







photos: c. ryan, Dec 14, 2025
My View of Life on the Dock








photos: c. ryan, Dec 14, 2025
Mark your calendars!
The City of Gloucester’s Saftey Day ![]()
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2025 will be held on Saturday, September 27th at Harbor Loop from 10AM to 2PM.
This years event will feature a helicopter
and rescue swimmer
demonstration from the United States Coast Guard , a simulated car accident
extrication from the Gloucester Fire Department
as well as an bomb squad demonstration from the Massachusetts State Police
featurng their Boston Dynamics robot “Spot”.
I’ll keep this stickied to the top of GMG so you won’t have to go searching for it. At the very top will be our embedded livestream which will begin Wednesday at 10AM (or around then). Lust under that will be the Tournament and Public event schedule and Under that we will have the leaderboard updated. Again you’ll be able to see all this if you just type in www.goodmorninggloucester.com
Livestream:
JULY 14 – Bluefin Bash Fundraiser
(Ticketed event)
JULY 15 – Captain’s Welcome Dinner
(Private event not open to the public)
JULY 16 – Day 1 Weigh-Ins (Open to the public)
11:00 AM – Weigh-In Opens
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Food Truck Festival
9:00 PM – Weigh-In Closes
JULY 17 – Day 2 Weigh-Ins
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM: Weigh-Ins (Open to the public)
6:00 PM – Captain & Crew Dinner, Awards, Closing Ceremony
(Private event for captains, crew, and qualifying sponsor levels only)

GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE, MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. BIRTHDAY EVENT 2025
The Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation proudly presents its ninth annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday event. It will be held on Monday, January 20th
at 2:00pm in the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church, located at the corner
of Church and Middle Streets (GPS 50 Middle Street). An elevator is available
from the side door at 10 Church Street. No charge for admission but freewill
donations are gratefully received. For more information please visit:
www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org
This year’s program will honor Dr. King by featuring the work being done by two
local groups to reckon with history. Afterward, there will be a discussion about
how vernacular history gets written, “how the word is passed.” The program
will open with a recording of Martin Luther King, Jr. reading segments of
“Letters from Birmingham Jail.”
Joe Rukeyser from the Cape Ann Slavery and Abolition Project will present
recent research on abolition. Melissa Dimond of Wellspring House will follow
with that organization’s work on the Freeman Family, the prominent Black
family who called the Wellspring House home for over 100 years. Then Michea
McCaffrey, co-chair of the Gloucester Racial Justice Team, and Dick Prouty,
founder of TownGreen and board member of the Gloucester Meetinghouse
Foundation, will lead a discussion on critical points made by author Clint Smith
in his book How the Word is Passed. (It is not necessary to have read the book.)
The Paul Revere Bell in the Meetinghouse tower will be rung at the end as
people disperse onto the newly restored green.