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<div align="center"><b>The Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural
History<br>
Present<br>
<i>Heroes of the Cape and Islands….<br>
</i>with Journalist/Author Mark Songini <br>
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 1:30 pm<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Rte 6A, Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x 133
<a href="http://www.ccmnh.org /" eudora="autourl">www.ccmnh.org <br>
</a>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 25, 2009<br>
Contact: Gayle Kenerson 508-385-2192 or
<a href="mailto:gck1@comcast.net">gck1@comcast.net</a> <br>
</b>Friends of CCMNH monthly meeting will be held on<b> </b>Tuesday, June
9, 2009<b> </b>at 1:00pm, followed by the<b> </b>program<b>, <br>
<i>Heroes of the Cape and Islands….<br>
</i>with Journalist/Author Mark Songini at 1:30.</b> <br>
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Friends of CCMNH members/free, guests/$3<br>
<b>Mark Songini</b> will speak on the great whaling masters of
Provincetown and Martha’s Vineyard...including the Jernegans, the story
of a whaling captain who in 1868 decided to bring his wife and children
on a five-month voyage aboard his bark, the Roman; Abraham Osborne, a
ship owner, agent and master mariner-- the principal owner of the
Ocmulgee that was captured and destroyed by the Confederate privateer
Alabama; and George Fred Tilton of Martha’s Vineyard, who was hired in
1917 by the Monjo company to investigate the disappearance of the
schooner. An exciting talk by a master storyteller.<br>
Mark Songini is the author of <i>The Lost Fleet</i>, his fourth book and
third book on New England history. Mark is also a Boston-area journalist
whose work has appeared in the Boston Book Review, the Boston Herald and
the Boston Globe.<br>
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