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Lagoda outfitted for her next 100-year voyage

Save the DateNew Year’s Swingin’ EveTo Benefit the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and New Bedford Whaling Museum

Friday, December 31Join in on our “Museum of Music” and experience a variety of musical performances throughout the Museum’sgalleries. We won’t be swingin’ ‘till midnight, so countdown the New Year whenever you fancy! We’ll polish offthe night with a march up to Custom House Square forthe City’s firework display.

Further details and invitation to follow. For more information, contact Alison Smart at asmart@whalingmuseum.org or (508) 997-0046 ext. 115.

N E W B E D F O R D S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A

Welcome Board of Trustees, Class of 2013

From the Helm:

table of contents

Cover story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3Azorean Whaleman Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5ODHS Wattles Family Gallery Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Arthur Moniz; Model Ship Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Charmed By e Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8e Same, But Different . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11Whaling History Symposium; Old Dartmouth Lyceum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Moby-Dick Marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

BOARD OF tRUSteeS John N. Garfield, Jr., ChairLucile P. Hicks, First Vice ChairGurdon B. Wattles, Second Vice ChairJoseph E. McDonough, TreasurerElizabeth Huidekoper, Assistant TreasurerLlewellyn Howland III, ClerkCandida Rose BaptistaCharles E. BascomSalvatore F. BattinelliNathaniel BickfordRoger P. Cheeveromas G. DavisWilliam do CarmoRoy EnoksenArmand FernandesMichelle N. HantmanEdward HowlandPatricia JaysonKeith KauppilaDavid N. Kelley IIFrances LevinSteven LubarSarah Kendall MitchellGeorge B. Mock IIIEugene MonteiroMichael J. MooreJeffrey RaymonDonald S. RiceFrances D. RicketsonBrian J. RothschildHardwick SimmonsDawn Blake SouzaJanet WhitlaHarvey Wolkoff

mUSeUm ADviSORy COUnCiL Calvin Siegal, ChairLisa Schmid Alvord Talbot Baker, Jr.John W. Braitmayer*Truman S. CasnerCarl J. Cruz*Anne F. FazendeiroBarbara B. Ferri*Frederic C. HoodIrwin JacobsPeter T. KavanaughWilliam N. KeeneWilliam T. Kennedy*Albert E. Lees IIID. Lloyd Macdonald*Arthur H. ParkerJohn S. PenneyJohn C. PinheiroCarl RibeiroGilbert L. ShapiroCharles T. ToomeyElizabeth H. WeinbergRichard B. Young*Pending

vOLUnteeR COUnCiL exeCUtive COmmitteeJohn Brindisi, PresidentAlice Larson, Vice PresidentDonna Sargent, Recording Secretary Judith Giusti, Corresponding SecretaryMary Crothers, Treasurer

mUSeUm StAFFKaren J. Allen, Events ManagerDamien J. Astor, Facilities AssistantCynthia Atwood, Visitor ServicesMaria Batista, Senior AccountantScott Benson, PreparatorMaureen Coleman, Sr. Director, Foundation/Government RelationsCasey Correira-Macy, Staff AccountantJennifer Cruz, ECHO Program AssistantTara L. Duff, Manager, Museum StoreMichael P. Dyer, Maritime CuratorCarole Foster, Project ArchivistStuart M. Frank, Ph.D., Senior CuratorGregory Galer, Ph.D., Vice President, Collections/ExhibitionsRobert Hauser, ConservatorMary Hodgkins, Museum StoreRose E. Horton, Visitor ServicesBarry W. Jesse, Facilities AssistantMichael Lapides, Photo Curator and Director of Digital InitiativesPamela L. Lowe, Supervisor, Visitor ServicesRichard Mason, Facilities AssistantSara Meirowitz, Director of EducationKate Mello, Photo ArchivistHenry Moniz, Facilities AssistantAmy Morrison, Donor Relations CoordinatorArthur Motta, Jr., Director, Marketing/CommunicationsJessica Niemann, Museum StoreTracy Pelland, Visitor ServicesLaura C. Pereira, LibrarianJohn F. Pimental, Facilities AssistantShannon Reynolds, Museum StoreRobert C. Rocha Jr., Science Programs ManagerJames Russell, President and CEOMaureen Santos, Museum Store AssociateKate Schreitmueller, Campaign AssistantJohn Silva, Facilities ForemanAlison Meyer Smart, Director of Individual Givingeresa Smith, Assistant Project ArchivistKristen Sniezek, Vice President, AdministrationBrian Witkowski, Education Assistant

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he dedication and unveiling of the Azorean Whale-man Gallery in the restored Bourne Building is a

significant milestone for the institution. e next severalweeks will feature additional activities and events focus-ing on Portuguese culture and heritage. If you haven’tseen it yet, you must check out the new Azorean archwith volcanic rock imported from São Miguel now completed on the mezzanine – a portal to this strikingpermanent exhibition on a critical chapter in whalingand local history. A traveling exhibit from Faial is adjacent and tells that island’s whaling story. A retro-spective of artist Arthur Moniz’s fine work is displayedin the San Francisco Room. Harpoons, spears, guns and darts will festoon two walls of the Bourne building describing the blood red, dangerous and combativepractice of 19th C whaling.

More subtle tones will soon pervade a decorative art andglass exhibit in the Volunteer Room in early 2011. Visi-tors rave about the new Wattles Family Gallery showcas-ing the best of our painting collections. Yes, you can seea Ryder and a Bierstadt on exhibit there. On scholar-ship, we are 16 months away from opening a permanentexhibit showcasing our superlative and world-beatingscrimshaw collection replete with a companion coffeetable book highlighting these masterpieces.

Charmed by the Sea opens on September 24—this exhibit looks at 150 years and more of yachting on Buzzards Bay. A magnificent Fitz Henry Lane is on loanfrom the Newport Art Museum and nautical buffs willsee the wheel from the J boat Yankee reconnected to itsbinnacle (on loan from the New Bedford Yacht Club)for the first time in 70 years.

Partnerships and collaborations abound. We closed out a highly successful “Music on the Plaza” summer serieswith the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra only nowto announce a New Year’s Eve joint “friend-raiser” at theWhaling Museum. Lasse Antonsen, director of the artgallery at UMass Dartmouth College of Visual & Per-forming Arts, curates an outdoor sculpture show aroundthe perimeter of the Museum with 8 local sculptors, allworking on pieces relating to whaling themes. e USSConstitution Guild of Model Makers visits us late fallfor a display of their fine work in the Jacobs FamilyGallery—there is a student component to this so if youhave a budding model-maker in your family, please in-quire. e lure of cash prizes just might do the trick!

On tHe COveR Fitted out for her next 100 years, the Lagoda stands ready inthe fully restored Bourne Building, which looks much as itdid when first dedicated in 1916. See page 2 for more on therededication set for October 22. (photo: Arthur Motta)

e mission of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society-NewBedford Whaling Museum is: “to educate and interest all thepublic in the historic interaction of humans with whalesworldwide; in the history of Old Dartmouth and adjacentcommunities; and in regional maritime activities.”

Candida Rose BaptistaA New Bedford native, Candida is a professional vocalperformer, music/choir director, arranger, composer,songwriter and producer. After a 20 year career in bank-ing, she returned to school to pursue her musical inter-ests, graduating summa cum laude from UMass

Dartmouth. She represented the New Bedford ECHO Project and has beenhonored by many organizations for her work in the community.

Charles E. BascomA Marion resident, Charles is a graduate of Boston University and Columbia Graduate School of Business.He is President of Watch Captain LLC, a marine softwarecompany. He was President of Quadrant Corporation.He currently serves as Treasurer, the Brooks School. He

served for 7 years on the Rotch-Jones-Duff House board (4 as President),and is a board member of the Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race.

Thomas G. DavisA graduate of University of Michigan, Tom received anMBA from Northwestern University and did post-grad-uate studies at the Kennedy School and the BrookingsInstitute. A former Exxon senior executive, he is currentlyDirector of the GNB Industrial Foundation. He is active

in the SouthCoast Development Partnership, Global Learning CharterSchool, SouthCoast Educational Improvement Foundation, GNB Work-force Investment Board, Charlton School of Business, SRPEDD, and others.

William Do CarmoA New Bedford resident, Bill is a graduate of RogerWilliams, UMass-Boston, and Fitchburg State College,with post-graduate study at Cambridge College. An ar-chitect and engineer, he has worked with HUD, Mass.Housing Finance, Mass. Civil Rights Office, and the

Redevelopment Authority. He is active in the City of New Bedord’s Electionand Human Relations Commissions, and the Whitfield-Manjiro FriendshipSociety. A past president of the NAACP, Red Cross, Airport Commission,and Port Society, Bill is also a pilot and an avid sailor.

Roy EnoksenA Mattapoisett resident, Roy is a graduate of Bryant Col-lege and is founder/CEO of Eastern Fisheries. A recipientof the Governor’s Inner City Investment Award, he is amember of the NB Port Society Board of Managers andthe Industrial Foundation. A former advisor to the New

England Fisheries Management Council, he remains involved in regional fisheries governance issues. A former YMCA board member, Roy is also ac-tive in NB Child & Family Service.

Keith KauppilaKeith Kauppila of Boston and South Dartmouth is an at-torney-at-law and developer. He has a deep interest in thevisual and decorative arts and has been active on the Collections Committee, helping update its policies. Heserves on the Board of Governors at the Addison Gallery

of American Art at Phillips Academy, has been a long-standing member ofthe Museum’s Leadership Council, and is a member of the NB Yacht Club.

David N. Kelley IIA Marion resident, Dave graduated from Tabor Academyand UMass Dartmouth. He headed D. N. Kelley & SonShipyard and Kelley Dock and Marine for over 40 years,the 5th generation to operate the companies founded in1864. Dave is a board member of the Bank of Fall River

and Port Society and former member of the Industrial Foundation and St.Luke’s Capital Drive. Dave is a member of the Mattapoisett Bay Club andthe New York Yacht Club.

George B. Mock IIIA Mattapoisett resident, George is a graduate of Prince-ton and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He isCEO of Nye Lubricants, Inc., beginning work there in1986. He serves as a Trustee for the Cannonville BeachAssociation, the Mattapoisett Casino, and formerly

served as a Trustee for the Lloyd Center, Sippican Tennis Club, and TaborAcademy. George’s family has a long history of service to the NBWM. He isa second

generation Trustee.

Dawn Blake SouzaA New Bedford resident, Dawn is a graduate of UMassAmherst and the Harvard Graduate School of Education,with additional post-graduate studies in Arizona. Her 27 years in public education included elementary and sec-

ondary teacher, principal, mentor/trainer, researcher and adult education.She is an author, and translator, fluent in Spanish. A former Women’s Cen-ter board member, Dawn volunteers for Our Sisters’ School, Cape VerdeanAmerican Veterns Association, NB Historical Society, and at church activi-ties.

