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I’d like to let you know about a new podcast of maritime music associated with Maritime Heritage Network featuring Pacific Northwest, national, and international artists. The podcast is sponsored by my friend Barbara Sjoholm, a Port Townsend writer and author of The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea. The theme of the podcast, titled Female Sailor Bold, is stories on women who go to sea as men. You’ll find the podcast at http://www.piratequeen.org/.
Although the podcast is not strictly a Maritime Heritage Network project (I produced it as a trade for editorial services by Barbara), I’ve used the opportunity to promote MHN and demonstrate potential web-based promotion options for maritime heritage organizations. To listen to the podcast, which is 25 minutes long, download the audio file from the podcast page or use the RSS file to load the podcast into your media player, such as iPod. I'd love to know what you think! Alice Winship, a leader in the effort to save the schooner Wawona, sent out this appeal via e-mail last week:
If you would like to prevent the demolition of the historic schooner Wawona, please write, email or phone the Seattle City Council to ask that the Seattle Parks Department be required to provide space at Lake Union Park for Wawona to be displayed whole, not in pieces. Ask the City Council to tell Parks that Wawona must be preserved as a whole, either on land or on a barge, even if this requires changing the plan for Lake Union Park. Despite our successful lobbying last Fall during the City Budget Hearings, Parks is continuing their stance that they probably would not accept Wawona as a whole in the park, only in pieces. MOHAI (Museum of History & Industry) has hired an engineering firm to develop designs for displaying Wawona in the park, either whole or in pieces. The design report is due back in mid-March. It is strongly suspected that Parks will pressure Northwest Seaport to choose a design plan that would demolish Wawona and preserve only pieces. Northwest Seaport decided last Fall to pursue displaying Wawona either on land or on a barge, either whole or in pieces. Displaying Wawona out of the water as a whole is acceptable to most Wawona supporters. Preserving only pieces is completely unacceptable. Pieces of the ship would not provide educational programming or any means to generate funds for maintenance. Displayed whole out of the water, she could continue to give future generations the educational programs that she has provided for the past 40 years. This historic treasure must be preserved in its entirety. Although cost is a major argument for displaying the ship on land rather than in the water, many supporters of Wawona have come to feel that displaying Wawona out of the water, as a whole, is the best choice, even if funds were available for a complete restoration. Restoring Wawona so that she could be put back in the water would require replacing 95% of her wood. If she were preserved on land, much more of the original fabric of the ship could be kept. This wood has stories to tell. It bears the tool marks of the original builders, and the marks left by use during her long history as a lumber and codfishing schooner. Wawona is still the authentic, original vessel. Now that the only other remaining large wooden sailing ship built on the West Coast, the C.A. Thayer, has been completely rebuilt, retaining only 5% of her original wood, it becomes that much more important to preserve the Wawona as the true ship that our great-grandfather’s generation built. Please contact the Seattle City Council as soon as possible, as time is short. Contact information for the City Council is listed below. Please contact all Councilmembers if you can, but if you cannot contact the entire list, please contact Councilmembers David Della and Peter Steinbrueck. A mailed letter usually gets the most attention, and a phone call is next best. Use email if you are short of time, or in addition to your other methods of contact. If you would like more information, or a sample of a draft letter, please contact me. Alice Winship 206-448-0707 walice1@qwest.net City council members can be reached at: Seattle City Hall, Floor 2 PO Box 34025 Seattle, WA 98124-4025 The web address is http://www.seattle.gov/ A visitor to Maritime Heritage Network suggested posting these two important Seattle Post-Intelligencer stories about the Odyssey Maritime Discovery Center.
Odyssey asks port to keep it afloat http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/305276_museum27.html Maritime museum to get $3.2 million http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/305442_port28.html We'd welcome any comments you might have. Click the comments link below to post. Readers can also post comments directly on the article pages.  Nearly two dozen family and friends joined me last night at the Uptown Espresso in West Seattle to celebrate the official launch of Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona. Wayne Palsson, a board member at Northwest Seaport, which owns Wawona, gave an optimistic assessment of the vessel's future, and I read several excerpts from the book. And I sold a dozen copies! Woo hoo! There I am, in the photo, signing for a happy customer. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported me! (And thanks to Monica Evans for the photo!) I received a flyer from Bellevue author Dick Blumenthal promoting his books, The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters, and With Vancouver in Inland Washington Waters. Blumenthal says both books are for "armchair historians interested in the early exploration of inland Washington waters," adding that "these texts bring Northwest maritime history to life." The books focus on the explorations of Spanish and British explorers, including Capt. George Vancouver in 1792.
I've received the first review of my history of the Wawona. HistoryLink, the Pacific Northwest's leading history website, called the book a "marvelous tale." You can read the review at the site's Featured Book of the Fortnight page.
I'm also scheduling more readings. Check this blog frequently for more announcements. I've scheduled two more readings for the book:
Great news! We're going to have a release event for my book Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona on Friday, February 23, 2007, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Uptown Espresso, 4301 SW Edmunds St. (California Avenue & Edmunds Street) in the West Seattle Junction. The event program includes a brief reading and an update on the condition of the schooner and plans for her restoration. I'll sign copies of my book, which will be offered for sale at the event. I hope to see you there and to sign your copy!
I will be making my first appearance as an author of Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen: The Story of the Schooner Wawona at the Seattle Boat Show, January 25 and 26, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at the Captain's Nautical booth. The show is at the Qwest Field Event Center in Seattle. Captain's Nautical is a leading seller of nautical books, as well as all kinds of gear for the boat lover, in the Seattle area. I hope to see you there!
