To talk about Gloucester’s annual St. Peter’s Fiesta, you have to talk about the Greasy Pole. This 45-foot-long telephone pole extends horizontally from a wooden platform in the harbor, hovering anywhere from 10 to 25 feet above the water, depending on the tide. Each year, in late June, the pole is slathered with thick grease, and a red flag atop a stick is nailed to the end.
Then, on the last weekend of the month, a few dozen daring young men (and the occasional woman)
