Giuseppe’s: SO excited for our SingerSongwriterShuffle! Memory Layne says, What an amazing lineup! Shuffling 21 local singer songwriters between five nights and seven sets each night!
Storm photos#3
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Don’t forget – Origami Class coming up at The Hive, for Easter / Passover!
I’ll be teaching an origami class at The Hive (on Pleasant Street) on March 14 at 7PM!
The theme this time will be Easter and Passover. Models on our menu to fold include:
- The traditional origami lily. Easter Lilies are a standard for decorating churches. On one hand, the white color represents purity and joy. More importantly, the lily bursts forth and blooms from a bulb which lies buried and hidden in the earth, like Christ who lay in the tomb and rose in glory from under the earth. This model also introduces origami novices to a standard of the traditional origami repertoire, with its characteristics of elegance and simplification.
- An Easter bunny/basket (designed by a Korean named Jacky Chan – not the martial arts action movie star!). Not as directly related to the religious significance of Easter, this model combines a container (maybe for chocolate Easter eggs?) with a rabbit for something that looks kind of like a bunny-shaped slipper. Cute and functional!
- A lamb. The lamb is a central part of the Passover meal, as well as a symbol of Christ for Christians. This origami design also introduces the origami novice to the use of non-square paper (it is folded from a 2×1 rectangle).
I will have a few more options available to chose from, for both Easter and Passover themes. That will include a cross (for Christ’s death and resurrection), frogs (one of the plagues leading up to the Passover), a Torah scroll (which contains the account of the Passover), etc. Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to fold and photograph examples of each for this post, but you get the idea.
As usual, please contact The Hive to register, so we know how many people will need supplies although one or two latecomers are fine too!
To summarize:
Easter / Passover origami at The Hive!
Thursday, March 14th, 7-9pm, students $15, adults $20
call 978.283.3889 or email thehive@arthaven.org to register (although drop-ins are also possible)
To see some of my previous posts about origami (including photos) and origami classes, click here.
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Open Door Bowl Painting Event
Dear Joey,
Would you let GMG readers know there is a chance to paint a bowl for the annual Empty Bowl Dinner? The decorating event will be held at The Open Door, info or 978-283-6776 ext. 205.
For more information, find us on Facebook/TheOpenDoorMA or visit www.foodpantry.org.
Maybe Snoop Maddie and The Bean would like to get in on the painting action this year? Hope to see you there.
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Tree Truck or Sea Monster Skelton on Good Harbor Beach
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Community Photos 3/13/13
Charles Erbafina Photos From March 8, 2013
Bil Hubbard Submits-
Joey,
Here’s a short story about two of the first Gloucester gillnetters that I hope you can use on GMG.
My grandfather, Capt. John A. Dahlmer bought the 39ft. “Rough Rider” shortly after she was launched at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1904. She was one of the first gas-powered fishing boats on the Great Lakes. The first picture was taken the day of her launch. Grandfather brought her to Gloucester in 1910 and alternating in the command of Capt. Edw. Weiderman and Capt. Pete Tysver and Capt. Lawrence B. Dahlmer. The second picture shows her at the Tysver wharf off E. Main St.
In 1909 Capt. John Dahlmer had the 63ft. “Margaret D.” built at the J.G. Laird & Son Shipyard in Ashtabula, Ohio. She was named for and christened by my mother, Margaret V. Dahlmer who was 5 years old in 1909. Later that year, or early in 1910 he brought her to Gloucester where she worked as a gillnetter and mackerel seiner. The first picture shows her launch in 1909 and the second is of her, rigged for seining in Smith Cove. She was wrecked on Milk Island off Rockport in 1915.
The captains Dahlmer, Weiderman and Tysver were among a group of 10 skippers who brought their families and boats from Charlevoix, Michigan to Gloucester in 1909-1910 and established the first successful gillnet fishery in America’s oldest fishing port. All four families settled on Rocky Neck and eventually moved to other Gloucester locations. Other families from Michigan who brought their boats and settled in E. Gloucester included the Arnold, Shoares, Lasley,Lafond and Place families.
