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Published on: 8/12/2006
Last Visited: 3/16/2007
Guest speaker, Theresa Barbo, Founder and Executive director of the Cape Cod Maritime Research Association
Please join us at The Museum of Natural History, Rt. 6A, Brewster for a Membership Meeting of the Friends of CCMNH on April 13th.Refreshments are at 1:00 pm followed by a short business meeting, and then our program with and then our program with Theresa Barbo.Admission for guests is $3:00 and Friends of CCMNH are free.
Family Life & Sea Journeys of 19th Century Cape Cod Mariners, lecture and slide show, will feature over a dozen sea captains from Bourne to Provincetown.We will find out about when and where these men and women were born, what drew them to the sea, the ships they sailed and of course their family life.
Theresa Barbo is one of the CCMNH Trustees, as well as Founder and Executive director of the Cape Cod Maritime Research Association, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Coastal Studies, is a member of the advisory boards of the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth and of WOMR Community Radio in Provincetown, and is the History Editor at the Cape Cod Voice.Ms. Barbo has been a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and has lectured on maritime history at museums and conferences throughout New England.