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Friday, April 28, 2006

Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought.

Justice Peter Smith, he who recently ruled on English “Da Vinci Code” copyright case embedded a secret code in his ruling. After two days a group of intrepid lawyers-cum-cryptographers from an Olswang law firm cracked this code to reveal the perhaps even more cryptic message "Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought".

It appears that “Jackie Fisher was England’s greatest admiral after Nelson, and was responsible for the creation of the Dreadnought, which was launched nearly exactly 100 years to the day of the start of the trial,” the judge wrote in an e-mail message. “Nevertheless, he has been airbrushed out of history.”

If you are among the masses who are ignorate of Admiral Fisher, and perhaps will have the need to drop some scintilating facts at an upcoming cocktail party:

According to Wikipedia, Admiral of the Fleet, John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, RN (January 25, 1841 – July 10, 1920), commonly known as "Jackie" Fisher, was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure of British naval history, after Lord Nelson.

many thanks to Leigh for passing this story along!

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Conference Announcement

The CENTRE FOR PORTUGUESE NAUTICAL STUDIES [CPNS] will be holding its second, international conference on Maritime Archaeology & History which will take place in Mossel Bay from 6-8 August 2006. Local and international presenters will take part in discussions on Maritime archaeology, Maritime history, Trade & Trade ceramics, Ships &
shipbuilding, Shipwrecks & Survivors, South African shipwrecks, shipwreck legislation & museums. Various sponsorship/marketing opportunities are available to companies wishing some international and local exposure.

For more details please visit: www.cpnssa.org

Good News For Lighthouse Buffs

The Texas State Historical Association proudly announces Texas Lighthouses,a new online gallery featuring images and historical information about the lighthouses and lightships along Texas's Gulf Coast, from Sabine Pass to Point Isabel, as well as special features on the design and construction of lighthouses and on the men and women who tended them.

It's a well documented and illustrated site.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/gallery/texas_lighthouses.html

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Conference Announcement

The Dublin Center for New England Folklife presents "In Our Own Words: New England Diaries, 1600 to the Present", a three day conference on historical perspectives of diary writing and diary production in New England and contiguous areas of New York State.

Sunday morning, June 18 is of particular interest to the Maritime Community

Harvesting the Sea

Rebecca Leah Zeidel, Harvard University: Fore and Aft: Women, Men, and the Work of Whaling on the Nauticon, 1848–1853

Karen Alexander, University of New Hampshire: “So Ends This Day”: Personal Records of Life at Sea from Nineteenth-Century New England Codfishermen’s Logs

Ship Logs, Piloting Journals, and Travel Diaries

Anne C. Farrow, The Hartford Courant: Linking New London and Africa: Ship Logs of the Africa, the Good Hope, and the Fox, 1757–1758

Colin Arms Porter, New York, New York: Presenting the Popham Colony: Robert Davies and His Diary

Katherine A. Grandjean, Harvard University: A Travel Diary?: In the Footsteps of Thomas Minor, 1653–1684



Personal note: gosh I wish I could go! (but I'll be returning from my bike ride thru Europe that day)

Cool Website Alert

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries have put together an impressive site on The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.

Including full text versions of the Narrative, Scientific Texts, Atlas, and Plate the site also includes links to related primary source, as well as articles by Expedition experts.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Everlasting life at sea

A paranormal researcher on board the Charles W. Morgan reported sensing "the presence of a seaman named Gerald" and "sickness, death and despair" among about 15 men as they rode out a large storm in their cramped sleeping quarters.

Friday's visit of the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group to Mystic Seaport was undertaken at the request of several visitors. Museum staff, while interested in all things maritime, aren't convinced of the presence of ghosts on board the ship. History and time leave their own impressions. There may well have been some Geralds (I haven't checked the crew lists yet there would certainly be more than 15 men experiencing sickness, death and despair over the course of many storms.

What is perhaps even more interesting is the fact that this story is being caried by the AP and showing up in more newspapers than any related maritime-type story that I've run across in about 5 months.

