My View of Life on the Dock
I love working out there. I love going into the pool with the girls at 3PM for open pool time, Love the Great Café which makes incredibly tasty food and they are super nice, I love working out with the MyZone Fitness belt and challenging other members to push each other to get more and more fit, I love Gymazing where you can check your kids in for two hours a day and they are active and playing while I’m getting my workout on. the place just flat out rocks.
Hope to see y’all at Cape Ann Giclee Friday Night the 29th for some wine, beer, refreshments, laughs, camaraderie, and fun. 
In the meantime you can watch us set up on the streaming webcam we set up and will be running through the show-
http://capeanngiclee.com/live-video-feed
Click the start broadcast button above to watch live!
Joey C, Alice Gardner, Carol McKenna, Craig Kimberley, David Stozer. Eileen Oliver, Elizabeth Gauthier, Kathy Chapman, Len Burgess, Thom Falzarano, Brianmoc, Charlie Carroll, David Cox, Donna Ardizzoni, EJ LeFavour, Father Green, Kim Smith, Skip Montello and Trudy J Allen will be in attendance.
Click below for directions-
Happy Holy Week / Passover!
Enjoying a beautiful spring day strolling down Maplewood Ave.
Photo © Kathy Chapman 2013
Hey Joey, Long time no talk!!! Hope all is well with you and yours! Love the FB posts of the girls and their aspiring artwork.
I’m hoping you can help to spread the word for this year’s Rockport PTO Auction. I’ve included a write up with a Ticket Sale ‘tear-off’ below.
Thank you in advance!
Cindy Rich
The Gloucester high school sailing team coach, Guy Fiero, has developed the latest in indoor sailing entertainment – the SAILGHS table top regatta board game!
We will be holding a TABLE-TOP REGATTA to benefit the sailing program. Entry fees are $25 per participant. Come and challenge your friends $$$. Cash prizes will be awarded along with raffles and light fare.
Adults are invited on Friday April 5th at 7 pm upstairs at the RHUMBLINE
The Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church is inviting nominations form the public for its 2013 “Gloucester Citizenship Awards,” which will honor individuals for the contributions they make to the community with no expectation of recognition or remuneration. More than 40 men and women have received this honor since its inception in 2006. Nominations for 2013 are due by Friday, April 12. They must be in writing and include the nominee’s name, why this person should be honored, and the name and phone number of the person making the nomination. They may be mailed to the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, 10 Church St., Gloucester MA 01930, or sent by e-mail to gloucesteruu@earthlink.net. Final choices will be by the church Social Justice Committee. Awards will be made on Sunday, May 19. Additional details can be found online at www.gloucesteruu.org
Previous Recipients of Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Gloucester Citizenship Awards
Shep Abbott Patti Amaral David Benjamin Marie Blanding Sherry Borge David Brooks Stephanie Buck Thomas Byers Joey Ciaramitaro Daniel Connell Barbara Kaplan John Crowningshield Sarah Dunlap Carolyn Edwards Bob French Bob Gillis Renee Gross-Nutbrown Phil Hadley Patricia Hadley Sewell Hayes Vilma Hunt Barbara Koen Lucille LePage Marty Morgan John John Nicastro Carolyn O’Connor Micaela O’Connor Margaret “Peg” O’Malley SooHwa Ono Loretta Peres Dolores Perrin Joshua Perrine John Prybot Bob Quinn Geoffrey Richon Donald Riley Rick Roth Janis Stelluto Jane Walsh Maud Warren Mary Weissblum Bob Williams Dick Wilson
From March 29th to April 6th, The Cape Ann Community Cinema at 21 Main Street in Gloucester will celebrate some of the best French films of the year with its annual "Rendez-Vous With French Cinema" line-up:
Friday, March 29th @ 7:30pm
You Will Be My Son (Director: Gilles Legrand, 2012, France, 102m)
Instead of grooming his son to inherit his lucrative wine-growing business, an imperious vintner (Niels Arestrup) looks to a talented California-based grower, rendering a harvest of jealousy and worse. Legrand’s narrative takes on Shakespearean qualities, driven by a titanic performance by Arestrup, while the film’s observations on the wine-growing business are thoroughly engrossing.
Saturday, March 30th @ 7:30pm
Thérèse Desqueyroux (Director: Claude Miller, 2012, France, 110m)
The late Claude Miller’s final film elegantly adapts François Mauriac’s modern classic of a woman’s growing resistance to her suffocating marriage, and showcases a remarkable Audrey Tautou as the disturbed titular heroine. With Gilles Lelouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi.
