{"id":1339,"date":"2011-06-13T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2011-06-13T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:29:15","slug":"st-peter%e2%80%99s-fiesta-in-gloucester-mass-june-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"St. Peter\u2019s Fiesta in Gloucester, Mass., June 22-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the time that\u00a0VisitingNewEngland.com<em> <\/em>readers are thinking, \u201cWhat fun activities can I do with my family to kick off the summer, at not too high a cost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the North Shore of Massachusetts, there&#8217;s the famed\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stpetersfiesta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">St Peter\u2019s Fiesta<\/a> in\u00a0Gloucester,\u00a0June 22-26. St. Peter&#8217;s Fiesta is an annual celebration by the Italian-American fishing community of Gloucester to honor St. Peter, the patron saint of fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the annual St. Peter\u2019s Fiesta is the Greasy Pole contest. A 45 ft telephone pole is fastened to a platform, extending out over the water. A red flag is then nailed to a stick at the end of the pole which is then heavily greased. One by one, contestants (many in costumes) take turns trying to tear off the makeshift flag pole before slipping and falling into the water. But there\u2019s much, much more! \u00a0St. Peter&#8217;s Fiesta also includes music, food, carnival rides, a parade and religious activities culminating with the Blessing of the\u00a0Fishing Fleet\u00a0near the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/maritime\/glo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Fishermen&#8217;s Memorial Statue<\/a> on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Log onto the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stpetersfiesta.org\">St. Peter&#8217;s Fiesta Web Site<\/a> for more information, including directions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>thanks to Lauren Van Dam, of Matter Communications, for alerting us to this fun-sounding event!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is the time that\u00a0VisitingNewEngland.com readers are thinking, \u201cWhat fun activities can I do with my family to kick off the summer, at not too high a cost?\u201d On the North Shore of Massachusetts, there&#8217;s the famed\u00a0St Peter\u2019s Fiesta in\u00a0Gloucester,\u00a0June 22-26. St. Peter&#8217;s Fiesta is an annual celebration by the Italian-American fishing community of Gloucester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[283,252,268,271],"tags":[1057,1059,1058,1055,1056],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-cheap-travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}