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What's Up at the Custom House - November 26, 2017
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New London Maritime Society
- telling the stories of New London's waterfront & preserving four historic maritime sites.
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Thursday, December 7
December 7, Thursday, 3-5 PM.
Our annual Holiday Celebration
for volunteers, friends, & trustees takes place at the Custom House on Thursday, the 7th, just prior to the December board meeting.
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Your gift helps preserve our
authentic maritime heritage.
is Tuesday, November 28
Your support makes a difference with students, archives, & preservation.
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Saturday, December 9
December 9, Saturday, 5 PM.
Members --
not everyone pictured above --
of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus will perform A Symphony of Carols -- a selection of Christmas Carols (a play on words on the work by Benjamin Britten!)
$12, $10 NLMS members, children ages 6 to 18 are free.
Call 860-447-2501 to reserve your seat. It's at the Custom House!
NB: Our November 30 concert with Mustard's Retreat is rescheduled for Summer, 2018. That way, we'll have the full trio (not just David & Michael but Libby, too)!
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On view at the Custom House Maritime Museum.
through December
Lighthouses of Long Island Sound at Night
through January 29, 2018
SECONN Skin Divers' PH2OTO Exhibit: Through a Diver's Eyes
This is the 2nd annual underwater photography exhibition at the Custom House by the South East Connecticut Skin Divers
SECONN.
SECONN's meetings are open to the public and are held on the second Tuesday of every month at the Uncasville Diner (starts at
7:30 PM).
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Saturday, December 9, 3 to 5 PM
David Zapatka - Book Signing
STARS & LIGHTS
Saturday, December 9, from 3 to 5 PM
David Zapatka's stunning night-time photographs of Long Island Sound lighthouses have been on exhibition at the Custom House since summer. Now, after four years of work, his book of New England lighthouse photographs has been published. Join David for a book signing at the Custom House on Saturday, December 9, from 3 to 5 PM -- just prior to our Holiday Concert.
You may reserve your book in advance and we will have David sign it for you. Pick it up at your leisure after the 9th. Call 860-447-2501 to reserve a book.
David Zapatka's photographs of LIS lighthouses are also for sale at the Custom House.
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Frank L. McGuire Maritime Research Library
November Book of the Month
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Pamela A. Miller
AND THE WHALE IS OURS
Creative Writing of American Whalemen
Boston: David A. Godine Publisher
Sharon, Massachusetts: The Kendall Whaling Museum, 1979
This month we received from John Belbruno of Manchester, Connecticut, a significant collection of books about whaling, a subject that looms large in our maritime history. The books were given in honor of Mr. Belbruno's aunt, Vincentia (Vinnie) Belbruno, known to many readers as a long-time trustee of the Maritime Society and an active supporter of its programs. A full report on this extraordinary acquisition will appear in the next issue of the newsletter of the Custom House Maritime Museum. Pamela Miller's unique anthology of the writings of whalemen was culled from some 3,500 manuscripts held by major New England libraries, museums and historical societies, including Mystic Seaport. In her Afterword Miller says "Their writing is best where it is most illuminating for the modern reader...in the one area in which they could speak as real experts...Their fresh, exuberant writing celebrated their unusual life in pursuit of the whale."
--Brian Rogers, NLMS Librarian
The Kendall Whaling Museum merged with The New Bedford Whaling Museum in 2001.
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Would you like to make a special gift to the Custom House?
This is not one of
our lighthouses, but it is an amazing collection of images showing how lighthouse construction was done.
(We already have a Magic Lantern projector.)
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NLMS members always receive a 10% discount on Museum Shop purchases.
Those of you who took the Annual Fund Cruise may add on an additional 10% discount on purchases through November! That's a total of 20% off!
New this week in the MUSEUM SHOP?
Below, Eric Hamburg is rehabbing the buildings at the corner of Bank & State (including the Capitol Theater). He brought us this display unit from the old Marcus shop. We certainly have the books to fill it!
Arriving next week in the SHOP
American Seafood: Heritage, Culture & Cookery from Sea to Shining Sea, by Barton Seaver.
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Seaver (For Cod and Country), head of the sustainable seafood and health initiative at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health, has assembled a gorgeous illustrated encyclopedic survey of America's evolving relationship with seafood. From abalone to wreckfish, Seaver details key characteristics of each fish, its place in culinary history, and common preparations: grouper, for example, are caught mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, and are an "all-purpose fish, as their pearly white meat cooperates with just about any flavors and methods of preparation." Occasionally he suggests recipes for classic dishes such as lobster Newburg, cioppino stew, and seafood gumbo. Seaver offers accolades to the people in the fishing industry who help bring that food to the table, and the book is accordingly laced with gorgeous photos of fishers and their vessels, massive stacks of preserved halibut and fresh shrimp, and vintage advertisements and other fishing ephemera. "Seafood is part of our culinary heritage," Seaver writes in the book's introduction, and his argument that Americans can't understand the present without knowledge of the past rings loud and clear in this remarkable work.
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New London Maritime Society to learn about issues related to our mission of preservation
& conservation
. We also post community news and conservation / preservation articles.
Custom House Maritime Museum is on Facebook. 'Like' us to keep up with
our events, & school visits, as
well as with news of interest about museums.
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We're a site for Toys for Tots!
Organizer Veronica Hoard, left, says: The Thames River Detachment #1334 of the Marine Corps League is collecting new, unwrapped toys to help provide presents to children in New London County for Christmas. Last year over 2,200 children were given toys with over 1,800 volunteer hours that help make the program happen. We accept toys for both boys and girls, ages newborn - 13 years old.
The toy collection box is in the entry hall at the Custom House.
Facebook New London Ledge Light for history and cultural information about
the lighthouse in our harbor.
Facebook Race Rock Lighthouse
posts news concerning Race Rock Light
and international lighthouse tourism and preservation efforts.
Facebook
New London Harbor Light
reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation.
We thank Superior Rental for their support of this project.
We continue our work to re-establish public access to this beloved local landmark.
Right, Bill and Julianna get out the Annual Appeal.
We have a full kitchen and dinnerware for 50.
To find out more, give Susan a call at 860-447-8700.
Below, Last week volunteer Veronica Hoard came in over three days to help rehang the half-hull models and organize more of the Lighthouse Gallery.
Your membership matters! Join NLMS today.
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