Building Ships and Traditions

Building Traditions: Family Fun Day Weathers the Snow at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum
This article appeared in The Gloucester Times.

Blurb: The art of shipbuilding has been a tradition in Essex since shortly after the pilgrims settled in. So it wasn’t exactly a surprise when over 30 Cape Ann residents braved the snow for the Essex Shipbuilding Museum and Wellspring House’s Family Fun Day on Tuesday, February 16.

“Our forefathers built ships and went fishing in the snow,” said Barbara Johnson Low, head of the museum’s education and group tours departments. “We can, too.”