Rare sighting of The Gloucester Boyz on Rocky Neck by Sailor Stan’s. They wanted their identities to remain secret. Does anyone know who they are?
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Community Education Forum
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Jewish Response to Homosexuality and Gender Diversity
Thursday, April 18th at 7 pm at the Temple Ahavat Achim (86 Middle St., Gloucester)
Did you know that the Torah says the first human being was androgynous? Did you know that there are six different genders mentioned in sacred Jewish texts?
Come learn about the multifarious responses to homosexuality and gender diversity in Jewish tradition. Learn how we can become more aware and inclusive to gay and transgender people in our community.
The Jewish Response To… series is a collaborative program that TAA has joined with Temple B’nai Abraham and Beth Shalom.
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Sargent House Museum Presents “Ornaments of the Mind” April 14 at 2pm
Sargent House Museum
Presents: “Ornaments of the Mind: Needlework and a New England Girl’s Education”
Presents: “Ornaments of the Mind: Needlework and a New England Girl’s Education”
49 Middle St., Gloucester
Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 2PM
Laura Johnson, Associate Curator of Historic New England, will present a lecture on “female academies” of the early 19th century founded by women like Judith Sargent Murray, Judith Saunders and Clementina Beach. Girls learned the “useful and ornamental arts” of reading, writing, and arithmetic as well as painting in oils and watercolors on fancy surfaces and plain and fancy needlework.
The Sargent House Museum recently acquired an excellent example of this fancy needlework, presented to Nancy Parsons Sargent by her nieces Anna Williams and Julia Maria Murray, Judith Sargent Murray’s only child. The work depicts Cornelia, a model of what the Romans called “civic” motherhood, with her children, exclaiming that they were her real treasures. Judith Sargent Murray, a product of the Enlightenment, and the American Revolution, was one of the first writers to extoll the virtues of “republican motherhood,” the practice of mothers teaching their children the new ideals and values of the early American republic. The needlework was handed down through the Sargent family and donated by Virginia Pleasants. Her niece will discuss the Sargent family connections.
The public is welcome at the lecture and at the public unveiling and installation of the piece that will follow.
A free will donation is suggested; members will be admitted free of charge.
A free will donation is suggested; members will be admitted free of charge.
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Sinatra in Rockport?
Swing back in time with songs like “My Way,” “Summer Wind,” and ”Strangers in The Night” with one of the finest Frank Sinatra impressionists in the country, Michael Dutra. Dutra has performed his tribute to ‘Ol Blue Eyes around the world since 2002, taking the stage more than 300 nights per year and stunning audiences with his dead-on renditions of Sinatra classics.
Ok, so you know summer is coming Captain Carlo’s is open. Great lineup of music this weekend at over 15 different venues from a little bit of country to rock-n-roll. See full lineup here.
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The “AZ ONE” Gospel Trio sings in a gospel Sunday service at 10:00 AM Sunday, April 14, at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church St., Gloucester
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OUR SWEET HEART!
Our new Nephew Tommy Olson. He arrived here from South Korea On 10/9/12 the first anniversary of my son Paul’s death. It was a sad and happy day if that makes sense. We babysit at least once a week. He makes my day. We were worried that he’d have a hard time fitting in with a big Italian family. Tommy fit right in. He loves all his cousins, aunt’s and Uncles. He’s such a sweetheart! Hopefully his brother Johnathan will be here soon. Tommy’s such a special Kid!
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Approaching weather ..Coolidge Reservation
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Alien invasion?
Doesn’t this look like an alien wearing a gas mask, sticking its head out of the wall?
Its body is apparently hiding in the basement of Central Grammar.
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2013 Naples Day 5 -5th Avenue South Beach
MOLE CRAB DISCOVERY. THANKS MKMF TAYLOR FROM MATITIME GLOUCESTER FIR THE SEALIFE ID’s
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Learn to Row !! With the International Dory Racing Committee
Learn to Row !!
With the International Dory Racing Committee
This May is your opportunity to take advantage of a free seminar hosted by the GloucesterInternational Dory Racing Committee. Every Wednesday at 6 PM and Sunday at 9 AMexperienced rowers will teach novices the proper rowing techniques required to row a Banks Dory right in Gloucester Harbor. This is a “hands on” seminar with all equipment and the dories provided by the IDRC, but you must be 13 years or older and complete the attached sign-up forms by April 25th. Here is what is in store for attendees:
· Tools of the trade – oars, thole pins, thwarts, etc.
