Tag: Rockport

Heather Atwood Covers Rockport’s Harvest Fest

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

 

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The HarvestFest to Remember

Written by Heather Atwood on October 20th, 2010

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This post is a bow to all the brave people who pulled out their long underwear and parkas to make food, beer, music – and to just be there -  at Rockport’s HarvestFest last weekend.  It’s also for those of you right now saying, “wow, this is cool,” and promise to come next year.

Stroll through my thoughts and pictures, but make sure you get to the bottom where you’ll see a cold but happy bunch of bloggers from the North Shore Blogger Consortium, all of whom came out to discuss what blogging’s about – or not – to a packed audience.

Ok, that’s a lie.  We mostly talked to each other, but we were a receptive audience, and learned a lot.  Next year, the house will be packed.

click here for the rest of her post (with pics)

Haunted Hayride sponsored by the Friends of Scout Hall in Rockport Saturday Night

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Hi Joey:

I was hoping we may be able to post information about a

Haunted Hayride sponsored by the Friends of Scout Hall in Rockport. 

This Saturday Night October 23 from 6:00 – 9:00. 

At the top of Summit Hill in Rockport.

Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Chowder and Baked Goods Available.

Suggested Donation $4.00 per person.

Attached are some pictures before it got dark and scarier.

Attached is a flier also.

Thanks

Mike English

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Rockport 10/16/2010

Posted on by capeannpainter

Rockport 10/16/2010

Http://www.frontieroGallery.com

Horse Drawn Cart Ride On The Lanes of Rockport

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

video from Ruth Wall

Ruth writes-

These drafts have just started working together and they seem quite happy to get out for a spin.

Thanks for watching

The Spooktastic Halloween BooHaHa!!! Saturday October 30th

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro
Wear your Halloween costume and come to this family-fun fall event!
Who:                    For kids of all ages
When:                 Saturday October 30th 2:30-4:30pm
Where:                 Rockport Golf Club, (Country Club Rd, Rockport)
What:                   Featuring harvest games, fall food, a costume contest, and even a haunted house!
Admission:          ONLY $5/kid or $15/family
Why:                    All profits benefit the YMCA’s Prom Goes On Party for Rockport students.
Contact:               Nikki Klink, YMCA Teen Director, 978.283.0470 x1703

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GMG FAN Spotlight

Posted on by capeannpainter

When you make a comment on a GMG Post and you link your Name to your website, you may find yourself right here on the pages of GMG. I’ll be checking the Highlighted names for Artists, Bloggers and Other Interesting Websites for future posts. 

Next up is Frequent commenter and Artist Leslie De Vaney;

 

Leslie De Vaney

Inspired by the sea, Leslie prefers painting nature, in all her glory. The mediums she most enjoys are watercolor and oil.

"After The Storm" Rockport, Ma by Leslie De Vaney

Email: Leslie.Devaney@live.com
Website: http://paintingsbyleslie.art.officelive.com/

 

 

Rockport Anadama at Lattof Farms

Posted on by paultmorrison

Monkey Bread at Lattof Farms comes out of the oven around 9:30AM on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So what am I to fuel up on if I am leaving town on Monday morning? Chrissy at the farm stand tells me to try the Anadama Bread. She said it was perfect toasted with tomato and some mayo. Since I was picking up tomatoes and native corn I went for it.

It was still warm from the oven and it never made it into a tomato sandwich. We ate the whole thing on our drive to Wayland. Lattof Anadama seems to crank up the mollases and tone down the cornmeal to make something that is great torn off and stuffed in the pie hole all by itself.

Fun Fact: Anadama Bread has its own wiki page. Does anyone believe the origin of the name story on that page? Sounds a tad hokey:

“A fisherman, angry with his wife, Anna, for serving him nothing but cornmeal and molasses, one day adds flour and yeast to his porridge and eats the resultant bread, while cursing, ‘Anna, damn her.'”

Next week my own tomatoes will be coming off the vine and they are going to find a home between two slices of this bread with some Hellman’s. (I know not using Cains is Cape Ann sacrilege but I spent too much time in the midwest to shake my addiction to Hellman’s)

Sorry, no photos, I ate it.

[edit] Forgot to say where Lattof farm is. You know when you go by the “new” Rockport police station and you are putting your car in neutral so you can coast all the way to Dock Square? Lattoff farm stand is on the left hand side as you start down the hill to five corners.

Lisa J Sends in a 1955 Rockport Picture Taken By Her Dad

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I saw the shots you put in todays GMG and thought you might enjoy this one.

My dad took it in 1955.

As always, love the blog- it keeps me connected with home.

Lisa

Rockport Harbor '55

Rare Birds

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Thomas Philbrook writes-

Been photographing a lot of objects on mirrors lately so I can depict reflected objects in bodies of water. These rubber duckies seem quite at home in the old harbor here in Rockport, MA.

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Uploaded to The Good Morning Gloucester Flickr Group

Chickity Check It!- North American Kayak Fishing Does A Piece On Gloucester and Rockport

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Kayak Fishing for Bluefin Tuna in Massachusetts

 

Two Areas and Four Put-ins in Gloucester and Rockport

Hi kayak fishermen. Adam Bolonsky here at North American Kayak Fishing. Welcome to another installment of NAKF‘s fence post navigation series, your online resource for tips, tools and pointers useful to kayak fishermen around the world.
East Coast kayak fishermen from Maine to the Carolinas interested in catching their first bluefin tuna will do well to take trip to the North Shore Massachusetts towns of Gloucester and Rockport.
An hour north of Boston, Gloucester and Rockport, set on Cape Ann’s rocky granite outcropping, are a unique world unto themselves, not only for their variety of groundfish, such as pollock, cod and haddock, but also for the yearly arrival of three coveted pelagics: the heavily-targeted striped bass, the under-rated but truly delicious bluefish and, finally, that perhaps most coveted of sportfish, bluefin tuna.

