Education

Sailor Made: Wish You Were Here

Seeing, Sharing, and the Commercialization of Personal Experience With Nicolas Fox A graduate of Harvard College, Nicolas Fox is a maritime artist represented by the Copley Society in Boston, MA and is a Signature Member, Board Member, and Vice President…

Sailor Made: The Inner Lives of Sailors

The Inner Lives of Sailors With Hester Blum, Ph.D. A professor at Penn State University and the author of several books, Hester Blum teaches courses in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture in the English department. Her scholarship focuses on oceanic…

Gerda III with Howard Veisz

Mystic Seaport volunteer and researcher Howard Veisz speaks about Gerda III, a wooden work boat built in 1926 to re-supply offshore lighthouses along the Danish coast. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II, she took on another…

Tool Sharpening, Part 5: Shipwright Show & Tell

Virtual Learning In Part 5 of our Tool Sharpening series, watch as Shipwright, Chris Sanders takes us through a “show and tell” of the interesting and unusual tools used by shipwrights. Age Recommendation: High School – Adult