The Michigan men earned handle, “Michigan Bears” by working together to do whatever chore needed to be done for their boats, no mater how hard or how heavy the work. The Michigan men and their son’s went on to captain many other boats out of Gloucester over the years.
Bill Hubbard
11Mar.2013
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Rob and Danelle Get The Gold In Sochi
David Umstead writes-
Let me give you a bit of background on Rob. We moved to Manchester in 1978 when Rob was eight. We always skied a lot as a family and skiing became Rob’s passion at an early age. He became interested in ski racing when he was at Manchester High School and drove himself to Stowe, VT every weekend in the winters of his junior and senior year to train with the Mount Mansfield Ski Club. He went on to ski for UMass Amherst and was named captain and MVP of the of the Team in his senior year. When he graduated UMass, his plan was to coach ski racing for a year or two and then apply to medical school to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather. Somehow, the med school gig never happened. He followed his passion and I am guessing that last Saturday, one day before his 43 birthday, was the greatest day of his life. I am guessing this tops the two bronze medals at the Paralympic Games in Whistler.
You can follow the story of Rob and Danelle as a team at their website … www.Vision4Gold.com or via the link to Facebook.
I have attached a picture of Rob and Danelle getting their gold medal in Sochi.
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Local Notables To Consider Voting For In The North Shore Magazine 2013 BONS Awards In The Eat Category
I’m taking category by category and highlighting some locals who you may want to consider worthy of your vote (BTW St Peter’s Fiesta is currently trailing Topsfield Fair and Good Harbor is close to Crane’s) so if you haven’t voted in the Play Category get on it!- Voting in the Play Category here
Here are some local joints that have been nominated in the Eat category (you can click on the highlighted establishments to see pictures or posts we’ve done about them)-
Vote Here For The Eat Category In The North Shore Magazine 2013 BONS Awards
Al Fresco Dining- Franklin Cape Ann, Lobster Pool
Bake Shop (Pastry)- Jim’s Bake Shop, Plum Cove Grind
Bakery (Bread) Virgilio’s
BBQ- Smokin Jim’s, The Farm Bar and Grille
Beer menu- Franklin Cape Ann, Cape Ann Brewing
Breakfast- George’s, Sugar Mag’s, Willow Rest (as you know my love of Gloucester Breakfast joints is unmatched- way too many to list so we will stick with the nominated but Mamie’s Kitchen, and Fort Square should be at least nominated as well)
Burger- Passports
Cocktail Bar- Franklin Cape Ann
Coffee Shop- Lone Gull, Cape Ann Coffee Café Sicilia and Pleasant St -None are nominated all deserve to be!
Confectionery- Nichols Candies and Turtle Alley
Farmer’s Market- Cape Ann Farmer’s Market
General Excellence- The Market, Duckworth’s is not nominated but I’d say needs to be a write in.
Gourmet Market- Savour Wine and Cheese
Lobster- Causeway, Lobsta Land and Roy Moore are Nominated, For Lobster Pool and Seaport Grille not to be nominated is silly IMO
Italian- a write in for La Trattoria Gloucester only makes sense
Lobster Roll- Seaport Grille
Mexican- Jalepenos– for Tacos Lupita Gloucester needs to be a write in as well.
Pizza- Giuseppes and The Willow Rest. There are so many great pizza joints in Gloucester and everyone has their favorites you could write in any number- Sebastians, Sclafanis, ect, ect ect
Pub Food- Franklin and Topside Grille
Raw Bar- Lat 43 nominated, Rudder could be a write in
Sandwiches- There is no Gloucester nomination and you could easily write in Virgilios, Sclafanis, or Willow Rest here
Seafood Prepared- the Causeway and The Rudder
Sushi- Latitude 43
Thai- Thai Choice could be a write in
and when you’re done you can vote in the Play Categories-
So far I’ve featured local nominees in the Play and Eat Categories, in a couple days I’ll highlight the Shop, Renew, Kids, and Live Categories.
