Rafe’s Chasm
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Who Knows Where This Is?
While talking with Thom Falzarano the other day, he was saying how much he was enjoying photographing up in New Hampshire where there was rusted old farm equipment and grazing horses to photograph. Although these are grazing donkeys, not horses (I know my barn animals) – that is a cool old rusted piece of farm equipment, and they are right here in Gloucester. Does anyone know where?
E.J. Lefavour
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Big announcement tomorrow (SUN) on Curtain Up 104.9 @ 9AM
Tomorrow at 9AM Peter will be Aurelia Nelson’s guest on her North Shore 104.9 radio show Curtain Up, where he will announce a one-night-only concert featuring a major national recording star and rock n’ roll icon at The Larcom Theatre down the road in Beverly.
If you’re already a member of our gimmeLIVE Concert Club, you’ll be notified when tickets go on sale before the general public is. You can sign up here if you’re not a member.
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The Joe Mack Band tonight @ The Dog Bar 65 Main Street, Gloucester Ma
Representing!
Dear Joey
Here’s a born & raised Gloster girl representing in Emerald Isle NC
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REPENT! All YE SINNERS!
Salem is Rocking this month. It’s a lot of fun walking around and seeing all the people who get into the spirit of the time. But of course there’s always someone who wants to ruin it for all the others.
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Today’s Rockport Harvestfest Schedule
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EVENT Make Your Own Instrument! |
DESCRIPTION Family Activities |
TIME & LOCATION 10am to 12pm at the Old Firehouse Trust |
MORE DETAILS Sponsored by Rockport Music |
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Dog Parade! |
Family Activities |
11:30 in Harvey Park with prizes awared following the parade |
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Sasquatch & Co. |
Music |
11am – 12:45pm in Dock Square |
Folk & Americana |
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Ipswich Ale Beer Truck |
Food |
11am – 6pm. Enjoy the craftsmanship of microbrews under the tent on T Wharf |
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Cooking Demo: Paola LaBoa demonstrates how to make his award-winning pesto |
Food |
11am on T Wharf |
Paolo’s pesto was featured in La Cucina Italiana Magazine |
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Eric Wilson & John Rockwell |
Music |
11am to 11:45am on T Wharf |
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Old Cold Tater |
Music |
12pm to 2:30pm on T Wharf |
Celtic, Folk, Americana |
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The Buddy Walker Band |
Live Music |
1pm, 2pm, 3pm in front of Bearskin Neck Leathers on Old Harbor Road. |
Polish Polka music from a band founded nearly 65 years ago! Sponsored by Bearskin Neck Leathers |
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MIT Juggling Club |
Entertainment |
1pm & 3pm on Bearskin Neck, 2pm in Dock Square |
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Cooking Demo: Laurie Lufkin, creator of prize-winning recipes and accomplished cook |
Food |
1pm on T Wharf |
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Nicholas Bogosian |
Music |
1pm to 2pm |
Roots music |
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Cooking Demo: Seafood Throwdown |
Food |
2:30pm on T Wharf |
Sponsored by NAMA |
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The HarvestFest Cape Ann Contra Dance |
Family Activities |
2:30pm to 5:30pm |
Sponsored by Cape Ann Contra Dance |
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Scarecrow Chase. Find the the Great Scarecrow! A parade for children of all ages (in costume or not). |
Family Activities |
3pm, beginning in Harvey Park |
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The Sturdy Oaks |
Music |
3pm to 5:30pm on T Wharf |
Bluegrass, Folk, Americana |
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Art/Light: a public send-off to a temporary public art installation |
Art |
6:15pm on Lumber Wharf (public access behind 1 Main Street and down Pier Avenue) |
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WOCA Nonprofit Fair (WOCA stands for: What’s on Cape Ann?) |
Family Activities |
All Day in Harvey Park |
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NYRE Food Booth |
Food |
All Day in Harvey Park |
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Local Fare Food Tent. The best of New England regional food producers come together under one tent! |
Food |
All Day on T Wharf |
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Stores open during Harvestfest! |
Shopping |
All Day throughout downtown |
See all music sorted by time here.
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Babson Cooperage, Dogtown, 1935
JAMES BABSON FARM
“GRANTED BY SPECIAL TOWN ACT DECEMBER 23, 1658
JAMES AND HIS MOTHER, ISABEL, WERE THE FIRST BABSONS TO REACH AMERICA, ARRIVING IN 1632. JAMES’ FATHER DIED ON SHIPBOARD WHILE CROSSING.
