Dear friends,
What will the Custom House achieve next year?
That all depends on you.
Your contribution today will help us fill the Custom House Maritime Museum with stories about...
~ the maritime life, Long Island Sound, and today's waterfront,
~ New London's rich marine history - preserved for us and our children..
~ New London Maritime Society's stewardship of the 175-year-old Robert Mills Custom House and the beloved New London Harbor Light - established 250 years ago!
Your support will help us to carry on with our work in 2011 -- and it's tax-deductible!
The New London Maritime Society Board of Trustees, Volunteers and I all wish you and yours health, happiness and heritage for the New Year.
& thank you for your gift to the New London Maritime Society. Susan Tamulevich, director
Please send your contributions to:
New London Maritime Society
150 Bank Street, New London, Connecticut 06320
Your gift today helps us to carry on in 2011.
Remember the New London Maritime Society in your estate planning.
The Custom House Maritime Museum/New London Maritime Society (NLMS) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization and receives no regular funding from any other organization. We rely entirely on donations and the money raised from visitors to the Museum. There is only one staff member; the museum is run by a dedicated band of volunteers who give generously of their time.We are New London's Community Museum!
Our 2011 WINTER NEWSLETTER is now available online. Click >>HERE to read it!
Click on the underlined links to see what happened
at the Custom House in December-November 2010, September-October 2010, July-August 2010, summer festivities in June-July 2010, special Amistad events in April-May 2010, January-March 2010. See our exhibition/presentation at United Nations headquarters last March, and why not see how the Whale Tail fountain was made.
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Keep up with >> New London Arts.
Click right to see >> Community links
For all the events going on Downtown, visit the District Community Calendar.
We're now co-sponsors of our local Sea Scouts.
New London Maritime Society is a proud sponsor of New London Local First.
We're now 3-D on Google Earth. Thanks to Nat Trumbull's UCONN students, Seth Bakstis and Gina Arnold, the Custom House is the first 3-D building in all of New London. Click HERE to experience it! OR 1.) go to Google Maps, 2.) search: 150 Bank Street, New London, CT, 06320, 3.) click on 'Earth' at upper left, & 4.) zoom in!
(You must download the free Google Earth 3-D viewer, for this function to work.)
ANNOUNCEMENT September 21, 2010:
We are officially the first Connecticut site on the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom!
Read The Boston Globe's new series about slavery in the northeast: The Real Underground Railroad, New England's Hidden History, Bicycle Tour Traces Concord's Abolitionist Movement.
Jennings 4th-grade SEMI students learn about the Grandma Sue from museum docent Archie Chester. At the age of eight, Archie's grandfather dreamed of building a boat of his own design and sailing it to Florida. After a lifetime spent working in the saw pit of the Thames Tugboat yard and raising a family, at age 78 Archie's grandfather built his boat and sailed south through the inland waterways. In fact, late in life, Mr. Chester became a media star! At the Custom House last week, students saw the hand tools Mr. Chester used to build the boat and a Grandma Sue model created by museum trustee Robert Stewart. Above are Archie Chester, in his grandfather's hat, and SEMI teacher Jody Barthel with the Jennings students. In all, about 80 SEMI students will visit the museum this month.
