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September 14, 2016
Hull Celebrates the 300th Anniversary of the First Lighting of Boston Light
United States Coast Guard Band Concert
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Seating begins at 5:00 pm
Performance: 6:00 pm
Hull High School
180 Main Street, Hull
Free Admission
On Wednesday, September 14th Hull will joyously celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first lighting of Boston Light. The Town of Hull, a National Coast Guard City, and Boston Light Tricentennial Working Group will welcome the United States Coast Guard Band for a performance of stirring patriotic favorites and swinging Dixieland Jazz at Hull High School. The performance will begin at 6:00 pm. Guests are encouraged to bring chairs and a picnic for the outdoor concert. Seating will begin at 5:00 pm. Boston Light Keeper Sally Snowman will offer welcoming remarks at 5:45 pm. Please contact Town Hall for information about parking and transportation, 781-925-2000.
At sundown, Boston Light Keeper Sally Snowman will ceremonially darken, then illuminate Boston Light to commemorate the 300th anniversary.
RECOMMENDED OFFSITE PARKING AT HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM AT 1117 NANTASKET AVENUE WHERE FESTIVITIES CONTINUE AFTER THE CONCERT. Visit
www.town.hull.ma.us
for additional offsite parking & shuttle information.
Hull Lifesaving Museum Open House directly follows the USCG Band Concert
Blue Grass Jam, Book Signing & Station Open House
Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 7:30 pm
Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave., Hull
Free Admission, Donations Welcome
At 7:30 pm, following the Coast Guard Band performance, the Hull Lifesaving Museum will host a Blue Grass performance compliments of WSO (Whoever Shows Up). WSO performs regularly at Daddy's Beach Club and features HLM's longtime friend, rower and volunteer Tom Doran. The museum's special exhibit: Shining Beacon, Island Home, celebrating the history of Boston Light, will be on view.
Meet Jay Thompson, "The Keeper's Husband," Coast Guard Auxiliarist and Co-author of the new Images of America book, Boston Light, featuring more than 70 rare photographs of Boston Light. Jay will be available to sign books and chat about life on Little Brewster Island.
For more information contact Victoria Stevens or call the museum at 781-925-5433.
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Nantasket Beach Lecture Series
Stephen Puleo: American Treasures
Thursday, September 15, 2016 7:00 pm
Nantasket Beach Resort
45 Hull Shore Drive, Hull
Free, Donations Welcome
Join us for an exciting evening with celebrated writer Stephen Puleo, author of
Dark Tide, A City So Grand, and
The Boston Italians, as he debuts his new book,
American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address. Puleo's sixth book alternates between the perilous WWII years and key moments throughout American history in which the documents are debated, created, threatened, rescued, preserved, and indelibly stamped upon the national psyche.
"Stephen Puleo once again educates, enlightens, and entertains us, this time through the history of the most important documents of our democracy. A tour de force based on exhaustive research into both primary and secondary sources, he tells the miraculous stories of the survival of the most precious evidence of our freedom thanks to, until now the unsung heroes and heroines of our past." - David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States.
Maureen Meister: Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England
Thursday, October 13, 2016 7:00 pm
Nantasket Beach Resort
45 Hull Shore Drive, Hull
Free, Donations Welcome
Many of Hull's summer homes built at the turn of the 19th century incorporated design elements of the Arts and Crafts movement popular at that time. Join us as architectural historian, Maureen Meister discusses the history of the arts and crafts movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s and how it is woven into the Hull landscape.
November 10: Connie Hertzberg Mayo,
The Island of Worthy Boys, a fictional story of the Boston Farm School on Thompson Island.
Nantasket Beach Lecture Series is co-presented monthly by the Hull Lifesaving Museum, the Friends of the Hull Public Library, and the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
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Annual Meeting
with Guest Speaker Whit Perry of Plimoth Plantation
Saturday, September 24, 2016, 3:00 pm
Point Allerton Station,
1117 Nantasket Ave., Hull, MA
Free to All Current Members
All current members are invited to join us for a look back at this exciting year full of memorable milestones and applaud the newest winner of the Staton Award for volunteer service above and beyond all expectations. Whit Perry, newly appointed director of Maritime Preservation and Operations at Plimoth Plantation will speak about the multi-year, multi-million dollar restoration of the Mayflower II, a collaboration with Mystic Seaport in an effort to ensure her future seaworthiness and ready her for Plymouth's 2020 commemoration. Light refreshments will be served.
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SAVE THE DATE
Maritime History Symposium:
Boston Light, 1716 - 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Nantasket Beach Resort
45 Hull Shore Drive, Hull, MA
Registration: $10
Save the date for a special opportunity to delve deeper into the history of our most iconic local landmark.
Details to follow. A tentative schedule of events includes:
Schedule of Events
8:30 Registration & Coffee (Idlers may perform, beginning at 9:00 am)
9:30 Welcoming Remarks & Performance by the Idlers
(USCG Academy Shanty Singers)
10:00 Eric Jay Dolin,
Brilliant Beacons (overview of US Lighthouse History)
10:30 Sally Snowman, Keeper, Boston Light,
Boston Light 1716 - 2016)
11:15 Jeremy D'Entremont,
Famliy Life at Boston Light
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch on your Own
1:45 Tim Dring, Lighthouse Tenders
2:15 Victoria Stevens, Shipwrecks of Boston Light
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Head of the Weir River Race
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Registration: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Coxswains Meeting: 11:15 am
Start Time: 12:00 noon
High Tide: 11:12 am
Hull Public Works Building
9 Nantasket Ave., Hull, MA
Cost: $25 per person; spectators free
HLM's 30th Annual Head of the Weir River Race is a celebration of the estuary at the height of its fall beauty and the fabulous array of the region's open water rowers. As many as 60 boats jockey for position racing out the narrow estuary and onto open water, traveling from West Corner (on the Hingham/Hull/Cohasset line), past Bumpkin Island, across Hull Bay, to the museum's Windmill Point Boathouse at Hull Gut. A highly contested 5 1/2 miler, the Weir draws coxed youth and adult rowers in gigs, single and double livery and workboats, currrachs, and ocean shells, as well as experienced kayakers. in the"head of the river" format, boats kick-off the starting line at closely-timed intervals, and times are collated at the finish to determine the race winners. The Weir is an exceptionally exciting race and a great spectator event, featuring over 150 of the region's finest rowers from all over New England and New York.
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10/15 & 10/16 ~ HLM Hosts Hull Artists Open Studios - Museum
11/10 ~ Nantasket Beach Lecture: Connie Hertzberg Mayo,
The Island of Worthy Boys
11/19 ~ The Icebreaker Youth Races - Boston Rowing Center
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