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eDitORiAL COm mentS Arthur Motta, amotta@whalingmuseum.orgLaura Pereira, lpereira@whalingmuseum.orgKaren Allen, kallen@whalingmuseum.orgKate Mello, kmello@whalingmuseum.org18 Johnny Cake Hill • New Bedford, MA 02740

2009 AnnUAL RepORt ADDenDUmTribute gift honoring Mildred G. Lopes from Carl J. Cruz

CReDitS Produced by: NBWM Marketing/Communications Photography: Katie MelloDesigned by: Amanda Quintin Design

A Salute to Jack Penneye New Bedford Whaling Museum is honored toacknowledge two decades of extraordinary service byJohn S. (Jack) Penney, Jr. Beginning as a member ofthe Board of Trustees in 1991, Jack has worked tirelessly in many capacities to build the Museum

into the world-class facility it is today.

He was President of the ODHS-New Bedford Whaling Museum, 1997-1999, and served as Chair of the Advisory Council and Chair of theBuilding Committee, 1999-2000, during the construction and openingof the Jacobs Family Gallery and the Educational Resource Room. Hewas also Vice President of the ODHS-New Bedford Whaling Museum,and Chair of the Leadership Division of the “Lighting the Way” capitalcampaign. Jack even spent time as a volunteer at the Museum’s ResearchLibrary to work on logbooks and the Joshua Slocum collection.

A special gift from Jack and his wife, Celeste, provides floral displays forthe Museum’s Visitor Services desk to greet visitors. Celeste Penney hasserved in her own right as a member of the Board, Leadership Council,and Collections Committee.

e unwavering support of Jack and Celeste has allowed the Society andMuseum to move forward into a second century of service as part of thecultural heart of New Bedford.

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s I write this piece in early August we are making the finaltouches to complete renovation of the first floor of the

Bourne Building to allow this space once again to return topublic view. Everyone who enters the Lagoda room will beawed by the transformation. e changes are striking and hityou instantly — restored original colors of plaster and woodtrim, a sparkling refinished floor, and modern museum light-ing. Lagoda shines in all her glory within a dramatic space thatfeels as fresh as it did in 1916, and the changes make the roomfeel even larger than before, with a dramatic vaulted ceilingthat seems to lift Lagoda’s masts higher than ever.

Into early fall we will be installing the first round of new exhi-bitions in the Bourne Building, beginning with the AzoreanWhaleman Gallery, a traveling exhibition from the Azorean Island of Faial, and an exhibit from our world-class collection

of harpoons. Additional exhibits will continue the transforma-tion of the Bourne Building over the next year or so.

e renovation of the building has been an exciting, albeitseemingly chaotic one at times. With our aggressive schedulemany construction trades worked in the building simultane-ously. In any given area in the room they worked in rapid suc-cession — painters closely followed behind finish carpentersand plasterers who themselves were working on the heels ofelectricians and fire protection installers and HVAC specialists.Many thanks go to Bufftree Building Company, their Superintendent Mike Woodby and Project Manager, Tony DiGiantommaso for managing what at times felt more like a war zone than a museum facility. e process has been a complex one as we’ve balanced the needs of an historic build-ing, the requirements of a modern museum facility, budgets,and schedules. Now that the dust is settled it is clear that thework has paid off.

Attendees of the Museum’s Over the Top Fundraiser on Au-gust 7th were provided a special treat, a preview of the almost-complete Bourne Building. It was gratifying to hear many“Ooooh”s and “Aaaah”s as people entered the room and the restored facility came into full view, looking just as EmilyBourne first surveyed its gleaming interior in 1916.

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After seven months of restoration, the Bourne Building re-opens, and a fully-restored Lagoda welcomes visitors once again

Bourne Building transformation complete; Lagoda Ready for Re-Launch

By Gregory Galer, ph.D., Vice President, Collections & Exhibitions

My Dear Mr. Crapo:

At last I am able to say to you that I shall be very glad to put up an addition tothe building belonging to the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and one thatshall be quite worthy, for the housing of all the properties belonging to the so-ciety which represent the whaling industry, in its various activities. In doingthis, I am happy to make it a memorial to my father, who was recognized asthe leading whaling merchant in New Bedford, the man whose unfalteringpurpose and indomitable energy secured for the industry its important placeamong the commercial lines of the world.

From the first suggestion it has seemed to me so eminently important that insome such way the old traditions, and activities of the city should be perpetu-ated, and put in a form to be easily recognized by its future inhabitants that Ishould indeed be very sorry if the plan failed of accomplishment. In helping inthis manner I am relying on your former assurance that the endowment fundshall be entirely adequate for ample maintenance of both buildings, the oldand the new possessions of the Society.

I have been held back in making this known to you by my hope that I might persuade my friend, Mr. Henry Vaughan (an Englishman) of Boston, to under-take the work. He has planned two very successful buildings for me, theBourne Workshop of New York and the Bourne Library in Bourne, Mass. Hetells me now that he will be here Tuesday, Jan. 5th. He is so busy that it seemedfor a time that he could not undertake this. I shall try to have you meet.

Very sincerely yours,

Emily H. Bourne

Friday, October 22, 20104:00 pm

Commemoration of the Bourne BuildingRe-Launching of the Lagoda

presidential Receptione Honorable Carlos Manuel Martins do Vale CésarPresident of the Regional Government of the Azores

Signing of a protocol between the Azores, new Bedford and San Francisco

Dedication of the Azorean ArchAbove:With pristine ceilings above and gleaming floors in her wake, Lagoda awaits herofficial re-launching, October 22. Below left: Michael Dyer (right) steadies the removalof a sperm whale jaw as Greg Galer (right of center) holds the line directing the movewith workers. Below right: Joe Mello re-rigs in half-scale at Lagoda’s mainmast(photos: Greg Galer and Katie Mello)

Mrs. Annette Lantzius, great great niece of Emily Bourne, on a recent visit to thenewly restored Bourne Building, presentedthe Museum with a copy of her aunt’s 1915letter confirming her intention to create alasting tribute in her father’s memory.

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1) Miss Emily H. Bourne, circa 1886.

2) e newly constructed Jonathan Bourne WhalingMuseum in late 1916. e rear of Society’s NorthWater Street headquarters (now the ODHS WattlesFamily Gallery) is visible in the background. Historian Z.W. Pease noted “the architect HenryVaughan, of Boston, found his architectural inspiration in the old Salem custom house, made famous by Hawthorne.” (ODHS Sketch #44)

3) Wood shavings cover the floor as Edgar B. Hammond’s half-scale model of the Lagoda nearscompletion in 1916. Henry Vaughan’s barrel-vaulted ceiling provides a reverential space for the “enshrined” ship. Vaughan was a noted church architect.

4) Gutzon Borglum’s bust of Jonathan Bourne was also unveiled during the dedication ceremonies on November 22,1916 with the sculptor present. Mount Rushmore was still 11 years in Borglum’s future, but his 1907 bust of Abraham Lincoln for the Capitol in Washington was reminiscent, as W.W. Crapo noted, that Bourne as a delegate of the 1860 Republican National Convention had voted for the nomination of Lincoln for president.

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The AzoreAn whAlemAn GAllery

By michael p. Dyer, Maritime Curator, and Gregory Galer, ph.D., Vice President, Collections & Exhibitions

rom the 1600s, European seaborne expansion into theNew World brought colonial mariners into contact with

abundant natural resources including unexploited popula-tions of whales in the North Atlantic. By the end of the1700s, erstwhile colonial America was an independent maritime nation, and sperm whaling in the Atlantic helped tocreate an economic base for the young nation. at Americanmariners and Portuguese islanders should come together wasinevitable. American seafarers were intent on gaining wealththrough overseas trade and either bought up British seacharts or published their own new sailing directionswhich defined these islands as safe havens with resources to facilitate navigation.

As the American whaling industry grew throughout the18th and early 19th centuries, the islands were perfectlylocated to serve the needs of passing whalers includingthe transshipment of any oil taken on the outwardpassage, obtaining foodstuffs, and most significantlyof all, adding Azorean seamen to augment the crews.Herman Melville observed that “Islanders seem to

make the best whalemen,” and these itinerant Azorean sailorsput down roots in New England. By the end of the 1800s thePortuguese community quickly grew in New Bedford asmariners, businessmen, craftspeople, mill workers and theirfamilies re-located.

After the Civil War, many native-born Americans began mov-ing westward. Azorean mariners came to play an increasinglyimportant role in the declining market for the products of thewhale fishery. Greater numbers of Azorean crew members

appear over these decades and by the turn of the 20th century half the masters in the New Bedford fleet wereAzorean. Significantly, not only were the crews and masters made up of Atlantic islanders but Azorean businessmen began investing in packet ships that sailedbetween New Bedford and the Azores increasing trade

and bringing together the relatives of mariners and others seeking new lives in America. us the great period of cultural exchange, reflected in thousands

Long anticipated installation permanently commemorates the role of the Portuguese in the whaling industry and growth of greater New Bedford

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ight sculptors spent the summer and early fall studying the Whal-ing Museum’s collections. e insights they gained will generate

new works, in a variety of materials, relating and interpreting whalingand maritime themes. ese will be installed around the Museum’sgrounds, with an opening on AHA Night, October 14.

e exhibition’s title is taken from Moby-Dick where Ishmael, after he arrives in New Bedford, enters the Spouter Inn and in the “unequal cross-lights” encounters a marvelous painting he is unable to make sense of. He realizes he is confronted with a work of art that requires “careful inquiry,” “earnest contemplation, and “repeated ponderings.”

Lasse Antonsen, director of the art gallery at UMass Dartmouth’s College of Visual & Performing Arts, curates and participates in thisoutdoor show of new works by Richard Creighton, Elizabeth Dooher, Erik Durant, Stacy Latt, Eric Lintala, Stephen Whittlesey,Shingo Furukawa.

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In the Unequal Cross-LightsContemporary Sculptors Respond: An outdoor sculpture project

of immigration documents, completely transformed the demo-graphic of this old, colonial seaport into a diverse industrial city.

e transformation was not one-way, however. e technology ofwhaling had also crossed over to the islands and by the 1900s theAzorean people had developed a highly successful sperm whalingculture of their own. By the initial use of boat parts made in theU.S.A., Azorean craftsmen built whaleboats distinct to the needsof their shore-whaling industry. e hunting andprocessing of sperm whales con-tinued throughout the 20th cen-tury until finally declining in the1970s. By the last decades of the1900s Azorean whaling itself hadbecome preserved in island muse-ums.

Little in the way of the Museum’searly permanent exhibits providedinsight into this seismic shift, untilnow. e Azorean Whaleman

Gallery at last includes this story, so important to the under-standing of the evolution of whaling and its impact on diversecommunities. It was a vision for the Museum first promulgatedin the 1980s by the late Dr. Mary T. (Silvia) Vermette – a perma-nent exhibition of whaling on both the islands and on Yankeewhalers, an integral part of the fabric of our shared heritage.

Many historic figures of the New Bedford Azorean communityare featured. Common seamen, Masters and vessel owners, and

maritime businessmen are an essential part of thestory as many Azorean immigrants became

integral elements of the city’s maritime,business, and social community.

rough art, objects, film, photo-graphs and manuscripts theAzorean Whaleman Gallery ex-

emplifies the power of maritimeculture to link peoples, ideas and

traditions into new and evolvingcommunities.

