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Mystic Seaport Museum (founded as Marine Historical Association) is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, the largest in the United States. [1] Its 19-acre (0.077 km 2) site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and ...
The Rossie Velvet Mill Historic District is located in the village of Mystic in Stonington, Connecticut. Its main focus is the former Rossie Velvet Mill, a large brick industrial facility on the east side of Greenmanville Avenue that is now a research center for the nearby Mystic Seaport Museum. The district extends along Greenmanville Avenue ...
The Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, held annually in June from 1980 to 2019 at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, was among the oldest, and was the largest sea music festival in the United States. It reportedly attracted "the highest caliber of sea music performers, scholars, and fans."
Jan. 31—STONINGTON — After bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic with strong attendance figures in 2021, Mystic Seaport Museum officials are planning to unveil two major new exhibitions ...
The music has since appeared at early folk festivals, and by the late 1970s, the activities of enthusiasts and scholar-performers at places like the Mystic Seaport Museum (who initiated an annual Sea Music Festival in 1979) and the San Francisco Maritime Museum established sea music—inclusive of shanties, sea songs, and other maritime music ...
Sep. 8—MYSTIC — Mystic Seaport Museum is offering free general admission through Dec. 31 to those receiving food assistance (SNAP). The offer provides free general admission for six people (up ...
May 13—MYSTIC — With the summer tourist season just two weeks away, Mystic Seaport Museum and Chelsea Groton Bank plan to provide a total of 224 parking spots for downtown visitors. Finding ...
The papers of John Leavitt from 1966–74, during his time at Mystic as the Seaport's Associate Curator, are collected at the G. W. Blunt White Library at the Mystic Seaport Museum. The artist, writer and curator's photographs are in the collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. John Leavitt died on May 25, 1974, in Mystic ...