My View of Life on the Dock
Hey Joey,
Not only are the Dory races this weekend but the elimination races for the Women’s Seine Boat Race will be this Sunday instead of the usual Wed of Fiesta. I’m wondering if you can post something b/c this is new and it would be great if people come down to support the women.
Thanks,
Gina
The race starts at 1 on Sunday. First 2 teams will be tying in at St. Peters before the race. Dory Races start at 10 today.
Hi,
Just wondering if you could let people know about the showing of this award winning documentary about hunger in the US. The event will be held at the Danvers campus of North Shore Community College starting at 6:30 PM on Monday evening, June 24th. It is free and open to the public, although we ask that people attending consider making a monetary donation, or bringing a gift card from a supermarket to benefit food pantries in the area. The Open Door Pantry will be represented, as will many other local food pantries. For more info, please see the attached flyer.
Hello All;
Attached, please find the press release for a very special event at Aquatro Gallery next weekend, Saturday, June 29, 2013 from 5-8 PM.
As part of Aquatro Gallery’s move to a new, expanded location on Madfish Wharf this season, the gallery directors, Adriana Mederos and Stevie Black, have expanded their collection of fine artwork and fine objects for the home and for the body.
Jeweler Vivi Velasco’s work very much fits the overall design ethos and creative spirit fostered by Aquatro – extremely original, limited edition, personable and warm – this is design and art you can live with.
Please join us for this gala event.
Fire Chief Eric Smith Submits-
GFD EMD Coordinator Sander Schultz receiving an award from Action Inc for his selfless community service in Public Safety.
More pics from awards dinner that honored Lt. John McCarthy and FF/EMS Coordinator Sander Schultz.
Gail Guittarr submits-
Three week tour of Portugal brought to me the remembrance of so many
Gloucester families who helped build our community. Names in
catacombs were Silva, Mederios, Sousa , Lima, Gomes, Silveira, Matos,
Nunes, Lopes, deMoura, Alves, Manuel,Munoz, Machado, and others. A
country of beautiful history and people who are suffering the same
challenges of the fishing industry that we are. Cod is still King
here!
Hi Joe,
It’s been a long time but I do read your blog all the time so feel like I know what is going on with you. I’ve been dealing with some annoying and chronic tendinitis in both hands which has slowed down my writing but something good happened so I thought you might like to use it—my books have received 3 nominations for the 2013 eFestival of Words. If you decide to use it something like this would work:
The 2013 eFestival of Words, an annual celebration of the best in independent publishing, has given three nominations to local author Kathleen Valentine’s books. Depraved Heart: A Novel, which is set on a fictional island off the coast of Cape Ann but which has scenes set in Rocky Neck and during Fiesta, has been nominated for Best Mystery / Suspense Novel. It has also been nominated for The Harvey Award for the Book We’d Most Like to See Made Into a Movie.
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Also, her short story, The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall, from the collection The Whiskey Bottle in the Wall: Secrets of Marienstadt, has been nominated for Best Short Story. All the stories in this collection are based on tales she heard growing up in her native central Pennsylvania.
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Results will be published on the eFestival of Words Web Site in August. You can read her guest blog post for the Festival here.
Kathleen’s latest book is Volume 3 in her Beacon Hill Chronicles series, The Crazy Old Lady Unleashed.
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It’s about to go down!!! If ya missed it, come tomorrow night!!! Butterflies rule!!!
I decided to end the nomination period early so we could perhaps catch the nominated sub shop/bakeries off guard. There was 4 nominees clearly in the lead at the time of the tally.
Our judges Craig Kimberley, Ed Collard, Toby Pett and Erik Lorden each individually placed their orders for a large Italian sub with oil and seasoning at the respective sub shop/bakeries. Again, wanting to perhaps throw off the nominated sub shops/bakeries that may have been on the lookout for a sub order for a “Large Italian Sub with everything on it”.
I assigned a point system that heavily favored taste (totally subjective) and value cost per pound (totally non-subjective) with 40 possible points awarded in each of those two categories.
Remaining was 20 possible points for equal distribution of meat and condiments. 5 points for the least equally distributed meat and condiments 20 points for the sub with the most equally distributed meat and condiments.
