At Brown’s Mall. Former offices of the Encyclopedia Britannica? (or is there another explanation for the thistle emblem over the door?)
Pet of the Week-Willy
Hello, my name is Willy and I have a suite at the Cape Ann Animal Aid located at the Christopher Cutler Rich Animal Shelter, Four Paws Lane, Gloucester . I am handsome, smart, friendly, my coat is one that everyone envies because I am so good looking.
Please attend our Holiday Open House on Saturday, December 8 (snow date, December 15), from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at our new shelter at Four Paws Lane in Gloucester. Please stop by and help us celebrate the holidays. I can’t wait because I love to party!
Did I mention that I am handsome?
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Gloucester Downtown Calendar of Events
OH YEAH BABY LOOK AT ALL THIS AWESOME DOWNTOWN GLOUCESTER COMMUNITY STUFF COMING UP!!! BETTER REST UP AND BUCKLE YOUR CHINSTRAP LOTS ‘O FUN AHEAD!
Nov. 23rd -BLACK FRIDAY – SHOP LOCAL – Twenty five Shops opening at 6AM – With Special Discounts. Look for the Gold Star in Participating Windows. Every purchase made receive a free entry to the $1,500. Shopping Spree look for the posters in participating Store windows.
Nov. 25th -Gloucester Downtown Christmas Parade starting at 3PM at the State Fish Pier on Parker Street proceeding to Main Street to Western Avenue.
Nov. 25th -The Annual Tree Lighting at Kent Circle will follow the Christmas Parade.
Dec. 6th -The 38th Annual Ladies Night – Stores will be open late. Many offering refreshments and special offers. With every item purchased receive a free entry to the $1,500. Shopping Spree.
Dec. 8th -The Middle Street Walk -10AM to 3PM FREE – At City Hall -Cape Ann Big Band Concert -11AM Gingerbread House Contest winners announced at 1PM non profit Organization presentations, special concerts and events until 3PM. During the day there will be concerts and special events at: Cape Ann Museum, Sawyer Free Library, Trinity Church, Universal Unitarian Church, Sargent House Museum, and more! All day free kids’ activities and buoy painting for the Lobster Pot Tree at Cape Ann Art Haven, 180B Main Street. List of events and schedules at City Hall, Sawyer Free Library Visit Middle Street Walk on Facebook and goodmorninggloucester.com
Dec. 8th – The Annual lighting of the Lobster Pot Tree at 4:45PM.
Dec. 10th -Bank Gloucester’s Tree Lighting 5-6PM. A reception to follow in the Bank Lobby, to benefit Hospice of the North Shore.
Dec. 13th – The 38th Annual Men’s Night – Stores will be open late. Many offering refreshments and special offers. With every item purchased receive a Free entry to the $1,500. Shopping Spree.
Dec 19th. – Last chance to enter the $1,500. Shopping Spree.
Dec. 20th – The 1st Annual Family and Friends Night -Come Home for the Holidays. Many Stores will be open late offering Refreshments and special offers. Many Restaurants will be offering a free desert or appetizers. There will be Carolers strolling Main Street Gather your friends and family and join us and enjoy the evening Downtown.
Dec. 20th – Santa will draw the Winning Ticket at 9PM, to the $1,500.Shopping Spree.
Plenty of time to be used or given as Gifts. Please join us for the drawing. Good luck to all the entrants!
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Community Photos 11/20/12
Stone Cold Stunning Gloucester Harbor Sunsets From Brianmoc
Brian writes-
sunset is in your backyard for the next two weeks then is back over in west Gloucester.
Check out more from Brian here-
Decorating The Kent Circle Christmas Tree photos by Joanne Marks
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Community Stuff 11/20/12
Meet the chiefs at Gloucester UU Church November 26th
GAAC Has Moved!
After almost ten years at the St Paul Lutheran Church, the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club has started to outgrow the space, and we have moved our monthly meetings to the Lanesville Community Center, right up the street.
The Community Center has a lot of space to grow, all the amenities we’ll ever need, and a nice dark area outside where we can set up scopes before and after meetings. This is a real plus. Maybe in the warmer months we can even do some guerrilla astronomy there for the folks in and around Lanesville.
