My View of Life on the Dock
Once again I’d like to thank Rick Doucette and Camp Spindrift for being incredible hosts and for everything they did to make this event successful.
If you ever have a need for a spot for a corporate outdoor function, wedding or family reunion, Camp Spindrift is the perfect spot. Contact Rick Doucette at the Cape Ann YMCA for details on how you can rent the facility.
Rebecca Siswick Graham is the Artist-of-the-Month at Island Art & Hobby! Her current collection of artwork in acrylic, encaustic, and mixed media will be on display now through March 31st. They held a reception on March 15, and was well frequented.
Her work, inspired in biology, uses an interesting variety of techniques and media.
By the way, Island Art and Hobby also has a growing selection of origami materials:
Hello, I know you want Spring to arrive, but my name is Winter. I am at the Cape Ann Animal Aid, located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter, Four Paws Lane in Gloucester. I arrived at the shelter as I was found as a stray and brought to the Cape Ann Animal Aid by another rescue. They believe I was once someone’s pet because I am a very sweet boy and I am looking for a loving home. For more information about me, you may also go on-line at: CapeAnnAnimalAid.com
I really love it here – all the staff are great and my roommates are too – they were kidding me and said because my coats is black-and-white, I look like an Oreo cookie! Someone said I look like a miniature cow!
Ray Shaw Writes-
Gloucester is beautiful!!! Took this picture Sunday am. Thought you and readers might enjoy it.
Love Good Morning Gloucester.
Ray Shaw
Christina M. Raimo submits-
Hi, Joey,
Here are some photos that were taken of GLoucester High School teacher Eric Leigh and Gloucester 10th-grade students Morey Ronan and Jason Erwin at last Friday’s presentation of the Joshua Boger award in Cambridge. Gloucester high School was named Innovative School of the Year by the Mass BioEd Foundation.
Gloucester High School 10th Graders Jason Erwin and Morey Ronan (center) with biology techer Eric Leigh (right) accept the Joshua Boger Award for Innovative School of the Year from the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation in Cambridge, Mass. Presenting the award are, from left, Robert K. Coughlin, President & CEO of MassBio; Lance Hartford, Executive Director of the MassBioEd Foundation; and James Hoyes President of EMD Serono, Inc.
Eric Leigh
Morey Ronan (L) and James Erwin
James Erwin and Morey Ronan
Hi,
My name is Jessie Carini. I am a board member of the Interact club at Gloucester High School. We will be holding our 6th annual pizza taste off Wednesday, April 3rd, 5:30-7:30 at the Cruiseport Gloucester. Tickets are $8.00 for adults and $4.00 for children 5 and under. Tickets are limited to 300 and will be available at the door. All proceeds will benefit Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society.
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Maritime Gloucester will be hosting a program on Sustainable Seafood Choices on Thursday, March 21st at 7pm at the Gorton’s Seafood Gallery at Maritime Gloucester, 23 Harbor Loop. Join Allison McHale, from NOAA’s Fish Watch and Heather Tausig from the New England Aquarium’s Ocean Friendly Seafood Program who will discuss international trends in the development of sustainable seafood programs, partnerships with restaurants and seafood companies and discuss these two consumer-oriented seafood informational programs. This is a must attend for seafood consumers who wish to know more about sustainable seafood guides and the emerging — and some say dizzying — world of seafood labeling schemes. Hosted by Maritime Gloucester. Sponsored by Turner’s Seafood. The event is free to the public. Seating is limited, however, so arrive early.
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Lisa Freed writes-
Hey Joey
My dad finished building the model of Andrea Gail. Couldn’t have done it without the help of the GMG readers and the history/photos and knowledge they emailed us. Individual pieces, hand built, all from those photos, and research.
Thank you again!
lisa
Greetings all:
FINALLY! The long-awaited Vernal Equinox arrives on Wednesday, March 20th at 7:02 am EDT. Crocus are blooming and the days are lengthening. May the miracle of Spring bring you as much joy as it does to me!
Tom Philbrook
Here is photo of PA and MA cars in CVS parking lot a couple of years ago. I would like to line up the whole country’s worth for a great photo some time.
Lee Weinberg
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Just got the word from DB that Dan King will be joining the boys at Jalapenos tonight before he flies back to the west coast. Here’s a nice video, albeit a bit shaky, shot by Ned Nugent, of the boys at Jalapenos last May — one of my favorite Dan King songs.
More KBMG live videos here.
