Who Was This Man?

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You young ones out there probably won’t, but any of you 50 somethings and beyond will certainly remember him.  In addition to being a tv personality that most kids in this region watched in the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s, he was also an avid scuba diver and skier, how my parents became friends with him.  My siblings and I watched him every weekend.

Howdy there, folks, we’re glad to meet you in Boom- Boom- Boomtown!

There’s a bunch of folks who’d like to greet you in Boom- Boom- Boomtown!

You can bet we’ll have lots of Western fun And excitement for you

We’ll ride and rope, do a square dance and shoot a gun And we’ll sing a song or two

Come along, folks, now we’re gonna start the fun in Boom- Boom- Boomtown!

From six to sixty there’s something for everyone in Boom- Boom- Boomtown!

So do-si-do and swing around, Get your gal and promenade down to Boom- Boom-Boomtown!

E.J. Lefavour

GHS vs Lynn Classical Girls Basketball Highlights From Cape Ann TV

Published on Jan 29, 2014

Catch the Game on Cape Ann TV Channels 12 & 20.
Watch your Gloucester High School Girls Basketball team take on Lynn Classical!
Check our website for scheduled airings at www.CapeAnnTV.org

GHS Wrestling in meet against Danvers

GHS Wrestling continues to improve in last regular season match with Danvers. This is GHS’s first year of competing in this sport.

Valentines Day Massage Special At The Manchester Athletic Club

Offer valid January 15, 2014 – February 14, 2014
Valentine coupon expires May 14, 2014 / Limit one per customer

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Offer valid January 15, 2014 – February 14, 2014
Valentine coupon expires May 14, 2014 / Limit one per customer

 

 

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Four Cheese Super Bowl Potato Skins

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 Only four key ingredients needed to make a winning touchdown recipe… Continue reading “Four Cheese Super Bowl Potato Skins”

Paper vs Plastic: Some Facts

Bob Velo from Crosbys Market stated in the Gloucester Daily Times article that the cost for plastic bags are 3 cents vs 10 cents for paper bags.

Tax data cast doubt on claims about declining use of plastic bags in D.C.

By Mike DeBonis

The District’s four-year-old tax on disposable bags has been a rousing success, leading to a 60 percent drop in household bag use and many fewer plastic bags littering city streets. Such are the claims of city environmental officials, citing surveys done by an independent research firm last year.

City revenue figures, meanwhile, show no continuing decrease in the use of disposable bags. In fact, bag tax collections have proven remarkably stable since the nickel-per-bag fee debuted in January 2010.

Information from International Plastics website (for what it’s worth):

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Paper Bags VS: Plastic Bags – Real Numbers

Are plastic bags getting a bad reputation?

Look in almost any newspaper and more than likely you will find an article about local government that is considering to somehow regulate plastic bags. It is becoming easy to hate the “pitiful” plastic bag!

Paper vs. Plastic:

Articles usually leave out the facts as well as the side by side comparison. A truthful look at what is required to produce 1000 plastic bags versus 1000 similar paper bags. If the biased media would present the facts, as discerning people we could make educated and wise decisions.

If all the shoppers using plastic bags last year had used paper bags instead, they would have increased the amount of solid waste by over 100 million tons and taken up 7 times more space in landfills.

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Lindle Willnow submits a great link with more facts from the National Cooperative Grocers Association-

Here is a reference that shows that neither option is that good but plastic seems to have a smaller, though longer lasting impact (https://www.ncga.coop/newsroom/paper-or-plastic). That said, I haven’t got on board with bringing my own.

Joey notes-

The 979 cubic inches for 1000 plastic bags vs  7188 cubic inches for paper bags does not take into account that after a year or two in a landfill that paper bag will be significantly less from decomposing and the plastic bag will be around forever.

If This Video Doesn’t Make You Proud of O’Maley Innovation Middle School Then You’ve Got Zero Heart

See this is the kinda thing that brings a school together like nothing else.  Whichever school administrator greenlighted this deserves like a thousand percent raise and I’m not even joking.  You can’t put a pricetag on how much this type of thing will do for school and community spirit.,

Frickin billiant!!!!

The O’Maley Innovation Middle School community recently came together to create a lipdub video of our SAILS theme song “Brave!”

Community Stuff 1/31/14

Docksider & Elementary Concert – Thursday,  February 13 at 7pm. Gloucester High School auditorium. Come hear great music & support music in our schools! FREE admission! Baked goods will be available for purchase during intermission.


