Archives 2007

Congratulations to:

1st Place Winner:

Corte Spencer

2nd Place Winner:

James & Juanita Tschudy

3rd Place Winner:

The Crist Family

4th Place Winner:

Robert Frank

5th Place Winner:

Carolyn Hiler

Calling all landlubbers, scallywags and swashbucklers! The H. Lee White Marine Museum is proud to present an exciting evening of mayhem and frivolity, the Pirates Parrrty set for Saturday, October 27, 2007.

Step back in time to when pirates and privateers sailed the seas. Join your ship and crew on this evening’s adventure, greet the great Pirate King and his Queen and assist in his quest for secret treasure.

This exciting adult evening will be held at the American Foundry and the festivities begin at 7 pm. Tickets are available at the Marine Museum, river’s end bookstore and the Picture Connection. Space is limited so get your “golden” ticket right away!

Music will abound with jigs and line dances of old, alongside games of chance. Join the Treasure Hunt led by the finest swashbucklers that could be found this side of the seven seas. Carouse with sailors, as their stories of eras gone by will sure stir your inner pirate.

In addition a Not so Silent Auction will take place and specialty professional photos will be offered by David DePasquale of Positive Image. A tantalizing Caribbean menu buffet will satiate every landlubber’s palate. Two tokens for pirate’s beverages are included in the ticket price.

This is the second event fund raiser for the H. Lee White Marine Museum which is celebrating 25 years of service to our community this year. Last year, the Museum’s first gala was “A Titanic Affair”. The sold out event had guests from as far as Rochester, Syracuse and Connecticut and the Museum was able to expand its children’s programs for 2007.

Tickets are $65 per “pirate”. Pirate garb is strongly encouraged. Please contact the Marine Museum for more information.

RSVP as tickets are limited!

Pirate Victoria “the Victorious” Wild along with Eileen Goldych peers into a dome-top trunk, circa 1860, looking for treasure. The trunk has been restored by “Trunks by Owen Lavery” and has been donated by Eileen and Mike Goldych and Martha and Terry Hammill of Oswego for the H. Lee White Marine Museum’s not so silent auction. The trunk is valued at $1,200. The auction is just one of the activities being held during the museum’s Pirates Parrrty set for Saturday, October 27 at the American Foundry. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the museum at 342.0480 or info@hleewhitemarinemuseum.com.

More "Pirates Parrrty" Auction Booty!

Robin the Red, a Pirate from the H. Lee White Marine Museum, collects booty from Mindy Ostrow and Bill Reilly of the river's end bookstore. The books have been donated for the Pirates Parrrty's Not so Silent Auction.

The event in July was a such a huge success that we've scheduled it again!

The 92 ft. tall ship, the Nina (replica of Columbus' ship of the same name) will be port this weekend. Tall ship arrivals are of course subject to all sorts of delays & such but they expect to be here this Friday (June 1) and stay the weekend.

They will NOT be open for touring, but they will be docked (at least part of the time) next to the Museum, so we're a great place to come to view them from!

Prepared by: Lt. Tory DeCaire Office: (315) 342-8146 Date: July 9, 2007 Time: 9:30 am

The Oswego City Police Department’s Special Response Team spent a portion of their recent training day practicing operations aboard the National Historic Landmark “LT-5”. The vessel’s Captain, Lance Knapp, participated in the training exercises lending his knowledge gained from his military and civilian experiences to the Special Response Team.

Built to serve during WW II, USAT LT-5 moved military cargo under the Army Transportation Corps. She served in both the Atlantic and Pacific. On February 3, 1944, she sailed for Great Britain to assist in the preparations for Operation Overlord. LT-5 arrived off the Normandy coast on June 7 as part of Operation Mulberry.

While many of the Army's remaining tugs were decommissioned, sold or scrapped, LT-5 was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers out of Buffalo serving from 1946 until 1989 as a Great Lakes harbor tug. She is the only known, essentially unmodified, example of the LT-type left in the United States. Her heroics during the Normandy invasion led to the awarding of National Historic Landmark status in 1991.

According to Sergeant Charles Searor, Special Response Team Assistant Commander, “Training aboard the LT-5 gave the members of the Special Response Team an opportunity to experience operations in a unique environment such as the LT-5.” The Oswego City Police Department wishes to thank the H. Lee White Marine Museum and Captain Lance Knapp for their hospitality and cooperation.

LT-5 is berthed on the West Pier in the Oswego Harbor where she is made available for public viewing through the H. Lee White Marine Museum. The LT-5 is open seasonally from May through September. The main building of the Museum is open daily year around.

Members of the Oswego City Police Department’s Special Response Team pictured with Captain Lance Knapp aboard the LT-5

2007 Volunteers of the Months
JANUARY	Chris C.	JULY	John H. and
FEBRUARY	Marilyn S.	JULY	Jane A.
MARCH	Don P.	AUGUST	Breanne J.
APRIL	Wayne P.	September	Robin S.
MAY	Brian D.	October
JUNE	Pete K.	November

2nd Annual Family Boat Building September 8-9 & 15-16 Session Complete. Contact Museum to be on the list to get information next year. See below for pics of the program - more to come!
*Some photos from the 2nd Annual "Family Boat Building" weekends*
August, 2007: R: Austin, Bill, Janica & Ellen Clark, of Auburn, NY Below, L: Paul, Louisa & Sierra Harris, of Fulton, NY Below R: Kathleen, Katelyn & Ed Besaw, of Oswego, NY

June, 2007: R: (son) Noyes, of Oswego in the boat he and his mother, Karen built in June, 2007 Below: Rich Bush (boat building coordinator), of SUNY Technology Department, helps Karen Noyes work on the kids' kayak she & her son, (son) built.

October 2007







		What a great time we all had, bawdy wenches and rogues, alike! Hardy grub, making sport, games of chance, carousing till all hours and general piracy.