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New Year’s Rockport Eve

Dec 30th, 2009 by Paul Morrison posted in Good Morning Gloucester

For Info on Rockport New Year’s Eve celebration click Motif #1

There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that GMG nor anyone connected with GMG has convinced the sea chantey music group “Three Sheets to the Wind” to sing about a sea captain’s wife complaining of too many sailors brought home by her husband. They [...]

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I’ll be out of Gloucester for a week or so

Dec 30th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester, Uncategorized

So if any of you want to contribute pictures or announcements or special birthday wishes to loved ones or friends feel free to send them in.  I’ll be looking for content to ease the burden on the rest of the GMG staff.
you can send your contributions to captjoe06 at yahoo dot com
call the gmg hotline [...]

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Happy New Year, Kiritimati!

Dec 30th, 2009 by Sharon posted in Good Morning Gloucester, Uncategorized

Kiritimati is the first inhabited place on Earth to experience the New Year each year.
Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati was discovered by Captain James Cook on Christmas Eve (24 December) 1777. It was claimed by the United States under [...]

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A View of Cape Ann Massachusetts Video Done By Bait and Tackle Ad Co For The Chamber of Commerce

Dec 30th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester

My guess is you’ve probably never seen this so we may as well bring it to the masses.
How many of you check out the Chamber’s website regularly?  They keep a great local event calendar maintained by the professional staff.  Bookmark it if you haven’t already.  Ready-Set-Bookmark It!- http://www.capeannchamber.com/

Posted in Chickity check it!, gloucester, Video Tagged: Bait [...]

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…And Now for the Cookbook

Dec 30th, 2009 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

In 1981 I was living in Houston and was absolutely broke. I planned to return to Pennsylvania for the holidays but that would leave me with no money for presents. So I got the bright idea to put together a cookbook from all the recipes I’d collected over the years. It was a bigger hit than I ever could have dreamed of! I hand-wrote most of it and included my Mother’s recipe for baking breads and pies, recipes from my grandmothers and great aunts, as well as a few stories about growing up in our wild and crazy family.

My Mother absolutely loved the book. She made literally hundreds of copies of it and sold them for $3 a piece. When she came to visit me in Houston she brought me the profits and we used them for a trip to New Orleans.


In 1992 I decided to update the book and expanded it considerably. It contained a couple hundred recipes and more stories. I typeset it on the first computer I had ever used and it was a considerable improvement over the first one. It had recipes for rye bread, dozens of kinds of pickles, relishes, preserves, desserts, casseroles, and a huge section on sauerkraut. It became very popular among people who collected Pennsylvania Dutch recipes and a food writer, Fran Frye, from the Erie Daily Times got hold of a copy and wrote a total of three columns about it. My mother was in xerox-heaven!

Once the internet became a daily part of my life I made a web site that featured some of the most popular PA Dutch recipes and I got a lot of feedback over the past 5 years about it. One of the funniest things was an email I got from someone who said a guy in his office had made home-made keuchels (a PA Dutch fried dough) and gave him one to taste. He said it tasted just like the ones his mother used to make and didn’t believe his buddy when he said the got the recipe off the internet. He went to the URL, found the recipe and looked at the accompanying picture and said, “Oh my God, that’s my mother!” It was my cousin Jack Dippold. No wonder they tasted just like his mother’s, they were from her recipe!

So, now that Each Angel Burns is published and I am a long way from the next novel I decided it is time to re-do the cookbook and include more stories and memories. This will be extra fun because two of my nieces, my brother Jack’s daughter Amy and my sister Chris’s daughter Tasha, are going to help. I’ve sent out a call to the family for more recipes and the book is well underway. I have an entire box of recipes I brought back from my mother’s kitchen after she died and some of them are old Pennsylvania recipes I don’t want to see be lost.

My late brother Jack had a notebook that he called his “recipe book”. It was filled with his recipes from experimenting making pickles, preserves, beer, wine and, of course, his famous sausages. I called Amy, his daughter, and asked whatever became of that book after he died. She said she’s pretty sure it is still in the bookcase at her mother’s house so I am hoping she will let me borrow it and add some of those recipes. It would be a wonderful way to honor him and god only knows what recipes are in it. We may find some new uses for groundhog or squirrel.

