CAM Talk – Gloucester & Essex Shipbuilding Connections, with KD Montgomery

Saturday, September 27, 2025
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Janet & William Ellery James Center
CAM Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
CAM Members Free, Non-Members $10
Registration is required as space is limited.
https://www.capeannmuseum.org/event/cam-talk-gloucester-essex-shipbuilding-connections-with-kd-montgomery/

Six vessels captured in photographs on view in Down to the Sea, the Photographs of Ernest L. Blatchford were built in nearby Essex. Join Essex Historical Society & Shipbuilding Museum Executive Director KD Montgomery for an exploration of Essex’s maritime history and its shipbuilding connections to Gloucester.


Image Credit: Schooners at wharf, including Rita A. Viator and Edith Silveria, and the tugboat Priscilla, 1907, photograph by Ernest L. Blatchford (1868-1947). Gordon W. Thomas Collection of the Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA. Museum Purchase/Gift [2794].

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