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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Discovering Woods Hole: Exploring the Museum’s Collection Online
DESCRIPTION:Join our Archivist Colleen Hurter and our Executive Director Mark Long as they demonstrate how to search for materials in our archive\, using the Pacific Guano Company as an example.  \nWe will ask for audience questions about search topics\, so bring your own Woods Hole history questions to the session!
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-discovering-woods-hole-exploring-the-museums-collection-online/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Home Page Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T130000
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CREATED:20260204T163818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T163818Z
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Joseph Story Fay\, Thomas Simms\, and a Nation on the Brink
DESCRIPTION:Join the Woods Hole Historical Museum for a conversation with scholar Brandon McGrath-Neely entitled “Joseph Story Fay\, Thomas Simms\, and a Nation on the Brink” on Thursday\, February 12 at noon at the Woods Hole Public Library. \nIn his work\, McGrath-Neely examines the “inverted lives” of Joseph Story Fay\, a prominent landowner and “the first summer resident” of Woods Hole\, and Thomas Simms\, a man who escaped slavery\, both of whom utilized geographic mobility to enhance their circumstances. Fay relocated from Boston to Savannah to capitalize on opportunities in the cotton trade and improve his financial standing. Conversely\, Sims escaped enslavement in Savannah and stowed away on a Boston-bound vessel. \nBoth men’s endeavors collided with the crisis between North and South epitomized by the Compromise of 1850\, particularly the Fugitive Slave Act. This compelled Simms’s return to slavery and complicated Fay’s business relationships in Savannah due to escalating distrust in a nation increasingly divided by region. \nTheir intersecting narratives reveal how individual ambition was constrained by the machinations of the slave economy within a nation teetering on the brink of civil war.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-joseph-story-fay-thomas-simms-and-a-nation-on-the-brink/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Home Page Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20251104T175356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T193754Z
UID:12663-1764356400-1764360000@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Holiday Conversation: “The Wondrous Mrs. Claus”
DESCRIPTION:Get into the holiday spirit with a Woods Hole Historical Museum Conversation by author Pamela McColl about her new book\, “Wondrous Mrs. Claus.” \nThe wife of Santa made her literary debut in 1849. Sleuthing through books\, journal articles and poems\, McColl discovered Mrs. Claus played a role in larger discussions about women’s roles in 19th century—even used by advocates for and against women’s suffrage. McColl’s talk will include a poem by Falmouth’s own Katharine Lee Bates\, featured in the book. \nHoliday refreshments will be served.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-holiday-conversation-the-wondrous-mrs-claus/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Home Page Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T200000
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CREATED:20250324T182902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T175959Z
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SUMMARY:Woods Hole Cooks Something Up - Memories and Stories
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Emans Moore\, editor of Woods Hole Cooks Something Up for the 21st Century\, will present a lively conversation about the museum’s award-winning cookbooks\, with stories from the archives about beloved community members and favorite recipes. \nLocation: Woods Hole Public Library Community Room
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/conversation-woods-hole-cooks-something-up/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Conversations,Special Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T160000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20250123T184144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250123T184144Z
UID:12073-1739372400-1739376000@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Capturing Stronger Photos for Tomorrow’s History
DESCRIPTION:Whether shooting with a smartphone or a camera\, attendees will receive tips from award-winning photographer Dorene Sykes on how to capture photographs more artistically. Attendees will enjoy viewing contemporary and historic images from the museum’s archives that illustrate concepts. \nIncluded will be composition guidelines\, finding the best light for landscapes and people\, and varying perspective and distance for more powerful images. Key phone and camera settings will also be suggested\, as well as where to learn more — locally and online. \nThe talk is free and open to the public and will be held in the lower level meeting room of the Woods Hole Public Library\, adjacent to the Museum at 581 Woods Hole Road. There is metered on-street parking as well as small lots at the Museum and Library. For more information\, email whhmdirector@gmail.com. \nSpeaker Bio: Dorene Sykes has been part of the Woods Hole community since settling in nearby 20 years ago. Taking her lifelong love of photography to the next step\, she transitioned from a career in marketing management to photography by first freelancing as a photographer for the Falmouth Enterprise. She then launched and ran a portraiture business for a decade while also teaching photography at Cape Conservatory. During this time\, Dorene earned recognition as a Certified Professional Photographer by the Professional Photographers of America and as a Master Photographer by the Cape Cod Art Center. Today\, she continues to create photographic art\, cover events for performing arts groups\, and judge camera club competitions statewide. \nPhoto Caption: “The Children’s Table” by Gerard Swope\, 1938
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-capturing-stronger-photos-for-tomorrows-history/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Conversations,Special Events
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Reconstructing America’s First Ship
