My View of Life on the Dock
We here at Good Morning Gloucester were the first to bring you the news about West End Sweets and are happy that they had a fantastic opening weekend! Congratulations!
West End Sweets has a website featuring it’s menu, ice ream flavors, grand opening pictures and coupons for you to print.
I stumbled across this website which lists different methods and products for brewing coffee in the woods or at a camp.
Click this text to check out the Camping Blogger take on coffee makers
There are some methods of brewing coffee that I have never seen before.
Question-
Is my coffee obsession completely out of control when I start talking about coffee makers for camping when I have zero desire to ever go camping?
THE FRIENDS OF THE GLOUCESTER COUNCIL ON AGING is holding an on-line Auction that will end this Saturday, April. 4, at 9am. Our goal this year is to raise funds to support programs of the Gloucester Council on Aging. We need your support! This is an exciting and fun way to help us, and at the same time have a chance to win cool items!
Here is the online auction- http://friendsgcoa.cmarket.com
Thanks very much!!!
Registration for the Gloucester Triathlon is currently open. According to the website it is roughly half full for the race which takes place on August 9th. Janda Ricci-Munn and Bill Burnett founded the Gloucester Triathlon.
Click the picture below for the interactive version of the course map.
Thanks To Mayor Kirk for the tip off on this upcoming event.
Click this text for the Gloucester Triathlon site.
From Paul-
I will be posting My Paintings And a step by step process of my painting, on there.
I will also be featuring other Painters of Cape Ann, and some of my photos of Cape Ann on there also.
From Ron-
This blog, hosted by noted author and Gloucester historian, Ron Gilson, will commence regular publication on Friday, March 20th, 2009. We look forward to your joining and engaging us as we embrace both the past and the future of America’s oldest commercial fishing port, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
I really enjoyed our three part interview with Ron this week. To check it out you can click on these links-
Ron Gilson Author Of An Island No More, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Coming soon to Dock Near You!
A blog, hosted by Gloucester waterfront historian, Ron Gilson, will launch a regular weekly publication in the immediate future. He looks forward to your joining and engaging him as he embraces both the past and the future of America’s oldest commercial fishing port. Please join Ron each week.
http://www.thegloucesterilove.blogspot.com/
I’m dedicating this year to educating the masses of how awesome and accessible Dory Racing and rowing are to everyone. There simply is no better deal around to get you onto Gloucester Harbor, get exersize, feel like a part of a great Gloucester tradition than rowing.
From the Gloucester International Dory website-
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All year long you will see Dory Racing news, race results,pictures and video here. I want people to get it, to see just how easy it is to get on Gloucester Harbor for a measly $50.
Get involved, it’s a blast. Learn more at the Gloucester International Dory Website by clicking this text
To View The Dory Slide Show Click The Picture Below
Here’s Paul Bruce. A special shout out to Paul’s wife Lisa Bruce who is a fan of the blog and an avid knitter. Check out Lisa’s knitting website by clicking this text.
You can also check out a slide show of her knitting by clicking Paul’s picture-
Paul Bruce Represents!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
John Ronan, Gloucester’s Poet Laureate is looking for some good poetry from local commercial fishermen. If you are a commercial fisherman and do write poetry John would love to feature your work on his site-
gloucesterpoetlaureate.org
Here is John at the Gloucester Guerilla Art Project II/Russo Family Fundraiser-
Kat Valentines runs a virtual local media conglomerate including publishing through her parlez-moi press, her web design and marketing company, her blog, her knitting book, and her many local community projects one of which she recently received an unsung hero award for seARTS.
Local Website everyone should know about (excluding GMG) www.valentine-design.com
How long have you lived in Gloucester?
14 years
What is your favorite season In Gloucester?
All of them but especially autumn
Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?
Yes. ;o)
What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?
Sebastians
What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?
Leonardos
What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?
La Trattoria
What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?
Halibut Point
What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?
Cape Ann Coffee
What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?
Fiesta
In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?
Beach
Who is your favorite local artist?
Robert Gruppe, Jeff Weaver, Tom Nicholas…. the list is endless
Which is your favorite local beach?
GHB
Who makes the best burger in town?
Me
Who has the best chowder in town?
Causeway
Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?
Cape Ann Images
Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?
Haddock
What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?
Keep em coming
What is your favorite local band?
Karen Ristuben
Thanks, Joey
Carol McMahon submitted this website for us to all check out-
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There are Google Maps of the earths ocean, maritime news, fishing industry news and more!
Chickity Check It!- Letters From the Maritime
Thanks To Linn Parisi for forwarding this to me-
Click This Text For The Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s Newsletter
photo from Charlestown Culinary
The Outstanding Staff At The Chamber have put together a blog in honor of Mike Costello’s final days at the Chamber. Click this text to check out CostelloCountdown
From the Sara Elizabeth website-
The Folly Cove Designers grew out of a design course taught by Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios. She lived in Folly Cove, the most northerly part of Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was able to express the local consensus that the world was a beautiful place, and the elements of beauty surround us in nature.
Her block printing thesis grew out of the home industries/arts and crafts movements of the past. The artist/designer of products for home use is separated from the product by machine age technology (and now globalization). Fine art for home use is within our own power. To this end her design course taught an ability to see the design in nature, a set of good design rules (dark and light, sizing, repetition, reflection, etc.), and the craftsmanship of carving the linoleum, and then printing fabric for home use.
On completion of the course the graduate was permitted to submit a design to the jury(selected Designers rotated this responsibility starting in 1943) of the Folly Cove Designers. If it was accepted as displaying the design qualities as taught in the course, then they could carve the design in linoleum and print it for sale as a Folly Cove Design.
The design course started in 1938. In 1940 they had their first public exhibition-in the Demetrios studio. The following year they decided to go public, they called themselves the Folly Cove Designers. Every year they had an opening to present the new designs, and everyone enjoyed the coffee and nisu (Finnish coffee bread). They established a relationship to wholesale their work to the America House of New York which had been established in 1940 by the American Craftsman Cooperative Council. In 1944 they hired Dorothy Norton as an executive secretary to run the business end of the successful young enterprise. In 1945, Lord and Taylor bought non-exclusive rights to five designs which pushed the reputation of the group, and began some national publicity and diverse commissions for their work.”
For the rest of this click this text
Alexandra’s Bread has some of the wall hangings for sale from Sara Elizabeth-
Check out Jay Albert’s photography at Cape Ann Images by clicking this text
Yankee Patriot, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
If you haven’t seen it yet from the link in my blogroll to the right, click this text to visit the photos from the Middle Street Fire that Jay took.
Looking for something to do Friday night? Check out The Cove Gallery Opening Reception for GMG friend Kurt Ankeny-Beauchamp and Pia Juhl Nadel. You can check out The Cove Gallery’s website by clicking this text
Things To Do- Cove Gallery Exhibition October 17th, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here’s Craig and Jane, The fine folks that run Commercial-Fishing.org
Craig and Jane true to their word sent in pictures from Maryland Harbor Day posing with Gloucester Stickers.
Craig and Jane From Commercial-Fishing.org, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joe
We got shots of your stickers!
We were here:
http://www.commercial-fishing.org/business/ocean-city-maryland-harbor-day-at-the-docks-a334.html
Good Morning Gloucester 