.SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS SPUN YARN Long Island University's SEAmester Program, a 29-year running shipboard college program aboard traditionally-rigged schooners, has been spared the axe despite the closure of its campus, Southampton College, in August 2005. Lo ng Island Uni versity, the parent uni versity, will co nrinue to run the program through its CW Pos t campus. A nine-week experiential education program, SEAmester sails alo ng the US eastern seaboard and throughout the Cari bbean. Srudents stud y maritim e history and literature, marine sciences, and seamanship and navigation, while working as crew members aboard the vessel. Appli catio ns for the fall 2005 semes ter are available now. (Ms. Patricia D zinrarnieks, Director, SEAmester Program , 239 Mo nrauk H wy., Southampton College of LIU , Southampton , NY 11 968; 63 1 287-83 17; e-mail : PDzinrar@sour hampton .liu.edu; www.seam ester.net) ... Fort Miami Heritage Society has taken ownership of a vintage 17-foot wooden rowboat built by craftsmen at the Truscott Boat Manufacturing Co. in the late 1800s. The historic boat is an important
Truscott Boat classic row boat: (above) today and (below) as depicted in a turn ofthe century Truscott catalogue.
icon fro m the company that was, at one rime, one of the world's mos t prolific build ers and distributors of recreatio nal wate rcraft. From the late 19th century through WWII, the company produced everything from 85 -foo r yachts to stylish small rowboats to military watercraft fo r the government for both Wo rld Wa rs. This surviving example comes with all its o riginal accesso ries and is in pristine co nditi o n, needing no repair or restorati on . . . .
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Noted marine photographer Benjamin Mendlowitz will keynote the upcoming Classic Yacht Symposium in April 2005. The Symposium is spo nsored by the Herreshoff M arine Museum/America's C up
Hall of Fam e and the New England Secrio n of the Society of Naval Architects and M arine Engineers and will be held at Roger Williams U niversity and at the museum in Bristol, RI, on 1-3 April. The event will feature guest speakers, papers, and presenta tions on all types of classic yacht restoratio n and replication by many of the wellknown names in the fi eld. (See C alendar on page 4 1 fo r derails) ... Independence Seaport Museum (ISM) in Philadelphia has announced a new scholarship program for economically disadvantaged children and youth from Philadelphia public schools. The program will enable srudents to visit the museum and participate in their formal educational program s conducted by its three full -rim e professio nal educators. The scholarships will cover the costs of renting buses, plus the per-student costs of the museum's educatio nal programs, which m ean s that child ren and schools leas t able to pay fo r the museum's experienced educators, exhibits, and curricular materials ca n still participate. Also, at ISM , the Pennsylvania Dept of Education has designated the museum as an approved provider of continuing professional education for teachers under State Act 48 . ISM will offer teachers 4 wo rks hops annually. The wo rkshops, centered on m aritime themes, will deli ver substantive content to teachers including contextual info rmation on a range of subjects, reading selecrio ns, hands-o n material, and teaching packers fo r cl ass room use,
and evaluation tools. (Contact Museum Educator Bill Ward, 215 4 13-8649; e-mail : bward @phillyseaport.o rg. ISM , 2 11 S. Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19 106; n 5 92 5-543 9; www.phillyseapo rr.o rg) .... The Inland Seas Maritime Museum is seeking an original naptha engine used on the Great Lakes to add to their collection of steam- and gas-powered engines for their "Engine Alley" exhibit. (48 0 Main Sr, POBox 435, Vermilion , OH 44089; 440 967-3467; e-mail : glhs l @inlandseas .org; www.inlandseas. o rg) . . . The Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) is in the planning stages of a new exhibit, to open in late 2005, that will attempt to document the history of the oyster packing and crab picking industries in Southern Maryland. To compil e info rmation for th e exhibit, the museum is turning to the public fo r much-needed ass istance. In C harles Co un ty, the museum is
An oyster shucker at Leonard Copsey's oyster house near M echanicsville in 19 82 .
particularly interested in information/ photogtaphs on Hill and Lloyd, of Rock Point, and also Linwood and Allan Sollers (Patuxe nr Seafood Co.), and H enry M essick Jr. and Sr. of Benedict. In Calve rt Coun ty they need assistance with Tommie's C rab H ouse of Sr. Leonard, and Sollers and Dowell o n Sollers Wharf Rd . C MM is seeking info rmation and/or photographs of the followin g: Edward T. Oliver of Rive r Springs; Wm . W. M attingley of M echani csville; Jam es H all of C ornfield Harbor; Frank Alvey, Joseph M . Hazel, and B.G. Pogue of C ompton ; J.J. Morris & Co. of Hollywood; the Norris Bros. of Yankee Po int; C harles Co nnelly of Leonardtown; W illi am P. Powell and Hugh F. Smith of Airdale; C. Robb Lewis and the M iller O ys te r Co. of Wynne; and R. Biscoe Bros., L G . Railey, Stone Seafood, SEA HISTORY 110, SPRING 2005