TOWN RECORDS SHOW THAT ISABEL WAS A VERY ACTIVE KINDLY AND BELOVED MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY. SHE DIED IN 1661. JAMES WAS A COOPER WHO MADE BARRELS, ETC. FROM LUMBER OBTAINED FROM THE ADJOINING MILL ON CAPE POND BROOK. HE MARRIED ELINOR HILL AND THEY HAD TEN CHILDREN. HE DIED IN 1683.”
You can still go to this place for free: Open July – August
Tuesday – Sunday 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm (978) 546-2958 http://babsonhistorical.org/babson-museum/
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Community Photos 10/19/13
Beacon Marine At Dusk photos from Anthony Marks
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Community Stuff 10/19/13
POP GALLERY PRESENTS:
Our 4th Annual POPtoberfest!
Featuring a PINK PUMPKIN SALE on many items in store!
Warm up with some complimentary hot mulled cider, seasonal ales, and apples and snacks!
Extended hours on Saturday till 7 pm. October 19th! At 67 Main Street!
Some of our FALL special sales include:
– Our ‘Glowing’ collection of candles to set the mood at home!
– Wooly handwoven scarves from SmartWorks, cashmere hand warmers from Elizabethan!
– Jewelry to accent your sweaters and leather jackets by Emily Rosenfeld, Betsy Frost, Joyce Roessler And SKLO
And a plethora of other treats to “Grab”on the way out!!!
GHS DOCKSIDERS
Concert to Benefit
The Open Door Food Pantry
When: Saturday, October 19th at 7 p.m.
Where: Gloucester High School
Admission: Food donations to The Open Door
When: Wednesday October 30th 7:30 pm
What: Helen Fremont to Read at the Gloucester Writers Center
Where: 126 E. Main Street, Gloucester MA 01930
Contact: Chloe Martin, chloemart@gmail.com, 949-677-2451
The Gloucester Writers Center presents Helen Fremont, the author of the national best selling memoir After Long Silence on October 30th, 7:30 p.m. at 126 East Main St. In addition to being a memoirist she is also a public defender in Boston. She will answer questions and dialogue with the audience after her talk A Perspective- Point of View in Memoir.
Helen and her sister grew up Roman Catholic, and it was not until she was in her thirties, that they discovered that their parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors. The book Traces the stories of her parents’ lives, including her father’s years as a political prisoner in the Siberian Gulag, and her aunt’s marriage to an Italian Count, who was instrumental in saving her mother’s life. Other works of fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including 1994: The O. Henry Awards, Ploughshares, and The Harvard Review. She is currently working on her second memoir focusing on her and her sister’s lives, and how the trauma of one generation is expressed in the next.
The Gloucester Writers Center was founded to celebrate, preserve, and promote Gloucester’s rich literary legacy and to create space in the community for the voices of people of all ages and backgrounds to be heard through writing, dialogue, and the artistic process. Find out more about the Gloucester Writers Center at gloucesterwriters.org
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Tee Up……To End Cancer! Schedule of Events
Here is some information regarding Family Ties and the Golf Tournament. Also Thom Falzarano is a part of the day taking tons of photos. This is occurring this Monday.
Tee Up……To End Cancer! Schedule of Events:
Ferncroft Country Club 9:00am Registration & Lunch
Middleton, MA 11:00pm Shot Gun Start
Monday October 21, 2012 4:00pm Dinner, Awards & Auction
Please join us for a day of sunshine, fresh air, friends, family, food and a celebration dedicated to all we love to fight and to raise money to help The American Cancer Society through the Relay For Life and Family Ties, Inc.; to help individuals and families financially; and to find cures to end cancer. We are hosting an all-day event of golf, food, awards, silent and live auctions for all to enjoy with the proceeds going to our foundation and to Relay For Life fundraising efforts.
Family Ties, Inc. is a Massachusetts Non-Profit Corporation that was established to help families affected by cancer. Family Ties, Inc. works with Relay for Life which is a 501(c)(3) company to help as many as we can in the fight against cancer. In 1985, Charles “Chucky” Pratt was diagnosed with cancer as a 17 year old high school student. Chucky lost his battle with cancer after four years and missed out on so many of life’s wonderful moments. Family Ties was a Relay for Life team created by Erin “Pratt” Avila to honor her brother and to bring her family together, celebrate him and fight for those who need our help.
