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What's Up at the Custom House - September 16, 2018
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New London Maritime Society
- telling the stories of New London's waterfront & preserving four historic maritime sites.
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this Saturday, September 22, at 1 PM
Visit inside Ledge Lighthouse, with
The Atlantic Paranormal Society!
***LAST-WEEKEND SALE*** Buy your tickets
NOW.
Our deadline to reserve the Project O boat is noon on Monday and we have not yet covered the boat fee ($1555)!
We're reducing the ticket price to $75 from Friday September 14 through noon Monday, September 17.
We realize people often wait until the last minute with boat trips, but please buy your tickets NOW or we may have to cancel.
We're taking t
he big blue Project O boat out to Ledge Lighthouse with a team from TAPS - The Atlantic Paranormal Society (a group -but not the TV personalities- associated with the long-running Ghost Hunters television series 2004-2016 ). We provide the history of both Ledge and Race Rock Lights (right), TAPS gives the paranormal overview. It's a fundraiser for NLMS & local lighthouse preservation.
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Saturday, September 29, 4:00 PM
McGuire Library Anniversary
This month we're celebrating the 20th year of the
Frank L. McGuire Maritime Library, named for the Society's first attorney and one of its founders.
Above, NLMS librarians Brian Rogers and Laurie Deredita, and paper conservator Eugene MacMullan.
Please join us for a reception
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 at 4:00 at the Custom House.
Librarian Brian Rogers will give a short demonstration of the Library's online exhibit series that highlights local maritime topics with illustrations from the collections. Let us know if you will attend by leaving a message at (860) 572-0291 or an email at
bdrog@conncoll.edu.
FREE.
New Online Exhibit
Visit the Maritime Society website's 'Library' section to check out two new online exhibits about local maritime history. '
Old Ironsides - New London', prepared by Rebecca Palmer, describes the famous ship's connections with our city and
'New London and the First Steam-Powered Atlantic Crossing' tells the story of the two New London sea captains, Moses and Stevens Rogers, who sailed the S.S. Savannah to Europe and back in 1819.
Right, Portrait of Moses Rogers
Artist unknown, Courtesy of John Laurence Busch
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What's Up in October?
Something's happening in Boo London...
Saturday October 6, 13
Seeking Spirits: Researching the Paranormal
Traci Boiselle and Cody DesBiens,
right, have been investigating for
The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) for 10 years and 5 years respectively. Traci has been the Lead Investigator for the TAPS Home Team since 2010.
TAPS was founded in 1990 by Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson to help clients throughout New England that believed they may be experiencing paranormal activity in their homes or businesses. The group was made famous, in 2004, by the SyFy series Ghost Hunters. During the shows 12-year production run, TAPS Home Team investigators remained behind carrying out the groups original mission. Ensuring that those that needed it, received confidential and free of charge assistance.
Seeking Spirits Part I
Saturday Oct 6, 2018 6:00 PM, $15, 2 hours
Explore the basics of Paranormal Research. Start with Learning the history of the field. Its origins are bound to surprise you! This first portion of Seeking Spirits will also cover the v
arious types of hauntings and what possible causes are theorized for each.
Seeking Spirits Part II
Saturday Oct 13, 2018 6:00 PM, $15, 2 hours
Sign up at
brownpapertickets.com/event/3615124.
While learning the TAPS methodology and philosophies on investigation, you will become familiar with the equipment used to document possible evidence of paranormal activity.
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October 31, 2018m 2 PM
& on Halloween, itself, take a
'Spirit Walk' with Roger Ryley
Looking for something a bit out of the ordinary? Might spirits still prowl the olde lost paths of Nameaug Village, c. 1649? Are echoes of John Winthrop, Jr.'s alchemies yet heard on Hempstead Street? Do the dead rest easy in "Ye Ancient Burying Ground" nearby?
On October 31st, at 2 PM (carpool from the Custom House), dowser Roger Ryley will lead his third walking tour, this time around our Post Hill Historic District.
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Now on view at the Custom House
Bully for Woolies: Victorian Sailors Stitchery
The Charles B. Moss Sr. & Paula Moss Collection
'Victorian Woolies: Sailors Stitchery and Other Pastimes', now on view at the Custom House Maritime Museum, celebrates a recent gift of 22 'woolies', or Victorian sailor embroideries, from
Charles B. Moss, Jr.
