Hours: Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 5 PM, Saturday from 10 AM. Call 860-447-2501 or email.
The Frank L. McGuire Library is open by appointment, email.
Admission: FREE for current members, individuals with current military or USCG cadet ID and children under age 14 (with adult), admission $7 suggested donation.
Summer highlights
■ Tours to climb HARBOR LIGHTHOUSE run year-round. The views at the top are spectacular! We meet at the lighthouse, then climb 116 steps to the lantern room – all the while learning about the 261-year history of Harbor Light, the oldest and the tallest lighthouse on Long Island Sound. Sign up online at https://harborlighthousetour.bpt.me/ or send an email to schedule your tour:[email protected]
■ Open Mic at the Museum meets from 6-9 PM the last Sunday of the month: Share your original music, poetry, prose, stand-up, or just say what is on your mind. Open Mic welcomes performers of all kinds. Perform, or just enjoy. By donation. July 28, August 25, September 29.
■ JIBBOOM CLUB #1 meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 1:30 PM. Join us for a talk, good company, coffee & cookies. Sponsored by the Maco Family Fund, the gatherings are FREE and open to all.
~ On July 16 we'll have Capt. Stuart Reininger speaking of the 'Voyage of Berta' --that is the Berta of Ibiza, the first (and the last) commercial sailing ship to depart New York Harbor in forty years, in 1980. It was a planned three week trip to Port of Spain Trinidad, which ultimately took fifty nine days.
The captain writes: Our crew of modern sailors (I was the mate) were thrust into the role of Nineteenth Century mariners by engine failure and we actually had to sail the thing; thus causing the delay-- to say nothing of the discomfort of many of the inhabitants of the islands as our cargo was two hundred tons of Vaseline products.
~ On August 20 -- Patrick Lynch has rescheduled to be here on Tuesday, August 20, to discuss the two estuaries: the Thames and CT River.
~ September 18 -- NLMS' own Steve Hambey is our September 17th speaker talking about the ill-fated ship Essex.
~ October 15 -- Claudia Kenyon hosts a Jibboom Open Mic, with stories from six JIBBOOMers on Oct. 15.
■ Excursions to LEDGE LIGHT, RACE ROCK LIGHTHOUSE , LITTLE GULL ISLAND, & FISHERS ISLAND will be listed very soon. Please watch nlmaritimesociety.org for updates on all summer lighthouse tours & special programs.
Our two trips to Fishers Island are Sold Out!
New London's Custom House Maritime Museum!
Photo: Mark Bigelow.