Over the past 8 years our family has raised over $100,000.00 as a part of the Relay for Life in Cape Ann, we have won several awards as a team due to our fundraising efforts and have led the fund raising event as top fundraisers. We have now turned this team into a foundation as our passion is to raise money to help families who are battling cancer and to help invest in cures supporting The American Cancer Society through the Cape Ann Relay For life. Join us with your family and friends to help us in the fight against cancer.
The following explains all of your options in how to help and be a part of this amazing day:
- Golf Team Registration Form
- Hole and Golf Cart Sponsorship Form
- Competition and Signature Sponsorships Form
- Corporate Sponsorship Form
If you are interested in making a straight donation to the Family Ties, Inc. foundation please feel free to contact Jon Pratt at 978-239-6881 or Bethany M. Pratt at 617-388-9571.
Thank you from the bottom on our hearts
Family Ties, Inc.
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Come Down To Captain Joe and Sons Through The Weekend To Take Your Picture With The Blue Lobster
Bring your kids, bring your family members and/or friends to take pictures with the blue lobster that Dave Jewell landed this week.
blue lobster @captjoelobster #GloucesterMA #lobster thestevedujour @thestevedujour @andreawbz https://t.co/xA3FWpNEqE
— Joey_C (@Joey_C) October 16, 2013
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Harbortown Cultural District Update From Cat Ryan
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Harbortown Cultural District will be included in an upcoming AAA publication featuring 10 cultural districts! Also look for some breaking tech news. Our Harbortown cultural district joined forces with the 3 other Cape Ann Cultural Districts (Harbortown, Rocky Neck, Rockport and Essex) to apply for a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant to help us towards some exciting shared marketing. We found out that YES we were awarded a grant, and are looking forward to creating a new mobile APP.
We’re also crossing our fingers this week, waiting to see if an amendment to the state’s supplemental budget happens or not. The MCC is asking for an amendment that will include $500,000 to market the state’s cultural districts through advertising on commuter rail lines, the subway and on busses in the Boston area.
GMG contributor and the ever affable Main Street proprietor Fred Bodin is one of our many talented founding partners. During our August event at the Cape Ann Museum, he multi-tasked. The good photos from the event are his! Visit http://www.gloucesterharbortown.org
Cape Ann Museum Director, Ronda Faloon, outlined the museum’s impressive next steps and guided us on a mini tour. Cape Ann TV –also a founding partner—was filming. The Fresnel lens is gorgeous! I can’t wait to see it in its new location when the museum re-opens. Look at the scale of this thing (see photo with Bob Whitmarsh, Co-Chair, to get an idea of size—)!
We followed up with a discussion of our district goals led by Bex Borden.
We are so grateful to Cape Ann Museum for hosting and the lovely appetizer spread and beverages. They also set up and readied for our visit and meeting. Harbortown founding partner, Lise Breen, and other members also helped set and clean up for this double billing. What a spot to have it. Check out the large Gordon Goetemann oil on canvas From a High Place Nice!
More party photos
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Community Photos 10/18/13
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Sunrise In Rockport
Found By The Shore photo from Anthony Marks
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Two Sisters
Eastern Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)
Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter Sarah Beche in 1784, criticizing the appearance and choice of the Bald Eagle as the national bird of the United States, presumably preferring the Wild Turkey, “…I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For in truth the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a Red Coat on.”
Eastern Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris)
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Fish on Fridays
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.
This week Marty visited with Richard Arnold, the last captain of the gill netter Phyllis A. now undergoing an extensive restoration at Gloucester Marine Railways.
Phyllis A was built by Richard’s father in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1925. Richard skippered her from 1972 until the boat and he both retired in 2000. The boat is named for Richard’s sister, who, at age 4, helped christen the vessel.
Here, compressed into a few minutes, is the shared story of Phyllis A and Captain Richard Arnold.
Video © Marty Luster 2013
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Color photo © Kathy Chapman 2013
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Image of Phyllis A. at Arnold’s Wharf ©Fredrik D Bodin 2013
Thanks to the Phyllis A. Marine Association for the use of their archival photos
and to SaveCapeAnn for footage of Phyllis A at sea.
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Rough ROCK 4:07pm 10/18/2013
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Fall Magnolia Harbor
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Bottoms Up!
E.J. Lefavour
Good Morning Gloucester 