Come and see us in our new digs on December 14, our Christmas party! We’ll have door prizes, a new video from NASA on Saturn and the Cassini spacecraft, followed by a presentation by our own Steve K on what’s up in the winter sky. And of course there’ll be plenty of Christmas goodies to eat and lots of good conversation. GAAC charges no dues or fees. See you there at 8:00!
CAST Call For Actors-
Interested in acting? Want to participate in a twenty first century production of William Shakespeare’s "Julius Caesar"? Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe has several roles (from 18 years and up, male and female) still open in this tragedy about ambition, power, intrigue, and politics. The play will run the first week of March at the Gorton Theatre in Gloucester, with evening rehearsals in Rockport starting in December, breaking for the holidays and resuming in January. For more information and to arrange an interview, contact the director, Joseph Stiliano, at cast2008@prodigy.net .
Schooner Adventure’s Holiday Tea
Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 (1:30-4 pm) at the beautiful Inn Magnolia, 18 Norman Avenue, Gloucester (Magnolia).
Come enjoy tea tasting with Upton Teas (yes, there’ll also be coffee for those who must…), finger foods, live music, raffles and our Ship’s Store for holiday shopping.
Tickets are $10 per person at the door. For more info – call 978-281-8079, email bwelin@ schooner-adventure.org or go to www.schooner-adventure.org
Date: Tuesday, November 20 , 2012
Time: 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. Time: 2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Place: Gloucester Marine Railways Place: Jodrey State Pier
81 Rocky Neck Ave 3 State Fish Pier
It’s not too late to get a flu shot – and if you need a tetanus shot or pneumonia shot, those are available as well. Three vaccines, all FREE, for you and your family. You don’t need health insurance to participate in the clinic.
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Shewsberry Has An Idea For The Next Version of The Sticka Color- Ask The Readers For Nominations And Put It To A Vote!
So we are now accepting nominations for colors for the next GMG Sticka!
Enter your idea below in the comments to this post and after tomorrow I will create a poll.
If you don’t see the word comment below this post click the title of this post and then all the sharing options including pinterest, print this, Facebook, twitter, ect should appear.
What color scheme would you like to see?
At Most It can Be Two Colors. Yellows and the like don’t show up.
Special thanks to GMG logo designer Beth Swan, and our producers Frank Ciolino and Shewsberry
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Video- The Crew Of The Degelyse Demonstrates How To V-Notch A Female Egg Bearing Lobster
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Stuff I Don’t Get- Why People Stay In Places
There are certain things that I just don’t get.
One of these things is why anyone stays in a horrible ghetto-like neighborhood where there is a ton of drugs and gangs and crime.
What is it that keeps people there? Like after the first stabbing on my block I’d gather up the belongings and family and hit the road. Hitchhike or work for food down to Florida and work doubles or triples washing dishes or whatever I had to do to keep food on the table for my family.
The same goes for these war torn countries in the middle east.
Bomb goes off a block away- “Honey pack up the kids, we outtie!” It would be that simple a decision for me.
What in the world keeps people hanging around waiting to get their ass blown up?
Not my idea of Home-
Uhmmmm, Yeah, No.
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Labor
AND REWARD
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Fall Clouds
November 15, 2012, the clouds forming over the harbor.
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A Fall Motif
Just one more of a million shots of this famous fish shack. I like the homie sitting on the dock by the little red row boats.
E.J. Lefavour
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Fratelli Onofri
I think I love our new range. It is a little scary purchasing a new oven, especially a floor model, the week before Thanksgiving, but the heating element in our old range died; cost to repair, 800.00. A thirty-six inch range (the standard size seems to be thirty inches) is not easy to locate, but after finding several models to chose from I called a dozen or so local distributors to look at floor models. Frankly, most seemed completely disinterested in making a sale if it wasn’t something they had in stock and their choices seemed impossibly narrow–either entirely unsuitable crummy cheap ranges or deluxe models, beginning upwards of 4,000. I had set a budget and was determined to stay within.
Heading further afield and next on my list was Appliance Warehouse in Seabrook, New Hampshire. I was fortunate to get Angie on the phone and our conversation went something like–are you sure you want a Fisher Paykal? They are nearly impossible to repair. What is it you are looking for? I said no, that I was not glued to a Fisher Paykal and then described what I was looking for: a no bells and whistles clean-lined 36″ double oven, without computer, and with legs. And that the bigger of the two ovens had to be large enough to cook a turkey. She said, “Do you want to make a deal?” as they are in the midst of remodeling. Angie described her Fratelli and I thought it sounded interesting enough to go see. I googled the model number and felt the range was a little more classically styled than I had imagined, nonetheless worth going to see.
What I liked about Angie is she understood that I had set a budget, that she genuinely thought highly of the product she was offering, and that she was interested in imparting information and her personal opinion about the quality and ease in repair of various range manufacturers. And the fact that she had on hand a large rubber turkey to test the size of the oven!
I could not find much information online about our little oven and what I did read has proved to be inaccurate, such as the fan of the convection oven is extremely loud, which couldn’t be further from the truth. I adore the ease in which the shelves glide in and out, the different size burners for different heating needs, the cute legs for ease in cleaning, having both a large and small oven, and the overall very sturdy feel of the Fratelli. My one complaint is that the oven temperature settings are difficult to read as the steel is so highly polished, although as you rotate the dial, it clicks into each increment so over time you would become familiar with the feel of each. I practiced with lasagna last night and it came out perfectly–creamy, cheesy, tomatoey within, and golden crispy brown on top, just how my family likes it! I’ll let you know what I think about the Fratelli Onofri after all the pie- and turkey-making of this upcoming week
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New GMG Series ~ Peter & Vickie’s Laws of Life ~ Every Monday
Vickie and I don’t exactly work a normal Mon-Fri week, but we have a kid in school, which means we feel the same way about Mondays as pretty much everybody else does. So we figured we’d lighten Mondays up a bit with our new series starting today, called Peter & Vickie’s Laws of Life. LOL for short 🙂 Why, you ask, does Peter get top Billing for this series when Vickie has it for the posts? Well I’m writing the first one in the series, so I get to name it.
Last week I mentioned one of my heroes, Richard Feynman, in this post about Will Hunt’s Cape Ann Rocks for the Rockaways benefit, which raised over $300 for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Feynman was one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, so I thought we’d start the series off with an LOL loosely based on a law of nature, namely Antoine Lavoisier‘s Law of Conservation of Mass, which, simply put, states that mass in never created or destroyed; it just gets rearranged or converted into energy. So here’s the LOL corollary:
You’re more likely to gain weight if someone you know is losing weight. According to Lavoisier, all that weight people lose HAS to go SOMEWHERE, right? So if your wife complains that you’re getting fat this holiday season, ask your her to STOP LOSING WEIGHT. It only makes it harder for you.
Next Monday, we’ll have another LOL. Until then enjoy a week of good food, good music and good friends — and encourage everybody to eat as much as they like.
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Only 27 tix left for the Dec.1 holiday show… grab them before they’re gone!!!
Chelsea Berry, one of the the New England area’s finest musicians, will be performing in Manchester on December 1st at the Crowell Chapel in the Rosedale Cemetery. This special holiday performance, aptly titled “Holiday’s & Wintertide: An Evening with Chelsea Berry & Friends” will feature the musical talents of Rockport’s, John Rockwell, and the husband and wife duo of Joe Cardoza and Renée Dupuis of Rowley.
The evening’s program, presented by Single Tree Music and The Historic Manchester Trust, will feature holiday songs and some original material guaranteed to resonate with guests in the acoustic brilliance of the Crowell Chapel. The event’s producer, Chris Langathianos, said, “I’ve lived in Manchester for 12 years and hadn’t been into the Crowell Chapel. I decided to take a look and the second I stepped into it, I was blown away by the acoustics and the beauty of the venue itself. I immediately called Chelsea, and said, ‘you have to check this place out!’ From there, the idea for a holiday performance blossomed.”
Chelsea Berry, an Alaska native who moved to the Boston area to attend Berklee College of Music, is a fixture on the live music scene having performed all over the country and often opening for world-class musicians like Chris Isaak, Marshall Crenshaw, Livingston Taylor, and Cheryl Wheeler, to name a few. Last summer, she headlined the Festival by the Sea’s finalé concert in Masconomo Park.
When asked about the holiday performance, Berry said, “The whole holiday music thing is actually a bit of a secret indulgence of mine – it’s an excuse to step outside the box and perform classical music, orchestrate crazy vocal harmonies, and pretend I’m in the elementary school choir again. To me, the time of year itself means family, skiing, reading next to the woodstove, decorating the tree, and Mom’s Christmas morning sticky buns – all happy memories for me.”
