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Once at the page there is a drop down box, you’ll see Good morning Gloucester. It’s pretty simple.
Single-Vineyard Boutique Wine Dinner
Thursday, May 24, 7:00 p.m.
Passports Restaurant
110 Main St., Gloucester, Ma.
978 281-3680
with Chef Eric Lorden
and Dr. Kathleen Powers Erickson (The "Wine PhD")
4 artfully-prepared courses and 3 single-vineyard boutique wines!
$50.00 per person
First Course:
Mushroom caps stuffed with sautéed crab
and Gruyère cheese
Wine: Morgan "Double L" Vineyard (organic) Pinot Noir
Santa Lucia Highlands, California
(Wine List – bottle: $95.00)
Second Course:
Citrus salad of grapefruit and oranges on
a bed of Frisèe lettuce with spiced pecans
Wine: Hirsch Heiligenstein Vineyard (organic) Gruner Veltliner
Kamptal, Austria
(Wine List – bottle, $55.00)
Third Course:
Roasted Duck with sweet potato puree and
pomegranate reduction
Wine: Rosenblum Rock Pile Road Vineyard Zinfandel
(Wine List – $75.00)
Fourth Course:
Turtle Alley Chocolates with
Atomic Cafe Press Pot Coffee
Mayor Carolyn Kirk today announced the selection of Eric Smith, currently a Deputy Chief with the Westland, Michigan Fire Department, as Chief of the Gloucester Fire Department. The announcement comes following a comprehensive search for new fire chief to lead the department.
“First and foremost I want to thank the Search Committee for their diligence in staying focused on the search and bringing the best candidates forward. Each finalist brought different strengths, and Eric Smith’s continual professional development and experience in Westland were the determining factors in the final selection decision. He is a leader in a department that covers just over 20 square miles, has triple the population, double the emergency calls, fewer employees and a similar overtime budget to the Gloucester Fire Dept while ensuring that the community’s four fire stations are open at all times.
We will learn from Deputy Chief Smith’s professionalism and distinguished record of service in the fire/EMS service, and I look forward to the city and the Fire Department warmly welcoming him and his family to Gloucester” said Mayor Kirk.
Deputy Chief Eric Smith is currently second in command of the Westland, MI Fire Department where he is responsible for comprehensive management of 70 employees, four fire stations, the department’s administrative office, training facility, and a fleet of 30 vehicles. The department is the third busiest in Wayne County Michigan with over 9700 calls for emergencies in 2011. The population of Westland is over 80,000 residents and covers 20.5 square miles.
With the department since 1991, Deputy Chief Smith has continuously risen through the ranks having held the positions of Firefighter, Sergeant, Hazmat Team Leader, Captain, Battalion Chief, and Deputy Chief. He is a licensed paramedic, served in the United States Air Force from May 1986 to January 1990 with a rank of Sergeant upon his discharge.
He also holds a Bachelors degree in Public Safety from Concordia University in Ann Arbor Michigan along with Masters of Science coursework in Technology Studies and Emergency Management from Eastern Michigan University and an Associates of Science degree in Fire Technology from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan.
Deputy Chief Smith also holds many professional certifications and was a part time Paramedic Instructor for a number of years teaching all levels of EMS education at Baker College in Westland, MI.
Deputy Chief Smith’s permanent appointment is contingent upon successful employment contract negotiations as well as confirmation by the Gloucester City Council.
Donna Ardizzoni
Rick and I went to the dedication at the Maritime Gloucester Pier in Honor of Harriet Webster. It was a beautiful day for a great lady.
Click below for the slide show-
Here are some more photos from yesterday’s first Mug Up of the season, which was so well attended and fun. The gallery has now been freshly filled with the great energy and spirit of GMG friends and peeps and christened for the new season. As always, there was an amazing spread of food brought by friends, that arrived all at once so I could not identify who brought what in many cases to be able to thank people. I didn’t get to try Maime’s Kitchen’s coffee rolls, which disappeared fast. I did eat a salad of Kathy Chapman’s homegrown buttercrunch salad after Mug Up, and it was wonderful, as I’m sure Joey and Donna can attest. I tried some of Greg Bover’s great GMG ginger cake which was delicious. Barry Marshall brought some lovely big muffins that he said he had slaved all morning baking, but I think actually came from Last Stop. Sister Felicia baked an amazing tower of frosted Italian cookies (there are still a few left if anyone comes by today). There were some wonderful scones and other Italian cookies brought by someone, and Anthony and Joanne Marks brought cannolis (after reading my comment on Joey’s eating in Italy photo post about the gigantic cannoli http://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/eating-in-italy-the-slide-show/), and of course I had to break diet and devour one. Kim Smith brought a beautiful arrangement of flowers from her garden. Sorry to anyone and anything I have missed or forgotten to mention; it got really chaotic and I couldn’t keep track.
