BLIZZARD WARNING !!!! SAT-SUN AM FEB 15th CAPE ANN

Posted on by Peter J Lovasco

BLIZZARD WARNING!!!!!
8-10″ Heavy Snow
Damaging Winds Excess of 60mph!
Coastal Flooding Minor!
Start Time 2-4 PM ..
End Time 2-6AM SUNDAY!

Mariners Forecast !
DONT GO OUT!!!!
Winds NE 30-50 Knots Sustained
Gusts past 70 Knots ! Seas building 17-25 FT!

Synopsis …. Bombing storm off ACK later today and tonight will bring in heavy bands of Snow and Wind …
Travel not recommend after 6pm ! As high winds / and Snow will make for 0 visibility at times … Snow will accumulate 8-10″ maybe higher ! Sum models put out more QPF / while others less.. Winds pick up 25-35 from east late day veering north east 35-45 sustained tonight gusts over 60mph!
Storm warning at the Coast !
Hurricane Force wind Warning 30 miles off shore ! Track crucial if 30 miles further west then Hurricane Conditions to the shore …power outages likely ESP CC / South Shore .. Although Cape Ann Will have plenty as well I’m sure .. K more later … Maybe a live Report later tonight .. Please if u don’t have to go out tonight Don’t !!! Thank u for reading …
Peter Lovasco
GMG
Weatherman …

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Beauport Princess Captains wish everyone a Happy Valentine

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Beauport Princess Valentine Dinner – be sure to view more photos by Terry Webber on  GoodMorningGloucester.

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Ben Keene Author Event at Cape Ann Brew Pub

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns
Hi Joey,I hope this note finds you well. I wanted to bring your attention to an event that might make sense for Good Morning Gloucester’s calendar or Facebook page.
A few weeks ago Voyageur Press published my third book, The Great Northeast Brewery Tour, a title that introduces people to 62 of the best and brightest craft breweries between DC and Maine, including Gloucester’s Cape Ann Brewing Company. Heavily illustrated with color photographs, it also includes beer focused restaurants, local accommodations, and nearby activities.
I’ve scheduled a number of author appearances in late February and will be speaking and signing books at Cape Ann Brewing on Sunday, 2/23 from 12-2pm. I’m emailing you today because I think it may be of interest to your readers. Here’s a link with more information about my tour: http://whereandback.blogspot.com/2014/02/more-northeast-brewery-tour-touring.html

Thanks for your consideration,

Ben Keene
Beer Journalist & Travel Writer
Twitter: @whereandback
Facebook.com/GreatNortheastBreweryTour

GloucesterCast 2/14/14 With Joey C and The Rabbit Day II From Mexico

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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GloucesterCast 2/14/14 With Joey C and The Rabbit

Second Podcast In Two Days With The Rabbit (Audio is messed up from 5:20-9:34) so fast forward it to 9:34 to get back to the audio.  We’re taping with a simple iPad so I don’t have my editing tools.

Topics: People who use coupons at restaurants and don’t tip on the full amount, The Rabbit chatting up 23 year olds on the beach (and how that went), results of the snow shoveling poll, thanks to Kim Smith, Sista Felicia banging out the Valentine recipes, LMGTFY, Shout Out To Nephew BJ, De-Clawing Cats vs Cutting The Vocal Chords Out Of Yapping Dogs, The Bear Necessities.

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Birdwatchers- A Special Breed

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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These MFers are crazy.
Lined up in five degree weather, brisk wind bearing down on them, barely moving enough to generate any heat.
Good times my friend!  Gooood times!
After this what do y’all say about punching each other in the nuts for a couple hours?  May as well top off the day real nice.

My Valentine

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns
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Hi Joey,
Many of your readers are asking for “more” after my last posting of “the beach guys.” Here is my Valentine, my husband Bob, The Love of My Life. Photo was taken about 1949, when he was recently discharged from the Navy. He was stationed in the Asiatic Pacific on LCT and LST landing crafts during WW2  as a diesel machinist in many major battles. At the Weight Lifting Club of the old YMCA, Bob was known as “Big Bob” by his many younger body building admirers. He never entered any contest, but you have to agree he would have won first prize. Bob will be 90 years young this year. He has discovered the fountain of youth, as he continues to lift weights in his home gym.
Virginia (Frontiero) McKinnon

Natural Resources Defense Council Licenses Butterfly Kisses for Valentine’s Day

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

One of my Monarch Butterfly photos of a male and female Monarch was licensed for the NRDC Green Gifts initiative. Here’s a link to the site and description: 

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Send your Valentine some springtime warmth with a gift that will feed beautiful Monarch butterflies. Each e-card will allow NRDC to plant a half-dozen milkweeds this spring to help these incredible migrators bounce back from decades of habitat loss.

Link for more green gifts

Link to Natural Resources Defense Council

Fly away with CAST’s Valentine’s celebration: Shakespeare On Love

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns
image003image004Fly away with CAST’s Valentine’s celebration:
Shakespeare On Love
Scenes with some of William Shakespeare’s most famous (and infamous) couples.
February 14 & 15 @ 8 PM; February 16 @ 3 PM
Spiran Hall, Broadway and School Street , Rockport
Tickets: $15, general; $10 student; $5, youth under 19
Available at the door or reserve at cast2008@prodigy.net
Ticket prices include a post performance reception with refreshments.
More information at capeannshakespearetroupe.blogspot.com and FACEBOOK.
 

