Tag: Rockport

Things To Do- Motif #1 Day Festival Saturday May 21,2011

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Dear Joey,
The Rockport Art Festivals committee has been working hard on the upcoming Motif #1 Day Festival on Saturday May 21,2011.  Attached is the press release, schedule of events and flier.  I hope you will post the festival on GoodMorningGloucester and hopefully come enjoy the festivities!
Thank You,
Law Hamilton
Rockport Art Festivals

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Downtown Rockport will come alive with music, art, dance and poetry on Motif No. 1 Day, slated for Saturday, May 21, 2011.
Motif No. 1 Day is a long-standing Rockport tradition, a chance to celebrate Rockport across the arts through the symbol of Rockport’s famous fishing shack, Motif No. 1, the subject of countless paintings and photographs throughout the last century.
Motif No. 1 Day brings a focus on the arts to Rockport, both past and present. The festival includes interactive art events such as the Sidewalk Chalk Art contest, a scavenger hunt throughout downtown, the famous festival Dock Square Chowder Stand, live music, historical presentations, art activities for children, and the Words Before Dinner event, a poetry reading featuring the beauty and history of Cape Ann as its theme. The festival closes with Rockport on Film: Vintage Images of Rockport from the collection of Pierce Sears, proprietor of the Thomas Wilson Beverage Co.
Jazz, Bluegrass, and classic American Band music will all be featured, with appearances by Merrimack Valley Rounders, Soul Force V and the Rockport Legion Band among others. The day also includes featured events at participating businesses and an exciting array of community events such as an Instrument Petting Zoo and other activities for children sponsored by Rockport Music at the beautiful new Shalin Liu Performance Center.
The festival kicks off on Friday, May 20 at 7 o’clock in Dock Square with the premier of The Fish Shack Float That Charmed Chicago: filmmaker, historian & photographer Leslie D. Bartlett’s new film featuring archival footage of Rockport and the story of Rockport’s success at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. The screening is free and film-goers will enjoy Twin Lights soda courtesy of Rockport’s own bottling company, the Thomas Wilson Beverage Co.   
For more information, visit www.rockportartfestivals.com
or e-mail: rockportfestivals@gmail.com.
You can follow Rockport Festivals at facebook.com/rockportfestivals
and on twitter @rockportfest.

Gloucester and Rockport 50’s, 60’s Photo series From Mark Holzman Part I Updated

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Our Dock, Captain Joe and Sons This is from a slide that was put in backwards.  I’m not sure if the boat that was pulling up was the St Peter III or the St Mary.

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Sam Frontiero Chimes In-

Nice Blog Joe,
  That boat you were wondering about was definitely the St. Peter 111  not the St. Mary.. Take Care.. Sam

Len Burgess Cleans It Up In Photoshop for us-

Hi Joey, A little photoshop makes it a little closer to when it was taken.
Len Burgess

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Ketchopulos Market, Rockport, 1931

Posted on by Sharon
Ketchopulos Market, Rockport, 1931 Alice M. Curtis/ ©Bodin Historic Photo
Working with this photograph has been a lot of fun for me because I’ve met so many people who have fond memories of “Ketchop’s,” as they refer to it. They recall the quality cuts of meat, produce, and particularly the beautiful lantanas hanging from the columns. Notice the Laurel and Hardy movie poster, showing at Town Hall, leaning against the tree on the left. One local woman, a Ketchopulos, pointed out to her friend while in the gallery: “There I am as a little girl!” The Ketchopulos Market closed in the early 1970’s, but the building remains on Broadway.
Printed from the original 5×7 inch film negative in my darkroom.
Fred Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Frank Hassler of Rockport Daffodil Photo

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Peter Webber Writes-

Hi Joey. Attached is a photo taken last week by Frank Hassler of Rockport.  These daffodil bulbs were planted abundantly last fall at numerous high visibility sites throughout the town by the Rockport Garden Club, and are now reaching full bloom everywhere.

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Chris Wood, Abstract Artist From Rockport Opening Reception at Henry Allen Theatreworks April 23

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The details:

Sat. Night April 23rd

Opening Reception for Chris Wood; Rockport Contemporary Artist

from 7:00 to 10:00 pm Henry Allen Theatreworks (Blackburn Building)

1 Washington St. Gloucester, Ma

Show includes vibrant watercolor mixed-media paintings and assorted pottery pieces.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Brain Candy Foundation.

