2022 ANNUAL REPORT
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2022-2023
Anthony (Tony) R. Sapienza, Chair
Patricia (Tricia) Schade, 1stViceChair
Bernadette Souza, 2ndViceChair
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Treasurer
Ricardo Bermudez,AssistantTreasurer
Eugene (Gene) Monteiro, Clerk
Paulina Arruda, AssistantClerk
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., PastChair
Onésimo Almeida, Ph.D.
Thomas Anderson
Christina M. Bascom
Douglas Crocker II
John N. Garfield, Jr.
David Gomes
Vanessa Gralton
Edward M. Howland II
Meg Howland
Robert H. Kelley, Esq.
Per Lofberg
Hon. D. Lloyd Macdonald
Ralph Martin
Gilbert Perry
Victoria Pope
Dana Rebeiro
Cathy Roberts
Maria Rosario
Brian J. Rothschild, Ph.D.
Christine Schmid
Nancy Shanik
R. Davis Webb
Alison Wells
Lisa Whitney
Susan M. Wolkoff
David W. Wright
STAFF
Kayleigh Almeida
D.Jordan Berson
Traci Calabrese
Brett Carlsen
Elizabeth Cincotta
Kelly Corralejo
Melanie Correia
Rachel Dwyer
Michael Dyer
Elizabeth Fallon
Paul Foster
Joshua Goncalves
Steven Hebert
Michael Lapides
Jeannine Louro
Phoebe Magee
Jacob Mark
Amanda McMullen
Kyle McWilliams
Emily Mead
Henry Moniz
Allison Myron
Michael Novak
Joclyne Nunes
Beatriz Oliveira
John Pimentel
Angel Ponte
Mark Procknik
Yamilex Ramos Peguero
Timothy Raymond
Emily Reinl
Emma Rocha
Robert Rocha
Fallon Rosario
Monique Roy
Chanda Sar
Catherine Saunders
Benjamin Shiek
Nathan Silveira
Naomi Slipp
Jennifer Smith
Emma Sylvia
REPORT CREDITS
EDITORS
Traci Calabrese
Emily Mead
ART DIRECTION &
DESIGN
Mary-Lynne Bohn, Accent Design
PHOTOGRAPHY
Melanie Correia
Drew Furtado
Andrew Kepinski Photography
Michael Lapides
Cecelia Tavares
Michelle Taylor
Christina Turner
Karissa Walker
Marina Dawn Wells
Jennifer Zanolli
VOLUNTEER COUNCIL
Volunteer Council Members advance the Museum’s mission by serving as docents, working in the Museum’s library or archives, and providing support for education programs and special events.
Nancy Gentile, President
Robert R. Saltzman, VicePresident
Jennifer Gady, RecordingSecretary
Judith A. Giusti, CorrespondingSecretary
Dale Allison
James J. Anderson
Marion Aymie
Melody Barlow
Susan S. Barnet
Janice B. Bastoni
Mary Biltcliffe
Chris Blanch
David A. Brownell
Gerald Bruen
Erin Burlinson
Paula Cabral
Ann Caldwell
Russell Carey
Lorraine Carey
Charles R. Chace
Mitchell Cleveland
Carole Clifford
Annie Cloutier
Marian Cole
Mary E. Crothers
Chris Davis
Sylvia Daley
Melissa Desjardins
Glen Dietz
Christina G. Dodd
Richard Donnelly
Joan C. Doyon
Mary Farry
Deborah J. Fauteux
David Ferkinhoff
Marilyn Ferkinhoff
Patricia A. Fernandes
Carol Fitzgerald
Jen Flanagan
Thomas R. Flynn
Deborah G. Flynn
Michele Fortin
Sue Grace
James B. Grinnell
Susan Grosart
Patricia A. Harrington
Maria Harrington
Myra Hart
Marianne Hickey
Robert M. Hussey
Ellen M. Johnston
Donna T. Junier
Estelle Keches
Priscilla Keffer
Kamile Khazan
Dyan Kieltyka
Anne T. Kirschmann
Barbara Kratovil
Janice M. Linehan
Lee M. Loranger
Charles Loveridge
Rosemary P. Lucas
Judith N. Lund
Larry Lutvak
Kathy Mann
Andrea Marcovici
Marjorie Miller Mayer
Kathleen McAuliffe
Jerome F. McGourthy
Richard McLaren
Louisa Medeiros
Joanne Mendes
Robert S. Mogilnicki
Sanford A. Moss
Morgan T. Mowbray
Robert Myers
Catherine O’Gorman
Cody Oliveira
Helen Pereira
Gilbert Perry
Georgetta Potoski
John Powers
Barbara Poznysz
Dennis Pucello
Jane Pucello
Joseph M. Quigley
John Ricketson
Lenora Robinson
Jennifer Rodriguez
Richard Schenker
Joanne M. Seymour
James E. Soden
Lois Spirlet
Heather Stewart
Harrison Stewart-Racicot
Cynthia Stone
Ellen Stone
June C. Strunk
Diane Sullivan
David Sylvain
William Tatro
Viola S. Taylor
Michael H. M. Taylor
Kenneth Teixeira
Linda Tynan-Minardi
Katherine A. Veiga
James M. Verni
Raymond E. Vezina
Paul Vien
Caroline J. Viera
Lorna Walker
Gordon T. Waring
Sylvia White
Elizabeth Wolstenholme
Carol Zaslona
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM COMMITTEES
Museum Advisory Council
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., Chair
Lisa Schmid Alvord
Nathaniel J. Bickford
Mary Jean Blasdale
John W. Braitmayer
Joanne Cameron
Paula Cordeiro
Carl J. Cruz
William do Carmo
Roy Enoksen
Armand Fernandes
Barbara Ferri
Lucile Hicks
James Hughes
Maryellen Sullivan Hughes
Patricia A. Jayson
William N. Keene
David N. Kelley II
Elizabeth T. Kellogg
Frances F. Levin
Joaquim Livramento
Joseph E. McDonough
George B. Mock III
Faith Morningstar
Barbara Moss
Barbara Mulville
Celeste Penney
Alice Rice Perkins
John C. Pinheiro
Carlos Ribeiro
Donald S. Rice
Gilbert L. Shapiro
Janet P. Whitla
David Wyss
Audit & Risk Committee
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D., Chair
Thomas Anderson
Ricardo Bermudez
Robert H. Kelley
D.Lloyd Macdonald
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Nancy Shanik
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons
Buildings & Grounds Committee
John N. Garfield, Jr., Chair
Ricardo Bermudez
Edward M. Howland II
James Hughes
Robert H. Kelley
Ralph Martin
Victoria Pope
Quentin Ricciardi
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Mark Schmid
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Lisa Whitney
Susan M. Wolkoff
Cabo Verde Advisory Committee
Carl J. Cruz, Co-Chair
Eugene (Gene) Monteiro, Co-Chair
Carlos Almeida
Patricia Andrade
Candida Rose Baptista
Angelo Barbosa
Ronald Barboza
Jose Cabral
William do Carmo
David Gomes
Marilyn Gonsalves
Scott Lima
Joaquim Livramento
Louis M. Ricciardi
Daniel Rodriques
Lucy Rose-Correia
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Collections Committee
Christine Schmid, Chair
Constance Bacon
Mary Jean Blasdale
Mary Chandor
Douglas Crocker II
Carl J. Cruz
Vanessa Gralton
Thomas Hardy
Meg Howland
Frances L. Levin
Per Lofberg
Steven D. Lubar
Michael J. Moore
Barbara Moss
John H. Ricketson
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Gilbert L. Shapiro
Ellen Stone
Alison Wells
Lisa Whitney
David W. Wright
Development & Stewardship Committee
Cathy Roberts, Chair
Vanessa Gralton
Per Lofberg
Gilbert Perry
Dana Rebeiro
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Endowment Task Force
Davis Webb, Chair
Maryellen Sullivan Hughes
George B. Mock III
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Event Committee
Cathy Roberts, Chair
Emily Field
Clare Healy Foley
Patricia Jayson
Lisa Whitney
Executive Committee
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza, Chair
Paulina Arruda, AssistantClerk
Christina M. Bascom
Ricardo Bermudez, AssistantTreasurer
Douglas Crocker II
John N. Garfield, Jr.
Eugene (Gene) Monteiro, Clerk
Cathy Roberts
Patricia (Tricia) Schade, 1stViceChair
Christine Schmid
Hardwick Simmons, Treasurer
Bernadette Souza, 2ndViceChair
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D, PastChair
Davis Webb
Finance Committee
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Chair
Ricardo Bermudez
Jose Castelo
Douglas Crocker II
Thomas Hardy
D.Lloyd Macdonald
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Nancy Shanik
Davis Webb
David W. Wright
Governance Committee
Patricia (Tricia) Schade, Chair
Paulina Arruda
Christina M. Bascom
Carl J. Cruz
David Gomes
Robert H. Kelley
Dana Rebeiro
Bruce Rose
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Carol M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Susan M. Wolkoff
David W. Wright
Investment Committee
Ricardo Bermudez, Chair
Ted Melhado
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Nancy Shanik
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons
David Wyss
Lighting the Way Committee
Christina M. Bascom, Chair
Paulina Arruda
Lee Blake
Penny Cole
Jan Da Silva
Priscilla Ditchfield
Ann O’Leary
Ivy S. MacMahon
Joanne Murray
Maria Rosario
Jessica Ross
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Mary Howland Smoyer
Bernadette Souza
Margot Stone
Museum Learning Committee
Patricia (Tricia) Schade, Co-Chair
Bernadette Souza, Co-Chair
Thomas Anderson
Christina M. Bascom
Nancy Gentile
Joaquim Livramento
Ralph Martin
Helen Montague
Faith Morningstar
Yamilex Ramos Peguero
Dana Rebeiro
Maria Rosario
Brian Rothschild, Ph.D.
Robert R. Saltzman
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Josephine Tilley
Alison Wells
Portuguese Advisory Committee
Onésimo Almeida, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Gilbert Perry, Co-ChairMichael
Benevides
Rep. Antonio Cabral
Jose Castelo
Anthony A. Cruz
Paul Curado
James G. DeMello
Gloria De Sa
Armand Fernandes, Jr.
Monica Bensaude Fernandes
Rogerio Lopes
Louise Medeiros
Willitts Mendonca
Paula Celeste Gomes Noversa, Ph.D.
Sara da Silva Quintal
John C. Pinheiro
Victor C. Pinheiro
Jose Rebeiro
Donald G. Rei
Fernando G. Rosa
Brian Rothschild, Ph.D.
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
Scholarship & Publications
Michael J. Moore, Chair
Mary K. Bercaw
Mary Jean Blasdale
John R. Bockstoce
Jan da Silva
Timothy Evans
Kenneth Hartnett
Judith N. Lund
Paul Meagher
Daniela Melo
David Nelson
Victoria Pope
Brian Rothschild, Ph.D.
Anthony R. (Tony) Sapienza
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2022 ANNUAL REPORT
Highlights of 2022
804 scholars served in the library reading room
2,017 member households/ businesses
273% increase in K-12 students served by Museum programs vs. 2021
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18,306 participants attended our virtual and in-person public programs
70,592 Total visitors in 2022
rotating exhibitions made their debut
100% of senior apprentices graduated from high school and were accepted to four-year institutions
25 members traveled to the Azores for our first members’ trip since 2019
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High School Apprentices participated in story collection for the Museum’s oral history project, Common Ground
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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR
Dear Friends,
As the pandemic eased in 2022, the New Bedford Whaling Museum reemerged as the most significant leader of art, history, science and culture in the Greater New Bedford community.
