November 12, 2019 ______Update 132

Let’s Celebrate Ernestina-Morrissey ‘s Future on Thanksgiving!   Ernestina-Morrissey needs YOU to give us all something wonderful to Give Thanks for. Ernestina-Morrissey needs to SAIL again! Credit: Fred Leblanc How?  Contact members of the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee and urge them to act on “The Act to Preserve the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey.” It’s easy!  Just follow the link, click on their name and you will have their contact information. You can email, write a letter or call their office.  Let them know they need to pass the bill,  S.2328, An Act to preserve the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey   now. Let them know the bill needs to be passed by the House and sent to Governor Baker before the Thanksgiving recess (November 20) so that the Commonwealth can have a great achievement to celebrate and give thanks for on November 28! Then do the same to your own Representative and also Speaker DeLeo . Let them know Ernestina-Morrissey is important and the Shipyard is waiting for the legislation so they can get back to work again.   Let’s get this bill passed by Thanksgiving. Then all of us who love Ernestina-Morrissey will have her future to give thanks for! MORE LINKS:

Fair Winds, MarDee Xifaras Ernestina-Morrissey lost one of her most ardent advocates recently. Margaret Dester Strahorn Xifaras " crossed the bar " in October. The Ernestina-Morrissey community mourns that MarDee will not be with us to see vessel return to New Bedford. READ MORE:

WoodenBoat: Cape Verdean/Education Eras of Ernestina-Morrissey The second in a three part series of articles in WoodenBoat Magazine has been released. A recounting of the years from 1948 to 2014, the article also features great photos! READ MORE:

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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