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recorded Conversation here. \nThe Woods Hole Historical Museum will host a virtual conversation on Tuesday\, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. with Jim Parmentier of Maine’s First Ship\, discussing the group’s reconstruction of the 1607 pinnace Virginia of Sagadahoc — the first ocean-going ship built in the New World by English colonists. \nSettlers in Maine built the original 51-foot Virginia to support the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River. The replica\, launched last June\, meets all U.S. Coast Guard requirements to serve as a floating classroom. \nParmentier will describe the design and construction of the ship\, as well as relating the history of the Popham Colony and the archaeological research that has revealed new information about the site. A current board member of Maine’s First Ship\, he is a former East Falmouth resident and sailing instructor at the Woods Hole Yacht Club. \nPhoto by Paul VanDerWerf   Original image
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/conversation-reconstructing-americas-first-ship/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230504T200000
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UID:11518-1683226800-1683230400@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
DESCRIPTION:By Dr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos \n\nWatch the recorded Conversation here. \nDr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos is a historian\, journalist\, and author of The Pirate Next Door: The Untold Story of Eighteenth-Century Pirates’ Wives\, Families and Communities. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Southern Living\, Virginia Business\, and other outlets. She lives in Cape Cod\, Massachusetts\, with her husband\, David.\n\nShe first became interested in pirates while writing an article in 2002 for The New York Times “Museums” Special Section about the Whydah Pirate Museum in Provincetown\, Massachusetts. For the last fifteen years she has conducted extensive original research on pirates and their wives in archives in London\, Washington\, New York\, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. She developed a more complete and nuanced history of piracy\, and discovered that the lives of pirates\, while indeed colorful\, were often quite different from those of their literary and cinematic counterparts.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-the-pirates-wife-the-remarkable-true-story-of-sarah-kidd/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230131T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230131T190000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20230111T194239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T182318Z
UID:11484-1675191600-1675191600@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Penikese Island: A Brief History and its New Mission
DESCRIPTION:Woods Hole Historical Museum Conversation\nJanuary 31\, 7 PM\,  Zoom \n“Penikese Island:  A Brief History and its New Mission.” \nWith Kimberly Ulmer\, director\, Penikese School\nand Justin Reynolds and Ana Isabel Keilson\, co-founders and directors\, Gull Island Institute \nSee video of presentation here.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-penikese-island-a-brief-history-and-its-new-mission/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220929T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220929T133000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20220912T173730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T140125Z
UID:11374-1664454600-1664458200@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM-WHPL Conversation: 'An Absolute Beauty'—The Woods Hole Spritsail Boat\, with Porter Hoagland
DESCRIPTION:Forty years ago\, nautical draftsman Dave Dillion commented on the features of a Woods Hole Spritsail boat: “…I am prejudiced as the devil; I think this is an absolutely beautiful boat….” \nWoods Hole Historical Museum’s Conversation\, An ‘Absolute Beauty’- The Woods Hole Spritsail Boat on September 29 with Porter Hoagland\, retired WHOI scientist who has just completed a two-year wooden boatbuilding and restoration program at the IYRS School of Technology and Trades in Newport\, will highlight the distinctive design features of the Spritsail. \nHe has been restoring a Woods Hole Spritsail boat\, circa 1905\, and will focus on the design aspects in a historical context as a means to establish the boat’s provenance. The talk concludes with a “field trip” to E.E. Swift’s “Spy” (1893-94) in WHHM’s boat museum\, one of 10 such boats known to be extant. \nWhile at IYRS\, Dr. Hoagland worked with his teammates to help restore a 1979 Beetle Cat and a 1931 Herreshoff 12½ . From early on\, he’s had an interest in sailing cat-rigged boats. \n The conversation on Thursday\, September 29\, at 12:30 PM will take place in the courtyard in front of the boat museum\, weather permitting. If necessary\, it will be indoors at the neighboring Woods Hole Public Library reading room. The event is co-hosted by the library. \nWoods Hole Historical Museum is at 579 Woods Hole Road. \n 
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-whpl-conversation-an-absolute-beauty-the-woods-hole-spritsail-boat-with-peter-hoagland/
LOCATION:Woods Hole Historical Museum\, 579 Woods Hole Road\, Woods Hole\, MA\, 02543
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220701T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220701T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220607T001243Z
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SUMMARY:WHHM-WHPL Conversation: Local Shipwrights Restoring a 1967 Royal Lowell Clam Boat
DESCRIPTION:Join us on campus for an Open House at the Museum’s Boat Shop with Chuck Verbeck followed by a conversation with Athena Aicher about boat building at the Woods Hole Public Library.  \nAthena Aicher and Chuck Verbeck are two professional shipwrights living in Woods Hole. They have spent the past five years working at the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway in Vineyard Haven\, and the Quissett Harbor Boatyard\, respectively.  \nAside from rebuilding Herreshoff 12 1/2s at Quissett\, Chuck has been volunteering with the Woods Hole Historical Society\, revamping the community boat shop with a few other enthusiastic boat-lovers. At work\, Athena has had the opportunity to work on a few notable restorations including the 2019-2020 rebuilding of the Alden cutter\, LARK\, a boat that had been a fixture in Woods Hole for many years. \n \nThey have recently decided to take on a personal restoration project— the rebuilding of a Royal Lowell clam and oyster boat built in 1967. The work is being done in the yard at G and B and includes a full re-framing\, new centerline timbers\, new deck and rebuilt superstructures. \nThis even is co-sponsored by the Woods Hole Public Library and the Woods Hole Historical Museum.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-whpl-conversation-local-shipwrights-restoring-a-1967-royal-lowell-clam-boat/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20220315T191617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T140852Z
UID:11198-1651086000-1651089600@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Virtual Model Boat Show Teaser!
