Lecture Videos
Lecture Video: “The Alerion Project”
Filmed at the Herreshoff Marine Museum on June 27th, 1995.
Lecture Video: “Rediscovering Herreshoff: A New Look at a Unique Boatbuilding Enterprise”
by Maynard Bray September 20, 1994
Lecture Video: From WESTWARD to ELEONORA: The Great Herreshoff Racing Schooners
Halsey C. Herreshoff on The Great Herreshoff Racing Schooners
Lecture Video: Halsey C. Herreshoff on the Herreshoff Centennial Classes of 1914
Halsey C. Herreshoff on the Herreshoff Centennial Classes
Lecture Video: “Hold Fast” by Marshall Highet & Bird Stasz Jones
The authors will discuss the process of writing collaboratively, doing historical research, and transforming a paragraph from an 1886 family chronicle into an adventure story for young readers.
Lecture Video: “Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of ‘Moby Dick'”
Although Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea.
Peter Isler’s Web Wednesdays
A Night at the Museum: Backstage at the Herreshoff Marine Museum Brought to you by the American Sailing Association
Lecture Video: “Setting Sail In America: The Remarkable Story of Herreshoff S Class Sailboats”
Setting Sail in America is an homage to the Class, and takes the reader on a compelling journey through the history of the S boat- a journey that visits milestones in American society, politics, business, and social life.
Lecture Video: “Pirate Ghosts And Phantom Ships Of New England”
New England is rich with stories and legends of ghost ships and pirates long dead. Blackbeard, Sandy Gordon, Captain Kidd and many more once called the region home; and still do. Phantom ships continue to roam the waters of the New England coast. Some mysteriously abandoned while other vanished never to be seen again, in the physical form anyway.
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