Full story at Duluth.com

Job Posting: UK Research Fellow

Britain's Atlantic Empire, 1650 - 1850

SIX-MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT, £30,000 pro rata

The National Maritime Museum is building on its success in telling Britain’s imperial and maritime story by developing two new galleries to explore the diverse histories and shared legacies of Britain’s maritime empires. The galleries, which have the collective working title of Britain’s Maritime Worlds, will focus on Britain’s interaction with the Atlantic and Asian worlds between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The Museum’s world-class collections are particularly strong in these areas and the two galleries, which will open in autumn 2007 and 2008 respectively, will form the centrepiece of a range of Museum activities.

We are seeking a research fellow to help us take forward the research and interpretation on the first of these galleries, which deals with Britain’s Atlantic world. The fellow will be one of a team of professional exhibition curators and conservators working on the gallery and his or her primary role will be to provide them with the subject expertise needed to select and develop its main themes. The fellow will be expected to work closely with our 2- and 3-D collections, using their knowledge of the Atlantic world to weave an accurate, accessible and compelling history around them. Although experience of working with objects would be an advantage, it will be more important for the applicant to be able to demonstrate an awareness of the potential of material culture and a willingness to use the objects to draw out often complex historical meanings. The job will entail working with other departments in the Museum, particularly Education and Online Projects, to help them develop their own programmes to accompany the new gallery.

This varied and interesting position would ideally suit a researcher with a higher degree in imperial or maritime studies and a specialisation in an aspect of Atlantic history. The fellow will be excited by the challenges of presenting high-quality research to non-academic audiences within a gallery environment. They will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, and will enjoy the prospect of working in a team.

It is anticipated that a full-time curatorial position in the field of imperial and maritime studies will be advertised during the period of the fellowship, for which the fellow will be able to apply.

To apply please send a CV and covering letter to:

Human Resources
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF
Email: recruitment@nmm.ac.uk

Closing date for the receipt of applications: 10 May 2006

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

National Archives Celebrates Maritime Month in May

WASHINGTON, April 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Archives will celebrate Maritime Month in May, 2006. Using Federal records, the National Archives will highlight the rich maritime history of the United States through special events, presentations, exhibits, and films at various National Archives facilities across the nation. For details, check the National Archives Maritime Month Web page at http://www.archives.gov/calendar/maritime-month.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Bush to Deliver Commencement Speech at Merchant Marine Academy

From chron.com

WASHINGTON - Every year since 1950, the senior class president of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy has written a letter to the president of the United States, asking him to deliver the commencement speech. And, every year since 1950 the president of the United States has declined the invitation — until now.

President Bush announced Thursday that he will deliver the keynote speech to the graduating class of the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., on June 19, making him the first sitting president to visit the institution since its creation in 1943.

Bush will also speak to the graduating classes at Oklahoma State University on May 6, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College on May 11 and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. on May 27.

Those four will be the most college graduations he will have spoken at during his time in office in a single year.

"This is a very exciting event," said Martin Skrocki of the Merchant Marine Academy. "We've never had a U.S. president come to the academy."

Richard Nixon attended a function when he was vice president and Dan Quayle gave a speech to the academy in 1991, when he was vice president.

Bush has good reason to end this presidential embargo. Merchant mariners carry 95 percent of military supplies to the Persian Gulf.

When Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta gave the commencement speech at the academy in 2004, he noted that for nine days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, mariners transported personnel and supplies such as food from Brooklyn and New Jersey to lower Manhattan.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

New Article: Journal for Maritime Research


‘Icebergs’ and other recent discoveries in paintings from Cook’s second voyage by William Hodges

A new article in the March edition of the JMR looks particularly interesting. Especially to those interested in how primary sources were not so primary after all. Turns out the paintings, which have been taken for documenation, were probably edited to fit contemporary tastes.