Building on Common Ground, our multi-year effort to collect and preserve first-person accounts from the people of Greater New Bedford, the Whaling Museum brought community voices to life with a dynamic exhibition. This one is pretty special to me. Our community is vibrant, diverse, and engaged in both the past and the future That the Museum launched a collaborative program to capture our voices and co-curate this effort in partnership with our community marks an intentional, critical and important shift in our work.
In fact, 2022 was a year that displayed our deliberate steps in fulfilling the strategic priorities to Welcome, Engage, Steward, and Thrive. Increasing access, curating inclusive narratives, and collecting with the purpose of expanding representation, these are all hallmarks of our and your museum— invigorated by our strength emerging from years of uncertainty and driven with renewed purpose to develop a Museum for All. Highlights to our commitment can be seen on these pages and on the pages of Vistas: A Journal of Art, History, Science and Culture, a new biannual publication launched in 2022.
As Board Chair, I am proud that more than 26% of our in-person visitors last year were New Bedford residents and even more pleased that this is an 8% increase over 2021. We also doubled down on our efforts to raise funds to support free and reduced admissions. I celebrate and thank those funders that allowed us to grow that investment and enabled increased participation in the Museum and our programming which resulted in 29% of our museumgoers benefiting from our more than 20 free and reduced-admission programs.
Thank you for being part of this remarkable Chair, Board of Trustees
Dear Friends, What a year!
In 2022, the New Bedford Whaling Museum stood tall and opened our doors wide. Welcoming more than 70,000 in our galleries, this mighty museum offered 51 public programs, conserved 95 artifacts, and served more than 800 scholars in our reading room and around the world. Amazingly, our visitation growth marks a 36% increase over 2021. We also reached thousands of students beyond our walls through our science programs—dissecting squids in classrooms all year long and bringing our 41-foot inflatable whale on the road to ignite learning for kids of all ages.
A priority for the year included tackling a soul-searching examination of our physical spaces and thoughtfully mapping out campus opportunities for decades to come The 11-month process sought broad input with more than 300 participating in our community survey and public forum. Central to our planning is the Museum’s newest property at 11 William Street. Directly adjacent to our front entrance, this property was purchased in 2021 and with deep appreciation to 19 donors, this acquisition was fully funded and debt-free.
Welcoming more than 70,000 in our galleries, this mighty museum offered 51 public programs, conserved 95 artifacts, and served more than 800 scholars in our reading room and around the world.
The opening of our major exhibition Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes offered an unparalleled examination of works by artists of this genre. Diving below the surface, Re/Framing also explored the presence and absence of Women artists, Artists of Color and Native people. Given that many scenes depicted landscape now lost, this show also gave deep consideration to environmental impact.
The year was, perhaps, most profoundly transformed by the gift from Nancy and Jack Braitmayer. Inspired to help NBWM reach new audiences and purposefully embrace this digital moment, Nancy and Jack’s $1M gift propelled us forward. Our fully renovated theater with a state-of-the-art projector, sound system and daily film offerings in 3D is now open! Debuting soon will be a multiplayer kiosk that lets you experience life on a whaleship. Unbelievably, their support also has allowed the Museum to commence a full upgrade of our collections management system. While this herculean effort will take several years to complete, the outcome will be a sophisticated cataloging system with robust search capabilities and virtual open access.
Our extraordinary staff, trustees and volunteers helped us create engaging moments for many and I am grateful for their dedication. It is, however, all because of our members that we are able to do what we do. Your continued enthusiasm and support make everything we do possible. Thank you!
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO
Introducing...
Our new multiplayer interactive brings to life a 19th-century whaling journey by grounding the voyage around the world within the Bourne Building, its exhibits, and collections. Come play and learn!
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Both the upgrades to the Museum’s Cook Memorial Theater that are enabling us to host “Big Blue Pictures” (above) and our new multiplayer game kiosk (pictured left) were made possible by a transformational gift from Nancy and Jack Braitmayer. These digital experiences allow visitors to explore and learn using 21stcentury immersive technology that invites museumgoers of all ages to play and learn about art, history, science and culture.
“Big Blue Pictures” is a new immersive 3D theater experience at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, home to the first and only 3D theater on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts. Currently, the NBWM offers twice-daily showings of two 3D short films, Oceans: Our Blue Planet and Antarctica: On the Edge. Both of these stunning films explore the wildlife of the sea and the environmental threats to their natural habitats.
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2022 Exhibitions
Loomings: Christopher Volpe
December 11, 2021 – May 8, 2022
Braitmayer Galleries
Named after the first chapter of Moby-Dick, Loomings suggests disquieting parallels between our own oil-driven industrial age and Herman Melville’s apocalyptic vision of the American quest, as illustrated through the doomed commercial whaling voyage of the Pequod
Volpe renders his enigmatic marine imagery in tar, oil paint, and gold leaf. The tar, a fossil-fuel byproduct, functions as a monochromatic signifier of industrialism, particularly reckless over-extraction. Recalling that whale oil was the precursor to petroleum, the titles’ quotations from Moby-Dick, and the tar’s metallic blacks and tintype sepia tones invoke Melville’s novel as a cautionary, foundational myth for our own age of accelerating climate disruption and social unrest. The discovery of petroleum in 1856 marked the beginning of the end for the American whaling industry. But after 170 additional years of oil-driven industrialization, humanity continues to exploit nature without adequately understanding our place within it or even our own history.
Unvarnished: Conservation of Charles Sidney
Raleigh’s Panorama of a Whaling Voyage
December 12, 2021 – March 6, 2022
Wattles Family Gallery
Between 1878 and 1880, the prolific British-born painter Charles Sidney Raleigh undertook a daring artistic venture: a monumental panorama of twenty-two whaling scenes from the four-year voyage of the Niger, which departed from New Bedford in 1870 for the Pacific. The New Bedford Whaling Museum owns 18 of the Raleigh panorama panels, each measuring over six feet tall and 12 feet wide. Unvarnished, which featured eight of the paintings, aimed to underscore the challenges museums face in dealing with large collections and unusual objects. A second goal was to raise sufficient funds for the conservation of these paintings and preserve them for generations to come.
Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison
November 15, 2021 – May 1, 2022
Herman Melville Room
Center Street Gallery
Donors: Anonymous, Christina M. Bascom, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cutter Hardy, Island Foundation, KAM Appliances, Frances Levin, Tina & Paul Schmid, Frima G.* & Gilbert L. Shapiro
Los Angeles-based ceramicist and sculptor Courtney Mattison self-identifies as an artist and “ocean advocate.” Her delicate and monumental installations offer both visual interest and meaningful commentary on the health of our imperiled oceans. The delicacy of her porcelain forms, which appear to grow outward into organic spiraling shapes, and 6
then die before our eyes, bleaching into bone, poignantly illustrate the widespread and devastating effects of ocean warming and pollution on marine species, including corals and other invertebrates.
The Azorean Spirit: The Art of Domingos Rebêlo
March 31 – September 22, 2022
Wattles Family Gallery
Donors: Anonymous, The Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, Luso-American Development Foundation, Massachusetts State Senator Michael J. Rodrigues, The Senator Rodrigues Arts and Culture Fund of the SouthCoast Community Foundation, SATA-Azores Airlines, TAP Air Portugal.
In a career spanning more than 60 years, Domingos Rebêlo (1891-1975) created thousands of works of art that reflected his Portuguese identity and culture, and honored his Azorean roots. While he dreamed of exhibiting his works for Portuguese emigrant audiences abroad in the United States, he never had a show for American audiences during his lifetime. The Azorean Spirit: The Art of Domingos Rebêlo was the first international exhibition of this artist’s work presented in the United States Organized by his grandson and researcher, Jorge Rebêlo, the exhibition brought together more than fifty rarely seen paintings and works on paper from collections in continental Portugal and the Azores.
IGNITE: A Youth Showcase of Art Inspired by Historic Women of the Southcoast
April 22 – May 31, 2022
Upper Level Galleries
Young artists in grades 4 through 12 were invited to submit original artwork inspired by the Lighting the Way project. The resulting exhibition featured more than twenty paintings and drawing by youth from ten different schools, afterschool programs and homeschools. Their artworks reflect the diversity of both the historic women and the young people of today from our region. In the artworks, one can see the echoes of leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists who shaped the SouthCoast as we know it today. In each, one sees the reflection of students’ passions and interests, as well as their artistry, attention to detail, craftsmanship, and individuality.
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
May 20 – November 20, 2022
Center Street Gallery
Donors: BayCoast Bank Foundation, Law Firm of Lang, Xifaras, and Bullard, New Bedford Historical Society, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Office of the Provost, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Southcoast Health Foundation
Self-emancipation along the Underground Railroad was not entirely by overland routes. Largely overlooked by historians is the great number of enslaved persons who made their way to freedom using coastal water routes along
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the Atlantic seaboard. Enslaved AfricanAmericans often escaped by sea aboard merchant and passenger ships, or using smaller watercraft. Sailing to Freedom highlighted the little-known stories and described the less-understood maritime side of the Underground Railroad, including the impact of African-Americans’ paid and unpaid waterfront labor.
William Shattuck: Reveries
June 3, 2022 – January 1, 2023
Braitmayer Galleries
William Shattuck lives in Southeastern Massachusetts and his paintings reflect a fascination with the tidal marshes, estuaries and woodlands along that coastline. Having moved there in 1980 from New York, he has appreciated the changing patterns of light and weather throughout different seasons and times of day. This exhibition featured Shattuck’s evocative, moody landscape paintings. Shattuck employs careful brushwork and layered glazes to capture early morning light, haze on the marsh, or eerie glow of twilight on darkened tree trunks. His works evoke the attention to detail of the French Barbizon school, the impressionist studies of light and time by Claude Monet, and the luminescence of Maxfield Parrish.
Henry Horenstein: Close Relations
June 9 – December 18, 2022
Upper Level Galleries
Donors: Frances Levin, The William M. Wood Foundation
Organized as a component of the New Bedford Whaling Museum exhibition and oral history initiative, Common Ground: Community Stories, “Close Relations” presented an intimate and photographically compelling look at life in the SouthCoast in the early 1970s.
Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes
October 28, 2022 – May 14, 2023
Wattles Family Gallery
Donors: Anonymous (2), Mary Jean and William Blasdale, Cynthia & Douglas Crocker II, Victoria & David Croll, Sarah Jackson, KAM Appliances, Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald, Louis Ricciardi & Elizabeth Soares, The William M. Wood Foundation
Program partners: Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Sippican Lands Trust, Westport Land Conservation Trust
Nineteenth-century American artists are well known for their depictions of nature and the outdoors, for creating a national “school” of painting, and for their documentation and idealization of scenery ranging from the imagined and pastoral to the dramatic and sublime. This stunning exhibition was an exciting and timely invitation to view paintings held in private hands and usually hung behind closed doors – allowing exploration of the many meanings of the American
landscape, both historically to nineteenth-century viewers and today for twenty-first century audiences.
Drawn from six exceptional regional private collections, the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection, and six loaning institutions, Re/Framing the View offered a layered interpretation of the cultural and historical meaning of such paintings. What such artists often failed to capture are the environmental conditions and social concerns, including those of women and Indigenous people, that may underlie picturesque imagery.
Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) and the Arctic Imaginary
December 12, 2022 – May 7, 2023
Center Street Gallery
The New Bedford Whaling Museum holds a deep collection of hundreds of original artworks, photographs, carvings, and material culture depicting or made from polar bears. This exhibition showcased a cross-section of these extraordinary artworks in order to reveal and explore humankind’s fascination and relationship with this vaunted and elusive species.
Moby-Dick in Days of Pestilence
and Chaos
December 22, 2022 – February 26, 2023
Upper Level Galleries
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and working through the 2020 lockdown, Boston-based artist Aileen Callahan (b. 1941) created Moby-Dick in Days of Pestilence and Chaos. This body of work explores themes of contagion and plague, and the known, the unseen, and the feared, as described by author Herman Melville (1819-1891) in the novel Moby-Dick (1851). How much time must pass before infection and chaos take hold —of a crew? —of a society? – and how do such questions apply to today?
