Custom House Maritime Museum Announces Upcoming Events

There are lots of great activities at the Public Library of New London. Get Growing Gardening Series, Community Knit, the 2nd Annual Black Film Series with Lonnie Braxton - to name three just this week!

The Custom House Maritime Museum is always FREE for current members, active members of the armed forces & their families, and children 14 and under (with adult). A $5 donation is asked for all others.

Coming up

This week: vintage deep-sea dive gear collectors Jay Kane and Ed Uditis discusses their interest in diving and the vintage dive helmets they've collected.
Above: collector Jay Kane & his son Jon of Shoreline Diving of Noank in the exhibition, Vintage Deep-Sea Dive Helmets, which runs through February at the Custom House.

Now on view at the Custom House through March, 2011
Rod Johnstone & the Story of J/Boats
Trace the development of the award-winning J/Boats - the work of yacht designer Rod Johnstone of Stonington.

Save the date: Saturday, May 21, is New London Public School's annual Hope Week Parade. The Lighthouse Kids plan to march in the Parade with sea shanty-man Geoff Kaufman, who is shown above with SEMI instructor Jody Barthel and students at Nathan Hale Elementary School singing "You can't eat the oysters in New Haven Harbor..." Thanks to a generous grant from Dominion Nuclear, we were able to bring Geoff to teach work songs and sea shanties to eight classes of Lighthouse Kids this month! 

We are pleased to announce that the 2011 International Festival of Arts & Ideas has selected New London's Custom House Maritime Museum as one of only four sites for a special Connecticut Freedom Trail Celebration. On Saturday, May 21, we.will host poet Randall Horton reading a poem he will create this spring for & about the Custom House, the Amistad and freed slave Ben Jones. The reading will take place at noon, just following New London Public School's annual Hope Week Parade and just prior to our 3rd annual
Chowda' Fest.
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