Jimmy “T” names his new boat “The Heart of Gloucester.
Murder on Rocky Neck: The Opera!
News from Henry Allen and friends:
This is David Wesson, I’m the new Outreach Coordinator for Henry Allen’s Northshore Folklore Theater Company. I’ve been a follower of GMG for some time, and look forward to connecting with you!
As you are likely aware, Henry has partnered with the YMCA as Heny Allen’s Northshore Theatre Company. Instead of our plays being confined to one theater, we are performing them in various hot spots all around town- as a way to truly reach out to the commnunity.
We would love your help in spreading the work about our upcoming show Murder on Rocky Neck: the Opera, as well as getting the word out for our children’s programming and summer camp.
Attached please see the flyer for our upcoming show Murder on Rocky Neck which opens on May 9 at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck:
Attached also, please find a fun synopsis of the play Murder on Rocky Neck with more details. …[T]his is our first production at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, and we want to make sure the community knows about it! (Synopsis follows:)
On a frosty Thursday morning on old Rocky Neck,
The artist Richard Bluewall was found drowned, by heck!
Whilst the children of the town pondered how he had died,
Court was in session with those being tried:
Was it Old Scurvy Crabwater killed poor Richard Bluewall?
Or was it Miss Sylvia DeSylvia who’s love conquered all?
Or perhaps Jesse Pomeroy, a boy of sixteen,
With suspicious demeanor and caught at the scene!
Star witness and actress, Alicia Linguiça,
Insists to the end,
That the murder was committed
By her former best friend!
With Judge Thaddeus Pudge
Presiding the case,
And the audience as jury putting justice in place,
Attorneys Paperwell, Rockwell, Scissorwell and Schute
Do their level best to condemn the brute.Travel back in time to 1870’s Gloucester, and lose yourself in this witty opera, a courtroom drama with a surprise ending – an original story entirely conceived and written by Henry Allen’s Young Playwrights, ages 9-13. The show features a beautiful original score by Derek Dupuis, age 16, who also composed the music for ‘Song of The Sea’. Murder On Rocky Neck, The Opera is appropriate for all ages!
Tickets: Suggested donation $20- General Audience, $15 – Seniors, Veterans & Students
Limited seating
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street, Gloucester
Director: Henry Allen
Music Director: John Eldridge
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Timothy Edwards
Set Design: Fionn McWilliam & Mike Ryan
Costume Design: Amy-Beth Healey & Brenda Leahy
Lights & Sound Design: InterMediaUnlimited
Ensemble (alpha): Alex Becket, Scott Brown, Emma Cavaliere, Caroline Connolly, Shannon Connolly, Sadie Cook, Timothy Edwards, Olivia Francis, Genna Healey, Jay Healey, Henry Jacques, Shannon Kelly, Belle Muller, Rodney Perry, Matt Service, Peter Souza, Elizabeth Wagner, Brandon Waterman, and David Wesson.
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Joey C’s Proposal For Changing School Vacation Week Locally
Kids missing school isn’t a good thing. It’s not good for the students. Not good for the teachers who have their performance tied to standardized testing. Not good for education in general. I’m fairly certain we can all agree on that.
With all public schools taking the same exact school vacation week off what it has created in the travel industry is a huge demand all at once and if anyone wants to travel during school vacation week prices not only double, but they often times triple or quadruple.
So parents who would like to take their kids away often times take their kids out a week before or a week after a winter vacation and once those kids are in third grade or so they can lose a fundamental building block of their education. Teachers whose job performance are increasingly tied to state standardized test scores are penalized for children’s absence if they aren’t there to learn and those students bring their average test scores down.
So I ask, why not just move school vacation week forward or back a week so we don’t have to compete with the entire state for flights to Orlando or some other vacation destination at the very same time?
You would have better attendance because parents wouldn’t pick an off school vacation week to go away.
