Please pencil in on your calendar: December 8th, from 3-5 pm in the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour…
The Friends of the the Phoebe invite you to the Phoebe’s new exhibit in the great Sail Room at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. See looks like she was just about seventeen instead of her 102 years as a historic wooden steam boat, built right here in Kingston.
The Phoebe on her supports after her small boathouse at the Pump House Steam Museum was removed. It was as if she emerged from her cocoon when the restoration volunteers saw her for the first time in full glory, 2005.
And here she is in 2016 in the Sail Room of Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. We will dress her up for our special OPEN HOUSE on December 8 between 3-5 pm, everybody is invited.
Some highlights of the program:
Special exhibit panels explaining her history and who her first owners were.
Meet our friends from the Brigantine St. Lawrence II who will join us in the celebration and who will showcase their organisation of youth oriented square rig sail training.
Interesting exhibits of maritime objects; a steam engine that you can touch and see in action; other steam related equipment.
Posters; bookmarks; pewter Phoebe Christmas ornaments; the book “The Steam Launch Phoebe, Her 100 Year Journey” by Paul Jeffrey; brochures and more.
Enjoy live music and the sound of a steam whistle
There will be ample seating for seniors and lots of room for the young, meet your friends and make new ones. We hope your Councillor will be there and we have invited our Mayor to this early December, pre-Christmas party; we expect our retired and current elected officials might drop in…
There will be a chance to have your photo taken with Phoebe and Phoebe; a mystery? Not really but we keep you in suspense… Where did we hear that recently?
Stay posted, pass this on to your friends they would very much appreciate it.
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Back to the INDEX, click on the photo of Phoebe Brashear-Stewart surrounded by her family and grandchildren on Lake Muskoka, 1900.