NHBM 1 Boathouse News NEW HAMPSHIRE BOAT MUSEUM The Heritage of New Hampshire Boating FALL 2020 Volume 26, Number 3 NHBM2 SpringNHBM 2005 IN THIS ISSUE Notes from the Editor ................................................................................................ 3 About the Cover ....................................................................................................... 3 Director's Notes ....................................................................................................... 5 Trustee Mal Cook Retires ...Again? ............................................................................ 6 Trustee Sally Ferbert Steps Down .............................................................................. 6 Welcome Nancy Black A New Trustee ...................................................................... 7 Visit by the Thorndikes .............................................................................................. 7 Sharing Our Treasures - NHBM Partners With Meredith Historical Society ................ 9 Museum Continues to Improve Collection Storage ................................................. 10 Model Yachting ......................................................................................................................11 About The Cover ...............................................................................................................12-13 Hop Aboard on the 2020 Boathouse Tour .........................................................................14-15 Boat Building ....................................................................................................................16-17 Mini Mount Moving Forward ............................................................................................18-19 Ladd Family Makes Major Gift to NHBM ...............................................................................20 We Threw it at The Wall to See if it Would Stick .....................................................................21 Jon Nickerson Visit.................................................................................................................23 Jennie & Stephen Bernard Visit ..............................................................................................23 Donation Thank You and New Members ...........................................................................25-27 Benefit the Museum when you use Amazon ..........................................................................30 Application for Membership ................................................................................... 33 Trading Dock .......................................................................................................... 34 Annual Appeal ....................................................................................................... 34 NHBM 3 BOATHOUSE NEWS is published by the New Hampshire Boat Museum and is NOTES FROM distributed as part of membership fees and may not be reproduced THE EDITOR without prior written permission from the New Hampshire Boat By Jeannie Lewis Museum. ©2020 You will see in this issue that EDITOR Jeannie Lewis COVID-19 has not chased away the PRODUCTION EDITOR NH Boat Museum. Be assured, that Carol Cloutier we are passionate about tradition CONTRIBUTING WRITERS and history, but know that life must Ruth Allard embrace, welcome and enjoy change. Nancy Black Martha Cummings This cannot be done without careful Betsy Farley study, followed by formal acceptance, Cheryl Janse and then an opportunity for new life Tim Lacey and vitality. Following this philosophy, Jaime Laurent Jeannie Lewis the Board has instituted recent changes, John van Lonkhuyzen some temporary due to COVID-19, Mark Whitehead and others more permanent. Andy Why PHOTOGRAPHERS Yes, the summer of 2020 was different Nancy Black Martha Cummings for us, as it was for you, but we Larry Houle were here, and things happened. Our Tim Lacey summer action usually packs two Jaime Laurent issues of the Boathouse News, but not John van Lonkhuyzen There’s much more Museum action Tom Mechachonis this time. However, you will find some Mark Whitehead interesting reading. taking place behind the scenes, some Andy Why of which is reported in this issue. NEW HAMPSHIRE Our auction was a smashing success BOAT MUSEUM – so different in format from past It is important that I comment on BOARD OF TRUSTEES the passing of Ron Holley, one of Co-Chairs: Jaime Laurent & Kerry Lynch years. Read to learn how it worked Vice Chair: Kristin Isley and details of our plans for the summer our original Board members. As a Secretary: Larry Houle of 2021. trustee, he often assumed the role Treasurer: Mark Weston of devil’s advocate to encourage the TRUSTEES: other Board members to consider all Nancy Black The NH Boat Museum’s Board is Bob Conrad following the same path as many other aspects of discussions. He drove his Jim Farina non-profits, and is now limiting the beloved Petunia in our first Boathouse Stephanie Inglis terms of our trustees. You’ll be seeing Tour while regaling riders with lake Jeannie Lewis new faces appear regularly. We give memorabilia. He was a volunteer John van Lonkhuyzen in Boat Building, and attended Bob Sterndale a cheer that resigning trustees aren’t Mark Whitehead stepping too far away. all Museum events with his wife EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Lorraine. Lorraine decorated our tree Martha Cummings The virtual Boathouse Tour is a for the Festival of Trees and donated dramatic departure from others, so you beautifully-crafted lap quilts for Ice ADVERTISING must not miss that article to learn about Out’s silent auction. We thank both Advertise for a FULL YEAR the perks of this year’s event. of them. in the BOATHOUSE NEWS Business Card $95 We will always continue honoring our 1/4 Page $230 Mark Whitehead steered his Model 1/2 Page $330 Yachters for a long and well-attended past as we embrace forward thinking. Full Page $500 season, while sailors followed COVID For more information contact: rules. They continue with much Jeannie Lewis enthusiasm and have even been [email protected] attracting some younger participants. 603-875-0536 ABOUT THE Cover: Photo WEB SITE - NHBM.org Museum exhibits were interesting courtesy of Larry Houle. Trading Dock: [email protected] and visited by guests wearing masks. Read article on pages 12-13 NHBM4 SpringNHBM 2005 NW Marine Industries, LLC Meredith, NH 207-266-1888 www.nwmarineindustries.com Specializing in marine electronics and vintage craft electrical wiring restorations • Certified • Experienced • Insured • Meticulous NHBM 5 DIRECTOR'S NOTES By Martha Cummings October has arrived - already! For the We re-designed NHBM.org’s New Hampshire Boat Museum, it has homepage and color scheme, making been a watershed moment this season it easier for users to navigate and find handling the pandemic. President programs. Theodore Roosevelt once remarked, “Do what you can, with what you On the collections and exhibits front, have, where you are.” We executed that you’ll see we have been hard at work advice and stretched a little beyond. re-organizing and re-shelving our small collection as well as planning for 2021 On July 1 we opened our doors to and 2022. Additionally, the Exhibits the public with nervous anticipation team has been filming mini-tours in the due to the many safety measures that museum and photographing artifacts were required for the pandemic. “Will from the collection that we can put people come?”, we asked ourselves. on our website over the course of this Yes – people visited the Museum, winter. steadily, but visitation numbers were lower than previous years. There We are truly grateful for the support were those who even participated in his iconic watercolors of boats scenes we received this year from YOU, our the limited number of programs we on the lakes, acrylic paintings, line members, friends, business partners offered this summer: boat building for drawings of historic boats, and a and sponsors. Your membership adults and families, model yacht kit unique papercutting of the New and donations to the Spring Appeal building, and weekly model yachting. Hampshire Boat Museum’s logo he combined with financial help we made especially for this exhibit. received through government grants, Our admissions desk staff did an made it possible to open the doors of exceptional job this summer keeping up This was the first year of what we hope the Museum and continue our boating with the extra cleaning requirements. will become an annual feature. We heritage stewardship. Thank you! They graciously welcomed visitors, look forward to hosting more artists ensured that everyone followed our next year in the Arts and Lecture Series If you want to be a part of our fun mask wearing requirement when inside and to hosting artist receptions when and active team of volunteers, don’t the building, and enthusiastically we’re able to. hesitate to get in touch. At present, we introduced each visitor to this year’s are looking for a Volunteer Collections exhibit, Locally Produced. As Jeannie noted, in this edition of Manager. If you have a keen interest in the Boathouse News, you’ll see that history and like working with artifacts, New this year, we welcomed two local despite 2020 being a year-like-no- are highly organized and attentive to artists: photographer and designer Amy other, our volunteers and staff have details then this might be just for you! Piper and artist Peter Ferber to show been hard at work in new ways. Our their