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SUMMARY:Lecture Series- The Best Dressed Women in the World Today: A Style Examination of the United States Coast Guard SPARS
DESCRIPTION:Join Tri-Cities Historical Museum Assistant Curator Joshua Simon as he examines how consumerism\, especially that associated with dress\, and gender were integral components of the SPARS’ experience as enlisted service members\, sometimes in contradictory ways. The presentation will also showcase Tri-Cities Historical Museum’s newest exhibit\, Ship Shape Sisters: The Women of the Coast Guard SPARS. The stories of some specific SPARS from Michigan and beyond will be highlighted as well in this engaging lecture. \nJoshua D. Simon is the Assistant Curator of Exhibits at the Tri-Cities Historical Museum in Grand Haven\, Michigan. He also manages the Museum’s collection and is an independent researcher. His research has examined a variety of subjects related to fashion history\, including a revival of the Gibson Girl aesthetic in the mid-twentieth century\, the style of former First Lady Betty Ford\, and sartorial aspects of depictions of Saint Sebastian. \nThis lecture kicks off our newest lecture series in our 2025 theme Whispers Across the Water that will showcase minority contributions to Great Lakes maritime history and heritage. SPARS are an integral part of United States maritime history. Their groundbreaking service significantly expanded women’s roles in the Coast Guard. By studying the function of gender and dress\, we can better understand the experiences of women enlisted in the SPARS. \nLecture Series proudly sponsored by the Nielsen-Wells Grant Fund and Mike and Susan Smith. \nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/lecture-series-the-best-dressed-women-in-the-world-today-a-style-examination-of-the-united-states-coast-guard-spars/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maritime Days
DESCRIPTION:Winter Break is coming up fast and we’re ready to fill your last days of break with some nautical family fun at Maritime Days January 2-4! On Thursday\, experience water science demonstrations\, science experiments\, and hands-on activities in our Jerry Mason Learning Center. Friday\, you can get a behind-the-scenes experience with our Winter Work Session crew in the Padnos Boat Shed where you’ll learn about Friends Good Will and vessel maintenance\, linework\, knot tying and more! On Saturday you can pick up our Maritime Days Adventure Agenda that includes scavenger hunts\, activities\, games\, and exhibit explorations throughout the whole campus. All Maritime Days activities are included with Museum admission. Bring the whole family and join in Maritime Days!
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/maritime-days/2025-01-04/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250103T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250103T150000
DTSTAMP:20260613T151109
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SUMMARY:Maritime Days
DESCRIPTION:Winter Break is coming up fast and we’re ready to fill your last days of break with some nautical family fun at Maritime Days January 2-4! On Thursday\, experience water science demonstrations\, science experiments\, and hands-on activities in our Jerry Mason Learning Center. Friday\, you can get a behind-the-scenes experience with our Winter Work Session crew in the Padnos Boat Shed where you’ll learn about Friends Good Will and vessel maintenance\, linework\, knot tying and more! On Saturday you can pick up our Maritime Days Adventure Agenda that includes scavenger hunts\, activities\, games\, and exhibit explorations throughout the whole campus. All Maritime Days activities are included with Museum admission. Bring the whole family and join in Maritime Days!
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/maritime-days/2025-01-03/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250102T150000
DTSTAMP:20260613T151109
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SUMMARY:Maritime Days
DESCRIPTION:Winter Break is coming up fast and we’re ready to fill your last days of break with some nautical family fun at Maritime Days January 2-4! On Thursday\, experience water science demonstrations\, science experiments\, and hands-on activities in our Jerry Mason Learning Center. Friday\, you can get a behind-the-scenes experience with our Winter Work Session crew in the Padnos Boat Shed where you’ll learn about Friends Good Will and vessel maintenance\, linework\, knot tying and more! On Saturday you can pick up our Maritime Days Adventure Agenda that includes scavenger hunts\, activities\, games\, and exhibit explorations throughout the whole campus. All Maritime Days activities are included with Museum admission. Bring the whole family and join in Maritime Days!
