Community Stuff 11/20/13
15th. Annual Ladies Day. (Men are Welcome too!!)
Pauline Breshnahan submits-
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We love to invite all of our Old and New Customers to stop by so we can say thank you!
Thank you for your Support, your Business and especially your friendship. We are truly blessed to be in a community where small businesses are treasured and supported..
Looking forward to sharing a memory, having a laugh or finding that little gift you were looking for.
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Seaport Gloucester Destination Marketing Organization
TIME TO RSVP:
NOVEMBER 20, 6PM, DOWNTOWN MUG UP MEETING HOSTED BY LOCAL COLORS: BE THERE!
The LOCAL COLORS ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE, 121 Main Street, is the place to be from 6 to 7PM next Wednesday, 11/20/13, for a Mug Up Meeting to review upcoming marketing opportunities, especially for those in Gloucester’s Downtown and in any of Cape Ann’s Cultural Districts. The Agenda includes:
- Overview of the CDC’s Downtown Study meetings that were held this summer.
- The new Cultural Districts cooperative Phone App opportunity.
- Co-op coupon/flier opportunity for the Drive, Group & Cruise markets.
- Consumer Show co-op opportunities.
- Advertising in the 2014 (6th edition) Discover Gloucester Visitor Guide.
RSVP asap to info@seaportgloucester.org. NOTE: BYO chair if you need to sit.
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BE SURE TO PENCIL IN THE FOLLOWING DATES & RSVP:
DECEMBER 4 , 2013
GROUP TOUR MARKET WORKSHOP/ROUND TABLE
8:30-10:30AM, CAPE ANN’S MARINA RESORT COMPASS ROOM
Wondering how to get more Group Tour business? Not sure how big or small “groups” are? What Group Tour Planners are looking for or if you have what they require? This workshop & round table discussion is for you.
Experienced Group Tour professionals will cover the nuts & bolts of the Group Tour market. You’ll leave prepared to pursue Group travelers in a variety of ways. The agenda:
- What is a “group” and why you may or may not want them.
- What Group Tour Operators are looking for.
- Ways to get in front of the Group Market.
- How to produce an effective Profile Sheet.
- Following up on Leads.
RSVP now to info@seaportgloucester.org.
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YOU’RE INVITED! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013, NOON-2:30PM
DISCOVER GLOUCESTER HOLIDAY & AWARDS PARTY at LA TRATTORIA, 64 MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER
$20 per person, inclusive, for Italian Buffet Luncheon. Pay at the Door. Cash Bar.
Reservations necessary via info@SeaportGloucester.org
Join the festivities while we celebrate the Holidays and a successful year. We’ll also be congratulating three people or organizations from our local tourism community who will win Discover Gloucester Awards:
- The Golden Sou’Wester Award recognizes a person, business or organization having recently jumped into tourism to add a new dimension to our diverse Destination.
- The Discover Gloucester Heritage Award recognizes a person, business or organization for ensuring that our maritime & cultural heritage remains current and relevant.
- The Good On Ya! Award recognizes a person or organization for helping create a Destination that is a wonderful place to visit and in which to live.
Let us know asap if you have a nominee in mind, and do plan on attending the Holiday Awards Party to find out the Winners of these special Awards!
RSVP to info@seaportgloucester.org
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The Fleet
Traditionally I suspect when people think of the Gloucester Fleet or Gloucester Fishermen they think of large draggers, wooden or steel. Fact is probably over 90% of our fleet are boats less than 50 feet in length and most are made of fiberglass. Sure there are a few draggers left but that subsector of Gloucester’s fleet is miniscule compared to what it once was.
This morning in the office our fishermen were having a conversation about how many fishermen and lobstermen are due to retire within the next 10 years. The last great generation of fishermen to fish out of this port are nearing retirement. The last generation of fishermen who can remember Gloucester fishing when it was humming.
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Congratulations Savour Wine and Cheese on the Tremendous Success of Your First Annual Wine Tasting!
Savour Wine and Cheese’s First Annual Wine and Beer Fall Tasting Event was a phenomenal success. When I stopped by to take some snapshots at 3:30 there must have been 150 people and this was after the peak!
This just in from Kathleen as I am writing the post–if it was too chaotic when you stopped by to pick up your order, Savour is extending the tasting discounts through the week (10% off 6 mixed wines or beer and 15% off 12 or more mixed wines and beers).
