Hurricane Hermine? USCG cadets Brigid Walters and Yuri Couto to the rescue. At the Custom House Maritime Museum we've battened down the hatches, thanks to the USCG!
NLMS trustees Roger Clements and George Sprecace helped with the tent, too
W henever the Custom House is open, we need to have at least two people at the front desk   -- to manage visitors, answer the phone, staff the shop, and give tours.
We also have special projects -- like taking down the tent -- and  could use your help. 
 
Why not volunteer at the Custom House?  If you'd liket o find out more, please send Linda an email:  lroselund@hotmail.com 
 
  The Amistad, which arrived on Monday, has gone back to the Seaport to weather the storm. Meanwhile, the large looming USS Truxtun, a guided-missile destroyer, has anchored nearby, at Fort Trumbull.



It's September. Have you been out to see the lighthouses?
 
Take the original, award-winning New London Lighthouse tour - New London Maritime Society's fun & fascinating, 90-minute Find your lighthouse! cruise.  It runs  Wednesdays & Saturdays, from 11:30 AM to 1 PM. Each ticket includes free admission to the Custom House + a 10% discount on purchases in the Museum Shop.  Orange 
  Thinking about Labor Day, we are proud that - since we began giving lighthouse tours in 2011 - we've supported our maritime community: NLMS employs local captains & boats and receives no government subsidies for these tours. 

All boat tour profits go to local lighthouse preservation: fully 50% of your ticket price is tax-deductible! & with your boat-tour ticket, you also receive free admission to the Custom House ($7 value) and 10% off your purchase in the Museum Shop.
Click here to sign up http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2557359 
  

The Custom House Maritime Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, from 1 to 5 PM. 
 
What's Up at the Custom House - September 4, 2016
New London Maritime Society - nicely nautical & totally Thames
An Island Cabin -- a boat tour out of Noank,
with Stephen Jones
September 10, Saturday, 11 AM to 12 NOON
This special boat tour, led by Stephen Jones
is presented in partnership with the Noank Historical Society. Tour the Islands off Noank, where author Arthur Henry penned his 1902 book, An Island Cabin, in which five disparate friends from the Big City occupy a simple summer cabin--and things devolve from there.  Sign up at brownpapertickets.com/event/2566726.
Above right, our July Island Cabin tour.   Wat ch the video
Limited to 20 passengers, we tour aboard the Popeye, which leaves out of Noank for this special excursion. $35.

Copies of An Island Cabin are available for $10 at the Custom House and Noank Historical Society, and also can be mailed for an additional $6 postage. Call 860-447-2501.

and then last Monday 
New London Welcomed Amistad   
New London turned out on Monday to welcome the Amistad back to Amistad Pier: from left, Discovering A mistad's Consultant - Connecticut Assoc. Board of Education Bob King, Senior Assistant State's Attorney Lonnie Braxton, Discovering Amistad Director of Operations & Marketing Communications Barbara Bind, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Manuel Rivera, City Council President Erica Richardson,  New London Mayor Michael Passero; Discovering Amistad Board Chair Len Miller; poet Kate Rushin, Executive Director New London Maritime  Society Susan Tamulevich; also the African drumming ensemble from the Arts Magnet Middle School students performed, along with their music teachers Leah Stillman, Matt DeSorbo, and Lisa Conant, and with the Director of the school Kate Fioravant.
 
The event was presented by the City of New London and New London Maritime Society. Photos: Anne L. Ogden.
   
This also was the initial event of Connecticut Freedom Trail Month.
Go to the nlmaritimesociety.org to see more Freedom Trail events.
 
Custom House Maritime Matters Public Access TV
Tune in on Thursdays at 5 PM, channel 25 
 explain what Spark is all about and also discuss Spark's effort to have the mouth of the Thames River designated as one of Connecticut's Innovation Places, which would enable the region to develop plans to attract high-growth companies here.  

Before summer ends - escape on a Sunset or Full-moon lighthouse tour.  Thursday, Friday & Saturday - September 15,16, & 17
Last-minute registrations call 203-444-2884.

New London Maritime Society has been giving Sunset and Full-moon tours since 2013. We support our maritime community: NLMS employs local captains & boats. We receive no government subsidies.
All tour profits go to local lighthouse preservation: we own three!
 And 50% of your ticket price is tax-deductible. 
Our Submarine Centennial exhibition  -
Submarine Memorabilia from the Collection of Ed Uditis: 1940s through 1990s, with additional items from Axel Westerberg and the New London Maritime Society Collection. 

