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Group works to restore historic sloop
Jan 07, 2011 4:44 pm
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="325" caption="Photo from Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society website."]
[/caption]WGXC's Mark Lacoy recorded the meeting at Wunderbar Thursday night about the historic Hudson River Sloop Eleanor and the new not-for-profit being organized to restore the ship. The Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society, hopes to restores the 108-year-old Sloop Eleanor, which has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. Putting the boat back in the Hudson River for locals and tourists might be one outcome of these just-beginning efforts. Casson Kennedy, a ship restorer from Martha's Vineyard and WGXC volunteer, and Louise Bliss, whose father, the late Philip Egan, acquired Eleanor in 1951, are behind the efforts. Listen to an mp3 audio recording of the meeting here, or copy and paste the following url and open a url with your computer's media player:
http://www.wgxc.org/media/uploaded_files/2011/01/SloopEleanorMeeting_Wunderbar_WGXC_010611.mp3
[/caption]WGXC's Mark Lacoy recorded the meeting at Wunderbar Thursday night about the historic Hudson River Sloop Eleanor and the new not-for-profit being organized to restore the ship. The Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration and Sailing Society, hopes to restores the 108-year-old Sloop Eleanor, which has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1982. Putting the boat back in the Hudson River for locals and tourists might be one outcome of these just-beginning efforts. Casson Kennedy, a ship restorer from Martha's Vineyard and WGXC volunteer, and Louise Bliss, whose father, the late Philip Egan, acquired Eleanor in 1951, are behind the efforts. Listen to an mp3 audio recording of the meeting here, or copy and paste the following url and open a url with your computer's media player:http://www.wgxc.org/media/uploaded_files/2011/01/SloopEleanorMeeting_Wunderbar_WGXC_010611.mp3