Here's the abstract from the website:
Hodges was official landscape artist on Cook’s second Pacific voyage, 1772–75 and therefore the first professional painter to see both the tropical south-central Pacific and the Antarctic ice of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic sectors of the Southern Ocean. This note reports previously unrecorded features of several of his resulting works, discovered during their preparation for a 2004 exhibition of Hodges’ work at the National Maritime Museum. Raking light examination and X-radiography revealed significant hidden information, including variant title inscriptions and an unfinished view of Antarctic icebergs. These details challenge the accepted chronology of Hodges’ work and suggest that a more systematic re-examination of his Pacific paintings is still needed to reveal the full extent of their hidden information.

Job Posting: Independence Seaport Museum

The Independence Seaport Museum seeks a part-time, temporary (grant-funded through December 2006) Library and Archives Department Assistant.

Located on Philadelphia's historic Penn's Landing, Independence Seaport Museum provides a dynamic, interactive learning experience, and is home to OLYMPIA, Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898, and BECUNA, a WWII submarine, a boatbuilding workshop, changing exhibition galleries and a special collections library. The library houses an extensive collection of materials pertaining to the history of the Delaware Valley Region in a variety of formats, including manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings, maps and ephemera.

Please see www.phillyseaport.org for more information about ISM, and about the library's collections and services.

The ideal candidate will have practical experience in special library reference service and archives collection management, and will have the opportunity to make an important contribution to the Department's objective to increase access to its holdings.

DUTIES: Schedule research appointments, and assist and monitor users with library and archives collections in the reading room. Answer reference questions by mail. Assist library director with administrative tasks and collections care, such as inventories, data entry, photocopying and scanning, shelving, filing, and other duties as assigned. Conduct original research for exhibit support, and in order to produce finding aids. Assist with processing of archival collections, including arrangement and description, rehousing, and basic conservation.

SALARY AND HOURS: Three days a week on a consistent schedule during the library’s public service hours: Tuesday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. $12 an hour.

REQUIRED: The assistant will be the public's primary contact with the library, and therefore expected to present a professional, service-oriented demeanor, with a pleasant phone manner and authoritative presence in the reading room. Other requirements include excellent writing skills; attention to detail; dependability; ability to work both independently and with the public; understanding of primary sources; care in handling unique materials.

PREFERRED: Previous employment in a library or research setting strongly preferred. Undergraduate degree in humanities; knowledge of American/maritime history/technology; training in archival practice; facility with Microsoft Office and OCLC.

TO APPLY: Send resume and cover letter to Megan Fraser, Library Director; Independence Seaport Museum; 211 S. Columbus Blvd. at Walnut Street; Philadelphia, PA 19106; fax: (215) 925-6713; or e-mail library@phillyseaport.org

Resumes without cover letters will not be considered,

Maritime Researcher Wanted

This was posted on the Archives Listserve earlier today:

The Intrepid Museum is looking for a researcher to compile a listing of materials related to the USS Intrepid that are in the pocession of NARA and the Library of Congress.

Can anybody recommend any researchers in the Washington DC area who have a background in Naval/Maritime History that would be interested in such a project.

Please reply to:

larrybird1j@NETSCAPE.NET
Larry Sheldon
Collections Manager
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

Monday, April 10, 2006

Ring Anderson


For some reason the news that the 114ft luxury schooner Ring Anderson has been donated to the Virginia Maritime Heritage Foundation has just been broken, even thought the transfer of ownership happened in January. (or there is the possibility that I missed it in the midst of the New Year festivities.

Read the full story at HamptonRoads.com

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Dutch-Australian maritime symposium

Two world experts on the early Dutch exploration of the Australian coast will contribute to an entertaining symposium on Dutch-Australian maritime links in Sydney on 12-13 May this year.

Other speakers will talk on wide-ranging subjects such as early Dutch efforts to chart the Western Australian coast, Dutch-Australian relations in World War II and Dutch influences in contemporary Australian culture.

The two-day symposium Dutch Connections – 400 Years of Australian-Dutch Maritime Links 1606-2006 will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in the Duyfken, sailing into the Gulf of Carpenteria and making the first European contact with Australia in the spring of 1606.With registration open to everyone, it will be presented by the Australian National Maritime Museum and Shell at the National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour.