Sunday, March 31st @ 6:30pm
Augustine (Director: Alice Winocour, 2012, France, 102m)
Based on a true case, writer-director Winocour has adapted a true case of a progressive 19th century doctor/therapist and his unusual patient into a study of personal wills, hidden desires and reversals of fate. A maid who suffers from seizures is sent to a mental hospital, where she appears to be condemned for life until Professor Charcot finds in her the possibilities of testing his advanced notions of the sources of so-called “hysteria.” Soko as Augustine and Vincent Lindon as Charcot deliver astonishing performances.
Monday, April 1st @ 6:30pm
Journal de France (Directors: Raymond Depardon & Claudine Nougaret, 2012, France, 100m)
Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait (co-directed by his longtime collaborator and sound engineer Claudine Nougaret) takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life—not only as a filmmaker, but as a photographer of expressive precision, capturing the entirety of French society over the decades. The patience of this image-maker’s practice is testament to an alternative to the hyper-fast, instant delivery of digital images that now dominates the culture.
Tuesday, April 2nd @ 7:30pm
Rich Is The Wolf (Director: Damien Odoul, 2012, France, 82m)
Perplexed at the sudden disappearance of her husband, a wife watches hours of videotape that he’s recorded over the previous seven years to piece together some clues. Odoul’s most daring feature, whose color and black-and-white images are culled from his own videotaping, confirms his place as one of France’s genuinely exploratory filmmakers. Stars Marie-Eve Nadeau, Damien Odoul.
Wednesday, April 3rd @ 7:30pm
You, Me and Us (Director: Jacques Doillon, 2012, France, 136m)
The tentative nature of relationships is explored in dazzling, three-dimensional fashion in this cleverly written and directed roundelay between current and former lovers. Aya, the mother of a bright young daughter, struggles to come to terms with the end of her marriage, while hoping to have a child with her new lover. Stars Lou Doillon, Samuel Benchetrit, Malik Zidi, Olga Milshtein.
Thursday, April 4th @ 7:30pm
The Suicide Shop (Director: Patrice Leconte, 2012, France, 79m)
Master filmmaker Leconte makes a startling and unforgettable departure from his previous work with this whimsical animated musical about a family business offering certain special “end-of-life” services. Rather than succumbing to a purely mordant perspective, the movie switches course and mood, driven by the family’s perpetually happy child whom they can’t control. Based on the novel by Jean Teule and with the voices of Bernard Alane, Isabelle Space, Kacey Mottet Klein, Isabelle Giami, Laurent Gendron.
Saturday, April 6th @ 2:30pm
Granny’s Funeral (Director: Bruno Podalydès, 2012, France, 100m)
Although he made no effort to see his grandmother in her waning years, pharmacist Armand (director Bruno Podalydès’ brother and co-writer Denis) must now deal with her funeral arrangements. This is awkward enough, but nothing like his emotional swings between a wife he can’t quite part from and a lover he can’t quite commit to, in a comedy stamped with the Podalydès brand of caustic, Gallic wit. With Valerie Lemercier, Isabelle Candelier, Catherine Heigel and Benoit Hamon.
Saturday, April 6th @ 5:00pm
Persécution (Director: Patrice Chéreau, 2012, France, 100m)
A brutally intimate close-up of the moment-to-moment dissolution of a love affair, this psychological drama stars Duris as a brooding, bestubbled Parisian juggling a hot-and-cold relationship with a jet-setting careerist (Gainsbourg) and the intrusions of a middle-aged male stalker who has claimed him as the love of his life. Fueled by emotionally charged dialogue and nervy, passionate performances, "Persécution" continues Chéreau’s masterful observation of human desire in all its intricacies and contradictions. Starring Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Hugues Anglade.
Tickets for all shows are $10.00 adults, $8.50 students and seniors (60+) and $7.00 for Members. More information about these and any of the Cinema’s other offerings can be found at www.CapeAnnCinema.com.
Audrey Tautou stars in "Thérèse Desqueyroux," one of nine films playing from March 29th through April 6th as part of the Cape Ann Community Cinema’s "Rendez-Vous With French Cinema" line-up.
I’m thinking about pimping my house out with 3 or 6 of these bad boys.
