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What's Up at the Custom House - May 15, 2016
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Upcoming Events
Hold tight. We're still waiting for a few details...
We will announce our 2016
Sentinels on the Sound Summer Lighthouse Schedule later this week!
Custom House Maritime Matters
Thursday at 5 PM - channel 25
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Thanks to photographer David Zapatka, whose exhibition Stars & Lights is on view at the Custom House through June, 2016, for appearing on last week's TV show. Save Plum Island's Chris Cryder has been rescheduled for the June 2 program.
And later Thursday night...
On Thursday New London's Planning & Zoning Commission decides the fate of our proposed text amendment to allow visitation to such historic sites as New London Harbor Light. The meeting is Thursday, at 7 PM, in Council chambers at NL
City Hall. Read some of our letters of support at the New London Harbor Light facebook page. Among these is a letter from Chris Bachant on behalf of the Carpenters Union, above, which so generously volunteered their time and labor to erect the scaffolding to restore & repaint the lighthouse just two summers ago.
Our goal is simple: to preserve the public's right to visit the lighthouse.
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May 17 Tuesday, 1 - 4 PM
JIBBOOM CLUB # 1
This month,
Eury Cantillo, director of education at the Submarine Force Museum, will present a photographic history of the Submarine Base. It will include aerial photos through the decades, pictures of President Franklin Roosevelt's visit in 1940, early historic views of the base including the evolution of the waterfront and memories of each era from WWI through the Cold War.
Jibboom Club #1 meets monthly, April through November, on the third Tuesday of the month for a speaker's program, coffee, cupcakes, and good conversation.
Donation for refreshments, only. Please come & bring a friend. 860-447-2501.
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May 21 Saturday, 7 PM
To the Sea - Piano recital with Aymeric Dupré la Tour
Aymeric Dupré la Tour will perform Romantic and Impressionistic piano works by Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Mac Dowell, Mason, and Gottschalk - at the Custom House.
Admission $15, $10 NLMS members and students.
Sign up online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2548095
Space is limited. Call 860-447-2501.
To the Sea
Rhapsody in B minor, op. 79 Johannes Brahms
The Water Sprite, op. 27 Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Concert Etude in B♭ minor, op. 9 William Mason
"En bateau" (Aboard) Claude Debussy
from Petite Suite for piano four hands
with Elena Zamolodchikova
Barcarolle No. 4, op. 44 in A♭ Major Gabriel Fauré
Sea Pieces, op. 55 Edward MacDowell
I. To the Sea V. Song
II. From a Wandering Iceberg
VI. From the Depths
III. A. D. MDCXX VII. Nautilus
IV. Starlight VIII. In Mid-Ocean
Improvisation, op. 51 William Mason
Sonatine Maurice Ravel
I. Modéré
II. Mouvement de menuet
III. Animé
"... La Cathédrale engloutie" Claude Debussy
from Préludes, Book 1, No. 10
Aymeric Dupré la Tour
was appointed Artistic Director by the North Stonington Historical Society in May 2015 to curate the Society's rare 1857 A.H. Gale square grand piano and to create a Parlor Concert Series at the Homestead. Dupré la Tour serves as Director of Music and Organist at First Church Congregational, Fairfield, CT, where he also coordinates the programming for the Music in the Meetinghouse concert series. He performs and records with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Ottorino Respighi as a rostered member and soloist. On April 16 he played with the orchestra at Adelphi University in DEBUSSY, PUCCINI & MAHLER, WITH MARRICONE, featuring souvenirs from films.
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Ledge Light is featured on the
2017 CT Duck Stamp!
(NL Harbor Light was featured in 2016.) Too bad Race Rock is in New York!
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Above: NLMS educator Jody Bathel brought four more New London third-grade classes to tour Fort Trumbull last week, with another four classes still to go this Monday and Tuesday.
We're proud to announce that NLMS's
third-grade local history program just received $12,000 from the
Community
Foundation (including contributions from the McGinley Fund and Gildersleeve-White Fund). We already have received $2,000 from the Enders Fund for the project, so we're now well on our way for the 2016-17 school year!
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Frank L. McGuire Library
Book of the Month
Andrew Adams and Richard Woodman
LIGHT UPON THE WATERS
The History of Trinity House 1514-2014
London, The Corporation of Trinity House, 2013
If a maritime organization is old enough to celebrate its quincentenary, it's obviously not American. In this case, the organization is British, and though its name gives no hint, it is a historic maritime service that has maintained British lighthouses and other aids to navigation for over five hundred years. Trinity House also administers a deep sea pilotage authority, providing expert navigators for merchant ships, and offers educational and charitable programs. This large, richly illustrated volume narrates the illustrious history of Trinity House, a private corporation established by King Henry VIII in 1514 to serve the nation's mariners. The royal connection remains: HRH The Princess Royal currently holds the title of Master of Trinity House, as did her father, Prince Philip, before her. To complement the book we have just this month acquired three Trinity House DVDs from 2005 containing vintage films of British lighthouses, light vessels, buoy maintenance, pilotage activities, helicopter services, and rescues.
Brian Rogers, Librarian
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There are many ways to support New London Maritime Society.
Attend one of our events - like Aymeric's concert this Saturday!
Become a New London Maritime Society member.
Visit our
MUSEUM SHOP!
New this week,
from left, below: mermaid necklaces, seaside-inspired linens from England, fair-trade nubbly cotton indigo-dyed scarves, and a local library favorite -
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie.
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KEEP UP WITH WHAT'S UP
Photographer
David Zapatka's Stars and Lights exhibition is now on view at the Custom House Maritime Museum through June 2016.
We send our best wishes
to Ken Holloway
for a speedy recovery.
Our condolences to the family of Duncan Robertson.
Duncan bought a painting from Ellery Thompson in 1952, marked $25. But Ellery sold it to Duncan for $15 because Duncan was in the USCG. Duncan later gave that painting to NLMS.
Custom House Maritime Museum
is on Facebook. 'Like' it to keep up with our events as well as news about museums, worldwide, and issues related to our mission of preservation & conservation.
Facebook
New London Harbor Light reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation activities.
Keep up with NLMS and our efforts to open Harbor Lighthouse..
Facebook
Race Rock Lighthouse posts news concerning Race Rock Light and of international lighthouse tourism & preservation efforts.
Facebook page
Sentinels on the Sound
presents our Summer 2016 events program along with other NL summer activities. 2016 events already are being posted...
Facebook Custom House MUSEUM SHOP to see what's new. The MUSEUM SHOP is open Wednesday through Sunday, between 1 and 5 PM, or by appointment. You don't need a museum ticket to get in.
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