|
|
Welcome to our August(ish) Issue
There's been so much happening this month that we just haven't been able to sit everyone down and put together this issue of The SPLASH on time. But, I think you'll be very happy to see what we've been up to, and what's up in the near future. So, lean in, put down your copy of Jessica DuLong's "My River Chronicles" and your cup-o-grog, get out your calendar and see what what adventures we have in store for you.
|
What A Season For John J. Harvey!
|
2010 is the most active and successful season for fireboat John J. Harvey in years!
Look at what we have done so far!
30 April: Free public trip to greet the new FDNY fireboat Three Forty Three
10 May: Preservation Alumni of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Historic Preservation: Tour of Hudson River Park waterfront and the Brooklyn waterfront
15 May: Free Public Trip to greet Norwegian Jewel and Carnival Miracle.
26 May: Landmark West! tours the harbor and sees important development and preservation initiatives on the waterfront.
8 June: Free public trip to Kingston NY
9 & 10 June: Day long Educational curriculum on board and free trips for hundreds of Ulster County Students on Rondout Creek and a free public trip for supporters upstate.
11 June: Free public trip from Kingston NY to beautiful Yonkers.
12 June: Free public trip at Yonkers with the Beczak Environmental Center and the Yonkers BID.
13 June: Free public trips at a temporary dock at Riverdale in support of the new Greenway project along the waterfront.
16 June: Dedication of the New York State stamp with Harvey featured at Pier 66, Manhattan
17 June: Free Public Trip to greet Schooner Anne's return from 1,000 Days at Sea
19 June: Three free public trips at Pier 40 sponsored by the North River Histroric Ship society and Friends of Hudson River Park
13 July: Two free public trips for kids sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
22 July: Three free public trips for kids sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
24 July: City of Water Day: Free public trips to, at and from Governor's Island
3 August: Two free public trips for kids sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
4 August: Three free public trips for kids sponsored by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
7 August: Dockside tour of the engine room, wheelhouse etc for Kids Ride Club (60 bikers from Queens)
8 August: Free public trip to greet Veendam, QM2 and Norwegian Dawn
14 August: Free public trip to and at Cold Spring NY sponsored by the North River Historic Ship Society
15 August: Free public trip from and at Cold Spring to New York sponsored by the North River Historic Ship Society
This is also our first season of The Splash, our new e-newsletter
and our brilliant Webmaster Eric Weisler is giving our website a great new look!
And the season is far from over!
- We have done more work on the engine room this past year than we have been able to do for years.
- We have one more major project to finish there this calendar year.
- Our restoration season runs from now through November.
Now is the time to help us complete the best season in years.
A tax deductible contribution made TODAY insures we have enough funds to keep our team of four skilled engineers and a dozen volunteers busy through the end of the year.
You can contribute online, just click here
or mail your check to Save Our Ships New York,
100 West 72nd Street,, Suite 6G, New York NY 10023
==========================
|
THE CLASS OF THE HEAD
|
|
Garry Pace, retired as Chief of the Baltimore-Washington International Airport after several other Baltimore-area jobs and has been a great supporter for years. He has given his expertise in fire training for the crew, and in developing new fire safety plans for the engine room. He is providing new fire-fighting equipment this year as he has over past years. And he sends generous checks at regular intervals. We met him when he was building one of his brilliant waterfront ship and barge models for Pier 63 Maritime, and he has been an important part of the team ever since.
This year he has added the crowning glory to his good works by making a generous contribution of several thousand dollars to endow Harvey’s two heads. (It was his idea. Really.) So for creative support and donations, we say to Garry "We will often sit and think of you!"
Forever after, these magnificent chambers will be known as The Garry Pace Heads.
With a donation of $500 or more, you too can have an even more salubrious part of the John J Harvey immortalized for you.
Just imagine the:
The (Your Name) Crew’s Shop Hatch
The (Your Name) Gangway
The (Your name) Pilot House Window Frame
|
Join the HarVol Volunteer Day Saturday, August 28th
|
|
harvol
|
Da Bosun
|
|
When our beloved, Karl Schuman, "Da Bosun" isn't giving interviews to the media, he's organizing myriad, exciting events on board. He energizes the deck hands and keeps things humming beautifully while underway. He tells witty stories and is a "font of lore" (which he claims is a town in France). Just ask him.