DESCRIPTION:Woods Hole Historical Museum’s Model Boat Show has been off its usual biannual schedule due to the pandemic. While plans are to host model boat enthusiasts in-person in 2023\, this year they showcased five model boat builders in a virtual  “Model Boat Show Teaser” on April 27 at 7 PM via Zoom. \nWatch the zoom video here:
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-virtual-model-boat-show/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations,Model Boat Show
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20211208T214630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220216T141530Z
UID:10848-1644433200-1644436800@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Meet Jacquelyn Hartman\, Falmouth’s Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion Officer
DESCRIPTION:February 9th\, 2022\n7PM\, Zoom \n \nIntroducing Jacquelyn Hartman\, Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion Officer for the town of Falmouth. Ms. Hartman will be interviewed by George Liles (NOAA Fisheries’ Director of Academic Programs and co-founder and director of the Partnership in Education Program (PEP) and will answer questions from the audience at our February 9th conversation. \nWatch the video of this conversation: \n 
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-meet-jacqueline-hartman-falmouths-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-officer/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20211208T214246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T183336Z
UID:10850-1642014000-1642017600@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Filming with Drones\, in Paradise
DESCRIPTION:January 12\, 2022\n7PM Zoom (Registration link to come.) \nBrian Switzer\, Woods Hole resident\, former public school teacher\, and FAA commercial drone pilot\, will share his experiences filming Woods Hole\, Falmouth and the area using drones at our inaugural 2022 Conversation. \nBrian says “It’s all about the subject matter” — in reference to our region’s breathtakingly photogenic aerial views. During the Conversation\, Brian will show some of his videos\, share his filming process and answer questions from the audience. \nWatch the video of the Conversation on YouTube
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-filming-with-drones-in-paradise/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211013T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20211026T185728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T185959Z
UID:10756-1634151600-1634155200@woodsholemuseum.org
SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Wampanoag Homelands on Cape Cod by Fred Dunford
DESCRIPTION:“10\,000 Years by the Rising Sea: Wampanoag Homelands on Cape Cod” is the topic of Woods Hole Historical Museum’s conversation by anthropologist and archaeologist Fred Dunford \nOctober 13 at 7 PM\, via Zoom. \nDr. Dunford will focus on the manner in which post-glacial sea level rise defined prehistoric ways of life on the Cape. \nIn his 1997 book\, “Secrets in the Sand: The Archaeology of Cape Cod\,” Dr. Dunford wrote “When native peoples arrived at Cape Cod about 10\,000 years ago\, moving northward from the south\, they found an environment entirely different from that of today. The land stretched as far south as the present day islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard\, a gently rolling landscape of open pine forests and grasslands that had succeeded the early post-glacial forests and tundra. The area that is now Nantucket Sound was a vast expanse laced with rivers and bogs\, soon to be drowned by the rapidly rising Atlantic. \nA graduate of Harvard University\, Dr. Dunford earned his doctorate in anthropology at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth.  He was the resident archaeologist at the Museum of Natural History in Brewster. \nWatch the talk here:
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-wampanoag-homelands-on-cape-cod-by-fred-dunford/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260507T220304
CREATED:20210528T003144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210802T193525Z
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: “Ocean Solutions for a Warming World”
DESCRIPTION:By Peter B. de Menocal\, president and director\, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution \nJuly 7 at 7 PM  \nSee video of Conversation here. \nThe world’s oceans are fundamentally important in both understanding and responding to the climate crisis. The oceans have absorbed over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by decades of carbon emissions and have absorbed roughly a third of those emissions\, thereby greatly reducing their full climate change impacts. At the same time\, these ocean changes are primary drivers of rapid changes in extreme heat and rainfall events\, crop yields\, fisheries\, coastal inundation. These ocean changes directly impact nearly every aspect of future human sustainability. Dr. Menocal will review how and why the oceans and global climate are changing. He will discuss the new ways in which today’s global ocean research community is mobilizing to drive disruptive\, high-risk\, high-value research to accelerate viable climate adaptation and mitigation solutions. \nPeter de Menocal is the eleventh president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist\, Dr. de Menocal’s research uses deep-sea ocean sediments as archives of how and why Earth’s ocean and climate have changed in the past in order to predict how they may change in the future. \nPrior to assuming leadership of WHOI\, Dr. de Menocal was the Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He served as Columbia’s Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and founded Columbia’s Center for Climate & Life\, a climate solutions research accelerator. \nHe has received numerous awards and distinctions\, including Fellow of the American Geophysical Union\, AGU Emiliani lecturer\, a Columbia Lenfest Distinguished Faculty award\, and a Distinguished Brooksian award. He earned a doctorate in geology from Columbia University and a master’s degree in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island\, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Lawrence University.