World War II “Victory” souvenir sperm whale tooth, Horta, Fayal (photo: Katie Mello), 1944. Pictured, two women in the traditional hoodedcapote, crossed Portuguese and American flags and floral decorations. e otherside is inscribed “Sunvenyr of Vytorya 1944 Horta Fayal Azores.”

Pith fiber carving “For the Honor of the Church of Flamengos” ca.1939, Father John Da Silva, Faial

Sea Chest – interior lid, ca. 1859, Manuel E. de Mendonça, Azorean American whaleman (1836-1926 )

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On September 10th the Museum opened the Azorean Whaleman Gallery, prominently installed within the Museum’scentral core, the newly restored Bourne Building. Made possible by a gift from the Government of Portugal, the per-manent exhibition celebrates the collective sea-faring heritage of the nine Atlantic islands of the Azores and the city of New Bedford. A capacity crowd, which filled the Bourne and its mezzanine heard remarks by Dr. João de Vallera,Ambassador of Portugal, Congressman Barney Frank, Governor Deval Patrick, Rep. Antonio F. D. Cabral, MayorScott Lang and other community leaders laud the work of the Advisory Committee and curatorial staff.

Left: Azorean Whaleman Gallery in the east mezzanine of the Bourne Building. e Azorean Arch is in the background. Middle: His Excellency Dr. João de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal, relays official commendations from Lisbon to the capacity audience. Right: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick praises the Gallery as another powerful example of the enduring strength of thepeople of the Commonwealth. (Photos: Arthur Motta)

Viola de Terra, 1883, by Jose Linhares, an Azorean-American instrument maker in New Bedford in the 1880s. (Photos: Katie Mello)

Left: Steve Whittlesey’s “Dreamboat.” Its old keel holds many dreams, as the artist will reveal. Right: Rick Creighton works on “Little Sailor Boy with Blue Mica Eyes.” e 7-foot wood and metal sculpture will be displayed at the corner of Johnny CakeHill and Union Street in October.

Gurdon B. Wattles notes restoration is exemplar of stewardship, reconnection and growth

Wattles Family Gallery opens new horizons

Good evening, and thank you for attending this opening of yet another

chapter of our developing history. I would liketo recognize the dynamic “can do” culture that isevolving at all levels in the Museum’s structure.

e leadership of Chairman John Garfield, theBoard, the Museum Advisory Council and themany committees are showing strong vision

and support for new initiatives. e President, James Russell, hisstaff, and the volunteers are showing a remarkable ability tograsp, manage, and steward the mission of the Museum withnew levels of achievement that are making our results most grati-fying. Forces like these set the stage and motivation for eventssuch as the one we are celebrating tonight.

Necessity is a great driver and the recent times we have beenthrough help us to push forward.

is project evolved in an interesting way. I was involved in aninitiative to recover some underutilized spaces for managementand education offices. I became aware of a large hidden space behind some access halls that was loaded to its very tall ceilingwith furniture and painting crates. Some of this, I was told, in-cluded many of the Museum’s best pieces. It also came out thatthis space had been the original entrance and gallery for the OldDartmouth Historical Society and had many memorial plaqueshonoring the original early contributors.

A thought occurred to me that we could find a much more appropriate warehouse than premium space located right next to our wonderful Jacobs Family Gallery.

Doing so would create a golden opportunity to give rebirth toour original roots and provide a very much needed 1,900 squarefoot painting and furnishings gallery right at our core.

e current board, collections committee and staff were very re-ceptive and I was motivated to make a recommendation to theWattles Family Trust at e New York Community Trust to fundthe relocation of the collection and the renovation and equippingof the space.

e cost of the project compared with the facilities and objec-tives achieved was compelling. It seemed like a project withmany collateral benefits.

Recognizing our early roots, hence the name Old DartmouthHistorical Society - Wattles Family Gallery, the space is completewith its original entrance and recognition plaques. It also refurbishes the wonderful President's Office that is used by thevolunteers, and enjoyed by members, and visitors. is area gives a beautiful and welcoming core area to the Museum.

e main gallery’s high ceilinged and elegantly styled space wasperfect for displaying some of our larger and finest heritagepieces. I want to take this opportunity to thank our CollectionsCommittee Chairperson, Fran Levin, for her inspiration and vision. Also I want to congratulate Dr. Gregory Galer, our newChief Curator on a spectacular preparation and hanging of theexhibit. e historic entrance connecting to Water Street also re-establishes the Museum’s connection to New Bedford’s waterfront area.

New Bedford is a treasure trove of thoughtfully created proper-ties. is project is a small example of the highly effective facili-ties that can be realized for a small fraction of the cost to createthem anew. e activities that spring from these spaces are vitalto our growth.

e New Bedford Whaling Museum is reaching new levels of excellence and it is time to celebrate the Old DartmouthHistorical Society roots from which this all came. Pleasejoin us now in doing so.

RA gala reception for the newly restored Old Dartmouth Historical Society Wattles Family Gallery was held June 25. Not since the early years of the Museum had the Society gathered en masse in its first galleries, which date from 1906. A community celebration was held the next day with a ribbon cutting to open the old North Water Street entrance. Gurdon B. Wattles, a driving force behind the project, was keynote for the evening reception. His remarks follow:

e Museum’s original entrance was reopened for seasonal use on June 26.(photo: Arthur Motta)

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he New Bedford Whaling Museum in-vites you to participate in the inaugural

“Down to the Sea in Ships” Model Boat Exhibition and contest, November 6-28. eexhibition will feature work of the U.S.S.Constitution Model Shipwright Guild as wellas local model-makers. Models will be on display in the Jacobs Family Gallery adjacentto Tom Borges’ 1/3 scale model of a Concor-dia yawl. A forum will be held in conjunctionwith the opening of this exhibit, demonstra-tions will be offered, and there will be hands-on activities for children. Youth (8-12) andTeen (13-17) model-makers are encouragedto enter their models in a contest for a chanceto win a cash prize. For more information,please contact Brian Witkowski at508.997.0046, extension 185.

“Down to the Sea in (Model) Ships”

e work of Arthur Moniz has become a staple of the NewBedford Region. Whether it is his pen and ink drawings ofSouth Coast town centers or his colored paintings of NewBedford landmarks, landscapes or its fishing fleet, Arthur’sprolific career has resulted in his works’ adoption withinthe cultural vernacular of New Bedford.

orn and raised in New Bedford, educatedat Massachusetts College of Art and the

Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts,Boston, and now a Fairhaven resident, Arthurhas been painting since 1963. Inspired by anuncle with artistic talent and by his New Bed-ford High School art teacher and influenced byAndrew Wyeth and old Japanese masters,Arthur’s style has evolved over the decades.

While he has worked in nearly every medium, his signature style,graphite and watercolor, began when he inadvertently splashedwatercolor onto a highly detailed drawing of a stone wall. Pleasedwith the effect that resulted, he began to experiment seriously withthis technique which has become his mainstay, greatly outnum-bering his work in scrimshaw, etchings, and other painting media.

Today Arthur and his wife Cheryl operate a gallery of Arthur’swork on William Street, adjacent to the Whaling Museum. With

Azorean ancestors, Arthur’s grandfather actually a whaler fromFaial, they are active with New Bedford’s Azorean Maritime Her-itage Society. Meanwhile, the reputation for his work has spreadas far as Japan and the White House. He is often commissionedto paint New Bedford’s modern fishing fleet.

e exhibition, Drawn from New Bedford: Arthur Moniz, A Retrospective, opened on September 10 during a host of Azorean-related activities.

Members only Artist’s reception—September 24, 6:30 pm

is model of the L.A. Dunton(scale: 1:48) by T.J. Lauria,

with a detail view of the starboardquarter – forward, was scratch

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ven before the fleet of the New York Yacht Club first came to New Bedford Harbor in August 1856,Buzzards Bay had become a favored cruising ground for visiting yachtsmen. And while sailing for pleas-

ure was still a novelty for most residents along the Massachusetts South Coast, the bay’s reliable afternoonsou’westers, its snug and picturesque anchorages, and its temperate waters had already begun to work theirmagic on those with the money and summertime leisure to enjoy them. By the time the New Bedford YachtClub was organized in 1877, Buzzards Bay, under the leadership of members of the Beverly Yacht Club, was already a thriving center for small-boat racing.

In the period 1885-1887, yachtsmen with deep ties to the bay came to national—indeed,international—prominence as defenders of the America’s Cup. Buzzards Bay has been animportant American yachting center ever since.

Charmed by the Sea: One Hundred Fifty Years and More of Yachting on Buzzards Baywill open on September 25, 2010 during a major weekend rendezvous of the CruisingClub of America, the Beverly Yacht Club, and the New Bedford Yacht Club in New Bedford Harbor.

e exhibit’s title, taken from an inscription written by Captain Joshua Slocum in a copyof his classic narrative Sailing Alone around the World, speaks of the sea in its most seduc-tive and welcoming moods—as a refuge or escape from the cares and pressures and woesof life on land. Generations of artists, writers, photographers, yacht designers, and yachtbuilders, as well as recreational sailors, have fallen under the spell of Buzzards Bay, its islands, harbors, beaches, and seamarks. Charmed by the Sea celebrates not simply thepower of the sea to inspire and give pleasure, but the complex and exciting relationshipthat exists between fine arts and the traditional arts of the mariner.

e public opening of Charmed by the Sea on Saturday, September 25 coincides with anew chapter in yachting history on Buzzards Bay: a major weekend rendezvous of theCruising Club of America, the Beverly Yacht Club, and the New Bedford Yacht Club inNew Bedford Harbor. A members’ preview of the exhibition will take place on Friday,September 24, at 6:30 p.m. with the public opening on Saturday, September 25.

Joshua Slocum, the first solocircumnavigator, 1898.

“First New York Yacht Club Regatta Buzzards Bay off New Bedford, 1856” by Fitz Henry Lane

(Courtesy of the Newport Art Museum)

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Charmed by the SeaOne hundred and fifty years and more of yachting on Buzzards Bay

By Llewellyn Howland iii, Historical Consultantmichael Lapides, Curator.

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e high Victorian New Bedford Yacht Club on Pope’s Island stood adjacent to the east end of the New Bedford/Fairhaven bridge until swept away in the Hurricane of 1938.

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f the financial success of the whalewatching industry does serve as testa-

ment to the attraction that whales holdon the human mind and spirit, wheredoes this connection come from? Is it thesheer size of many of these species? Is itthe fact that we, and they, are mammals?Is it the demonstrations of strength asthey propel themselves out of the water in such an entertaining fashion? Is it theconstant stream of research and newstelling us about their ability to coopera-tively hunt, update their vocalizations,and share maternal care? Is it all of thesefactors, plus several others?

ere’s no doubt that we share manyanatomical features with whales, dolphinsand porpoises. is is evident to anyonewho takes a look at our gallery skeletons.Many of us in the Museum have lostcount of how many times we’ve heardsomeone comment on the whales’ ribs orask why it looks like the whales have‘hands’.

But, despite our shared mammalian heritage, we do live in different media.Living on land limits how large mammalscan grow. e food sources are different.e topography of our habitats is muchdifferent. Sound travels much morequickly in water. Giving birth to an airbreather in water is different than doingso on land.

