Last weekend 15 GMG authors and FOBs converged for a celebration the 100th GloucesterCast Podcast at Cape Ann Giclee. It was a great time and a tasty breakfast. I ate the Last Stop’s awesome blueberry muffin, which was 50% fresh blueberries.
Wishing My Older Brother Joey a Happy 47th Birthday Today!
Hope You have a fantastic day!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOEY!
Happy Birthday to the Best Editor-in-Chief Ever!
See More Photos Here
Continue reading “HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOEY!”
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Check Out Science All Around Us with Collin Keegan
Our Buddy Tom Ellis Of the Schooner Thomas E Lannon Is Involved In A very Special Project-
Science All Around Us with Collin Keegan
As captain and owner of the Schooner Thomas E. Lannon for the last 17 years, I’ve met thousands of people. Many stand out,
but one eight year old boy named Collin Keegan is exceptional. I first met Collin on a Saturday morning Kids-go-Free sail.
It was obvious from our first conversation that he was special. Collin has a huge curiosity about the world and likes to share
what he learns with other kids. What better way to do that than through video? After seeing the first edits of this film,
Collin came up with the idea of “Science all around us.” And that became the title of the 5 episode video series we would
like to produce.
I’m asking you to watch this short video about Collin. If you like the idea of getting our youth excited about learning,
you can help by making a kickstarter pledge. Even if you cannot donate, you can help by sharing this video with your
friends, colleagues, or members of the organizations you belong to. And I know you’ll enjoy watching Collin!
Our goal is to produce a pilot video that will attract a distributor for the series.
Check Out The Kickstarter Campaign Video-
Meet Collin Keegan. At first glance, he looks like a normal rambunctious eight-year old. He likes wearing a faded red baseball cap. He carries a pen and a notebook in his pocket just in case he needs to draw a diagram to explain a scientific concept to a friend or peer. He has a charming British accent and an endearing lisp. He’s cute—that you’ll be able to recognize easily—but something special sparks inside this small forty-pound boy when he’s sharing knowledge and learning with others. He has a truly infectious joy of learning and an amazing ability to recognize the creative way science affects and shapes our world. Through Collin’s eyes the rudder and steering wheel of a sailboat become a “mechanical connection system.” He knows intuitively the science that propels every day objects, and he applies scientific concepts and principles in a way that’s truly inspiring.
Collin docking the 65 ft Schooner Lannon
Like the project on Facebook and follow them on Twitter
and once again check out the mission page here
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Man Card Revoked
There comes a time in the whole engagement process where a guy’s gotta have the balls enough to just say- “No, I’m not gonna do a Spice Girls video with you.” Bottom Line. End of Story.
Zero chance this dude ever lives this down from the absolute beatdown his boys are gonna lay on him.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Wednesday October 29th , 2014 Cape Ann Weather…
Marine Forecast :
Today SW winds 5 to 10 kt. Seas 1 to 2 ft. Patchy fog this morning. A chance of showers with patchy drizzle this morning… Then a chance of showers this afternoon. Vsby variable to less than one quarter nm this morning.
Tonight W winds 10 to 15 kt…increasing to 15 to 20 kt after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 ft. A chance of showers in the evening.
Pod Cast Weather :
http://www.spreaker.com:80/episode/5140975
Hourly Forecast :
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Calling all residents: the City needs YOU to help improve the Oval Playground
Calling all residents: the City needs YOU to help improve the Oval Playground
Ward 3 City Councilor Steve LeBlanc and the Community Development Department need your help on November 6th, 7th and 8th when the “Community Build for the Oval Playground” will take place. This is a great opportunity for civic-minded folks to roll up their sleeves, have some fun, and help install a new playground at Palazola Field!
Volunteers are asked to be available from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM on one of the three community build days. Work will include installing concrete foundations, sorting, erecting and assembling playground equipment. To ensure safety and quality, volunteers will be trained and supervised by an experienced playground site specialist.
Dress in comfortable work clothes and closed toe shoes. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
The “Re-shaping the Oval Playground” project, which is funded by the Massachusetts “Our Common Backyard” program and federal community block grants (with project management funded through the Mass in Motion program), will not only improve the play area off Centennial Ave. near Harvard Street, it will provide more opportunities for kids to play and get fit.
The City is seeking 20 volunteers a day to help in the three-day effort (with an alternative extreme weather day on November 9.) Mayor Carolyn A. Kirk notes that with the “Renewal of Newell” last year and September’s completion of the update to Burnham’s Field, the City continues to build on its successes and create more opportunities for recreation, play, and support of active lifestyles.
Councilor LeBlanc, who reports that the existing equipment will be reused at Riverdale Park, hopes that community members, neighborhood associations and other community groups/organizations will sign up as community build volunteers.
Online volunteer registration is available at www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0F4DA9AE28A4F94-community/.
Community members can also contact Councilor LeBlanc at SLeBlanc@gloucester-ma.gov.
