My View of Life on the Dock
Maggie Rosa invited me up to take some footage for GMG (cuz you know we get you that kind of access).
Jay Albert of Cape Ann Images was up here a couple of weeks ago, you can check out his pictures here
Here’s the first video of three with plenty of pics to follow-
Matt Noyes, the best weatherman around has featured a bunch of GMG pictures on NECN’s sky scenes segment.
Here’s the latest one that he featured on his web site MattNoyes.net It was a photo I took early in the morning of the Gloucester Tri which features Saint Peter’s Parking Lot and City Hall.
HI JOEY,
Hope you and your family had a nice 4th!
Here are a couple of photos I think you might like. A nice sunset after all that rain and fog.
Taken July 4 2009 from the North Shore Art Association parking lot.
Use them if you’d like.
Take Care, Paul
Thanks for contributing Paul!
Gloucester Zen Video Here tomorrow at 8AM
Here is a picture you really ought to see full size by clicking it and selecting “all sizes” it’s probably one of the best shots I’ve taken in a while.
Gloucester At Dawn- Harbor Cove 4:45AM 5/23/09, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
While at Ron Gilson’s house I saw this poster sized picture of The Adventure coming into Gloucester Harbor under sail in 1988. What is interesting about the picture is that if you look at City Hall in 1988 it was surrounded by scaffolding under a reconstruction. Some twenty years later it was surrounded by scaffolding once again.
Look for the first of a three part video series from Ron Gilson’s house satrting todat at 8:00AM
Schooner Adventure Sails Into Gloucester 1988 From Ron Gilson’s Collection, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This looks like a scene right out of the Alfred Hitchcock movie. I can’t help it, but I was scared just sitting in my car watching this yesterday. Doesn’t take much though!
If you have children and have been waiting to see what is going on at Art Haven, today is the day to head down there and check it out! There is ice sculpting, and buoy painting and tree lighting and an incredible amount of activity that will be beginning at 10:00AM.
David Brooks the director has got it going on in this Main Street Space in the Action Inc building next to Browns Mall. Video with all the details coming at 9:00AM today.
City Hall Gingerbread House At Art Haven, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This is the view from up in the ice dispersion tower at Cape Pond Ice.
Beautiful Industry- Cape Pond Ice, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Hall Tower Restoration 11/3/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Hall Tower Renovation Update 10/23/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Hall Tower Renovation Update 10/23/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Friday, October 24th at 7PM, seARTS and the Gloucester Committee for the Arts will present a talk on the WPA murals featuring Gloucester based artist and lecturer, Susan Erony. The talk will be held at City Hall and the community is invited to join in celebration of these murals and the program that created them. It is free and open to the public. Erony’s talk will focus on the WPA City Hall murals and their relation to the social, political and art history of the period. Gloucester was one of the many beneficiaries of the Federal Art Project mural program under the Works Progress Administration. From 1935 through 1942, murals were painted in the Hovey, Forbes, Eastern Avenue , Maplewood and Central Grammar Schools , the Sawyer Free Library and City Hall. They constitute a treasure, and result from the marriage between a vibrant local arts community and a generous program of the Federal Government during a devastating period in American history. Today, we are fortunate to have a group of the murals by Charles Allen Winter, Frederick Mulhaupt and Oscar Anderson on view in Gloucester City Hall . This program is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, Essex National Heritage Commission, and seARTS sponsors Kristine Fisher and Rick Crangle.
City Hall Tower Reconstruction 9/24/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Hall and The State Fish Pier After The Storm, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Hey, what do you think about this idea presented to me by lobsterman Mark Ring. He tells me that the shroud that covers the City Hall tower looks like a big green condom when he looks at it from the harbor while hauling traps.
We turn lemons into lemonade and sell naming rights for the City Hall Restoration project to Trojan Brand Condoms. They could market new big huge green condoms that look like the shroud that covers City Hall right now. We could get the expensive project completely taken care of with a few timely banner ads.
Maybe another birth control pill company might sponsor the other side and we could get the sewer project paid for too. With all the media exposure those pharmaceutical companies would surely jump at the chance at that advertising opportunity! Now that’s some outside the box thinking right there!
In case any of you are wondering, no I’m not serious.
City Hall at Dawn With Scaffolding, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
City Hall Tower Restoration Update 6/11/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
These guys must have nerves of steel. My knees start knocking when I get up 2 feet off the ground.
Good Morning Gloucester 