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2022 ANNUAL REPORT
2022 Programs and Events
JANUARY
26th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon weekend
Loomings: Melville, Art and the Climate Crisis – Artist Talk
FEBRUARY
Local History Guild: A Few of My Favorite Things
Unvarnished, Behind the Scenes: The New Bedford Whaling Museum Collection and its Challenges –Panel Discussion
Portuguese Lusophone World Lecture Series: Founders, Farmers, and Political Activism: The Portuguese and Cape Verdean Agricultural Community of Falmouth and the Upper Cape –Talk with Miguel Moniz, Ph.D.
MARCH
Sailors’ Series: The History of Ernestina Morrissey – Talk with Captain Tiffany Krihwan
Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison –Artist-led Ceramic Workshop
Turn the Tide: Courtney Mattison –Artist Talk
Local History Guild: A Closer Look at the Work of Women throughout History
Navy Day: Free entry and Family Activities
APRIL
Our Sisters’ School Family Art Showcase
The Azorean Spirit: The Art of Domingos Rebêlo – Exhibition Opening
The Azorean Spirit: The Art of Domingos Rebêlo – Roundtable Discussion
Acushnet Avenue (Pelos Caminhos De Chiquinho) – Book Talk with Jose J. Cabral
Local History Guild: Understanding Art in New Bedford: History, Sources, and Inspiration
Ignite! Youth Art Showcase – Exhibition
Opening & Reception
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MAY
Portuguese Lusophone World Lecture Series: Why Read Joao de Melo and Antonio Lobo Antunes? – Talk with Elizabeth Lowe
Local History Guild: Mutiny in the Pacific! The Life and Exciting Times of Yankee Whaleman Benjamin Clough
Sailing to Freedom: The Overseas Freeway, Maritime Workers and Fugitives in the Struggle Against Slavery – Panel Discussion
JUNE
William Shattuck: Reveries – Exhibition Opening & Reception
Henry Horenstein: Close Relations –Exhibition Opening & Reception
Portuguese Lusophone World Lecture Series - From One World to Another: The Trace of a Portuguese-American Writer –A Conversation with Frank X. Gaspar
JULY
Local History Guild: Captain John Kendrick: Massachusetts Pioneer Mariner to the Pacific, 1787-1794
Coast to Coast: On Common Ground –Summer Benefit Reception, Dinner & Live Auction
SEPTEMBER
The Azorean Spirit: The Art of Domingos Rebêlo – Members’ Culminating Celebration
Manhattan Short Film Festival
OCTOBER
Volunteer Memorial Service
Educator Night – Open House for K-12 teachers and administrators
Local History Guild: Timekeeping & Clockmaking in Early New England
Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes –Exhibition Opening & Reception
Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes: Environmental Allusions – Lecture
NOVEMBER
Marine Life Conservation in Sight and Sound: A Musical Celebration of the Sanctuary – Musical Performance and presentation from Dr. Dave Wiley and Terry Wokowicz
Local History Guild: When Local History Starts a World Away, Massachusetts & The Hong Kong Connection
“The Last of the Right Whales” – Film Screening and Discussion
Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes at Slocum’s River – Guided Walk at Dartmouth Natural Resources Trust
DECEMBER
Portuguese Lusophone World Lecture Series: John Dos Passos, The Man, The Works, and the Portuguese Heritage –Talk with Bernardo De Vasconcelos
Re/Framing the View: NineteenthCentury American Landscapes at the Buzzards Bay Viewing Walk – Guided Walk at Sippican Lands Trust
Local History Guild: A Few of My Favorite Things
Members’ Holiday Party – Reception, Gallery Tours & Holiday Shopping event
Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) and the Arctic Imaginary – Exhibition Opening & Reception
ONGOING K-12 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Creature Feature – Short Films on marine animals and In-Museum Activities released for school vacation weeks and summer vacation
Whales Today – Guided Tours, SelfGuided Tours, and Distance Learning programs for K-12 students
History on the Hill – Guided Tours, SelfGuided Tours, and Distance Learning programs for K-12 students
Squid Dissection – Hands-on, guided Science workshops for K-12 students
School Vacation Week & Summer Programs
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM
A SINGULARLY MARINE & FABULOUS PRODUCE”:
Wattles Gallery
Opening: June 16, 2023 | Closing: December 3, 2023
“This kelp, oar-weed, tangle, devil’s-apron, sole-leather, or ribbon-weed,— as various species are called,—appeared to us a singularly marine and fabulous product, a fit invention for Neptune to adorn his car with, or a freak of Proteus.” Cape Cod, Henry David Thoreau
Drawing together a wide range of media made by men and women between 1800 and today, the exhibition explores how American, European, and British audiences were drawn to the myriad unique and mysterious qualities of this vegetation of the sea.
This exhibition centers around one painting, Seaweed Gatherers, created in Pont-Aven, France by Acushnet, Massachusetts native Clement Nye Swift. The painting depicts the shoreline economy of seaweed collection for iodine production, and was exhibited in the 1878 Paris salon, before being shipped to the United States when Swift returned home in 1881. Swift’s painting serves as a vehicle for exploring the wide-ranging social meanings of intertidal zones and seaweed, and its uses as depicted in French, British, and American art and culture.
The exhibition programming and 230-page catalog make connections between the cultural histories of seaweed, and the urgent environmental issues of today related to climate change, global food insecurity, and sustainability. How is seaweed a material of interest in the past, and providing critical answers to our future?
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Textile depicting underwater flora, seaweed, and coral. The textile features a pink, teal and brown roller print on a tan ground. Newport Historical Society, 27.4.5
Vase with marine life, Thomas J. Wheatley (1853–1917), 1882. Made in Cincinnati, Ohio, Earthenware, 11 in., Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020.64.188
Clement Nye Swift, Seaweed Gatherers, 1878. Oil on canvas, 41 x 93 inches, New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2015.9.1
MESSAGE FROM THE TREASURER
As Treasurer of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, it is my pleasure to provide an overview of the Museum’s 2022 financial performance.
Our goal for 2022 was to outperform the prepandemic year of 2019 and we did, with an 8% increase in total revenue and support compared to that benchmark. On a year over year basis, once again our loyal and generous community of supporters came together with the result that contributed income for operations was up 20% from 2021. This support from donors/members was vitally important as this was the first year in three without the benefit of government relief funding.
Given our strong balance sheet and recognizing and anticipating the continuing economic uncertainties, the Museum made an important in-year decision to run a planned deficit (our first in ten years) in order to make a series of well-considered investments. These investments supported staff capacity building and marketing outreach in order to continue advancing the goals outlined in our five-year strategic plan. As a result, we improved our product and attracted 70,000 to the Museum’s offerings including a rich slate of exhibitions, programs, events, and now 3-D movies in our theater.
On the capital side and in a difficult year for markets generally, the Museum ran a successful campaign that added $654 thousand to its modest but vital endowment and raised more than $2.5 million toward the planned expansion at the adjacent 11 William Street property acquired in 2021.
After ten plus years with the same auditor it was time we put our account out for competitive bid. We did and ended up choosing the same auditor. Last month, our annual financial audit was completed and a clean opinion issued, assuring us that the Museum continues to demonstrate its commitment to fundraising efficiency and strong fiscal management. This commitment has earned the Museum the highest Candid “Platinum Seal” and the top four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
As I write, 2023 is off to a strong start. As usual, we aim to exceed our goals and your expectations in the year ahead. I encourage you to visit the Museum often to enjoy all that you love, and be surprised by all that is new. Your generosity and trust keep the New Bedford Whaling Museum vibrant and strong –thank you!
Hardwick (Wick) Simmons, Treasurer
2022 Financial Summary
For the year ending December 31, 2022 and 2021
Sources of 2022 Operating Funds
Uses of 2022 Operating Funds
For a complete copy of the 2022 Audited Financial Statements, please visit: whalingmuseum.org/about/financials or call 508-997-0046 ext. 126.
NEW BEDFORD WHAL ING MUSEUM
Operating Income 2022 2021 $3,043,831 $2,543,494 $449,610 $328,032 $787,836 $647,936 $1,098,378 $1,079,621 Contributed Income Contributions of Non-financial Assets Investment Return Allocated to Operations Earned Revenue Federal Pandemic Relief Funding $ 997,097 $5,379,655 $5,596,180 Total Operating Income Operating Expenses $4,155,991 $3,577,674 Program Services Supporting Services $1,395,554 $1,280,469 Total Operating Expenses $5,551,545 $4,858,143 Net Operating Income ($171,890) 738,037 Endowment Market Value FY2019 $14.7 million FY2020 $16.9 million FY2021 $19.2 million FY2022 $16.4 million Net Assets FY2019 $31.5 million FY2020 $32.7 million FY2021 $35.9 million FY2022 $34.0 million
Investments FY2019 $402 thousand FY2020 $131 thousand FY2021 $1.37 million FY2022 $1.1 million
Campus
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Our Donors
Individual Donors
The following individual contributors supported the Museum with cumulative giving of $100 or more to the annual fund, collections, exhibitions, membership or other programspecific initiatives between January 1 and December 31, 2022. Though space restraints permit us to list only gifts of $100 or more, the Museum is grateful for support at every level.
$1,000,000+
Nancy & John W. Braitmayer
$100,000 - $999,999
Bess Dawson Hughes & James Hughes
Joan K. & Irwin M. Jacobs
Sandra Turner*
Jennifer & R. Davis Webb
$50,000 - $99,999
Anonymous
Cynthia & Douglas Crocker II
Tally & John N. Garfield, Jr.
Cathy & Henry Roberts
Sloan M. & Wick Simmons
Carol M. Taylor & John H. Deknatel
$25,000 - $49,999
Anonymous
Christina M. Bascom
Laura M. & Peter T. Grauer
Edgenie H. & Donald S. Rice
Tina & Paul Schmid
Dola Hamilton Stemberg
Ann Webster
Grace & David A. Wyss
$10,000 - $24,999
Mary Jean & R. William Blasdale
Victoria & David Croll
Michael Dury
Christina* & Peter* Gargas
Carolyn & Robert Gelpke
Vanessa & John Gralton
Alison Hedges & Robert Saunders
Lucile P. & William C.S. Hicks
Marianna C. & Edward M. Howland II
Maryellen Sullivan Hughes & James Hughes
Patricia A. Jayson
Elizabeth T. & Morris W. Kellogg
Margaret & Per G.H. Lofberg
Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald
Faith & Ambassador
Richard L. Morningstar
Jane & Neil Pappalardo
Anthony R. Sapienza
Tricia & Chris Schade 2022
Thomas P. Barry & Nancy Shanik
Gilbert L. Shapiro
Bonnie & Robert Stapleton
Sigrid & Ladd Thorne
Susan & Harvey Wolkoff
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous (3)
Pamela & Ricardo Bermudez
Marnie Ross Chardon & Marc E. Chardon
Nancy & David Corkery
Ruth B. Ekstrom
Marilyn & David Ferkinhoff
Sarah Jackson
Patricia A. & John M. Kalisz
Franny & William N. Keene
Sharon Ireland Lewis
Holly & Joseph E. McDonough
Caroline & George B. Mock III
Jill & Thomas Pappas
Louis M. Ricciardi & Elizabeth M. Soares
Carolyn & James Rubenstein R
Patricia & Edward Schoppe, Jr.