Special thanks and kudos to Ed Collard who always arrives early to help me set up for Mug Ups, and is the official taster of the deviled eggs and other contributions to make sure they are all good enough for our GMG friends and family. You’re the best, Ed.
We’re looking forward to a really amazing and fun season here at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery, and hope to see all of you at one Mug Up or another this year (that includes you Jenn Cullen).
E.J. Lefavour
We need help. You probably know that we’re producing a new concert series at North Shore Music Theatre this summer featuring top local talent on stage with national recording stars (more info here).
As you can see from this video (taken from the Celebrate Gloucester DVD) concerts are a lot of work — and we do EVERYTHING, from dreaming up the idea to organizing talent, lights, sound, staging porta-potties … to convincing someone to purchase a VIP ticket when he wasn’t planning on it (you can see that in the video) to designing, printing and hanging posters to … well you get the idea.
So, if this looks like fun to you and you’re willing to work as hard as we do, we’ve got a job for you. And it pays. 20 hours a week to start. Full time later this year. You need lots of energy, just the right amount of ambition, a love of live music, brilliant communication skills (texting doesn’t count) and fairly thick skin.
If this sounds like you, we’ll have a lot of fun together! Call Vickie or Peter at 978-525-9093 or click here to contact us.
It’s Monday. That means Bandit Kings host an open jam @ Rhumbline. Always a good time. Big music week here on Cape Ann. You can’t get to everything so check out the full week’s music lineup and start thinking about where you want to go.
Many thanks to Nancy for forwarding the link to this 2 minute BBC video!
Ever since I went kayaking with Adam Bolonsky and he caught a pretty large bluefish I have been reticent about fishing out of a kayak. It took him quite some time to make sure the sharp toothed fish was dead as could be and he could put it in his boat. Adam is a bit more comfortable in a kayak than I am. What if after getting the fish along side and bleeding she struggles and you flip your kayak? You are then in bloody seas with a really angry blue who also likely has friends who want to do a little feeding frenzy. Um, no. I cannot walk on water though I might try in this case.
But this week I saw a Boga 30 fishing tool, some call them lippers, for sale. 30 bucks off. Cool, I got it and tried it out with some stripers this morning. I think it is my new favorite tool. With the undersized stripers it was a cinch to gently hold the fish and take the hook out and release. This one yard long fish I kept for dinner. Although the boga can weigh the fish I forgot to write it down. We caught the limit and were back before breakfast.
I’ve smoked bluefish but never striper. I just downloaded a smoked stripe bass recipe and will try it out and hopefully bring some results to next week’s GMG Mug Up on Sunday.
Now I will see if I can do this from a smaller boat. In the kayak I’ll tie it to the boat or attach a lobster buoy. Don’t want to lose it.
Paul beat me to the punch, but here are more photos of the event. I didn’t know about it beforehand, but I decided to go for a walk with my camera, and there it was!
For starters, here is a slideshow of the demonstration of a self-inflating raft.
The event included other “safety and health” tables from local organizations.
For a complete slideshow, click here:
A few of those images close up:
Linda writes-
Joey! I just framed my latest acquisition and added it to the Joey Ciaramitaro Masterpiece Collection. Looks spectacular, don’t you think? Linda
Well Linda you certainly picked out some very “Gloucester” themed photos! I thank you for your support!
Viking and her crew (including Rob – pictured) prepare Eleanor for her trip to Boston.
Construction portfolio: http://kathychapman.viewbook.com/album/tea-party-ship-eleanor
Photographs © Kathy Chapman 2012
A few short clips from our cooking class in Ravello Italy with Mamma Agata and daughter Chiara
and here are some pictures from their amazing home-
Hi Joe!
The attached is from a brochure that my Dad, the owner, had printed for soliciting guests for the Oceanside back in the 1930′s. The poem was writted by my uncle, Elber Krewson. It may not be readable, but if you can enhance it in some way to make it so, I think your readers would appreciate reading about the glorious little hamlet.
Best to you,
George Krewson
Click the picture for the full sized version-
Too Big
It’s just too big. It’s too big to write about in one fell swoop.
You can’t tell of its color or its size or its sounds in one sitting and
you can’t, in one session, describe its moods, whether melancholy
or violent, or how the light is reflected or the way the wind plays with the waves,
or its tides and its currents or its odors, both fragrant and foul.
The division of land from sea is a concept that requires patience
to develop and time to carefully draft and paint, frame and mount.
The granite overlooks and beaches alone can fill volumes and still
fall short of a full image of just our small piece of the shoreline.
And our status, as harvesters, walkers, boaters, swimmers and
observers could overflow photo books and decorate many walls.