So we are hoping to have it ready by Spring. I don’t know yet how many recipes will be in it but I can assure you they will either be very good or very interesting. I know there will be a section on soltz, elderberries, home-grown tomatoes, and,of course, sauerkraut! Stay tuned.

Thanks for reading.

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What Time is it, Mr. Fox? TONIGHT!

Dec 30th, 2009 by Sharon posted in Good Morning Gloucester

Posted in gloucester, GMG Music Schedule, Go See, Things to do Tagged: Brian King, GMG Music, Lat 43, What Time is it Mr Fox?

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Mary Rhinelander’s Limited Edition Cape Ann Blue Willow Print Video

Dec 30th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester

click this text for the full sized HD version of the video

Posted in Art, gloucester, lobster, Video Tagged: Alexandra’s Bread, Art, Blue Willow China, Cape Ann, Design, Limited Edition, Mary Rhinelander, Video

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Mary Rhinelander’s Limited Edition Cape Ann Blue Willow China Design

Dec 30th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester

There is a limited edition copy of Mary Rhinelander’s Blue Willow China Pattern Design at Alexandra’s Bread Co.
It hasn’t been made into china yet but I’m thinking that some of the finer shops in town like The Black Swan, Stone Leaf, Pauline’s Gifts or Pisces would sell the hell out of this if it were [...]

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Fort Square Cafe Mudiga Steak and Eggs Breakfast

Dec 30th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester

Posted in Eats Tagged: Breakfast, Eats, Fort Square Cafe, Gloucester Breakfast, Mudiga Steaks

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Rest in Slack, Brother

Dec 30th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon

In honor of Cliff Heller, who merged with the infinite on this day in 2006, the Legal Satyricon flag is lowered to half mast and there will be no posts today. If you happen to find yourself with a bottle of tequila nearby, I would like to invite you to take a shot (no [...]

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What Up Homie?

Dec 29th, 2009 by Joey posted in Good Morning Gloucester

sent in by Paulie Frontiero

seagull caption 1, originally uploaded by CapeAnnPleinAir.

Posted in What Up Homie? Tagged: Paulie Frontiero, Seagull, What Up Homie?

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Wind Damage !

Dec 29th, 2009 by Jay Albert posted in Cape Ann Images

35 mph NW winds, gusts to over 70mph has caused some damage around Cape Ann. Gloucester’s O’Maley Middle School had it’s roof ripped off around 4:00pm. The attached rink was evacuated as a precaution. Driving around I saw many roof shingles and tree branches scattered about.Ripped Roof!Another view!And yet another!The following day!Captain Joe & Sons dock!Diving gull!Lanes Cove Breakwater!

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Surf’s Up Part II

Dec 29th, 2009 by Paul Morrison posted in Good Morning Gloucester

Much more hospitable day on Monday and one of those surfers showed up off Andrews Point again:
He is the tiny dot about to porpoise under the oncoming wave as he makes his way out of the cove to go for another run. I’m off island the next couple days so I do not know if [...]

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Indiana Governor lives up to Indiana’s negative stereotypes; nobody surprised

Dec 29th, 2009 by J DeVoy posted in The Legal Satyricon

By J. DeVoy
In a recent interview, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels talked candidly about his Christian beliefs and values.  Referring to Matthew 6: 1-6, Daniels describes his prayer and almsgiving as “private,” something done for himself and not for posturing before others.  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his tolerance of other religions, or people [...]

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Strange Middle Eastern cult demands removal of public utilities

Dec 29th, 2009 by marcorandazza posted in The Legal Satyricon

The Teheran city government installed bicycle lanes so that the city could be more “green,” and to promote healthy lifestyles in the Islamic Republic’s capitol. However, once the lanes were installed, local Mullahs called for them to be removed. They were concerned that faithful Islamic men were being tempted to look at womens’ [...]

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