Harvested my Kale for Sopa de Couves

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

IMG_3494 (2)I harvested my Kale (Couyes) wash,. shred  and bagged for freezing.

Looking forward to making a Hearty Portuguese Sopa de Couves that will last me through the cold days of the  New England winter. The recipe varies from year to year.

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Magnolia Historical Society Fundraiser Paint Party, Part II- Tuesday, July 22nd

Posted on by Donna Ardizzoni

Fun night for all..
Magnolia Historical Society Fundraiser Paint Party, Part II- Tuesday, July 22nd

The Magnolia Historical Society (MHS) serves as a place to collect, store, educate, show, share and preserve memorable items from Magnolia’s heyday, and to document the present, here and now, for future generations. The first date was so popular, we’ve added a 2nd date! Please join us for a special creative fundraising event and a night of painting and sipping to raise money for the Magnolia Historical Society! You will recreate our artistic rendition of the “Magnolia Pier” with the step-by-step guidance from our instructor. We provide the supplies – paints, apron, brushes and a 16×20 canvas – you make the masterpiece. This is an instructor-led painting class – part technique, part fun – no experience required! $20 for every seat sold goes directly to help fund MHS and its many programs! Our doors open at 6:00pm, class starts promptly at 6:30pm. Food and refreshments are included in the price! Advanced registration is required as seats are limited.

Register at : http://www.wickedartbar.com/event/magnolia-historical-society-fundraiser-paint-party-part-ii

LOCATION : Magnolia Historical Society at The Little Red School House 46 Magnolia Ave Magnolia , MA 01930

 

Cancer: Check. Appendix? Bye Bye!

Posted on by Fredrik Bodin
I haven't posted lately because I wasn't feeling well, and my cancer treatment changed from hormone therapy to chemotherapy. I was progressively weakening, losing much of the strength I had recovered in physical therapy. I visited the ER at Addison Gilbert Hospital, was tested, and informed by Dr. Berger that it wasn't only the cancer – it was my diseased appendix, that was affecting me. Three hours later, Dr. Kacoyanis of Beverly Hospital surgically removed the offending organ. I'm regaining strength quickly here in Beverly, and feel much better. Although I won't be able to open my gallery for the wonderful Block Party July 19th, I hope you'll celebrate on our Main Street for me, and I'll see you there soon! Fred
I haven’t posted lately because I wasn’t feeling well, and my cancer treatment changed from hormone therapy to chemotherapy. I was progressively weakening, losing much of the strength I had recovered in physical therapy. I visited the ER at Addison Gilbert Hospital, was tested, and informed by Dr. Berger that it wasn’t only the cancer – it was my diseased appendix, that was affecting me. Three hours later, Dr. Kacoyanis of Beverly Hospital surgically removed the offending organ. I’m regaining strength quickly here in Beverly, and feel much better.
Although I won’t be able to open my gallery for the wonderful Block Party July 19th, I hope you’ll celebrate on our Main Street for me, and I’ll see you there soon! Fred

Banksy quote of the week from Greg Bover

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

“A lot of parents will do anything for their kids, except let them be themselves.”

Banksy (1974?-    )

An English graffiti artist, film maker and painter, Banksy’s birth name has never been revealed, although he is said by some to have been from a middle-class background in Bristol. He first gained public notice in the early nineties for his ironic, existentialist, and darkly humorous street art that has a liberal and anti-capitalist viewpoint. Much of his wall art is stencil based and shows a strong influence from the earlier work of French artist Blek le Rat. Often labeled vandalism by the powers that be, his preserved work, sometimes an entire wall, can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. His first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, won documentary awards at several festivals and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Greg Bover

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Community Stuff 7/19/14

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Join us for our 10th annual fundraising gala! This year’s theme is An Evening Under the Spar: Navigating the Future! Formerly the Bluenose Gala, this event will be held on on Friday, August 29, 2014 from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Join us for an elegant evening on our pier surrounded by the classic schooners visiting for the 30th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival! Proceeds from the event support the educational programs and operation of Maritime Gloucester. Click here for full info and tickets.

