My View of Life on the Dock
Came to find out that Sergeant Todd Fitzgerald had a lot to do with the creation of the Manchester Police Department’s contribution to the Festival of Trees. He designed, gathered all the adornments and placed everything on the tree. (Said he got the parking tickets out of my car…). He did say that someone else had to make the bow for him! Very creative.
Couldn’t this stuff have failed on us in August when fixing it wouldn’t suck so bad?
Heidi Dallin has produced a brand-new Holiday Delights show for 2013. Check out this wicked cool promo by Lisa Smith from Cape Ann TV. Lisa’s daughter is in the show too! Four performances @ Gloucester Stage this weekend: Friday 7pm, Saturday 3pm & 7PM and Sunday 3pm. Adults $15, Seniors $12, Children under 12 $6. Get tickets here.
When local New Orleans transplant, Henri Smith, and his band take the stage Saturday and Sunday at the Larcom Theatre in Beverly, they won’t be the only people in the house with musical instruments.
That’s because members of the audience are bringing instruments to donate to The Musary — a free music lending library “no strings attached” serving Boston’s North Shore, including Cape Ann.
Everyone who brings an instrument to donate will be entered to win a door prize at intermission. The door prizes we have now are:
One night stay at Salem Hawthorne Hotel plus $50 gift certificate for Nathaniel’s (their restaurant).
Spa Day at Maison Esthetique Christiane Bourque Spa in Danvers ($400 value)
Plus a chance to have your Christmas shopping paid for with the 50/50 Raffle!
The Musary is a 501(c)3 on-profit organization that that works to motivate, cultivate and inspire people, especially young people, in our community to get involved in music. It is the Musary’s goal to lend musical instruments to anyone in need, “No Strings Attached.” To learn more about The Musary, borrow an instrument or donate, visit their website.
There’s plenty of time to dig around in your attic or basement and find that no-longer-used instrument so you can put it to good use again this weekend. And who knows, you might just win something — but even if you don’t win, you’ll know you helped a young person appreciate the power of music, who might not otherwise be able to do so. And that will feel great! There are still some seats left for Henri Smith New Orleans Christmas Concert on Saturday at 7:30pm (get them here) — and excellent seats left for the Sunday Matinee at 2pm (get them here).
Onion Soup
Ingredients
6 tablespoons salted butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
10 cups sweet onion sliced
4 large garlic cloves, finley minced; pluse 1 large whole clove
1 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
5 tablespoons cognac
1 heaping tablespoon Dijon style mustard
2 sprigsmeStep
3 tablespoons flour
12 cup beef broth
1 cup white wine
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 loaf french bread
1/2 cup Gruyere Cheese, Shreeded
1/4 cup Smoked Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
1/4 cup Smoked Gouda Cheese, shredded
Olive oil
Step-by-Step
1 combine butter and oil in medium stockpot; cook over high heat until butter is melted
2 add sliced onions; sauté 15 minutes; Stir often
3 add garlic and sugar; mix well; lower heat to medium; continue to cook 20 minutes until onions are deep golden brown
4 add cognac; carefully flame cognac with lighter, when flames subside add mustard and thyme sprigs;mix well
5 add flour; continuously stir 3 minutes
6 add beef broth and white wine; mix well
7 season with salt and pepper; simmer uncovered over medium heat 40 minutes
8 combine shredded cheeses
9 cut bread into eight 1 inch thick slices
10 arrange bread slices on cookie sheet; drizzle each slice lightly with olive oil
11 toast bread under broiler 40-50 seconds or until golden; immediately remove from broiler and carefully rub each slice with 1 whole clove garlic
12 Ladle hot soup into oven-proof soup bowl; float one toasted bread slice on top; fix generous heaping of cheese over bread
13 arrange oven- proof soup bowl on cookie sheet; place under broiler 4-5 minutes until cheese is melted and bubbling; serve immediately
* Note~ approximately eight servings
Big weekend here- HUGE weekend here in G Town! Thursday Night Family and Friends Night downtown, Friday Night The GMG Holiday Party, Saturday The Middle Street Walk and Lobster Trap Tree Buoy Painting and Lighting. That’s a perfect frickin trifecta of awesomeness right there baby!!!!
As more of our local merchants submit their plans I’ll add them to this post for handy reference on what to do and where to go.
Hopefully Fred Bodin will circulate this post to our local merchants so they know to submit stuff to me to add in.
First Up Maritime Gloucester submits-
Maritime Gloucester will be open for Gloucester’s Family & Friends Night this Thursday, 5:00-7:30. Bring the whole family! We’ll have a craft project for the kids and great deals in the shop for everyone. There will be snacks and hot chocolate and lots of good cheer!
Join us for Friends & Family Night
Dear Joey,
Season’s Greetings!
Why shop alone when you can make a night of it with friends and family? ‘Tis what the season is all about!
This Thursday, December 12th from 5pm to 10pm, celebrate the season at Harbor Goods with live music, specials, holiday treats and free wrapping.
Shop small and local in Downtown Gloucester while you enjoy strolling carolers and musicians in a family-friendly and festive Main Street event. The winner of the $1500 Shopping Spree will be drawn during the evening.
Mix, Mingle and Be Merry with the crew at Harbor Goods/Life is good
119 Main Street, Gloucester, MA
What: A special indoor farmers market for holiday shopping
Where: Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, at the corner of Middle and Church Streets
When: December 21th, 2013
Time: 9 am – 12 Noon
Event: Winter Solstice Market.
