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Harry S - Mystic Seaport Museum

Harry S

Our first visit was on my 60th birthday. We’ve since become PILOTS. This is the semi-poem I wrote for our Christmas card that year: No carburetor, no fuel injectors, no gasoline-oil mixture, no fouled plugs, no water pump, no propeller…

rosenfeld museum at mystic seaport museum

DISCOVER ROSENFELD

The Rosenfeld Collection, acquired in 1984 by Mystic Seaport, is one of the largest archives of maritime photographs in the United States. This Collection contains nearly one million pieces from 1881 to 1992. Images are captured in a variety of formats,…

Telling time by lunar distances, the angle from the Sun to the Moon in the most common case, is an extension of one of the oldest methods of telling time: reading the phase of the Moon. Pre-modern cultures widely used the Moon for dates. In this image, we can tell the order of the images by date. The photos were taken each evening on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. They’re not in the correct order. Which one is Tuesday?

SHOOTING LUNARS AT MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM

By Frank Reed Mystic Seaport Museum offers one of the world’s best classes in both modern and historical celestial navigation. Among the classes is a unique workshop, “Celestial Navigation in the Age of Sail,” which focuses on 19th-century navigation in…

Explore Our Village: The Shipsmith

The shipsmith was an important trade in the maritime community, responsible for the ironwork carried to sea on vessels like the Museum’s CHARLES W. MORGAN.