All this and yet no mention of the fish and the lobsters and crabs
and the clams and the oysters and whales and other sea mammals
and insects and vegetation; the jelly-fish and squid and the
plankton and starfish, the sea-slugs and snails; the worms and
those eerie heat loving species that are only now
being discovered in thermal vents at it deepest parts.
This whole other world is both a part of and apart from us.
We feel it and hear it and see it and smell it and taste it
and are mesmerized and enraptured by it, but it’s too big
to capture and too big to paint and too big to describe in
words on one sunny July afternoon.
So let us understand what we can, view what we will and
allow its mystery and majesty help teach us how we see
ourselves on this earth and in the universe.
“But, if a man would be alone,” Emerson said, “let him look at the stars.”
To this we should add, let him also look at the sea.
Marty Luster
Went to Rose Marine to take some photos. Chris Rose helped me up on the 10 foot ladder and took some pics around the yard. Great place to do some picture-taking.
This is a 1904 photo and an Acrylic, Pen & Ink painting by Bill Hubbard of the Dahlmer Gillnetter, Rough Rider which fished out of Rocky Neck in 1910. Rough Rider was a 39′ gillnetter launched in Manitowoc, Wisc in 1904. She was one of the first gas-powered fishing boats in America. Bill’s great grandfather, Capt. Axel B. Dahlmer purchased her in 1906 and his grandfather, Capt. John A. Dahlmer brought her to Gloucester in 1910 to join the other “Michigan Bears” who introduced gillnetting to Gloucester. Like Captains Albert Arnold, Gerry Shoares and Peter Tysver, they settled in E. Gloucester. The Dahlmers bought the house at 12 Rocky Neck Avenue and fished their boats out of Smith Cove for many years.
The last photo is one I took on New Year’s Day at the Rocky Neck Plunge. It may not be, but it certainly looks like a modified version of Rough Rider.
Check out Bill Hubbard’s paintings at:
http://bill-hubbard.artistwebsites.com
E.J. Lefavour
Some people think that Joey is still in Italy because he is still putting up posts about his trip. However, he is back. See him here at the dock showing off the new improved Italian hand gesture skills he acquired on his trip. His hands are just a blur. Can anyone tell what he is saying?
E.J. Lefavour
For race results this link downloads a nice excel spreadsheet.
My race roundup: Nice day, I did not fall in, the beer was cold and the hot dog was tasty. The band did a nice job on some Fleetwood Mac covers a la Stevie Nicks. I finished in 1 hour 18 minutes 37 seconds. John Karoff who won my division finished in 58 minutes 29 seconds. If I had twin 150 Evinrudes maybe I could cut 20 minutes off my time. I happened to be chatting with John as we waited for the start since he had the same boat as me and I mentioned something about wishing I had gone kayaking at least once this spring before today. He said he had gone once, to something on the Charles River, a 19 mile race with many half mile portages. Meaning he had to pick up his boat and run to avoid dams and waterfalls. It was then I knew that although he seemed quite pleasant he was a mad man and was not surprised he took first place.
Other crazy people. Will Rich of Bayview and SUP The Coast fame (as in he paddled standing up all the way from Key West to Maine) finished first on a SUP board. It looks like there is a motor under his board, his time 1 hour, 2 minutes, 32 seconds. Crazy.
A James Tarantino of Gloucester rowed a banks dory to a time of 1 hour 24 minutes 6 seconds. A banks dory is about as opposite as you can get from most craft in this race. No carbon fiber, kevlar, teflon composite. A banks dory is made from large trees and 300 pounds of cod in the stern would not slow them up by much. The cod may add a minute or two to Jimmy T’s time. That would be a good addition to the race. Then we could have a nice fish chowder at the finish.
OK, so who did the course the fastest? Borys Markin was sitting on something called a HPK single, or High Performance Kayak. These are long, thin, razor blade shaped, space age fiber crafts that I think if I sat in one I would be in the drink within a minute. Borys finished the race course in 42 minutes 41 seconds. This is one of the reasons why I attend these races. These faster craft start the race after my division. So during the first 30 minutes of the race, packs of fast boats scream by one after another. As they do I try to imitate in some small way the technique they are using to paddle. But not entirely. If I kept their cadence up I would blow a seal in less than a minute, but still instructive.
On to the Blackburn Challenge, just 55 days to go. Saturday July 14.
I would be negligent if I did not add that the Cape Ann Rowing Club did another amazing job with the Essex River Race. They make it fun for the normal as well as the athletically off their rocker types. Everyone who paddles in either the Essex or the Blackburn have come to expect a smooth race with nary a hitch and CARC keeps pulling it off.
If you go to the Blackburn Challenge website there will be photos posted over the next week or so. I don’t have anymore photos so I will just post a gratuitous photo of Homie biting Rubber Duck’s butt. (Homie doesn’t want her to race anymore.) 
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