The two visiting experts on early Dutch trade with the East Indies and the exploration of Australia’s west coast are
· Professor Peter Sigmond, Director of Collections at the renowned Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and
· Dr Robert Parthesius, historian and curator at the Amsterdam Historical Museum.

The other speakers will include:
Dr Philip Playford (Western Australian Museum): Dirck Hartogh and the Land of the Eendracht: early exploration and shipwrecks on the coast of Western Australia… a paper that will review the famous navigators who visited Cape Inscription WA in the 17th – 19th centuries.
Paul Brunton (State Library of NSW): Abel Janszoon Tasman – The Australian voyages, missing journals and fugitive charts.
Dr Mack McCarthy (Western Australian Maritime Museum): The Dutch on Australian Shores, the Zuytdorp tragedy – unfinished business.
Dr Nonja Peters (Curtin University of Technology WA): Doubled Dutch – Post-war Migration to Australia.
Dr Peter Stanley (Australian War Memorial): ‘The Dutch are a mob of bastards’ – Australian and Dutch relations in the Pacific War.
Dr Nigel Erskine (Australian National Maritime Museum): Dutch encounters and the Australasian shore… a paper that will consider how Dutch settlements in Asia contributed to the British settlement of Australia, and Dutch connections in the National Maritime Collection.
Akky van Ogtrop (Dutch-Australia Cultural Centre): The Dutch Experience in Australia – Visual Arts
Gerard Willems (Sydney Conservatorium of Museum): The Dutch Experience in Australia - Music

Registration for the two-day symposium Dutch Connections – 400 Years of Australian-Dutch Maritime Links 1606-2006 costs $77. This includes two lunches, morning and afternoon teas. Registration for one of the two days costs $44. For information and bookings, phone Carolyn Allen +61 2 9298 3777.

Two Positions at Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats, a non-profit maritime museum and education center, is accepting applications for two part time positions. Qualified applicants may apply for both positions.

Job Opportunity: Business Assistant

This 20 hour per week position supports the Business Manager in the daily operations of the museum. This position is required to work one shift per weekend.

Duties of the business assistant include, but are not limited to:
Receiving income on a day-to-day basis and properly recording income in Quickbooks.
Entering and paying bills in a timely manner.
Assisting the Business Manager in keeping financial processes up to date.
Reconciling bank accounts with Quickbooks.
Assisting in tracking designated funds for grant reporting purposes.
Financial record keeping both on the computer and paper hard copies.
Tracking and recording in-kind donations to the museum.
Making bank deposits, transferring funds, and performing other banking tasks.
Generating simple Quickbooks reports.
Recruiting and managing advertisers for various publications.
Purchasing and managing inventory for the CWB store.
Staffing the front desk when volunteers are unavailable.

Minimum qualifications:
Ability to operate office equipment and computers including proficiency using Outlook, Word, and Excel.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Detail oriented with the ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Ability to work as part of a larger group as projects dictate.
Ability to apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
Knowledge of the operation of standard office equipment and communications systems.
Ability to handle sensitive information with honesty and integrity.
All employees are subject to a background check with the Washington State Patrol and other law enforcement agencies.
Applicant must have a valid driver’s license.

Desired qualifications:
Familiarity with Quickbooks.
Familiarity with Quickbooks Point of Sale.
Experience or familiarity with fundamental principles of accounting and bookkeeping.

Reports to: Business Manager

Salary: $10-$12, DOE
This position offers a flexible work schedule, with prior approval from a supervisor.
The Center for Wooden Boats offers free boat use to its employees. Opportunities to learn how to sail or develop maritime skills may be available.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume, and references to Business Assistant Applications, The Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 or eldon@cwb.org. Please note that cover letters will be evaluated both for content and as a writing sample.

Applications must be received by 5pm, April 17, 2006

Job opportunity: Operations Assistant

This 20 hour per week position supports the operation of a non-profit museum and education center. This position is required to work one shift per weekend.

