My View of Life on the Dock
It's official! The Holy Cow is coming back! @Gloucester_MA
— Holy Cow (@HolyCowTweets) July 1, 2014
Construction is underway at 80 Pleasant St. We're transforming this old town favorite into something new & exciting! pic.twitter.com/oaWIexKTci
— Holy Cow (@HolyCowTweets) July 1, 2014
GAAC July Meeting, “Astrophotography From Beginner to Expert”
The 8:00 pm Friday July 11 meeting of the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club is a free astrophoto festival, filled with outstanding photos of planets, and immense, distant, colorful galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, shown on GAAC’s 100 inch screen! The meeting will feature in-person presentations by four outstanding photographers, showing off their best work, and an introduction by our own Steve K, who will demonstrate how simple astrophotography can be for beginners.
Photographers Mario Motta, Phil Orbanes, John Hobbs and Barry Yomtov will each present their ten favorite pictures, and will talk briefly about what the objects are, how far away they are, how big, and a little about why and how each person got that shot.
This will be a spectacular, colorful night, with great presenters, and we’ll have a wonderful time getting a rare, entertaining and accessible look into the world of astrophotography. Many of the photographs can be previewed in the Gallery section of the club website, at http://gaac.us/
The club meets on the second Friday of every month at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street Lanesville, from 8:00 to 9:30 pm. Parking is free. The public is warmly welcomed and there is no cost. More information is available through the website, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage or in the club twitter feed, @gaactweet.
Summer Drop-In Programs at Maritime Gloucester
Enjoy a wide variety of summer drop-in programs at Maritime Gloucester, five days a week through August 23! All are free with admission or membership, and no registration is required.
Creature of the Week
Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays
PreK – 6 Years with an adult
Each week we will highlight one of the fascinating creatures living in our Aquarium. Program includes an exploration in the Aquarium, a story and a creature craft.
10:30 – 11:30 am
Plankton Safari
Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays
Children 5 and up with an adult
Please join us for an afternoon of investigation in our video microscope laboratory.
1:30 – 3pm
Catch of the Day
Wednesdays and Fridays
6 – 12 Years with an adult
Each week we will offer a different hands-on marine-themed program integrating projects in marine engineering, biology and maritime history.
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Stop, Drop, and Sail: Date Night Aboard the Schooner Ardelle
Parents enjoy a beautiful summer sail around Gloucester Harbor while the kids (ages 4+) stay on-shore with Maritime Gloucester education staff for fun activities in our Touch Tank Aquarium.
Want to add dinner? We’ve teamed up with Beach Gourmet to offer dinner onboard!
Image credit: Bill O’Connor
Lahey Health, Addison Gilbert Hospital to host cocktail cruise in Gloucester Harbor
Celebrating the contributions of the Dusky Foundation
On Thursday, July 10th at 6 p.m., Lahey Health will host a cocktail cruise to celebrate the contributions of the Dusky Foundation and its support of Addison Gilbert Hospital, Cape Ann’s resource for state-of-the-art care close to home. Cape Ann residents are encouraged to attend and enjoy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and music by physician-led band The Way to the River aboard The Beauport Princess. While cruising around Gloucester Harbor, guests will also have the opportunity to mingle with Dr. Howard Grant, CEO & President of Lahey Health; Dr. Richard Nesto, Chief Medical Officer of Lahey Health; Tim O’Connor, Chief Financial Officer of Lahey Health; Denis Conroy, CEO of Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals; Cynthia Donaldson, Vice President of Addison Gilbert Hospital; and Mr. J. Linzee Coolidge, Trustee of the Dusky Foundation.
Interested attendees can visit philanthropy.lahey.org/cocktailcruise for tickets or contact Nora C. Johnson at 781-744-7854 for more information.
Hi Joey!
The Chamber is gearing up for another GREAT Auction this year!! This is our biggest Fundraiser of the year, as well as a fun social gathering of all of Cape Ann’s finest! We have lots of beautiful artwork from local artists: paintings, prints, sculptures, pottery….some truly unique and beautiful items! We also have many goods, services and gift certificates to local retailers, restaurants and businesses. We would really appreciate your help in getting the word out about our Great Event!
Friday, July 18, from 5:00-10:00pm, at the Essex Room at Woodman’s. Tickets are $30 or a reserved table of 10 for $300. I have attached a flyer with more information. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you and I hope to see you there!
