FESTIVALS, EVENTS, LECTURES, ETC.

•Hermione Voyage 2015, 11 East Coast port stops between 5 June and 18 July. See article on pages 16-20. (www. herm ione2015. com) •Sea Music Festival, 11-14 June at Mystic Seaport Museum. (75 Green manville Ave., Mystic, CT; Ph. 860 572-533 1; www.mysticseaport.org) •Tall Ships Challenge Atlantic Coast 2015, 13-14 June in Cape Charles, VA; 25-28 June in Philadelphia; 4-7 July in Greenport, NY; and 18-20 July in Portland, ME. See ad on page 21. (www.sail training.org) •Windjammer Days Festival, 23-24 June in Boothbay Harbor, ME. (www.wind jammerdays.org) •WoodenBoat Show, 26-28 June at Mystic Seaport. (www.thewoodenboatshow. com; Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT; Ph. 860 572-5331; www.mysticseaport.org) •Maine Windjammer Great Schooner Race, 2-3 July. Race day is 3 July; the race course goes from Islesboro to Rockland, ME. (www.greatschoonerrace.com) •Thunder Bay Maritime Festival, 4-5 July at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena, Ml. (500 W Fletcher Street, Alpena, Ml; Ph. 989 356-8805; www.thunderbay. noaa.gov) •39th Annual Lake Union Wooden Boat Festival, 3- 5 July at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. (1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA; www.cwb.org) •WaterFire, an artistic installation of bonfires lit on the three waterways passing through downtown Providence, RI: 13 June; 14 and 18 July; l , 15, and 29 August. Lighting at sunset. (www.water fire.org) •Newport Regatta, 10-12 July off Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI. (www. sailnewport.org) •23rd Annual Tacoma Maritime Fest, 18-19 July at the Foss Waterway Seaport in Tacoma, WA. (705 Dock St., Tacoma, WA; www.maritimefest.org) •Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, 6-9 August in Burlington, VT. (www. workingwaterfrontfestival.org) •12th Annual Richmond Maritime Festival, 8-10 August in Vancouver at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site

m Steveston. (www.richmondmaritime festival.ca) •33rd Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival, 22-23 August at Brewer Hawthorn Cove Marina in Salem, MA. (www. boatfestival.org) •Festival of Sail, 4-7 September at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. (1492 N. Harbor Dr., San Diego, CA 92101; www.sdmaritime.org) •Camden Windjammer Festival, 4-6 September in Camden, ME. (www.cam denwindjammerfestival.org) •31stAnnual Gloucester Schooner Festival, 4-6 September in Gloucester, MA. The Mayor's Race for the Esperanto C up is on Sunday the 6th. (www.gloucesterschooner festival. net) •Great Provincetown Schooner Race, 7- 10 September on Cape Cod. (www. provincetownschoonerrace.com) •Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival, 11-13 September at the Northwest Maritime Center. (431 Water St., Port Townsend, WA, Ph. 360 385-3628; www. nwmaritime.org) •Greenport Maritime Festival, 25-27 September in Greenport, NY. (www.east endseaport.org) •Maritime Model Expo, 3-4 October at the C hesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. (2 13 N. Talbot St., St. Michaels, MD; Ph. 410 745-29 16; www. cbmm.org) EXHIBITS

•2015 American Society ofMarine Artists, through 20 June at the Gadsden Arts Center in Quincy, FL. (13 N. Madison St., Quincy, FL; Ph. 850 875-4866; www. gadsdenarts.org; ASMA, www.american socieryofmarineartists.com)

•Seeking the Sublime: Works by Stephen Hilyard, through 15 July at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona; also

Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer through 7 August. (800 Riverview Drive, Winona, MN; Ph. 507 474-6626; www. mmam.org) •Coos Art Museum 22nd Maritime Art Exhibition, 11 July-26 September in Coos Bay. (235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay, OR; Ph. 541 267-3901; www.coosart.org)

•Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss, through 7 September at The Mariners'

Museum. (100 Museum Drive, Newport News, VA; Ph. 75 7 596-2222; www.mari nersmuseum.org)

•From Shore to Shore: Boat Builders and Boatyards of Long Island, through 19 September at the Suffolk County Historical Society, including a presentation on 18 June by]. Russell Jinishian on "The Maritime Art of Yesterday and Today." (300 West Main Sr., Riverhead, NY; www.suf folkcountyhistoricalsociety.org; info also at www.jrusselljinishiangallery.com)

•A Broad Reach: 50 Years of Collecting, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, in co mmemoration of the museum's 50th anniversary. (213 N. Talbot Street, St. Michaels, MD; www.cbmm.org) •Making Old Ironsides New, at the USS Constitution M useum in Boston. (Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 22, C harl estown, MA; www. ussconstirution museum.org) •New Bedford Whaling Museum International Gallery, just opened. (18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA; Ph. 508 997-0046; www.whalingmuseum.org) CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUMS

•Music of the Sea Symposium, 12-13 June at Mystic Seaport. (75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT; Ph. 860 572-5331; www.mysticseaport.org) •16th International Conference of Historical Geographers, 5-10 July in London at the Royal Geographical Society. (www.ichg2015.org) •"The Emergence of a Maritime Nation: Britain in the Tudor and Stuart Age, 1485-1714," 24-25 July, Co nference at the National Maritime Museum in London . (www.rmg.co. uk/ researchers/ confer ences-and-seminars) •"Saving the Nation; Striking the Enemy: the Royal Navy and 1940," Conference at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, 4-5 September in Ponsmouth, UK (www.events. history.ac. uk/ event/ show/ 13424) •McMullen Naval History Symposium, 17-18 September in Annapolis, MD. Focus is on the 1OOth anniversary of WWI. (www.usna.edu/History/Symposi um) •2015 Historic Naval Ships Association Annual Conference, 16-19 September in Los Angeles, CA, hosted by USS Iowa.