Duties of the Operations Assistant include, but are not limited to::
Operating and troubleshooting office equipment and personal computers.
Assisting in the scheduling and preparation of materials for board meetings.
Managing mailing work parties and processing mailings correctly for bulk mail.
Assisting with grant writing and other development tasks.
Managing facility use including rental of the facility.
Staffing the front desk when volunteers are unavailable.
Managing volunteer trainings and work parties.
Assisting with special projects including facility upgrades, events, and maintenance tasks.
Moving, sorting, and organizing items as heavy as 40 pounds on a regular basis.
Overseeing operations when the Operations Manager is not available.
Preparing and maintaining various records on office activities pertaining to operations, purchasing, office management, and related activities; processes sensitive materials.
Entering and manipulating data and information by creating word processing templates, form letters, simple databases, tables and spreadsheets.

Minimum qualifications:
One year of experience in general office, clerical and administrative support work.
Ability to operate office equipment and computers including proficiency using Outlook, Word (including mail merge), Excel, and Access.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Detail oriented with the ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Ability to work as part of a larger group as projects dictate.
Ability to apply and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
Knowledge of the operation of standard office equipment and communications systems.
Applicant must be able to lift and move 40 pounds on a regular basis.
All employees are subject to a background check with the Washington State Patrol and other law enforcement agencies.
Applicant must have a valid driver’s license.

Desired qualifications:
Previous experience processing bulk mailing.
Previous experience managing rental contracts.
Knowledge of the general principles of volunteer management.

Reports to: Operations Manager

Salary: $10-$12 per hour, DOE.
This position offers a flexible work schedule, with prior approval from a supervisor.
The Center for Wooden Boats offers free boat use to its employees. Opportunities to learn how to sail or develop maritime skills may be available.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume, and references to Operations Assistant Applications, The Center for Wooden Boats, 1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 or eldon@cwb.org. Please note that cover letters will be evaluated both for content and as a writing sample.

Applications must be received by 5pm, April 17, 2006

CFP: Graduate Student Conference, UConn

Imagining Environments: Navigating Space and Place in the Early Atlantic World

The Second James L. and Shirley A. Draper Graduate Student Conference on Early American Studies at the University of Connecticut and Mystic Seaport, September 28-30, 2006

The early Atlantic world evokes images of Basque fishermen hand lining off the shores of Nova Scotia, Africans harvesting sugar cane in Barbados, hogs rooting through mussel beds on Cape Cod, a peddler selling Bibles on a Philadelphia street corner, Navajo women hustling sheep across the Rio Grande. Such images are at the heart of exciting new scholarship.

Encouraging innovative research on both real and imagined environments, both this conference and our Pulitzer prize-winning keynote speaker, Alan Taylor, seek to explore reconstructions and representations of space and place across the Atlantic world. Taylor's William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic and his recent work, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution, offer models for such inquiry, tracing the contests over territory, power, and culture in the borderlands of the Northeast.

The University of Connecticut History Department and Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea invite graduate students to submit paper proposals for the Second James L. and Shirley A. Draper Graduate Student Conference on Early American Studies, to be held in Storrs and Mystic, Connecticut from September 28-30, 2006. This conference welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to the Americas and the Atlantic world from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth-centuries. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

-Public and private spaces from New England Town Squares to Portuguese slave ships
-Experiencing religious, spiritual, and other transformative environments
-Mapping the oceans, cities, and farmlands of the Americas
-Development of community identity within racial, gendered, and class-conscious paces
-Native, European, and African conceptions of the environment
-The relationship between technology, science, and space
-Staple crop agriculture, early industrialization, and environmental consequences

Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be received by May 5, 2006. Notifications of acceptance will be made by June 15, 2006. Interested graduate students should submit a 200-300 word abstract and brief C.V. Please submit materials electronically in Word format and include, "Draper Conference" in the subject line.