The people who wouldn’t take their kids out of school on an off school vacation week might be able to afford to take their children away if every public school district in the State didn’t take the same exact week off.
Teachers would benefit from higher attendance rates and presumably higher standardized test scores because the kids would be in class.
I see it as a win all the way around.
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2013 Gloucester EcoTrip and CAFM Spring Market Info
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Costa Rica Adventure – Three Toed Sloth Rescue
While going up the Rio Colorado we encountered a three toed sloth attempting to swim across. We stopped and picked her up and brought her to the other side.
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Community Stuff 4/18/13
Cape Ann Art Haven Updates
Spring Cleaning & Summer Classes
RUMMAGE SALE FUNDRAISER THIS SATURDAY
Find a bargain on art and craft products!
Come to The Hive in Gloucester for a one-day rummage sale full of all kinds of art supplies. Over the years Cape Ann Art Haven has acquired many great art and craft supplies. We’ve used a lot in our classes, but there are some materials that we just don’t have room for anymore. We’re cleaning out our closet and raising money for Art Haven so we can keep offering a creative space and inexpensive art classes to the community. We have paints, fabric pieces, books, matte board, paper, frames and more! The sale will take place Saturday, April 20th from 9AM to 3PM at Art Haven’s new community center, The Hive, 11 Pleasant St., Gloucester. For more information, email thehive@arthaven.org or call 978.283.3889.
SUMMER SCHEDULE ONLINE
Art Haven kids’ program starts June 24th
working on a whale!
Our summer class schedule is ready! Check it out here. We have weekly sessions of a fun, global program where we will be exploring art and culture of a different country each week. We also have two weeks of collaboration with Maritime Gloucester and one week with Cape Ann Museum.
On top of our full-day week-long sessions, we will also still have some regular classes like pottery, open studio, family open studio and darkroom. Take a look at the website for more information!
We’re still working on our summer classes and workshops for teens & adults at The Hive, so keep an eye on our facebook page for announcements.
NEXT SESSION: MAY 13- JUNE 21
Upcoming Classes at Art Haven & The Hive
kids’ clay project
Before the summer, we will have one more session of regular classes at Art Haven and The Hive. At Art Haven, we will have clay, pottery, drawing/printmaking and painting for kids. The class schedule will be the same as the current session on our website.
At The Hive, we’ll have pottery classesTuesday 3-5pm and Thursday 6-9pm. We’re also excited to be adding a pastel classThursdays 3-5pm and charcoal portrait drawing Thursdays 6-9pm. Photoshop will still be Tuesday nights, from 6-8pm and Open Studio on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30pm. The Hive will be launching a new website soon where students can register online; "like" The Hive Community Center on Facebook to stay up to date!
Good Morning Joey,
The AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary Post 32 is holding a yard clean up
raffle for all residents / businesses of the Cape Ann Area. Tickets
are $10 each and the winner will win a minimum of 10 hrs of labor
resources to aid them with their Spring Clean up. Some of the funds
will help to offset the costs of our upcoming convention for our
officers. Any remaining funds will be used to benefit veterans, their
families and or our community. If anyone is interested in purchasing
tickets they may contact us on our Facebook page, via email or call
Carrie-Ann at 978-879-3834. I have attached a flyer with additional
details that I hoped you may be able to share in the coming weeks.
Thank you,
Jennifer GannettPresident
AMVETS Ladies Auxiliary Post #32
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK<http://www.facebook.com/pages/AMVETS-Ladies-Auxiliary-Post-32-Gloucester-MA/360566197355435>
Visit our website for more information:
http://amvetspost32ma.org/LadiesAUX.html
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Gloucester Post 3 Sr. Legion Baseball Tryout
Gloucester Post 3 Sr. Legion Baseball Tryout
The 2014 Gloucester Post 3 Sr. Legion team will hold a tryout on Sunday, May 5th from 11 am – 1 pm at Nate Ross Field at O’Maley School in Gloucester. Legion baseball is available for players between the ages of 14-19. This year Gloucester will only field a Sr. Legion team and not a Jr. Program. Registration will take place for the tryout starting at 10:30 am on the day of the tryout at Nate Ross Field. All questions should be sent to Gerald MacKillop at Post3baseball@gmail.com. Post 3 is available for residents of Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester and Essex.