Special Event

“To Light the Fires” 
A Guest Sermon by Lise Breen

Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church

Sunday, February 9th, 10AM

Join Gloucester UU parishioners on Sunday, February 9th for a guest sermon by Lise Breen: To Light the Fires: A Sketch of The Daltons, Black Citizens of Gloucester and the World”


Lise will remind us of Gloucester’s indisputable, tangled history with slavery with some accounts from Gloucester. One former enslaved African American, Gloucester Dalton, joined other Universalists at the laying of the cornerstone for the Gloucester church. Lise will introduce other Dalton family members and discuss their roles and identities as slaves, as fugitives and, finally, as extraordinary political activists. She hopes to meet with you afterwards to answer questions and discuss plans for an African American Heritage Trail.

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About Lise Breen: While selecting content for the Gloucester HarborWalk, Lise came across evidence of our African American history. She hopes to garner support for an African American Heritage Trail to reveal the extent of slavery here and, more happily, recognize those who worked so hard to end it. Lise worked as a Research Associate with The Brooklyn Museum and, more recently, as a consultant documenting accounts from the rapidly changing fishing industry. She is a member of the Sargent House Board and the Gloucester Harbortown Cultural District Steering Committee.


Gloucester Better Together Cafe – Healthy Gloucester Collaborative…. FREE EVENT

Wednesday, February 12 (5:30-7:30 pm)

Where:  Rose Baker Senior Center-6 Manuel F. Lewis Street, Gloucester

Your Community, Your Conversation. Free event starting with a light dinner, and a relaxed evening of conversation as we continue our work to make Gloucester ….Better….Together, Cafe Style. Participants will move forward to the next step of action on themes developed at the October Cafe event. New participants are encouraged and welcome to attend. Bring family and friends and together we can build relationships, programs, and energy within Gloucester to strengthen and connect our community in a productive way. Free Event,  All ages Welcome; Childcare available onsite. RSVP appreciated, but walk-in are welcome! Sponsored by Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, with special thanks to the Gloucester Council on Aging.

Email to: asatterfield@gloucester-ma.gov or: 978 281-0908

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Get ready for our second monthly tequila tasting! In honor of Valentine’s Day, come share in our love of tequila with one of our most-adored brands- Milagro. Cupid’s arrows will be flying around providing shot after shot of agave to warm your hearts. Prepare to fall in love with Casa de Luis even more deeply than we’re sure you already are.

So join us for a night of fun and debauchery for our tequila tasting on Thursday, February 13th from 7-9pm. One $30 ticket will allot you 6 samples of Milagro, one of each type, samples of our signature Milagro margarita concoction, and 6 courses of tapas from our menu. In honor of the holiday we will have some extra fun planned out including a door raffle and photo ops with the most interesting man alive!

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Come into Casa for a drink and a bite and grab your ticket or contact Izzy at 978-407-7640

IMPORTANT: Casa de Luis will not be seating non-tasting patrons for dinner after 5pm and will not be taking take-out orders after 5:45pm on the night of the tasting. We also will not be accommodating walk-ins for the tasting on the night-of, so buy your tickets in advance!

Meet The Coywolf on PBS

So if you match up the pictures of the dead animal I found on Moorland Road back in 2010- it looks just like these are in fact Coywolves or Eastern Coyote that we have around here-

Gloucester At Dawn Poor Dead Coyote On Moorland Road 4:50AM 5/22/10

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This poor coyote must have gotten hit by a vehicle within the past few hours as the blood was still vibrant red.

RIP Mr Coyote.  Hope your life on the island was a good one.

There must have been quite an impact to make his eye bug out like that on one side of his head.
I wonder if this is the same coyote I came face to face with on the Good Harbor Beach Footbridge in these pictures back on July 5th,2008-

 

Drone Video from the rock that completely destroyed a house

One minute your milking goats and yodeling your ass off and the next minute you have a big ass boulder pounding through your house making it look like a bunch of match sticks.

I guess the question I would ask is this-

If you buy a house under a mountain that has rock formations that look like they’re ready to let go at any time are you really surprised when your shit gets wiped out?

Is this not the equivalent of the nouveau riche that buy shacks on Plum Island, tear them down and build mansions and then cry for Federal assistance when they get wiped out by the latest storm as if there hadn’t been decades of evidence of massive beach erosion?

Monarch Butterflies in Crisis

Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Graph Journey NorthEach winter, since I began photographing the Monarchs in 2006, I compare this graph from Journey North to the number of butterflies observed on Cape Ann. As you can clearly see, this is the worst year on record, which corresponds to the near complete lack of Monarchs in our region this past summer.

