Bill Cogar has traveled extensively throughout Scotland and served as an exchange professor and senior lecturer for the Department of Strategic Studies at the Britannia Royal Naval College. He received his doctorate from Oxford and has published numerous naval history books and articles. Virtually untouched by the Civil War, both towns are filled with the history and architecture of their busy colonial pasts. Join Dr. Cones of Christopher Newport University on this exploration of the streets and waterways of these beautifully preserved towns. Among the highlights of this history and nature oriented trip will be visits to the North Carolina Maritime Museum, Hope Plantation, and Tryon Palace.
Limited space is available.
Please register by sending full payment by September 23 to The Mariners' Museum Travel Program. Join fellow Museum members and guests for a day on the Rappahannock River with naturalist and raconteur Dr. Harold Cones of Christopher Newport University as your guide. Explore this beautiful river, see eagles in flight, visit a winery, enjoy a catered lunch, and tour the historic town of Tappahannock. The Mariners' Museum and South Street Seaport members traveling with Peter Neill pause at the cross erected in honor of the many seaman who perished on Marble Island in the Hudson Strait. Up to ninety guests will board a yacht-like cruise ship in St. Pierre and continue through Newfoundland and Labrador to Churchill, Manitoba, on the Hudson Bay.