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-ocean-solutions-for-a-warming-world/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210609T190000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Celebrating 150 Years of Science at the Woods Hole Fisheries Lab
DESCRIPTION:By Jon Hare\, Science and Research Director of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center\, Woods Hole \nJon Hare has been the Science and Research Director of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center since October 2016. He oversees science activities related to the NOAA Fisheries mission in the Northeast region\, including fisheries\, aquaculture\, protected species\, habitat\, and ecosystem science. Hare received a PhD in Coastal Oceanography from State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. He was awarded a National Research Council Research Associateship in 1994 to work at  NOAA’s Beaufort Laboratory and was hired by NOAA in 1997.\n \nJon Hare moved to NOAA’s Narragansett Laboratory in 2005\, was appointed Oceanography Branch Chief in 2008 and Lab Director in 2012.  Before becoming Center director\, he served as a Supervisory Research Oceanographer and Acting Ecosystems Processes Division Chief\, managing division research while also managing personnel and research resources at five different locations in the center.\n \nAs Northeast Fisheries Science Center Director he is now located a NOAA’s Woods Hole Laboratory\, one of the five research facilities in the Northeast that make up the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. NOAA Fisheries\, founded as the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries in 1871\, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The Woods Hole Laboratory is the nation’s first marine research station\, and is the founding laboratory of NOAA Fisheries\, formally called the National Marine Fisheries Service.. \n \nJon Hare’s research has focused on fisheries oceanography: understanding the interactions between the ocean environment and fisheries populations with a goal of contributing to assessments and management. He is also an expert on the effect of climate change on marine fisheries and the implications to coastal communities. \n\nWatch the video of the June 9th conversation here:\n \n\n 
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-nmfs-jon-hare/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T200000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: "Influencing the Influencers: An Evolving Approach to Driving Climate Action"
DESCRIPTION:April 14\, 2021 at 7 PM (Zoom)\nWoodwell Climate Research Center director Philip Duffy\nand chief communications officer\, Heather Goldstone \nWoodwell Climate Research Center was founded in 1985 as the Woods Hole Research Center\, and adopted its current name in 2020 “to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and the importance of the founding principles that continue to guide the center’s work.” From playing a leading role in the launch of the United Nations climate change negotiation process to shaping the first corporate guidelines on climate risk disclosure\, the center has impacted societal decision-making. The approach has evolved and expanded from a focus on international policy to encompass work with municipalities\, Indigenous communities\, faith leaders\, and private sector partners. \nWatch the video of the April 14th Conversation here:
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-woodwell-climate-research-center/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T200000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Marine Biological Laboratory’s 133 Years of Scientific Discovery
DESCRIPTION:“Marine Biological Laboratory’s 133 Years of Scientific Discovery” was the topic of the Woods Hole Historical Museum’s virtual conversation by MBL Director Nipam Patel on March 10 at 7 PM. \nA video of the Conversation is here: \n\nDr. Patel shared the history of the MBL\, an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science that was founded in 1888 and was the second scientific institution established in Woods Hole.  The laboratory is now affiliated with the University of Chicago. \nIn addition to the lab’s history\, Dr. Patel discussed how the MBL is working to expand the resident and the visiting scientist research programs\, creating new educational offerings\, including opportunities for undergraduates and high school students as well as other goals focusing on advancements in two major strategic research areas—imaging and new research organisms. \nDr. Patel was appointed MBL director in 2018. Prior to his appointment\, he was Professor and Co-chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California\, Berkeley. His scientific expertise encompasses the development of novel\, genetic model organisms for biological study\, which can reveal much about human biology; and the application of advanced imaging technologies to probe the fundamental dynamics of living systems. A longtime member of the MBL community\, Dr. Patel has taught in the MBL Embryology course for more than 20 years. He and his wife\, Edith Copenhaver\, live in Woods Hole.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-marine-biological-laboratorys-133-years-of-scientific-discovery/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210113T200000
