Good Morning Gloucester


Good Morning Gloucester is a longstanding blog created by Gloucester, Massachusetts lobster broker Joey Ciaramitaro. GMG is a snapshot of living and working on the docks of the oldest commercial fishing harbor in the United States.

History

Good Morning Gloucester began as a daily post on the Cape Ann Online message board. Joey Ciaramitaro would post photographs that he took while walking to the docks before dawn each morning. This thread became unmanageably long and was moved over to a blog in December 2007. Within a year it was recording more than 30,000 visits per month which made it the most active blog on the North Shore of Massachusetts. In 2010 the Good Morning Gloucester blog is now receiving more than 60,000 visitors per month and recorded its one millionth visitor in February, 2010. Since March 2009 the Good Morning Gloucester blog is displayed prominently on the Cape Ann newspaper, The website front page.
The Good Morning Gloucester float "What Up Homie" won first prize,, in the 2010 Gloucester Horribles parade on July 3, 2010.
On June 20, 2011 the 29,072 views of Good Morning Gloucester eclipsed the 28,789 population of Gloucester
In May 2015 over 40,000 posts have been published in Good Morning Gloucester.
October 1, 2012, Good Morning Gloucester is now averaging 60,000 unique views per day, twice the population of Cape Ann.
On November 7, 2012 Toby Burnham is awarded the GMG Good Egg of the Year Award for doing what he does every day, being a Good Egg. On Nov 6 Toby who had become impaled on a fishing lure and removed the hooks.
In 2014 GMG was viewed over 2.5 million times.
By July 2018, the GMG homepage had been viewed over 5.5 million times. An eclectic mix of posts garnered the most hits from "Jim Dowd responds to the Marathon Bombing" to "The Elephant In The Room- This Chick’s Camel Toe".

Recurring themes