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/maritime-days/2025-01-02/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241218T193000
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SUMMARY:Maritime Holiday Concert
DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Maritime Museum invites you to join us for a Maritime Holiday Celebration! Join us in our Maritime Heritage Center on December 18th from 6:30pm – 7:30pm for a special holiday concert featuring a violin/cello duo from the Kal-Haven Strings. Get in the holiday spirit with this family-friendly concert featuring sea-shanties\, Celtic classics and holiday tunes.\n\nThe Kal-Haven Strings are West Michigan’s premier wedding and event musicians\, performing for over 50 events each year. The ensemble was founded in 2014 as graduate students at Western Michigan University. Highly adaptable and versatile\, they are skilled in performing a variety of styles\, from Vivaldi to Roddy Ricch\, Metallica to Taylor Swift\, Post Malone to Bach\, and more. The KalHaven Strings are the resident quartet for the Candlelight Concerts by Fever series in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo\, performing engaging concerts featuring pop covers\, movie music\, and holiday favorites. Members can also be found performing with the Kalamazoo\, Lansing\, Fort Wayne\, South Bend\, and West Michigan symphony orchestras and teaching local youth.\n\nTickets are $10 for museum members\, $15 for non-members\, and FREE for kids 12 and under. Holidays at the Heritage Center proudly sponsored by Greg and Marian O’Niel.\n\nPurchase Tickets Here
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/holiday-concert/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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SUMMARY:Selfies with Santa!
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Smith Grand Atrium on December 18 from 3:30pm to 6pm as we host Santa! Bring your camera to take photos of your family with Santa\, and tell him what you want on the big day! There will also be a holiday craft and other festive activities in our Jerry Mason Learning Center.\n\nMeeting Santa is FREE! (Museum admission not included)\n\nHolidays at the Heritage Center is proudly sponsored by Greg and Marian O’Niel.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/selfies-with-santa/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241214T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241214T120000
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SUMMARY:Cookies & Cocoa with Captain Bob
DESCRIPTION:Join Captain Bob for a festive morning including cookies\, hot chocolate\, and books from our children’s library.\n\nThis family event is FREE to attend! (Museum admission not included)\n\nHolidays at the Heritage Center is proudly sponsored by Greg and Marian O’Niel.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/cookies-cocoa-with-captain-bob/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series - Lost on the Lady Elgin
DESCRIPTION:Join the Michigan Maritime Museum Wednesday\, November 13th from 6:30pm – 7:30pm for the next segment of our 2024-2025 Lecture Series with guest speaker Valerie van Heest.\n\n\nWhen her hand touched the wood stock of a musket laying in a field of debris on the bottom of Lake Michigan from the once palatial sidewheel steamer Lady Elgin\, it ignited a passion for the study of the ship’s tragic sinking on September 8\, 1860\, off Highland Park. Now 164 years after the worst disaster on the open waters of the Great Lakes\, Valerie Van Heest\, takes the audience back in time to the era of passenger travel on the Great Lakes\, to the eve of a presidential election\, to the brink of Civil War\, and to stormy night when more than 300 people lost their lives on the Lady Elgin. Valerie’s multi-media presentation\, with an accident reenactment and underwater footage\, explores the ethical dilemmas surrounding the shipwreck incident\, the discovery of its wreckage in 1989\, a 10-year court battle over ownership of the wreck.\n\n\nThe Museum Lecture Series runs from September through April with a new lecture topic every month. Lectures are $10 per person and FREE for Museum members. Click here to reserve your tickets today!\n\n\nLectures are proudly sponsored by Nielsen-Wells Grant Fund & Mike and Susan Smith.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/lecture-series-lost-on-the-lady-elgin/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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SUMMARY:Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Ceremony Livestream
DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Maritime Museum will once again serve as a broadcast venue for participants to watch the livestream of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society’s Annual Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Ceremony. The in-person memorial service held at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point\, MI\, is closed to the public and is a solemn event primarily intended for the families of those lost on the Fitzgerald which sank in 1975. \nDoors will open for the livestream event at the Maritime Museum at 6:30 pm on Sunday\, November 10th with the ceremony beginning around 7 pm and expected to complete just after 8 pm.  The livestream is free and open to the public. \n*Participants wishing to view the ceremony from home should visit the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum website shipwreckmuseum.com for the link.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/edmund-fitzgerald-memorial-ceremony-livestream/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241025T180000
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SUMMARY:Kids' Halloween Spooktacular
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 25th for our Kids’ Halloween Spooktacular\, featuring trick-or-treating through the haunted steamship\, carnival games\, activities\, and tons of fun. The best part… this event is FREE! Put on your costumes and come on down to enjoy this Spooktacular event!
