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  • City Nature Challenge is here! What might you discover?

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    Help us identify wildlife and foliage in our Park!

  • Send Help! Stuck in the Suez

    • Collections
    • Technology

    So far, world events of 2020 and 2021 have been interesting, to say the very least. In the maritime world, a unique event occurred on March 23, 2021. If you watched the news that day and for many days following, you most likely heard about and saw how it unfolded. Can you guess what I’m talking about?

  • The Power of Water: Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day

    • Art
    • Collections

    Poetry provides a unique glimpse into the past, present, and future. The vibrant words written on a page project a scene in our minds strung together by words, emotions, and memories from our own experiences and imaginations.

  • Burnside’s Roanoke Island Expedition: The Battle for the North Carolina Sounds

    • Civil War
    • Military
    • Military Conflict

    Major General George B. McClellan recognized the need for combined operations to overwhelm the Confederate war effort. With more than 3,000 miles of coastline to defend, the Southerners were often unable to protect their coastal territory effectively. The captures of Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal Sound were decisive actions that furthered General Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan

  • Who was Captain of the Andrew Harder? A Mystery Solved

    • Black History
    • Collections

    I found a small logbook dating from the Civil War kept by the captain of the steamer Andrew Harder. But my choice of Log 192 involved an inherent mystery we had hoped Thomas might be able to solve for us. Who was this diarist?

  • Forgotten Faces of Titanic: The Widener Family

    • Collections
    • Cultural Heritage

    It has been 109 years since the R.M.S. Titanic, at one point, deemed the “unsinkable ship,” struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 2,205 passengers and crew members aboard, only 704 souls survived that fateful night. Passengers came to travel aboard the ship from all over the world, including approximately 300 from America. The Widener family was among this group of Americans.

  • Hampton Roads City Nature Challenge: A How-to guide

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    Participate in the City Nature Challenge and help us identify wildlife and plants who call Mariners' Park home!

  • The Return of IR

    • Collections
    • Conservation
    • Science
    • Technology

    After a quick trip to the conservation lab, this makeshift muzzle was photographed and seen in a whole new light- literally. A series of images were taken of the label with varying infrared filtration to hone in on just the right wavelengths to best see ‘through’ the old varnish.

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