Community Development Department Senior Project Manager Stephen Winslow also can be reached at swinslow@gloucester-ma.gov or at 978-282-8007.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
You Know What Tiny Little Space Is Just killing It With programming?
The Gloucester Writers Center.
Jesus I’m not sure there’s another joint around that packs as many events per square foot into their space.
The folks running the place are just relentless.
Kudos to them.
Check out and follow their website for updates- http://gloucesterwriters.org/
And furthering the conversation about local arts, I’m not sure local writers get enough due. It’s non stop with our awesome artists and great for them but let’s all take notice of all the awesome Working Writers in town.
Congrats on being big time relevant.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Chickity Check It! Maps and data for ocean planning in the northeastern United States
Redesigned Home Page Accommodates Growing Collection of Maps and Data Posted on Oct 27, 2014:
Check it Out by Clicking the Image
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Dreaming of Spring Ephemerals at the Mary Prentiss Inn!
Loads of earth-moving in the fall equals a world of beauty in the spring. Thanks to my awesome crew, Patrick from the Mary Prentiss Inn and Jackson from the Kendall Hotel!
The Mary Prentiss Inn is truly the most welcoming of guest houses and yesterday while there planting the smell of the cook’s apple muffins baking wafted through the garden. A bit later, plates of warm muffins greeted guests; I couldn’t resist when offered. They were divine and are without a doubt the best muffins I’ve ever tasted! I’ve been promised the recipe and can’t wait to give it a go and to share!
For more information on the project, visit my Design Projects page here.
Link to The Mary Prentiss Inn here.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Spooktacular Dancing!
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Sawyer Free Library Halloween with a Heart
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Going Under Cover
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
A beautiful Saturday morning at the State Pier
Another beautiful Saturday morning for Clean Gloucester and The One Hour at a Time Gang. Also our friendly seal came by to say thank you.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
American Bear at Cape Ann Community Cinema
NOVEMBER 2 at Cape Ann Community Cinema
Screening and Q&A 6:30pm. Hosted by the Cape Ann Museum, part of the Cape Ann Community Cinema Festival. The filmmakers: Sarah (Mordecai) Sellman and Greg Grano will be present for your questions and thoughts.
Sarah and Greg set out to critically explore American culture, compassion, and fear by relying on the kindness of strangers for a home each night. Traveling through 30 states in 60 days, they spend every day in a new town, learning why people may or may not be willing to open their homes.
Sarah and Greg spend time getting to know their hosts – each uniquely, culturally American – while the film raises questions about how we define American identities. Sarah and Greg’s own social location – white, young, middle class, appearing as a straight couple – guides the way they interact with strangers, complicating the hospitality they receive.
American Bear captures Americans yearning for face-to-face connections and navigating the risks inherent in sharing their stories with strangers. Each character’s voice tells a unique story: from the daughter of the last warrior woman of the Cheyenne mountain tribe whose grandson still faces bigotry in Montana; to the single mother in Oklahoma rebuilding a relationship with her mother after a history of drug abuse; to young friends in Chicago finding new ways to articulate what modern segregation looks like; each character is facing obstacles that share a unique side of the multifaceted post-9/11 American identity. At times funny, heartbreaking, and inspirational, these individual stories reflect the daily choices we make to trust, to confide, to care for, and to sympathize. How do we develop relationships and navigate the barriers in society and in ourselves to actually form connections? While American Bear and its characters suggest some answers, the film offers many more questions, encouraging the viewer to take their own journey of reflection and discovery.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
SELL OUT WARNING: Not many seats left for Chelsea Berry & Charlee Bianchini at Old Sloop on Saturday
Do you really want to be the schmuck who says, “What? We can’t get in? Really?” Of course not. So stop what ever you’re doing and get your tickets right here, right now! (Forget what the poster says about tickets at the door. There won’t be any.)
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Gram and Gramps Getting Freaky
(Not my Gram and Gramps)
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Community Stuff 10/28/14
Cape Ann Skating Club “Frozen” Party Open House
Hi Joey,
Cape Ann Families are invited to the Cape Ann Skating Club Open House “Frozen” Ice Skating Party on Saturday, November 15, from 1-3 pm at the Talbot Rink, O’Maley School, 32 Cherry Street, Gloucester.
Free Family Event!
*Free Skating Lesson with “Frozen” characters
*Free Arts & Crafts
*Bake Sale & Hot Cocoa
*Used Skate Sale
*Great opportunity to learn about Cape Ann Skating Club programs
Participants are welcome to dress up as Frozen characters! For free skating lesson, Public Ice and Skate Rental fees apply.
For more information regarding Cape Ann Skating please visit:
http://www.facebook.com/CapeAnnSkatingClub
website: http://cafsc.org/
This Wednesday at the GWC
Hi Joey.
I am offering an outreach program for ‘Military Veterans of Cape Ann’ in honor of Veteran’s Day next month and wondered if you could help me spread the word! Thank you in advance for all that you can do for this special project!
11/11/2014. Reiki Clinic/Share 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Manchester Healing Arts Center. 66 Summer St. (Rt. 127.)
