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What's Up at the Custom House
March 17, 2024
Photos, above: Christina Corcoran, Hallsi Rose, & Ben Ellcome have been working on the float for New London's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTINA!
The Custom House is open Thurs.-- Fri., 1 to 5 PM, Sat. 1 0 AM to 5 PM; & Sun. 1 to 5 PM.
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New London's Saint Patrick’s Day Parade
Rain or Shine
New London's St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place today, Sunday, March 17, stepping off at the corner of Bank and Tilley Streets at 1 PM and proceeding north past the Custom House on Bank Street, left on State Street and the left again onto Washington Street.
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Donations like yours make moments like this.
Your generous contributions sustain NLMS and our initiatives. Please DONATE today!
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Cheers to our sponsors - Charter Oak Credit Union - Chelsea Groton Foundation - Community Foundation of Eastern CT - State of CT - CT Humanities - CT Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts - Eleven+ - Frank Loomis Palmer Fund - General Dynamics/Electric Boat - General Dynamics/Electric Boat - Maco Family Fund - Robinson+Cole - Veolia/NL Water Authority - Yankee Remodeler. Thank you! | |
What can you do with an NLMS membership?
You know us from museum visits, Jibboom events, and Lighthouse tours, but did you know NLMS members also have access to research materials
and extra discounts in the Shop and to special events?
Become an NLMS member - sign up today (pdf). or Sign up online.
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this Tuesday March 19, 1:30 PM
JIBBOOM Club #1
returns in March with author Peter J. Emanuel, Jr. for the launch of his first book, Course Change.
Jibboom is not a club, but a friendly gathering with a speaker, treats, and good fellowship. The event is FREE to all - please come and bring a friend.
Course Change: The Stonington, a whaleship from New London, Connecticut, is sailing a course for home after being at sea for over three years. When it pulls into San Diego, California in September, 1846 for food and supplies, it learns that war has broken out between the United States and Mexico. The town is under siege by Mexican forces that are leaving the U.S. inhabitants no escape route but the sea. In response to their desperate situation, the captain of the Stonington allows them to take refuge aboard his ship. Thus begins the first step in what would become the Stonington’s months-long tour of duty as a member of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Squadron.
Using the logbook of the Stonington as well as other primary and secondary sources, historian Peter J. Emanuel, Jr. tells the unique story of a whaleship unlike any other in the annals of whaling. Readers, including those with an interest in maritime/naval/military history as well as those that just enjoy an exciting adventure story, will sail along with the Stonington as it assists in the re-taking of San Diego, then serves as a supply ship, a troop ship, and even a gun ship for the U.S. Navy. The captain and his crew come into contact with central figures in the U.S. war effort in California, including Robert F. Stockton, John C. Frémont, Ezekiel Merritt, and Stephen W. Kearny. We carry the book in the Shop.
Sponsored by the Maco Family Fund.
We send our best wishes to Jibboom organizer Rob Pittaway, and wish him a speedy recovery.
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By appointment year-round
a popular destination for more than a century.
Visit Inside NL Harbor Pequot Light
It's Long Island Sound's oldest and tallest lighthouse.
Climb 116 steps up into the lighthouse lantern. The views are spectacular! Tours take approximately 40 minutes. To book a tour for up-to five people, send us an email.
Tours are available every Saturday and Sunday at 11:45, or you may schedule a custom time during the week. Please provide two day's notice for a custom tour.
Tickets are $35, $30 for NLMS members, $25 youth through age 18.
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March 20 - 24
20% SALE in the SHOP
We’re celebrating Spring!
New London Maritime Society members receive an additional 10% discount.
Visit the gift shop within the museum for a playful curation of artworks, treasures aquatic, books, unique local souvenirs, and imaginative sustainable inclusive children’s toys. These are items to give or perhaps to keep for yourself. All purchases have an extra feel good factor: when you shop with us, you support museum exhibitions, educational programs, and help preserve three landmark Long Island Sound lighthouses.
Hours are Thursday, Friday, & Sunday from 1 to 5 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM til 5 PM. Admission to the Shop is free. Our lighthouse t-shirts and NLMS mugs are program fundraisers and not part of the Sale.
Now in the Shop: BE KIND TO EVERYONE -- artist David Shrigley tea towel.
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March 31 (yes, Easter!), 6-9 PM
Open Mic at the Museum
Our 34th monthly Open Mic welcomes music, poetry, prose, stand-up -- or you can just say what's on your mind. Come on, give it a try; it's a friendly crowd.
Co-hosted by Kenny "Doc" Frazier and Christina Corcoran, Open Mic meets on the last Sunday of the month at the beautiful Custom House Maritime Museum.
Photo: performer at February's Open Mic.
Can't make it downtown? The program will be livestreamed on the
Custom House Maritime Museum's Facebook page.
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March 19, 7 PM GMT
New London in (old) London?
Weeks ago, NLMS was asked to send a recording of the authentic 1900s NL fog horn (which currently is on view at the museum) for a production of Eugene O'Neil's A Long Day's Journey Into Night opening Tuesday, March 19 on London's West End. We sent the recording but haven't heard if it's being used!
Whatever the decision, we love the fog horn!
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This week at the Custom House
There's a big week ahead at the Custom House.
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St Patrick's Parade is on Sunday,
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Jibboom resumes for the season Tuesday at 1:30,
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does the foghorn play in a London theater Tuesday night?-- we're eager to know,
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the museum hosts a docent group & Discovering Amistad on Wednesday,
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and a significant SALE commences in our Shop this Thursday running through Sunday -- March 20 to 24!
I'll see you at one of those events, I'm sure.
With the terrible reports coming from Haiti, it was good to catch word of Nadesha Mihoba in the Day. Nadesha for several years ran the human rights-based Provenance Center on upper State Street. She was a positive presence in the City; we produced several programs together. Nadesha left the Center over a decade ago to direct the Haitian Health Foundation in the city of Jérémie. According to the Day, she is still there and continuing to coordinate the foundation’s work from the Dominican Republic.
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UCONN's Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series presents another excellent talk Tuesday evening: Samantha Siedlecki, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut -- Beyond the Surface: Forecasting Ocean Acidification and Other Stressors Facing Marine Resources in a Changing Climate.
If you missed the last talk on the Thames and Connecticut River estuaries with Patrick Lynch, you can catch it on the Coastal Perspectives website.
I will be leading a book talk for the Historic Stonington -- a discussion of Ellery Thompson's autobiography Draggerman's Haul: The Personal History of a Connecticut Fisherman Captain. It's Thursday, March 28 and just about filled. Sign up today.
--Susan Tamulevich
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Photo: HarborCam turned towards Groton.
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View Online Exhibitions of New London Maritime History from the Custom House Maritime Museum's Frank L. McGuire Library.
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Facebook the Custom House SHOP for gifts with an extra feel good factor -- when you shop with us your purchases support our exhibitions, & educational programs.
Our lighthouse t-shirts and NLMS mugs are program fundraisers and not part of the Sale.
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We're on Instagram! @nlmaritime.
Photo, above: Easy - effective - earth-friendly. Tru-earth laundry detergent is sold in strips -- no plastic! Support the NL Maritime Society while protecting the earth. Find out more at http://tru-earth.sjv.io/NewLondonMaritimeSociety Thanks!
The Westerly Morris Men will celebrate the Vernal Equinox at 6:51 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, on the summit of Lantern Hill in North Stonington. This marks the moment when the sun lies directly above the equator, generally referred to as the first day of spring.
Photo, below: Spring on our Briney Bank.
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