 

For the full story Click Here-

Two Areas and Four Put-ins in Gloucester and Rockport

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Launching from Freshwater Cover in Magnolia, Massachusetts, a local kayak angler sets up to troll for striped bass during the fall run.
Credit: northamericankayakfishing.blogspot.com
© Adam Bolonsky

Adam Bolonsky covers Kayak Fishing better than anyone with his-

North American Kayak Fishing

A how-to and where-to blog for kayak fishermen around the world. Whether you fish from a sit-on-top or sit-in, set your hook here! Chickity Check it!

(Paul Morrison I figured you would like this piece)

Rockport 4th of July Bonfire

Posted on by paultmorrison

I’ve seen this bonfire from a distance. From Andrews Point it’s quite a large glow in the sky. Got a parking spot on Broadway a half hour before dusk and went on down to Back Beach with the family. Big crowd but there seemed to be a lot of room between the stack of wood and the beach. We would soon find out why there were just some children playing with light sabers down there.

They have this stack of busted palettes maybe 60 feet high with what looks like an outhouse on top. Years back they actually did get rid of outhouses this way as the town got indoor plumbing. Then they light it on fire. Remember how in the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” the nazi’s faces melt off?

Like this:

That’s what would have happened to us if we stayed where we were. A lot of backwards walking later.

and a little more as it really fires up:

Even from this distance it felt like a weenie on a stick would start smoking if held in front of you.

The Rockport Fire Department did a splendid job cooling the nearby trees. I have a bunch of shots like this where it looks like the devil of hellfire is jumping from the flames:

The next morning picking up bagels the logs were still smoking.

Lobster Pool Restaurant

Posted on by blackswanbeth

Delicious lobster bisque at the Lobster Pool Restaurant in Rockport! I ate everything else up before I could document it. What a delicious view relaxing in the swing too! They have Homie greeting cards and a lobster etched in the cement sidewalk. Click for the slideshow:

Interior

http://www.lobsterpoolrestaurant.com

Lattof Farm of Rockport; Monkey Bread

Posted on by paultmorrison

Lattof Farm opened on June 24 and I was too busy to stop for my favorite food product of all Cape Ann (besides lobster). Until this weekend. At 9:30 AM every morning the Monkey Bread (uppercase) comes out of the oven. This is not your normal monkey bread (lowercase). This has a wee bit extra sugar, butter, and cinnamon in it. Even if your kids find it and try to eat all the really gooey pieces the last piece will still be just as gooey as the first.

Unwrapped:

And then, like a monkey, no knife, just fingers, you pull a chunk off:

The 9:30 AM timing is not precise but I sometimes just keep driving by because you can see them on the shelf on the right-hand​ side top shelf. Go to the dump, drive by, maybe go circle around Dock Square. Getting them right out of the oven is killer but it is also the fear that there are ten other people circling the block and when you do stop the last one is placed in someone else’s shopping bag. That happened once and the tears would not stop …

Reconsidering my strategy for the Blackburn Challenge in ten days. It’s quite possible that the wind will be blowing and the boat will be rocking. I need more ballast. That’s where the Monkey Bread comes in. If I eat one of these every morning for the next ten days I think I will have plenty of ballast to make it around Cape Ann.

Tomorrow’s post will be of the Rockport bonfire. I can’t even look at those photos right now, too hot.

Animal Krackers Rockport Grand Opening

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

Animal Krackers opened their second location in Rockport this week. It is at 18 Railroad Ave. across from Dunkin Donuts. They have their own parking lot too. It’s a beautiful store, carrying some new items that aren’t at the Gloucester store.

The Grand Opening is on Sunday. They will be giving out free snacks and a free Dog or Cat toy!

Rockport Hours are:
Closed on Monday
Tuesday thru Saturday
10am-6pm
Open Sundays!
11am-4pm

Stacy and Dozer are managing the new Rockport store

They now have their own line of treats

The Ice Cream Store, Bearskin Neck

Posted on by paultmorrison

At five in the morning Bearskin Neck is a great place for a walk.

Nice and quiet. The next afternoon walking out on the Lumber Wharf with our ice cream from The Ice Cream Store (daughter is in love with Purple Cow) and a Latte from Bean and Leaf I started to wonder what if.

What if the Large Family who really liked ice cream showed up. Say, six really large ice cream lovers, ordered Banana Splits then went to the back table of The Ice Cream Store and all sat down to eat. If I was at the counter ordering my one scoop of Purple Cow Cone and heard some wood creaking I think I would run for the door.

The green building to the right is the Bean and Leaf. Great Latte’s cookies, chowder, (that’s all I get, I bet the other stuff is good too.) Free WiFi. I’ve been in the back window of Bean and Leaf for a high tide with a Nor’ Easter pushing swells into Old Harbor and the waves would occasionally slap up against the building.

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Posted on by paultmorrison

Shalin Liu Performance Center of Rockport finishing touches:

The scaffolding came down off the back window on Saturday. This shot on Sunday shows that all gone so that attendees of the sold-out performance on Thursday June 10 will have an unobstructed view of the harbor.

Tickets available for Friday on can be ordered HERE. They seem quite reasonable $25-$46 since there is not a bad seat in the house.

One can also get an unobstructed view of the harbor by purchasing a purple cow ice cream cone from the Ice Cream Store and a latte from Bean and Leaf (both on Bearskin Neck) then walking out onto the Lumber Wharf. (Daughter purple cow, large latte, me.)