Mayor Kirk Takes The Plunge Off Magnolia Pier

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey,Here is photo of Mayor Carolyn Kirk jumping off the Magnolia Pier. Mac Bell bid $100.00 to do the official push off. Proceeds went to the Magnolia Community Center. The mayor was a great sport as it was not officially high tide and the water was a long way down! There are activities all day long on Lexington Ave. including: Touch-A-Truck (THANKS to Manchester Fire & Gloucester Police Depts, & East Coast Industrial!)Bounce HouseCraft Tables (if you are a crafter, tables are still available: 978-525-3343)BBQMusicMore!!!! Support your neighbors, the Magnolia Community Center & your community by attending! 
 Krista Queeney submits

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Paul Frontiero Sr. Exhibit at State of the Art Gallery on Rocky Neck

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You all know and love ArtRocks! Paul Frontiero, Jr. and his artwork, but did you know that his father, Paul Frontiero, Sr. was an exceptional oil painter.  There is an exhibit of his work at the State of the Art Gallery at 4 Wonson Street on Rocky Neck (next to the Cultural Center), with an Opening Reception on Saturday, August 31 from 2:00-6:00pm.  The exhibit runs August 18-September 23.  Gallery is open Thursdays-Sundays from noon to 5:00pm.  It is a lovely space and the exhibit is beautiful.  If you can’t make the opening, do stop by and see the exhibit on one of their open days.

Paul Frontiero (1925- 2012)

Paul Frontiero was born and brought up in Gloucester, a native of the Cape Ann area.  Paul not only comes from a long line of fishermen ancestry but was a fisherman himself, for over half of his life-time.

He fished from as far south as the Diamond Shoals of the Carolina’s to as far north as the Grand Banks off St. John’s, Newfoundland and Canada.

The many hours Paul spent in the small dories made him realize the expansiveness of the sea, at times so calm and then again a raging fury.  Although he painted other subject matter, most of his paintings are of his life on the sea.  As a boy on the boats, he would often rough pencil sketch on anything that was at hand – paper bags, old wooden planks, and even on the side of the same dories that he spent so many hours on.  Each and every painting has a spiritual quality that reveals Mr. Frontiero’s deep love for the sea.

Mr. Frontiero maintained a year-round gallery off of Highway 128 in Gloucester for many years.

Adventure Out For a Spin Today

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Looked like 28 plus people onboard as it took off from Rocky Neck.

If you click on the photo and zoom in Norman’s Woe to the right and Boston skyline off the stern shot on an iPhone from the end of the Dogbar Breakwater.adventureboston

While watching the Adventure sail off from Gloucester Marine Railways I started chatting with Jeff Thomas. His grandfather Jeff Thomas was the first captain of the Adventure and took it fishing on the banks from 1926 to 1934. It was in 1934 at the age of 59 that Jeff Thomas had a myocardial infarction (heart attack) while on the bow of his boat chopping ice that was building up on the gear. He made it back to the wheel before he died. They iced him with the fish and he made his way back to Gloucester from Nova Scotia by rail.

The names on the cenotaph (Man at the Wheel) are all real people of course. I see Peter Prybot’s name and know that. Those names are real all the way back for a lot of people of Gloucester.

Cape Ann and Gloucester is knee deep in history. You can’t turn around without tripping over it. It’s also walking around amongst us. All you have to do is listen.

A little history: Schooner Adventure.org 

You Must be Crazy if You Are Not Having Captain Joe’s Lobsters for Dinner Tonight!!

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How much do you pay for hamburger meat? For good quality, we pay more than $4.00 per pound. Do you know that the best quality, sweetest, most fresh-off-the-boat, and most tender tasty lobsters are only FOUR DOLLARS per pound at Captain Joe and Sons RIGHT NOW? What are you waiting for ?????????????????????????????????????????

