My View of Life on the Dock
-and Paul Boudreau assured me there will be a beer tent!
If you haven’t seen the spectacle that is cyclocross at The Gran Prix of Gloucester, mark your calendar now! I’ve heard from many many folks that you just won’t believe the action. It’s one of the best spectator sports around.
Here’s an article in the Herald’s travel section-
Ron writes-
Hey Joey,
We haven’t met but I live in Gloucester and we really enjoy your blog/web site.
My reason for this contact is to thank you for the great coverage of the Fish Box Derby. The post by Patrick really made my day as the father of two adult girls and the Papa of Alexis and Ava who won this years event.
Your coverage of all things Gloucester is beyond compare and I can only imagine the time and effort you put into this thing. Keep up the great work and know that your efforts are appreciated.
Ron Schrank
Well Ron we ain’t done yet.
Here’s a whole lot more photos in a slide show from Melissa Cox (click the pic for the photos)
All Dressed up
Julie from K Nuts trimming nails and donating the proceeds. Good Egg!
Hi Joey,
Thank you for your excellent coverage of the Lanesville Music Festival last week. We appreciate it! We had a great day, with beautiful weather, fabulous music, great food and fine people (and dogs!). Our day included initiating our beloved mayor as an official "Lanesvillain." I’m attaching pics of some of the highlights.
-Laurie Ure, LCC board member
Hello Joey, Here are several pics of Coastsweep at Plum Cove Beach, Homie was there to represent!
The Cleancity Initiative sponsored a Coastsweep Event at Plum Cove Beach Thursday. Each year volunteers clean and collect data from what they pick up, and submit it to the Ocean Conservatory in Washington D.C. The data is collected from the entire east coast and used to help define what materials are littering our waterways and beaches, and work towards environmental solutions to reduce or redefine how the materials are used. There are more Coastsweep events scheduled for this fall, please volunteer to help out.
“Help us to Keep our Homeport Clean”
Howard P Amaral and Patti Amaral
THE DOWNTOWN GLOUCESTER BLOCK PARTY – DANCING IN THE STREET!
SEPTEMBER 17, FREE!
Gloucester’s last block party of the season is a Dance Party! Main Street will be filled with entertainment at five stages, dining, dancing, magic and our special Kids’ Town. THIS IS YOUR PARTY and it’s free!
At 6 pm sharp start dancing to the Docksiders Big Band plus jazz, reggae, African, folk, rock, show tunes and oldies. Linda Amero is at the Franklin Café, the Bandit Kings play at the Dog Bar. The Honky Tonk Women of Gloucester and we will be performing at 7p.m. in front of the Sovereign Bank.
Enjoy exquisite dancing by OmBellyCo Tribal Dance and the Cape Ann Center for Dance Performance. Buy 50/50 raffle tickets from our Gloucester High School cheerleaders and help support the parties.
Also at 6 pm, a special magic show in Kids’ Town – win a special prize from magician Joe Howard!
The Block Party series celebrates Gloucester’s unique downtown. The stores and galleries are open and busy. Dine al fresco at our diverse restaurants while you enjoy the entertainment.
Don’t miss it! Get downtown at 6 pm with your dancing shoes on!
http://downtowngloucester.com
Filmed With My Cheapo $79 Kodak Playsport Zx3 and using the Kayalu nClamp.
Some points about taking video-
The more steady you can hold your camera, the more pleasing the resulting video will be. One way to accomplish this is holding your camera very steady. You need to be very conscious of framing your shot properly and keeping the camera steady. the much easier way is to use a tripod, or mount. Using a mount or tripod there is no camera shake and your results will look immeasurably better than if you try to hand hold the camera.
Obviously carrying a huge tripod around can be cumbersome and you all know my feelings on being able to keep your camera gear on you to be able to capture the shots as they happen. So many times a tripod is not going to be the answer.
The manfrotto modopocket which screws right into the universal camera mount and folds flush with the bottom of my camera is my number one camera accessory that I feel can help any photographer achieve much better results, especially with poor light (with good light photography is a snap, you just point and shoot and you don’t have to worry about camera shake because the time the lens will be open is so much shorter).
But for this application I used the kayalu nClamp with the toughbar extension. Literally I screwed the Kodak Playsport Zx3 onto the Toughbar and clamped it onto a bolt that was attached to the mast, framed the shot and pressed record. In this way I could sit back and enjoy the company on the boat and we got a nice video capturing the scene.
click image for the full sized slide show-
click the first photo for the complete slide show-
Complete Results from Cool Runnings Can Be Found By Clicking On The Graphic Below
click the photo to see the slide show
Hey Joey,
I was out on the rocks at on Wonson Cove taking shots of the fireworks the other night and was fortunate enough to get this one. I thought I would share it as a fun way to end the summer!
Thanks,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
North Shore Kid is nominated in the Lifestyle and Family Category you can vote for them here
At Gloucester Maritime-
Not much happening in Gloucester these days is there?
Nothing to do, ho hum. 
Bahahahahahahah!
Hey you, yeah you sitting in that chair wishing you were here in the middle of the action! The fun isn’t over yet! We still have a Block Party right around the corner and a whole lot more fun stuff coming up. The fun doesn’t stop just because labor Day is over. This town has some killer community event every single weekend of the year. You need help with accommodations or finding out stuff to do? Check out The Chamber of Commerce Website or Discover Gloucester or GloucesterMa.com to get the latest skinny on what’s happening round town. Or of course you could check out our little ol blog.
Click first photo for the action packed slide show from new GMG contributor Kathy Chapman
Check out Kathy’s Site Here- http://www.kathychapman.com
Special thanks to Bob Hastings and the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce for inviting GMG aboard to bring it to you FIRST!
click to view the action live-
2011 Gloucester Schooner Fest Live Cam provided by Discover Gloucester
Click Here For The Schedule of Events
We will be live blogging here at this post all weekend long. If you have a picture or upload a YouTube video send it in to goodmorninggloucester at yahoo.com and we will add to the 2011 Schooner Festival Live Blog Timeline. If you are out on the water and have an iPhone send in those pics to the email address above and we will post them, don’t forget to add how you would like the photo credited.
Friday Evening Rick Isaacs Submits-
4:45AM Saturday September 3 The Heritage Center- Epi-Center of Schooner Festival Activities-
6:00AM Saturday-
Screen shot from the 2011 Schooner Festival Webcam 8:09AM
click the pic below to see the action live
9:15AM The Scene At The Heritage Center
Video-
Donna Ardizzoni Photos-
Ardelle-
Galley on the Roseway
Mast on the Roseway
Quarters on the Roseway
Sunday September 4, 2011 4:45AM at Gloucester Maritime
Parade of Sails Sunday 11:00AM-
Parade Of Sails Photos From Donna Ardizzoni
If you appreciate GMG and feel that we deserve to be Boston’s Most Valuable Blog feel free to give us your vote-
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