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Good Morning Gloucester Podcast April 17,2013
Podcast Host Joey Ciaramitaro and guest Paul Morrison Taped April 17th, 2013
Click to listen-
Earth Day
The Word “Broad”
Revisiting The Good Harbor Beach Repair Timetable Predictions
Rubber Duck Race
Craig Kimberley’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Movie Premiere At the farm Bar and Grille
Blackburn Challenge Registration
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O’Maley Soda Bottle Garden From Roger Davis
Roger Davis Submits
Last Friday, the O’Maley Middle School cafeteria served lettuce in its salad bar… and students actually ate some! Â The real news is that this lettuce was grown by the sixth grade students of Island House… in the school library! Â Under the direction of science teacher Roger Davis, the students created planters out of two-liter soda bottles, linked together in a siphon-fed watering system. Â A three-liter bottle supplies the whole class’s set of lettuce planters, and the siphon passes the water from one planter to the next. Â The plants absorb the water by cappilary action, so the plants never need to be watered. Â With the garden and water all held in these containers, the lettuce bed was set in the school library, whose large sunroof gives the plants plenty of light. Â Six weeks later, the students harvested the first cutting, with more still to come. Â With this project students are learning basic plant science, indoor or container gardening techniques, and the principles of water and air pressure used in the siphon water system. Â Seeds and soil for this project were donated to the school by Wolf Hill Garden Center.
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Fishing Honduras With Tuffy
Born to fish.
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Stepping Stones
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What is important
With the sadness of our beloved Boston’s tragedy, I thought of how we must be brave and just continue to live and not be afraid. Here is a couple of pictures of why we must be brave.
Handsome Dude Owen at the Ipswich River Sanctuary
Avery getting ready for the park
Maddie playing in the sand
Cole exploring the rocks at the beach
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The Circle of Life
Seals enjoying a morning bask in the sun on the rocks at Brace Cove. Seagulls enjoying a morning meal of dead seal on the Niles Beach side of Eastern Point.
E.J. Lefavour
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Get Ready for Spring!
Cherry Blossoms
Cincinnati is typically about a week and a half to two weeks ahead of us in spring bloom power.
This past weekend my dear sister-in-law, Amy, remarried a super great guy, Arnold. The reception was held at the Cincinnati Country Club where we also stayed for several nights.
Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata)
The early spring flowering trees were in full glorious bloom, including hawthorns, magnolias, and cherry trees, and all looked luxuriously lush and brilliantly fresh–
Get Ready!
Liv and Alex
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Dr. Rich Sagall Asks “Are You Really Sick?” at the Sawyer Free Library
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VIDEO: Cape Ann TV’s Maureen Aylward interviews TimeBank co-founder Nancy Goodman & Chamber CEO Robert Heidt about Earth Day Eco-Trip
This just in from Lisa Smith at Cape Ann TV. Â Watch the interview below the news release:
Celebrate Earth Day and discover what Gloucester businesses are doing to go green on the Eco-Trip Scavenger Hunt on April 20 at 12:30 p.m. On the Eco-Trip you’ll solve crossword puzzles and mazes, get exercise walking to eight downtown businesses, shop at the Cape Ann Farmers’ Market, win prizes from local merchants, and socialize over refreshments at Latitude 43. We can’t think of a better way to spend Earth Day.
When you register to play at capeanntimebank.org, you’ll get a free copy of “Share the Ocean” by Michael Crocker. Before April 13 it’s $10 to play solo or on a team. After that, it’s $15. So register early!Â
Here Nancy Goodman, co-founder of the TimeBank, Robert Heidt, chief executive officer of the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce, and Maureen Aylward of Cape Ann TV talk about the Eco-Trip.