St. Joseph Trolley Party
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A huge heartfelt thanks to All the Gloucester Families Helping with the San Giuseppe Film Project. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
A special thank you to Sefatia for organizing the trolley, and for being the best most spectacular hostess for the St. Joseph trolley. Traveling from home to home, she knows by heart, and explains in great detail, each of the family’s alar traditions and stories. She also manages to keep the trolley gang together (all 50 or so). Thanks to Sefatia, no one was left behind!
Thanks to Mayor Kirk for sharing in the St. Joseph trolley and festivities. Gloucester is so blessed to have the BEST Mayor ever!
Thanks to CATA and Ed Sallah for donating the trolley. Ed is an amazing driver and was so considerate towards each and every member of our exuberant party.
A special thanks to Felicia and her family and friends. Felicia is the first to say she could not have done it without her dear husband Barry, her mom Pat, son BJ, daughter Amanda, her beautiful aunts and gamatis, and all her friends and family, working alongside her, from sunrise until the well past the midnight hour.
Felicia and Her Best Gamatis ~ Le migliori amiche*
A very special thank you to Joey for inviting me to participate in his family’s St. Joseph festivities last year, which planted the seed for the St. Joseph film project.
Photos of each of the families interviewed coming this week.
* Thanks to Paul Frontiero for the correct spelling of best girlfriends.
If you saw jazz guitar master Larry Coryell back in November 2010 when he played a benefit for seARTS, you already know what I’m talking about. At the risk of dating myself (this is Peter, not Vickie) I was mesmerized when I saw him on tour with Gary Burton back in the late sixties/early 70s (I was in high school).
Larry Coryell is a master, plain and simple. And you’ve got a chance to see him with his Power Trio (Larry Coryell on guitar, Larry Gray on bass & Paul Wertico on drums) this Friday at Shalin Liu (get tickets here). You might think of jazz guitar as beautiful, lyrical and highly improvisational, if a little on the quiet side. Here’s a video of Larry’s Power Trio showing off Paul Wertico on drums — spectacular! Anything but quiet.
Here’s what it says on the Rockport Music website:
Known as the pioneer guitarist merging jazz, rock, free-form improvisations, and Eastern influences, Larry Coryell brings his eclectic style back to the Shalin Liu Performance Center this March. Described by critic Whitney Balliett as “the most innovative and original guitarist since Charlie Christian,” Coryell’s career spans four decades, over 60 albums (dozens more as a sideman), and performances with some of music’s heavy-weights like Eric Clapton, John Scofield, Elvin Jones, and Chick Corea, to name a few. Also a consummate composer, he tells Rockport Music, “I write music because I can’t help it. I think perhaps I want to complement all the great compositions already out there…Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins come to mind, and of course, Monk!” Coryell’s personal philosophy of music has kept his playing fresh and exciting, and makes each of his personal appearances a special event.
“…Coryell played poetically, switching between unhurried, unmetered passages and a subtly swaying backbeat. Before long, however, the guitarist was throwing off fleet runs and venturing far afield harmonically, onceagain swept up in the exuberance of the moment.” – Chicago Tribune
Our friends Tom & Lorna are in Valencia and shared these photos and the video. The City of Valencia is given over to a carnival of bonfires, fiesta, fireworks and a healthy dose of satire known as Las Fallas, the fires.
Displayed on every corner all over the city are colourful ninots, giant papier-mâché figures often 20 feet tall or even more that have been paraded through the streets and then placed in fantasy groups to tower over excited spectators. Each one in some way satirises a political figure, or a soap star, or more exotic creatures from the movies, TV, sports idols, or simply imagination. Some of them are grotesque – others playful and charming – all are larger than life and up for public scrutiny.
Every day at 2pm firecrackers rip through the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in an noisy event called la Mascletá. This concert of gunpowder is very popular and involves different neighbourhood groups competing for the most impressive volley, ending with theterremoto, (literally means “earthquake”) as hundreds of masclets exploting simultaneously. While this may not be for the frail or faint-fainthearted, you understand how hearted, the Valencians got their valiant name.
Another important event is the Ofrenda de Flores a la Virgen de los Desamparados, a beautiful ceremony every March 17 and 18, that honours Valencia’s patron Virgin. Thousands of Falleras andFalleros arrive to the city from every corner of the Comunitat (Valencia State) and take the streets wearing traditional costumes and dancing to their neighbourhood or village bands as they wend their way to the Plaza de la Virgen to offer bouquets to the giant image of the Virgin. You can also check out this video, image this on main street!!
Do you think our Block Parties could be like this?
Good Morning Gloucester 