I received my shipment of Shipbuilders, Sea Captains, and Fishermen from the publisher. I get a nice discount as an author, and I can turn them around and sell them at the suggested retail price or a discount of my own. I plan to do so at lectures at area museums. I received 110 books, plus the five free copies. Now all I have to do is sell them! Easier said than done for me, the world's worst salesman.
I also have to give eight away to local libraries and the Washington State Library as part of my grant from 4Culture. I sent them off today. Hoping for some reviews soon. If you've read the book, please post a review at Amazon.com! I have posted audio and print excerpts from my book Shipbuilders, Sea Captains and Fishermen at http://www.wawonabook.com. The excerpts come from chapter six, The Wawona Brewing Society. You can also download them via these links: Print (PDF format, 1 megabyte); Audio (MP3, 12 megabytes.) Let me know what you think!
Happy 2007! Maritime Heritage Networks is always looks for ways to make it easy for you to track news from the website, such as weekly featured CDs from MHN/Music and upcoming maritime heritage events. We've now added enhanced RSS news feeds to the home page and a revamped Calendar page. And it's easier than ever to subscribe using your favorite RSS reader or the new Internet Explorer 7, which includes a free RSS reader. Not familiar with RSS? Go to What Is RSS? for a simple, non-technical explanation.
Here's the available feeds: Home page: BloglinesMHN Calendar: Bloglines In addition, here's direct links to the RSS and Atom feeds: With the addition of these enhanced feeds, I will no longer be posting weekly notices of the featured CD and upcoming events on the MHN Blog. That said, I still want your submissions of events, which should be sent to info@maritimeheritage.net. I'd also welcome any suggestions from musicians on new maritime music. Thanks! The Foss Waterway Seaport has announced a grant of $10,000 from the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation toward its capital campaign for the restoration and adaptive re–use of its home, the Balfour Dock Building at 705 Dock Street, Tacoma. The dock is also the home of the Working Waterfront Maritime Museum. Funding for this grant was provided by the June and Julian Foss Fund, Hayes Family Fund, and the Marco J. Heidner Fund of the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation. More information is available in this story from the Tacoma Weekly.
Donald P. Wang wrote to Maritime Heritage Network with an offer of a 1945-era YW class ship. The 166-foot vessel is currently named the Coast Angel and the USCG document number is 520075. The vessel is currently berthed in Seattle, and pictures are available here. If you're interested in visiting the Coast Angel, contact Don at 310-892-1332, e-mail Skyline420@aol.com.
Here's selected special events from the Maritime Heritage Network Calendar for Dec. 22-24, 2006.
Here's a few last minute holiday gift ideas from the online MHN Gift Shop. A portion of each purchase supports MHN operations.
Happy Holidays from Maritime Heritage Network! Here's more gift ideas, this times some experiences offered by the Center for Wooden Boats.
CWB is located at 1010 Valley Street, next to South Lake Union Park in Seattle. Call 206-382-2628 for store hours. You can support Maritime Heritage Network with a purchase from our online store. We feature more than 350 books, DVDs, music, gifts, and much more. Here's selected special events from the Maritime Heritage Network Calendar for Dec. 15-17, 2006.
Here are some holiday gift ideas from Northwest Seaport. Your purchase helps maritime heritage groups spread the word and pay the monthly bills.
You can support Maritime Heritage Network with a purchase from our online store. We feature more than 350 books, DVDs, music, gifts, and much more. The Willapa Seaport Museum is an amazing maritime museum in historic Raymond, Washington, just minutes from Willapa Bay and the Oysterville National Historic District. For gift ideas, museum director Capt. Pete Darrah suggests exquisitely hand-crafted stick built models of row-boats. These clinker-built gems are from nine to 24 inches in length and feature leathered oars and painters. Price: $35.00 to $225.00.
The Willapa Seaport Museum Ship's Store is located at 310 Alder in Raymond, just off US Highway 101 in Pacific County. Hours are Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m., other times by appointment. Call 360-942-2855. You can support Maritime Heritage Network with a purchase from our online store. We feature more than 350 books, DVDs, music, gifts, and much more. Many Pacific Northwest maritime heritage groups have small stores with fabulous gift ideas, often available nowhere else. And the sales support operations: paying the phone bill, electric bill, and such.
The Working Waterfront Maritime Museum in Tacoma offers these two gifts.
You can support Maritime Heritage Network with a purchase from our online store. We feature more than 350 books, DVDs, music, gifts, and much more.  Music is one of the easiest gifts to give this holiday season, and we can't think of a better maritime music gift that the latest album from Great Big Sea: Courage & Patience & Grit. It features the premiere Newfoundland group in concert on this CD/DVD combo album. Great Big Sea blends traditional sea shanties, sea songs, vocals and acoustic instruments with modern sounds and arrangements to create a popular music punch that has turned heads around the world. Buy the CD at Amazon.com. Listen to a sample. A portion of the sales supports Maritime Heritage Network.  Sound Experience's schooner Adventuress has been hauled out for winter work, which is detailed at the Sound Experience website. Volunteers have several opportunities to help out in the coming months. For more details and photos of the work so far, visit the haulout web page. (Photo courtesy Sound Experience) Here's selected special events from the Maritime Heritage Network Calendar for Dec. 8-10, 2006.
Northwest Seaport hosts a shanty sing-along every second Friday of the month at South Lake Union Park, and this month's event on Friday, December 8 has a pirate twist with a heavy dose of Christmas. Singer and shantyman Matthew Moeller will recite "A Visit from Old Whitebeard," a pirate version of "The Night Before Christmas." Admission is free, though donations accepted. Refreshments and maritime music CDs for sale. For more information, call (206) 447-9800 or e-mail seaport@oz.net.
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