The Cape Ann Farmers Market will hold a special indoor market for holiday shopping. The market will feature local produce, meat and poultry, crafts, baked goods, pickles, preserves, herbal products, candles, smoked fish, Trupiano sausage, honey, soup, guacamole, pasta, dog treats and more. Gifts for giving and food for the feast will be on sale from local vendors.
The Cape Ann Farmers Market is an independent non-profit, mission-based organization, started by and for the community of Cape Ann, and sustained with one part-time paid employee. It is funded by vendor fees, memberships, donations, and grants. To help underwrite expenses for the Winter Solstice Market, the Cape Ann Farmers Market will sell gently used cookbooks along with Farmer Market merchandise, such as tote bags, t-shirts, and private label organic coffee. Special membership packages will be available, which make great gifts, as do raffle baskets, which will include food and merchandise from Market vendors and area restaurants.
For Parents:
Gloucester U is an exciting and engaging after school experience that will start this January. Gloucester U has been made possible by the 21st Century Community Learning Center Federal Grant. It is a completely free program for students and includes courses such as cooking, technology, service learning, and more. Attached is a flyer with the January courses.
Come learn more about this program and how it can benefit your child’s education experience to become a life long learner and navigator of the 21st century. There will be an informational meeting this Thursday, December 12 at 5:30 in the GHS library. Please also visit www.gloucesteru.weebly.com for more information.
Best,
Samantha Whitney
swhitney@gloucester.k12.ma.us
Lead Program Coordinator
Are You A FOB?
Then you better get your sexy ass down to Bodin Historic Photo For The GMG XMAS Party December 13th! 6PMTil We Burn Down The Neighborhood!
I’m just gonna put this out there that if you consider yourself a FOB you had better show up for our killer OFFICIAL GMG CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!!!
We’re gonna celebrate it all, Kwanza, spinnin the dradel, all that fun shit!
Dradle Dradle Dradle A Dradle Made Of Clay! Sing It Toby!!!!
GloucesterCast 12/8/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Toby Pett
Also known as Mr Happypants.
Hi Joey C,
I’ve been a subscriber to GMG for about 6 months and thoroughly enjoy the ‘inside scoop’ on all that is going on in the community.
We will be spending our first Christmas in Cape Ann this year and was interested in your readers suggestions for activities that week.
What’s on their top 10 list???????
All the best,
Sarah
My neighbor, Melissa Tarr, is having a holiday open house to celebrate her brand new jewelry design business, Design of Mine. The party is this coming Wednesday, December 11th, from 6 pm to 9 pm, at her home located at 19 Plum Street. Her collecion will be available for sale, refreshments served, and everyone is invited! I hope to see you there!
Best wishes for a first great holiday season with your new business Melissa; the first of many seasons yet to come!
Visit Melissa’s website here for more information about Design of Mine.
Spotlight on Sinikka Nogelo
Gloucester painter Sinikka Nogelo considers herself lucky to work in a studio overlooking Joey C.’s business, Capt. Joe and Sons. “The view is just lovely. I enjoy seeing the activity on the working waterfront, knowing my friendly neighbors are doing so much for the community with Good Morning Gloucester, while supplying us with the freshest lobster, and also supporting the arts. A few years back at Joey’s, one of my favorite art installations featured larger than life, black and white photos of faces of the waterfront. “
Though Sinikka has been most well known locally for her work in community television, art has always played a major part in her life. After graduating from Tufts, she studied at Montserrat with Oliver Balf, Barbara Moody, George Gabin, Roger Martin and Ethan Berry. She also took classes at Silvermine Guild in Connecticut and at the BFA’s Museum School in Boston. As a young artist, she was a founding member of the women’s cooperative “Center and Main Gallery,” located in what is now Passports Restaurant. Sinikka returned to painting full time upon her retirement from Cape Ann TV in 2010.
A member of Rocky Neck Art Colony and the Cape Ann Artisans Studio tour, Sinikka paints contemporary pieces inspired by thoughts and feelings, sea and sky. “I just love color and composition. I get a great deal of satisfaction from the process of making art, just seeing where things will go, experimenting and building on what I’ve made.” In recent years Sinikka has also been creating wall pieces from recyclables and found objects, some of which were on display last summer at the Cape Ann Museum’s White-Ellery House in Sinikka’s installation, “Tin – Relics and Remakes.”
At the Rocky Neck Art Colony’s Holiday Art Festival Sinikka is offering miniature paintings on easels to grace spots such as desks, book shelves and counters, as well as miniature paintings to hang as ornaments. Her paintings have long been influenced by the sea and sky which she uses as subjects and as metaphors. Sinikka loves color and composition and putting that first stroke on a canvas.
You can see more of Sinikka’s work at the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival (Sat. & Sun. noon – 4:00pm through 12/29) and at the Magnolia Historical Society’s Art in the Schoolhouse Show (Sat. & Sun. 10:00am – 2:00pm through 12/22).
E.J. Lefavour
Special appearances by Chelsea Berry at the MAC (2 – 3 PM), Alexandra Valenti @ Shalin Liu (3:30 – 4:30 PM) and Allen Estes at Cape Ann Savings Bank (5-6 PM). See full schedule below!
The Gloucester Housewives extend an invitation to all! This Saturday evening for a night of Holiday Cheer at Cruisport Gloucester. … Appetizers, Dinner, Dancing and “OPEN BAR” !
Hottest tickets in town !
How do like your Nuts?
Hmmmm! Can’t wait to try the Walnuts.
http://thatnuttyredhead.com/products/sample-pack-pecansHow
Open House every weekend till Christmas.
Good Morning Gloucester 