People can check out some of the works on Facebook: 

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Pebbles of Pebble Beach

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

Cape Ann is filled with so many beaches, and all are unique.  I love the sound of waves gently crashing and retreating from the pebbles.  It sounds even better underwater, for that reason alone its a favorite dive spot.

The Bean and Leaf In Rockport is Hiring

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Just Saw This Posted On Twitter-

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Have you veer dreamed of working in a coffee shop in a cool seaside community like Rockport Ma on Bearskin Neck?  Well this is your chance.

If you were on twitter and followed them you would have gotten this info even if your boy Joey missed it.   I’m just sayin…….

http://twitter.com/#!/Joey_C

You own a business?  You want people to pay attention?  Something cool happen at your establishment that people might be interested in?  Get your ass on Facebook and Twitter and help the newsmakers help you.

oh, and by the way, when you stop in to apply for the job, tell ‘em Joey sent ya. Smile

Recollections of Rockport in the New York Times

Posted on by S.D. Kelly

From the March 24th edition of the New York Times:

When Rockport Was My Own

 

Pamela Baker

The Bakers’ home, left, and Main Street, right, presided over by a church that residents call the Old Sloop.

By KEVIN BAKER
Published: March 23, 2011

I GREW up in a small town called Rockport, on the North Shore of Massachusetts, home to no more than 5,000 people when we first moved there, and dear to those who know it. It is a place of rugged natural beauty: a shore of granite outcroppings that jut into a cold blue sea, a movie set of a New England village with streets full of small shops and not a traffic light in the town.

My mother was so happy when we moved there from New Jersey that she used to make up songs about it and sing them as she literally skipped down to the ocean. It was a place she would always love more than anywhere else on earth, and it was easy to see why. For most of my childhood we lived, very cheaply, in a two-story, wood-frame house, with a yard full of trees and a wood behind us. We ate wild blackberries straight from the bushes that grew along the edge of our backyard, spent the summers swimming in abandoned granite quarries and skated over their black-green depths in the winter.

The town was almost unbelievable in its innocence, its sweetness. Rockport Junior-Senior High School, with 250 students, was too small to have any serious cliques and divisions; the same kids starred on the basketball team and in the school play. There weren’t even any locks on the lockers; no one ever thought to put them there. Little League games weren’t laden with adult expectations. Our champion Pigeon Cove Red Sox were coached by a couple of hippie-ish high school kids who piled us all into their old wrecks after each game to getice cream.

For the rest of the article click here to go to the New York Times website

Kevin Baker is the author of the novels “Dreamland,” “Paradise Alley” and “Strivers Row.”

The author, second from left, at his boyhood home in Rockport, Mass.
Pamela Baker

Rockport’s stony shore.

The author, far left, next to his mother and two sisters. His father is at far right with two other relatives.

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Motif No. 1, a fishing shack famed as an artists’ subject.

Daya Project at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport March 25

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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Daya Project at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport
Daya Project presents…The Boston String Quartet and local artists
Daya means compassion.    The Daya Project works to give the
300 million children in India and Nepal a chance to live life
instead of living in survival mode.   
On Friday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at the Shalin Liu Performance
Center located in Rockport, MA, a benefit concert will be presented.   
Tickets are $25. per person and tickets available at www.dayaproject.org
The goal of this special evening is to raise $25,000.  The money raised
will go to building a Daya Home for children in Andhra Pradesh, India. 
Painting by local artist will be presented for a silent auction during the concert event.

Twitter Folk You Should Follow- Bean and Leaf Coffee Co

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Yes I’m not going to stop banging the drum about how important it is to use social media for your business or organization.

Here is an example of a company who just started up their twitter thang and how they just plain get it already-.  The Bean and Leaf Coffee House is in Rockport and they tweeted this-

Scones, muffins, bagels baked fresh today – on sale for $1….now until 5pm!about 15 hours ago via HootSuite

Now I wouldn’t have known this otherwise.  It took the owner or employee responsible for their twitter feed all of 5 seconds to write out this little special deal but it got my attention and I’m sure a whole bunch of either folks attention.   Building a business and brand one customer at a time. 

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Check out their twitter feed here and follow them- @BeanLeafCafe

Miranda Russell Plays The Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

 

Two Nights Only in Rockport’s Gorgeous New Concert Hall!
Don’t miss this intimate evening of music at the world-class Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.
April 7th and 8th at 8:00 PM. Advance tickets recommended. Call today for reservations and information: 978-546-7391. Check out the space online atwww.rockportmusic.org.
See you there!!! ~ Miranda