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/kids-halloween-spooktacular/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241016T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241016T193000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series- Michigan Maritime Museum: 50 Years of Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Join the Michigan Maritime Museum Wednesday\, October 16th from 6:30pm – 7:30pm for the next segment of our 2024-2025 Lecture Series. The upcoming lecture will celebrate the vibrant history of the Museum itself with Michigan Maritime Museum: 50 Years of Legacy presented by the Museum’s Director of Education & Programs\, Ashley M. Deming. \nThe Michigan Maritime Museum was founded in 1974 by Rowland Sylvester with the goal being to share Michigan’s rich maritime history and legacy with the generations to come. What started out as a single exhibit\, the 1939 fish tug Evelyn S.\, has grown into a sprawling waterfront campus with an ever expanding collection of exhibits and on-water fleet. Now 50 years later\, the Michigan Maritime Museum has become the shining star of South Haven’s maritime district and continues the tradition of celebrating\, preserving\, promoting\, and stewarding the vibrant heritage and culture of Michigan’s Great Lakes and waterways. \nThe Museum Lecture Series runs from September through April with a new lecture topic every month. Lectures are $10 per person and FREE for Museum members. Reserve your tickets HERE. \nLectures are proudly sponsored by Nielsen-Wells Grant Fund & Mike and Susan Smith.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/lecture-series-michigan-maritime-museum-50-years-of-legacy/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T190000
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SUMMARY:Membership Celebration Picnic!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 10th to celebrate YOU! Join us for a fun evening where we can honor our members and volunteers. You won’t want to miss the yard games\, cornhole\, or the Volunteers of the Year awards. \nThis members only event is free with food and beverage available for purchase. Reservations are required and memberships must be current to attend. RSVP today!
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/membership-celebration-picnic/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240925T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240925T193000
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Forgotten Heroes\, The U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes
DESCRIPTION:Our Lecture Series is back this September with renowned Great Lakes historian and author Fred Stonehouse. Stonehouse will be presenting\, “Forgotten Heroes\, The U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes” starting at 6:30 PM Wednesday\, September 25th. From 1874 until 1915\, when it became the U.S. Coast Guard\, the men of this remarkable organization displayed incredible courage and bravery in rescuing over 55\,000 people from potential death on the Great Lakes. Despite personal danger or difficulty\, the life-savers invariably accomplished the rescue. This is their story of courage in the face of nearly insurmountable odds. Their unofficial motto was\, “Regulations say we have to go out\, they say nothing about coming back.”\n\nFrederick Stonehouse has authored over thirty books on maritime history\, many of them focusing on the Great Lakes. Wreck Ashore\, the U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes\, won a national publishing award and is the predominant work on the subject. Stonehouse teaches maritime history at Northern Michigan University and is an active consultant for numerous maritime oriented projects and programs. He currently resides in Marquette\, MI.\n\nLectures are $10 per person and FREE to Museum members. Tickets can be purchased in advance here.\n\nLectures are proudly sponsored by the Nielsen-Wells Grant Fund & Mike and Susan Smith.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/lecture-series-forgotten-heroes-the-u-s-life-saving-service-on-the-great-lakes/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240830T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240830T210000
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SUMMARY:Friends Good Will 20th Anniversary Sunset Sail
DESCRIPTION:Cost\n$75 per passenger \nTickets\nTo get tickets\, please click here. \nContact & More Info\nCelebrate Friends Good Will’s 20th Anniversary with us on August 30th during this special sail to honor her including a pre-sail social gathering along our beautiful boardwalk and a champagne toast on the water. \nThe social gathering will begin at 6:30pm with departure scheduled for 7:30pm. \nAll passengers must be 4 years of age or older. No exceptions.
URL:https://michiganmaritimemuseum.org/event/friends-good-will-20th-anniversary-sunset-sail/
LOCATION:Michigan Maritime Museum\, 260 Dyckman Avenue\, South Haven\, MI\, 49090\, United States
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