So, with all of this in mind, the Museumwill create a new, modestly sized exhibitthat will examine some of these connec-tions, by comparing a few important

anatomical structures. e analogies to bemade by comparing whale flippers andhuman arms are easily grasped. etragedy of our North Atlantic right whale,Reyna, being accidentally killed before shecould give birth to her first calf providesan opportunity to look at the process ofgestation and the pelvic region. e enor-mous skulls of our whales consistentlylead to questions about whale brains, sowe’ll take a look at various aspects of howour brains compare to theirs. Lastly we’llexamine what it takes to pump bloodthroughout their bodies and how those requirements dwarf our needs.

An exciting aspect of this new exhibitionis the involvement of Museum docent,Bill Renehan. Bill is a fairly new additionto our ursday docent team, but as a retired doctor, is familiar with many ofthe concepts we’ll be displaying.

is new exhibit will feature displaycases, several hands-on objects, and descriptive text. It is expected to be readyfor viewing when we greet the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium on November 3rd for their annual meeting.

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e Same, But Different

If the newest chapter of ‘the historic interaction of humans with whales worldwide’ (from theMusuem’s Mission Statement) were to be written in 2010, much of the text would focus on thepersonal and intellectual connections being developed between people and whales. e billionsthat are spent annually on whale watch trips illustrate that this is more than just a general fascina-tion with animals in their natural habitat. People are making a concerted effort to see one Orderof animals, Cetacea. is is different than visiting a zoo to see a wide variety of creatures.

By William Renehan and Robert Rocha

e comparative anatomy of whales and humans is striking, prompting many questions from visitors. (photo by Lorna Walker)

Mammalian similarities of humans and whales are noted by even the youngest Museum visitors

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Friday, September 24Charmed by the Sea: 150 Years and More of Yachting on Buzzards Bay6:30 pm Members-only Previewe exhibit’s title, taken from an inscription written by Captain Joshua Slocumin a copy of his classic narrative Sailing Alone around the World, speaks of the sea in its most seductive and welcoming moods — as a refuge or escape from thecares and pressures and woes of life on land. Generations of artists, writers, pho-tographers, yacht designers, and yacht builders, as well as recreational sailors,have fallen under the spell of Buzzards Bay, its islands, harbors, beaches, and sea-marks. is exhibition celebrates the complex and exciting relationship betweenfine arts and the traditional arts of the mariner. Llewellyn Howland III is histori-cal Consultant; Michael Lapides, Curator. RSVP Amy Morrison, 508-997-0046 ext. 150 or amorrison@whalingmuseum.orgArthur Moniz Retrospective – Artist’s Reception6:30 pmArthur Moniz’s love of the South Coast is evident throughout his creative outputas depicted historic and contemporary scenes of the region. A New Bedford native,he studied at Massachusetts College of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.His international reputation extends to Japan, where his work has been presentedto the Emperor. Arthur and wife, Cheryl, operate a gallery adjacent the WhalingMuseum. RSVP Amy Morrison, 508-997-0046 ext. 150 or amorrison@whalingmuseum.org

Saturday, September 25Beverly Yacht Club, New Bedford Yacht Club, and Cruising Club of America Rendezvouse Museum invites members of the BYC, CCA, and NBYC to a soirée and dinner at the Museum in conjunction with the Working Waterfront Festival in New Bedford.5:00 pm Program, 6:00 pm Cocktail Reception, 7:00 pm Dinner$65 per person (full event), $20 per person for cocktail reception only. RSVP Alison Smart asmart@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046, ext. 115

Saturday, September 25 & Sunday, September 26State Pier, Working Waterfront Festival

All in One Boat: the Cultural Mosaic of New England’s Working Ports.is year’s festival focuses on the ethnic diversity of the region’s waterfront communities. FREE. For more information: www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org

Monday, September 27Whaling Museum Apprentice applications duePlease contact Robert Rocha, rrocha@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046, ext. 149

Saturday, October 9Navigating the World Campaign Gala and Close-out Celebration6:00 pme New Bedford Whaling Museum will recognize major contributors, and celebrate the accomplishments of the Navigating the World capital campaign.By invitation onlyContact person Alison Smart asmart@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046, ext. 115

Thursday, October 14AHA! The Bounty of the Southcoast | 5:00pm Tour

In the Unequal Cross-Lights Contemporary Sculptors Respond - An outdoorsculpture projectLasse Antonsen, director of the art gallery at UMass Dartmouth’s College of Visual& Performing Arts, curates and participates in this outdoor show of new works byRichard Creighton, Elizabeth Dooher, Erik Durant, Stacy Latt, Eric Lintala,Stephen Whittlesey, Shingo Furukawa.

6:45 pm Lecture Museum Theater

Old Houses of Old Dartmouth with Bob MakerLocal historian, Bob Maker, will explore a remarkable collection of turn-of century photographs from an unpublished volume by Palmer & Worth, titled“Photographs of Houses and Public Buildings in New Bedford, Fairhaven, Acushnet, Dartmouth and Westport,” donated to the Society in 1907. is pro-gram is supported in part by grants from the Dartmouth and Fairhaven Cultural

Councils, local agencies supported by the Mass. Cultural Council, a state agency.

Saturday-Sunday, October 16 and 17Whaling History Symposium35th Annual Whaling History Symposium, an international forum for the presen-tation and discussion of pioneering research, and fresh insights into the history,fine arts, humanities, and sciences of whales and whaling. ContactFrontdesk@whalingmuseum.org or call 508-997-0046 ext. 100 to register. Registration – Prior to Oct. 5: Members $125 per person; $150 non-member.After Oct. 5: $20 each additional.Lecture sponsored by the Helen B. Ellis Fund.

Saturday, October 16 8:30 pm ConcertA consortium of traditional musicians will present a gala concert of sea songs, ballads, and chanteys at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, to usher in the re-lease of the new book by Stuart Frank, Jolly Sailors Bold: Ballads and Songs of theAmerican Sailor. Dr. Frank is Senior Curator of the Whaling Museum, the book isan anthology of more than 200 authentic sailors’ songs excavated from whalemen’shistoric shipboard manuscripts in the museum collection, and the publisher isCAMSCO Music of East Windsor, New Jersey. Headline performers are TomGoux, Jacek Sulanowski, and Dan Lanier; and Stuart Frank, with his wife andpartner Mary Malloy. Admission to the concert is free for museum members, $5 for all others.

Tuesday, October 19Old Dartmouth Lyceum6:30 pm Reception | 7:30 pm Lecture

American 19th Century Painting in a 21st Century MarketWith Robin Starr, Director of American & European Paintings and Prints, Skinner Auctioneers & AppraisersWith Westward Expansion, the focus of 19th century American art shifted fromEurope to works of a decidedly American spirit. Although American artists continued to travel to Rome and Paris for their training, the works they createdupon returning home evolved to an American style. Ms. Starr will examine thevast panoramas of the New World; images of shipping, whaling, industry and theWestern Frontier were all imbued with a sense of optimism indicative of a vigor-ous and growing nation. $15 per lecture ($20 for non members), $40 for series($50 for non members), $50 includes American Landscape and Seascape Paintings ($60 for non members) Call 508-997-0046 ext. 100 for tickets.

Wednesday, October 206:30 – 9:30 pme Jermanok Brothers’ “Beyond e Craft: How To Be Proactive & Take ChargeOf Your Creative Career” is a seminar on the business of e Business. is 3-hour workshop is for all aspiring creative professionals. From the creators of“Passionada,” this non-fluff insider experience could save you years of trial anderror. Contact Jenna Lunarno at 617-838-8877 or visit www.beyondthecraft.org.

Thursday, October 216:30 pm Reception | 7:30 pm Lecture

Catch and Release Whaling with Dr. David Wileyis illustrated talk by Dr. David Wiley, Research Coordinator of the StellwagenBank National Marine Sanctuary, will focus on the underwater behavior of hump-back whales. Co-sponsored bye Descendants of Whaling Masters. A receptionwith light refreshments will precede the event. FREE. For more information pleasecall 508-997-0046 or 508-994-0961.

Friday, October 22Commemoration of the Bourne Building4:00 pm Presidential Reception

The Honorable Carlos Manuel Martins do Vale Cesar, President of the Regional Government of the AzoresJoin us for the Signing of a Protocol between the Azores, New Bedford and SanFrancisco, the Re-Launching of the Lagoda, and the Dedication of the AzoreanArch. Opening concurrently: Exhibition of photography from the Azores, Pelosinal do Espirito Santo. Event Sponsor: Bristol County Savings Bank

Friday-Sunday, October 22-246th Annual Connecting for Change: A Bioneers by the Bay ConferencePresented by the Marion Institute | Downtown New Bedford, MAA four-day solutions-based gathering that brings together a diverse audience tocreate deep and positive change in their communities. For more information:

connectingforchange.org or call 508-748-0816

Friday, October 29After Hours Halloween Costume Party featuring Pumpkin Head Ted6:00 pmGet dressed up and celebrate Halloween in style at the Whaling Museum with the jazz/rock fusion music of Pumpkin Head Ted. $5 for Museum members andCardoza’s Reward Cardholders $10 for general publicBecome a member at the door and your entrance fee will be waived!Presented by Cardoza’s Wine and Spirits, Sponsored in part by Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound

Saturday, October 30Schooner Ernestina Forum9:00 am – 4:00 pm.Hosted by the Whaling Museum and National Park Service, this critical forumwill help to determine the future of the Ernestina, the 1894 Grand Banks fishingschooner and the Commonwealth’s official vessel, whose home port is New Bed-ford. Pre-registration is required; space is limited. Please email Barbara (Monteiro)Burgo at bjmonteiro@aol.com or Kristen Sarkarati at ks@blueskiesdsn.com to register or for more information: www.sailernestina.org

Tuesday, November 2Old Dartmouth Lyceum6:30 pm Reception | 7:30 pm Lecture

Glorifying America: Landscape Painting in the mid-19th CenturyWith Evelyn Trebilcock, Curator, Olana (the Frederic E. Church estate in Hudson, NY)Ms. Trebilcock will examine mid-19th century landscape painting’s glorification of America by illustrating important historical moments and by celebrating thepromise of the young nation. She will explore how landscape artists romanticizedstories from America’s colonial past; Albert Bierstadt’s Bartholomew Gosnold atCuttyhunk and Frederic Church’s e Charter Oak, 1847. $15 per lecture ($20 fornon members), $40 for series ($50 for non members), $50 includes AmericanLandscape and Seascape Paintings. ($60 for non members) Call 508-997-0046 ext. 100 for tickets

Wednesday, November 3Comparative Anatomy Exhibit OpensWednesday-Thursday, November 3-4

Annual meeting of the North Atlantic RightWhale ConsortiumGovernmental and non-governmental organizations and individuals in the U.S. and Canada meet on research, new techniques, management strategies, and conservation. For Consortium members only.