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Monarch Butterflies Eastern Point Gloucester

Many thanks to Kathy Chapman and our GMG Readers for forwarding the following New York Times update about the shrinking Monarch Butterfly popluation.

By Michael Wines

January 29, 2014

Faltering under extreme weather and vanishing habitats, the yearly winter migration of monarch butterflies to a handful of forested Mexican mountains dwindled precipitously in December, continuing what scientists said was an increasingly alarming decline.

The migrating population has become so small — perhaps 35 million, experts guess — that the prospects of its rebounding to levels seen even five years ago are diminishing. At worst, scientists said, a migration widely called one of the world’s great natural spectacles is in danger of effectively vanishing.

The Mexican government and the World Wildlife Fund said at a news conference on Wednesday that the span of forest inhabited by the overwintering monarchs shrank last month to a bare 1.65 acres — the equivalent of about one and a quarter football fields. Not only was that a record low, but it was just 56 percent of last year’s total, which was itself a record low.

At their peak in 1996, the monarchs occupied nearly 45 acres of forest.

The acreage covered by monarchs, which has been surveyed annually since 1993, is a rough proxy for the actual number of butterflies that survive the arduous migration to and from the mountains.

Karen S. Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Minnesota who has studied monarchs for decades, called the latest estimate shocking.

“This is the third straight year of steep declines, which I think is really scary,” she said. “This phenomenon — both the phenomenon of their migration and the phenomenon of so many individuals doing it — that’s at risk.”

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Save the Date: Upcoming Screenings of My Film Life Story of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly

I hope to see you there!

For more information about Life Story of the Black Swallowtail Butterfly click here.

Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 at 6:30 pm Lowell Eco-Film Festival ~ More details to follow.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 at 6:00 pm. Willowdale Estate, Topsfield Massachusetts: Artist Spotlight Event

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We’ve come a Long Way Baby

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Today you can pick up a Nikon Coolpix underwater camera for a few hundred bucks and grab yourself some underwater shots pretty easily.  Not so in the old days.  These photos go back to the early 50’s when my dad became fascinated with scuba diving (after seeing the film “The Frogmen, “1951) and underwater photography.  He developed one of the first underwater camera cases, which resulted in his being invited by Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso so that Mr. Cousteau could see it.  The model is my mom, Jean Lefavour.

E.J. Lefavour

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CRAZY MOON Opens TONIGHT Down Rocky Neck

Thurs – Sun, 2 weeks  ~ OPENS THIS WEEK ~  Jan. 30 – Feb. 9  Down Rocky Neck

Here’s what viewers of its September debut are saying? 
Mayor Carolyn Kirk said“I was entranced by Crazy Moon and the intimate setting of the Rocky Neck Cultural Center.   Also knowing the Writer’s Center benefited made it a wonderful evening out.”
Linda Amero called it ” charming and poignant “.
Jimmy T said“Incredible energy and talent, a thought-provoking roller-coaster ride through your own reality.” 

John Steiger said: ” Gordon Baird takes us on a wondrous journey to mysterious places, his imagination is contagious.”

Jay McLauchlan” I would like to see this tour de force again! What a perfect vehicle for the multi-talented Baird, John Hyde and a terrific feature performance by Kathleen Brown, an extraordinary journey, inspiring . . .”

Robert Crandall” A creative one man songfest in the best tradition of seafaring story telling.  Enjoy. “

John Bell put it“Gordie at his best. Well worth the watch.”

Grace Schraft: ” Everyone there was amazed. It was brilliant. I loved it.”

Come and see what all the talk was about with the return of CRAZY MOON, Gordon Baird’s original musical, also starring John Hyde and Kathleen Brown.  

8 Shows Thurs. Jan. 30 ~ Sun. Feb. 9

The show is very exciting and fun and runs only an hour and fifteen minutes – (so even a guy can enjoy it.)

Curtain is at 8 pm (thu-fri-sat) and 5 pm (Sun) at The Rocky Neck Cultural Center on 6 Wonson St…All opening night ticket proceeds (Thurs, 1/30) go to benefit the Gloucester Writer’s Center.

Tickets for all shows are $15, 2/$25 ~ kids $5 and can be bought at the door at showtime.  Free parking in the town lot a block from the theater. Gordon@rampartsfarm.com for info or rezzies.

FOB: James Montgomery with Barry Goudreau, David Hull & Gary Hoey – On Sale Friday 1/31/14

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