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CREATED:20201228T193738Z
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: 30 Years of the Woods Hole Film Festival: Celebrating the Past and Looking Towards the Future
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed but you can watch the video here: \n \nTo view the video\, and all of our videos\, on our YouTube channel click here. \nWoods Hole Historical Museum will host Judy Laster\, founder and director of the Woods Hole Film Festival\, on January 13 at 7 PM for a museum virtual conversation about 30 years of the Woods Hole Film Festival. She will give a historical overview of the festival and discuss how it has grown and adapted over the past three decades. We will also get a glimpse of what the future holds for not only this festival\, but the world of independent film and film festivals in a fast-paced\, ever-changing landscape.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/30-years-of-the-woods-hole-film-festival-celebrating-the-past-and-looking-towards-the-future/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T200000
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CREATED:20201030T202757Z
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Getting History Correct: Telling Our Story from the Wampanoag Perspective
DESCRIPTION:November 19th\, 2020\, 7:00 PM (Zoom) \nThis event has passed.\nWatch the Conversation here: \n \nSteven Peters is the creative director and co-owner of SmokeSygnals with his mother Paula Peters. SmokeSygnals focuses much of its work on historical museum exhibits and cultural art installations. It’s the largest native-owned creative agency on the East Coast. Steven is responsible for the development of historical exhibits\, content and interactive attractions that challenge historical myths. His work can be seen on Newbury Street in Boston\, the Box Museum in Plymouth England\, the Museum De Lakenhal in Lieden\, and the Pilgrim Hall Museum and Provincetown Museum in Massachusetts. \nIn addition\, Steve provided the creative direction for the traveling exhibit “Our” Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History\, an exhibit that has been featured in Time Magazine\, New York Times\, BBC Radio and many other national and international publications for its ability to correct historical inaccuracies.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-nov192020/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200819T200000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Pandemics: Living Forward by Understanding Backward
DESCRIPTION:The Museum hosted a virtual conversation\, “Pandemics: Living Forward by Understanding Backward\,” on August 19 at 7 PM. You can view the recorded talk below: \n \nIn this lecture\, infectious disease epidemiologist Dr. Donald Burke of Woods Hole and Pittsburgh provided a historical overview of the emergence\, spread\, extinction\, and re-emergence of virus disease epidemics: their origins from animal species\, transmission in human populations\, and post-epidemic outcomes. Starting with details of the 1918 influenza epidemic in Falmouth\, he reconstructed the history of this past epidemic. \nThe lecture title is from a quote by Soren Kierkegaard. \nDr. Burke received his medical training at Harvard\, then served 23 years on active duty at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where he led US military research on virus diseases. In 1997 he transitioned to academia to become a professor and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Immunization Research. In 2006 he became Dean of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh\, stepping down a year ago. \nThroughout his career\, Dr. Burke has led research on prevention and control of epidemic infectious diseases of global importance. A world renowned expert on virus epidemiology\, he has authored more than 300 scientific publications and has served in senior advisory positions to the CDC\, NIH\, and WHO. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and recipient of the John Snow Award of the American Public Health Association. Drawing on his deep knowledge of viral epidemiology\, Dr. Burke first predicted the threat posed by coronaviruses in 1997\, five years before the SARS epidemic.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-pandemics-living-forward-by-understanding-backward/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T133000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: New Gardening Practices and Trends
DESCRIPTION:Woods Hole Historical Museum Conversation\nby Terry Soares of Soares Flower Garden Nursery\nMarch 10\, 12:30 PM\nWoods Hole Public Library Lower Level\nFree and open to the public (but donations accepted) \nListen to the March 10th talk here.  \nTerry Soares\, co-owner of Soares Flower Garden Nursery\, will discuss gardening practices of the past and how more environmentally friendly landscaping trends are impacting how we approach gardening.  There will also be a brief discussion on the landscape at the newly renovated Church of the Messiah Parish Community Center in Woods Hole\, all done with an eye on aesthetics and sustainable landscape practices.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-march102020/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200206T133000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: How Migrants from Portugal Helped Make Falmouth a More Cosmopolitan\, "Creole" and Cooperative Community