Patricia Diane Valas
Maureen & Thomas Vieira
$2,500 - $4,999
Lisa Schmid Alvord & Joel Alvord
Paulina R. & Henry M. Arruda
Laurie & David Barrett
Thomasin Berry & John Desmond
Susan S. Brenninkmeyer
Rid Bullerjahn
Joanne & David Cameron
Janet & William Coquillette
Deborah & Peter Gates
Susan Gifford
Sarah H. Godfrey
Susan & Gary A. Grosart
Margaret B. Howland
Heather Parsons & Andrew Kotsatos
Frances Levin
Judy & Jay* Light
Rosemary P. Lucas
Doris & John Ludes
Deborah Scott & Ralph Martin
Susan McLaren & Philip Guymont
Reidar Rasmussen & Laura McLeod
Amanda & Quentin McMullen
Joan Dolian & Per Moen
Celeste Penney
Victoria Pope & Joel F. Brenner
Barbara & Thomas Slaight
Janice & John Smyth
Margot Stone
Stephen Taber
Martha & Bernard Taradash
Raymond Butler Weiss
Janet P. Whitla
Ann & Hans Ziegler
$1,000 - $2,499
Anonymous
Meg & Robert Ackerman
Patricia A. & Mark S. Allen
Howe Allen & Timothy Evans
Onésimo Almeida
Patricia Altschuller
Patricia L. Andrade, M.D.
Deborah A. & Benjamin B. Baker
Talbot Baker, Jr.
Margherita & Michael Baldwin
Melody Barlow
Pamela & Joseph M. Barry
Robin & Milo Beach
Jackie & John Beauregard
William Betts
Jewelle W. & Nathaniel J. Bickford
Jessie & Thomas Bourneuf
Elizabeth & Edward C. Brainard II
Eric A. Braitmayer & Rev. Jack H. Haney
Nannette & William M. Braucher
Anne Broholm
Janet Brown & Michael Brewer
Jayne & Richard Burkhardt
Ann & David T. Caldwell
Karyn & Ben Campbell
Betty Ann & Jack Cannell
Alzira & Jose S. Castelo
Ginette Castro & Michael Oleksak
Elaine & Paul Chervinsky
Christine & Eric Cody
Breana & Benjamin Cole
Paula Cordeiro & David O’Brien
Carl J. Cruz
Jane & Jerry Dauterive
Sarah & William Ducas
Jean & Ford Elsaesser
Helga Faulenbach
Stephen Fletcher
Linda & Charles W. Findlay
Jennifer Forbes
Sarah Forbes
Elsie R. Fraga
Lisa & Richard D. Frisbie
Cynthia & James Gajewski
Patricia & Armand Fernandes
Peggy & Mark Gildersleeve
David Gomes
Abby & David Gray
Marjorie & Nicholas Greville
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cutter Hardy
Polly & Prentiss C. Higgins
Denise & Charles Hixon
Anne & Jerry Heller
Jessie W. Howland
Samuel Huber
Nina & James Hunt
Martha & Michael Keating
Viki A. Fowler & John D. Kelleher
Mona & Robert Ketcham
Nancy W. & Edward F. Kurtz
Diane Laflamme
Gig & Scott W. Lang
Patricia Lawrence
Susan Leclair & James Griffith
Shena Lowe
Judith N. & Edward G. Lund, Jr.
Dora Beatty & Peter Macdonald
Beth & Carmine Martignetti
M. Holt Massey
Elizabeth & Thomas McKay
Emily Mead & Robert Santos
Hannah C. & Michael J. Moore
Mayo & Dan Morgan
Susan & Anthony Morris
David Motta
Barbara Mulville
Joseph Nauman
John O’Connell
Barbara & Harry O’Hare
John O’Shaughnessy
Carolyn & Robert* Osteen
Christine W. Parks
Geraldine Pelczar
Alice Rice Perkins & Mark C. Perkins
Donna Sachs & Gilbert Perry
Emily & John C. Pinheiro
Karen & Claude James Prieur
Margaret-Ann & Clifton Rice
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Richmond
Deborah C. Robbins
Judith W. & Robert L. Rosbe, Jr.
Lucy Saunders
Barbara & Michael Schaefer
Kristin & Roger Servison
Anna & George Shaw
Bonnie & Louis Silverstein
Jeannie & Mason Smith
Genevieve & Steven Spiegel
Fredi & Howard H. Stevenson
Emily & Taylor Stoermer
Ulla & Paul Sullivan
Michelle Taylor
Emily Trueblood & Ernest Patrikis
Margaret Tuten
Marni Clippinger & Sheffield Van Buren
Kathleen K. Wattles
David Wilusz
Lisa & David W. Wright
$500 - $999
Anonymous
Thomas Abe
Alan Bateman
Sandra Bilodeau
Leslie & Wendell S. Brown
Laurie & John K. Bullard
Sally Bullard
Tucker Burr
Kenneth Camara
William do Carmo
Ruth H. & Richard W. Cederberg
Jeff & Jennifer Collins
Dr. Janelle Cooper & Ms. Kathleen K. Hanson
Victoria & Robert Cunningham
Gail Davidson
Sue & Bob Daylor
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* Deceased
REPORT
ANNUAL
Zelinda & John Douhan
C.C. Dyer
Virginia & Harold Eckert
Emily & Horace Field
Clare Healy Foley & Paul Foley
Judith A. Fong
Bettye & Robert Freeman
Joanne Garfield
Sharon & David Giblin
Karen & Jack Gierhart
Elaine P. & Joseph E. Grever
J. Briggs Grinnell
Lisa Gross & Richard Hoffman
Susan Heide
Christopher Hillyer
Margaret & Buell Hollister
Joy & Carl Horstmann
Johanna & Ian Hughes
Hope & David Jeffrey
Margot & George Kalkanis
Mary & Peter T. Kavanaugh
Mary Ellen Kennedy
Joanne Leary
Joaquim Livramento
Carl Martignetti
Fair Alice & Peter H. McCormick
Pamela & George McNamara
Susan & Dexter Mead
Anita & Willitts Mendonca
Benita & Eugene A. Monteiro
Donna & Jim Moody
Kathy & Morgan Mowbray
Pamela T. & R. Henry Norweb
Rachel Pachter & Jeremiah Hill
Alda & Ken Petitti
Roseann Radosevich & Richard A. Pline
Richard T. Prasse
Mark Rasmussen
Katherine C. Raymond
Katherine Read & William Sommerville
Joan Supir & Joel Ristuceia
Cynthia & Edward Ritter
Dr. and Mrs. R. Michael Scott
Ross E. Sherbrooke
Robin & Tim Shields
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Sittenfeld
Robert B. Smith
Bernadette Souza
Judith & Robert Sterns
Ellen Stone
Richard S. Taylor
Helen A. Trumbull
Betsey Tyler
Joan Underwood & Geoffrey Taylor
Alex Walecka
Ann & Brad Wallace
Mallory & John Waterman
Elizabeth & Robert Wax
Happy & Henley Webb
Laura & Wistar Wood
$100 - $499
Anonymous (10)
Thomas Abe
Susan & Charles Abizaid
Elizabeth & Kenneth Ackerman
Sue & John Adams
Guilliaem Aertsen
Melinda & Mike Ailes
Emre & Lee Akter
Ashley Albergaria
Jennifer & Adam Albino
Ferit Albukrek & David Thornton
Mary Lee & Peter Aldrich
Charles C. Alexander
Jane Allain & Walter Czerny
Susan & Bruce Almeida
Pamela Barton Almy & Robert Almy
C. Douglass Alves
Maria Alves
Sarah & John Ames
Nancy Ames & Peter Nelson
Dana Anderson
James Anderson
Gretchen Cook-Anderson & Thomas Anderson
Wendy D. & Eugene C. Andreassi
Katherine & Kenneth Anthony
Lucy Aptekar
Odysseus Argy
Patricia & Christopher B. Arnold
Bruce Arrington
Lisa & Al Arthofer
Jane & Gary Ash
Susan & Henry Ashworth
Kristine Audette
Tessa Baccino
Mike Bachrach
Peter Bailet
Patricia & John Baillieul
Deborah & William H. Baker
Joan Decollibus & Douglas A. Balder
Jeanne & Perry A. Ball
Beth & Bill Barker
Susan S. Barnet
William Barr & John Vasconcellos
Lavaughn & Dennis Barrett
Patricia B. & William R. Barron
Mary P. Barry
Joshua Barton
Janice & John Bastoni
Ana & Dudley Bauerlein
Sandy Bayne
Gale & Tom Beaton
Lindsay Beaupre
Cheryl Beauregard
Brenda & Norman Beauregard
Kate Harrison-Beauregard & Adrienne Beauregard
Tamara & Carl Beckman
Cynthia & John Behan
Deborah Benson
Oufa El Houkssous & Martin Bentz
Charlotte R. & Leonard Berman
Leslie & Robert Bernert
Roz & Wally Bernheimer
Jennifer Bertrand & Christopher Smith
Mary Beth & John Dowd
Teresa Betit & Howard Lurie
Christina Bevilacqua
Susan & Desmond H. Birkett
Lybi & Mark Bittner
Christopher M. Blood
Lisa Bob & Edward O’Rourke
* Deceased
Linda & John Bodenmann
Julie & C. Todd Boes
Susan & Nicholas Bonn
Virginia & Myles Boone
Linda & Willard Boothby
Daphne L. Borden
Bettina Borders & Victor Mailey
Lucy & Wayne Botelho
Carol & Joseph Boudrow
Elsie Boulanger
Carl Boutilier
Clara M. Weeks-Boutilier & Carl G. Boutilier
Claire & Patrick Bowen
Kathleen Bower
Robyn Branco
Kathie Brenner & Mark Weber
Penny Brewer & Nathan Bekemeier
Jennifer & John Brindisi
Ashley Bristol & Brendan McLean
Deborah P. Brooke
Carol H. Brown
Mary & Ron Brown
Cynthia Martin Brown & David Brown
Kenneth Brown
Sharon K. & Thomas F. Brownell
David Brownell
Elisabeth & Bartlett Brownell
Leigh Brownell-Currens & Michael Currens
Anthime E. Brunette
Ellen Bruzelius & William Tifft
Kelly Buck
Joan & Peter Bullard
Leigh Burchell
Christine Burgess
Linda M. & Joseph F. Burke Jr., M.D.
Elizabeth Burlingame & Timothy Masters
Erin & Peter Burlinson
Heather & Joshua Burton
Iris Busch
Ellen Busher
Marylou & Thomas Butero
Traci R. & Daniel S. Calabrese
Teresa A. & Robert J. Caldas, D.O.
Susan M. Camacho & William J. Hollman
Lean Camara & Chad Brubaker
Lee Cameron
Sophronia Camp & Jeffrey McMahon
Crystal C. Campbell
Maria Cantor
Melissa Carden & Matt Boline
Lorraine & Russell Carey
Alex Carlin & Lisa G. Churchville
Ellen & Edward Carlson
Ellen & Daniel Carlucci
Leonora Carreiro
Jennifer Carroll & Matt Faustino
Ellen S. & Richard W. Cartun
Mr. Jordan Castro
Erin & Matthew Cate
Carol D. Cattley
Elizabeth M. Chapin
Linda L. Childs
Elaine Chin & Jennifer Tsuei
Helen & David R. Chipman
Jintai Cho
Peter Christensen
Brenda & Tom Clark
Sharon & Ron Clarke
Amanda Cobb & David Halberstadt
Robert S. Cocroft
Danielle D. & Louis D. Coffin
Florence & Neal Cohen
Deborah Cohen & Ed Mikus
Patrice D. & Jeremiah L. Coholan
Betty Slade & David C. Cole
Kay H. Collins
Rita & Joseph Conklin
Mary K. & Jack Connor
Heather Conover & Stephen Brass
David Considine
Stacey & Christopher Constas
Anne T. Converse
Annelise & Ian Conway
Merry & John Conway
Joy & Tom Conwell
Geraldine & Harold Cooper
Lori & John Corbishley
Alfonso Cordova
Cheryl & William Corvello
James & Dot Costa
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Karen & Joseph Costa
Graham Cottrell
Spencer Cowels
Gertrude M. Coxe
Loretto & Dwight Crane
Sheila & Edward A. Crapo
Deirdre Creane
Evelyn Crocker
Prescott B. Crocker
Ruth & Robert Crocker
Edwina & James Cronin
Sarah & Howard Crowell
Maria & Anthony Cruz
Teresa & Peter Cryan
Karen T. Cuenco
Brenda Cullen
Eileen Cunningham
Sally & David Curtin
Martha H. Curtis
Laurie & Harry Curtis
Molly & Chris Cutler
Elaine Cwynar
Jessica & Jeffrey Cziska
Kate & Frederick Dabney
Marcia & Peter Damon
Judith & Murray Danforth
Lindsay & Ibrahim Daoudi
Patricia & Paul Daoust
Thomas & Steven Darwin
Eric & Angela Dawicki
Nancy Dawson
Akeia de Barros Gomes
Maureen & Allen Decker
Gail Decoux
Helen DeGroot
Charles Deknatel
Jillian & Nathaniel Deknatel
Ramona & Matthew Delaney
Judith R. & Charles F. DeMailly, Jr.