Liv and AlexDaughter Liv is always so sweet to her brother Alex ~ Laurel Beedy cell phone photo

Fitz Hugh Lane (1804 – 1865) – Painter and Name Changer

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Nathaniel Rogers Lane / Fitz Henry Lane / Fitz Hugh Lane

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He is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in the Stevens’ Family plot. (more information at Cape Ann Museum)

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Bridget a new comer to Gloucester introduces Fitz Park to visitors from Ireland.

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Sawyer Free Library Art Auction 2013

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Annual Art Auction

The 2013 Annual Art Auction will take place on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. the silent auction will take place in the Adolph Matz Gallery from August 26, to give visitors and opportunity  to see the paintings and bid early. The vocal auction will be held October 2 at 7:00 p.m. A preview party will precede the auction.

Works of art will be displayed in the Adolph Matz Gallery, located in the main lobby of the library, and can be viewed by all that enter the library each day. Great interest in generated through the month as the bid book fills up. The final vocal auction is always an exciting event. In addition to funding art books, art DVDs, and a select number of museum passes, this year’s proceeds will support free art workshops for adults and children as well as an art movie series in the Fall and Winter.

Getting ready to hang all the beautiful art for the

Annual Art Auction!

sfl art auctionClick Here For The Sawyer Free Library Facebook Page

The Four Legged Faithful tonight @ The Rhumb Line

Posted on by Joanne

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The Four Legged Faithful are a band made up of 4 ordinary men who all thrive on playing music together. Their aim is not to play traditional folk or bluegrass music, but instead to create beautiful, heart-felt, and genuine music using traditional folk/bluegrass instruments. They create a sound that is honest and reflects the band’s many musical influences from nearly all genres. All members sing; creating multiple combinations of 2, 3, and 4-part harmonies. All members write and sing songs about their thoughts, families, and the natural world that surrounds them. For a band without a drummer, The Four Legged Faithful achieve an incredible level of intensity using foot percussion and layered rhythms throughout every measure.

http://www.thefourleggedfaithful.com/index.php

http://www.therhumbline.com/

SAFETY 80s RETURNS!! THE SUMMER SEQUEL ~ Plus an early show with Dan King and Mike O’Connell ~ Acoustic Roots Session

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RAd Tunes!
Dudes and Dolls!
Tasty Waves and Valley Lingo!
The Ultimate in Awesome!

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Also an earlier show with Mike O’Connell joining Dan King for an acoustic roots session 5-7

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Cape Pond Ice New Shirts

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hey Joey – Great to see you and Frank hard at work grading all those beautiful Lobsters, and to catch up on Gloucester Harbor’s development and DPA woes…. 

I hope you’re already wearing your newest, coolest T-shirt, inspired by your own GMG Dri-Fit working man’s sweat free shirt… our hard working Cape Pond Ice crew are  thanking you for the great idea and addition to our clothing line-up, in sweat-free Black, as delivering heavy bags and blocks of ice is not always as Cool as it’s made out to be.   We went with a quality “BadgerSport” brand, screen-printed for us by Linda Jernegan at Jungle in Ipswich.

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Cape Pond Ice Company

New Cape Pond Ice T-Shirt !!!!   Black Dri-Fit Tee with our “Pure Yankee Cold” logo on the front left and “The Coolest Guys Around” on the back. Available now on our website, or swing by the shop at 104 Commercial Street Gloucester, or you can order yours today on-line at  www.capepondice.com or:
http://www.capepondice.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CPI&Product_Code=DriFit&Category_Code=NS

Midori, my favorite oriental restaurant

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A few months ago, Midori Chinse and Japanese bistro (32 Washington Street) started hosting an “Artist’s Cocktail”, 8-11PM on Wednesday nights (live music by Henry Allen and the New Swingset, as well as by guest artists; plus other things like poetry and dance by guests, etc.). That event was the occasion for me to eat at Midori for the first time in a few years.  The time I had been there in the past I had not been overly enthused by the food, but now that has totally changed!  I now go almost every Wednesday night and sometimes once or twice more during the week. It helps that I now live very nearby, but I would probably go even if I didn’t.  The prices are reasonable, and I love their food! They offer a wide range of Chines and Japanese cuisine. (Their Japanese dumpling soup is one of my personal favorites.)

