Presented by Senior Curator Fred Calabretta Throughout the history of the motion picture industry Hollywood has often been drawn to whales and whaling as movie themes offering action, excitement, adventure, and occasionally even romance. This presentation explores this story, which…
A Natural History of Moby Dick Arguably the greatest sea novel ever written, Moby-Dick serves as an ideal benchmark to examine how Americans in the 1850s understood the marine biology and oceanography of the deep sea. No previous reading of…
The G.W. Blunt White Library acquired a Mediterranean Passport, also known as a ship’s passport, for a locally-built ship. A recent acquisition by the Library has links to both the local area and our own collections. The document pictured below,…
Roann: Eastern-Rig Dragger Roann is one of the last surviving examples of the fishing vessels that replaced sailing schooners like the Museum’s L.A. Dunton. The eastern-rig draggers originated in the 1920s. Join Walter Ansel, Senior Shipwright at the Museum as…