Correction–there were closer to 200 people at the event, from as far away as Boston, Stoneham, and New Hampshire. It was Savour’s Best Day Ever and the event was only three hours long! Congratulations Kathleen, Bob, Matt, John, and Team Savour for much deserved success!!!
Don’t you think Kathleen and Bob look like newlyweeds?
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Good Morning World
A beautiful statue looking out over the ocean at 6:15 am.
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Artist Spotlight Series – Deborah Way
Spotlight on Deborah Way
Deborah learned her craft from a jeweler in the ‘70s on Cape Cod, beginning with sterling silver. She soon expanded her repertoire to include gold and gems. Working for 12 years on the other Cape, she was further inspired by a master craftsman who taught her the finer points of hammering, as well as other advanced techniques.
Deborah counts herself very lucky to have landed in Gloucester in 2000; a perfect way to start a new century in an environment that encourages such a variety of expression. She settled in, set up her bench, adopted her shelter dog, Hope, and takes her daily walks on the Boulevard; all the while marveling at how much of the coast line is open to residents and visitors, which is not the case on Cape Cod.
After spending many years in business, Deborah is grateful to be back at her bench creating jewelry from sterling and gold, and taking some metal courses to explore new methods to extend her field of work. She just loves being able to live in this artistic environment, which encourages her to work better instead of harder.
Presently, she is finding new inspiration from the curves she sees in nature, and her next step is to create new designs for her jewelry based on these curves. As a result of her recent metal course, she is also looking at the possibility of working iron for garden ornamentation.
Look for more of Deborah’s beautiful jewelry at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street, East Gloucester during the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Fine Crafts Festival
Saturdays and Sundays, Noon-4 PM
November 30 – December 29
http://www.rockyneckartcolony.org/winter.php
E.J. Lefavour
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Viva Verde – Celebrating Verdi’s 200th Birthday
Thanksgiving week starts with “Viva Verdi!” Saturday, November 23 at Crowell Chapel
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Thanksgiving week starts this Saturday with American Soprano Diana Jacklin, and leading Austrian violinist Hartmut Ometzberger throwing a 200th birthday celebration for Giuseppe Verdi at Manchester’s Crowell Chapel at 7:30. They will be performing Ometzberger’s beautiful arrangements of Verdi, Mozart and Turn-of-the-Century songs in Manchester’s visually stunning 1903 chapel.
See the program, bios of the performers and other Holiday Music events at the Crowell web site (thecrowellchapel.com). And while you’re on the web, help with historic preservation by “sharing” this event with your friends through the Crowell Chapel Facebook page.
The Concert Series is sponsored by the Historic Manchester Trust which helps care and advocate for the maintenance of Manchester’s historic structures. Tickets are $25, and $15 for students and children under 12. Purchase them online, at local stores in Manchester-by-the-Sea including Nor’East Frameworks, North Coast Too! or by calling Woody Kelly at 617-755-9299.
The Manchester Council on Aging is offering Seniors special $10 tickets and transportation to the event. For information or tickets please call them at (978) 526-7500.
Free street parking at the edges of the Rosedale Cemetery. Parking directions are on the website: www.thecrowellchapel.com.
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Win a Pair of Tix 2 see Johnny Winter at Larcom Theatre on 1/31/14
Wanted to share a Facebook Post:
Ticket Tuesday! Win two tickets to see blues-rock legend Johnny Winter just by being a fan of our Facebook page AND “liking” this photo! Feel free to click the share button and tell your friends, but sharing not necessary to win. We’ll pick a winner on Thursday. Have fun and click “like”!
Disclaimer: Entrants must be 18 years old or over. This promotion does not have a connection with Facebook in any way and is not sponsored, supported or organized by Facebook. The recipient of the information provided by you is not Facebook, but M.E. Productions, LLC.
There is a lot of great stuff happening at the Larcom Theatre and it is virtually next-door not “up the line”. Do yourself a favor and check out it out.
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More From Boston
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Live from Boston Flower Market
Today my BFF, Dee and I made our annual trip to Boston’s Flower Market to buy supplies for my annual Holiday Boxwood Tree workshop/Ladies Only Christmas Party for my girlfriends. This year will be our 5 th year kicking off the holiday season together before the hustle and bustle really kicks in. Dee and I are like two kids in a candy store, filled with excitement, walking up and down the aisles, looking at the new looks for the season. The market place never disappoints…always so many beautiful new looks and design tips for the holiday season it’s hard to commit to just one. This year blues, greens, and bronze were very much highlighted and seem to be very popular colors among the designers shopping around us!