Melanie & Bruce Demoranville
Cynthia K. & Rhet H. C. Denault
Elizabeth & Steven Dent
Jane Silva Depp & Larry Depp
Anne DeSouza-Ward
Anne Devaney
Kathleen & Stephanie Devaney
Stephen DeWald
Brenda & Ronald Dias
Pam DiFilippo
Anne M. Dimonti
Ellen T. & Irving W. Dingwell
Priscilla & Allan Ditchfield
Christine & Les Dole
Nicole Doliner
Jodie Donaghy
Anne Downey
Deborah & Henry Drinker
Steven Duarte
Nancy Jane & Sam Duncan
Rose Dupont
Charles Duponte
Jacqueline Dupuis
Brenda & James Dury
Sarah & Shawn Dury
Constance & Jerome Dyer
Barbara & Don Easterday
Maureen & Michael Ecker
Nancy E. & Lawrence K. Edwards
Cornelia & Robert Elmore
Morami Engler
Peter Epstein
Robert Espindola
Merry & Ralph Eustis
Helena Evans & J. Walter Freiberg
Alex & Scott Evoy
Christopher Fanning
Maureen & Hugh Fanning
Shirley & John Farrington
Mary Farry & Ellen Hamilton
Mary & James Faughnan
Kathy & Jim Feeney
Mary Feeney
Kathleen S. & David W. Fentress, Jr.
Carole Ferguson & Jim Conlin
Anthony J. Ferreira
Karen J. & Horace F. Field III
Lorenz Finison
Skip Finley
Penelope Finnie
Angela & Gian Luca Fiori
Michael & Karen Fiorile
Janet & Howard Fishbein
Anne Fisher
Michelle & Edward Fisher
Holly Fitzgerald & Megan Pogash
Signe P. & Chris Flieger
Muriel & Allan Fortes
Shirley A. Fortes
Ann C. Fox & Leo H. Brautigam
Gregory Frazier
Charles E. Freda
Helen & Andrew Fredricks
Janet Freedman
Francine & Robert French
Henning Fuellers
Angela & Dennis Fusco
Marya & Stefan Gabriel
Jennifer & Bill Gady
Robert Galkin
Lois Gallant & Charles Pratt
Denise P. Gallo
Cheryl & Henry Gamsby
Patricia H. & Robert H. Gardner
Dorothy & Seth Garfield
Linda Garibaldi
Mary Lou & G. Kenneth Garrett
Mary Ann & Anthony Garro
Rebecca Gast & Philip Bernard
Barbara & David Gauthier
Debra Gayle & Michael Malone
Barbara & Thomas Geagan
Nancy Gentile & Mark Keighley
Joan Gerster & Fred Trezise
Vera C. Gibbons
Sarah & Vasant Gideon
Lynne & Burney Gifford
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Priscilla Gay Gillespie
Gay von Hennenberg Gillies & David Gillies
Elizabeth Ginncola & Pamela High
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Barbara & Milton Glicksman
Kimberly & Bronson Goddard
Patrick Golarz
Bill Goldberg
Andrea Golden
Marian R. Goldsmith
Dianne T. & Terence A. Gomes
Joseph J. Gomes
Marilyn L. Gonsalves
Martha Goodway
John Gorczyca
Lisa Gould & Kurt Voss
Claire & Andre Goyer
Barbara Gracia
Frank Gracia
Marguerite & William Graham
Barbara Lemperly Grant & Frederic D. Grant, Jr.
Anne H. Gray
Margaret & Samuel Gray
Roger Grayson
Dennis I. Greene
Ellen & Gerard Grenier
Edward Grever
Robert Grindrod
Linda & John Gurney
Sophia & Owen Gwilliam
Teresa & Peter Hacunda
Hope & Samuel Hale
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Sandra & David Hall
Cecilia & Michael Halter
Joyce Hammond
Margot Hand & Robert Anderson
Elizabeth & Mark R. Handren
Wayne Harpel
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Patricia A. Harrington
Elizabeth L. Harris
Helena & Kenneth Hartnett
Brian Hartt
Sally Harty
James & Ruth R. Harvie
Olive & Ruby Hasbrouck
Melissa Haskell & Jeffrey Graber
Juliana & Todd Hassett
Carla & Stephen Hatfield
Marion Hauck
Darren Hayes
Mary Ann Hayes
MaryAnn C. Hayes
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Laurie Hays & Fen Montaigne
Pamela & Ted Haznar
Gloria & Walter Healey
Peter Healey
Dorothy Hebden-Heath
Dawn & Todd Heimer
Lenore & Scott Henderson
Judith & Edward Herlihy Penny
Herring & Garnet A. Wrigley
Bill Herron
Berna & Joseph Heyman
Marianne Hickey
Lesley Hill & Alan Stone
Anne & Jonathan Hird
Janet & Richard Hitchcock
Anthony Hitchman
Annette & Paul Hodess
Pamela & Edward P. Hoffer
Amy Holden & Brian Freyermuth
Melisa Hollenback
Jalien Hollister
Carolyn C. & Michael D. Holmes
David Holroyd
Cathleen S. & Donald T. Hood
Mary Hope & Ethan Rutherford
Merita Hopkins & James Ring
Alison Horrigan & Deborah Morris
Carolyn Hotchkiss
Luther Damon Howard III
Jane & Stephen Howe
Amanda Howland
Robert Howland
Bonnie & Jong Ping Hsu
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Michael S. Hudner
James Hughes
Paul J. Hughes
Heidi & Arthur Huguley III
Collette & Henry Huidekoper
Laura & Ray Hunt
Catherine & Ross Hunter
Drs. Hurley
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Elizabeth Isherwood & John Moore
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Margaret Jackson
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Luana Josvold & Gary Johnson
Donna Junier
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James F. Kavanaugh, Jr.
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Cristina & Ethan Kehoe
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Wyn Kelley
Michelle & Michael Kelly
Jean M. Kelly & John C. Sarnoski
Veronica Kenney & Christopher Lenk
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Valerie & Stephen Kerzner
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Maria R. Kilshaw
Kimberly & Donald King
Sara & William King
Anne & Peter Kirschmann
Helen & Stephan Kissler
Thornton P. Klaren, Jr.
Leslie Meyer-Leon & Robert Kleinberg
Brenda Knowles & Roger Fortier
Leslie & G. Bourne Knowles
Jessica Koerner
Andrew Kohlenberg
Rosemary F. Kotkowski
Barbara & Stephen Kratovil
Cynthia & William Krause
Rhett & Susan Krause
Jennifer Kulak
Lois & Stephen Kunian
Tali & Mark Kwatcher
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Elizabeth K. & Robert Ladd
James Ladd
Mia & Mike Lahti
Nancy & James Laird
Denise & Paul Lamoureux
Nancy Langrall
Tenney & Raymond C. Lantz, Jr.
Kathleen & Thomas Lapointe
Bruce W. Larson
Carlene Larsson
Holly Laurent
Sasha Lauterbach & Peter Sturges
Craig & Jeff Lawrence
Elizabeth M. Lawrence
Lisa & Michael Lawrence
Brbara LeBlanc & Robert Unger
Sarah & Seth Lederman
Margaret & Timothy Lee
Mary Ellen Lees
Sarah C. & Michael W. Lemelin
Martha C. Leonard
Susan Lester & Lloyd Klickstein
Paul E. Levasseur
Ottilie & Jeffrey Levine
Kasey & Brian L’Heureux
Kenneth Lipman
Verena Lisinski
Catherine Livezey
Hannah Lloyd & Charles C. Howland
Elizabeth M. Lombardozzi
Christine & Robert Long
Vita Marie Longo
Lee & Raymond Loranger
Anne Louro
Elena & Thomas P. Lovett
Adrianne Lovuolo
Anne G. & Richard E. Lucas
Joe Lukaszevicz
Susan Lukesh
Zora T. & Alan F. Lynch
Brendan Macdonald
Mary & Daniel Macedo
Nicole & Stephen Macedo
Peter Macedo
Andrea & Thomas Macha
Kathleen Maclean
Ivy S. MacMahon
Diana & Bruce MacPhail
Katherine & J. Todd Macsuga
Deborah Macy & Peter Boyce
Karen & Robert Madison
Paul Magid
The Maguire Family
Susan Maguire
Carol & Alfred Mailloux
B. Lynne Mallonee
Michelle Maltais
Mary D. Mandeville
Harold N. Mandly III
Ann L. Manion
Katey Marancik & Harvey Walsh
Jenn Marcos & Emile Blumenthal
Andrea & Alvin Marcovici
Ann Marie & Frederick Macri
Jeffrey Markham
Steven Markowski
Susan & David S. Martin
Jane Martinez
Maureen M. & Michael S. Martowska
Marylin & Wilkinson Marvel
Henry Mastey
Kristen Mccormack & Michael Taubenbenger
* Deceased
Elizabeth McFadden & Rory Nugent
Freddy & Alexander McFerran
Nancy & Joanne McGlynn
Nancy W. McKelvy
Juliette McLennan
Daniel McMahon
Fran & Philip McMann
Tom McNaught & Matthew Gilbert
Susan Mead
Mary & Barry Meade
Dave Measer
Beverly & Antone Medeiros
Joan Medeiros
Louise D. Medeiros
Charles W. Mello
Dorothy & James Mello
Natalie Mello & David DiBiasio
Joanne Mendes
Patricia Merritt
Frances Middendorf
Lorna Miles
Newton Millham
Dora & Dudley Millikin
Honah Lee Milne & Christopher Lynch
Nancy Johnson & Alan Minard
Dorian Mintzer & David Feingold
Vivian & Joseph Mitchell
Richard Mobley
Cindy & Frederic Mock
Kathleen & William Mogayzel
Bunny & Robert Mogilnicki
Helen Montague
Robert Monteiro
Roberta Moore
Barbara Moran & Brian Collins
Ellen Moreau & Neil Rossman
Miriam E. Morse
Diana & Hugh M. Morton
Barbara Moss & Timothy G. Haydock
Nancy & Jeffrey Moxon
M. Teresa Mozaz & Michel G. Daigle
Regina M. Mullen
Elaine Murphy
Betts & F. Wisner Murray
Marjorie Grinols Murray
Jane Mydlack
Karen & James Myslik
Scott Nadeau
Christopher Nahil
Karen Nercessian & Nathan Fenton
Katherine Neubauer
Richard de Neufville
Maureen & John Nolan
Betty Jeanne & Wendell Nooth
Lisa Norling
Joel Nulman
Julie & Leo O’Brien
Maureen O’Brien
Kelli O’Donnell
Roseanne & Joseph O’Connell
Thomas O’Donnell
Anne & Henry Ogilby
Joseph O’Hare
Beatriz Oliveira
Charlotte & Lawrence J. Oliveira
Pamela & Bruce J. Oliveira
Norma M. Olivier
Thomas Openshaw
Carrie Ortiz
Grace & Edward Osediacz
Claudia & Nelson Ostiguy
Mr. and Mrs. Austin M. O’Toole
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway, Jr.