Saturday, November 6-28Down to the Sea in (Model) Ships – a boat model ExhibitionWe invite you to participate in the Inaugural Model Boat Exhibition. e exhibi-tion will feature work of the USS Constitution Model Shipwright Guild as well aslocal model-makers. Youth (8-12) and Teen (13-17) model-makers are encouragedto enter their models in a contest for a chance to win a cash prize. Contact BrianWitkowski: bwitkowski@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046, ext. 185.

Saturday, November 6Down to the Sea in Ships Opening Reception3:00 pm

Thursday, November 11AHA! Please Be Seated

Monday, November 15Moby-Dick Marathon Reader Call-in Day12:01 amYou may call to request an 8-10 minute reading slot, beginning at 12:01 am. Be sure to give us three alternative times when you could read by calling 508-997-0046.

Tuesday, November 16Old Dartmouth Lyceum6:30 pm Reception | 7:30 pm Lecture

The Machine in the Garden: America’s Conflict with New TechnologyDr. Merritt Roe Smith, Professor of the History of Technology, MIT, will exploreAmericans’ evolving views of technology as reflected in the artist’s presentation ofelements, such as the railroad, within American landscape paintings. Americansfound themselves conflicted as new technologies changed existing patterns of cul-tural relationships and control. ese conflicts are visible in many 19th centurypaintings and careful examination reveals much about the struggles of the times.$15 per lecture ($20 for non-members), $40 for series ($50 for non members),$50 includes American Landscape and Seascape Paintings ($60 for non members) Call 508-997-0046 ext. 100 for tickets

Saturday, November 20Culture*Park presents its 9th Annual Short Plays Marathon!2:00 pm – 10:30 pm Museum TheaterStaged readings of up to 20 new plays by local and regional writers, presented byan ensemble of 40 actors and directors from local and regional communities. Tick-ets: $20 for a full-event pass, or $15 for afternoon or evening. Students/Seniors$15 full day, or $10 for afternoon or evening. Reservations may be made by call-ing Culture*Park at 774-202-0588 or emailing culturepark@earthlink.net

Friday, November 26After Hours6:00 pm

Wednesday-Friday, December 1-3Education Symposiume New Bedford ECHO Project and NB Whaling National Historical Park hostthis unique opportunity for school administrators, educators and representatives of cultural organizations to gather and discuss all aspects of place-based learning.Registration: FREE and open to the public. To request a packet contact Sara Meirowitz, smeirowitz@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046 ext. 123.

Saturday-Sunday, December 4-5Downtown New Bedford’s Holiday StrollRetailers, restaurants, non-profits, and residents celebrate the season downtownwith musicians at indoor and outdoor locations, with a free trolley loop aroundthe Stroll area. Museum admission: 50% off, adults and seniors; children under 17 are free both days. Shop for the perfect gift at the Museum Store and vendorbooths in the Jacobs Family Gallery. FREE.

Sunday-Saturday, December 5-11Museum Store, Members’ Appreciation Week

Thursday, December 9AHA! Starry Night

Sunday, December 12Members-only Holiday Party1:00 pm Performance with a 2:00pm Tea3:00 pm Performance with a 4:00pm Tea. Join the Museum membership this holiday season for a Sunday Musical Perform-ance with NoteScape followed by a delightful tea with the Museum’s VolunteerCouncil Hospitality Committee. Due to the popularity of the event, please make areservation for the performance of your choice by calling 508-997-0046 ext. 150.Be sure to take advantage of this wonderful benefit of your Museum membership.is very special event is for members only. Guest passes do not apply.

Friday, December 31New Year’s Swingin’ EveJoin us for a “Museum of Music” to benefit the New Bedford Whaling Museumand New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. Contact Alison Smart for details asmart@whalingmuseum.org or 508-997-0046, ext. 115

Friday, January 7Moby-Dick Marathon Preview5:30 pm Pre-Marathon Buffet Dinner & cash bar7:15 pm Museum Theater, Free Pre-Marathon Lecture Is Moby-Dick Still the Great American Novel? with Melville scholar, Dr. ElizabethA. Schultz, professor emerita of the University of Kansas, and author of Unpaintedto the Last, Moby-Dick and Twentieth Century American Art. After Nov. 15, call 508-997-0046 ext. 100 to purchase your tickets for the buffet dinner. e lecture is FREE.

Saturday, January 810:00 am“e Schools Meet the Schoolmasters.” As a prelude to the Moby-Dick, Marathon,the Museum hosts a truly Melville-centric event along the same lines as NationalPublic Radio’s popular program, “Wait, wait, don’t tell me.” You will have the op-portunity to quiz Melville Society scholars on all matters Moby-Dick and Melville.No questions are too tough. FREE.

Saturday & Sunday, January 8-9Noon e Moby-Dick Marathon kicks off the NON-STOP READING OF THEGREAT AMERICAN CLASSIC. Come at any time; leave at any time. is 25-hour event commemorates the anniversary of the departure of 21-year old Herman Melville from New Bedford aboard the whaleship Acushnet in 1841. Join with us in this special celebration of our heritage. All are welcome to thisFREE event!

Gosnold at Cuttyhunk, by Albert Bierstadt, 1858.

Pictured are some of the many volunteers of the Whaling Museum. Last year, volun-teers contributed 21,958 hours to the Museum, working as docents, researchers, cu-ratorial and library assistants. ey conduct weekend tours, assist at the front deskand in the Museum store, and in many other duties that enhance and extend theMuseum experience. ank you for your invaluable service.

“Stand by for the crew!” — Moby-Dick, chapter 135

Education Symposium

The four main themes of the symposium will be:• Leveraging regional success stories on a national scale • Successful Place-Based Learning programs and partnerships• How standardization of the current educational system creates disparities

in the educational attainment of native/underserved/minority students• Value and shortcomings of Place-Based Learning including

assessment and evaluation

The New Bedford ECHO Project and New Bedford Whaling National Historical Parkcordially invite you to attend an upcoming

Education Symposium | December 1-3, 2010New Bedford Whaling Museum

e Education Symposium is a unique opportunity for school administrators, educators and representatives of cultural organizations to gather and discuss all aspects of place-based learning.

e symposium will focus on the different interpretations, benefits and drawbacks of place-based learning, as well as ways to assess and evaluate its effectiveness.

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ow recognized as an internationalforum for the presentation and dis-

cussion of new research into the history,fine arts, humanities, and sciences ofwhales and whaling, this year’s Symposiumwill present four sessions on Saturday andSunday, October 16-17. In recent years,risk and risk management have emergedas incisive tools for the analysis ofbusiness enterprises, but have nothitherto been satisfactorily ap-plied to evaluating the whalingindustry. Suzanne Finney, presi-dent of a maritime archaeologyfoundation in Hawaii whosePh.D. dissertation at the Uni-versity of Hawaii was largely re-searched at the WhalingMuseum, will present her origi-nal views in “An Anthropologist’sView of Risk in American Whaling.” JamieL. Jones, a literary and cultural historian atHarvard and recent Fellow of the JohnCarter Brown Library at Brown, tackles thesubject from another revolutionary pointof view in “e Wake of History: American

Whaling in Commerce, Culture, andMemory.” New inroads in the demograph-ics and diverse ethnology of the whalingtrade will be revealed in “Overlooked ButNot Forgotten: African-Americans in theSag Harbor Whaling Trade,” presented byomas Hardy, a recent Curatorial Intern at

the Whaling Museum; and ProfessorFrank Sousa, director of Portuguese Stud-ies at UMass Dartmouth, will introducethe universities publications about Por-tuguese contributions to whaling.

e whalemen’s own firsthand testimonythrough songs, yarns, and after-hours pas-times at sea and in foreign ports-of-callprovide insight into shipboard culture. J.Revell Carr, Jr., who teaches folklore atthe University of North CarolinaGreensboro, will speak about the ex-

change of musical and theatrical entertain-ments among native Polynesians andAmerican mariners. April Grant of UMassAmherst will present “Terrible Polly: eBattle of the Sexes in Songs and Poems ofthe Whaling Era.” And Stuart Frank,Whaling Museum Senior Curator, whose

Ph.D. dissertation at Brown years ago was“Ballads and Songs of the Whale-Hunters,”will present “Jolly Sailors Bold: Demograph-ics of Ballads and Songs Excavated fromWhaling Journals of the Kendall Collectionat the New Bedford Whaling Museum.”

e Saturday afternoon sessions will be followed by book signings, showcasingthree landmark new publications related toSymposium topics. e Whaling HistorySymposium is made possible in part by eHelen E. Ellis Fund.

35th Annual Whaling History Symposium to focus on new historical perspectives

Old Dartmouth Lyceumstarts October 19

e Lyceum will examine significant paintings in the Museumcollection as highlighted in the ODHS Wattles Family Gallery,exploring 19th century landscape painting within the contextof the collection and provide a forum for discussion.

Above: Outward-Bound. Whalemen playing music on deckon sailing day, New Bedford, circa 1910. (Photo: Pardon B. Gifford)

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Row 1 (L-R): Julie Rocha, Joyce Reynolds, Donna Sargent, John Brindisi, Alice Larson,

Judy Giusti, Tom Flynn, Bill Wyatt, Penny Cole

Row 2 (L-R): Susan Grosart, Bette Roberts, Irene Medeiros, Dyan E. Kieltyka, Paula Cabral,

Jennifer Gady, Lee Bordas, Sylvia Brunette, Rosemary Lucas, Seth Mendell

Row 3 (L-R): Herbert Andrew, Lillian Andrew,Betty ompson, Patricia Gerrior, Tom Wells, MaryFarry, Linda DeAnna, Fred Kasap, Leonard Chace,

Larry Brownell, Sally Brownell, Barbara Poznysz

Row 4 (L-R): Annette Dwyer, Anne Sparrow,Melanie E. Demoranville, Arline DeSilva, Janice

Bastoni, Joan Doyon, Lorna Walker, LouisaMedeiros, Mary Lorenzo, David Blanchette,

Larry Mulvey, Bette Scholter, Tina Dodd

Row 5 (L-R): John Canto, Sophie Canto, Carolyn Willard, Eleanore Cotter, Susan Barnet,

Debby Flynn, Carolynn Curcio, Elizabeth Wolstenholme, Carol Zaslona, Sylvia Morrell,

Claudette LeBlanc, Cynnie McNaughten, Nancy J. ornton, Donna Junier

Row 6 (L-R): Sara Meirowitz, Ivy Ramos, Jalien Hollister, Ellie Smith, June Strunk,

Joe Bettencourt, Jean Cummings, Charles Cabral,Vincent Furtado, Paul Vien, James Russell,

Henry Fanning, Lee Loranger, Gail Gorecki, Clif Rice, Jay Grinnell, Catherine Hassey,

Myra Hart, Erin Burlinson, Sarah Budlong

(photo: Deborah Hynes)

Lecture series to illuminate broader historicalthemes with Museum paintings

October 19, 2010Robin Starr, Director, American & european paintings and printsSkinner Auctioneers & AppraisersAmerican 19th Century Painting in a 21st Century MarketMs. Starr will examine images of shipping, whaling, and industry and the newlandscape of the American West – all imbued with a sense of wonder and optimism indicative of a thriving nation, and the rising industrialists who eagerly collected these works.

november 2, 2010evelyn trebilcock, Curator, e Olana partnershipGlorifying America: Landscape Painting in the mid-19th CenturyMs. Trebilcock, Curator of Olana, the estate of Frederic E. Church, will exam-ine the way mid-19th century America landscape painting glorified America byillustrating important historical moments and by celebrating the promise ofthe young nation, including Albert Bierstadt’s Bartholomew Gosnold at Cutty-hunk and Church’s e Charter Oak, 1847.

november 16, 2010merritt Roe Smith, professor of the History of technology, mite Machine in the Garden: America’s Conflict with New Technology Dr. Smith will explore how Americans’ evolving views of technology are reflectedin the way artists present technological elements, such as the railroad, withinAmerican landscape paintings. Americans found themselves conflicted as newtechnologies changed existing patterns of cultural relationships and control

Funded in part by Sovereign Sandtander.