DESCRIPTION:Watch video of the February 6th Conversation here. \nWoods Hole Historical Museum Conversation\nby Miguel Moniz\nFebruary 6\, 2020\, 12:30 PM\nWoods Hole Public Library (lower level)\nFree and open to the public (but donations accepted) \nThis talk will explore histories of conflict and cooperation in Falmouth after the arrival of 2\,000 migrants mostly from the Azores and Cabo Verde in the early 1900s. \nResearch from three historical events in Falmouth history will be presented: \n\nEarly 1900s debates in the town about Portuguese racial identities (including calls for migrants from Portugal to be placed in segregated schools.)\nThe work of migrants from Portugal in Falmouth over the first half of the century as agricultural field workers\, in domestic service\, care-taking and other manual labor\, in light of patronage\, economic cooperation and definitions of Portuguese racial identities; and how this shaped their social mobilities over the next 50 years.\nEfforts in the 1950s to feature the Portuguese migrant community as part of a marketing campaign for tourism in Falmouth (which gave birth to the “Strawberry Festival”).\n\nIn the talk\, Dr. Moniz will discuss if Falmouth\, after a century of having worked out difference and belonging through overlapping cooperation in internationally oriented community organizations and institutions among generations of migrant and non-migrant residents\, has made the town a more cosmopolitan\, “creole” and cooperative place? As a result\, does this help the community today to reach across conflicts of class\, economic disparity\, social identity and lack of legal rights to forge convivial local relations? \nAnthropologist Miguel Moniz\, FLAD/Brown Visiting Professor\, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies\, Brown University and the Center for Research in Anthropology\, ISCTE/IUL. A resident of Lisbon\, Dr. Moniz grew up in Falmouth but has lived in Portugal (and been back and forth to New England) since the late 1980s.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-feb62020/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T133000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: "Dan Clark: Marine Contractor and Woods Hole Legend"
DESCRIPTION:“Dan Clark: Marine Contractor and Woods Hole Legend” is the topic of Woods Hole Historical Museum’s Conversation on January 9 at 12:30 PM in the Woods Hole Library lower level meeting room. \nDan Clark\, on right\, with a member of his crew\, Skip Norgeot\, at work on a project in Eel Pond in Woods Hole in the early 1960s. (Photo: Woods Hole Historical Museum) \nListen to audio of the January 9\, 2020 Dan Clark Conversation here. \nMemories will be shared by Peter Bumpus\, Tom Renshaw and Chip Shultz\, who worked with Dan over the years. His major projects included building docks\, repairing cables that supplied power to Martha’s Vineyard\, dredging channels\, and in 1965\, constructing the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s R/V Lulu that served as the support vessel for the submersible Alvin. \nDan Clark\, who was born in 1919 and died in 1999\, also served as second mate on the WHOI research vessel Atlantis in the mid 1940s. According to the book\, “Atlantis Stories\,” published by the Woods Hole Historical Collection\, “he quickly commanded respect as a gentleman and admiration as a skilled seaman…A mentor to many young men in town\, he was a legend in his own time.” \nAt the Conversation\,  members of the audience are encouraged to share their stories and memories of Mr. Clark. The talk is free and open to the public.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-presents-dan-clark-marine-contractor-and-woods-hole-legend/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190430T133000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation & Tour: The Wonders of Dr. Yale's Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 30\, at 12:30pm\nWoods Hole Public Library\nTour of Yale Workshop immediately following \nThe Yale Workshop \nDr. Leroy Milton Yale Jr. (1841-1906) was born on Martha’s Vineyard and lived in New York City\, but his summer home was in Quissett\, where he created his fascinating workshop. This workshop now sits on the grounds of the Woods Hole Historical Museum. It was the place where he pursued his many hobbies\, including photography\, etching\, woodworking\, fly-tying\, and writing. As part of Art Week\, Woods Hole Historical Museum volunteer Laura Reckford will take us on a virtual and then a literal tour of the Workshop\, pointing out some of the treasures from the Museum’s permanent collection and giving insight into one summer resident’s life in Quissett more than 100 years ago. \n 
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-tour-the-wonders-of-dr-yales-workshop/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T200000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Assessing the Value of Old and Rare Books