Edward Ottensmeyer & Anne Donnellon
Lesley & Jeffrey Pacheco
Linda & Whitfield Painter
Deborah Palmer
M. Palmer
Katherine & James Parker
Elizabeth J. Parr
Ann Parson
Sandria R. Parsons
Diane & Joe Patyjewicz
Ingrid & Paul Pawlowski
Casey Peck
Susan & David Pellerin
Ann & Wynn Perlick
Deborah Perry & Family
James J. Perry
Joseph M. Perry
Patricia & Ronald Perry
Susan & Daniel Perry
Adrian Peters
Alice & Robert Petersen
Lani Peterson & Breck Arnzen
Penny & Steven Peterson
Robert M. Petit & Family
Beverly & James Philip
Eleanor & Richard Phillips
Winifred S. Phyfe
Jared Pickell
Richard M. Peirce & Pamela Peirce
Nathan Pierce
Nicholas A. Pierce
Sarah H. M. Pinney
Joy Plaisted & Royd Bjornoy
Christine & Raymond Plante
Elissa Pocze & Kevin Murphy
Pamela & Christopher Polloni
Ronald Ponte
Stan Ponte
Alexis & William Popik
Renee & Jahn Pothier
Barbara & Richard Poznysz
Alexandra & Robert Pozzo
Alexander Preston
Judith B. Graham-Purcell
Elaine & Nathaniel Putnam
Karen Quigley & Russell Hensel
Elizabeth & Joe Quinn
Sara & Christopher Quintal
Trudy & Charles Radville
Sherrie & Edelta Raposa
Genevieve Raposo & David Bedard
Whitney Ray-Dawson
Peter Raymond
Clara Read & Jay Hurd
Archie Rebeiro
Rosemary & Victor Rebello
Cynthia Redel & Michael Esposito
Barbara & Terrence Reideler
Donald T. Reilly
Tracy Reinl
Cynthia & Adolf Reznekervitz
Crystal & William Ribich
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Susan & Donald H. Luce
Catherine Bartholomew & John Ricketson
William Rill
Ann & Edward Ritchie
Kathleen A. & Ronald M. Rivera
Ellen P. Roberts & Fransisco Sanchez
Katherine & Phillip Roberts-Gaudet
Judith & George Robinson
Kristen Leotti & Robert C. Rocha, Jr.
Margaret Rodgers
Daniel M. Rodrigues
Wendy A. Rogers & Arthur D. Fisk
Meg Rogers
Martha Rojas
Laura Rollins & Greg Blankinship
Kim Redfield & Theodore M. Romanow
Maria Rosario & James Harris
Cynthia & Bruce Rose
Lisa Russell Rose
Rachel & Josh Rosenzweig
Cecilia & Lewis C. Ross
Suzette & Robert C. Rothmann
Elizabeth & Jeffrey Roy
Susan & Donald Rudnick
Deborah A. Ruthowski
Karen Rymsha & Ronald Ponte
John Sabourin
Robert R. Saltzman
Rev. Stephen B. Salvador
Ruth Santos
Sarah Santos
Sharon Santos
Serrena & Daniel Sargent
Marguerite & John Sarson
Kathleen & Richard Saunders
Frederic M. Schaefer, Jr.
Susan & Brian Schanning
Tom Schillaci
Jennifer L. & Daniel J. Schlitzer
Margot & Mark Schmid
Katharine & Thomas Schmitt
Christina & Frederick Schnure
Mary Schubert
Jim Sears
Jody Seivert
Frances & Bruce Severance
Gina Seyfried
Joanne Seymour & Brian Ruh
Lynn Seymour
David Sharp & Nancy Grinnell
Linda Shaw & Robert Hughes
Andi & Doug Shaw
Kathleen Sherbrooke
Barbara & Bradford Shingleton
Stephanie Van Patten & George Shuster
Louise & Larry Shwartz
Daphne & Edward Siegal
J. Abra Degbor & Peter Silva
Sharon Silva & Dennis Dahms
Claudia Lewis Silvia & Peter Silvia
Jane & Michael Simmons
Kirsten Sims & Brandon Constant
Eve & Ari Sky
Charles Smiler
June A. Smith & Kenneth A. Shwartz
Alice E. & William C. Smith
Amy & Blake Smith
Charles & Eleanor Smith
Stephen Smith
Mary Howland Smoyer
Anne & Kendrick Snyder
Julane R. & Edward W. Soares
Marthe & James Soden
Eva Sommaripa
Eileen & John Sorrentino
Christine Souza
Marjorie & Ronald Souza
Janice Spark
Alexis & Robert J. Speaker
Robert Spillane
Lynn & William St George
Chris St. Hilaire
Dony St. Marc
Nicole & Marc St. Pierre
Irene & Roger Stanford
Julie Starr-Duker & Jay Duker
Margo & Barry Steinberg
Barbara Stephenson
Mark Stephenson
Wendy B. R. Stern, M.D.
Elizabeth & Lee Stewart
Jean C. Stewart
Lorriane & Ned Stewart
Barbara-Jean & Thomas Stiles
Susan J. & Charles M. Stillman
Catherine M. Stone
Timothy B. Stone
Barbara & James Stowe
Sylvia & Eivind Strand
William M. Straus
Jackie & David Stubbs
Garrett Stuck
Annette Suaden & Dale Chatwin
Kathleen & Walter Suchon
Deborah & Nicholas Sullivan
Diane & Michael Sullivan
Martha & R. Michael Sullivan
Roberta Smith Sullivan
June & William Swanson
Mary & John Sweeney
Carolyn & Ken Swidrak
Linda & Jeffrey Swope
Susan Sylvestri
Mr. Barry W. Sylvia
Susan Tash
Marianne Taylor
Michael H. M. Taylor
Patricia & Richard Taylor
Joan Dalton & Stephen Taylor
Kenneth Teixeira
Elizabeth Thomas
Matthew Thomas
Sheridan & James Thomas
James D. Thompson
Kate Thompson & Dan Calano
Kathy & John Thompson
Kathleen & E.R. Thompson
Cortney Thorp
Patrice Tiedemann
Joan & Edwin Tiffany
Lorraine & Ian Tilley
Mary Timmins & James Onderdonk
Anne Tinker & John D. Henderson II
Adrian R. Tio
Ann S. Tisdale
Dorsey & Ted Titcomb
Patricia Tonnessen
Jack Towle
Blair & Clifford Tracy
Barbara Treadway & Stephen Chardon
Jane & Michael Tremblay
The Trepanier Family
Jane Tripp
Pamela R. Trippe
Karen & Jim Tung
James Turner
Elizabeth & Peter Turowski
Barbara & Darryl Umland
Roswell Underwood
Kathleen M. & Matthew Urquhart
Carl Valenstein
Frederica W. Valois
Gail & Jim Van Buren
Barbara & Richard van Inwegen
Catherine & William Van Meter
Linda & Maurice Veiga
Lawrence R. Velte
Roberta Verville
Hilary & Sam Vineyard
Alfred J. Walker
Rev. Barry W. Wall
Joan & Robert Wallace
Melanie & Flavian Wallis
Kathleen Walsh & Neil Dahlberg
Martha Walton
William Warden
Elizabeth Waring
Patricia Gerrior & Gordon T Waring
Susan & Lawrence Warner Hannah
Warren & Mark Atkinson
Susan Waserman
Ellen & Donald Watson
Douglas Watson
Jason Watts
Elizabeth & Robert M. Wax
Lee Waxman
William F. Weaver
Jane & Russell H. Weigel
Lynne Weil & Nils Bruzelius
Susan & Stanley Weiner
Coco & Ben Wellington
Alison Wells & Jaison Grau
Laura Wetzel & Franklin T. Wetzel
Patricia Wezniak & Greg Webster
Mrs. Susan F. Whelan
Claire Whelihan
Bailey & Philip Whitbeck
Anne & Alec White
Elizabeth & Benjamin White
Mary Ellen & Bob White
Susan & Howard White
Marjorie & Norman Whitehead
Tracy Whitford & Charles Loveridge
Nancy & Eric Whitlock
Sonjia & William Whitney
Lisa & George Whitney
Stephanie Wiles & Jeff Rubin
Virginia & John Wilkens
Nathaline & Elwin Williamson
Melonie Wilson
Meredith Wilson & Christopher Smith
Kathryn & Robert Windsor
Judith & Dennis Winn
Marcy Wintrub & Duane Barton
Mary & Alan Wolfe
Jennifer Wong
Emily J. & Stephen J. Wood
Karin E. Wood & Peter C. Bogle
Patricia R. Wood
Geneva Woodruff
Margaret Wool & Vincent Mor
Josie & Gordon Woollam
Mary Beth & Raymond Yarmac
Candice & Raffi Yessayan
Andrea & Jamison Yi
Cynthia Zembo
* Deceased
15 2022 ANNUAL REPORT
Trusts, Funds, Corporate, Foundation and Government Support
The following institutional contributors supported the Museum with cumulative giving of $100 or more between January 1 and December 31, 2022.
$100,000+
City of New Bedford – Community Preservation Act Trust Fund
The Manton Foundation
Massachusetts Cultural Council
SouthCoast Community Foundation - Jacobs Family Donor Fund
The William M. Wood Foundation
$50,000 - $99,999
Institute of Museum and Library Services
SouthCoast Community FoundationAcushnet Foundation Fund
$25,000 - $49,999
Bank of America
Dola Hamilton Stemberg Charitable Foundation
Fundação Luso Americana
Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Kenneth T. & Mildred S. Gammons Charitable Foundation, Inc.
William E. Schrafft & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust
$10,000 - $24,999
BayCoast Bank
Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation, Inc.
The Carney Family Charitable Foundation
Center for Portuguese Studies & CultureUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation
The Howard Bayne Fund
Island Foundation, Inc.
J.C. Kellogg Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey Mass Humanities
Montsweag Foundation
New Bedford Historical Society, Inc.
Preservation Massachusetts – 1772 Foundation
The Quarterdeck Foundation
The Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation Tonix
Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp
The Wyeth Foundation for American Art
$5,000 - $9,999
Alliance Bernstein
City of New Bedford – Community Development Block Grant
Highland Street Foundation
Ludes Family Foundation
Move the World Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
New Bedford Cultural Council
Sylvia Group and Alera Group Company
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
$2,500 - $4,999
Acushnet Company
Amy Janes Bare Charitable Trust
Boston Marine Society
CHT Foundation
Empire Loan Charitable Foundation
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
New Bedford Day Nursery
The Castelo Group Real Estate
WJFD-FM Inc.
$1,000 - $2,499
BankFive
Brown University
Clean Uniforms and More
Dartmouth Cultural Council
Dartmouth Public Libraries
Demoulas Foundation
Fall River Women’s Union
The Gilbane Foundation
KAM Appliances
The Markel Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh
Quahog Republic Whaler’s Tavern
Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals
Taunton Federal Credit Union
$500 - $999
Acushnet Creamery
Acushnet Cultural Council
Babbitt Steam Specialty Co.
The Baker
Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Inc.
CeMat Contracting Co., Inc.
Imtra Corporation
National Lumber
New Bedford Floor Covering
Play Arcade
The Sooner Foundation
$250 - $499
Ames Free Library
Attleboro Public Library
Auburn Public Library
Barrington Public Library
Berkley Public Library
Blanding Public Library
Brockton Public Library
Brownell Library
Cafe Arpeggio
Cape Verdean Recognition Committee, Inc.