Kerry
Make your reservation today for our
Sunset Dinner Cruise!
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Enjoy music by Singer/Songwriter AJ Edwards while
dining on a delicious buffet dinner of carved prime rib,
baked haddock and much more! All this and a cruise of
Historic Gloucester harbor, what a perfect evening!
Discounted, tonight only!
$29adults/$15children
Ticket price includes dinner, cruise and music!
Call for reservations!
978-865-3210
Eloise writes-
Come to Captain Joe and Sons and see some rare lobsters. They’re really cool. One is yellow, one has four claws, one is tagged from New Hampshire Fish and Game.
Best tartar sauce for your summer’s grilled fish dishes ~ and simplest, too!
Have you tried locally made Maitland Mountain Farm’s Holly’s Spicy Pickles? Not only are they super yummy, but when craving crunch they are fabulously satisfying. Using Maitland Mountain Farm’s pickles in tartar sauce makes for a wonderfully flavorful condiment, not the usual sticky sweet stuff more typically found.
Holly’s Spicy Pickles are available for sale at the Cape Ann Farmer’s Market on Thursdays as well as wherever fine pickles are sold!
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Recipe makes approximately 2 cups.
8 Maitland Mountain Farm’s Holly’s Spicy Pickle Spears, finely chopped
2/3 Cup Hellmann’s or homemade mayonnaise
1/3 Cup whole milk yogurt
1 teaspoon pickle juice
S & P to taste.
Combine all ingredients and serve with fresh fish. The remainder can be stored in an airtight container for several days.
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Not the winning walk, but when looking through photos realized that this sequences was of Mark Allen, Sunday’s Greasy Pole Champion, and believe it was his second walk of the event. Click to view larger.
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Don’t miss these two great opportunities to see Regina Piantedosi’s exciting work, as well as many others in A Fine Line.
Regina’s YUPO Gallery, G4 on Madfish Wharf, is a great space with some really unique and exciting abstract work, plus Regina’s great energy. Stop by her opening on July 5th from 7-9:00pm.
Also, don’t miss the opening of A Fine Line, an exhibit of drawings and other interpretations at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck on Saturday, July 12 from 4-6:00pm.
The Gloucester Fireworks Committee just cancelled tomorrow’s fireworks due to weather predictions (see Gloucester Times article here), but the Horribles Parade and free concert are still on in the hopes that weather will clear up.
Music featuring Cape Ann Big Band and The Runaround Sound will begin after the parade passes by the Boulevard stage (probably around 7:00pm) and continue until 11:00pm with a spectacular laser light show somewhere in between.
So come out and enjoy the parade and free concert. Let’s show all those people visiting from out of town that bad weather predictions aren’t enough to spoil our fun!
With support from Cape Ann Coffees, Fish City Capital, and North Shore 104.9, the show will take place on the historic Gloucester waterfront under the event tent at Cape Ann Marina’s Mile Marker One.
The band will feature some of the area’s finest musicians, including Renée Dupuis on keyboard and vocals, Dennis Monagle on drums, Joe Cardoza on bass, and Brendan Burns on guitar.
Local favorites, Renée and Joe, will perform a special opening set.
There are 2 seating options: General admission traditional concert configuration or very limited, VIP cabaret table seating for 4 guests at the front of the stage for the most intimate concert experience.
Tickets are limited, so act early to ensure your spot at what will be Cape Ann’s hottest concert of the summer.
Tickets on sale starting at noon on Sunday, May 25th at http://chelseaberry.brownpapertickets.com/
Looking for a venue for your next Special Event… our function hall is the perfect place to host your next…
Private parties, Gatherings, Birthday parties, Weddings, Baptisms, Graduations, Communions, Celebrations and more …
For function hall rental information please call
Fatima Bettencourt 978-884-9404 * fatibett@hotmail.com
Ricardo Marnoto 508-284-2229 * ricm12@gmail.com
Now that St. Peter has been placed back in the window of the St. Peter’s Club, and all the festivities and tradition’s surrounding “The 2014 Fiesta of St. Peter” are officially in the history books forever, it’s time to switch gears and prepare for Fourth of July barbeques, and Gloucester’s Fishtown Horribles Parade held July 3rd! Over the next few days I will be posting several recipes perfect for this upcoming week of summertime fun! Last night family and friends enjoyed today’s recipe “Grilled Surf & Turf Tequila Chipotle Flank Steak & Shrimp”Fajitas” at Niles Beach for dinner as the sun began to set.