Who remembers this song? If you do not remember I can sing it to you while we are cleaning.
“Litterbug, Litterbug, shame on you!” “Look at the terrible things you do!” “Littering, cluttering every place.” “My, but it’s disgraceful!” “Litterbug, Litterbug, where’s your pride?” “Making a mess of the countryside.” “Soiling, and spoiling each lovely view.” “Shame, oh shame on you!” “It really makes one wonder what kind of house you keep.” “On every tour, the world is your personal garbage heap.” “Uncautious litterbug, litterbug, don’t you care?” “People must follow you everywhere.” “Cleaning up places that you’ve gone through.” “Litterbug, oh shame on you!”
We will be meeting again at St. Peter’s Square to do Main again and the Blvd.
Fishtown Players Present Martin McDonagh’s Lonesome West. Starring Roy O’Connor, Jay DiPrima, Michael McNamara and Kelly Newman.
Thursday April 4, Pay as you can at 7:30 Pm
Fri&Sat April 5,6, 12, 13, at 7:30 pm
Sun Paril 7, 14 at 3:pm
Thursday April 11, 7:30 Benefit for the Gloucester Writers Center
At the Gorton’s Theater (home of the Gloucester Stage Company)
267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA
Tickets $18, Seniors $15, Students $10.
for tickets to to http://www.fishtownplayers.com
Maritime Gloucester is proud to announce that it is starting a new Sea Scout “Ship” effective immediately. It has been many years since Cape Ann operated an active Sea Scout group for youth. 
The Sea Scouts recently celebrated its 100th year anniversary when Governor Deval Patrick declared October 8th, 2012 as the official Sea Scouts Day in Massachusetts. First inspired on the waters of the Massachusetts coast, the program is a national coed outdoor program for young adults ages 14 to 20 that promotes knowledge of our nation’s maritime heritage and provides young people with positive opportunities through hands-on maritime education, training and experiences. The Gloucester “Ship” would serve the North Shore and be a part of the Yankee Clipper Council, BSA, Inc.
“Sea Scouts is a perfect fit for Maritime Gloucester” says Geno Mondello, who directs the dory shop at Maritime Gloucester and served in the Gloucester Sea Scouts as a teen. Maritime Gloucester’s mission is to inspire students and visitors to value marine science, maritime heritage and environmental stewardship through hands-on education and experiences. Located on the waterfront adjacent to the Coast Guard Station at Harbor Loop, it offers boatbuilding and repair, rowing programs, maritime heritage artifacts and exhibits, sails and education aboard the Schooner Ardelle and marine science education and research in biological and physical science classrooms.
According to Amanda Madeira, former Captain of the tall ship Ernestina, who will serve as the Skipper of the group, “I am eager to work with young men and women from the area who are interested in connecting to the sea and developing maritime and marine science skills.” Ms. Madeira is a licensed schooner captain and marine science educator at Maritime Gloucester who has worked extensively with youth on active sailing and seafaring programs.
“We are very excited about the addition of a Sea Scout program on the north shore,” said Laura Moriarty, District Director of the Yankee Clipper Council. “We look forward to working with their team to support a strong program in the historic port of Gloucester.”
Maritime Gloucester is a non-profit organization located at 23 Harbor Loop in Gloucester. Maritime Gloucester prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, marital status, national origin, mental or physical disability, political belief or affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under state or federal law.
For more information about serving as an adult volunteer or being a youth member, please contact Amanda Madeira at amadeira@maritimegloucester.org or at 978-281-0470. You can also find more information about us at www.maritimegloucester.org or visit us on Facebook.
After swimming on Monday morning decided to go home via Shore Road, that is never a mistake.
In case anyone else was wondering what this huge barge was doing in Smiths Cove today, it is there to replace two steel eye beams under the Rocky Neck Accommodations, so that it will be there for people to stay in and enjoy for many years to come.
E.J. Lefavour
Our deepest thanks and appreciation to Frances and Ann Margaret Ferrante and friends for welcoming us to film and photograph an interview with their exquisite St. Joseph altar.
Frances and Ann Margaret Ferrante
Zina Saputo and Felicia
Ferrante St. Joseph Altar
Chris Anderson writes:
Have to be the most negligent zookeepers on the planet right?
Like isn’t it the zookeepers job to make sure the big cats are fed so they don’t run around eating up the other animals?
Zookeeper 101 really, even I know that shit.
Good Morning Gloucester 