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The Way The Fort Was From Janice Lufkin Shea’s Personal Family Collection
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Separated At Birth: Chamber of Commerce Tim Burton and Ex Sox Manager Terry Francona
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The 7th Annual Rocky Neck Art Colony Winter Show Begins November 18th
Rocky Neck Goes to Town
The Seventh Annual Winter Exhibit and Sale –
Rocky Neck comes to downtown Gloucester for its seventh annual winter exhibit and sale from November 18 through December 29, 2011 at 130 Main Street in Gloucester. The public is invited to a Meet the Artists Opening Reception on Saturday, December 3, from 5 to 8 pm, featuring tastings from your favorite local restaurants.
The special focus of this exhibit will be the abundance of the Captains Table. The show will feature painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, and jewelry by members of the Rocky Neck Art Colony where, during the summer season, over 50 working artists display their work in Rocky Neck galleries and studios.
The exhibit will be open Monday-Wed 10-6, Thurs 10-6 but to 8 on Thursdays in December, Friday-Sat 10-6 and Sunday 12-5.
For more information contact: Marie Sweeney at 978 281-6130 or email sonomarie@comcast.net
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The Mighty Stanley Thomas
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Empire Fish- 40’s or 50’s From Fred Buck
The Infamous One Shares This Slideshow of Empire Fish Cutting Redfish. Anyone know any of the people in the photos?
Thanks Fred- it’s nice to share these with the community rather than sit in a box somewhere never seeing the light of day.
Your contributions here have been outstanding!
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Honoring Veterans Today
FOB John Hiler sent in this link to WWII Gloucester Veterans who died in the service to their country
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Community Photos of The Day From Judith Montferrante and Joe Scamardella
Some images of the near full moon and its effects on Gloucester Good Harbor and Gloucester Harbor. Best time to shoot the moon is the day before the full moon. Enjoy, Judith
Hi Joey,
Taken along the Back Shore last week …
later, joe
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80’s From Ann Kennedy
Ann writes-
In addition to the Hannah Boden, does anyone recognize the other wonderful boats?
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Update:old news: pilot & roseway- The Infamous One Sends a Shout Out To Dave Bennis of Michigan &
The infamous one follows up with this –
joey – here’s a piece from the 1909 sanborn insurance map that shows where the parkhurst and burnham railways were in relation to each other. few years earlier than the pilot boat pix, but the layout of the inner harbor didn’t change that much until urban renewal. fyi, around 2005, some internet angel posted a complete set of the cape ann sanborn maps, from 1885-1917 in pdf format. i downloaded them and have been using them ever since. gave copies to the gloucester archives and sfl, and converted them to grayscale tifs for my own research purposes. museum has these on board as well as the original full color hand-annotated atlases (that weigh about 50 pounds each!) you want to know how this place has changed over the years? never mind the pretty pictures, go to the maps. they tell the story like nothing else can.
joey,
last month a nice chap named dave bennis came in to see me at the museum. he was one of the volunteer crew on the ‘highlander sea’ (nee ‘pilot’) when she came into our port and wanted to see if we had any photos of the vessel in her days as a pilot boat in boston. we found a few and here’s one taken of her by gordon thomas in 1960 on parkhurst railways for some work. just so she wouldn’t feel lonely, i found another one of ‘roseway’ (pilot boat #2) on gloucester marine railways in the mid 50s. dave’s gone back to his day job as lighthouse keeper in the upper peninsula of michigan, but i hope he sees these and comes back to visit us again.
infamous fred buck
check out the cape ann museum
Joey adds-
After recognizing the building in back of the parkurst railways I decided to pull up this picture I took on September 4th ,2011- 
Can you line up the windows with the building in the top picture?
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Speedway Welding Supply
Mike and I had a great experience over the weekend at Speedway Welding Supply. Such a great resource right in our backyards!
Family owned, local, passionate, clean showroom and great customer service! Owner, Steve and his son, Sean, are very Knowledgeable and happy to help. You can tell they love what they do. This is why local businesses are so much more valuable than the big box stores.
Things they carry:
Industrial Gases
Lincoln Welders
Grinding, Sanding and Wire Wheels
Harris Cutting Torches & Parts
Welding, Helmets, Protective clothing & Accessories
http://www.speedwayweldingsupply.com/index.htm
Photo of Building from the website:
Me welding for the first time!
Speedway Welding Supplies
16 Old Country Rd.
(down the road from Sprint, behind Sears)
Off Eastern Ave. Gloucester
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GMG Tech Talk- the Official Gloucester MA Hashtag- #Gloucester #MA vs. #GloucesterMa
Bill O’Connor writes-
Hey Joey,
I started this topic on Twitter, but I thought it would be fun to include your audience in the discussion. This isn’t about trying to get something to trend on Twitter – its more about creating an exclusive Twitter channel for Gloucester, MA. I just ran into a similar situation with Salem this month. There’s all kinds of Salems out there but only one Salem, MA. Going to #SalemMa to find info on their busiest month (Salem = Halloween) is much easier than visiting #Salem #MA.
I noticed that #Gloucester on Twitter is totally cluttered with other Gloucesters – mainly Gloucester, England & Gloucester, New Jersey. It’s enough to make someone have to dig for info on Gloucester MA, and not very user friendly.
I then checked #GloucesterMa and noticed that @GDTnews started it and think it’s a great idea. It fine tunes the aggregation of our collective data and makes finding Gloucester Mass info on Twitter so much easier. If we follow a pattern of posting to #GloucesterMa, we can collectively Tweet occasionally on #Gloucester #MA something like – ‘Looking for info on #Gloucester #MA? Try #GloucesterMa!’