Carter’s Clothing and Footwear
Cruz Management Company, Inc.
Dover Town Library
East Providence Public Library
Fallon Charitable Gift Fund
Falmouth Public Library
First Citizens’ Federal Credit Union
Friends of the Dedham Public Library, Inc.
Friends of the Eldredge Public Library
James White Memorial Library
John B. Cruz Construction Company
Jonathan Bourne Public Library
Joseph Plumb Memorial Library
Lakeville Public Library
Mansfield Public Library
Marion Library Association
Mattapoisett Free Public Library
Maury Loontjens Memorial Library
Medfield Memorial Public Library
Middleborough Public Library
The Millicent Library
New Bedford Free Public Library
Newport Public Library
Plymouth Public Library
Portsmouth Free Public Library
Raynham Public Library
Rogers Free Library
Sandwich Public Library
Somerset Public Library
Sturgis Library
Taunton Public Library
Thomas Crane Public Library
Tiverton Public Library
Ventress Memorial Library
Wareham Free Library
Westport Cultural Council
Westport Free Public Library
Wing Family of America
Woods Hole Public Library
$100 - $249
Atlantic Elevator South, Inc.
Descendants of Whaling Masters, Inc.
DG Service Company
Franklin Law Library
Harvard Library
Luzo Auto Body
Massachusetts Society Of Genealogists, Inc.
New Bedford Ocean Cluster
Paradise Hill Farm
SouthCoast Community Foundation
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Town Of Westport
Whitfield - Manjiro Friendship Society
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Honor/Memorial Contributors
The Museum is grateful for gifts made in memory or honor of friends of the Museum between January 1 and December 31, 2022.
In Memory of Barbara and Albert
Aston
Judith B. Graham-Purcell
In Honor of Christina M. Bascom
Anonymous
In Memory of
Richard M. Bressler
Judith A. Fong
Christine Souza
In Memory of Truman S. Casner
Anonymous
Nancy Babcock
Patricia & William R. Barron
Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald
Carl Martignetti
Freddy & Alexander McFerran
Thomas O’Donnell
Anne & Henry Ogilby
Caren Sarno
Kathleen Sherbrooke
Chandra Singh
Douglas Watson
In Honor of Helen Cole on her 100th Birthday
Wendy Swensen
In Honor of Juliette Collins
Rebecca Sibielski
In Memory of Antone B. Cruz Sr. and Dorothy B. Cruz
Carl J. Cruz
In Memory of Paul Cuffe
Joseph A. Grant
In Memory of Eugenia P. Cummings
Anonymous
Susan & Henry Ashworth
Susan S. Barnet
Sandy Bayne
Nancy Dawson
Mary Farry & Ellen Hamilton
Susan Haerle
Mary H. & Thruston H. Hammer
Ellen M. Johnston
Joanne Leary
Gina Seyfried
Lois Spirlet
June C. Strunk
In Memory of Dorothy H. and Robert K. Cunningham
Anonymous
In Memory of
Charles F. Demailly
Charles F. DeMailly, Jr.
In Memory of Eugene L. Dragon
Maria Cantor
In Memory of Peter Duggan
Maureen Basmagy
In Memory of Louis Feingold
David Feingold & Dorian Mintzer
In Honor of Peter Fenton
Marco Gulino
In Memory of Adeline and Daniel
Gentile
Nancy Gentile & Mark Keighley
In Honor of Nancy Gentile
Lorraine Chickering
In Honor of Cornelia Grinnell
J. Briggs Grinnell
In Memory of
Phyllis W. Grosswendt
Christina G. Dodd
In Memory of Joan E. Hicks
Edwina & James Cronin
In Honor of Lucile P. Hicks
Fredi & Howard H. Stevenson
In Memory of Frederic C. Hood
Ann C. Fox & Leo H. Brautigam
In Honor of Edward M. Howland
Anonymous
In Memory of Llewellyn Howland
Sarah H. Godfrey
In Memory of John Kaczorowski
Ventress Memorial Library
In Memory of Morton Kobrin
Sonia Kobrin
In Memory of Lewis Lipsitt
Anonymous
In Honor of Rosemary P. Lucas
Susan & Gary Grosart
In Memory of Myron Markel
Janet R. Markel
In Honor of Colleen and Steve
McGowan
Nancy Jane & Sam Duncan
In Memory of Bob and Fayree
McIntyre
Steven McIntyre
In Memory of Charles (Wally) Nichols
Helga Faulenbach
In Honor of Adam Overbay for his Birthday
Bridget Donnelly
In Honor of Richard Payton
Anonymous
In Honor of Emily Reinl
William Baker
Leigh Burchell
In Honor of Cathy Roberts
Edward Grever
Elaine P. Grever
In Memory of Antoinette Schillaci
Tom Schillaci
In Honor of Dineia M.A. Sylvia
Anonymous
In Honor of Terri Tansey
Charles Tansey
In Memory of Peter Trusdale
Cynthia & William Krause
In Memory of Sandra Turner
Barbara & James Kalmes
Elizabeth M. Lombardozzi
In Memory of Richard D. Webb
Susan Sylvestri
Mallory & John Waterman
In Memory of Anne and Richard Webb
Anonymous
Christina M. Bascom
C. C. Dyer
Kathy & James Feeney
Patricia Gratton
Jane & Stephen Howe
Mrs. Samuel W. McFadden
Nancy Johnson & Alan L. Minard
Pamela T. & R. Henry Norweb
Margot D. Stone
Helen A. Trumbull
In Memory of Elizabeth H. Weinberg
Laura M. & Peter T. Grauer
In Memory of Peter J. Whelan
Barbara Stephenson
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Bourne Society
The Bourne Society honors those who have included the Old Dartmouth Historical Society/New Bedford Whaling Museum in their estate plans (as known to us as of December 31, 2022).
Anonymous (3)
William Adamson*
Howe Allen & Timothy Evans
Hope Atkinson*
Ruth S. Atkinson*
Robert L. Austin and Elizabeth W. Morse
Sylvia Thomas Baird*
Robert O. Boardman*
William J. Boylhart*
Elizabeth & Edward C. Brainard II
Nancy & John W. Braitmayer
Sally Bullard
Byron A. Crampton
Natalia Bento & James DeMello
Ruth B. Ekstrom
Elsie R. Fraga & Norbert P.* Fraga, D.M.D.
Christina* & Peter* Gargas
Arthur Gartaganis*
Susan & Gary Grosart
Berna & Joseph Heyman
Joan* and Ed* Hicks
Johanna S.* & Frederic C.* Hood
Margaret C. Howland
Maryellen Sullivan Hughes
Mary B.* & Peter G.* Huidekoper
Franny & William N. Keene and sons
Betty K. Knowles
Annette L. Lantzius*
Patricia P. Lawrence & Robert A.* Lawrence
Albert E. Lees III
Margaret P. Lissak*
Elizabeth I.* McBratney and J. Greer* McBratney
Peter H. McCormick
Laura E. McLeod
Louise A. Melling*
Martha Miller*
Gratia Rinehart Montgomery*
Barbara Mulville
Patricia Nottage*
Arthur H. Parker*
Rosemary Phillips
Daniel A.* Phillips & Rev. Diana W. Phillips
Polly Duff Phipps
Craig A.C. Reynolds
Judith Westlund Rosbe
Irving Coleman Rubin
JoAnne L.* Rusitzky & Louis M.* Rusitzky
Roberta H. Sawyer*
Barbara Schaefer
Joseph Sciuto*
Louis O. St. Aubin, Jr.*
Ruth Young Taylor*
Josephine Ashley Thayer*
Sandra* Turner & Roderick H.* Turner, M.D.
Suzanne Underwood*
Elinor* Weaver & Thomas C.* Weaver
Raymond Butler Weiss
Dorothy* West & Thomas C.* West
Janet Whitla & Dean* Whitla
E. Andrew Wilde. Jr.*
Alice Hunt Willliams*
Edward H. Wing, Jr.*
Laura & Douglas Wolford
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* Deceased (as of 12/31/2022)
Lagoda Society
The Lagoda Society honors the Museum’s most generous donors with cumulative giving of $100,000 or more (as of December 31, 2022).
Deceased members of our Lagoda Society are recognized posthumously in the year of their death, or with a living spouse.
Anonymous (5)
Lisa Schmid Alvord & Joel Alvord
Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund
Arcadia Charitable Trust
Robert L. Austin and Elizabeth W. Morse
Karen & John Babbitt
Babbitt Steam Specialty Co.
Deborah A. & Benjamin B. Baker
Edward Livingston Baker Trust
Talbot Baker, Jr.
Bank of America
Pamela A. & Joseph M. Barry
Christina M. & Charles E.* Bascom
BayCoast Bank
Jewelle W. & Nathaniel J. Bickford
Mary Jean & R. William Blasdale
Nancy & John W. Braitmayer
Susan Sweetser Brenninkmeyer & Hans* Brenninkmeyer
Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Jayne & Richard Burkhardt
The Carney Family Charitable Foundation
City of New Bedford – Community Preservation Act Trust Fund
Nancy & Lawrence Coolidge
Cynthia & Douglas Crocker II
Victoria & David Croll
Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Helen E. Ellis Charitable Fund
Helga Faulenbach & C.W.* Nichols III
Marilyn & David Ferkinhoff
Patricia & Armand Fernandes
Barbara & Paul J. Ferri
Fidelity Foundation
Kenneth T. & Mildred S. Gammons Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Tally & John N. Garfield, Jr.
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation
George E. Grimshaw
Lucile P. & William C.S. Hicks
Johanna S.* & Frederic C.* Hood
The Howard Bayne Fund
Jessie W. Howland & Llewellyn* Howland III
Bess Dawson Hughes & James Hughes
Maryellen Sullivan Hughes
Caroline & Lawrence Huntington
Institute of Museum and Library Services Island Foundation, Inc.
Joan K. & Irwin M. Jacobs
Patricia A. Jayson
Darlene L. and Gerald R. Jordan, Jr.
Keith W. Kauppila
David N. Kelley II
Elizabeth T. & Morris W. Kellogg
Cynthia K. & Peter R. Kellogg
The Kresge Foundation
Ladera Foundation
Patricia P. & Robert A.* Lawrence
Albert E. Lees III
Marguerite Lenfest
Frances Levin & Dr. Clifton* Levin
Ann & D. Lloyd Macdonald
The Manton Foundation
Leigh and Jean F. Mason III
Massachusetts Cultural Council Massachusetts
Department of Economic Development
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Elizabeth I.* McBratney & J. Greer* McBratney
Holly & Joseph E. McDonough
Katharine E. Merck & Albert W.* Merck
Barbara and Howard Miller
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal Caroline & George B. Mock III
Faith & Ambassador Richard L. Morningstar
Diana & Hugh M. Morton
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Park Service
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
Nye Lubricants, Inc.
Celeste Penney
Henry B. Plant Memorial Fund
The Quarterdeck Foundation
Edgenie H. & Donald S. Rice
Cathy & Henry Roberts
Tricia & Chris Schade
Tina & Paul Schmid
William E. Schrafft & Bertha E. Schrafft
Charitable Trust
Maryellen S. & Norman J.* Shachoy
Frima G.* and Gilbert L. Shapiro
Sue D. & Calvin* Siegal
Sloan M. & Wick Simmons
SouthCoast Community Foundation
Southcoast Community FoundationAcushnet Foundation Fund
Southcoast Community FoundationHenry H. Crapo Foundation Fund
Sovereign – Santander Bank
Dola Hamilton Stemberg
The Robert F. Stoico / FIRSTFED Charitable Foundation
Carol M. Taylor & John H. Deknatel
Sandra Turner*
United States Department of Education
U.S. Small Business Administration
Jane O.* Walker and Captain Robert G.* Walker
Kathy & Gurdon B.* Wattles
Anne B.* & Richard D.* Webb
Jennifer & R. Davis Webb
Ann & John A.* Webster
The David P. Wheatland Charitable Trust
Janet P. Whitla & Dean* Whitla
Karen E. & Bruce A. Wilburn
Susan & Harvey Wolkoff
The William M. Wood Foundation
Grace & David A. Wyss
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2022 ANNUAL REPORT
Gifts to the Collection
Every year, donated artifacts build the Museum’s unique collection
2022.13
2022.15
2022.16
2022.18
2011.110
Lemuel Eldred, North African Riders on Camels, c. 1890. Oil on canvas, 15 ¾ x 19 ½ in.
