Fishers Island Ferries Over Time
May 16, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In this virtual illustrated talk, Museum Director Pierce Rafferty hosts the premier of Fishers Island Ferries Over Time, a video that traces the history of ferry transportation to the island.
Included are rare outlier visits by excursion steamboats in the 1820s and 1830s, followed by the first regularly scheduled trips to Fishers by the Pequot & Ocean Transit Company that began in the late 1870s. This production chronicles an array of passenger and auto ferries that have connected us to the outside world ever since that time. Without a doubt, the ferries are the stars of this historical production.
Co-directed by Pierce Rafferty and Marisela LaGrave. Funded by the Dunlap Foundation, Benjamin H. Gray and Lewis Gatch, Trustees.
Sunday, May 16, 2021.
Time: 4 p.m.
Virtual.
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- SS Block Island at Lyles Beach dock, Fishers Island, circa 1885. Museum Collection. Donated by Diane Dawson Dexter.
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- Billhead of the Fishers Island Steamboat Company, Ltd., circa 1888. Museum Collection. Donated by Jim Wall.
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- Capital Stock Fishers Island Steamboat Company, Ltd., 1888. Museum Acquisition, 2019.
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- SS Restless at Munnatawket Dock, Fishers Island, 1914. Photograph by Quimby. Museum Collection. Donated by Tom and Bunty Armstrong.
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- Fishers Island Ferry District Logo, circa 1947. Museum Collection. Donated by the Fishers Island Ferry District.
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- MV Race Point in rough seas. November, 1990. Museum Collection. Photograph by Charles Morgan.