Umberto Eco Quote of the Week from Greg Bover

Posted on by Kimsmithdesigns

“I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her “I love you madly”, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say “As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly”. At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently; he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence.”  Umberto Eco (1932- )    

Born in the northern Italian town of Alessandria, Eco was educated in the Salesian tradition, (the Society of St. Francis de Sales, founded by Don Bosco) but left the church during his graduate studies, which centered on the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. After a brief career as a cultural editor for Italian national radio, and a lecturer at the University of Turin, Eco began writing full time and gained wide-spread notice for his 1983 novel The Name of the Rose, which blends mystery with biblical analysis and semiotics. It is as a semiotician, one who studies the meaning of signs and non-verbal communication that he is in demand as a visiting professor at such august institutions as Harvard and Indiana University. He is the author of dozens of books on semiotics, medieval philosophy, and anthropology, and famously enjoys a personal library of more than 50,000 volumes.


Fish on Fridays

Posted on by Marty Luster

The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.

Romeo Solviletti, General Manager for the Gloucester Plant of Connolly Seafoods (http://www.steveconnollyseafood.com) talks about Silver Hake and the return of Cod off the shores of Canada.

Marco Goulart cuts hake fillets fresh from the FV Marue (New Bedford). Hake is a large marine fish usually considered part of the Cod family.


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SilverHakePhotos and videos © Kathy Chapman 2014
http://www.kathychapman.com

Once a Surfer . . .

Posted on by God's Morning

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I recently came across this old photo of me and my surfing buddy Karen.  We were probably 15 or 16 at the time – wasn’t I cute back then!  Obviously no surf that day, so we were coming in early.  I used to spend 7-8 hours a day out on the water in Ogunquit, Maine when there were any kind of waves – only stopping for lunch and hot coffee to soothe my chattering teeth and blue lips, then going back out until my family stood on shore and waved me in because they wanted to go home.  Now, almost 45 years later, I still don’t want to get off that board.  Can’t wait for summer!  Karen, Brenda, Margi, Becky, Violet, fellow SUP Gals and all lovers of being on the water, do you feel me?

I can only remember one bad experience on the water as a surfer.  It was November and a hurricane had passed by leaving awesome waves in its wake.  I begged my father (I didn’t yet have a driver’s license) to take me surfing.  He took me to Safety Beach in Nahant and stayed in the car, watching me with binoculars.

Surf was running 10-12 feet; my norm was 3-5 on a good day.  It took me a long time to make it out beyond the breakers.  He says I was half way to Egg Rock (probably 1/2 a mile out).  By the time I got out, I was exhausted and had to sit out the incoming set of monsters while I caught my breath, plus I was scared shitless, never having been out in surf that big before.  Three or four big swells raised me high to their crest and then down into their trough.  Then I made the near fatal mistake of turning my back to the sea.  The next wave was huge, and when I looked back, it was preparing to break over me.  There was nothing I could do.  It crashed and sent me flying from my board, and sent my board careening to shore without me (they didn’t have tethers back in those days).  After that, every wave crashed on me, pushing me far below the surface in a maelstrom of swirling water.  I would reach the surface just in time to grab a breath of air, before the next wave crashed, pushing me into the depths.  I was certain I would drown that day. Thank God it was cold so I was wearing a full wetsuit or I certainly would have.  At the same time, the current was pushing me further down shore from where I had gone in.

I eventually made it to shore, collapsing exhausted at the water’s edge where my Dad arrived to help me back to the car.

That experience gave me the greatest respect for the ocean, which I still love passionately, but with the healthy modicum of fear, that we all should have.

E.J. Lefavour

Henri Smith Tells Aurelia Nelson what the song Jambalaya means on Sunday at 9am on 104.9FM

Posted on by Vickie & Peter

SUNDAY (2/16) at 9AM, Aurelia Nelson hosts Henri Smith on her show, “Curtain Up”.  Get all the details on New England’s newest tradition: Mardi Gras Concert with Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers and Henri’s 8 piece band. It will be a blast! And…we finally find out what the words are to the song “Jambalaya”! Plus, just try saying N’awlens..not New Or-leens!

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Carol Gray has announced her retirement as director of the Sawyer Free Library

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey,

Would you be so kind as to post the below?

Carol Gray has announced her retirement as director of the Sawyer Free Library, ending a 16-year career that saw the library achieve new heights after a wave of fiscal adversity.

Gray, a Lanesville resident, joined the library staff in 1998 as assistant director and on three occasions during a tumultuous decade served as acting director before gaining the top position in 2007.

David McAveeney, who headed the library’s Board of Directors in 2006-2007, said Gray brought stability to an institution that had slashed operating hours and staffing and nearly lost state certification because of financial uncertainty. “She was the one who kept the place afloat,” he said.

Scott Memhard, the library board’s current president, said Gray’s credits include a key role in creating a new strategic plan, keeping library technology up to date with internet resources and e-books, and broadening the library’s English as a Second Language program to reach more residents.

“Circulation of books, audio, video and other materials is growing, new programs are in place for adults, teens and children, the Lyceum program has expanded, and technology has been kept up to date—all of this done with barely a hiccup or a hitch,” Memhard said.

Gray’s retirement takes effect in April, although with accrued vacation time she plans to leave in March. Memhard said the board, assistant director Freyja Sanger, and library staff will collaborate on “ a seamless transition plan” leading to presenting a new director candidate to Mayor Carolyn Kirk by the fall.

The full article can be found on our site:www.sawyerfreelibrary.org

Freyja Sanger

Assistant Director

Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Library

2 Dale Avenue

Gloucester, MA 01930

978-281-9763 x 12

www.sawyerfreelibrary.org

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