Besides that, the owner and staff are friendly and take care of their regular customers.  A few times the manager has sent to our tables complimentary portions of something special from the kitchen or a scoop of ice cream. Just yesterday he sent my friend and me small, well-presented plates of fantastic, spicy macaroni and cheese.

A sampling from their $8 lunch buffet:

 

Here are some more photos I’ve taken there:

 

A few people have mentioned that when that restaurant first opened several years ago they had a bad experience of one kind or another.  If that was the case, as far as I can tell things have really changed! Although sometimes the wait staff seems stretched a little thin, I (and friends of mine) have been going regularly for months with no problems. On the contrary, it’s now my favorite oriental restaurant in town!

– Matthew Green

 

Funky Red Barn & F/V Orion Apparel

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Funky Red Barn & F/V Orion Apparel in various colors and sizes are available at The Bluefin Blowout and Nelson’s on Main Street.

Drive by Samaritans and Good Eggs on Main Street

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Fred Bodin Submits-

Just after 7 pm tonight (8/20/13), two young ladies came into my gallery to look around after out dining together at Jalapeños next door. On their way out, they stopped at the counter and one of them asked if I wrote the Drive by Shooting post for GMG. Yes I did, and one of them said it was her sister who did the shooting. Wow! After talking about the Drive by Shooting experience for a few minutes, they left. Seconds later, they returned and said: “We found a lot of money scattered on the sidewalk outside.” So we went all of ten feet from my door and I scooped up $106. They saw who dropped it and noticed that he went into Jalapeños. I went into the restaurant with the two girls and we searched for a man in his 30’s wearing a blue shirt and shorts. Good detective work, but no luck. I told the hostess (owner Alex’s daughter) to send the person looking for the cash over to the galley. If he doesn’t come in by 8:30 or so, I’ll bring it to the 24/7 lost and found, the Gloucester Police Department.

I took a photo of these two friends, and got the left to rights. On the left is Page Harmon, sister of the Drive by Shooter, and on the right in front of the Gloucester flag is Baylee Kirk, both from East Gloucester. Bailee’s parents are journalist Bill Kirk and Carolyn Kirk. Carolyn is the Mayor of the City of Gloucester. It was a good experience for the three of us, and a lesson in karma: Always do the right thing. Tomorrow I’ll drop off an envelope to the GPD with five $20 bills, a five, a single, with my business card. Karma is coming our way! Gloucester.

Community Photos 8/24/13

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Low Tide From Elinor Teele

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Sailing Through-SailGHS coach Guy Fiero at Rafe’s Chasm today

From James Frye

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Clamming skiff waiting for the tide …

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Community Stuff 8/24/13

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Call for Fish Box Derby Cars

With the twentieth annual Fish Box Derby coming up in less than a month on September 15, the committee is looking for former racing families who have a car sitting in a garage or basement. We know of several young people between the ages of 8 and 14 who would like to race, but don’t have access to a car.

If you do have a car and you or your children are now too old to race, we are suggesting that you loan it to someone younger so that he or she can experience the “Thrill of the Hill.”

Please get in touch with us through www.fishboxderby.org or call Greg at 978 283 1932, we’ll help make arrangements to put cars and drivers together. Registration closes September 8.

Endicott MBA with Maritime Economics Specialization

The Endicott College Van Loan School of Graduate and Professional Studies has launched an MBA with a specialization in Maritime Economics. This 14-course program includes four maritime economics specialization courses: Maritime Regulatory Environment, Port and Shipping Operations, Ocean Sciences, and Waterfront Planning. This new MBA is launching this fall at Endicott College Gloucester’s harborfront campus. Please contact Dean Richard Benedetto (978-232-2744 / rbenedet@endicott.edu) for registration information.

Community Photos 8/23/13

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Sturgeon Moonrise over Pavilion Beach, Ipswich via Rick Isaacs

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Casting Lead for Organ Pipes at Fisk Shop – Terry Joris, David Pike and Nami Hamada, hard at work!

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