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 26\, 1:30 PM\nWoods Hole Public Library \nKenneth Gloss\, proprietor of the internationally known Brattle Book Shop in Boston’s Downtown Crossing\, will give a talk on the value of old and rare books on March 26\, at Woods Hole Public Library (581 Woods Hole Road).  The event is co-sponsored by the Library and the Woods Hole Historical Museum. \nKen Gloss (left) \nMr. Gloss\, who is also a frequent guest appraiser on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow\, will talk in part about the history of his bookshop\, which goes back to circa 1825. He is a second-generation owner. \nHe will also show some of his favorite finds and describe some of the joys of the “hunt\,” as well as explain what makes a book go up in value. He has many anecdotes to share as well as guidelines for what to look for when starting a collection. There will be also a question-and-answer session before the conclusion of his talk. \nFollowing the talk and question-and-answer session\, Mr. Gloss will give free verbal appraisals of all books that attendees have brought with them.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-assessing-the-value-of-old-and-rare-books/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181113T133000
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SUMMARY:WHHM Conversation: Woods Hole Whaling\, by Dr. Jim Hain
DESCRIPTION:A Woods Hole Historical Museum Conversation about Whaling in Woods Hole\nNovember 13th\, 2018\, 12:30 PM\, Woods Hole Public Library \nCandle House in Woods Hole in the early 1900s. Robert C. Hunt Jr. postcard collection\, Falmouth Public Library. \nThe stone Candle House on Water Street\, which now houses administrative offices for the Marine Biological Laboratory\, is a reminder of a time 175 years ago when Woods Hole was home port for a number of whaling ships.  In “Woods Hole Whaling:  A National and Global Enterprise from a Small Village\,” Dr. Jim Hain will present the history of whaling in Woods Hole. \n Today\, ships and researchers from the village sail the oceans seeking knowledge directed to the conservation of whales.  In a past time\, the ships and people sailed widely to harvest the whales.  As with Texas and Louisiana today\, the raw materials then were brought to a refinery or manufactory―in this case\, the Candle House in Woods Hole\,  used for storing whale oil and manufacturing spermaceti candles. \n Dr. Hain has assembled details from logbooks\, account books\, narratives\, photographs\, videos\, cemeteries\, and the work of other authors to paint glimpses of Woods Hole\, whaling voyages\, and the whaling related products manufactured and sold from the village. \n Dr. Hain has worked at the Marine Biological Laboratory\, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\, Sea Education Association\, and is currently affiliated with Associated Scientists at Woods Hole.  He has done research from Newfoundland to Brazil.  One of his current projects is studying and monitoring right whales and their calving in coastal waters of northeast Florida\, where he works from December through April. \n The conversation will be held at Woods Hole Public Library lower level meeting room and is free and open to the public.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/whhm-conversation-woods-hole-whaling-by-dr-jim-hain/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160628T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160628T140000
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SUMMARY:A Talk about Cod and the Cape by John Cumbler
DESCRIPTION:The Woods Hole Historical Museum is honored to present Professor John Cumbler who will speak on June 28\, 2016\, at 1 PM. Dr. Cumbler\, a popular and awarded history professor at University of Louisville. His fields of specialization are United States environmental history and economic history. He has recently published his seventh book “Cape Cod: An Environmental History of a Fragile Ecosystem”. The book is an economic and environmental history of Cape Cod. The subject of his talk in Woods Hole will be “Cod and the Cape”\, a subject which will tie into the Museum’s new exhibit about historic cod fishing. \nDr. Cumbler is on phased retirement and splits his time between Louisville and Wellfleet. He is a trained and certified rescuer of large marine mammals and sea turtles. \nThe talk is free and open to the public and will be held in the lower level meeting room of the Woods Hole Public Library\, adjacent to the Museum at 581 Woods Hole Road. There is metered on-street parking as well as small lots at the Museum and Library. The Museum exhibits will be open before and after the talk. For more information\, call the Museum at 508-548-7270.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/cumbler-talk/
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CATEGORIES:Conversations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160524T140000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation About Shellfishing
