Get a FREE Copy of... Texas Maritime Museum from Hurricane Harvey in August of 2017, celebrated the event with a grand reopening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on 25 April, organized by the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce. The museum’s collection of artifacts had been moved off-site prior to the storm and were preserved from damage, but the building flooded during the storm and the interior was fully exposed after a skylight fell from the roof. The entire interior had to be gutted, among other structural and cosmetic repairs. The museum first opened in July 1989, with its roots in the city of Rockport’s annual Seafair Festival. It expanded with the completion of the Robert J. Hewitt/O’Connor Hewitt Foundation Maritime Collections and Education Center in 2012, which added a 1,200-square-foot educational space, as well as additional collections space. (1202 Navigation Cr., Rockport, TX; Ph. 361 729-1271; www.texasmaritimemuseum. org) … The topsail schooner Pride of Baltimore II has gotten a financial reprieve in the nick of time to keep her sailing in 2018. The State of Maryland
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