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. FREE for Vets (with military I.D.)
Nominal donation all others. RSVP- info@dreamtimewellness.com.
11/20/2014 ‘Evening of Wellness’ for Veterans and Their Families.
4-8 pm. Manchester Community Center. 40 Beach Street. (Yellow Building by the Train Station.) Manchester-by-the-Sea. FREE to Veterans for 1st Session. $10.00 Donation for others. Proceeds go towards local charities. Bring Military Card. Register in Advance – info@dreamtimewellness.com or phone- 978.283.4258.
Thank you! Karen
Karen Pischke BSN, RN
Gloucester MA
Students at Manchester Memorial School were treated to a presentation by Nick Bollettieri. The world-famous tennis coach was here for the weekend visiting Manchester Athletic Club’s MAC Tennis program, where he gave private and group lessons to hundreds of up-and-coming tennis players from around New England, including those in the MAC Tennis Academy program.
430 students in grades K-5 were treated to a Q&A with the energetic octogenarian who created the first full-time tennis boarding school that combined on-court training with an academic curriculum. A method that produced 10 number-one world-ranked players, including Andre Agassi, Maria Sharapova, and Venus and Serena Williams.
Bollettieri spoke to students about their school’s core values: Honesty, Effort, Acceptance, Respect and Responsibility, and Thoughtfulness (HEART); as well as the importance of education, working hard, and living a healthy lifestyle.
“A positive attitude gives you a chance to be successful and can make the impossible possible”, Bollettieri told students. “If you feel that you are special, you have to prove that you are special. Don’t ever say I can’t, say I will. If you put everything you have—every ounce of effort—into winning, then you are a winner no matter the final score.”
“Nick is a great example to young people of how discipline and hard work can provide opportunities and lead to great success,” said John Willis, Principal at Manchester Memorial Elementary School.” He has travelled the world motivating young people, and a lot of what he believes in is what we teach our students here.”
Bollettieri’s visit was made possible by the MAC Sports Foundation, which was created in 2012 by Manchester Athletic Club in partnership with the United States Tennis Association (USTA). The mission of the Foundation is to offer scholarships to talented junior athletes who do not have the financial means to reach their goals, as well as to provide grants to schools and community organizations offering youth athletic programs.
Manchester Athletic Club is located in Manchester by-the-Sea, MA, and is the only USTA Training Center in New England and one of only 12 USTA Regional Training Centers in the country. MAC is also home to New England’s professional tennis team, The Boston Lobsters.
Back Row: Tennis legend, Nick Bollettieri, with Manchester Memorial Elementary School Principal, John Willis. Front row: Students: Cole Riehl, Maria Rising, Milo Zeltzer, Nina Zalosh, Lily Stefanovich, Tess Carpenter and Hannah Davis.
Gloucester Democrats collect clothing, phone cards, and clothing for our troops
Once again, the Gloucester Democratic City Committee has organized a collection for our troops stationed overseas. They are gathering clothing (especially underwear and warm socks), as well as phone cards and books. Crossword and sudoko books are among the favorites; so are DVDs. All goods should be brand new, of course.
Items can be dropped off at the Cape Ann Democratic Headquarters in the Main Street Plaza, next to Walgreens. It is open 10am to 6pm weekdays, 9am to 5pm Saturdays, and 2pm to 6pm Sundays. The drive will conclude on Tuesday, November 4.
Thanks!
Deanna Fay
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Tony from Magnolia Pizza
Tony and Lisa DiMercurio are asking for your help. They need pictures of the inside of Tony’s Magnolia House of Pizza, ASAP for insurance.
Did you have a birthday party there, took a photo of Tony behind the bar, please look and take the time to send to Lisa and Tony’s daughter Angelica. Angelica’s mail:
angelica.dimercurio1@gmail.com
Thank you, Please feel free to share this information. If you are having any problems in scanning and sending photos, please call 978-290-3005. Thank you again
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Anyone Wanna Explain To These Women Scrunching Their Lips Together That They Just Come Off As Try-Hards? Updated…
What is it with this new trend with women scrunching their lips up for social media photos?
Can anyone pinpoint when this all started and who made it a “thing”?
Yo, your lips get stung by a bee or somethin?
Weird thing is that most of these women are already attractive so I don’t get the lip move. I get that they’re probably not desperate for a date but what it does reek of is desperate for attention.
Anyway, not that I think we necessarily have a young readership that this would apply to but just in case I can save a youngster that might be reading, not a good look.
Update:
OK,I spotted the trend but apparently I’m way behind on this- www.antiduckface.tumblr.com/ has been on the case for a while now.
Worth a looksie.
UPDATE 2:
CHRIS DEWOLFE IS JEALOUS AS HELL AND WANTS YOU TO KNOW- NOBODY DUCKFACES LIKE CHRIS DEWOLFE DUCKFACES
UPDATE 3 from Know Your Meme- http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/duck-face
Good Morning Gloucester 