My View of Life on the Dock
Video From Craig Kimberley-
Craig Writes-
Just before the beach was about to fill up, and the seine boat and greasy pole finals were to begin, I happened upon Gloucester native Dominic Giovinco. I approached him and asked “What does the Fiesta mean to you?” I have to say it was a lucky moment for me and my camera, and for anyone that watches. Then we went into the heritage of the Greasy Pole and being a pole walker. Enjoy this and share alike!
Sunday is the day I spend with the Family, bringing the girls down to the beach to watch the races and greasy pole after covering every aspect I can for the days leading up to Fiesta.
That morning down the dock strolls Craig asking for an assignment for the day. Knowing that Adam Bolonsky, Sam Sartson and I had devoted a ton of video coverage to Saturday’s Greasy Pole I told Craig that the Parade and The Seine Boats could use some video coverage to round everything out. I was deep into the editing of three hours of footage that Adam had handed to me from Saturday in between making lobster deliveries to our restaurants and taking out boats and off Craig went.
Fast forward to that afternoon and I was pretty much resigned to watching the Sunday sporting events with the family and not taking the camera out too much except to report the winners via my smartphone so we could beat everyone else to getting the news out.
The Bean up on my shoulders at the PACKED Pavilion Beach yells out “Good Morning Gloucester!” And she is pointing front and center to the edge of the water directly in front of the Greasy pole. It was none other than Craig with his Mack-Daddy Camera with “Da Sticka” plastered on it’s side.
A nice feeling knowing I could somewhat take the foot off the gas of the month long Fiesta coverage knowing it was all in good hands with our great team of contributors.
Here is Craig’s Seine Boat Championship video and more-
Jo-Ann Castano took these pics at the Altar going over things with new contributor Craig Kimberly.
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I realize that many people do not realize that the blog is entirely searchable in the search box in the right hand column and also sorted by categories so I’ll make this handy reference guide to all of our 2011 Saint Peter’s Fiesta Coverage To Date
A ton of thanks go to the entire GMG Team for all bringing their A-Game for our Superbowl- The Saint Peter’s Fiesta
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Born in Salem, Craig Kimberley is a director, cinematographer, editor, photographer. His family moved to Virginia in the late 70’s where he’s lived for the last 30 years. With hopes of moving to here soon, he’s vacationing in Gloucester with his sweet aunt, Joan Kimberley, on Washington street. The St. Peter’s Fiesta was a great welcome back weekend!
Look for his videos over the next few weeks sharing his return to Massachusetts. With a couple of photos mixed in, it should make for some fun content. Craig notes, “So far, everyone I’ve met has lived up to my greatest expectations of true New England character and class. Thanks to Joey, and Good Morning Gloucester, I’ve been given a fantastic venue to share my vacation adventures.” So stay tuned for more videos in the coming days!
See David’s 2011 Saturday Fiesta Slide Show with Over 100 Pictures By Clicking Here
also click any photo on the blog to make it full sized
The Live Cam Will Be Pointed At The Ferris Wheel for now and the Greasy Pole over the week-end.
For The Continuing Good Morning Gloucester Fiesta Coverage Click Here
Click The Arrow Below To Be At The Fiesta Live!!!!
I’ll keep this at the top of the page for a bit. New posts will show up under this one
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All taken from the video footage taken by our man Adam Bolonsky in the 4 part rough cut 2011 Saturday Greasy Pole video series-
Part II The Blessing Of The Feet
Part III The Arrival at The Pole
Part IV The Final Greasy Pole Round and Your Champ
This is one of my favorite posts of all time and I owe it all to Peter Black Frontiero who granted GMG access to get on the Greasy Pole and Adam Bolonsky who captured the video footage perfectly for us.
I spent all morning pouring over every second of video footage to take these screen shots.
The pictures show the heart, strength, passion and determination of the warriors who put it all on the line in the quest for Greasy Pole Glory.
More videos coming all day long-
Filmed By Adam Bolonsky For Good Morning Gloucester
Look For The Entire Series Throughout The Day As We get Them Uploaded In Hi Definition Including Footage From ON THE POLE and The Traditional Walk Up Beach Court.
We will bring you inside to view the entire process.
Click the picture for Thom’s Excellent Slide Show
When we were kids our entire family- Grandparents right down to Grandchildren would sit in the chairs down at the Fiesta and listen to the Italian music. Even though we were only 7 years old our parents would send us to the nut vendor who had all the different kinds of cashews and semanse and gallia.
I’m not sure what year the nut vendor went away, but you can still get the semanse seeds at Virgilio’s and celebrate Fiesta Old School like we did in the 70’s.
Sista Felicia got some today.
$1.50 a bag. how can you go wrong? Tradition- Fiesta- that’s What I’m Talkin About!
Watch Joey Take Home The Flag and The Ceremonial Walk Up Beach Court
click the pictures for the larger views
For The Continuing Good Morning Gloucester Fiesta Coverage Click Here
They’ll never take it away from you kid-Greasy Pole Champ for Life!
The Mrs bought me one a couple of years ago for Christmas. It’s on my bookshelf of prized books right next to my Hopper Book in The Living Room Bookshelf.
You can get yours at Virgilios, The Bookstore of Gloucester or Dogtown Book Shop
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