My View of Life on the Dock
Executive Producer Seng Varipath sends in these photos-
Hi Joey. Here are some pix I took with my smart phone while in Gloucester over the weekend. We had a great time and the weather was beautiful. Let me know if u need anything else from me and thanx for the support. Sending u several pix to choose from.
NEW FB URL LINK:
http://www.facebook.com/LettersToAnnabelleSeries
Pauline writes-
Hi all,
Kate has an online shop now with some of her great digital illustrations. These are all prints made from her original illustrations.
Take a look and pass along if you wish.
Thanks so much. Pauline
Click on The Chart Below To View The Most Current Local Gas Prices-
We have the bookmark on our blogroll to the right on GMG. So you can find it here or you can bookmark the site Gloucester Gas Prices
I just love the whole idea behind downsizing and living simply. Going off the grid and chilling out. You can see how some people who have been stretched to their physical, emotional and monetary limits may want to go all the way radically to this type of lifestyle.
Obviously with a family having a 15×15 house just isn’t going to work for me but check out the Tiny House Blog and see how these folks are exchanging ideas on how they construct tiny vacation homes or go off the grid.
Dianne Miller was enjoying the clear air today painting this harbor scene. She is the featured artist this month at the North Shore Arts Association.
Dianne Panarelli Miller
October 3 – October 23
Photos by Kathy Chapman
Damon Cummings Writes-
Through the efforts of member Barbara Jobe our notices and minutes are now posted on the city web site as well as in the usual city hall locations.
Those interested in the musings of the committee and the evolution of our thinking from elimination and build new to replacement of pieces timber by timber can follow our first 9 meetings over the last month and a half and future ones at this link
Building Committee for Lanes Cove Fish Shack
The Fish Shack
The Committee’s mission is to investigate options for the approximately 125 year old shack. The mission of the committee is to save a treasured fish shack and investigate all issues that will have an effect on this mission.
Meetings:
Meetings are normally held on Mondays at 2PM at the City Hall Annex, 3 Pond Road, Gloucester MA.
Agendas & Minutes
Agendas are available prior to Committee meetings.
Most Recent Agenda | All Agendas
Minutes are available once approved by the Committee.
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Check Out Deb Clarke’s Post Here-
Disclaimer- I’m not a Captain and don’t pretend to be one.
Jenny writes-
We happened upon Shiner because yesterday Nick and I decided to continue Gettin’ Around New England Tour with a trip south along the shore to Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Gloucester is a historically industrial town that still houses the headquarters of several seafood companies including this commercial star…
click the link below to check out their adventure-
House Husband Writes-
My first and as of this writing only lobster taken on snorkel. I caught this in about 12 feet of water, at low tide in Rockport. Totally worth buying the permit to have this memory. Here’s the lobster, next to the guage — you can check it yourself with photoshop, if you’ve a mind.
For the rest of the blog post click here
Myv writes-
Dear Joey,
I moved to Gloucester in 1981 and stayed for eighteen years before moving out to the southwest where I now live. I check out your site, lots of good stuff there, though I’m not sure I ever met you. I’m a good friend of Linda Amero and Co., she knows me well, and Henry F. and Charlie Olsen and many fishing people other and sundry. I lived on Rocky Neck for ten years, opposite the Chicken Shack in a brown house set back with two lions out front. Just about everyone knew everyone. I miss Gloucester a lot, and my friends especially.
I don’t know if you’d be the least bit interested but recently I started a blog and my last two posts are about Gloucester. There no doubt will be many more in the future. Just a fun thing to look at. I don’t suppose you knew Bill Sibley either, but George lives down there – and I did magazine articles about Larry Dahlmer and the Pung and the Boatyard for Wooden Boat Mag. None of that ‘published’ in the blog yet. Here is the link so you can get the Bill thing. The others are in the archives list on the right. I think I’ve only done 24 so far. It’s fun to do.
