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Press Release
SPNEA’s traveling exhibition “The Camera’s
Coast” to open at the
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Press Preview--Tuesday, June 15,
2004, 2-4 pm
Release Date: January 28, 2004
Event: SPNEA’s traveling exhibition “The
Camera’s Coast” to open at the Hull Lifesaving Museum
Location: Hull Lifesaving Museum
Contact: Vi
ctoria Stevens
Contact Phone: (781) 925-5433
E-Mail: [email protected]
Website: www.lifesavingmuseum.org
Event Date: June-September 2004
Time: Wednesday-Sunday 10 am-4 pm
Entry Fee: Adults $2, Seniors $1.50, Members &
Children under 18 free.
The Hull Lifesaving Museum and the Society for the Preservation
of New England Antiquities are pleased to announce “The Camera’s
Coast” will be on exhibit at the Lifesaving Museum from June
19th through September 5th.
“The Camera’s Coast” is a sampler
of historic coastal New England images from the collections of SPNEA.
The pioneering photographers represented from SPNEA include Nathaniel
Stebbins, Henry G. Peabody, Baldwin Coolidge, and Emma Coleman.
Subjects depicted include square-riggers, coasting schooners, fishing
vessels and fishing ports, small boats and large yachts, summer
hotels and fishermen’s shacks, fishermen, seaweed gatherers,
and saltmarsh
haymakers.
Curated by noted author and maritime historian William
H.
Bunting, “The Camera’s
Coast” illustrates life
along the New England coast in the late nineteenth an
d early twentieth
centuries. These were years of great social and economic change.
Many traditional maritime occupations, from longshore fishing and
shipbuilding to deep water voyaging were in decline. With mushrooming
industrialism and growing numbers of people able to take vacations--and
increasingly hot, crowded, and
dirty citi
es from which to flee--coastal
recreation boomed.
The opening reception for “The Camera
’s
Coast&
#8221; will be on Saturday June 19, 2004 from 7-9
pm at the
Hull Lifesaving Museum, 1117 Nantasket Avenue, Hull, MA.
Museum
hours are Wednesday-Sunday 10 am --4 pm. The museum is located at
1117 Nantasket Avenue, Hull, MA. General Admission is $2 adults,
$1.50 seniors, and chi
ldren under 18 free.
For more information
please contact Victoria Stevens at 781-925-5433.
About the Hull Lifesaving Museum
Located in the historic 1889 Point Allerton U.S. Lifesaving Station,
the Hull Lifesaving Museum preserves the region's lifesaving tradition
and maritime culture through collections, exhibits, experiential
and interpretive education, research, and service to others. The
museum's open water rowing programs in Boston Harbor educates young
people about themselves while developing a constituency that takes
stewardship for its maritime history. The deeds, traditions, and
ethic of the 19th century coastal lifesavers -- Skills, Courage,
and Caring -- are the foundation of the museum's exhibits and programs
and its underlying commitment to working to impact society, and
individual lives, for the better. For more information visit us
online at www.lifesavingmuseum.org.
About SPNEA
The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA),
a regional organization headquartered in Boston, owns and operates
thirty-five properties from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
SPNEA shares New England’s architecture, landscapes, objects,
and stories through innovative programs for residents, visitors,
and scholars. For more information, visit SPNEA online at www.SPNEA.org. |