On Saturday, September 26th, 360 people visited Spectacle Island aboard Bay State Cruise Company’s Provincetown II for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay’s first free fall cruise of the 2015 season.
Mass Humanities Scholar and award-winning storyteller Norah Dooley shared stories of Boston Harbor's history as Mary Read the Pirate, and helped island visitors search for treasure. She will join us again in October for our second free fall cruise of the season on October 24.
Save the Harbor high school staffers Daynaja Depina of
Dorchester, Jayda Chandool of Mattapan, and Abdullahi Abdi of Roxbury welcomed cruise participants and enjoyed the view from the top of the North Drumlin.
The Santos family from Lawrence, and the De Los Santos family from Ashland, enjoyed a picnic lunch on Spectacle Island.
Some lucky treasure hunters found JetBlue marbles and
entered the “Simply Marble-ous” Treasure Hunt for a chance to win a pair of
round-trip JetBlue flights to any domestic destination they serve from Boston’s
Logan Airport! Keep an eye out on Boston’s beaches for a blue marble of your
own—we will accept entries until October 31st—just send us an email
at info@savetheharbor.org with a
photo of yourself with your marble, your name, neighborhood, and your contact
information!
Nataly Wickham and Kristin Fahning, opera singers and
students at the New England Conservatory, enjoyed taking advantage of a free
opportunity to see Boston from a new perspective.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay will host one more free fall
cruise to Spectacle Island this year on October 24th to celebrate the
end of another great season on Boston Harbor.
If you would like to join Save the Harbor/Save the Bay on
the 24th, please RSVP to Gaylord@savetheharbor.org.
Save the Harbor's free youth environmental education and
family programs are made possible with Leadership Grants from Bay State Cruise
Company, The Boston Foundation, Distrigas/GDF SUEZ, and The Coca-Cola Foundation.
Save the Harbor is grateful for Partnership Grants from
Forrest Berkley & Marcie Tyre Berkley, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts, The Chiofaro Company, The Clowes Fund, Marion L. Decrow Memorial
Foundation, Alice Willard Dorr Foundation, The Fallon Company, Hampshire House
Corporation – Cheers for Children, John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., Mass
Humanities, Massachusetts Bay Lines, Massachusetts Environmental Trust,
Massachusetts Port Authority, National Grid Foundation, P&G Gillette, William
E & Bertha E. Schrafft Charitable Trust, and Mark Wahlberg Youth
Foundation.
Save the Harbor also appreciates funding support from 3A
Marine Service, Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Andus Baker
& Rowan Murphy Family Fund, Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, BOMA, Boston Bruins
Foundation, Boston Global Investors, Boston Properties – Atlantic Wharf,
Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Andrew J. Calamare, Carnival Foundation, Circle
Furniture, The Daily Catch Seaport, Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation, Ms.
Wallace M. Leonard Foundation, Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable
Foundation, Thomas & Lucinda Foley, HYM Investment Group Inc.,
Lovett-Woodsum Foundation, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, National
Park Service, Nicholson Foundation, P&G Gillette, Reebok Foundation,
Rockland Trust – Peoples Federal Foundation, Skanska, South Boston Community
Development Foundation, Spectra Energy, Matthew J. & Gilda F. Strazzula
Foundation, Lawrence J. & Anne Rubenstein Foundation, Senior Housing Property
Trust, South Boston Community Development Foundation, TD Bank Charitable
Foundation, Kyle & Sara Warwick, and the hundreds of individual donors who
help make these programs possible.
Save the Harbor would
also like to thank our partners at the Department of Conservation and
Recreation, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, the Boston Centers for Youth
and Families and the YMCA of Greater Boston for their support.
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