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Please make a tax-deductible donation to the
New London Maritime Society
2022 ANNUAL FUND
Dear friends, as you plan your charitable donations for the season, please consider supporting the New London Maritime Society - Custom House Maritime Museum. Your gift helps us tell the maritime history of this city while preserving four historic landmarks for generations to come. Your dollars keep the Custom House Maritime Museum doors open and its programs alive.
· Your gifts helped to fund 13 years of NLMS's third-grade Local History & Landmarks program in the Public Schools, which we've provide without fee to the children of New London -- in all reaching an estimated 4,000 NL students!
· Together we preserve New London’s Custom House and three active lighthouses. Preservation work is ongoing at all four of our sites.
· We provided $5 or free tickets for New London youth and their families to visit inside both Ledge and NL Harbor Lights, and we brought in a free puppet theater through staff-solicited grants.
· The John Michael Corcoran Museum Day Fund ensures that all New London students and their families may visit the Custom House Maritime Museum without charge.
· Open Mic at the Museum offered a full season of community focused, performance opportunities for aspiring artists. JIBBOOM Club #1 presented afternoon programs with speakers, coffee and good fellowship.
· We replaced the HarborCam, washed the lighthouse & landscaped the grounds at NL Harbor Light, and launched campaigns to 1.) preserve Race Rock and 2.) create a building assessment/preservation plan for Ledge Lighthouse.
· For 39 years NLMS has collected, preserved, and celebrated the stories of our local waterfront. New online exhibitions tell the history of State Pier, the travails of the brig Patty, and recount the everyday life of a whaler of color.
New London is a very different place than it was two hundred years when NL was the 2nd leading whaling port in the world and the city's US Custom House was built. The piers are no longer crowded with whaling ships, but that same deep harbor is seeing a renaissance with multiple ferries, submarine construction, a burgeoning wind-energy industry facility on the state pier, and construction of the US Coast Guard Museum. New London's story is one of growth, loss, and opportunity. Understanding that history has never been more important than it is today.
Every act of generosity counts. Checks may be made out to NLMS, 150 Bank Street, New London, CT 06320. Help us end the year on solid financial footing by donating to our Annual Fund by Dec. 31.
Many thanks, and best wishes for the holidays, Christina & Susan
TRUSTEES: Adrianna Bates, Lloyd Beachy, Christina Corcoran - President / Board Chairman, Russell DeMarco, John Desjardins, R.N., B.S.N. – Vice President, Steve Hambey, Mark Lender, PhD, Carolyn Leuze, Alan Lyon - Treasurer, Joseph Maco, Matthew Male, Morgan McGinley, Regan Morse – Secretary, Robert A. Pittaway, Ed Uditis, Ted Webb. HONORARY TRUSTEES: Andrew Blacker, Lonnie Braxton, II, Esq., Ed Cubanski, James Fleishell, Nicholas Hanke, William LaRoue, Margaret Palmer, John Steffian, Greg Stone, George H. White.
LIBRARY STAFF: Laurie Deredita - librarian, Brian Rogers – librarian. STAFF: Susan Tamulevich - Executive Director. Grant-funded: Christina Corcoran - NLMS Educator, Denise Davies - Collections Manager.
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