went outside with my rollator and yelled: “Hey skeleton dog!” Jen Greeke of Gloucester and her dog Mona crossed the street and we took a photo. Jen has started her own fashion design company: harpyfashion.com. Sometimes it only takes one look, and I know there’s a good photo to be captured.
From The Salem Patch:
November at the Stetson Gallery in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead will feature the photographs of Sarah Rydgren of Salem. Rydgren’s exhibit, ‘home,” will be celebrated at an opening reception on Sunday, November 2, from 12-2 p.m. at the Gallery, located at 28 Mugford St., Marblehead.
Sarah Rydgren, a 28 year native of Salem, has always had an interest
in the outdoors, nature, travel and photography. She briefly studied
film photography at Montserrat College of Art, however, she is
completely self-taught in digital photography, specializing in Nikon
DSLR Cameras and Adobe Photoshop. Sarah is now pursuing a
Bachelor’s Degree in environmental biology and geology at Salem State
University and works as a Ranger in Ipswich for the Trustees of
Reservations. She recently moved back to her hometown of Salem with
her 6 year old son, Maverick, and her two cats. You can often see
Sarah spending her free time hiking and photographing the North Shore.
She has been influenced by such photographers as Ansel Adams, Darren
Jew, Paul Nicklen and Paul Souders.
Rydgren calls this exhibit “home” because, she says, “Home is where you feel comfort, and most of my work displayed in this show was taken during the last year, while I was healing from my father’s death.
Barely could stand out of the car to take this video.. be careful out there
Concerned about climate change? Be among the first to envision a solution!
The Green Committee of the Gloucester UU church, in cooperation with the Cape Ann Forum and Gloucester’s Clean Energy Commission, will present a panel discussion on the rise of carbon pollution causing climate change, and what we can do to stop or reverse the damages. Seven panelists from a broad range of organizations will discuss how to develop a plan for Gloucester to become fossil fuel-free or carbon neutral in a decade.
This event will be held Sunday evening beginning at 7pm at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church and is free and open to the public. The panel discussion will be followed by a question and answer period, concluding at 8:45. All are invited to stay for a reception concluding at 9:45. This event is sponsored by the Superior Nut Company.
Continue reading “From Global Climate Crisis to Local Action: What Next?”
Sorry For Not being Able To Hear Me, The Wind Was Just Too Strong
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
Beverly Sills (1929-2007)
Born Belle Miriam Silverman in Brooklyn to immigrant parents from Ukraine, Sills won her first singing contest at age three and would go on to win first place on both the Major Bowles Amateur Hour and Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, the American Idol of their day. She broke into opera in the late forties, specializing in the work of Donizetti, Rossini and Massenet, and by 1971 appeared on the cover of Time Magazine as “America’s Queen of the Opera”, despite limiting her career to spend more time at home with her children, both born with disabilities. She retired from singing in 1980, but continued in the public eye, first as director of the New York City Opera, then Chair of Lincoln Center, and finally of the Metropolitan Opera, while simultaneously offering her celebrity to the March of Dimes and other charities. She was the recipient of four honorary doctorates, multiple Emmy and Grammy nominations, and the 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Or one as cute?
Atitcus’s wonderfully imaginative Halloween Costume, with Mom Michelle and Sister BananaHead.
More pics from the East Gloucester Gang tomorrow!
November 1, Storm Report From The Back Shore #Glou:
Halloween night was lots of fun and it was great to see you many families and kids out and about treat or treating.
Don’t Forget to leave your shoes by the front door tonight. Tomorrow begins the celebration of All Saints & All Souls’ Day. See pages 112 & 113 in my cookbook Gifts Of Gold In A Sicilian Kitchen for details of my family’s Sicilian tradition and Bones Of The Dead Cookie “Nucatuli” Recipe.
WITH A FAREWELL RETIREMENT AT ROSES MARINE
Good Morning Gloucester 