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The Rocky Neck Gallery in Gloucester
Will Host the Next
seARTS Arts & Cultural Exchange Member Night
Free and Open to the Public

Everyone is cordially invited to the next seARTS Arts & Cultural Exchange Member Night, on Wednesday, July 23, at 6:00 PM. This is our fourth Member Night of the year, and we’re honored and excited to have it at the Rocky Neck Gallery. The evening offers so much to enjoy: the chance to meet seARTS members, stimulating conversation, a tasty buffet and beverages, and the Gallery’s rich array of paintings, photography, jewelry, ceramics, collages, mosaics, etchings and monotypes by regional artists.
This event is free and all are welcome. We hope to see you there! If you can’t RSVP because you’re not sure you can make it, please come anyway!

Details of the evening:
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Location: Rocky Neck Gallery
53 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA
6:00-8:00 PM
To RSVP, please leave a message at seARTS (978) -281-1222 or email info@searts.org
Pot Luck Buffet and Drinks
Free & Open to the Public

BankGloucester  is hosting a public reception for artist Judith Greulich on Saturday, July 26,2014 from 11 am to 1 pm in the Bank’s lobby.  A collection of her paintings are on display at the bank through September 12, 2014. The reception is a great opportunity to meet Judith and speak with her regarding her work.  Light refreshments will be served.
Judith Greulich is a fine artist and longtime resident of Wakefield, Massachusetts.  She paints primarily in oils, in a realist manner. Her subjects and inspiration have always included the New England landscape, gardens, and the beauty of still life.  For the last decade, her focus has shifted toward painting people, in both portraiture and figurative settings.

Judith’s inspiration to paint in oils came at an early age. Fascinated and inspired by the paintings she encountered at Boston’s MFA and Gardner museums during childhood visits, she began pastel and oil painting lessons as a preteen. She graduated from Montserrat School of Art, where she studied with the founding faculty in the seventies.

Plein air landscape work and painting people from life are the mainstay of her process.  “The intensity of that direct encounter and focused response to my subject is the fuel that keeps me painting. The immediacy of staying fully present in the moment…it is both an outcome of, and a motivation for the work itself” stated Greulich.

Since 1999, Judith has organized a twice weekly open life drawing group and portrait session called the Malden Sketch Group which now attracts 30-35 artists per week. She is also a founding member of a Brattleboro, Vermont group of artists (the High Street Painters) who work and study painting the model from life twice a month..  Since completing her formal education, she has continued to develop her craft and technique through study and workshops with master painters and talented teachers such as Clayton Beck, Casey Baugh, Nancy Guzik, Kathy Anderson, Juan Ramirez and Cameron Bennett.

Judith is an award winning member of the North Shore Arts Association where she exhibits frequently. Her work can also be found at Vermont Artisan Designs, Brattleboro, VT.

BankGloucester is located at 160 Main Street in Gloucester.

For additional information please contact:
Patrick Thorpe, President  & CEO, BankGloucester 978-283-8200
Judith Greulich, 781-245-2337

ZINNIAS FOR SALE
Add late-summer color to your garden with vivid and long-lasting zinnias! I grew about 20 zinnia plants from seed. My twelve-year-old great-nephew will be selling them for $5 apiece to earn money for his summer activities. We have several varieties and colors. Please stop by Saturday morning between 10 a.m. and noon to say hello and buy a plant. Then relax on the porch and enjoy a cold glass of juice. Rain or shine.
21 Exchange Street, Gloucester (near the Washington Street Dunkin’ Donuts)

zinnia sale

Hi Joey.

Hoping you can let the community know about this community event! If possible, to post today or tomorrow to let people know. Thanks!

This Sunday, July 20th is ‘Reid’s Ride; a fund raiser for Reid Sacco Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Fund for research and treatment. The riders ride up from Lynnfield MA and stop at Stage Fort Park, Gloucester MA. 

This year, in honor of the 10th Anniversary of this event and in memory of Reid, some riders will continue on to Kennebunkport. If people want to find out more, register to ride or donate to this awesome cause- http://www.cancerinyoungadults.org/2014-reids-ride/. The following is excerpted from Reid’s Saco web site- 