See those locally nominated in the Play category here
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Community Stuff 3/13/13
Fooseball Tourney at Cape Ann Brewing
Joey Remember foosball? the college bar game where we’d all heavily drink and smoke up? well this is the adult version and it’s a Foosball Tournament . $10 entrance fee. and it’s March 24 @ 12noon in Cape Ann Brewery. Teams (draw for partners) and singles. to sign up call/text Steve Rogge 978-230-9565
Cape Ann Light Station on Thacher Island – A National Historic Landmark
Thacher Island Latest News
March, 2013
Hello,
This is the first issue of our Latest News E-mail about Thacher Island. As a member or interested party we hope to send you e-mails from time to time announcing important news,events and special information about what is happening on both Thacher and Straitsmouth Islands.
Visit our Newly Designed Web Site now.
Thacher Island Association Web Site
We are excited to announce a newly designed and more user friendly web site. From our new site you will be able to buy Thacher merchandise, renew your membership, donate, check up-coming events, find details on how to visit the island and view recent photographs that our guests,visitors and professional photographers have submitted.Just click on this link to see what it looks like and send us your comments Thanks. Link
WHEN: Thursday, March 14th at 7PM
WHAT: Trawl to Table: Understanding Today’s Groundfisheries
WHO: Vito Giacalone from the Northeast Seafood Coalition and Jen Levin, Gulf of Maine Research
Institute
For the public and interested parties who wish to better understand the current Gloucester groundfishing fleet, the methods and gears used,
the areas fished and the issues facing the fleet, this is a great opportunity to come and learn. We are very
fortunate to have these two experts speak to the topics.
WHERE: Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery at Maritime Gloucester, 23 Harbor Loop.
HOST: Maritime Gloucester
SPONSOR: Turner’s Seafood
For more information call 978-281-0470 or send an email to info@maritimegloucester.org
Programs are free but come early as seating is limited and we expect a strong turnout.
Cape Ann Master Shipwright Leon Poindexter to Give Talk at New Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum – Ships Built in Gloucester
Hello Joey:
Local Cape Ann resident Master Shipwright Leon Poindexter has built the ships (the Beaver and the Eleanor) for the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum in Gloucester (the Dartmouth will be built in 2014). On Sat., March 16, Leon will be giving a talk about the historic role the ships of the Boston Tea Party played and their re-creation for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum as part of the museum’s new 2013 Speaker Series. I thought this might be of interest to your Good Morning Gloucester followers. Also Attached is a shot of Leon – direct out of central casting. Here are the details:
March 2013 – The Ships of the Boston Tea Party – Their Historic Role and Re-Creation
Cape Ann, Mass. local Leon Poindexter, a master shipwright of several historic vessels and consultant to maritime museums, will provide a fascinating overview of the historic Boston Tea Party ships: the Beaver, Dartmouth and Eleanor, discuss the influence the ships and their captains played before, during and after the Boston Tea Party and highlight the re-creation of these historic ships for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Ship building is one of the oldest industries in the United States with roots in the earliest New England colonial settlements. Mr. Poindexter learned his trade from some of the last of the “old timers” who worked in the famed shipyards of Essex and Cape Ann, Mass. With more than 30 years experience, he builds, repairs and restores large traditionally built historic wooden sailing vessels and their rigs. Some of his vessels are on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to recreating the Beaver and Eleanor in Gloucester, Mass. for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, Mr. Poindexter has worked on many other important ships, including the USS Constitution and the USS Massachusetts. He was the master shipwright in recreating the HMS Surprise, used in the Academy Award-winning movie “Master and Commander” starring Russell Crowe. He will also be bringing many of the traditional tools still used in ship building. Also included in the ticket price is clam chowder, corn bread and beer or lemonade.
