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Soar into spring with the USS Constitution Museum this school vacation week! We have a variety of eagle-themed activities and will be open to the public daily from April 17-25. Join us in person or virtually from home. There is fun for all ages! 🦅 🌷 Find more info at bit.ly/3d4qXzm
Thankfully we didn't have to holystone the Museum to reopen! Experience life as a sailor and try your hand at this common sailor chore online or in our galleries. Play online at bit.ly/3d1SJwp
We celebrated our 45th anniversary and reopened today! Thanks to our friends USS for joining the festivities. Huzzah!
Huzzah! Be safe all, I miss you
BREAKING NEWS BOSTON — The USS Constitution Museum reopened to the public today, the 45th anniversary of its opening in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Knowing this was the catalyst that precipitated a call to the museum this morning to inquire on the the use of Building 24. Their literature indicated that the museum was in Building 22 and two other buildings. Background between 5/2/71 to 7/1/74 I was a victim of three Reduction(‘s) in Force from three Department of Defense installations, due to alleged base closures. It wasn’t long after arriving at the second installation that a base closure was announced as was the case with the third. However, in those two insistences I had to remain at the installation for one year in order for the Government to pick up my moving expenses. In each installation the employees panicked and moved on (the rats left the ship) while I had no such option having to complete my year. As it turned out, each time I ended up being the only on left in my section and each time end up in a special project that kept me employed beyond my proposed separation date. The third installation was Boston Naval Shipyard, the special project was to design and supervise the installation of all of the machinery & equipment that was to be used in the overhaul of the USS Constitution IX-21 into Building 24. The machinery & equipment was scattered all over the Yard and at the Annex in South Boston, with the closure order in hand it was time to consolidate for the ongoing overhaul and future ones. At the time the thought was that upon completion of the overhaul the building would be opened as a museum to demonstrate the procedures in preparing the parts for the overhaul. My call today gleaned that that did not happen and that the area in Building 24 is in constant use. The picture of the Museum, the title corner of the Plan (note the “AsBuilt” signed on 4/29/74), and the Ribbon Cutting at Building 24. Being in the right place at the right time, I procured some pieces of the USS Constitution and converted them into desk name plate pen holders. I also gifted a piece and some of the copper nails to a former professor, his son Johnathan Jonathan framed them and it is on display at Colby-Sawyer College. Cora & I took Isabella to see the USS Constitution (IX-22), and the USS Cassin Young (DD-793) that is docked there too. The three of us have also boarded the USS Albacore (AGSS-569) that is a Museum within itself in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
I wish I could have been there!
Welcome back!
Hip Hip Huzzah! What a great way to celebrate a anniversary, with the reopening! Can’t wait to visit again!
Huzzah!!
Excellent my Troop is planning for on overnight on her May 1
Karen Doran Palleschi, the museum reopened.
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Yay!!!! We will be there soon!!!
