The Last Wooden Sailship will Sail Once More
This past week, 14 of the nation’s top maritime scholars gathered at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut for a two-day brainstorming session to help the Seaport develop programming for the re-launch and voyage of the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaleship in the world and the oldest American commercial vessel. UNH Associate Professor of History Jeff Bolster was among them.
The meeting was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It allowed the museum to bring together experts in maritime history, art, literature, and science to help it express the Morgan’s significance to all of those fields with the most up-to-date research and best presentation methods possible.
For Prof. Bolster, the prospect of sailing a vessel with no engine, no navigation equipment and no on-board electricity is one of the highlights of the Morgan’s restoration.
“I think it’s a stunning opportunity to run the ship,” Bolster said. “Even my good friends who are among the most accomplished sailors have grown up with engines and radar and everything else … I think this will sing to people in a certain way.”
The voyage of the Morgan is planned for 2014. —Susan Dumais
UNH Men’s Hockey at Fenway
Go behind the scenes with UNH Men’s Hockey at Fenway Park!
White House Round Table
Join Martha Johnson, Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration at a White House Energy, Environment and Conservation Round Table. Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:30-11:00am, MUB 330/332. Sponsored by the UNH Sustainability Academy.
Aerial Sculpture
Five proposed projects for a piece of aerial sculpture that will hang in the main atrium of the new Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics will be available for viewing by the UNH community Tuesday, January 24. Stop by the McConnell Hall Reading Room between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. onTuesday to view a variety of models and presentations and provide your feedback on the work. All members of the UNH community are encouraged to participate.
Harry Jones Memorial Concert
The Seacoast Big Band under the direction of Dave Seiler will present the annual Harry Jones Memorial Concert on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, featuring guest composer/arrange Michael Mossman. Michael Philip Mossman is an American hard bop jazz trumpeter. Mossman’s early career included a tour of Europe with Anthony Braxton in 1978 and tours with Roscoe Mitchell in the early 1980s. He also did session work in the 1980s for Styx, among others. He played with Lionel Hampton, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and Machito before joining the Blue Note Records ensemble Out of the Blue in 1985. Following this he worked with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Horace Silver (1989–91), Gerry Mulligan (1992), Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Michel Camilo, Mario Bauza, Eddie Palmieri, and the Philip Morris Superband. He has also appeared in the documentary Calle 54 (2000).
The concert takes place in the Johnson Theatre of the Paul Creative Arts Center on the Durham campus, and begins at 8 pm. Single Tickets are priced at $8, senior citizen and student tickets sell for $6 and are available at the MUB ticket office, Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, online at www.unhmub.com/ticket and at the door.