Karl's got a really good HarVol day coming up this Saturday morning, 28 August, at 10:00 (That's 10AM landlubbers) to three'ish at Pier 66 (26th Street and the Hudson River)
Plenty to do. Let's complete prepping and painting of the starboard cap rail. and patching and painting the stacks plus shaping the boat up for September up-river journies. Luncheon will be served
Why don't you join us and lend a hand for a while before you get going for the rest of your weekend? It will really make Karl happy. Please email him if you're planning to be there.
Looking forward to seeing you on board.
|
|
Ann Loeding Discusses JJH Education Programs
|
|
JJH is working with teachers to create a new classroom educational program that focuses on the fireboat and 9/11. This program will be developed as a suitcase curriculum that can be used in schools all over the region and culminates with classes touring the fireboat. The curriculum will include basic lesson plans, materials lists and project suggestions to get teachers started. It will be constructed so that it can be introduced into classes of various ages, subjects and size - the goal is to have it flexible enough to be used in an art class as effectively as it can be used in a history class. Harvey program staff will work with individual schools and districts if they want to modify the curriculum to include additional place-based learning and/or service learning components.
This program will be a continuation of the museum project, led by 8th grade teacher Kelley Iacobaccio from Rondout Valley Middle School, which involved over 200 students from four schools last year. During that program, students from grades 1, 2, 5, 8 & 12 worked on varied projects and created a museum of their work. The museum included displays like replicas of the fireboat made of recycled material, collages and poems, designs for the site at Ground Zero, letters to government officials, and a rewritten history of US diplomacy in the Middle East. The museum also featured a skit based on Maira Kalman's book "Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey."
For the first John J. Harvey - 9/11 educational event planned for Spring 2011, the fireboat will travel to Kingston, NY where students from Rondout Valley Schools will display the museum they've made to students from Kingston City Schools. During field trips to the fireboat, the Rondout Valley students will teach the Kingston students about the different aspects of 9/11 they've been studying. All the participating classes will have educational tours of the boat, which include informative talks by Captain Bob Lenney, engineer John Brown and retired FDNY firefighter Tom Whyte, as well as other crew.
|
|
The Cold Spring Chronicles
|
|
|
Crowds lined up to board the John J Harvey for trips down the Hudson to West Point and return.
PHOTOS COURTESY BERNIE ENTE © 2010
|
Our North River Historic Ship Society-sponsored trip this past weekend to Cold Spring was a great success. We had a full boat on the way north on a the day with the best weather of the year, we got 80 people from Cold Spring out on the water on each of Saturday and Sunday, and even had a brave and cheerful group of about 25 on the trip south through the miserable rain.
We discovered that the dock at Cold Spring does not have quite as much water as we would like (probably 8' adjacent to the bulkhead at low water), and it needs to complete work on its fencing, but it remains one of the most spectacular sites on the Hudson, and our visit was the first of a boat of our size to that berth in decades. Kudos to Mayor Seth Gallagher and his Village Board for this accomplishment. Two completely separate documentary projects filmed part of the trip.
Among those on one or more trips were NRHSS trustees Julie Nadel (& husband Mike) and John Doswell, JJH Principals Garry Pace (and wife Pat along with two other Baltimore supporters), David Beatty (who invented the idea of fireboats going up the Hudson), Tim Ivory, and stalwarts Mort Starobin, Rich Siller & his wife, Eric & Bonnie Weisler and their three kids, and Dick & Denise Solay among others.
And the brilliant Barbara Moore sold almost $1,000 worth of Harvey artifacts.
|
Two Tugboat Events For Your Calendar
|
5 September 2010 at Pier 84, North River (44th Street) starting at 9:30 am
18th Annual Running of the Great North River Tugboat Race & Competition
Fireboat John J. Harvey has participated in the past and could again if we got enough pledges of support. It's great fun. For more about it, go to www.WorkingHarbor.Org. A spectator boat is available.
10-12 September 2010 in lovely Waterford, NY a bit north of Albany
Waterford Tugboat Roundup
Dozens of tugs gather for a parade, contest, exhibits & entertainment. We have been there in the past and, with enough financial support, we could be again.
