The book is not only a catalog of the museum's current exhibition, Robbins Reef Lighthouse: A Home in the Harbor, it also contains a history of the lighthouse and features the story of Kate Walker, who kept the light from 1886 until 1919. The lighthouse stands on a rocky reef located off Staten Island 's North Shore. On the book cover is a detail of The Barbican ofthe Kill van Kull, oil on panel by Pamela Talese, one of several contemporary artists who was invited by the museum to depict the lighthouse. In the exhibition at the museum, Talese's painting is joined by works by Kathy Fieramosca, Denise Mumm, Robert Padovano, Len Tantillo, Dan Thompson, and Sarah Yuster, and drawings by William Behnken, Elle Finn, John Stobart, Brian DeForest, Michael Falco, and Michael McWeeney. The deed to Robbins Reef Lighthouse was granted to the museum in 2011 by the General Services Administration (GSA). The restoration of the lighthouse is an ongoing program of the Noble Maritime Collection. The book is available through the museum's website. (1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY; www.noblemaritime.org) ... The schooner Mary E, b elieved to b e the oldest Bath-built wood en vessel still afloat and the oldest fishing schooner b uilt in the state of Maine still sailing, is moving to its permanent new home at the Maine Maritime M useu m . Built in Bath in 1906 by shipbuilder Thomas E. Hagan (in a Houghton shipyard where Bath Iron Works
is today), and restored in that city in 1965 by William R . Donnell II, Mary E is a two-masted wooden schooner with a sparred length of73 feet. The vessel will be delivered to the museum in spring of2017, and the restoration work started by her current owner, Matt Culen of Pelham, New York, will be completed on the museum's campus, giving the public the opportunity
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