Morgan under sail

The ship exceeded all expectations and performed wonderfully. She is faster than we thought she would be, she turns easier, and she handles really well. We could not be more pleased. There is no one alive today who has sailed one of these whaleships who can tell us how they perform, so we really learned a lot today.

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Calin found a bouncy house

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Charles W. Morgan gets underway 4

From Mystic Seaport
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CW Morgan to make a visit home to New Bedford

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Hiaku for Spring

June 3

Left home this morning,
Taking neither hat nor coat.
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First day of summer 2014

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Being Irish-American

I had a dream last night about a load of Irish-Americans that I have known over the course of my life being all gathered together for a Christmas party in a small town in County Cork. I wanted to think it was at a restaurant in my grandmother’s village, but no such restaurant exists there.… Read the rest

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Find A Grave


I started playing around with the FindAGrave app for iOS and noticed that there was a tiny burial ground (not even a cemetery) a short walk from my house. I also noticed that there was a photo request for one of the stones in that burial ground.… Read the rest

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Tilt-shift, Swansea/Warren

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Charles W. Morgan

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