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Murder on Rocky Neck, The Opera – in its second and last weekend!
Last night I went to this show over at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. It was a lot of fun! There are several more performances this weekend: 7:30PM today and Saturday, and 2PM Saturday and Sunday. More information … Continue reading
Bananas 2013 City Hall Fundraiser Pics
Speechless. David Cox was there with the big camera and as he didn’t have two monkeys climbing all over him during the performance I’m guessing he’s gonna have some fantastic photos to share over the next couple of days.
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Tagged 2013, Bananas, City Hall, Fundraiser Pics
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Ribbon Cutting at The Center at Rocky Neck
We’re lucky our Mayor isn’t an “off with their heads” kind of gal, or some people might be in trouble with those massive scissors she was wielding last night. It was a wonderful celebration of the Center passing into the hands of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Funky Gloucester, gloucester
Tagged Center at Rocky Neck, East Gloucester, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, Rocky Neck Art Colony
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Need some help?
Thinking about entering the Sailor Stan’s First Annual Invitational Soup’s On Best of Cape Ann Soup Competition this Sunday but don’t know what kind of soup to make? Check out this site: http://glorioussouprecipes.com/?refsrc=email. Of course, you don’t have to enter … Continue reading
Posted in Eats, Funky Gloucester, gloucester
Tagged food competition, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Rocky Neck Center, Sailor Stan's, Soup
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Love Soup?
“Eat soup first and eat it last, and live to till a hundred years be passed” Do you love soup? Do you have a great soup recipe? Do you want to help support the Rocky Neck Cultural Center? Then you … Continue reading
Posted in Eats, Funky Gloucester, gloucester
Tagged food competition, Rocky Neck, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Sailor Stan's, the center at rocky neck
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BREAKING NEWS: GMG to be the Boston area’s first Slog (Smell Blog)
Keeping up with bleeding edge technologies has always been Joey’s passion, so it was no surprise when he told me he had already been approved by Google to be the first Boston Area blog to get his smell into their … Continue reading
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Doodads and Gadgets
There was a boat at the Railways yesterday sporting all these strange looking doodads and gadgets. Does anyone have any idea what kind of boat it might be and what all those doodads and gadgets are for? I assume they … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Industry, Funky Gloucester, gloucester, Working Boats
Tagged Marine Railways
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Jimmy T on TV again starting tomorrow (FRIDAY)
Jimmy T. is this week’s guest on Cape Ann Profiles on Cape Ann TV. Host Rich Sagall interviews Jimmy T. about his experience on “Survivor” in this clip from Cape Ann Profiles that airs this week and next week on … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jimmy T", Video
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Sailor Stan’s – A Very Cool Place for Breakfast
In case you didn’t know, Sailor Stan’s is open for breakfast Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7:30 until 11:30-12:00. As season starts coming in, they will be open more mornings. Sailor Stan’s is one of the coolest most colorful artsy … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Exhibit, Breakfast, Restaurants, Rocky Neck, Sailor Stan's
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The Widdle Beaver
Hand dug on weekends over the course of two months-. Log donated by Harry and Peter at Blood Ledge Quarry. Marsal Albanese submits- Will be seen at Winga most weekends this summer!
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Tagged Widdle Beaver, Wooden Boat Project
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How many mangled lobster traps are in this photo?
I figure this jumble looks like about 3 traps. John thinks it’s 9. So we settled on 6 and based on that we counted 36 mangled traps on a small stretch of rocky Magnolia coastline today (see map here). Joey, … Continue reading
Posted in Beautiful Industry, Captain Joe's, Community Photos, Did You Know?, Funky Gloucester, gloucester, lobster
Tagged lobster, Lobster Traps
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Joseph J. Unis has something to say about Gloucester’s live music scene
Buncha stuff to say. FIRST OFF: Me and Riley have been booking all ages shows in Gloucester Massachusetts, our home town, for a minute now @ this place called The Hive. David Brooks has been helping us out a great … Continue reading
Change and Conflict in the Gloucester Fishing Industry Featuring Wicked Tuna’s Dave Marciano, Lady Jane Skipper Russell Sherman
Molly Ferrill came down the dock last May. She also did a time lapse video from our dock which you can see below and went out lobstering for a day with Tommy Burns, the same Tommy Burns who took out … Continue reading
Rocky Neck
There are so many galleries, restaurants, interesting and historic places to see and things to do on Rocky Neck that I could probably create six more of these and not scratch the tip of the iceberg of photos I have … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Funky Gloucester, gloucester, Go See
Tagged Rocky Neck, Rocky Neck Art Colony
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Donkeys on Eastern Point
Decided to take a detour from work errands to go to go out to Eastern Point. Great idea as I saw Gordon Baird and Joeann Hart with Zak and Abe their donkeys taking a walk. The donkeys are really cute.
Some things that make Gloucester such a unique place
You could go on and on, but it was getting a little crowded. E.J. Lefavour
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A bit of this and a bit of that
Things you find around the waterfront. E.J. Lefavour
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Another Press Part
You can see some of the coolest stuff at Marine Railways on Rocky Neck. E.J. Lefavour
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Taking down the Lobsta Trap Tree
So many volunteers today, Maryanne, Rich Bean, B.J. Mohan, Steve Douglas, Bree and her daughter, Patrick Kelly, Rick Moore, Oliver Cleary, Ed Collard, Melissa Cox, Andrew NiCastro, Peter Asaro, Little Jeremiah, Justin, and dad Tim, Nick Zagami and Heather Smidt (they … Continue reading
Pandanapping
Lots of fun at the Plunge
What a great way to start the New Year, so much at Sista’s and then the plunge more photos to come
Do You Know
where the photo of the stained glass carousel horse was taken? This is a really tough one. I will be very surprised if someone knows. The horse was cut from its background and pasted into a photo of peeling paint … Continue reading
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