The scoring went as follows-
Sclafanis $6.09 per lb- 40 points
Virgilios $7.14 per lb 34 points
Destinos $7.16 per lb 34 points
Jeff’s Variety $7.44 per lb 32 points
average of all 4 judges-
Sclafanis 33 points
Virgilios 21.25 points
Destinos 26.25 points
Jeff’s Variety 25.75 points
5-10-15-20 least Equally distributes to most equally distributed
Sclafanis- 10
Virgilios- 15
Destinos- 5
Jeff’s Variety-20
SCLAFANIS 83
JEFF’S VARIETY 77.75
VIRGILIO’S 70.25
DESTINO’S 65.25
Again I’d like to thank the four judges- Ed Collard, Toby Pett, Craig Kimberley and Erik Lorden. Thanks to Kim Smith and Craig Kimberley for taking photos.
I’d also like to reinforce that there’s no shame in coming in 4th.
It’s true what they say, just like the Oscars, just to tally the number of votes to be nominated makes you a formidable joint to get a sub in the first place. No losers all winners in my book. I wouldn’t hesitate to order a sub from any of these places as well as many other sub shops in GTown that didn’t get nominated.
We’re crazy lucky that way, spoiled with great eateries in Gloucester.
So glad to have this back, so great to have fresh veggies, fruit, breads, sausages, etc. Every Thursday from 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm. at Stage Fort Park with free parking.
Capt Skip Montello Submits-
To Book a guide-
Fishing Report: 6-21-2013
The overall fishing over the past week has been one of "transition", from very good at the beginning of the week to just fair from mid week on. That’s not to say that "all" locations from Cape Ann to the Merrimack River were off, but Joppa Flat was affected negatively by the heavy rainfall and the stripers that were up on the flat moved to cleaner water outside at the river mouth and along the beaches north and south. We had a very good day Monday fishing flies , topwaters and soft plastics just outside the river mouth. The river mouth was again super clogged with all sort of boats drifting, trolling or anchored up and catching stripers with live macks, clams or chunks, a very scary place!Later in the week I had the good fortune to fish with Capt Paul Rogato and we got to fish a few of his new 2013 line up of surface plugs. These new plugs were a blast to fish with as the stripers would track and smack the plug until they owned it! Watch the video. These plugs are available at Fin & Feather, Surfland and First Light Anglers.
Ocean Lures (new for) 2013
Brad and Keith, Flies and OL Sandeel Plug
Guy W, out with Capt Al
Brenda Malloy is asking for help in finding the Buddha statue that disappeared from the front lawn of her shop, IMAGINE, on Rocky Neck, sometime yesterday. Brenda’s mother gave her the statue 11 years ago when she first opened her shop, and it has adorned her front lawn ever since.
I’m not sure how someone walks off with a 50lb 18″ high cement statue in the middle of the day, but they did. If you saw anything, please let Brenda know.
I don’t know what is going on that people think they can just walk up and take someone else’s property like that.
E.J. Lefavour
I’m not listing stuff here because I can’t keep up but Rubber Duck has found someone else who updates several times a day. Follow BearskinNeck.Net on Facebook. <<<Click.
That’s it. OK, I’ll give you three examples why BearskinNeck.Net is awesome. Today Rubber Duck found out:
1) The Rockport Dump is open on Sunday from 8AM to 11:45 AM until Nov 10. Huge news. This is why I love Rockport and gladly pay my town taxes. Now those fish guts and lobster shells from the Saturday festivities do not fester in the garage until God knows when.
2) The Red Skiff has several Specials including Crab Cake Benedict and Corn Beef Benedict. Make mine a double!
3) Brothers’ Brew is open at 7AM every single day all summer With a fresh made Butternut Crunch Doughnut with my name on it.
4) Why stop at three? Forgot the Farmers Market 9am-1pm at Harvey Park on Saturday! Harvey Park? End of Broadway if you hit the lighthouse in the middle of the street because you saw a large rabbit named Harvey you should park.
BearskinNeck.Net one stop shopping so you don’t spend more than three minutes on a computer every day. Today is the first day of summer! Get off that goddamn computer and go bite someone in the butt!
I don’t want to be one of those people who’s on his death bed and says, “I didn’t spend enough time on the Internet.” -Andy Borowitz
Just a boy and his dog..and a sunset.
