CALENDAR Festivals, Events, Lectures, Etc. • American Sail Training Association: 17 Jul y- IO August, ASTA Great Lakes Tall Ships Race with schedul ed visits to Chicago, South Haven Ml, Mil wa ukee WI and Rac ine WI (PO Box 1459, Newport RI 02840; 40 l 846- 1775, FAX: 40 I 849-5400) • Boston Antique & Classic Boat Festival: I 1- 12 Jul y, 16th Annual Festi va l ( 16 Preston Road , Somerville MA 02143 ; 6 17 666-8530) • Center for Wooden Boats: 3- 5 Jul y, 22nd Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festiva l ( 1010 Valley Street, Seattle WA 98109; 206 382-2628) • Charleston Maritime Commission: 2527 September, Charleston Maritime Festi val (8 1 Mary Street, PO Box 975 , Charleston SC 29402; 803 805-3052) • Hudso n River Maritime Museum: 79 August, Steam Launch Meet ( I Rondout Lndg. , Kingston NY 1240 I; 9 14 338-0071 ) • Hudson Waterfront Museum: 12 September- 10 October, "Liberty Enli ghtening the World" on weekends, including " Splash at the Antic" to celebrate " 1998 , the Year of the Ocean" (290 Conover Street, Brooklyn NY 11 231; 718 624-4719) • International Festival of the Sea: 2831 August, in Portsmouth, Eng land (HM Naval Base, PP16, Portsmouth, UK, PO! 3NH; 1705 725000, FAX: 1705 727560; email: Sea Fest@ Portsmouth.co. uk) • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum: 11 - 12 Jul y, 10th Annual Lake Champlain Sma ll Boat Show; 26-27 September, " Rabble in Arms: The Gunboat Philadelphia Comes Ali ve" (RR3 , Box 4092, Vergennes VT 05491; 802 475-2022; e-mail: lcmm@sover.net; web: www. lcmm.org) • Mystic Seaport: 22-23 August, Antique Marine Engine Expos ition (PO Box 6000, Mystic CT 06355 ; 860-572-0990) • Penobscot Marine Museum: 2 1 July, Joan Druett, "Seafaring Wives of Sea r port ME"; 18 August, Renny A. Stackpole " Maine Adventures in the 19th-century Cotton Trade" (5 Church St. , PO Box 498 , Searsport ME 0497 4-0498; 207 548-2529; PMMuseum@acadia.net) • San Diego Maritime Museum: 19 July, Sea Chantey Festiv al ( 1306 North Harbor Dr. , San Diego CA 9210 I; 6 19 234-9 153) • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: 4July, Fourth of Jul y Waterfront Festi va l; 12- 13 September 1998 , Festi va l of the Sea 1998 (PO Box 4703 10, San Francisco CA 94 147-03 10; 415 929-0202, e- mail : sfnmma@aol.com) • Victoria Real Estate Board: 4-6 September, 2 1st Annual Classic Boat Festival in Victoria BC (3035 Nana imo St. , Victoria BC V8T4W2, Canada; 250385-7766; FAX: 250 385-8773; e-mail: vreb@ islandnet.com) •Wooden Boat Foundation: l 1- 13 Sep-
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te mber, 22nd Annua l Wooden Boat Festiva l (C upola House, 380 Jeffe rson Street, Port Townsend WA 98368 ; 360 385-3628)
A Fresh C8tch of M8rine Antiques:
Conferences • Association for Great Lakes Maritime History: 17- 19 September, Annual Meeting (PO Box 7365 , Bowling Green OH 43402) • Historic Naval Ships Association : 2529 October, 33rd Annual Meeting in Newport RI (Channing Zucke r, 4640 Hoylake Drive, Virginia Beach VA 23462; 757 4996919; e-mail : hnsaOl@aol.com) • Lawley Boat Owners Association: 10 July, Lawley Symposium & Rendezvo us at MIT, Cambridge MA (A lbert Hickey, PO Box 242, Gloucester MA 01931 ; 978 28 1-4440, e-mail : voyage@cove.com)
Vintage photography, scrimshaw, moderately-priced paintings and prints, nautical artifacts, and out-of-print books. See our catalog in color on our Web site at http:l/www.marineantiques.com. For a b&w copy. please send $5 (refundable with purchase) to:
A. Jacobson Marine Antiques P.O. Box 2155, South Hamilton, MA 01 982. Tel. (978) 468-6151 Gallery at 161 Bay Rd. (Rt. lA) open by chance or by appointment
New Exhibits • Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum: 4 July 1998-June 1999, "Cold Spring Harbor Whalers around the World" (Box 25, Cold Spring Harbor Y 11 724; 5 16 367-34 l 8) • Hudson River Maritime Museum: from 25 Apr il 1998, "Rondout: Hudson River Port" (l Roundout Landing, Kin gston NY 12401 ; 914 338-0071) • Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum: 5 February- December 1998 , " Proudl y We Se rve" ; 15 February-December 1998 , " Spanish-American War" (Pier 86, W. 46th St. & 12th Ave. , New York NY 100364103 ; 212 245-2533) • Maine Maritime Museum : 9 AprilMarch 1999, "Tugboat Classics of Maine" (243 Washington Street, Bath ME 04530; 207 443-1316) •The Mariners' Museum: 24 April- I November 1998 , " Re membe rin g the Maine" ; 20 June- 8 Septe mbe r 1998, "Nelson : A Time for Heroes" ( I 00 MuseUJn Drive, Newport News VA 23606; 757 596-2222; website: www.mariner.org) • New Bedford Whaling Museum: from 11June 1998, "Traveling with Mrs. Tripp: A Merchant Wife in the China Trade"; from 22 June 1998, "Spray" ( 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford MA 02740-6398; 508 997-0046) • San Diego Maritime Museum: 30 April3 1 December 1998, "Titani c: History & Hollywood" ( 1306 North Harbor Dri ve, San Diego CA 92 10 I; 6 19 234-9 153) • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park: 7 February 1998- 3 1 January 1999, "Found! The Wreck of the Fro licA Gold Ru sh Cargo for San Francisco" (Foot of Polk Street, PO Box 470310, San Francisco CA 94 147-03 19; 415 929-0202) • Wisconsin Maritime Museum: 4 April 1998-December 1999, " Wisconsin Shipbuilders : 150 Years" (75 Maritime Drive, Manitowoc WI 54220)
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