Join researcher and curator Douglas T. Aumack on Tuesday, October 8 to learn what life was like aboard a Civil War Ironclad.
Through images and other primary documents, Aumack will discuss the aspects of a sailor’s life - from enlistment to shipboard routines to the experience of combat. Attendees will be able to handle a reproduction U.S. Navy uniform and examine a scale model of the USS Weehawken, one of five iron ships built in Jersey City.
Aumack, who has been working in the museum field for over two decades, was the curator and deputy director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum as well as the education coordinator for the Baltimore-based USS Constellation Museum. He has spent most of his career working as the resource interpretive specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation and, additionally, served as executive producer of Middlesex County History, a podcast series focused on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County.
To learn more, stop by the Clara Barton Branch for this interesting and educational 1:00pm program. |
