My View of Life on the Dock
A flock of starlings is called a murmuration.
I’ve witnessed this phenomenon happen over the Americold Freezer in East Gloucester looking at it from the front of our dock. It’s pretty wild to witness. It seems they flock together and prepare for migration because if I remember correctly it happen in late fall.
Hi Joey,
I just wanted to share some pictures of the Sail GHS Racing Team. They have been out practicing for the last week and a half for their upcoming scrimmage. A little wind, a little rain, a little cold, and some freezing waters can’t keep these sailors away. No wimps here – look at those smiles!
Go Sail GHS!
– Becca Campbell
From Tom Daniel, Community Development Director-
Hi Joey,
Could you post a reminder about this planning project getting underway this Wednesday at 6:00 PM at City Hall? Everyone is welcome! Thank you.
Tom
Last summer and fall’s Downtown Work Plan process identified a shared community value of having an active and authentic downtown with a mosaic of uses. The community said they wanted to ensure downtown continues to be an active place filled will people doing positive things. In addition to this value, the Work Plan process identified specific topics for action. These topics included parking, accessibility and connections, streetscape, signage, visitor experience, market analyses, and building design. Lastly, the Work Plan prioritized work on primary routes including Railroad Avenue, Washington Street, Main Street, and connections to residential areas.
The Community Development Department is working on several of the topics in the Work Plan and is pleased to announce a partnership with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) for a more in-depth look at the area around the commuter rail station. The project, called Reimagining Railroad, looks to build upon the community’s work in the Downtown Work Plan. The City and MAPC are looking for ways to better connect the commuter rail station to the residential areas and the activity and vibrancy of Downtown and the Harbor. The project aims to make the city more walkable, functional, and prosperous while preserving the authentic character the community values.
IDRC Members:
A new year is upon us and I hope you will make dory rowing a part of it. Attached you will find the schedule of events and sign-up forms necessary to continue your membership with the IDRC for 2014. I hope you will continue another year with your recreational or race rowing in beautiful Gloucester Harbor . It has been a long winter and although we have four dories in the water, it’s been tough to get out, but Spring will soon prevail and our rowing season will resume. A special note for this year’s International Races is the Over 40 Men’s division has been moved by both the CDRA and IDRC to Over 50. I hope this will entice some veteran rowers to come back to racing! We are also planning a 2nd year of our “Learn to Row” program, but in July when we can count on a little better weather. Please make us part of your 2014 and send in your membership today! We will be mailing out the membership info as well, but you can save us a stamp if you send yours over the next couple weeks.
Thanks,
Erik Dombrowski
Gloucester IDRC
http://www.internationaldories.com/
In the space formerly occupied by Mooters Liquors and then LaRosa’s Pizzeria- Nonni’s By The Sea
GloucesterCast With Guest Ken Hecht and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 3/22/14
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Topics Include: Moving From A Bedroom Community To Gloucester, Investing In Gloucester, The Decision To Purchase And Redevelop Gloucester Safe Deposit Trust Co On The Corner Of Duncan and Main Street, Trident Gallery and Matthew Swift, Blue River Diamonds, Paying Homage To The History Of The Building, Working With City Of Gloucester Building Departments, The Professionalism of Local Building Inspectors, Steve Noble, Chris Palazolla, Why It Makes Sense To Hire Local Contractors, Charlie Mahoney, Joe Guzzo, Bill Sandborn, Passports Popovers, Alchemy Duck Poutinne, Minglewood Tavern, Stones Pub, Gloucester’s Renaissance, Rockport Downtown Association Coming Along, Ken’s Coffee, The Social Aspect Of Local Coffee Shops, Ken’s Theory On Why Gloucester’s Community Is So Close
Mary Barker Submits-
Hi Joey,
What a difference a day(or in this case a week) makes. These photos of the Phyllis A were taken 6 days apart. The snow storm was March 5, the lovely sunny day March 11.
The board of directors meeting was March 15. Now I have to say, this is a group of people who know how to have a meeting! Gloria Parsons greeted us in the morning with
fresh home made cinnamon rolls and fruit, and of course coffee and tea. Then for lunch Gloria made some wonderful homemade stews, salad, and to die for homemade cream puffs!
Gloria is a seriously good cook! I think I’m going to gain a bit of weight on this board.
Among the topics for the board meeting was planning for public events to be held in April. Events will be posted soon. I know many of the Phyllis A events feature
Gloria’s cooking – well worth the trip if just for that!
Mary Barker
Would You Look At These Pretentious Bananaheads Crowing Around All Proud Of Themselves For Messing Up Perfection?
If you want to read the horror story that they pass off as a recipe (and claimed they conquered no less) Click Here-
Will They Ever Learn The Rules Of Lobster Roll Making Is To Not Get In The Way Of The Most Delectable Meat Known To Mankind- Lobster Meat?
