Somebody gonna win, somebody gonna lose, that's my pay right there.
August 5, 2017 9:24 PM Subscribe
Somebody gonna win, somebody gonna lose, that's my pay right there. In the historical maritime attraction that is Mystic Seaport, in Mystic CT, a lecture and demonstration and concert is given about what it was like to be a fisherman south of the Mason Dixon in the days before the Power Block. Black Sea Chanties are not only a thing, they are amazing and beautiful.
Amen, Telf.
Great post! I just asked a question on AskMe about sea chanties and other boating-related songs and there are some great links in the responses.
posted by janell at 10:01 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Great post! I just asked a question on AskMe about sea chanties and other boating-related songs and there are some great links in the responses.
posted by janell at 10:01 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
I'm really glad that I watched that.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 10:15 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by ActingTheGoat at 10:15 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
This is great! I've been wanting to go to Mystic Seaport for years! I've been warning my girlfriend that one of my life goals is to do a tour of New England's living history museums.
Great post!
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 10:24 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
Great post!
posted by shapes that haunt the dusk at 10:24 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
There really is a Mystic Pizza in Mystic, CT.
posted by Jaymzifer at 11:45 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Jaymzifer at 11:45 PM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]
I didn't grow up near Mystic, but I spent my twenties nearby, and the Seaport Museum is on my list of places I want to go back to. It far exceeded my expectations.
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:02 AM on August 6, 2017
posted by MexicanYenta at 7:02 AM on August 6, 2017
I went back in the 80s when I was six months old... maybe it's time for a repeat trip.
posted by midmarch snowman at 8:29 AM on August 6, 2017
posted by midmarch snowman at 8:29 AM on August 6, 2017
FWIW, the Mystic folks refitted the Charles Morgan, a wooden sailing ship. Here's the blog documenting it.
https://www.mysticseaport.org/morganblog/
posted by mikelieman at 8:48 AM on August 6, 2017
https://www.mysticseaport.org/morganblog/
posted by mikelieman at 8:48 AM on August 6, 2017
After a torturous flight into New York from Albuquerque, years ago, that circled for hours between NYC & WADC because weather wouldn't let us land. Me curled up in the seat in fetal position as my brain sloshed against my skull. I was so discombobulated on every level.
Spent the next day at Mystic Seaport literally laying on the ground seeking inner stability listening to sea chanties - something we never heard in desert NM.
Then discovered a building there seemed to be full of the most beautiful cat boats. Something else not found in the desert. And I fell in love with them. Ah Mystic Seaport.
posted by Mesaverdian at 12:08 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Spent the next day at Mystic Seaport literally laying on the ground seeking inner stability listening to sea chanties - something we never heard in desert NM.
Then discovered a building there seemed to be full of the most beautiful cat boats. Something else not found in the desert. And I fell in love with them. Ah Mystic Seaport.
posted by Mesaverdian at 12:08 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
It was very warm and promised rain but still we'd driven a distance and were determined to see the Seaport.
The nice lady at the ticket station let us in for free. "The weather doesn't look good," she told us. "Not many folks have come in today." I was determined to see the Charles Morgan, a fine old surviving whaling ship, which was under renovation at the time. My sister and I took turns pushing our alert but wheelchair-bound mother.
It began to rain as we approached the old whaler, so we parked Mom well under the rooftop overhang from a building that housed restoration equipment. My sister and I reached the deck as the sky opened.
I've seen some rain in my life, heavy rain. But nothing before or since could approach the torrents unleashed that afternoon. Mom huddled under a large parka as splashes reached deep inside her shelter. It was crazy. My sister and I located clean garbage bags inside the Morgan which we cut into makeshift jumpers to preserve the little dry clothing we had left. The storm continued for at least forty minutes. We could only peer through a porthole and wave at her as we waited for things to let up.
When we finally bolted across the gravel drive to rescue Mom and continue our tour of the now-deserted Seaport, we found we had to push the wheelchair through six inches of warm water covering most of the paved paths. We very much enjoyed the exhibit on traditional sailors' tattoos but found the rest of the Seaport deserted and waterlogged.
So that's how we ended up underwater at Mystic Seaport.
Mystic, CT is a fun place to visit, love the cool old bascule bridge in town and the old cidery nearby. There is also plenty of fresh lobster.
posted by kinnakeet at 2:19 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
The nice lady at the ticket station let us in for free. "The weather doesn't look good," she told us. "Not many folks have come in today." I was determined to see the Charles Morgan, a fine old surviving whaling ship, which was under renovation at the time. My sister and I took turns pushing our alert but wheelchair-bound mother.
It began to rain as we approached the old whaler, so we parked Mom well under the rooftop overhang from a building that housed restoration equipment. My sister and I reached the deck as the sky opened.
I've seen some rain in my life, heavy rain. But nothing before or since could approach the torrents unleashed that afternoon. Mom huddled under a large parka as splashes reached deep inside her shelter. It was crazy. My sister and I located clean garbage bags inside the Morgan which we cut into makeshift jumpers to preserve the little dry clothing we had left. The storm continued for at least forty minutes. We could only peer through a porthole and wave at her as we waited for things to let up.
When we finally bolted across the gravel drive to rescue Mom and continue our tour of the now-deserted Seaport, we found we had to push the wheelchair through six inches of warm water covering most of the paved paths. We very much enjoyed the exhibit on traditional sailors' tattoos but found the rest of the Seaport deserted and waterlogged.
So that's how we ended up underwater at Mystic Seaport.
Mystic, CT is a fun place to visit, love the cool old bascule bridge in town and the old cidery nearby. There is also plenty of fresh lobster.
posted by kinnakeet at 2:19 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
MetaFilter: very much enjoyed the exhibit on traditional sailors' tattoos but found the rest of it deserted and waterlogged.
posted by hippybear at 2:45 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 2:45 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Telf, did you steal my childhood? Voyage of the Mimi taught me how to make potable water from sea water, which will come in handy if I'm ever shipwrecked. (although in my childhood, Mystic and Sturbridge coexist peacefully as the best field trip destinations, and celebrate the fact that neither is Jersey.)
posted by carlypennylane at 3:32 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by carlypennylane at 3:32 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
I know someone from the Magdalens, born and raised francophone, with a shore-work-song that mourns friends and family at sea hauling in the bounty. This got me curious about other maritime work-songs, Dutch and Spanish and Portuguese. The search took me much closer to home. Very different, very identifiable as Maritime music - the work songs of the menhadden fishermen working the Chesapeake.
Listening to them gives me the bristle-along-the-back-of-the-neck feeling when, on the odd occasion, I am actually Proud to be an American.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:49 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
Listening to them gives me the bristle-along-the-back-of-the-neck feeling when, on the odd occasion, I am actually Proud to be an American.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:49 PM on August 6, 2017 [1 favorite]
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I imagine that anyone growing up in CT in the late 1980s or early 90s still has is disproportionate amount of whaling knowledge that they're itching to unleash during their next trivia night. (This could be true of more recent graduates as well.)
I was also going to talk about the Voyage of the Mimi, but apparently I'm conflating childhood memories. I definitely went to go visit the actual Mimi during a field trip, that was apparently not at mystic seaport, so therefore irrelevant.
posted by Telf at 9:51 PM on August 5, 2017 [4 favorites]