The Ciaramitaro-Mohan Family

Lastly in my thanks for the Saint Joseph film project assistance goes to the beautiful Ciaramitaro-Mohan Family. Felicia and I have been working on this project together since its inception and I can only say that she is the most talented, sweetest, funnest (and funniest), smartest, and best organized friend and partner in a project that anyone could ever hope for.

Ciaramitaro Family and Friends St. Joseph 2013

Her home is always filled to the brim with family and friends, light, laughter, and love. To Felicia, Barry, Pat, Amanda, BJ, Joey, all Ciaramitaro cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and best friends, thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your beautiful Saint Joseph novena and feast. I hope you will find as much joy in, as I have found in the making of, the Feast of Saint Joseph film. xo

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North Shore Acapella @ Seaport Grille tomorrow (TUESDAY)

The season has started.  Summer music venues are opening up and Seaport Grill is having music on Tuesday starting at 6pm (plenty early to bring the kids).  Let’s show them some support and maybe they’ll make live music a regular thing!
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See this week’s complete live music lineup here.

Seaside Cycle and Sufari Indoor Outdoor Sale April 27th

joey

i hope spring is treating you well with millions of hits! i was hoping you could make your readers aware of an event we are doing here in manchester on april 27th. Its kind of an indoor/outdoor sale with all of the local merchants displaying discounted sale items. if it is nice outside i know myself (seaside cycle) and Sufari are going to set up tents outside of the community center. should be pretty cool.

i hope you can share this with your readership.

Thank you as always and have a great spring.

scott b

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Costa Rica Adventure – Fishing, Lizards and Birds

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I was fortunate to spend 10 days in Costa Rica, staying at Silver King Lodge operated and Managed by Roseanne Cody of Gloucester.

 

 

I will be posting photos of life on the Rio Colorado (Brown Colored River)

Below are photos of a Lizard who likes to rest on a hammock and eat bugs.

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Below are some of the birds found at the lodge.

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Dont be the person who…

Races to the boarding gate and clogs up the works as if they are going to give their seat on the plane away.
Relax grandma. They’re not gonna leave without you.

Spring brings rainbows! (I hope)

 

It seems that every year I get one or two good rainbow shots.

From May, three years ago (in Les Avants, Switzerland)

From April, two years ago (in Newburgh, NY)

 

From July, one year ago (here in Gloucester):I can’t wait to see what rainbows are in store for me this year! Let’s hope the weather starts getting nice enough to give us beauties like these from past years…

Fr. Matthew Green

 

 

The Bookstore of Gloucester : a reading and signing with local author

Hi joey,
It’s Arwen from The Bookstore.  I was wondering if you could help us out.  We have a few big readings coming up and would love to get the word out there.
Our first one is on Friday, May 10th with local author, Domenica Ruta.  Domenica
is from Danvers and her memoir, “With or Without You” has been getting tons of rave reviews and publicity.  I will attach a blurb from her website so you can get an idea of what it is about:(please forgive my technically challenged format, my cousin Jenn should be doing this :))

“Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art—via a classic film or a classical education—could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica’s unconventional coming of age—a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit ’90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process.”
“In a brilliant stylistic feat, Domenica Ruta has written a powerful, inspiring, compulsively readable, and finally redemptive story about loving and leaving.”
The reading will be at 7 pm on Friday, May 10th. 

Our address is 61 Main St. and our phone # is 1-978-281-1548.
We can also have books signed for people if they can not make reading….
Thank you so much Joey!
Arwen Severance

Willowdale Estate is the Perfect Place to Hold Your Bridal Shower!


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Spring is Springing at Willowdale 

Briar Forsythe, proprietor of Willowdale Estate, and her staff, threw a lovely bridal shower for Audi Lane. Audi works at Willowdale and is getting married this weekend to Gloucester’s Peter Sousa, the sea shanty singer.

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Willowdale Estate Conservatory ©Kim Smith 2013

The light in the conservatory is stunning all year round and provides an elegant setting for any type of private event.

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The luncheon was to die for and the deserts, well, I think the photo tells the story. The chocolate mousse was heavenly!!!

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