· History of dory rowing – from the Grand Banks fishing to 2013 racing the Canadians
· Basic boat handling
· Stroke technique and pace
· Navigation
· Racing techniques and turns
· And more!
Our first day is Wednesday, May 1stat 6 PM, meeting at the Town Landing, St. Peter’s Square, in Gloucester and class size is limited, so sign up today and learn t
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Community Stuff 4/13/13
Hi Joey – writing you on suggestion of Henry Ferrini. I teach “Writing A 10-Minute Play” workshops there & we have had 2 incredibly successful evenings of Staged Readings at Rocky Neck Cultural Center of the plays that came out of the workshops – “filling the house” both times. We just finished the 3rd “Writing a 10-Minute Play” workshop & have the Staged Reading for that one scheduled for April 27. It’s all very exciting to see our short play community building.
I am writing now to tell you about a special 1-night workshop coming up on April 15th. The poster w/ all info is below. Hoping you can put it on Good Morning Gloucester. Thank you SO much for all you do for the Cape Ann community!!
Lynda
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Simone de Beauvoir Quote of the Week from Greg Bover
“That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
A native Parisienne, de Beauvoir studied mathematics and languages at a time when very few women did. She went on to study philosophy at the Sorbonne and wrote her thesis on Gottfried Leibniz. During further studies she met Jean-Paul Sartre with whom she had a life-long relationship, but never married. Her 1943 novel She Came to Staymade her name as an existentialist writer, but her treatise The Second Sex, six years later, solidified her standing as a founder of Feminism, even though an early English translation, hurriedly done, distorted her message. She remained politically active until late in life and is buried, with Sartre, in Montparnasse.
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Live Blogging: Charlie Carroll Photography @ Cape Ann Giclee
Fluid Dynamics: by Charlie Carroll
Come on down and see Charlie’s work, and our jaw will hit the floor. These photos are stunning, colorful, and extremely unique. You will want one for your wall, without a doubt. If you can’t make it down, his show runs from April 12th through April 27th. You have to see these in person!
To purchase Charlie’s work go to:
http://capeanngiclee.com/blog/good-morning-gloucester-fob-show-online-store
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Rockport Day Part III- Helmut’s Strudel
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Pinkberry With Snoop Maddie Mad
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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.
Although not native to the waters of Cape Ann, little compares to these Blue Point, Westport, CT oysters, shucked and devoured at Gloucester’s Wingaersheek Beach. Kathy recently mastered the art of shucking and showed Marty how to find the hinge to unlock the shells. She also shared them with Fred Bodin (Bodin Historic Photo) and made a video of his technique.
The oysters were purchased at Connolly Seafoods: http://www.steveconnollyseafood.com. The last frame shows the additional gifts from the sea courtesy House of the Raven: http://houseoftheraven.com
Photos © Marty Luster 2013
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Sealife ID Challenge Number 2- Who can id this one?
Congratulations To Mary Kay MF Taylor from Maritime Gloucester who was the first to id the Tulip Snail Case in the first challenge.
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Swan near Brace Cove
As I was walking through the woods near Brace Cove came across this beautiful swan, I think the swan was protecting some young Cygnets in the reeds. This swan was only a couple of feet from me. Another reason we love living here.
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BOLO! The Alewives are running!
Fish Counters,
I counted two alewives at the counting board today at 1:00 – 1:10. Hopefully they are the first of many.
I also stopped by the bridge at Apple Street in Essex around noon today and there were about 3 dozen in the brook at that time and I’ve received reports that many were counted yesterday in Essex.
Best.
Dave Sargent
Gloucester Shellfish Constable/Alewife Warden
In case you don’t know, as I didn’t, the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) is a species of fish. There are anadromous and landlocked forms. The landlocked form is also called a sawbelly or mooneye (although this latter name is more commonly applied to Hiodon spp.). The front of the body is deep and larger than other fish found in the same waters, and its common name is said to come from comparison with a corpulent female tavernkeeper (“ale-wife”).[1] In Atlantic Canada it is known as the gaspereau. More locally, in southwestern Nova Scotia, it is called a kiack (or kyack).[2] In the Southeast US, when sold and used as bait, the fish is often referred to as “LY”.
Adult alewives are preferred bait for the spring lobster fishery in Maine.[3] It is also used for human consumption, usually smoked. It is caught (during its spawning migration upstream) using large dip nets to scoop the fish out of shallow, constricted areas on its migratory streams and rivers. It is one of the “typical” North American shads of the subgenus Pomolobus.
from Wikipedia
E.J. Lefavour
Good Morning Gloucester 