Left: Sailors’ Hornpipe. Anonymous whaleman’s scrimshawon a sperm whale tooth, circa 1850. (Photo: Mark Sexton)

tuesdays - October 19, november 2, november 16pre-lecture reception 6:30 p.m. Lecture: 7:30 p.m.

$15 per lecture (non-members, $20) | $40 for series (non-members, $50)$50 includes the Museum’s new book: American Landscape and Seascape Paintings (non-members: $60)

Registration is free and

open to the public.

For more information or to

request a registration packet

please call Director of

Education, Sara Meirowitz

at 508-997-0046 ext 123.

n the first half of this year, less than 30% of the state’s teenagerswere employed, a new historic low (versus 45% in 2000 and

50% in 1989). You can safely assume that the percentage for NewBedford teen employment is significantly lower. In response, theEducation Committee launched a new program designed to makea difference in the community.

e new Teen Apprenticeship Program provided local youth withmeaningful work experience, specific job skills, and formalizedmentoring by teaming up with the Museum’s professional educa-tors and curatorial staff. rough 2010, 16 high school students(6 in the pilot spring-summer sessions, 10 starting in the upcom-ing fall session) will benefit from a “deep immersion” at the Museum—students are required to commit to a year-long, 4 daysper week, 2.5 hours per day program. To minimize barriers to participation, each student receives a competitive hourly wage.

A primary outcome is to provide local students with positive rolemodels and unique opportunities to learn about constructive career paths while helping them advance socially, academically and economically.

Students are recruited through partnerships with the NB PublicSchools, Global Learning Charter School, YouthBuild (a programfor high school dropouts who are pursuing GEDs), and local government and non-profit service agencies.

Opportunities for college and postgraduate students were also expanded in each of the Museum’s departments as a result of

seed-funding from foundations. Twenty students, attendingUMD, BCC, etc., worked one-on-one with designated staff, and each received an hourly pay or stipend for their involvement.e Museum has long welcomed college students into its foldthanks in part to the endowed L.B. Waterman fund. is symbi-otic relationship where the Museum can benefit from youthfulassistance while providing insight and on-the-job training to the next generation of Museum professionals is both rewardingand constructive.

Related but separate, the Museum offers a limited scholars-in-residence program, made possible by the donation of living quarters by the Lofts At Wamsutta Place, New Bedford. esequarters allow the Museum to recruit and domicile scholars andstudents of the highest caliber from around the world. Five international scholars participated in the competitive program.Visiting students, academics and authors researched topics rang-ing from Western Australian Whaling to the work of HermanMelville. Scholars included author Donald Warrin from the University of California, Alex Aguilar and Asuncion Borell fromthe University of Barcelona, Adam Wolfe from the University ofWestern Australia, and former curator of the Museu das Floresin the Azores, Joao A. Gomes Vieira. Starting in mid-Septemberand running for 6 months, the Museum welcomes Jordon Bersonwho will work with the Collection in the Conservation Lab.

Iast calendar year, the New Bedford Whaling Museum partneredwith almost seventy associations, academic institutions and cul-

tural organizations. Nearly half of these important partnerships weremade possible by generous funding through the US Department ofEducation. Education through Cultural and Historic Organizations,or ECHO, leverages funding to provide extensive programming ona local, regional and national level. Enhanced by community part-nerships, ECHO allows the Whaling Museum to reach thousandsof children, families and adult visitors through activities, tours, lec-tures and presentations.

Locally, the Whaling Museum partners most closely with the NewBedford Ocean Explorium. Serving as both a local partner and as thefiscal agent for the New Bedford ECHO Project, Museum workswith the Ocean Explorium on joint school programming for NewBedford Public School students and to bring free community pro-gramming to the city through the larger ECHO project in the formof cultural performances and public lectures. Last year, almost12,000 children participated in Museum tours and programs, manycombining their visit with tours of the Explorium and NationalPark. Over half of these visits were funded by ECHO.

In addition to formal on-site school programs, ECHO provides cultural programs within the city of New Bedford. Drawing uponthe expertise of our local partners, the Whaling Museum works withorganizations like AHA! and the New Bedford Symphony Orches-tra to bring performance art and music to the community at theWhaling Museum. In conjunction with New Bedford Whaling Na-tional Historical Park, the Melville Society Cultural Project, the New Bedford Historical Society, UMass Dartmouth and the UMass Dartmouth Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, the Whal-ing Museum is able to offer the highest caliber lectures and presentations by nationally and internationally renowned scholars,authors and content experts. Regionally, the Whaling Museum

partners with the Peabody Essex Museum to bringexciting cultural programming to Massachusetts,Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

e impact of ECHO is not limited by region.rough collaboration with ECHO partners inAlaska, Mississippi and Hawaii, the WhalingMuseum and the ECHO project are able to

create and implement nationally significant programming. eECHO project has developed materials and educational opportu-nities for teachers both locally and nationally, standards-based curriculum and classroom activities for students, programs and cultural performances for communities, and has distributed a number of multi-media products including books and DVDs.ECHO-created content and successes are made accessible interna-tionally through ECHOspace.org, an interactive education portal.

In keeping with the trend of utilizing ECHO funds to develop partnerships and create new learning opportunities, the Museumwill introduce a new school program with our colleagues from theschooner Ernestina. Focusing on the comparative technologies between the Ernestina and the Lagoda, this program brings studentsfrom the Museum to the waterfront to learn about the importanceof both industries. Continuing the good work of the PortugueseOutreach Committee, the Museum will work with the NationalPark Service to reach out to organizations in California and connectwith Portuguese communities on a national scale. In addition, theMuseum will work with ECHO partners to trace the cultural andethnic story of people and ideas along the areas impacted by whaling voyages. is collaborative project will not only further the educational mission of the institution but create lasting ties from New Bedford to its inhabitants’ national cultural legacy.

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Continuum of learning realized from apprenticeshipsto scholars-in-residence

By Sara meirowitz, Director of Education

Students work on submersibles in the Museum’s ECHO Resource Room

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The Education Departmentis recruiting Museum apprentices for the falland spring semesters. interested HighSchool students should call Robert Rocha,508-997-0046, ext 149.

Adam Wolfe Peter Riley João Gomes Vieira

e 2010 class of Museum apprentices (left to right) - Ryan Wotton, Alana Rounds-Jus-saume, Nayda Feliciano, Gaylynne DosSantos, Nasha Macedo, and Robert Krupa.

For years, ECHO has helped to create educational opportunities for

young people, tapping into Massachusetts’tremendous cultural history. anks toECHO, thousands of local school childrenhave been able to take advantage of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the NewBedford Ocean Explorium and the PeabodyEssex Museum in Salem. It’s a terrific way for students to gain real life experiences thatwill help them better appreciatethe world in which we live. —Senator John Kerry

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“…regardless to the size of the project or importanceof the task, I feel like an integral part of what’s going on in the Museum. I can see in physical

form the outcome of the work that I do and the people I work for have taught me more than

any classroom could ever have.”— Melanie Correia, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

wo founders of the Melville SocietyCultural Project, Elizabeth Schultz

and Robert K. Wallace, share a passion forMelville and the arts. Consequently, someof the holdings of the archive emphasize ei-ther the works of art Melville knew or theartists inspired by Melville. Wallace’s re-search on Melville’s print collection engen-dered the gift by rare books dealer WilliamReese of forty-four prints and engravingsMelville owned. Schultz has lectured at theMuseum on images by Benton Spruanceand other modern artists, and has curated ashow on Melville in comics and cartoons.e Melville Society Cultural Project hasalso put aside funds for new works of art toaugment the archive.

For other scholars, the archive provides a collection of Melville’ssources. Since Harrison Hayford’s early work, the field of sourcestudies has continued to grow. Some of this work is quite tradi-tional, as Hershel Parker demonstrated in his new book Melville:e Making of the Poet, a close study of the poets Melville read inhis long career. To support e Making of the Poet as well as theNorthwestern-Newberry volume of Melville’s poems, Robert D.Madison assembled a complete collection of the editions Melvilleused in his development as poet. Madison presented these volumesto the Archive, so we now have an astounding archive of the booksMelville consulted and learned from in order to write his poems.

When we show students how Melville read and borrowed from hissources, they see remixing practices with which they are deeply familiar. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards’s more recent work, on Melville’soral sources, the sailor talk circulating through the Pacific in thenineteenth century (Cannibal Old Me), participates in this largermovement toward recognizing and analyzing the many differentsources of artistic inspiration in various media.

e archive collection documents the world of Melville scholarshipin the twentieth century and today. Some of this material—corre-spondence, papers, conference programs, offprints, and records ofthe early years of the Melville Society—will seem relevant only to afew. Some of it may seem amusing—random jokes and jottings ofMelville scholars in unguarded moments. Other material may lendinsight into the production of scholarly texts, like the notes anddrafts Walter Bezanson and Gail Coffler have donated from theirown desks. At worst, the communications passing back and forth among a small group of scholars obsessed

with a single author, however genial or in-sightful they are, may seem elitist or simplymeaningless.

But we would argue that these materials,like the source materials we noted before,have become newly relevant in an age ofdigital texts and information. Just as wehave learned new ways to appreciate au-thors’ appropriations and remixings of otherworks in the gray areas between print andother media, we have also come to appreci-ate the blurred boundaries between pub-lished and unpublished scholarship. Becausethere are so few Melville manuscripts, in-tense interest has long centered on Melville’sannotations and jottings in the books heowned and lavishly marked. Likewise, the

battered, grubby scholars’ desk copies we own in our archive, whichmight once have been considered unworthy of a scholarly collec-tion, now yield up new information about the way scholars read histexts and come to their conclusions. We own numerous examples ofthese annotations and marginal thinkings-out-loud.

Furthermore as editors have begun to appreciate what Melvillescholar John Bryant calls fluid texts and editing practices—meth-ods, that is, of capturing the different stages or versions of a text asit proceeds from manuscript to print text to adaptation or lateredition—these rough stages have become newly revealing andvaluable. We own not only the print editions of Hayford’s andSealts’s books but also uncorrected proofs of their work and thoseof others. Our archive offers a vision of vigorous intellectual ex-change, the free sharing of fast-breaking information and, in spiteof some famous rivalries and quarrels, a lively culture of fresh criti-cism of a cultural icon.

