[SEMCO] Gloucester Maritime Heritage Day

Anne Ogilvie seapocketlab at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 5 13:11:33 EDT 2004


Dear Educators,
 Please join us for Gloucester Maritime Heritage Day at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center (GMHC), 23 Harbor Loop in Gloucester, MA. The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center will celebrate Gloucesters relationship with the sea on Saturday, October 9 from 10 a.m.  4 p.m. This a free event for all ages. 

 As part of this event, the Center's Sea Pocket Lab, a Gulf of Maine aquarium and marine exhibit,  will be open to the public for free. The vessel Sound, from Salem will be here offering free ecotours of Gloucester Harbor at 10:30am, noon, 1:30pm , and 3:00pm. This event is the kickoff of an exciting partnership between GMHC and HOBBES (Hands-On Boat-Based Education and Science), which will be offering marine science field trips together in Gloucester for the month of October.

 There will be music throughout the day including an 11:00am performance by David Coffin and afternoon concerts by Chick and Ellen and Stomp N Go. Other Heritage Day highlights include a nautical flea market and a silent auction featuring everything from boats to barometers to kayak tours and whale watches. 

   Visitors can participate in activities ranging from helping to build a boat to driving a remote operated underwater vehicle. Craftsmen will demonstrate rope fancy work, lobster trap construction, and wooden boat repair skills. There will also be opportunities to go dory rowing (no experience necessary) on Gloucester Harbor or to take a harbor tour aboard a working lobster boat.  

 Additional childrens activities include toy boat building, relay races, mural painting, fish printing, plankton tows, temporary tattoos, and nautical knot tying.  Kids can also observe and handle marine life in Sea Pocket Lab, the Heritage Centers aquarium, which will be open without charge for the day along with the Dive Exhibit.  Seafood, hotdogs, hamburgers, coffee, muffins and other refreshments will be available throughout the day. .  

 Dedicated to the preservation of Gloucesters maritime industrial history, the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center occupies 36,000 square feet overlooking Gloucester Harbor. The Center continues to operate the Burnham Brothers Marine Railway, which was constructed in 1849. Our exhibits and education programs seek to increase understanding about the connections between the health of the Gulf of Maine and the health of fishing and related shoreside industries. For further information, or to learn more about our field trip offerings, call the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center at (978) 281-0470. 







Anne T. Ogilvie
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester, MA
01930

(978) 281-0470
www.gloucestermaritimecenter.org
		
---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Now with 25x more storage than before!
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.whoi.edu/pipermail/semco/attachments/20041005/e6d02939/attachment.htm


More information about the SEMCO mailing list