photos January 13, 2024, two hours after high tide: At the back of Good Harbor Beach over to Cape Hedge (roughly Thatcher Road between Stop & Shop, Good Harbor Beach, Long Beach, and Cape Hedge). Streets were impassable for about two hours–flooded by feet of water not inches. Barriers, DPW crews, utility and emergency crews are repairing, clearing, and pushing cars. The last time the floods breached the berm at Cape Hedge was the March 2012 storms. I was away for the prior flooding this week, and have not seen other neighborhoods today.
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August 2021 – Splash! Enjoy photographs of Grimdrops jazzy hometown portrait off the Elm Street side of Action, Inc. **new** Harbor Village apartment building in downtown Gloucester, Massachusetts. The large scale commission heralds Gloucester’s upcoming 400th celebration in 2023. The artist was born and raised in East Gloucester.
Hopefully NSCDSC will consider commissioning an extra add on for Grimdrops so the artist can extend his characterful water motif ideas straight to the top (and maybe add a gal for history! His vibrant notes brought Virginia Lee Burton Mike Mulligan Mary Ann and folly cove pattern references readily to mind). Come winter the mural might be visible from Chestnut Street. Bonus: if it’s topped off it will be visible year round from that vantage.
Gloucester Mural Map | Public Art
Grimdrops mural is on the map! Gloucester murals | Public art Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“…Joe Novello, the committee’s president, said he was saddened by the sheer number of names — more than 70 — this year. In recent years generally 20 to 30 names have been read.
“The St. Peter’s Fiesta Committee sends out its condolences to all those families who have lost a loved one, and their memory will be in our thoughts and prayers at this time,” he said. Among those lost this year are…
Gail McCarthy, Gloucester Daily Times
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The St Peter’s Fiesta Committee is happy to announce that the sign ups for the 2019 Friday Saturday & Sunday Greasy Pole Contest will take place on Thursday
June 13th 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Saint Peters Club on Rodgers St.All walkers must be 18 or older,
No exceptions
All walkers must pay the fee
All walkers must sign the waiver release formOnce again there will be a zero tolerance for disrespect towards any st Peters Fiesta Committee members or other walkers.
Good luck to all walkers, lets make this a great experience for all participants and lets make this an event that the city can always be proud of.
Let the Games begin
Viva San Pietro
The St Peter’s Fiesta & the Greasy Pole are trademarks of the St Peters Fiesta Committee.
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These guys. All so much fun to watch. Those winning walkers get lots of press, and rightfully so, but also worth celebrating are some of the Greasy Pole’s unsung heroes. Cheers to those who hit the water with no flag in their hands.
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Another St. Peter’s Fiesta is in the books and this one ended with Randy Sweet making the winning grab for the flag. Congratulations, Randy, Sunday’s Greasy Pole Champion, 2018!
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“4th of July greased pole walk over water Glouceter, MA 1973” by Spencer Grant
Can anyone identify the Greasy pole walker, boat leaper, and little boy in the cool inflatable (50 something years old now)? Are you in this photograph on the platform or watching from the water?
The best light for photographing sunsets is always after a heavy quick moving thunder storm this image I took last year.. image size is 9×20 I will only be printing 10 images at this size please feel free to contact me at (978) 559-1944 or email at marlexop@yahoo.com
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