Museums that float tell stories of the sea
Laureen Miles
Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse
By Richard Brunelli
Shipping News
It’s an otherwise uneventful morning in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Children lead their parents from one attraction to the next, water taxis ply the shallows, and a gaggle of brazen ducks mooches the occasional bread crust. Cliff Long, however, is “walking the jib boom” of the U.S.S. Constellation. Actually, “walking” isn’t the right verb. “Shimmying” is a better description of how Long slowly makes his way along the boom that protrudes like a long, wooden skewer from the front of the Civil War-era frigate. As he explains, “In the old...
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