Please send proposals or comments to:

Chad Reid
chad.reid@uconn.edu

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

10th North Atlantic Fisheries History Association Conference

The North Atlantic Fisheries History Association (NAFHA) and the German Maritime Museum (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum / DSM) invite you to the upcoming 10th NAFHA Conference to be held in Bremerhaven (Germany) between Aug. 7th and Aug. 11th 2006.

The conference will be part of the scientific programme accompanying the special exhibition Fish-Fingers at the German Maritime Museum during summer 2006.

Therefore a special focus of the conference will be on the industrialization of the fisheries and fish industry in the North-Atlantic area during the 20th century.

Other topics will be:
- Fisheries limits and conflicts
- Labour migration
- Globalization of fisheries and fish industry
- Consumer habits
- Fishermen's religion and superstition

As the conference is dedicated to be a forum for all scholars dealing with fisheries history there will be a specialized session on global fisheries history aspects organized in cooperation with the Global Fisheries History Network (GFHN).

In addition there will be a young researcher's session.

Meetings of the NAFHA Editorial Committee, NAFHA Steering Committee will be part of the programme as well as a General Assembly of NAFHA.

Excursions to the fisheries harbour of Bremerhaven and fish-processing plants will complete the programme.

Conference fee is 100,--EUR and will cover the conference materials, excursions, the conference dinner and coffee breaks. (A limited number of exemptions and/or reductions for the conference fee will be available, for further details or to apply for an exemption or reduction please contact the local organizers.)

A draft programme of the conference will be available in May 2006 and spread out with the second invitation together with detailed information on accommodation and travel arrangements.

Registration for the conference will start yet and stay open until the end of June.

To register for the conference please contact Britta Steffens of the local organizing committee (steffens@dsm.de).

Conference language will be English.

Local organizing committee of the 10th NAFHA Conference Bremerhaven 2006


PD Dr. Ingo Heidbrink
-German Maritime Museum-
Hans Scharoun Platz 1
D-27568 Bremerhaven
GERMANY
Phone: +49 471 48207 16
Fax: +49 471 48207 55
Mail: heidbrink@dsm.de

Britta Steffens
-German Maritime Museum-
Hans Scharoun Platz 1
D-27568 Bremerhaven
GERMANY
Phone: +49 471 48207 26
Fax: +49 471 48207 55
Mail: stiffens@dsm.de

The MHN Blog: Kalakala Named to National Register of Historic Places

The MHN Blog: Kalakala Named to National Register of Historic Places

Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship


The Maryland Historical Society is pleased to announce that the deadline for applications for our Lord Baltimore Research Fellowships has been extended to April 15th. This is a postmark deadline. Applications will be welcomed from independent scholars, graduate students, or university faculty in any discipline appropriate to its collections. Our collections are strongest in the colonial period through the nineteenth century, with significant holdings of family, political, and business papers. Our collections also support in-depth research in African-American and maritime history, decorative and performing arts, architecture, and other topics.

Between six and twelve Lord Baltimore Fellowships will be awarded. These fellowships are non-stipendiary. Fellows will be provided with office space, access to computers with Internet connections, office supplies, staff-level access to the library and museum (that is, access will be available for fellows from Monday through Saturday, not just during public hours), and a free staff parking permit.

For more information and application instructions, please go to:
http://www.mdhs.org/library/fellowship.html

Monday, April 03, 2006

John Carter Resigns

According to the Philadelphia Business Journal the president of the Independence Seaport Museum the Philadelphia maritime-history museum said has resigned. John Carter, who had been president for 17 years, resigned effective March 30. The museum's board of port wardens announced the resignation Saturday.

Carter came to Philadelphia in 1989 after serving as director of the Maine Maritime Museum.

"John has advised the board that he does not intend to stay for the duration of the next stage in the growth and development," said Chairman Peter McCausland. "Therefore, the board has decided to begin a search for the new president."

Karen Cronin, vice president of operations, will serve as acting president.

The Philadelphia Inquirer story has a few more details about the resignation and history of Carter's tenure.