The Purpose- Reid’s Ride is the primary fund-raising event to benefit the Reid Sacco AYA Cancer Fund.  The fund provides financial support to select clinicians, researchers, and programs around the world working on finding better treatments–and someday a cure–for the cancers predominantly striking adolescents and young adults.  Proceeds come from registration fees, rider fund-raising, individual donors, and generous donations and sponsorships from local businesses. 
The Inspiration- The event is named in honor of Reid Sacco, who lost his life to cancer at age 20.  Shortly before he passed away, when he was still hopeful that he’d be able to beat the disease, he aspired to ride in an event to raise money to support research in young adult cancer like his.   He never lived to achieve that aspiration, so his family and friends established a Foundation in his name, and launched Reid’s Ride as a way carry on that aspiration for him.   
Come out and support the riders! The Dreamtime Wellness ‘Dream Team’ will be there offering Wellness Services of Reiki, Massage and Reflexology. There will be raffle tickets (Acupuncture, Massage, Reiki, Reflexology, and more at Stage Fort Park this Sunday to help raise additional money for the ‘Reid Sacco AYA Cancer Fund. ‘  ~ Karen Pischke, info@dreamtimewellness.com.  Gloucester, MA

Thanks Joey!  Happy weekend.   Karen

Coffins Beach Shipwreck Follow Up From Jim Salem and second Update From Victor T. Mastone

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

View Marty Luster’s Original Post Here

Hi Joey,

Great meeting you at the Gloucester Farmer’s Market. It was fun to see the nice photos you took and posted of my daughter working there!

I took a few more photos of the old shipwreck that you can see at low tide along the middle of Coffin’s Beach.  I’ve attached the best one here.  It would be fun to hear people’s thoughts around the age and provenance of the craft. Enjoy!

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It’s about 30′ long by 10′ wide.

if anyone has anything to add to the story please add your info in the comments to this post

Second Update 7/18/14
Victor T. Mastone

Captain Joey,

We haven’t spoken in a while. Your always a good source of information and as I promised in the past, I just wanted to let you know that our program has started investigating the unidentified shipwreck which recently became exposed on Coffins Beach. We were out there yesterday and spoke with a few local residents. They had never seen the wreck before and several lived there for about 40 years. Our files list a few wrecks in the area, but those vessels were much larger than this shipwreck. The exposed portion of the wreck is about 34 feet long, though probing suggests it is about 40 feet long; width is roughly 14 feet max. Metal fittings were not evident. If you have heard of anything about the wreck. I’d like to hear from you. otherwise, I’ll keep you posted on what we find out.

Most people don’t get to see real shipwreck too often. So, it is an interesting opportunity to visit this window to our maritime past. While there is really nothing to take, most people do not realize that the site is protected by state law. It is my hope people respect the site and completely refrain from removing any of it or otherwise disturb or damage the site when they visit.

Speak with you soon.

Best regards,

Vic

Victor T. Mastone
Director and Chief Archaeologist
Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources
251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
Boston, MA 02114
Website: http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/buar/

CELEBRATE GLOUCESTER 2014 ANNOUNCED – STARTING AUG 15th – THE 45th ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

BREAKING NEWS: We just announced the Celebrate Gloucester Benefit Concert Series — three great concerts for three great causes, beginning with Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee John Sebastian on August 15th, the 45th anniversary of his performance at Woodstock.  Get tickets here.

Cabbage Grapefruit Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

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Cabbage Grapefruit Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

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In just one week Chelsea Berry will be at Cape Ann Marina’s Waterfront Pavilion for A one-night-only summer homecoming concert in Gloucester, Ma. 7.25.2014 8:00pm

Posted on by Joanne
photo by Louise
photo by Louise

Getting ready for next Friday night

A one-night-only summer homecoming concert in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Chelsea Berry

Waterfront Pavilion

Next to Mile Marker One

75 Essex Ave.

July 25th

In the big event tent on the water
Renee & Joe will be opening
There will be a solo act by Chelsea and also Chelsea and a full band with Renee Dupuis, Joe Cardoza, Brendan Burns and Dennis Monagle.
This line up is great and you know it’s going to be a most excellent time!
You can get your tickets here before the show > http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/709321

http://www.chelseaberry.com/

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AP NewsBreak: Obama opens East Coast to oil search

Posted on by capeannpainter

Maybe Gloucester will become the next “Big Oil” Port in the World. Was this the illuminati’s, i mean our Politicians reason for shutting down the Fishing industry. Conspiracy Theory. Maybe. Think about it.

AP NewsBreak: Obama opens East Coast to oil search http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=hAVKDD1Q (from @AP)

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Throwing Lefty- A Good Morning Gloucester FOB Production (Now Updated With Chariots of Fire Music)

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro