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Rockport Harvest Festival 2012
Beautiful morning at the Rockport Harvest Festival, everything from Maple Syrup, scarecrows, cooking demonstrations, food along with the setting of beautiful Rockport Harbor.
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Painters and Photographers Group
Hi Everyone,
The Cape Ann Painters and Photographer Group will meet on Monday, October 15 from 9:30-11AM at The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Street.
All are welcome. Hope to see you there. If you’re grouchy in the morning before you have your coffee – stop by Last Stop for one on the way.
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Happy No Bra Day!
“Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month people are coming up with unique ways to celebrate and support the cause, or in this case support the cause without support. today is being deemed by many, “No Bra Day.”
After doing a little research into what could have become my favorite day of the year after my birthday, I found that there is an actual National No Bra Day in on July 9th. That means that this is just some made up day, most likely by a guy who is in need of seeing some breasts covered only by shirts rather than bras and shirts.
People all over social media are buying into it, and it is fine by me… Raise awareness for a good cause, and have a little fun doing it!”
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Holy Family Parish Festa Italiana October 27th, 2012
Tickets can be purchased from Guild members or the parish office
To book a table call 978-281-4820
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Keeping Watch
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Boardgame Sunday at G33K
The G33K store on Main Street is starting a new activity: Boardgame Sundays! The first one was held last Sunday, and the next is October 21st, 2PM – 6PM. (They are still working out the details of how often it will be held and what days work best.) It’s a free activity, and the organizer (Greg) brings a large selection of games. Just show up and go in towards the back of the store! I didn’t have time to stay and play this Sunday, but I hope to at a later date. A good number of players came last Sunday; there were about ten people when I left.
They are also planning to organize a regular meeting to play Pathfinder or D&D style table top. If you are interested, you can inquire at the store.
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Live rockport harvest
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Chickity Check It! Boston Harbor Beacon Does Thacher Island
A Tour of the North Shore: Day trip to Gloucester Harbor, Thacher Island, Rockport and the Annisquam River
Posted on October 11, 2012 by admin
This past Sunday’s conditions were ideal, so I made a trip up to Cape Ann. After navigating past the beautiful and secluded twin lighthouses of Thacher Island off Rockport’s coast, I decided to take advantage of the conditions and head further North. This took me around the top of the Cape Ann and back through the Annisquam River. This is a perfect day trip for a boater coming out of Boston Harbor or the South Shore: far enough to be an adventure, but close enough so that you never have to go too far from shore or worry about the weather taking a turn for the worse.
Gloucester is a destination that I have visited by boat several times, and found it to be fun and relatively easy in a 28ft boat. One can get from the start of the North Channel off Deer Island to Gloucester Harbor in about an hour with decent speed. The distance from the mouth of the Boston Harbor at Deer Island to the end of the Dogbar breakwater outside Gloucester Harbor is exactly twenty-two miles. In past trips, I have found that the seas get rougher as you head North and out of the protection of Cape Cod, but Sunday was a truly gorgeous day for boating: despite overcast skies and chilly temperatures, there was no wind, and the 44013 buoy was reading wave heights of only 1.3 feet.
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Hi Joey! The Gloucester Gig Rowers went out for a Photo Row this morning.
Look who we caught hard at work!
Best- Janet Rice
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Community Stuff 10/13/12
Wheel-throwing ~ Handbuilding ~ Glazing
Private lessons ~ Independent Study Program ~ Retail Gallery
Register now by calling 978 546 6186 or
Email: info@cynthiacurtispottery.com
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Live Video From LA of the Space Shuttle inching it’s way to it’s Destination
Live Video From LA of the Space Shuttle inching it’s way to it’s Destination
CLICK HERE FOR LIVE STREAMING VIDEO
Space shuttle Endeavour is seen on top the overland
transporter beginning its two-day, 12-mile L.A. road trip from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center in the city on Oct. 12, 2012.
CREDIT: collectSPACE.com/Robert Z. Pearlman
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First Pictures Gloucester’s Wind Turbine In The USA From Fred Bodin
First Pictures StateSide – Wind Turbine in Boston
Turbine blades ready to be offloaded onto 270 foot long Barge Chem Caribe.
Blade lifted and moving over the to the Barge Chem Caribe. Notice the unique cradle.
Second blade is lowered onto Barge Chem Caribe next to another 160 foot long blade.
On Monday, October 15th, the Tug Orion will deliver the wind turbine to Gloucester. Get ready for Height Shock in November.
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Fort Square Café Puffin
Part Puff Pastry. Part Muffin. All Incredibly Delicious.
On the weekends Heidi at Fort Square Café makes Muffins, Puffins and Smuffins.
Just like Alicia Cox’ world’s greatest coffee rolls, you need to just up and drop whatever it is you are doing Saturday morning, go to Fort Square Café and get one of these puffins. The one I got had cranberries and apple pie stuffing and it was so decadent, so delicious and rich and warm and feel good, I’ll tell you for certain I’ll be back next Saturday to get me one fer shizzy.
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O’Maley Field Hockey Undefeated Celebration Pic From Marcy Plante
The O’Maley Girls Field Hockey team is undefeated!! This is a picture of the girls celebrating their 7th win!!! Go team !!!!
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What You Should Do Tomorrow, Saturday October 13th (and everything else is a distant second) – Rockport Harvest Fest!
Scroll down for a HarvestFest Schedule of Events. And be sure to pick up your Scarecrow Stroll Contest Ballot! Great cash prizes awarded courtesy of Granite Savings Bank to the winning scarecrows!
HarvestFest All Day Events: October 13th from 10 am to 6 pm
Information Booth & Music Tent in Dock Square. Pick up information about all there is to do and see during HarvestFest and listen to some great live music in the heart of Rockport!
Local Fare Fair on T-Wharf. Featuring food made locally on Cape Ann and in New England, with Cape Ann Brewing Co. offering a taste of some local brews from 11 to 6 o’clock. Cooking demonstrations to take place at 11am, 1pm & 3pm. Click HERE for more information.
Scarecrow Stroll Contest throughout Downtown. Don’t miss Rockport’s unique & artistic collection of scarecrows from Front Beach to Bearskin Neck to Harvey Park! (And be sure to vote on your favorite!). Great prizes offered to the winners sponsored byGranite Savings Bank in Rockport. Click HERE for more information.
Kids’ Zone in Harvey Park. Climb the hay bales and more! And don’t miss our scheduled events: pumpkin painting from 2 to 4 pm and the costume parade, The Great Scarecrow Chase, at 4:30!
Glass Art Installations by John Bassett, seARTS Partner With an Artist 2012 Winner. Bassett’s work will be on display at three downtown restaurants, right in the heart of the new Rockport Cultural District. Bassett has created the colorful Hannah Jumper series with slumped and fused recycled glass from Rockport’s transfer station.
WOCA Fair in Harvey Park. The What’s On Cape Ann Fair highlights area non-profits, organizations and sponsors. Enjoy interactive booths as you learn just what resources are available to Cape Ann residents and visitors!. Click here for more information.
NYRE Food Booth in Harvey Park. Proceeds to benefit New Year’s Rockport Eve, an annual tradition in Rockport.
For More Information:
www.rockportartfestivals.com
rockportfestivals@gmail.com
978-501-3593
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The Fort Fogged In
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Before the Rain
Right before the Patriots played on Sunday, went down to Magnolia Pier and caught the clouds arriving.
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Unusually wide choice of music in Gloucester, Rockport & Manchester on Saturday
Every once in a while it’s worth reminding ourselves that Gloucester is a hub of music, which is one good reason to live here (and to visit). This weekend proves it. As usual, you have excellent live music choices in Gloucester (see complete schedule here). Plus on Saturday, the Rockport HarvestFest, the Old Sloop and the Landing 9 hour acoustic festival add about 20 artists to your choices. Here are two of our favorites, whom you don’t get to see very often:
Satch Kerans 7:30pm at The Old Sloop with Red House recording artist Drew Nelson. Here’s what Jonathan Perry of the Boston Globe says about Satch, “reemerges with some of the best songs he has ever written, at the collection’s core is a clutch of sturdy melodies and classic pop structures…Kerans gets better and surer with age.”
Brad Byrd is in Dock Square at 3:30pm with his excellent band, who are in this video shot at Minglewood back in May. See more Brad Byrd videos here.
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Cuppow
What a nifty design! Joey passed along Cuppows to photograph and after photographing, I tried out the Regular Cuppow. The Cuppow fits perfectly into the mouth of a regular-mouth mason jar, sealing without leak or drip. The shape of the sippy is very comfortable and can be used with or without a straw. There are two versions, the regular-mouth Cupow and the wide-mouth Cuppow. For the large and small jars that Felicia and Jill were selling this summer, the regular-mouth Cuppow fits both. The Cuppow is reusable, recyclable, free of BPA and phthalates, made in the U.S, and modestly priced at 7.95.
Cuppow was conceived of and designed by Aaron Panone and Joshua Resnikoff. Resnikoff is a Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering student at Tufts and Panone is a designer/engineer who works with the collaborative creative business incubator Fringe, located in Union Square Somerville. Check out Aaron’s website aarn_wrks_dsn to see some of his other collaborations and projects, and also his very yummy looking food blog lick my balsamic.
Note to the designers: I love the look of the clearish-whitish-opaque plastic, but it blends so well with its surroundings and for that reason, I can easily see myself misplacing. Perhaps color could be added to the plastic.
Good Morning Gloucester 