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Music helps us heal this week
More than likely you know someone who was at the Marathon. Â Here’s a small-world example: Vickie’s brother-in-law works for a medical device company in Cedar Falls, Iowa and his boss is the father of the eight-year-old boy who died. Â Even if you don’t know someone who was there, you’re probably reeling from the shock that terrorism has struck so close to home. Â I know I am.
Music has a way of healing wounds of all kinds. Â And musicians have known this since humans began making music (when ever that was).
I was Speaking with T Max today about this and he gave me a quote perfect for this week from Leonard Bernstein, one of my musical heroes — I watched his Young People’s Concerts on TV as a kid (see them on YouTube here).  He says,
“This will be our reply to violence:
to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before.”
Maestro Bernstein’s healing words ring true as local musicians carry his reply to over a dozen venues in Gloucester and Cape Ann this week. Â See the complete live music schedule here.
Tonight T Max is Fly Amero’s guest at The Rhumb Line. (Fly’s on the cover of T Max’s  Noise Magazine this month — read the story here).  Both T Max and Fly are tuned into the power of music to heal (here’s one example of how Fly transformed a dark day).
Tomorrow there’s another Singer/Songwriter Shuffle at Giuseppe’s with top local stars, including Inge Berge, Satch Kerans, Steve Caraway, Will Hunt, Randy Black, Brian O’Connor & Jake Pardee.  And just like last week you will still have time to catch rising star Brad Byrd at The Dog Bar after the Shuffle.  Currently I’m under an intense deadline that is forcing me to work late, but one way or the other, we’ll try to get to at least one local live music show over the next week or so.  And I’m sure it will help us heal.
Here’s a video that may seem a bit idealistic and hippy-dippy-trippy, but I find wisdom appropriate for our time in it’s simple, haunting lyrics especially this stanza:
Nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
It’s easy.
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Thursday night blues party to host Mari Martin @ The Rhumb Line 8-11 ~ 4.18.2013
Dave says,
I’m back ! And a pain to meet on the streets of this basically clean city! Just rinsed off my muddy boots after a week’s sojourn in the deep south, dodging gators in the French Quarter. And we’re rarin’ to go this Thursday with the likes of Ms. Mari Martin! Last time she was here EMTs had their hands full. We’re gonna do it again, see how much paint peels off the walls! She’s a great singer and I’m sure you’ll be blubberin’ like crazy after she gets done with you!
Backing her up will be that intrepid guitarist, Mr. Bob Enik, impossible to fool, Mr. Jim Gambino, on keys, if he can find the place, Mr. Andrew Jones and his beatific roadie ( His wife!) on drums and yours truly on bass. Bring an Ace bandage!
http://marimartinmusic.com/photos.html
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The word is there are only a half a dozen tickets left to see David Bromberg
Rockport Music~Shalin Liu
GUEST PRESENTATION
Saturday, April 20, 8 pm
Presented by M.E. Productions
David Bromberg
DETAILS:
He’s played with everyone, he’s toured everywhere, he can lead a raucous big band or hold an audience silent with a solo acoustic blues. Bromberg’s sensitive and versatile approach to guitar-playing earned him a coveted position as the first-call, “hired gun” guitarist for recording sessions, ultimately playing on hundreds of records by artists including Bob Dylan (New Morning, Self Portrait, Dylan), Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Carly Simon. Bromberg’s range of material, based in the folk and blues idioms, continually expanded with each new album to encompass bluegrass, ragtime, country and ethnic music. Join us for a special solo evening with an american treasure.
You have to call the box office the last remaining seats for the David Bromberg event.
Box Office
35 Main Street
Rockport, MA 01966
Hours: M-F, 10-4
Telephone (General and Box Office)
978.546.7391
Good Morning Gloucester 