All the best with your endeavors. The Beaux Arts Ball looked great. Ken Parker was my neighbor in Lanesville. Good guitars he makes!
Myv Phillips
There are many great blogs in our area and this is your opportunity to help to recognize them.
There are great photography blogs like Jay Albert’s Cape Ann Images Steve Borichevski’s Shooting My Universe. There are great food bloggers like Heather Atwood’s Food For Thought, Author Jane’s Food and Fiction, the best restaurant critic site around- North Shore Dish there is Doug Maxfield’s awesome commercial fisherman diary- North Shore Waterman, there is the Northeast Cultural blog The Two Palaverers, the place I’m convinced 90% of all Boston Newsmakers get their leads-Universal Hub, knitting and writing blogs like Kat Valentine’s Parlez-Moi Press. John Hintlians hip everything cool Hye Tyde, Art Blogs Like Deb Clarke’s Another Magpie Nest. and oh so many more that I can’t possibly remember but the point is that if you dig any of these blogs why not let them know it by voting for them in the 2011 CBS Boston Boston’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards
There are several different categories but if you would like to participate and acknowledge those bloggers efforts, click the picture below and nominate your favorites-
Hey Joey,
I’ve been a fan and follower of your site for a while now … i think you do an amazing job (where do you get the time and energy?). I wanted to share a site i just launched called TheOtherCape.com
It’s still WAY under construction, but I’m building it up slowly. It’ll most likely appeal to visitors than residents, but who knows where it’s headed, right? Take a look and lemme know what you think.
And again, keep up the AWESOME work!
pm
(ps: if you’ve got time, check out my studio site, too: www.plutomedia.com)
From Ron Gilson’s “The Gloucester I Love”
Finally, "Sam" Parisi, a Commercial Street resident, is speaking out.
A Fort waterfront property owner, businessman, and former fisherman, Parisi, is telling it like it is (Letters, the Times, June 28), and in a few short paragraphs to the Times, Parisi lays out the dire plight of his industry and the neighborhood he resides in.
The day after his 1960 G.H.S. graduation he was on the deck of his family’s dragger, F/V St. Rosalie. He brings to the table eight generations of Parisi family involvement in the fishing industry.
In my lifetime, the Parisi’s have built, skippered, invested, and crewed at least a dozen large commercial vessels. They have owned several waterfront properties, hired hundreds of fellow crewmen, and landed millions of pounds of fish over these years. "Sam", his brother "Mike" and their wives, continue to eke out a living on the waterfront while our own federal government commit felonies, break into our fish auction, and routinely fine and regulate our harbor out of existence….that’s the reality.
Entering Commercial Street and the Fort area, we are greeted with a "For Lease" sign on the upper floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. Across the street is a new wharf and building, for years begging for a tenant. The Birdseye plant and acreage cries out for development. The Amero property (formerly Cape Ann Fisheries) languishes, while the former Producer’s wharf property is now owned by the city for $78,000 in back taxes, and is reduced to storing lobster traps, for free!
Parisi’s property offers 33,000 square feet of class A building space but only 20% is rented! Because of increasingly more stringent government regulations, Parisi has lost three of his four tenants years ago and they haven’t been replaced. Contrary to frequent activist "spin", business investors are not lining up for Parisi’s waterfront space, even at a reduced rate!
In 1964, "Tony" Parco and partner "Ed" McCollum opened Ocean Crest Seafood. At the Open House festivities, I counted no less than 32 floral tributes sent by fishing vessel owners, soon to be their suppliers.
Now, all those boats are gone and have not been replaced. The founder’s siblings labor on. The company has reinvented itself. They have representatives sitting daily at the fish auction and have established a successful fertilizer division, Neptune’s Harvest. They continue streamlining their operation. Yet Ocean Crest Seafood survives while struggling with diminished product availability as more and more fish is processed out of town and away from the local waterfront.