To help sponsor an appearance by John J. Harvey at either event visit www.fireboat.org
|
|
FREE PUBLIC TRIPS ARE NOT FREE
|
FREE PUBLIC TRIPS ARE NOT FREE
We Need Your Support?
PLEASE MAKE A CONTRIBUTION
They are expensive and need to be supported.
If you have any ideas on how to find or provide
financial support for our programs please contact: ?
John Doswell
A few great ways to SUPPORT THE FIREBOAT!
TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION
We are a 501(c)(3), so your donations are 100% tax-deductible.
Your financial contributions go directly toward restoring the hull,
propulsion and other infrastructure projects. Even kids are lending a hand.
Please send your check to:
Save Our Ships New York?
100 West 72nd St. #6-G ?
New York, NY 10023
Or, you can contribute via PayPal at:
www.fireboat.org/donations
Donate Supplies, Equipment Or Tools
We need steel, welding rods, Rust-o-leum paint (gallons), rollers, brushes, masks,
gloves for painting and other repairs.
Given our limited storage, please contact us regarding more substantial tool donations.
These count toward the grant match too.
Volunteer Your Skilled Labor
We need experienced welders, mechanics, lawyers, accountants...
motivated people who take pride in a job well done.
We will train where necessary.
Labor donations count toward the grant too and are essential to our efforts.
Buy a Genuine Harvey T-Shirt
These are available from our online shop, or on board the boat.
To learn more about how you can become a member of the John J. Harvey family, visit:
www.fireboat.org.
You can also see us on FaceBook:
www.facebook.com
And Twitter:
twitter.com/fireboatjjh
Special thanks to all the organizations and individuals
who have already shown their support.
Without you the boat wouldn't be here today.
Fireboat John J. Harvey is not certified by the Coast Guard for carriage of passengers for hire.
You are invited aboard as our guests, and all trips are free of charge.
|
|
Jessica DuLong's My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson
|
|
In MY RIVER CHRONICLES Jessica DuLong ditches her dot-com life for the diesel engines of historic fireboat John J. Harvey and along the way discovers four centuries of cultural history on the Hudson. As she spends more time turning wrenches and running the diesels, DuLong wonders what American society is losing in our country's shift away from craftsmanship, material competency, and hands-on work. What will we lose as a culture, as a nation, if we continue to devalue production and manufacturing? What are we sacrificing as we lose touch with the physical world in favor of the virtual? DuLong, one of the world's only female fireboat engineers, offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its social tapestry as a microcosm of post-industrial America. At this pivotal moment in our national story, DuLong raises important questions about our future while paying homage to our industrial past.
|
Try a Delicious BLOODY HARVEY Cocktail
|
|
Our resident Mixologist, Cheerleader and Crew's Shop Helper, Denise Solay, has created the following cocktail to be enjoyed while standing on shore watching the Fireboat John J Harvey strut its stuff on the river. Cheers!
The Bloody Harvey Firewater Cocktail
4 oz Motts Clamato Juice
2 oz vodka
1/2 tsp Wasabi
1/2 tsp pickled Jalapeno juice (liquid from a bottle of pickled Jalapenos)
3 - 4 slices pickled Jalapenos
2 tsp sea salt or kosher salt (for the rim of the glass)
1/2 tsp horseradish
1- tsp coarse ground black pepper
1/4 tsp lemonjJuice
Jalapeno stuffed olives
Worcestershire and Tabasco to taste
Ice
1 small bottle club soda
Moisten the rim of the glass with Jalapeno juice.
Roll the rim in the salt.
Pour the rest of the Jalapeno juice into the glass.
Muddle the Jalapeno slices in the bottom of the glass along with lemon juice, horseradish, pepper and Wasabi.
Add ice cubes.
Add the Clamato juice and vodka.
Add lots of Worcestershire and Tabasco.
Stir.
Garnish with the Jalapeno stuffed olives.
Taste.
Quickly open the bottle of club soda.
Place your thumb over the top and shake the bottle of club soda vigorously.
Point the top towards your face and release your thumb to recreate the effect of the Fireboat John J Harvey putting out a fire.
Alternate firewater cocktail and water as desired.
|
|
|
|
|