With Rockwell and Renée & Joe slated to kickoff the evening’s performance, the audience will almost certainly be treated to some vocal and musical collaboration later in the evening’s program. The audience might expect Dupuis’ throaty, alto harmonies to perfectly compliment Berry’s powerful, smooth vocal leads, Cardoza’s passionately executed guitar skills, and Rockwell’s baritone voice and humorous stage presence to make the evening unforgettable. The four musicians are not strangers to collaborating with each other, so the onstage chemistry will undoubtedly be magical for this one-time performance.
The December 1st concert will take place during Manchester’s Christmas by the Sea weekend and is slated to start at 7pm. Tickets are $20 each, or guests may reserve an entire pew which will accommodate 6 to 8 guests comfortably. Tickets are available at www.attendstar.com or by calling 617-694-6892.
A portion of all ticket sales will go directly to The Historic Manchester Trust to support its programs.
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Mr. Pumpkin and the RCA Dog
Proof that cats and dogs can get along just fine. The RCA dog behaves himself and knows his place, so Mr. Pumpkin doesn’t have to go out of his way to prove he his the boss.
At Gloucester Music on Main Street.
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A less rough cut of the Duck Sister’s Rocket Propelled Tour of Cape Ann
I am posting this outside my normal posting schedule because of the unfortunate accidents occurring upon viewing the previous rough cut of this time lapse video. Several keyboards have been damaged and Ejay’s birthday cake has spoiled some new birthday shoes. This remake is after Rubber Duck read the directions. Much higher resolution since I am not rendering a 4:3 format to 16:9 format. The rubber ducks are much clearer. I also slowed it down by half so one does not have to wear a seat belt or snort an expresso to keep up. The music is also more Rubber Duck twin sister genre.
Rubber Duck has got the time lapse bug now and she has already designed some RDBM for quick mounting. (Rubber Duck Butt Magnets complete with felt padding.)
How about a map? 
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Playing with Engineering Prints
I decided to try out this new fad of engineering prints for myself. A lot of design and craft blogs have been featuring these prints lately and raving about them. It’s an inexpensive way to get large scale photos made. Engineering prints are usually just used for building plans and such. I tested one out with one of my photos from Lighthouse beach.
I have been thinking of using this as an idea for my friend’s upcoming shower as inexpensive decorations, but I wanted to test it out first. I ordered a 24″ x 36″ from Staples and picked it up in store. It cost me a total of $3.19. The quality isn’t perfect but the contrast and impact is excellent. It’s very lightweight paper so it can crinkle easily and really made for one time use, unless you mount it to foam board or plywood.
I have heard rumors, that printers don’t really like doing photos as engineering prints because it’s uses more ink and wears out the printers. I didn’t seem to have a problem, but I’m sure as this gets more popular some places may crack down and not do photos.
I plan on ordering more and mounting them to foam board to hang from the ceiling for party decorations.They would make great inexpensive decor for theme parties, weddings, or as dorm room posters.
~Alicia
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Join The Manchester Athletic Club Now For Only $1 and Get The Rest Of November Free! #Boom!
I’ve been authorized to allow you to print this out, bring it in and qualify for this killer deal.
So click the title of this post, once you click the title it will open it up on it’s own page and underneath the graphic there will be a button that says print.
Hit that print button and print it out for a ridiculous savings!
You can also call and mention the offer at 978-526-8900 to take advantage.
Mention the $1 Free Joining and November Deal and score!
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Lost Dog
Hi Joey,
Happy Thanksgiving 🙂
I found this dog this morning on Main Street and thought for sure we would have found her home by now. She followed three little girls on bikes and they were worried she would get hit by a car.
Could you please post her picture? She is very sweet and is waiting so patiently for her family to find her. I know I would be worried sick.
Thanks so much!
Schmoop
Contact Schmoop at Tiny Island Beach Glass In Gloucester’s Historic West End
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Community Photos 11/19/12
Ipswich Bay Wooden Buoy Co. Bayview Photos by Anthony Marks
Mary Page Submits-
Hi Joey Love GMG thanks for your good work
This morning green buoy 29 was pulled by the coast guard for cleaning. Photo taken from Rust Island. Mary Page
Gail and Mary signing the second turbine arm Saturday.
Purple Heart Highway dedication from Linn Parisi
Good Morning Gloucester 