Why I ask you do, they feel the need to mask the flavor of the most succulent meat on earth with not one, not two, not three, but no less than unlucky 13 lobster roll ingredient violations???
Why not squat down over the mixing bowl and lay down a nice fat shit in there to compliment the flavors while you’re at it?
Read the ingredient list these dopes from The Tasting Table put together (Violations Highlighted in Red)-
INGREDIENTS
Anise????? Like as in Licorice anise? In a lobster roll? I wish Patrick Ewing was still in his prime so we could set him up right in front of where ever these dopes tried to serve these lobster roll abominations and he could swat them into the stands like a basketball and then stand over the servers and flex and growl like he just made the most impressive shot block in the history of the NBA. Just like “Get That Shit Outta Here!”
Arbol Chile? Really???? What are we at Taco Bell now? Lemongrass? Ginger? Please. This is absolutely criminal.
I guess I should have stopped reading when I read these pretentious buffoons were writing in from New York where they root for the Yankees and all. I mean WTF do they know about lobster rolls anyway, right?
Maybe it’s a March thing where they want to get out in front of all the other pretentious food bloggers who will inevitably write their own versions of the Perfect Way to Fuck Up a Good Lobster Roll.
When I saw the laundry list of lobster roll purist violations I just couldn’t leave this debacle go unchecked. There are plenty of pretentious food bloggers who will throw in 2-5 violations but when you go over the top with 13 you have to know that someone with some common sense is gonna call you out on it.
Listen here anyone who would describe themselves as a “Foodie”. Do all us normal real folk a favor and spare us your stupid frickin lobster roll recipes that include anything other than a split top roll. Spare us your French baguettes, spare us your frickin lemon zest bullshit, spare us your ginger and your anise and your arbol chlis.
Hellooooo, we wanna taste the lobster. How hard is that to comprehend? If we wanted to eat Mexican we’d order a goddamned Burrito.
This is a lobster roll. The purist of the pure. Time tested. Tradition. Like a Fenway Frank, only a bajillion times better.
It’s easy, there’s no need to go out of your way to try to fuck it up with your laundry list of Lobster roll no-nos like anise and garlic and lemongrass.
Here’s the way to do it and not to do it-
Bad-
Good-
Read the ingredient list these dopes from The Tasting Table put together (Violations Highlighted in Red)-
Like a right of Spring I feel compelled to get us all off on the right path to Lobster Roll righteousness. I’m not sure if we should have expected more considering the source- Foodie Bloggers From New York. Maybe we don’t have to expect more but we certainly can’t let this shit go unchecked.
Read past year’s lobster roll rants-
So I’m going through the GMG Blogroll (a list of links) in the right hand column of the blog (for those who subscribe and get the email version go to www.goodmorninggloucester.com and you can see what I’m talking about) and I start clicking through the list of links.
I hadn’t gone through the list for a while but what I found was that a huge number of the blogs that I link to in the GMG Blogroll either haven’t been updated in over a year or don’t even exist any more.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that it doesn’t matter how fantastic the content you create, there are a bazillion other websites out there that you are competing for eyeballs with. Many people think you can just create a website, register a domain and then magically a million people know about your blog and are anxious to find you. Well for probably 99.5% of people who start blogs my guess is that after pouring your heart and soul into it for a while and if it doesn’t pick up steam you look at your stats and it could be disheartening and you lose the drive to update it. Thud. End of story.
This isn’t to discourage anyone from starting a blog, but rather to celebrate the ones who have been doing it for a while and have kept at it.
This brings me to my buddy Bowsprite who I discovered back in the first months of creating GMG. How I found her and Marty’s son Brian and Bowsprite’s buddy Tugster was through a search for like minded bloggers who were blogging about industrial boats. They were all located in NY.
Posted on November 17, 2009 by Joey C
Our Marty Luster actually moved here after a two or three day visit to Gloucester with his blogging son Brian (Marty wasn’t a part of GMG yet) whose blog A Movable Bridge hasn’t been updated in far too long.
But Bowsprite has kept at it.
My dream is to have her up here and take over one of the months at the Goettemann residency on Rocky neck so she could illustrate Gloucester’s industrial ships and share her deep love for Industrial waterfronts with us. I’ve even written on her behalf to the selection committee but it hasn’t happened yet. Maybe some day.
Anyway, Kudos To Bowsprite for keeping at it. You really ought to check out here site, her stories and her illustrations. She’s one of my favs and an incredibly kind soul.
Check out her waterbog here-
and this from here visit to the dock to take a dip in Gloucester Harbor-
Posted on November 16, 2009 by Joey C
Bowsprite is an artist and blogger from the sixth borough in NY. Check out her incredible nautical illustrations by clicking this text
Who drives up from New Yawk to jump in Gloucester’s inner harbor for a leisurely swim in mid-November? Bowsprite, that’s who.