I’m with @GDTnews on this and my vote is for #GloucesterMa in all Gloucester-centric tweeting!
Thanks,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid, @kidns
Joey writes in response-
Well it’s a great topic Bill brings up and I should just state that there shouldn’t even be a debate. The official Gloucester MA hashtag for twitter should be #GloucesterMA and not two separate #Gloucester #Ma. The answers should be plain as day when you click on those respective hashtags on twitter.
When you click on #Ma you’re going to get anything and everything that anyone has used for the #Ma including everything in Massachusettes as well as a bunch of mother tweets. That alone defeats the purpose of the hashtag which is intended to drill down your results. On top of that with #Gloucester #Ma you use 15 characters as opposed to 13 characters with #GloucesterMa Those two characters are valuable real estate in a 160 character max tweet.
To make it more clear-
Click here for twitter search results for #Gloucester and then here for #Ma and take note of what it returns (you don’t need to have a twitter account to do this)
as opposed to the far better option-click the link- #GloucesterMa
That should make things crystal clear as to the far superior option.
Thanks Bill @kidns and @GDTnews for bringing it to our attention. No need for a poll, this is case closed, from now on I’ll be using #GloucesterMa unless of course I need those last two characters in which case the Ma gets the ax.
Oh and BTW, you can follow your boy Joey here- @Joey_C
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Best things to do in Gloucester on a rainy day to avoid packing:
Ann Kennedy writes-
Best things to do in Gloucester on a rainy day to avoid packing:
- Just follow the crowd
- Drive up as many private roads as possible for great scenery (especially exciting if posted "No Trespassing"!)
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Your Cape Ann Halloween Event Run Down Right Here On GMG
If anyone has another community event that I’ve missed or somehow forgotten just send me a reminder and I’ll be happy to ad it in. Also if anyone is out and about and wants to send in photos from these festivities feel free and I’ll include them on the blog.
email photos to goodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com and include the event name, the name of who gets credit for the photo and who is in the pic (if you know) in the subject line of the email
Wednesday October 26th and All Week Long-
CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA GETS DOWN AND SCARY THIS WEEK
Saturday October 29th
Punkin Carvin! Contest At Art Haven This Saturday!
Mile Marker 1 Waterfront Bar Halloween Party October 29th
Lanesville Community Center Halloween Monster Bash October 29th
Giuseppe’s For Halloween
Cape Ann Brewing Hip-Hop Bash
Sunday October 30th
Halloween Party Moved To Rose Baker Center, Island Art and Hobby, Harbor Goods, and Local Colors October 30th!
Halloween Party
Sunday October 30th has been moved to the Rose Baker Senior Center due to the weather forecast.
Same Time from 2:00 – 4:00pm
All activities, prizes and treats will be awaiting all the Little Trick or Treater’s in their costumes.
Haunted Hayride October 30th!
First Annual Magnolia Scarecrow Contest! October 30th
Phantom of the Opera at Shalin Liu Performance Center Sunday, October 30
Giuseppe’s For Halloween
The Annie!
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Gloucester Ad Agency Bait and Tackle’s Film For Essex County Greenbelt Assoc.’s 50th Anniversary
Meeting Bob Potts at The Causeway Restaurant
Bob writes-
Joey,
I enjoyed meeting you and Bill at Causeway, and eating my favorite bowl of fish chowder.
Those chance meetings while sitting at a bar are great.
From NM huh? Do you know Marty? You mean the guy on the dock in the fog?
Hey, you’re Joey!
Congratulations on winning the Most Valuable Blogger award.
The site is fresh and informative… thanks for all your time, energy, and
hard work.
And thanks for the GMG sticker, and Bill’s North Shore Kid info.
Thanks for making me feel so welcome in Gloucester.
Bob Potts
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Eleanor and Roseway at the Gloucester Marine Railways Photo From Kathy Chapman
Photo © Kathy Chapman
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Dominic Nesta’s Marine Service Rig From Bill O’Connor
Hi Joey,
I ran into John Nesta and his son Dominic Tuesday afternoon at Sibley’s Boat Yard working on Dominic’s boat. Dom got the boat from Mark Lacey this Summer and has been gearing it up to do various marine service duties. She’s up on the rails while they install a pilot house with the help of Larry Dahlmer – artist and boatsmith. I think the pilot house will give the boat the look of an old wooden trawler on a miniature scale. It’s going to be pretty cool when they’re done…
Keep an eye out, Dom just needs to glass the luan and 2x frame, and he’ll have the boat back in the water within the week!
Enjoy,
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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41" striped bass fishing Gloucester MA rare top water for 2011 fall run big fish catch & release video from Brianmoc
Brian writes-
Fishing has been slow and big fish are rare to come by in the 2011 fall run. There have not been to many big fish taken from this fall run but they are around? Its still is a slow fall run but if you put your self in the right place at the right time big fish can be had in this sad fall run. the added fun was i had my friend Porter standing in my back why i was bring this fish in! yes skip its a 41 inch fish!
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Photos from this Weekend’s Gloucester Letters To Annabelle Shoot
Producer Seng Varipath writes-
Hi Joey. Just wanted to send you some pix I took during last weekends Letters to Annabelle shoot in Gloucester. Thanx again for all your help and support. Only 1 day left of shooting and it’s a wrap for LTA then it’s all Postproduction work until the end of November online premiere.
You might just recognize some of these set locations-
http://www.facebook.com/LettersToAnnabelleSeries
Good Morning Gloucester 