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Hey Joe, my name is John Linquata and I’m a member of the Fishtown Horribles Parade Committee.
We have been working all year long to put out another fun and entertaining parade for this great city. This year we are honoring Ray Smith of Smith Hardware who was a life long sponsor of the parade as parade marshall. We have Gloucester’s own 2014 Special Olympic Gold metal winner Danny Williamson as Grand Marshall Danny brought home the gold in the shot put and bronze in the 100 and 200 meter relay. We will also recognize and congratulate our two scholarship winners Samantha Ryder and Malya McLean.
Of course some of our favorite marching bands will be back and a few new ones that we are really excited to see perform here. As always we will have all the amazing floats that the wonderful people of Gloucester put together for the city to enjoy (which people can pre-register for at www.fishtownhorribles.org ). Of corse the Horribles our namesake who we are always looking for more of and clearly the Cape Ann YMCA would like to see more of too, because they donated two weeks at camp spindrift, one for a boy and one for a girl, anyone who would like to help collect money this year as a horrible will get an extra shot at the week at camp. And as always the parade line up is first come first serve which means the earlier you show up the closer to the front you are, Horribles are encouraged to show up around 5 pm and the parade starts promptly at 6 pm.
If anyone would like to volunteer we never turn down help we will be at the High School Auto shop Wednesday after 6 pm decorating and setting up and on Thursday from noon on, there is always plenty to do. And if anyone has any questions all of our contact information can be found on our website again that is http://www.fishtownhorribles.org and don’t forget to like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/fishtownhorriblesparade and tag us in your photos new or old we love to see them and others do too. We can’t wait to see everyone there have a happy and safe 3rd and 4th.
Thanks again Joe, anything we can do to get more people involved only makes the parade better for everyone, so we really appreciate your help. Have a great day.
John Linquata
This will be the third summer that a French family and I exchange our houses, our cars and our friends. Four years ago Magali and Thierry and their two children Ariane and Thibaud arrived in Gloucester to spend a whole summer. They stayed in one room at the Captain’s Lodge. They fell in love with Gloucester and I fell in love with them. Thibaud spends his summers sailing at Eastern Point Yacht Club and Ariane spent hers drawing with the Rockport Art Association and learning English at a school in Boston. Now, during the summers, I live in their house and they live in mine. We exchange our cultures, our passions, our gardens, our town’s festivities. Magali and I would like to tell our story as it unfolds in this ‘Good Morning Gloucester’ blog.
Ariane, Magali, Thierry and Thibaud when they first arrived in Gloucester
Magali is introducing herself and her experience in french to friends she has made here in Gloucester and to friends home in Mallemort. If you wish to be in touch with her you can reach her best by email at…magali-excoffier@orange.fr
She would be so happy to meet more people who are in love with Gloucester.
Nous nous sommes rencontrées il y a 4 ans par amis interposés un matin lors d’un breakfast aux” 3 sisters” . Depuis, nous ne nous sommes plus quittées . Fan de Provence et nous amoureux de la New England nous avons décidé avec Saira Austin d’échanger nos maisons l’été suivant. L’aventure dure depuis 4 ans et n’est pas prête de s’arrêter car nous échangeons bien plus que nos simples maisons ! Nos cultures, nos habitudes, nos coups de coeur, nos festivités, nos amis, notre voisinage, nos jardins, nos passions…Au fil des ans Saira est chez elle à Mallemort , nous arrivons chez nous à Annisquam ! Bien au delà de nos progres linguistiques c’est un autre monde que chacun apprend à comprendre et à aimer chaque jour . C’est une histoire de famille et de belles amitiés au des frontières et de nos différences , cet échange est une belle histoire d’humanité.
De la Méditerranée à l’océan, Mon fils Thibaud sera cet été aide instructeur à l’école de voile d’Eastern Point.Ma fille Ariane nous rejoindra en aout pour profiter des plages de light house, good harbor et des couchers de soleil sur Halibut Point !
A chacun son été ! Le notre sera à Cape Ann !
Si vous souhaitez nous rencontrer , parler français, échanger sur la Provence …magali-excoffier@orange.fr
Nous arrivons le 1er juillet !
Good Morning Gloucester 