Right, detain from a wollie from
The Charles B. Moss Sr. & Paula Moss Collection, New London Maritime Society.
This exhibition celebrates a donation of tugboat models and paintings to NLMS from collector Steve Martin. Artists also contributing to the exhibition include Reynolds Beal, Tim Cook, Steve Cryan, Paul Farrell, Hardie Gramatky, Dana Jensen, Marek Sarba, and Sean Elliot.
There is a related exhibition of archival materials, news clippings and tugboat books in the museum's Frank L. McGuire Maritime research Library.
Above, we have a number of prints of tugs by Steve Cryan and Hardie Gramatky in the SHOP.
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We've got
fun-sized boat trips (just six passengers) to
visit
inside Ledge Lighthouse into October!
Our Ledge Light tours were featured this week on Channel 8's CT
STYLE
Tours
inside Ledge Lighthouse run Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Please
sign up online at least 12 hours in advance.
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Please help support the NL Maritime Society.
Right now, your gift will be doubled (or tripled!)
1.) our Ben Martin operating-funds challenge will double your gift,
2.) or you also may help to build our endowment
~ & If you are a Charter Oak member, Charter Oak will double both the challenge and/or the endowment donations.
Like many non-profits, New London Maritime Society is having some financial difficulties.
A group of friend has come together to issue a
$15,000 Challenge, in honor of past-NLMS president Ben Martin.
In August, some friends of New London Maritime Society donated $15,000 for us to match. The challenge is to help us meet our operating expenses this fall.
The good news is that we already have raised about half that match sum!
If you donate to the Challenge your donation will apply to the match and double it's worth.
Right, NLMS librarian Bran Rogers with Ben Martin, NLMS past-president and the architect of the NLMS Frank L. McGuire Library.
If you are a Charter Oak Credit Union member, you
may again double your donation through their
You Donate, We Match program! Click on the bar below.
or mail you donation today to:
New London Maritime Society Ben Martin Challenge
150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320
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At the same time, we feel it is important to start rebuilding our endowment!
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ocal.
Friendly.
Authentic.
We are
your community maritime museum.
Thirty-five years ago, New London preservationists established the New London Maritime Society to create a home for local maritime history at the Custom House. NLMS now operates the Custom House Maritime Museum & Library, educates New London's 300 third graders with a year-long local history program, and preserves the three major lighthouses leading into this historic port.
In 2018, New London's US Custom House turns 185 years old. We are working to establish an endowment so that we can continue telling the stories of our waterfront for generations to come.
We need & appreciate every gift; but in honor of the custom house's 185th birthday, the first 100 people to donate $185 or more to our Endowment Fund will receive this denim bag as a symbol of New London Maritime Society and its role in the community.
Barbara Tamulevich, above right, is the latest NLMS donor to receive our denim tote! Won't you join her?
Are you a member of Charter Oak?
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Why not g
ive Susan a call: 860-447-2501, or 203-444-2884
New London Maritime Society, 150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320
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Above and left, a sudden deluge on Wednesday capsized our beautiful tent! We thank trustee Rob Groves for taking the tent down on Friday, in advance of the next storm.
The Custom House MUSEUM SHOP offers all kinds of unique gifts.
Everyone is welcome in the shop, you don't need a museum ticket to come in. MUSEUM SHOP gifts have an extra feel good factor: when you shop with us, all your purchases go towards supporting the museum, exhibitions, & educational programs.
Right, pillows, pouches, & puzzles in the SHOP.
We thank artist Steve Cryan for his compelling talk about
the sources of his inspiration last Sunday, left.
Faceboo
k New London Ledge Light reports the latest n
ews about the lighthouse at the center of our harbor. This is where we post the latest info about our fun-sized lighthouse tours. Tours inside Ledge Light continue Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
Facebook
New Lon
don Harbor Light
reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation.
We continue our work to re-establish public access to New London Harbor Light, a beloved local historic landmark.
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acebook
Race Rock Lighthouse
posts news concerning Race
Rock Light
and international lighthouse tou
rism and preservation efforts.
Slow and steady -- progress continues at the Inn.
Your membership provides annual operating funds for our Museum & Lighthouses.
Thank you for your support of New London Maritime Society!
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New London Maritime Society | 150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320 |
860-447-2501
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maritimesociety.org
The Custom House Maritime Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, or by appointment |
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