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Reminder ~ Auction Tonight 1 Lexington Ave in Magnolia 6:00pm. Inspection starts at 4:00pm.
What are you doing tonight? Do you love antiques, sit glued to the TV when American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars are on? Do you get up at 5am to be ready for yard sales? Want to go shopping at a venue that has unique one of a kind items? Looking for a special gift for someone? What if that place let YOU be in control of how much you pay? If any of this sounds like fun, you should head over to 1 Lexington Ave in Magnolia tonight for the auction being held by Cape Ann Auction. The sale is filled with antiques, jewelry, coins, furniture, glass & china and much more. It starts at 6pm, but inspection starts at 4pm and there’s a lot of things to see so you should get there early.
Best
Walt Kolenda
Here’s a YouTube quick preview video
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Dave Sag’s Thursday Night Blues Party with Orville Giddings, Mark Earley and Steve Chaggaris @ The Rhumb Line 8-11~ 11.21.2013
This Thirsty,
The polls are in. And it’s official: Orville Giddings and Marque Earley are the undisputed kinghs of Ipsquitch. Many Magi believe that twins were born at the virgin birth, and scholars have long debated how a freakin’ tenor sax was hawked out of the birth canal to the tune of “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy”. We’re here to dispel the notion that flossing will help you lead a more upright life. Indeed, the mere mention of saxophone reeds and guitar picks is enough to send the most covalent of humanoids into a maelstrom of shock.
That being said, Let’s welcome that fabulous guffawer of glee and full-time guitslinger Mr. Orville Giddings. This guy writes great songs, sings them well, too, and plays a mean goo tar. and then there’s Marque Earley, tenor and baritone buffonio maestra on sexomaphone, willing to chase you back to whatever evil planet you came from. How can we miss?? Add the stylistic cacklings of Stevedore Chaggaris and basic innuendos of Dave Sag and you have the beginnings of a life worth living and dying for. And we will.
Our new winter hours are 8 to 11. Bring cash.
Dave
THE RHUMB LINE BAR & RESTAURANT
40 Railroad Ave.
Gloucester, MA 01930
phone: 978-283-9732
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Don’t forget about all things happening tonight (Tuesday)!
Here is the schedule for tonight!
Vegetarian Thanksgiving Challenge
Location: Alchemy
Date: November 19, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Cost: $25
MC: Peter Van Ness
To keep with the season of giving, bring a canned good with you to the event for The Open Door, and we will match your donation can for can.
Are you [or someone close to you] a vegetarian who feels a little left out during the Thanksgiving season? Do pilgrim sandwich specials and Pinterest boards devoted to Thanksgiving leftovers bum you out? Then, Alchemy has the chef throw down for you!
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And of course live music happening around:
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Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach
9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day on September 25, 2013
This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civillians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.
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Social Media Genius Chris DeWolfe from Mamie’s Kitchen Tweeted Out This Mudiga Steak Sandwich With Bacon Special and I’m On It
What, you think you’re gonna go tweet out something like Mudiga Steak Sandwich With Bacon and Provolone On A Virgilio’s Roll and Not Think I’m Gonna be all over that like white on rice.
You crazzzzy!
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Passports’ Makeover after Olive Kitteridge
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Pet of the Week-Pumpkin Spice
Hi, my name is Pumpkin Spice and I am a playful, sweet and cute two-month-old kitten with a handsome orange coat. I am here at the Cape Ann Animal Aid, located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter, Four Paws Lane, Gloucester. The staff and volunteers are so nice and the shelter is beautiful with lots of room to stroll around, toys, windows and bird feeders to look at! I am looking forward to being adopted, especially in time for the holidays.
Please check our website at: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com to learn more about our upcoming events and adoptable cats and dogs. It is ok to stop by with toys for our shelter animals here. Everyone says that I am just like my name – sweet and spunky!
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Passports Unearths Classic Tile Buried Under Layers Of Flooring
Undergoing a renovation after Olive Kitteridge Taping Passports Restaurant they discovered a tile floor from decades ago.
The plan is to restore it to its former glory.
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Community Photos 11/19/13
Janet Rice Photo
Last evenings sunset from Niles Beach.
Best-Janet
Man At The Wheel Sunset photo from Anthony Marks
Peter Feinstein submits-
Lowering the topmasts on the schooner Lannon. Season over! Capt. Heath Ellis aloft. Photo by Peter Feinstein
Good Morning Gloucester 