My View of Life on the Dock
Here is one of the many displays at the GMHC. Depicted is a schooner fisherman in a bosun’s chair. The Bosun’s Chair is what would get hoisted up to work on the rigging up on the huge schooner’s masts. In a couple of weeks this exhibit will be open to the public as Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center will kick off it’s 2009 season.
Schooner Fisherman Mannequin In A Bosun’s Chair, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
GMG takes you into the soon to be opened Gorton’s Seafood Exhibit Hall in the newly built expansion at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. Once again, who gets you there first? You know it baby!!!!!!! When you want the inside scoop every single morning and on the hour for first peek insider Gloucester pictures, videos and scoop this is your spot. RIGHT FREAKING HERE!!!!!!
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I’ve only been back from Naples for two days and what do I do? Hit the ground running getting you new insider peeks at stuff that isn’t even open to the public yet. The new exhibit upstairs in the new building at The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center is getting ready for it’s opening in just a few weeks but we get you inside first with a couple of videos and some pictures to whet your appetite. (look for the first video at 8:00AM today)
For more information about The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center click this text fr the website
There is a ton of must see stuff if you are a fan of Gloucester Fishing History in the new exhibit.
Old Fog Horn At The New Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery In The New Wing At The GMHC, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center is looking for docents to help interpret Fitting Out, the center’s new exhibit premiering in the Gorton’s Seafoods Gallery in May 2009.
Fitting Out focuses on the waterfront industries that supported the local fishing fleet at the dawn of the 20th century.
Volunteers will participate in a five-week orientation and enrichment program running in April and May. Specific dates are yet to be determined. Information sessions will be held April 4, at 10 a.m. To register, contact Mary Kay Taylor at 978-281-0470 or mktaylor@gloucestermaritimecenter.org.
Mary Katherine Taylor Gives Us A Glipse Of All The Gloucester Goodness To Come This Season At The Maritime Heritage Center
Geno’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
From now on I’m calling the Maritime Heritage Center the GMHC.
Anyway I have a series of photos I took from Geno’s Dory Shop over at GMHC that I’ll be posting throughout the day.
I’ve seen a ton of old photographs of the flakeyards in Gloucester but could never distinguish one from our dock in East Gloucester until I stopped by and saw Geno. He happened to have one among the sawdust and I was blown away at the size and scope of the buildings that once sat on our property. The buildings were 3 stories high and lined East Main Street and went out over the water. My father often tells me stories about when my grandfather bought the place from Gortons and they handed him a huge round key chain with a ridiculous number of keys that lined up side by side touching each other all the way around this key ring like spokes on a bike only like it was about 200 keys for all the different rooms with locks.
Geno is going to make me a copy of the picture. Thanks Geno.
Maritime Heritage Center Update 4/18/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Maritime Heritage Center Update 4/18/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Maritime Heritage Center Update Facing Harbor 4/18/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Moon Sets Over The Maritime Heritage Center 4/19/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Here is another 3d renderingof the view from the balcony in the picture below from Dave Munson of 3dDesign.com. The 3d rendering and many others can be found on the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center’s Website
Maritime Heritage Center Facing The Harbor, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
According to the man in the know, Damon Cummings, the architect is Tim Thurman from Treehouse Design. He sure does nice work.
Here is a 3d rendering from David Munson of Munson3d.com of what she will look like.
Maritime Heritage Center Construction Update 3/17/08, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
She’s wrapped up in Typar, and is having her windows trimmed out.
The building is really starting to look pretty.
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Closed up tighter than a bulls ass at noon on a Saturday. I guess there isn’t much business in February to keep it open.
Lot’s of good stuff going on over there.
Good Morning Gloucester 