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What's Up at the Custom House - November 11, 2018
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New London Maritime Society
- Local Friendly Authentic
Telling the stories of New London's waterfront & preserving four historic maritime sites
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Visit us for
HOLIDAY SHOPPING!
We're open Wednesday - Sunday, 1-5 PM
& until 7 PM Thursday & Friday evenings through December 21.
New items are arriving daily.
~ We're giving a 10% SHOP discount through the holidays.
~ NLMS members receive a total 20% off their purchases!
Your SHOP dollars benefit the Custom House Maritime Museum education programs!
We have a
HOLIDAY RAFFLE!
For the next month, buy a ticket for $5, (or 4 for $15), for a chance to win this hand-embellished quilt of eastern Long Island Sound. Tickets are available in the SHOP! The drawing is Dec 20.
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Sunday, November 11
Connecticut Architecture
Stories of 100 Places
Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places
is the first comprehensive illustrated book about the state's rich and diverse architectural heritage.
We host Christopher Wigren
, the Connecticut Trust's deputy director and book's author,
at the Custom House today Sunday, November 11, at 2 PM.
Q&A will follow the talk. Book signing and purchase will be available. $12, $6 NLMS mem
bers
and youth to age 18.
You do not need to pre-register for this event!
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NLMS Book of the Month - November 2018
Christopher Wigren
CONNECTICUT ARCHITECTURE
Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2018
Subtitled "Stories of 100 Places," the subjects of this attractive book range from the expected churches and historic houses to the delightfully unexpected: the Up-and-Down sawmill in Ledyard, the Seaside in Waterford, a poultry barn in Lebanon. Why have we added an architecture
book to a maritime collection? Because our Custom House, Harbor Light, and Ledge Light, among other New London buildings, are among the chosen hundred places. The author is deputy director of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation.
--Brian Rogers, Librarian
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Saturday, November 24 is
SHOP SMALL SATURDAY, 1-5 PM
for the 2nd year, with NL Main Street, we're hosting a
NL Non-profit Market
bringing together our local downtown
New London
nonprofit organizations, who'll be at the museum offering memberships, gifts, and other possibilities for holiday giving on Saturday, from 1 to 5 PM!
Sunday, November 25
is
MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY, 1-5 PM
#1 - Special sale items (in addition to our overall 10% discount) in the SHOP
#2 -
we'll have guests - ballet dancers
Clara and the
Sailor Doll from the
Eastern CT Ballet's Nutcracker at the museum (a great opportunity for selfies!)
#3 -
Smeagull the Seagull
illustrator Valerie Elaine Pettis and author Mark Seth Lender, 2 pm (see below). They will read Smeagull and sign the book!
Smeagull the Seagull
a True Story
Join Mark Seth Lender for a talk
'Smeagull the Seagull, and other Extraordinary Animals of Wild Connecticut'
Smeagull is a wild herring gull who's been knocking on Mark Seth Lender's door to be fed for more than a decade. Mark will tell his many tales of Smeagull, and other extraordinary animals he has known and will share his photography of local (and not so local) wildlife. He will also read his new book,
Smeagull the Seagull, A True Story. The book is written in rhyme, and beautifully illustrated with full-color spreads by internationally known graphic designer
Valerie Elaine Pettis. Smeagull is intended for children of all ages - parents like it too. Signed copies will be available for purchase (they're already in the SHOP).
Valerie Pettis is a nationally known specialist in visual communications. Her company Pettis Design provides design services to major corporations and NGO's. She has developed visual communications for international corporations including Citibank, DeBeers, JP Morgan Chase and Revlon, and many NGO's, notably Amnesty International, UNICEF and The United Nations. Her logo for the International Women's Year has become an icon. It has been applied thousands of times on stamps and coinage of many nations and in promotional material for the women's movement worldwide.
Mark Seth Lender is a producer for wildlife content, and the Explorer in Residence at Living on Earth (www.LOE.org) which is nationally broadcast on Public Radio to an
audience of 1,400,000 listeners on
270 stations (80% of the NPR market). He also writes a monthly column,
Cardinal Points
, under his byline for the Connecticut monthly magazine, Ink
. An installation of Mark Seth Lender's photos and writings and a concurrent conference on children and habitat preservation is being organized at the New York hq of the Explorers Club for February 2019.
#4 -
Kids Ahoy exhibition opens!
Here's a preview.
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Read our new
AUTUMN newsletter
HERE
or you can pick up newsletter/calendar at coffee shops downtown.
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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.
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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. NLMS trustee and past treasurer John Desjardins,
left, has made a contribution. Please join him.
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.
Are you a member of Charter Oak?
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Questions about donating? 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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Make HISTORY! Rent a 185-year-old landmark
The Custom House Maritime Museum is a unique setting for a party, conference, wedding, or retreat.
Call 860-447-2501 or
email to find out more.
NB: we have delicious restaurants
right on our block for lunch breaks or
to provide catering. We also have a full kitchen with dinnerware for 50.
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Veterans Day is Sunday, November 11.
Thank you for your service.
REMEMBER: the Custom House is a
Toys for Tots collection location.
Bring your unwrapped gifts in through December 18.
Below, thanks to
Susie at
The Cake Lady for creating this delicious cake almond cake with lemon filling for our 35th Annual Meeting last Sunday.
Custom House Maritime Museum
is on Facebook. 'Like' us to keep up with our events, as
well as with news of interest about museums world-wide.
Right, we have three different calendars in the SHOP, including this letter press, desk-top favorite from Massachusetts Audubon. The calendar originally was designed in 1898 -- this is the 122nd edition!
The Custom House MUSEUM SHOP offers all kinds of unique gifts -- and many wonderful books!
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. NLMS members always receive a 10% discount in the SHOP!
New this week: we're putting out holiday ornaments in
the SHOP.
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.
Facebook
New Lon
don Harbor Light
reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation.
Facebook
Race Rock Lighthouse
posts news concerning Race
Rock Light
and international lighthouse tou
rism and preservation efforts.
Right. Race Rock Lighthouse.
Facebook
Lighthouses of Long Island Sound Gateway
to learn news of other area lighthouses.
Left, four of our diving helmets, from the collection of NLMS trustee
Ed Uditis, returned from the New Canaan library on Friday. The library brought
Manhattan Beach author Jennifer Egan in for a fund-raiser.
Last Sunday, we had a great celebration for the 185th anniversary of NL's custom house, the 35th birthday of the New London Maritime Society, the 20th anniversary of the McGuire Library, and the 10th work anniversary of our director. But,
below, Wednesday marked the 257th birthday of New London Harbor Pequot Light. Several trustees made an inspection!
Your membership provides annual operating funds for our Museum & Lighthouses.
Thank you for 35 years of support of New London Maritime Society!
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New London Maritime Society | 150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320 |
860-447-2501
nl
maritimesociety.org
The Custom House Maritime Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, or by appointment |
860-447-2501
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