Good Morning Gloucester

Hi Joey, I love your blog especially for the beautiful nature photos.  I want to recommend a local poet’s work, and website, http://susanvgabriel.com/home.html, (and book) for the same reason.  Susan Gabriel of Hamilton has a breathtaking book and website, worth a plug on your blog.I would also give a plug to local Manchester, celeb, Wendy Booker, a truly amazing woman who just released a new book, and she is a fascinating and inspirational speaker.

New Altitude: Beyond Tough Times to the Top of the World by Wendy L. Booker

Thanks for taking the place of my morning newspaper.

Dot Sieradzki, ManchesterPS I am a librarian, hence the book references.Benjamin Franklin once sniffed that he”had no use for a man with but one spelling for a word.”

 Regulars gather outside of St.Peter’s Club.

Someone call children’s services

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!

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

“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.

Greg Bover