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Gloucester Fisherman Chief Fulford Attacked By 25 Pound Lobster
More Monster Lobster Photos Here
Can You Only Imagine If This Allston Couple Ran Into This Monster In A Dark Alley? Guy would need therapy for years-
By adamg – 2/23/14 – 5:14 pm
If ever there was a city job that you want it’s the Fire department. Great Hours – Great Pay – Tremendous Benefits. If you fit the criteria and don’t have a direction in life, let me tell you, it doesn’t get much better than being a Local Fireman. I never even knew the had to recruit. I just figured there was a backlog a mile long of applicants kinda like the waiting list for a mooring. If you have a son or daughter who fits the age requirements or are a vet returning from duty without a job you’d be crazy not to show up for this Gloucester Fire Department Recruitment Open House. Thursday February 27, 2014. get on it!
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June 1943. “Gloucester, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lopez. They have two boys in the armed forces, six children altogether. He is a fish skinner in the Gorton-Pew fishery.” Photo by Gordon Parks, Office of War Information.
To think this man worked on the very property that our Grandfather Captain Joe bought 10 years later in 1953. Our fathers worked there alongside our grandfather and Frank and I run it now as a lobster company after we diversified away from handling groundfish once the auction opened and we saw the writing on the wall with the new rules being handed down to try to manage how many fishermen could fish. Thanks Geno for sending us the photo of Gordon-Pew fishery last week-
You can read more about it here-
http://captainjoes.wordpress.com/history/
Title changed after Tom Halstead correction. Thanks Tom
Jaqueline Bennett submits-
Can anyone help me identify the tracks in the snow left behind in the Good Harbor Beach Parking Lot?
The “Can Do”
These Photos of the “Grampus” in Beverly Harbor are from 2009 .
The Grampus is the old pilot boat “Can Do” that was lost with all hands (crew of five) in the Blizzard of ’78 .
The Damaged Hull was the only thing left of the Can Do when it was later raised from the sea.
The Workboat Grampus previously the pilot boat Can Do was raised in 1981 and after a complete re-build was returned to service. She has served on numerous projects over the years. The name Grampus (the original name of the vessel) is an old term for a pilot whale, appropriate for the sleek black hull of the vessel. Grampus is 47ft long and is powered by an 855 Cummins diesel. She was originally built as a yacht, and travelling as far south as the Amazon.
Inspite of what some have said she is not haunted or is she?
Thanks go out to MuffyHowards from Cape Ann Online for the heads up on these Youtube Videos. The Story of the Gloucester Pilot Boat Can Do. It’s a long series at least 13 parts. You’ll hear actuall Radio Transmisions from the USCG and the Pilot Boat Can do during this Tragedy.
From Publishers Weekly;
“Before The Perfect Storm, there was the 1978 blizzard that lashed the Massachusetts coast with blinding snow, 90-mile-per-hour winds and 40-foot waves. Into the juggernaut sailed the small boat Can Do and its crew of five civilians on a doomed mission to assist two other vessels imperiled by the storm. As in The Perfect Storm, all hands were lost; but since the Can Do sank only a few agonizing miles from shore, there are records of terse radio transmissions to help the author recreate their last desperate hours. Journalist Tougias (The Blizzard of ’78) fills out his absorbing account with lots of search-and-rescue procedural details, recollections from others who endured the monstrous seas of that hellish night and 300 years’ worth of maritime disaster sagas. At times, the book feels padded with lengthy, adulatory back stories about the Can Do crew and needless speculations (i.e., “Kenny Fuller likely thought of his wife, knowing that if he died it would be especially hard on her”). And the story’s outcome-the Can Do never got anywhere near the boats it went to help, both of which survived the storm-raises questions about the wisdom of the heroic ethos it celebrates. Still, Tougias delivers a well-researched, vividly written tale of brave men overwhelmed by the awesome forces of nature.”
Also if your interested in this story Check out the book: “Ten Hours Until’ Dawn”
By Micheal Tougias
Hi Joey, Listening to your recent podcast, I thought “What can I do to spice things up for the guys?
Then I remembered some old snapshots I have of the Summer of 1954 on Good Harbor Beach. The Bodybuilders, members of the Old YMCA Weightlifting Club, would get together on Saturday afternoons at 3 o’clock and put on an exhibition of strength and entertainment I would call them the Beach Clowns You can see they were outstanding performing body lifts, pyramids, cartwheels, hand to hand, you name it. What a joy to watch them and a delight to their audience on the beach, every Saturday afternoon.
The first photo is my husband, Bob McKinnon, lifting Bob Bruce. Next photo Joe Orange lifting Bob Bruce. My Bob also had many poses with the Dickman twins, John and Charlie. Last photo is me eight months pregnant with my husband and Joe Orange. You have to agree these were the Strong Men of the greatest generation. All WW2 Veterans, home from the war and having a fun time. My husband and Joe Orange, also Tony Mattos, are the only guys left from the photos, but we have these precious memories. Virginia (Frontiero) McKinnon.
Good Morning Gloucester 