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WE’RE OPENOur Indoor Exhibit spaces are OPEN again, Thursday to Sunday 10am - 3pm Don’t forget to visit both sites during your visit. EHSSM Visitor Greeters will guide you through our Indoor Exhibits at both locations, 66 and 28 Main Street, Essex MA FREE ADMISSION until LABOR DAY 2021 Self guided tour of the Shipyard is OPEN from Dawn - Dusk everyday
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Look for the OPEN flag at 66 Main Street, Essex MA |
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Look for the OPEN flag at 28 Main Street, Essex MA |
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New Exhibits in the Essex History Room in our Admissions Center |
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Come in the learn why we chose to preserve the EVELINA M. GOULART in her original state. |
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EHSSM Greeter and Intern are awaiting your arrival at the EHSSM 1835 Historic Schoolhouse |
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And Don’t forget to EXIT through the Gift Shop and pick up some EHSSM branded gear. |
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Topsfield Vocational Academy ~ Garvey LAUNCH
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Learning to Splice the lines |
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Can’t forget the anchor line. Thimble attached to the anchor line. |
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Guess her weight ??? … find the answer at the bottom of this section |
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Fitting out for the Launch |
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Proud TVA Student Boatbuilders: Mike, Nilson, Jude, Riley, Liam, Justin TVA Teacher: Mark Webster EHSSM Boatbuilder: Jeff Lane |
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A beautiful day for a boat launch and cruise. |
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If you guessed 480 LBS, YOU”RE CORRECT! Add her engine at 190 LBS and she’s a total 610 LBS
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To Be of use, by Mary Piercy |
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You’re never too young to volunteer |
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Our volunteers are always smiling… (most of the time) |
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Keeping it in the family, (on the left) father and son volunteers working together on the Sharptown fleet, (on the right) Board of Director Mike volunteers as well. |
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A visit to our archives at the Central Schoolhouse, 28 Main Street, always reminds us of dear friends who also loved, and supported our museum. This time, we're thinking about artist, Thomas M Hoyne III, (1924-1989). Tom's love of Essex-built schooners is hard to miss, a framed print of his painting of the GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD is just inside the door. It is one of three framed prints he gave to us.
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"The Masthead man" The THEBAUD, Racing the BLUENOSE. |
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Then in our first-floor exhibit area, we find "The Widow Maker" his painting of the schooner ORIOLE, built by James & Tarr, 1908. |
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And next to that, "Last leg to Gloucester", his painting of the Schooner HARRY BELDEN, built 1889 by Moses Adams. |
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Tom often said he fell for the Gloucester Fishing Schooner as a boy, when he saw the movie "Captains Courageous'. Yup, that would do it, along with the famous lines of the products launched from the Shipyards of Essex. We only recently learned how Tom became so adept at illustrating the color and movement of the sea. After college, Tom was made an officer in the US Navy's Amphibious Force. As a gunnery officer on LST 48, with its crew of 12 officers and 125 men, he participated in the landing on Okinawa and patrolling the Pacific. After the war, he embarked on a career in advertising, then Illustration for advertising. In the 1970's, he turned his talents to his true love, painting working schooners at sea. On the second floor of the Central Schoolhouse, the museum's archives, the first of many fireproof file cabinets is home of the Thomas Hoyne Collection. Two drawers, literally crammed with photographs of Essex vessels. In his collection, there are Essex vessels being built, tied up in Gloucester, New Bedford, Provincetown, and other ports, working on the banks and in Canadian waters. All are carefully labeled on the back with names of the vessels and where, or from whom, he got the image. Presently, we are scanning all his photographs. We have a little over 6000 images scanned so far and have just begun working on the second drawer. Of great interest, are six or so photographs of Essex vessels that were built before the invention of photography. Also of great interest are a large number of images of Essex vessels that were built for Whaling or converted for that purpose.
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One of hundreds of detail photographs of Gloucester-men at work, found in the Hoyne collection, probably shot in New Bedford. |
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There are also a great number of photographs Tom took in his studio of models built for him by Erik Ronnberg. Each are posed in a ten-by-ten foot, by one-foot-high tabletop, filled with "Kitty-Litter". Set into the sand, which was sculpted with a rubber spatula, he was able to replicate the attitude and "moment" of the vessel.
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A Pinky rides the waves, posed "Kitty-Litter" to replicate the attitude and "moment" of the vessel. |
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Heel-Tapper, Amy Knight of Marblehead, 1830's, posed "Kitty-Litter" to replicate the attitude and "moment" of the vessel. |
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The Elsie sails again, posed "Kitty-Litter" to replicate the attitude and "moment" of the vessel. |
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Here are some more examples of Tom's extraordinary work. Some are still available to purchase on-line. Just search; "Artist Thomas Hoyne".
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Schooner ADMIRAL DEWEY, built by James & Tarr, 1898, detail of painting, "Steel to Starboard". |
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The Schooner EFFIE M. MORRISSEY portrayed in "First Life", as she was originally built by Tarr and James in 1894. |
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Schooner ADMIRAL DEWEY, built by James & Tarr, 1898, detail of painting, "Steel to Starboard". |
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Other ways to give When shopping on Amazon, consider starting at smile.amazon.com and selecting EHSSM as your charity of choice - Amazon will donate a portion of each sale to the museum, at no extra cost to you! Or donate through our Amazon wish list https://a.co/0GzihVA
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