Date: Sat., March 16, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Price: $35/ticket (adult)/ $15 (children aged 17 & under)
Extra show added for O’Maley Little Mermaid Junior
Because of last Friday’s cancelled show, the O’Maley Innovation School is pleased to announce an additional “Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr.” performance for this Saturday night, March 16th at 7:00. If you had purchased a ticket from 3/8/13, you can use it for the following shows or receive a refund. Tickets are $5.00 for students and seniors, $7.00 for adults.
· Thursday, 3/14 at 7:00 p.m.
· Friday, 3/15 at 7:00 p.m.
· Saturday, 3/16 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
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Pre-K and Kindergarten Soccer at The Manchester Athletic Club
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Shrinkage For A Cause! Thanks To Jungle Silkscreening For The Awesome Job On The 2013 GMG/Farm Bar and Grille Bikini Speedo Dodgeball T Shirts
Dri-Fit Technical T-Shirts Made Possible By Jungle. for Our Dodgeball Competitors and Volunteers. They will be for sale on game day with all the money going to Next Step.
Check In On The Event Facebook Page For All The Details Here
T shirt design by Frankie Gwynn from the Farm and www.thirstygolf.com
T- Shirts Hot Off The Presses at Jungle Silkscreening
Front with the Logo
Back- Shrinkage For A Cause
Dodgeballers and Friends of Dodgeballers Don’t Forget to Come To The Farm Wednesday Night To Pick Up Your Dry- Fit Technical T-Shirts and Registrations Bring Your Uniforms for Approval and Get In The Harlem Shake Video we’ll be taping Wednesday night!
The event itself will be held at YMCA Camp Spindrift in West Gloucester. They have an ideal facility to accommodate this event as it grows. Parking will be at nearby Wingarsheek Beach and there will be a shuttle between the parking lot and Camp Spindrift.
On Wednesday, March 13th at 7pm there will be a COMPETITOR’S PRE-EVENT MEETING at the Farm Bar & Grille in Essex, MA (233 Western Ave). The purpose of this meeting will be to give the athletes their tshirts and wristbands, as well as go over the rules of play and verify athletes’ age and make sure swimwear is all legal. At least one person from each team should be present. The idea here is to make everything run smoothly on the day of the event.
The Farm Bar & Grille and Good Morning Gloucester together with YMCA Camp Spindrift present the 3rd annual outdoor bikini/speedo dodgeball tournament to benefit Next Step, a charity that provides aid to children and young adults with life threatening illnesses (www.nextstepnet.org)
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Peter Dorsey Does Joan of Arc
Joey,
I have been looking at some of the commemorative statues that there are around Gloucester. There’s art and history in so many places. One is a WWI memorial and is a large statue of Joan of Arc on a horse in Legion Square at the intersection of Washington and Middle streets. The imposing bronze statue, which was dedicated in 1921, is one and a quarter times life size, stands on top of a large carved granite base. There are bronze plaques on either side listing “The Sons of Gloucester Who Gave Their Lives in the Great World War” and decorative plaques at either end. Wrapping around the base is a granite bench; perhaps designed so people might sit there with friends and family, and reminisce. There are beach stones surrounding the monument, and set into the ground like cobblestones.
Designed by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), her original Joan of Arc statue won an honorable mention at a Paris art show. There were four other Joan of Arc statues cast by her that were placed in either New York City, San Francisco, Quebec, Canada and Blois, France. Huntington was 34 when she made the original plaster statue in her family’s studio in 1910 which was near Annisquam. It has been reported that the horse was modeled after one of the East Gloucester Fire Station’s horses, and that “Joan” was actually Anna’s, niece who was sitting on a barrel.
For those who have never looked closely at this imposing statue and monument, I suggest they park, and carefully walk to the center of the square. It is truly an artistic masterpiece!