Next door at Cape Pond Ice Co., management has rewritten its business plan. Their boat customers are few, they now market bagged ice cubes, create specialty ice products, and actively promote and sell Perfect Storm inspired "T" shirts, etc. The ice company has reinvented itself with new products and creative merchandising. They, too, are hanging on!
The Fort business community has changed. Companies once totally water dependent are now only water related!
Finally, "Sam" Parisi, a Commercial Street resident, is speaking out.
A Fort waterfront property owner, businessman, and former fisherman, Parisi, is telling it like it is (Letters, the Times, June 28). And in a few short paragraphs to the Times, Parisi lays out the dire plight of his industry and the neighborhood he resides in.
To read the rest visit his blog-
The Gloucester I Love Written By Ron Gilson
or his Gloucester Daily Times Opinion story
Kim Smith Writes-
Dear Friends,
Have you noticed the sheer numbers of our winged friends? Returning this evening from a swim at 6:45, I bumped into three Monarchs nectaring and a Red-spotted Purple (all in pristine, newly emerged condition). Early evening is an unusually late time of day for butterflies on the wing, especially when skies are slightly overcast. This, after a day of observing and shooting numerous numbers of butterflies, caterpillars and hummingbirds–and never leaving our garden. I work for a bit, but then the garden calls and I’m out the door with both video and still cameras. If this fabulously warm weather keeps up, I think we are in for another banner year with the butterflies, and skippers too.
Currently, we have 22 Monarchs, in various stages of their development, residing in our kitchen, and seven Black Swallowtail caterpillars and chrysalids.
Great Spangled Fritillary nectaring at native Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Check out the rest of Kim’s Butterfly and caterpillar ramblings at her blog-
I am kind of a part time beekeeper. i have been doing it now for about 4 years. i am not sure what it was but something just drew me to it. To me it is therapeutic. A brainflush. I walk away cleansed. Recently my daughter suited up for the time. i am so happy to provide this experience to her. To me when you are in a hive with the bees it totally makes you present. ego is gone. time stops. what is time anyway? It is like witnessing a vibrant sunset or being exposed to breathtaking art. You actually stop thinking( in a ego sense) and you are one with the bees( or the sunset or the art). I read a lot of Ken Wilber. I like the way he thinks. If you do not know him check him out.
for the rest of Ken’s entry click here
Check out Some of Esther’s Work-
A small curio and textiles shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
http://www.jemilbeauchamp.com/
Our hours are:
Thursday to Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm
Sunday, 12 pm to 5 pm
1091 Washington Street Gloucester, MA, USA
01930
New resident to God’s Country (East Gloucester) Brianmoc has the best Striper fishing website that I’ve ever seen. I’ve been a fan of his photography and video work for years but it wasn’t til just yesterday that I realized that he hosted all of his work on his website www.brianmoc.com
There are lures that work, fishing reports, tide charts, weather but the best of all Brian’s incredible photography and fishing videos.
I added Brian’s site into the blogroll to the right for easy reference in the future.
Lara Lepionka writes-
Dear Backyard Growers and All Who Love Growing Things:
I would like to officially announce the Backyard Growers Program’s FUN PAGES / RESOURCES webpage!
http://www.capeannfarmersmarket.org/backyard-growers/resources.html
One of our very own Backyard Growers, Phoebe Potts, has created the Backyard Growers FUN PAGES – a simple, visual guide to the basics of starting a raised bed vegetable garden in the city. Enjoy the adorable little shape people as they happily lead you to the joy and fulfillment of growing your own food! Hurray Phoebe! You are a true believer in the cause!
And then scroll down to the RESOURCES section, which will link you to local and mail-away suppliers, websites where you can learn more gardening information, and our partners’ websites.
Please forward this along!
Thanks – Lara Lepionka, Backyard Growers Coordinator
The FUN PAGES / RESOURCES webpage was made possible through a grant from the Sparkplug Foundation.
Good Morning Gloucester 