Leroy M. Yale, Moonrise, undated. Oil on canvas, 12 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.
Frank Vining Smith, Coastal landscape, undated. Oil on canvas, 19 x 26 in.
Clement Nye Swift, FarmAcushnet, undated. Oil on canvas, 16 ½ x 22 ¼ in.
Gift of Betty K. Knowles
2022.2
Swift family prayer books
Gift of Edith Steele Swift
2022.3
Notebook containing Benjamin Blossom biographical information.
Gift of Susan Stanford
2022.5
Research notes of Virginia M. “Po” Adams, former librarian at NBWM/ODHS
Gift of Josephine L. & Virginia H. Adams in memory and honor of their mother, Virginia
M.(Po) Adams
2022.6
Boxed straight razor
Gift of Melanie Correia
2022.7
Typescript, Journal of a Whaling Voyage Kept by a Green Horn in the Forecastle of the Ship Nimrod Commencing Nov. 1st, 1842. 84 pp. [Graham Lee] Gift of Wester Brower
2022.8
Mastodon tooth
Gift of Joan Richards
2022.9
Journal of the Bark America of Mattapoisett, Mass., Sept. 28, 1855 - May 15, 1858; Abner West, Captain & Stephen M. Lockwood, Keeper.
Gift of Douglas A. Derry
2022.10
Print after Gordon Macfie, “American Whaler Hunting Sperm Whales: Middle of Nineteenth Century,” 1963. Published by Tre Tryckare of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gift of Delia West
2022.11
Youngblood Family / Henry Jackson bible, ca. 1792.
Gift of Valerie White
2022.12
Parkinson & Frodsham octant
Gift of Lenice Hirschberger
2022.13
Wooden trunk marked “M. Wainer,” c. 1810
Gift of Newton Millham
2022.14
“Kilburn mill interior,” c. 1946. Silver gelatin photograph.
Gift of Elise U. Mock
2022.15
After W. Heine, “First landing of Americans in Japan Under Commodore M.C. Perry at GoreHama, July 14th 1853,” 1855. Chromolithograph, printed by Sarony & Co., published by E. Brown.
Gift of Susan Saltonstall
2022.16
Lace panel, probably from Sao Antone, Cape Verde, ca. 1918
Gift of Karen and Ralph Tavares in memory of Ralph Vierra Tavares Sr.
2022.17
Three local postal cancellations/ first day covers.
Gift of Wayne Dubreuil
2022.18
“Nashawena Mills,” c. 1910-20. Gouache, watercolor, and charcoal on paper.
GiftofTheJosephAbboudMfg.Co.
2022.19
American Pacific Whaling Company, c. 2020, 1 N scale micro car model.
Gift of Silver Creek Collectables, Kitchner, Ontario
2022.20
The Farmer and Artizan, vol. 2, No. 4 (August 1853).
Gift of D. Jordan Berson
2022.21
Typescript, Log-book of ship Junior of New Bedford, Mass., which Sailed July 21st, 1857. Gift of Sandra Hamilton in memory of Edward John Hamilton
2022.22
Joseph Silva (1868-?), Diorama of the whale ship brigantine Eunice H. Adams, c. 1943. Gift of Carl Joseph Silva
2022.23
4 Spooner family photographs. Gift of Martha Coggeshall Leonard
2022.25
Frederic Schiller Cozzens (1846-1926), The First Steam Whaler Mary and Helen, 1926, watercolor; Two logbooks of the Three Brothers: 1875-1877, Captain Leander C. Owen by Moses Walker; Log of the Rambler, Captain Willis written by Leander C. Owen. Oct. 4, 1852-July 5, 1854.
Gift of Amanda Owen Ablitt Mullane
2022.27
Clarence E. Braley (1854-1927), View of Purchase St., New Bedford, c. 1890, oil on canvas. Gift of Nate Bekemeier and Alice P.Brewer in memory of Alice H. Brewer
2022.28
Chris Gustin (b. 1952), Ceramic tile sample case. Gift from Rogers Gallery, Courtesy of Louise & Ben Rogers
2022.29
Loving cups engraved “George” and “Martha,” c. 1850.
Gift of the Descendants of William A. Beard
2022.30
Card room cotton cart and fabric sample books pre-1940. Gift of Mr. Joseph Thomas
2022.32
Patent shipbuilding tool –decking and planking clamp, ca. 1911
Gift of Mr. Stephen Bullock
20 NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM
2022.33
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), Landscape -
Woman and Child, c. 1875. Oil on board, 9.38 x 9.38 inches. ODHS
Purchase with acquisition funds.
2022.35
Paula Winokur, Iceberg Split, 2015. 22 x 15 x 6 in., Unglazed porcelain sculpture with black plexiglass base. ODHS
Purchase, supported by Christina M.Bascom, Frances Levin, Celeste Penney and Tina & Paul Schmid.
2022.36
Milton Brightman, The Ernestina Shoveled Out After a Blizzard, 2015, oil on canvas.
Gift of Milton Brightman
2022.38
Four items related to the 1889 rescue at sea of Lizzie Sime. Gift of E. Milton Silvia
2022.39
US Marine Sergeant William Duffy Kline (1919-1993), photographs of whaling boat and crew, Pohang, Korea, 1951. Gift of Paul Conley Kline in memory of William Duffy Kline
2022.40
Benjamin Russell (1804-1885), whaling ship Governor Troup, undated, watercolor.
Gift of Mollie Tranfield
2022.42
Coggeshall family photographs, c. 1860-1880; Spooner family records.
Gift of Martha Coggeshall Leonard
2022.43
Thomas Herson & Co. Best Soap, New Bedford, MA, trade card.
Gift of David Anderson in honor of Nathanial Cushing Ransom
2022.44
Letters to Congressman Thomas Dawes Eliot of New Bedford, MA.
Gift of Paul M. Kominers
2022.45
Leroy Yale, Landscape sketch, undated, charcoal.
Gift of Ned and Judith N. Lund
2022.46
Shaw family papers relating to James T. Shaw (b.1933), glass cutter at Pairpoint Glass.
Gift of Esther A. Shaw in memory of James T. Shaw
2022.47
Bible given to Edwin D. Thompson (crewman aboard the ship Olympia), inscribed August 18, 1847.
Gift of John Chris Jensen
2022.48
Paul Lamory, Ahab, undated. Watercolor.
Gift of Sandra Turner in memory of Roderick H. Turner
2022.49
Whaling Scenes: A Portfolio of Engraving Prints by George Gale, published by Grey Lady of the Sea, Nantucket Island, ca. 1960s. Set contains 23 prints and cover sheet in folder.
Gift of Estate of Peter Lehner, Hingham, MA.
2022.50.1 and 2022.50.2 Tankard and pitcher, Liverpool transferware, c. 1800-1840.
Gift of Jane Walker in memory of Bob and Jane Walker
2022.54
American Waltham Pocket Watch Co., Model 1883. Decorated with relief stag and floral design; multi-toned gold detail. 17 Jewels.
Gift of Elsie R. Fraga in memory of Constantino M. Fraga, and in honor of Joseph E. Perry
2022.55.1-3
Ephemera, ceremonial harpoon shaped twirling baton, flag and metal belt buckle used by the Jolly Whalers, local drum corp ca. 1960s (later known as the New Bedford Whalers).
Gift of Raymond Loger in memory of the Jolly Whalers / Whalers Drum & Bugle Corps
2022.56
Cased scale model of an industrial loom from the old Wamsutta or Berkshire Hathaway mills, c. 1940.
Gift of the Baker Family
2022.58
Joanna Orton Jensen (1927-2022), hooked rug after William Allen Wall’s New Bedford in 1810.
Gift of Sara Orton Glickman
2022.59
Paula Colton Winokur (1935-2018), Untitled - glacial mills ledge A, 2013. Handbuilt porcelain with engobe and stains.
Gift of the Estate of Paula Winokur
2022.61
Three perforated 2022 postage stamps (block sheet) from the Azores.
Gift of Peter and Pearl Huang in remembrance of the NBWM “Exploring the Azores” trip of 2022
2022.62
Partial journal believed to be by Eliza Rodman, written from January 1, 1843 to July 30, 1843.
Gift of the estate of Edouard A. Stackpole
2022.63
4 commissions of postmastership for Thomas Coggeshall, 1853-1884 (1853, 1876, 1880, 1884).
3 supporting documents for the commissions.
1 justice of the peace document, 1862.
Gift of Martha Coggeshall Leonard
2022.64
H. Shimidzu and T. Hagiwara of Yokahama, “Sperm Whaling No. 1 – The Chase,” 1936, watercolor on silk.
Gift of Helen Richmond Webb in memory of Robert Lloyd Webb (1947-2013)
2022.71
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, no. 366 (November 1880).
Gift of Dr. Stuart M. Frank
2022.72.1-2
Water dipper and gourd bowl that belonged to Captain Lysander William Howland Gifford.
Gift of Sarah Avery
2022.73
One sea journal and personal diary kept by Sarah Dexter Ransom and Nathaniel Ransom, boatsteerer onboard the whaling bark Navy of New Bedford, William Davis, master, homeward passage at sea, March 1, 1869 to June 2, 1869. Gift of Helen Hiller Frink in honor of David R. Anderson.
2022.74
Palm fiber whip made for Captain Charles A. Chace by a Cape Verdean crewman.
Gift of Charles R. Chace
2022.76.1-2
Portraits of George Russell Taber and Elizabeth Gardner Taber (née Austin), c. 1840, oil on canvas.
Gift of Nancy Hyde-DeRuyscher in memory of Stanwood Taber Hyde
2022.77
125th anniversary of New Bedford (1972), sterling silver medal in case.
Gift of Antone “TJ” Mello
2022.78
Cymbal and pair of drumsticks used by donor (drummer for the band Tavares).
Gift of Jackie Santos
Gifts in Kind
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is grateful to the following individual and corporate donors who made inkind gifts that supported the Museum’s operations between January 1 and December 31, 2022
Always in Bloom
Bensuade Hotel Group
Bete Fleming
Anne Booth & Robert Hauser
Janet Brown & Michael Brewer
Cape Cod Oyster Co., Inc.
Mary Clausen
Delta Air Lines
Eastern Fisheries
Peter Fenton
Flora Home
Stuart M. Frank
Horizon Beverage Co.
Kate’s Eats
Richard J. Kozik
Doris & John Ludes
James Moran
M.S. Walker
Oxford Creamery
Kim Redfield & Theodore M. Romanow
Don Rhoda
Joan & Harris H. Rusitzky
Sam Adams
Bonnie & Louis Silverstein
Jonathan L. Sirois
Zelus Beer Company
2022 ANNUAL REPORT 21
Ways to Give
Every year, the New Bedford Whaling Museum relies on thousands of individual supporters to contribute 70% of our annual operating expenses. Thank you for supporting the Museum’s unique exhibitions, education programs, research and community events!
To learn more, visit www.whalingmuseum.org/support.
For information regarding gifts of appreciated stock, IRA charitable distributions, bequests or planned gifts, please contact Emily Mead, Director of Philanthropy: emead@whalingmuseum.org or (508) 997-0046, ext. 150
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