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is engraving of Beatrice Cenci (1577-1599) from a portraitattributed to Reni was owned by Herman Mellville.

LoomingsOld Books, New Reading – Part II

e Melville Society Archive at the New Bedford Whaling Museum

By Wyn Kelley and mary K. Bercaw edwards, Melville Society Cultural Project

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Partnerships continue to play an increasingly important role in advancing the mission of the New Bedford WhalingMuseum as an educational and cultural resource for all. In turn, the Museum seeks to promote stability and growth in the communities it serves through these same partnerships. To each of its partners, the Museum is grateful for the opportunities they provide to address mutual challenges and foster organizational development.

AHA! New BedfordAlaska Native Heritage CenterArtworks!Azorean Maritime Heritage SocietyBernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumBoys and Girls Club of New BedfordBoy Scouts of AmericaBristol Community CollegeButtonwood Park ZooCape Verdean Association of New BedfordCommunity Foundation of Southeastern

MassachusettsDescendants of Whaling MastersDowntown New Bedford, Inc.Ernestina CommissionFort Taber/Fort Rodman Military

AssociationFriendly Sons of St. PatrickGlobal Learning Charter Public SchoolIñupiat Heritage Center / North

Slope BoroughLloyd Center for the EnvironmentMarion Institute Bioneers ConferencesMassachusetts Audubon SocietyMassachusetts Marine EducatorsMelville Society Cultural Project

Mississippi Band of Choctaw IndiansMuseum Institute for Teaching ScienceMystic SeaportNational Marine Educators AssociationNativity Preparatory SchoolNew Bedford Area Chamber of

CommerceNew Bedford Art MuseumNew Bedford Economic

Development CouncilNew Bedford Free Public LibraryNew Bedford Historical SocietyNew Bedford Port SocietyNew Bedford Preservation SocietyNew Bedford Public SchoolsNew Bedford Symphony OrchestraNew Bedford Whaling National

Historical ParkNew England AquariumNOAANorth Atlantic Right Whale ConsortiumNorth Slope Borough - Department

of Wildlife ManagementOcean ExploriumOur Sisters’ SchoolPeabody Essex Museum

Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum

SEEALSippican Philosophers SocietySoutheastern Environmental Education

AllianceSoutheastern Massachusetts CVBSpinner PublicationsUMASS DartmouthUMD Center for Portuguese Studies

and CultureUMD School for Marine Science

and TechnologyUnited Way of Greater New BedfordUniversity of the AzoresWaquoit Bay Estuarine Research ReserveWaterfront Historic Area LeagueWhale and Dolphin Conservation SocietyWhale Center of New EnglandWhitfield-Manjiro Friendship SocietyWomen’s Fund of Southeastern MAWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWorking Waterfront FestivalYMCAYouth BuildZeiterion Performing Arts Center

“Partners! I must have partners!”is issue’s discussion is a continuation of thefeature on the Melville Society Archive. — Moby-Dick, chapter 40

e melville Archive is composed of the follow-ing separate collections: omas Wendel 300 vol-umes; Harrison Hayford 951; Merton M. Sealts,Jr. 269; Jay Leyda 22; Robert D. Madison 129;General 320, plus auxiliary Literature of the Seaand Frederick Douglass collections.

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Mr. Neilson AbeelDr. and Mrs. William AbeshAcushnet CompanyMrs. Barbara C. AdamsMrs. omas R. AdamsRuth and Alan AdesLynn AlpertMrs. Mary M. AndersonMr. Richard S. AndersonMr. and Mrs. Herbert AndrewMr. Edward R. AskewMiss Hope AtkinsonMiss Ruth S. AtkinsonCharlotte G. BabbittMr. Edwin R. BaldwinMr. and Mrs. Michael BaldwinMr. and Mrs. David B. BarkerMr. and Mrs. David A. BarrettMr. and Mrs. Nathan D. BarryMr. and Mrs. Charles E. BascomMr. John B. BaumannMs. elma A. BaxterMr. and Mrs. Philip BeauregardRev. Constantine S. BebisMr. and Mrs. Carl BeckmanMr. and Mrs. Charles E. BeckmanMrs. Tillie J. BederowNathan Bekemeier and Penny BrewerMr. and Mrs. Arthur BennettMr. and Mrs. John C. Bentley, Jr.Mrs. Ronald R. BilodeauMr. and Mrs. R. William BlasdaleMr. and Mrs. Peter BlatchfordMs. Mary Blum-SchwartzMr. Robert O. BoardmanMr. James B. BoltonMs. Nancy BommerMr. and Mrs. Willard S. Boothby, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. BordenMrs. Albert C. Bosworthe Rev. and Mrs. Nehemiah Boynton IIIMrs. Roberta S. BraleyDr. and Mrs. Robert G. BraytonMr. and Mrs. Samuel BrookerMs. Cathryn F. BrowerMr. and Mrs. David A. BrownellMr. and Mrs. John K. BullardMrs. William R. Bullard, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bullard, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Bullard Esq.Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. BurnesMr. and Mrs. Edward A. BushC. P. Bourg, Inc.Miss Virginia CallasMr. James A. CalnanMs. Leanor G. CamachoMr. Edward Camara, Jr.Sophronia Camp and Jeffrey McMahonMr. O.M. CantoMr. and Mrs. L. Howard Carl, Jr.Mr. omas T. CaryMrs. Ida CaseMr. Gardner ChaceDr. and Mrs. Paul ChervinskyMrs. Carolyn CodyLouis D. Coffin and Danielle D. CoffinMr. Robert M. CoquilletteCornell Dubilier ElectronicsMr. and Mrs. F. Richard CottrellMr. Kevin W. CrabtreeMs. Nancy C. CrosbyLt. General Howard G. Crowell, Jr.Mr. Carl J. CruzMr. and Mrs. Richard H. CummingsMr. and Mrs. Philip F. Danforth, Jr.

Mr. Charles F. DeMaillyMr. and Mrs. Charles F. DeMailly, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Rhet H. C. Denaulte Rev. Philip C. DouglasMr. and Mrs. Maurice F. DowneyMr. and Mrs. Leo R. DoyonRev. John P. DriscollMrs. Diana DuarteMrs. Maggie DuffRev. Dr. Edward Dufresne and Hon.

Elizabeth O'Neill LaStaitiMr. Alfred D. DuhamelMrs. Robert R. Duncan, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. DunnMrs. Giles H. DunnMrs. Annette L. DwyerMrs. Norma DyerMr. and Mrs. Lincoln EkstromMr. Richard Ellis and Ms. Stephanie GuestMs. Kathleen M. FairHon. and Mrs. Armand Fernandes, Jr.Mr. Joseph FerroFirst Citizens' Federal Credit UnionMr. and Mrs. Graeme L. FlandersMr. E. Norman FlaydermanMr. and Mrs. Donald J. FlemingMr. and Mrs. Wallace E. FletcherMr. George B. FlynnDr. and Mrs. C. Douglas FoggMrs. Benjamin B. FoglerDr. and Mrs. Norbert P. FragaMr. and Mrs. Cary B. FrancisMr. and Mrs. Robert H. GardnerMr. and Mrs. John N. Garfield, Jr.Rev. and Mrs. G. Kenneth GarrettDr. and Mrs. omas V. GeaganDr. and Mrs. Arnold E. GellmanMrs. John D. GibbonsMr. and Mrs. Preston Gifford, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. David GlicksmanMarcia C. GlynnMr. and Mrs. Aaron I. GotlibMs. Joanne GraciaMr. and Mrs. Morris GrayProf. James T. Griffith and Prof. Susan

J. LeclairMrs. Richard J. HarkinsMrs. Irene O. HarnoisAtty. Patricia A. HarringtonMr. and Mrs. Richard D. HatchBradford A. & Priscilla A. HathawayMr. and Mrs. Gordon T. HelmeMr. and Mrs. James L. HenryTed and Judy HerlihyMrs. Eveline A. Hesketh - PettyDr. Bertram E. Howard and Mr. Robert

HowardCharles C. Howland and Hannah LloydMrs. Robert S. HowlandMrs. Francis A. HowlandDr. and Mrs. Jonathan HowlandMr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Howland IIIMr. David G. HughesMr. Paul J. HughesMr. and Mrs. Peter G. HuidekoperMs. Deborah L. HynesMr. and Mrs. Arne IsaksenMrs. James H. JacksonMr. Horace C. Jones IIHon. and Mrs. Malcolm JonesMr. and Mrs. Sidney H. KaplanMr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Keith IIIJohn Kelleher and Viki FowlerMr. and Mrs. John P. KendallMs. Barbara KeohaneMr. and Mrs. ornton P. Klaren, Jr.Mr. Max L. Kleinman

Mrs. Eliot S. KnowlesDr. and Mrs. Eliot S. Knowles, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. G. Bourne Knowles IIIMrs. Russell Knowles, Jr.Mr. Knut KristofersenMr. and Mrs. Richard C. KuglerMr. Robert A. KuglerMr. William A. KuglerMrs. Franc D. LadnerMrs. Sherry M. LescoMr. Paul E. LevasseurDr. and Mrs. Clinton N. LevinGerald and Maureen LewisMr. and Mrs. Terence G. Lewis, Sr.Mr. John F. LinehanKenneth D. Lipman and Evelyn J. BaumLockheed Martin Sippican, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. LorangerMs. Sandra J. LuckraftMr. and Mrs. John T. LudesDr. and Mrs. Edward G. Lund, Jr.Mr. D. Lloyd Macdonald and Ms. Michele

TaipaleMr. and Mrs. Daniel S. MacedoMr. and Mrs. John E. MacedoMr. and Mrs. Edward A. MacomberMr. and Mrs. Hubert C. MandevilleCapt. and Mrs. Alvin H. MandlyDr. and Mrs. Anthony M. MartinFlorence M. MartocciDr. and Mrs. J. Greer McBratneyMr. and Mrs. Peter H. McCormickMrs. Irene A. MedeirosMrs. James E. MelloMr. David H. MeltzerMr. Gerald R. MessierMr. and Mrs. Henry F. MillerMillicent LibraryMs. Eleanor K. MisMrs. Anne P. MitchellMr. and Mrs. George Mock, Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Arthur MonizMr. and Mrs. Alfred G. MorseMr. Arthur MottaMr. and Mrs. James C. MunroMrs. Philip MurrayMr. and Mrs. David R. NelsonNew Bedford Free Public LibraryMr. and Mrs. Howard W. NickersonMr. and Mrs. John F NicolaciDr. Lisa NorlingMr. and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb IIINSTARNye Lubricants, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. William L. O'NeilMr. Joseph T. O'NeillMr. and Mrs. Victor R. PalestinePaul & Dixon InsuranceCynthia W. PellicciaMr. and Mrs. John S. Penney, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. John A. PerkinsMr. Ray J. PetersBob and Jamie PetitDr. and Mrs. Lee F. PhilipsMr. Daniel A. Phillips and Rev. Diana

W. PhillipsPolly Duff PhippsMr. and Mrs. James D. PhyfeMr. and Mrs. James W. PierceMrs. Norma S. PimentalMr. and Mrs. William W. PinneyWalter M. Platt, Jr., M.D.Richard A. Pline and Roseann RadosevichMr. and Mrs. James W. PopeDr. and Mrs. Aubrey J. Pothier, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. William H. Potter, Jr.Ms. Susan D. Poyant

Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. PurdyMr. and Mrs. omas W. PuryearDr. Paul A. Rapoza, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. G. Herbert RepassReynolds DeWaltMr. and Mrs. Carl RibeiroDr. and Mrs. omas J. RidzonDr. and Mrs. Harold F. RileyMr. Harry W. RobinsonMr. and Mrs. Stephen RogersMarion Rossiter-SmithMrs. Jane W. RotchMr. and Mrs. Richard S. RudickMr. and Mrs. Harris H. RusitzkyMr. and Mrs. Louis M. RusitzkyMrs. Frank J. RyderMs. Stella M. SaintMs. Elizabeth A. SaulnierH. J. Saulnier Oil Co.Mr. Richard T. Saunders and Dr. Anne

SaundersMrs. Louise C. SawyerMr. and Mrs. Richard SchaeferMr. and Mrs. Harry A. Schoening, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Schuetz, Jr.Mrs. Duncan I. ScottDr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. ShapiroMr. and Mrs. William ShattuckMr. and Mrs. Calvin SiegalJill Simmons and George GrayMr. and Mrs. Lars SovikMrs. Janet D. SteeleMr. and Mrs. Clay StitesDr. Caroline S. StoneMr. and Mrs. Galen L. StoneMrs. Edward G. StrainDr. and Mrs. Stephen F. SullivanMr. Herbert R. SwansonMrs. Cecelia E. SwiszczMr. and Mrs. Tadeusz F. SwiszczMrs. M. Carmen SylviaMr. Paul F. SylviaSylvia Group of Insurance AgenciesElizabeth Taber LibraryMr. and Mrs. Edmund M. TavaresMr. and Mrs. Donald ompsonMr. and Mrs. Charles T. ToomeyMrs. Edward F. TrainorJ. Mark Treadup, Esq.Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. TrumbullMr. and Mrs. Donald F. TuckerMr. and Mrs. William J. Underwood, Jr.e Honorable Paul E. VardemanJoseph Vaughan and Elaine LottesJane and Joseph S. VeraMr. and Mrs. Paul L. VienCapt. and Mrs. Robert G. WalkerRev. Barry W. WallMr. and Mrs. C. Roger WallinDr. and Mrs. Richard H. WarburtonWareham Free LibraryMr. and Mrs. Richard D. WebbMrs. Anne V. V. WebbLoring S. and Joanna McQuillan WeeksMs. Anne M. WhitingDr. and Mrs. Jeremy B. WhitneyMr. Richard S. Wickenden IIMr. E. Andrew Wilde, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Donald WilderMr. John D. WilsonMrs. John O. WilsonMr. Herbert Gilman WingMr. Robert A. WitbeckMr. and Mrs. James A. WolstenholmeKarin E. Wood and Peter C. BogleMr. and Mrs. Spofford WoodruffMr. Richard B. Young

Over 25 years of support to the New Bedford Whaling MuseumThank you to our valued long-time members!

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Moby-Dick Marathon

he Moby-Dick Marathon drops anchor Saturday, January 8,2011 at eight-bells in the Forenoon Watch (high noon) in

the Jacobs Family Gallery. It is planned to be the best ever as wemark the 15th anniversary of this popular event, one which growswith each year’s reading. e 2011 event will see new activitiessure to extend its scope for the enjoyment of everyone.

New for this year: on the eve of the reading, Friday, January 7, a delightful buffet will be offered as well as a cash bar. Dinnerwill be followed by a talk with distinguished Melville scholar, Dr.Elizabeth A. Schultz. Aptly describing the Marathon as “an invig-orating community event,” Dr. Schultz will challenge her audi-

ence with an intriguing query, “Is Moby-Dick still the greatAmerican novel?” – and invite all to engage in the discussion.

On Saturday morning the Museum will host a truly Melville-cen-tric program. In a variation of “stump the scholars,” which we arecalling “e Schools Meet the Schoolmasters,” (evoking Chap.38), visitors may pose questions to Melville Society scholars on allmatters Moby-Dick – from cetology to etymology; Annawon toZoroaster. No questions too tough!

roughout the event, the Cook Memorial eater will be openfor visitors to sit back and relax while hearing a simulcast of thereading. To visually enrich the event, the Museum’s Teen Appren-tices will research and organize a presentation of images from theMuseum’s collection, projected in sync with live readings and rel-evant to each chapter.

To commemorate Melville’s departure from New Bedford harboraboard the Acushnet, a rare sea chest from that vessel will be ondisplay, lent to the Museum to commemorate the 170th anniver-sary of that fateful voyage, January 3, 1841. Additional artifactsimportant specifically to the man and his greatest work are alsoplanned for the display.

Each year, we strive to heighten the total Marathon experience forall. In 2011, we hope to extend our global reach by involving audiences far beyond the Museum’s walls. Real-time streaming onthe Museum’s Website is planned. It will make the event a globalhappening.

elville visited the Seamen’s Bethel in1840 and over the decades it has

continued to harbor hope to outward-bound mariners and offer comfort to theloved ones of those never returned fromsea. Built in 1831, it became famous as the“Whaleman’s Chapel” in Moby-Dick. It was built by the New Bedford Port Society,organized in 1830 for “the moral improve-ment of seamen.”

e Bethel is a non-denominational church,the setting for many weddings, baptismsand funerals. It also hosts numerous com-munity events, including the Whaling Museum’s Moby-Dick Marathon, AHA!and the Fishermen’s Memorial. It is a fa-vorite destination of visitors to New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park.

At this time in its long history the Bethel isin need of immediate repair. Age, weather

and termites have taken their toll. e NewBedford Port Society has embarked on afundraising campaign for the repairs. Taxdeductible donations can be made out to:n.B. port Society Bldg. RestorationFund, c/o new Bedford port Society, 15Johnny Cake Hill, new Bedford, mA02740.

e Seamen’s Bethel is often called the soul of the port’s history, just as the Whaling Museum is said to be the heartof its history. e photo above reveals serious decay in theBethel’s south wall.

Time and the elements take their toll on the Seamen’s Bethele Whaling Museum’s venerable neighbor atop Johnny Cake Hill is in need of structural repairs.

Extending the Voyage

Reading through the night in the Jacobs Family Gallery (photo: Katie Mello)

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Symposia and lectures run the gamut from our 35thWhaling History Symposium in October, followed by a December symposium looking at the role museumsplay in K-12 place-based education. In between are important lectures on the fine arts packaged in our newOld Dartmouth Lyceum series.

You might ask how the Museum is paying for all thesenew projects. I can report, that assuming our AnnualFund stays on track—yes, that means you must re-spond affirmatively to the upcoming year-end appeal—that we will land our 3rd consecutive year in the black.

Planning a vacation of a lifetime? Join us next springand summer for a guided tour of the Azores. Lookingto do something meaningful with your leisure time?Volunteer at the Museum and join a community of160 stalwart individuals who collectively make up the body and soul of the institution.

What is on the horizon? e Exhibition AdvisoryCommittee has been challenged to develop a new long-term exhibition, integrated with an entirely newmultimedia experience, titled: Industry & Commerce —Innovation & Entrepreneurship. is multi-year projectwill explore how the small coastal village of New Bedford became an international center of commerceand industry and how these twin pillars of antebellumcapitalism evolved into the landscape of business andindustry of today. Fostering an understanding thatNew Bedford once was a national economic power-house is tremendously empowering, particularly as our youth today look for inspiration and purpose.

is exhibition will include telling the complete storyof the New Bedford fishery and examine the effects of the textile industry on the region. We will look tothe future and ask how yesterday’s short-spurt energyindustry can inform today’s red-hot energy debate*.ese interrelated themes of commerce, sustainability(or lack thereof ) and the industrious pursuits of generations of men and women in their quest to pur-sue the American dream will dominate much of our thinking going forward.

If you haven’t visited your Whaling Museum recently,you have surprises by the barrel full in store for you.

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Planning a Holiday Party? Consider the drama of the Jacobs Family Gallery or the intimate San Francisco Room. e-mail Specialevents@whalingmuseum.org for more information.

Our fifth annual summer fundraiser raised a record $130,000 to support the Museum’s mission and educational programs. Please join us in thanking the many generous local vendors for donating theirvaluable goods and services to the event. When hosting your next event, please keep these names in mind!

Co-Chaired by Jack Braitmayer and Barbara Ferri

is remarkably successful capital campaign raised$14,000,000 in funds that allowed the institution to dramatically expand the size and breadth of itscollections, educational programs, and plant.

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* e oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico dominated much of the news thissummer. A purported 4.6 million bbl of oil spewed out of the wellheadthere in 86 long days. By contrast, from 1804-1880, 3.6 million bbl ofsperm whale oil was rendered by whalers.

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LibationsCardoza’s Wine and Spirits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.cardozas.comMoby D Beer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.justbeer.usWestport Rivers Winery . . . . . . . . . . . www.westportrivers.com

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Supplies, Décor and LightingChase Canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.chasecanopy.comLightworks Productions . . . . . . www.lightworksproductions.netValet Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.valetconnection.comValet Linen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508-758-6145

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We carry hundreds of titles in our book department on whaling, regional history, and maritime subjects, including many related children’s topics.

Shop online at: www.whalingmuseumstore.org

Whale Ornament: 29.95 Azores Ball Cap Hat: 12.95

Lagoda ornament: 11.95Liverpool Jug: 125.00

Thoughtful Gift Giving

Barbara B. Ferri and John (Jack) W. Braitmayer

Highlights and Achievements 2001-2010

• Renovated and rededicated the historic Bourne Building preparing it for another 100 years of service to the community

• Refurbished the Lagoda and made her shipshape for the next generation of crew members

• Built up the Museum’s endowment with the infusion of funds

• Recaptured dramatic gallery space with the renovation of the ODHS Wattles Family Gallery

• Unveiled dramatic new exhibitions including From Pursuit to Preservation and The Azorean Whaleman Gallery

• Successfully integrated the spectacular gift of the Kendall Collection, virtually doubling the size of the Museum’s collection

• Produced and facilitated exceptional research and publications through the Museum’s Research Library andKendall Institute

• Invested in building necessary climate controlled spaces forthe collection and archives—now 965,000 items includingart, artifacts, maps and manuscripts

Thank you to the hundreds of donors who contributed to this campaign. Your investment is meaningful today and will be incalculable 100 years from now.

Celebrate the opening of the Azorean Whaleman Gallery and Bourne Building restoration with unique gifts from the Museum Store

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Save the DateNew Year’s Swingin’ EveTo Benefit the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and New Bedford Whaling Museum

Friday, December 31Join in on our “Museum of Music” and experience a variety of musical performances throughout the Museum’sgalleries. We won’t be swingin’ ‘till midnight, so countdown the New Year whenever you fancy! We’ll polish offthe night with a march up to Custom House Square forthe City’s firework display.

Further details and invitation to follow. For more information, contact Alison Smart at asmart@whalingmuseum.org or (508) 997-0046 ext. 115.

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