At the next Jibboom Club GAM, Tuesday, September 20 at 1 PM, 
Ed Uditis will speak about his deep-sea diving experiences and his work as a member of the Historical Diving Society. Ed also will give a personal tour of his collection, now on view at the Custom H ouse.
Donation for refreshments, only. Please come and bring a friend. 
 
Fairy Tale Tableaux, Childhood Scenes, and an Alpine Idyll
Viola and Piano Recital: Pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour and Violist Alison Holt at the Custom House. Note date change.

On Sunday, September 25, at 5 PM, pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour with Alison Holt on viola, perform a program of Romantic music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms: Fairy Tale Tableaux, Childhood Scenes, and an Alpine Idyll.

The first part of the concert will be dedicated to Robert Schumann (1810-56). Pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour will interweave his performance of the thirteen childhood scenes Kinderszenen op. 15 (1838) with his duo with Alison Holt, performing Märchenbilder op. 113 (1851), a suite of four movements evoking fairy tale tableaux from Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Sleeping Beauty. After a brief pause, the duo will perform the Sonata in F minor for viola and piano op. 120 no. 1 (1894) by Johannes Brahms (1833-97). Brahms completed this mature composition in idyllic Bad Ischl, Austria in July 1894.

Sign up 24/7 online at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2567476
Space is limited.  Aymeric's last concert sold out, so please book in advance. Admission $20, $15 NLMS members and students. 860-448-2501.
Remaining tickets will be available at the door prior to the concert.

Born in the UK, violist Alison Holt studied at The Royal College of Music under Frederick Riddle and Brian Hawkins.  She began teaching violin and viola while continuing to play for the English String Orchestra, Midlands Opera, and chamber groups in the UK Midlands until 1999, when she and her family moved to Stonington Connecticut.  Here, she helped to found Calvary Music School in Stonington with her husband, Simon, where she taught until 2010.  Alison plays with the Salt Marsh Opera orchestra and chamber groups in the area.  She has recently begun teaching for Music City Strings in New London.





Aymeric Dupré la Tour, a native of Lyon, France, studied music at an early age at the Conservatoire National de Région.  After both earth-science and organ-performance studies in Paris, he earned an Artist Diploma in organ and a Masters in historical performance at Oberlin College, OH, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School, NY.  His performances have taken him across France, the United States, Canada, and South America in venues such as Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall. Dr. Dupré la Tour plays as principal for harpsichord/organ/piano with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Ottorino Respighi.  He also organizes concert series as Artistic Director of the New London Maritime Museum and the North Stonington Historical Society.  Dupré la Tour works as Musical Curator at Zuckermann Harpsichords International in Stonington and Assistant Organist at St Theresa Roman Catholic Church, Trumbull.
Charter Oak Federal Credit Union is giving away $100,000 over the next 93 days. Working with Charter Oak, your donation to the Maritime Society can be doubled! 
Clink HERE to make a donation.
 
Please print & fill out the top portion of the form and then mail it with your donation to us:
New London Maritime Society
150 Bank Street
New London, CT 06320.  

Thank you to our first donors!  --New London Maritime Society
KEEP UP WITH WHAT'S UP - click on the links below to keep connected  

This coming weekend is the Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival, Friday through Sunday September 9,10,11. One of the U.S. Navy's largest surface ships, the USS Ramage DDG61, has joined the festival. You'll be able to visit it on the pier at Fort Trumbull.
New London Maritime Society's fall Open House at New London Harbor Lighthouse was planned to coincide with the Sunday of the Maritime Festival. Unfortunately, and for the 2nd year, this will not be possible due to a federal lawsuit brought against us by the neighbors.   
   
Custom House Maritime Museum is on Facebook. 'Like' us 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. W e thank the Chester Kitchings Family Foundation for their generous pledge of multi-year support to our efforts at Harbor Light!
We wish we could offer tours to Harbor Lighthouse and continue working towards that end.
 
Facebook Race Rock Lighthouse posts news concerning Race Rock Light and international lighthouse tourism & preservation efforts.

Facebook page Lighthouse Inn, New London keeps up with developments at that City landmark. We also post events of local interest.

Go to facebook  Long Island Sound Lighthouses Gateway, our newest page, to learn more about lighthouse happenings in the region, including the several Connecticut lights now up for sale.

Facebook page Sentinels on the Sound presents our Summer 2016 events program along with other NL summer activities. This is where we post all notices of current activities.

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.  
Over the month of September, we're having a
super sale in the MUSEUM SHOP to make way
for new inventory! September 1 through 15, take an extra 20% off all purchases (members add 10% for a 30% total discount). September 16 through 30, take 30% off all purchases (members receive 40% discount).
Right: Deep-sea back-to-school lunch bags & boxes.

Below: Nimble Arts Circus on Parade Plaza.

Have a good Labor Day!

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