Judge Eric Lorden, Passports Restuarant
Judge Craig Kimberley and Moderator Joey
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Not Really!
Judge Ed Collard
Judge Toby Pett
These flowers were delivered to FOB Fred Bodin Historic Photo on Main Street from Audrey’s this morning. Our FOB Ann and Bob Kennedy sent them for Kim Smith’s “Life Story of the Black Swallow Tail Butterfly. The show will be at the Cape Ann Cinema followed by a reception at Bodin Historic Photo at 82 Mains Street.
So lovely of Ann and Bob to send this beautiful arrangement.
Once again, the Gloucester Fund and gimmesound.com present a FREE CONCERT ON GLOUCESTER HARBOR featuring Cape Ann Big Band and Gloucester’s #1 Party band Runaround Sound, plus we have some surprise featured vocalists TBA.
Ringo Tarr, Gloucester’s hardest working behind-the-scenes organizer, has done it again. He’s bringing his stage to the Boulevard for a rousing celebration of our independence through music, parade, fireworks and one of the most powerful laser light shows in New England– Best of all, it’s all FREE thanks to Ringo’s hard work and the musicians’ generous spirit.
Here’s the schedule:
5:00 Music Begins (band TBA)
6:00 Music breaks for Horribles Parade
7:00 Cape Ann Big Band & Runaround after parade
9:30 Fireworks over Gloucester Harbor
10:00 Spectacular LASER LIGHT SHOW by RK Lighting Design
Then dance with Runaround under the stars & the lasers.
There’s nothing like dancing on the Boulevard to the Runaround Sound with RK’s lasers overhead. DON’T MISS IT! Here’s a video of Runaround at Capt. Carlos.
You can get into the party spirit with Runaround tonight at 9 at Minglewood Tavern. See Cape Ann’s complete weekend live music schedule here.
Posted Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 7:30 AM
“Oh, is it that time again? The time for everyone to overhype the “Supermoon”?
Yup.
You’ve probably heard about this: on June 23, the full Moon will be the biggest and brightest of the year, so it’s called the Supermoon. Let me be clear: While this is technically true, you’d never notice the difference in size or brightness by eye. The full Moon will look pretty much like every other full Moon you’ve ever seen. Which is to say, big, bright, beautiful, and completely worth your time to outside and see! But Supermoon? Not so much.
Flying Around the Earth
Here’s the deal. The Moon orbits the Earth once every month or so. As it does so, the geometry—the angles between the Moon, Earth, and Sun—change, so we see a different part of the Moon lit every night. Once per orbit the Moon is roughly opposite the Sun in the sky, so the half facing the Earth is completely lit, and we say the Moon is full. This blog post I wrote (complete with awesome video) should help.”
So I’ve got an idea for a challenge.
Top four nominations for best Gloucester Italian Sub as submitted in the comments on this post.
To submit a nomination you click the title of this post and then under the post where it says “Leave a comment”, click that and write the name of the sub joint who you consider makes the best Italian Sub in Gloucester.
Nomination period runs through Friday at 8PM.
Once we tally up the top four sub shops according to your nominations, 4 GMG contributors independently and at the same time order the exact same subs to go from the nominated sub shops. We pick them up and bring them back to the dock.
Then we place them on the digital scale for the Weigh In. We will divide the weight into the price and come up with the best value weight wise. Then we cut it in half and then in quarters to look at the cross section for the equal distribution of meat. If a place loads up the sub in the middle and leaves the ends empty they will be exposed.
Then we each take a quarter of the sub and grade based on taste.
We will present the findings in a post to the readership.
I’m pumped for this challenge!
So start sending in your nominations now in the comment section of this post (again if you don’t see words that say leave a comment directly below this post then click on the title of the post and you should see where you can submit a nomination)
Also please share the link through Facebook or twitter using the buttons below the post to get the most nominations as possible.
Meanderings in Essex #2
I am making these origami dragonflies to make pins for a pin exchange at the origami convention tomorrow! I will continue with my posts on second-hand stores when I get back.
95 East Main Street, Captain Joe and Sons Lobster Co. Ask for Your Boy Joey
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Good Morning Gloucester 