February 24, 2020 ______Update 134

Massachusetts Residents! All Hands on Deck, A Call To Action! Contact your state representatives TODAY to support this bill which enables Ernestina-Morrissey to sail again! An Act to Preserve the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey  ( Bill S.2328) This bill has passed the Massachusetts Senate and and has the Governor's support. It is currently before the House of Representatives.  The bill will transfer the vessel from the Department of Conservation and Recreation to Massachusetts Maritime Academy.  The Academy will operate and maintain Ernestina-Morrissey and use her for training their cadets as well as providing educational programs, including sailing programs, to the public. Please contact your Representative and let them know that you want this bill to be acted on NOW! so that work in the shipyard can resume and Ernestina-Morrissey can be sailing and serving the Commonwealth SOON !  You can find the contact information for your Representative here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

If you are not a Massachusetts resident you can help by forwarding this message to your Massachusetts friends and relatives. Thank you!

Commission Meeting March 6

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Thank you to all who continue to make this project possible! 

This Project to rehabilitate Schooner  Ernestina-Morrissey , the official vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is being supported by a public/private partnership with funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The Lenfest Foundation, the Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation, The Manton Foundation, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts - Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles Fund, the  City of New Bedford’s Community Preservation Act Program,  the Carney Family Foundation, the Island Foundation, other grants and many individual contributions . You can easily access all our past posts about the Ernestina-Morrissey rehabilitation project  HERE.

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Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation with the purpose of raising funds to provide for the maintenance, equipment, manning, programming and operation of the Schooner  Ernestina ex Effie M. Morrissey   as a sail training vessel, school ship, and educational enterprise