boats in each Olympic a nd Pa raly mpi c class are selected a nnuall y to be me mbers of the US Sa iling Team AlphaGraph ics. (http://home. ussailing.org) ... The History Department at University of Texas at Austin launched a new, interactive history website called "Not Even Past" on 10 January. Not Even Pas t (NEP) provides current hisrorical writing to a popular audience. The co ntent is wr it te n by the department's 60-person fac ulty with additio nal input from graduate students. The website includes book and film recommendations, video interviews , podcasts, commentary, and free virtual classes every semes ter. (www.notevenpas r.org) The Herreshoff Marine Museum and Mystic Seaport have announced that they have entered into an agreement in which the two museums will be officially affiliated. Both mu seums will continue to operate independendy with their ex isting asse ts, but w ill serve as resources to che other as needed. The H erres hoff Marine Museum (HMM) had recently appo inted D ye r Jones as its chief executive officer, taki ng over afte r the recent retirement of Halsey H erreshoff. Mr. H erreshoff was inducted into the A m erica's C up H all of Fame in September. In 1971 , A. Sidney DeWolf a nd Rebecca C hase Herreshoff fo unded the H erreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol , RI, o n the site of the former H erreshoff M a nufacturing Company, where hundreds of spectacular and record-sett ing yachts we re built, including eight consecutive defenders of the A merica's C up. In the fort y yea rs since then, their son, H alsey H erreshoff, was a driving forc e behind the growth of the museum. Halsey H erreshoff is the g randson of the legendary "Wizard of Bristol," Na thanael Greene H erreshoff, and is himself a nava l architect and marine engineer. A long with the late Edward duMoulin, he fo unded the Amer ica's C up H all of Fame in 1992. H erreshoff served o n many C up defenders of the 12-meter era, first as bowman on Columbia in 1958 and concludi ng as navigato r on L iberty in 1983. (Myst ic Seaport, POB 6000, 75 G reenmanville Avenue, Mystic, CT 06355; Ph . 860 572-5302; WWW. mys ticseaport.org. HM M, O ne Burnside Street, Bristol, RI 02809; Ph. 401 253-5000; www. h erres hoff.org ) SEA HISTORY 134, SPRING 2011
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