DESCRIPTION:The next “Conversation” sponsored by the Woods Hole Historical Museum will be a historical look at shell-fishing in Falmouth. The Conversation is scheduled for Tuesday\, May 24 at 1 PM in the meeting room in the lower level of the Woods Hole Public Library\, 581 Woods Hole Road\, adjacent to the Museum. \nThe speaker will be Matt Weeks\, who comes to the subject with not only a lot of on-the-water knowledge\, but also a deep curiosity and skill in searching historical documents. Matt was the fisheries technician for the Town of Falmouth for two years\, and helped oversee the creation of oyster rafts in Little Pond\, among other duties. Since then\, he has moved on to become a self-employed shellfisherman\, with an oyster grant just outside Waquoit Bay. He works that grant\, and also participates in wild harvest. \nHe has found the time and energy to do serious research in the historical records in the Falmouth Historical Society archives and the Falmouth Public Library\, gleaning information about shellfishing dating back to 1770s. He will talk about the results of that effort. \nMatt will share his findings relating to Falmouth’s shellfish resources for more than two hundred years starting in the 1770s. He will touch on past management of the resources\, showing images of the historical records and ledgers\, including early concerns about Oyster Pond’s oysters starting in in 1773\, the first oyster grants awarded in 1852\, and seeding local ponds. He will include details on aquaculture and natural resources and their changes through time. \nIn trying to clarify and analyze oyster grants\, he has created tables showing location of grant\, date\, and the grantee\, stretching all the way from 1852 to present\, and for the first time providing a historic and comprehensive look at the Town’s grants. He has also studied the more recent official town records relating to shellfish up to the present and will present an overview of those reports. \nAs he says of his research “My goal was to build some institutional memory that could shed some light on what has been done in the past and how we got to “now”. I also hope to glean from the documents some reflection of the ecological history of our resources and how they were utilized and changed. This would hopefully help put current management into a long- term historical perspective.” \nAs he studied the records\, he also found interesting bits about other fisheries\, which he will also share\, including the first scallop permits in 1898\, and concerns in the 1920s about fish weirs\, seines\, and a herring house. \nIt all promises to be an informative and very interesting presentation\, proving\, as the Museum’s Director Jennifer Gaines says “Matt proves how important and vital a study of the historical documents can be\, enlightening us about our lives and town today.” She adds “This is great; it is as if we all are looking right at those documents; it’s fascinating!” \nFor more information\, call the Museum at 508-548-7270.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/shellfishing-the-focus-of-next-woods-hole-museum-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Underwater Archeology: A Talk by Raymond Hayes
DESCRIPTION:The Woods Hole Historical Museum marked Massachusetts Archeology Month (October\, 2015) with an illustrated talk by Raymond L. Hayes\, Ph.D. about his underwater archeological survey of Great Harbor\, Woods Hole. \nDr. Hayes\, who is a research associate at the Institute of Maritime History in the Smithsonian Institution\, finds Great Harbor particularly interesting because it has several unusual features for Cape Cod: a very deep area in its south-east quadrant\, providing a deep-water anchorage\, historical docks on the south-east edge\, as well as the Pacific Guano Company docks farther north into the harbor where ships would tie up when returning laden from the Pacific islands. He will share the results of his surveys both under-water and on the shores. \nOld bottle found in Great Harbor (Raymond Hayes) \nRay Hayes is Professor Emeritus and former Assistant Dean for Medical Education\, Howard University College of Medicine\, Washington\, DC. He completed his college education at Amherst College and holds post-graduate degrees from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). He has served on faculty at several medical schools\, including Harvard\, the University of Pittsburgh\, Morehouse\, Howard University and the University of the West Indies (Mona\, Kingston\, Jamaica). \nHe is former Vice-President\, distinguished honoree and a life member of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean\, a member of the MBL Society (Woods Hole) and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Global Coral Reef Alliance (Cambridge). He is also a Fellow and lifetime member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. \nRay holds licensure as a NAUI SCUBA instructor. He has served as an Associate Member of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and is currently on the Ethics and the UNESCO Committees for the Society for Historical Archaeology. He is on the Board of Directors for two international maritime archaeological societies\, the Institute of Maritime History and the Stichting Marien Archeologie Curaçao (STIMACUR). He is also a research volunteer and consultant at the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command\, Underwater Archaeology Division\, D.C. Navy Yard. \nMilk bottle found in Great Harbor. (Raymond Hayes) \nHe has co-authored chapters in two books on Caribbean Maritime Archeology\, edited two textbooks on Underwater Archaeology and presented research papers before the World Archaeological Congress\, the Society for Historical Archeology and the Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Within the past year\, he co-authored a book on the underwater archaeology of a British steamship\, SS Mediator (1884\, Curaçao) and published results of historical anchorage surveys on the Caribbean islands of Dominica and St. Kitts. Ray is a resident of Woods Hole\, MA and Silver Spring\, MD. He is married with three adult children and four grandchildren.
URL:https://woodsholemuseum.org/event/underwater-archeology/
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