Peter Dorsey
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Cape Ann Giclee is hosting a Good Morning Gloucester FOB art and photography show
Hi Joey,
Cape Ann Giclee is hosting a Good Morning Gloucester FOB art and photography show here at our studio/gallery March 29th – April 7th. We will be displaying and making available for sale the work we have printed for GMG FOBs notables such as founder of the blog Joey C, Kim Smith, Donna Ardizzoni, Thom Falzarano and others – full list to follow. We will be donating our 15% gallery commission to the Cape Ann Food Pantry. We will also have a friendly best in show competition and award the first, second and third place winners with Cape Ann Giclee gift certificates in the amounts of $100, $50 and $25 respectively. To kick this show off and give a good start we will host an opening party on March 29th from 5pm – 9 pm. We hope that people will join us to celebrate the work of the many talented FOBs we are lucky to have here on Cape Ann.
For FOBs who have not spoken to us about submitting work for the show please contact us or just come on by the studio.
Contact:
Cape Ann Giclee
20 Maplewood Ave
Gloucester, MA 01930
978-546-7070
info@capeanngiclee.com
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Pat Conant, alias Cammygrammy Represents! in Tuscon AZ
Pat Conant, alias Cammygrammy, represents while visiting her daughter in Tucson, Arizona. Woke this morning to snow on the mountains in the desert. Nothing to compare to the storm in Gloucester. Bring on spring!!
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One Giant Leap
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Dancing Seafoam
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Sista Felicia Does St. Joseph’s Day Pasta For The Gloucester Times Taste of The Times
From The Gloucester Daily Times-
When Felicia was growing up this special recipe was prepared by her Aunt “FeFe“, Vincie and Uncle Mike (Militello). Now she makes it herself and passes along the family’s recipe secrets. The main ingredients are cauliflower, fava beans, and the ferns on top of the anise bulbs. In fact, since the grocers and supermarkets typically throw away this part of the plant before even putting it on the shelf, Felicia goes around each year to remind them to avoid that for this special week of St. Joseph’s Day so that she and others can properly make the dish.
Her aunt and uncle FeFe and Vincie used to create an alter every St. Joseph’s Day and that became very big, so big that many people came each year to pay their respects and eat some of the special pasta dish. The pasta sauce was served over home made St. Joseph fettuccini pasta. What made this St. Joseph Pasta is that all the flower used to prepare the feast was blessed by a priest the day before St. Joseph day. It was done, in fact, at a very special mass in Aunt FeFe and Uncle Vincie’s home in front of her alter. You cannot get much more authentic than that.
You can read my buddy Heather Atwood’s article about Felicia and St Joseph’s Traditions here-
Feast of St. Joseph fare celebrates workers
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Boulder Uncovered by Sand at Good Harbor Beach
Below: Ron and Hilary from Rockport pose what is left of the dunes.
Below: The other side of the Foot Bridge
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More St. Joseph Day Preparation Photos with Sista Felicia and Family
Thank you Felicia and Family for sharing your blessed and beautiful St. Joseph Day celebration. Thank you Sefatia for your stellar explanations of the traditions during filming this past weekend. Thank you Orlando Family for welcoming me to your home last year to share your beautiful novenas, which has helped enormously in developing the St. Joseph Day film project. Thank you Grace and Giambanco Sisters and Family for providing the first of many interviews to come. And my deepest thanks to all the Gloucester Families who are opening their hearts and homes this coming week during filming.
Sista Felicia’s pasta is the lightest, tenderest, sweetest melt-in-your mouth “bista” you can possibly imagine.
Everyone lends a hand in the making, including teens Amanda, BJ, and Sabrina, and with Felicia’s husband Barry, Grandma Pat, Aunt Gina, nieces, cousins, great aunts, and friends. That’s really the best part–everyone working together to keep the traditions alive by creating a beautiful and memorable event for loved ones.
Over thirty pounds of semolina flour was purchased for the pasta. Every slender slice was gone by the end of the day, either eaten or given away to all who came to the Ciaramitaro-Mohan St. Joseph Day Feast.
St. Joseph Day Feast Preparations
Good Morning Gloucester 