We have a sleigh full of Christmas trees and wreaths coming for our Deck the Docks event! If you’re going to buy a tree this year, get it here! We will get you a glass of hot cider or hot cocoa, our friendly volunteers will help you pick out your tree and even load it up on your vehicle for you! Supplies are limited, so come early!
Lots of fun family activities and gift ideas during this 3-day event!
Want to stretch you gift giving dollar? It’s the holidays and we all want a way to have our gifts mean more. Well it is #GivingTuesday and Maritime Gloucester is proud to announce their new 1 = 2 Matching Gift Campaign. For every dollar given to Maritime Gloucester during this campaign, the Amelia Peabody Foundation has agreed to match it, dollar for dollar, up to $25,000! So your gift goes farther! Thinking of giving? Now is the time. This campaign runs through the new year…but let’s see if we need that long! Give now at http://www.maritimegloucester.org and let us know you want the 1 = 2 match!
At this year’s Middle Street Walk, be transported in time to the Victorian Era as you view the period-decorated first floor of the Sargent House Museum. Enjoy a scene from Little Women at 10:15 and 10:45, performed by Gloucester Stage Youth Acting Workshop. Purchase decorated wreaths, displays, and holly on sale all day. Hot mulled cider and treats.
FREE and open to the public.
When: Saturday, December 8, 2018, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: The Sargent House Museum, 49 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA
For a full list of events and participants in Middle Street Walk, visit middlestreetwalk.org.
Backyard Growers‘ Holiday Pop-up Shop is back!
Stop by BYG headquarters (271 Main St) to check out our veggie ornaments, animal socks, *new* BYG tees, kitchen implements and other goodies for all the gardeners and foodies in your life. And all for a great cause! Each year, the pop-up shop helps BYG raise a little extra cash to start off the new year right.
Get some holiday shopping done and help spread love for gardens and veggies throughout Gloucester by shopping at our pop-up shop this holiday season 🙂
Open weekdays, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Join us for some late night shopping on Ladies’ Night (December 6, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.) and Men’s Night (December 20, 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.)
A sneak peek at some of the goodies in our shop…
See you there!
Please join us on the third night of Hanukkah for our Annual Lobsta Trap Menorah Community Lighting on Tuesday, December 4th at 5:45 pm.
We will light our one-of-a-kind menorah and eat some delicious latkes.
This is a free event and everyone is welcome!
Massachusetts Special Olympics Calendar raffle tickets are now available and are only $10 a ticket this gives you 31 chances to win one of the great prizes available – see calendar above.
On this Sunday, November 17th, Cape Ann Special Olympics will have a table at Stop & Shop selling our calendar raffles from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm – please stop by and support our wonderful local team of athletes! Your generous $10 raffle ticket purchase helps us buy uniforms and equipment for our athletes!
https://www.specialolympicsma.org/events/fundraising-events/calendar-raffle/
Opening night of The Finest Hours in Boston was a brilliant show for USCG, made all the more special by Fitzgerald’s presence. The 36 Foot Motor Lifeboat was a fantastic and worthy vessel. It is a true bridge between the oared surfboat of the USLSS and the modern motored USCG boats. It was the last of the open boat where the crew was exposed to the elements at their stations. The trip of the 36500 is still considered the greatest small boat rescue in USCG history. I was fortunate to find the 36501 boat in New Bedford and to be part of the team that brought it to Hull and installed it in their Pemberton Point station. It sits there on the original rails that gravity launched these fine vessels into service when the flag went up. Definitely recommend people checking out the story of these boats and the people who manned them. You will not be dissapointed.
CAPE COD TIMES
November 15, 2018
By Beth Treffeisen
CHATHAM — The last surviving member of the Coast Guard crew aboard the motor lifeboat 36500 during the historic 1952 rescue of 32 seamen off the stricken oil tanker Pendleton rescue has died.
Andrew Fitzgerald — known as a funny, brave and reluctant hero — was 86.
“It was a dark and stormy night,” Fitzgerald would say at the start of the story about the harrowing night of Feb. 18. 1952, which forever changed his life.
As a nor’easter raged off the shores of Cape Cod, two large tankers split in half, propelling the then 20-year-old Coast Guard engineer and three other Coast Guardsmen into history on their 36-foot boat.
Facing 60-foot high seas, the four men boarded the 36500, led by coxswain Bernard Webber, and headed out into the storm to find the sinking tanker Pendleton, where 33 men waited…
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Manchester-Essex Rotary Club Presents
Thursday, November 29 at 7 Central Restaurant
7pm sign in & practice play, 7:30pm start.
$20 to play, cash prizes, friendly game,
no elimination,
winners based on total points earned
To benefit the Manchester-Essex Rotary Club
Cape Ann Community 