TRACKS: CD129: Capt. Joseph Joe Mesquita, born 1859, arrived in Gloucester in 1874, fishing - shacking (haddock and cod), swordfishing, vessels lost in war and peace
The Mary P. Mesquita, built in 1890, sunk by the HMS Saxonia on Oct. 29, 1900, reading from Gloucester News of Nov. 5, 1900, one man - Alfred Brown - lost of the 16 men aboard
Capt. Pierce of the Triumph, U-boats off Orleans, Mass., the World War comes to American soil in a bizarre incident
German naval personnel in Gloucester in during World War I at Oscar LeVeau's bar on Main Street
German naval personnel (cont.d)
Alfred Brown's mysterious death
Joe Mesquita's racing boats, awards and cups
Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt remembers Capt. Joe Mesquita, the Frances J. O'Hara
Coast Guard Memorial to Capt. Joe
A Portuguese folk tale - King Ferdinand, St. Elizabeth story
1902 - Captain Joe Mesquita brings the crown to Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage
Origin of the Gloucester Portuguese
CD130: Camille Le Febre and Anton Breese arrive from Belgium to play carillon bells
How to play carillon bells from the first woman in America to play them (Background - tapping acts as a demonstration)
A. Piatt Andrew instrumental in getting the bells to Gloucester
Bells came in free of duty, Is this a case of church and state interfering with each other? Nooo, on a technicality!
Playing the bells for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John D. Rockefeller
More on how to play the carillon bells
Has played the bells for 25 years since 1922
Origins of Gloucester Portuguese
The voyage over to America, types of fishing
Importance of the church to the Gloucester Portuguese from a personal point of view
Swearing not allowed aboard a Mesquita vessel - Capt. Joe was a fiercely religious man
Capt. Joe Mesquita is beloved by Gloucester community to this day
Americanization and its relationship to the Portuguese community in Gloucester
Why the Portuguese have fared well in Gloucester, foods, Portuguese still come in droves to Gloucester, a hardworking and thrifty people
The Portuguese love Gloucester more than anywhere else in the country
A wonderful city to raise a family, only city in the world to live in and raise a family.
