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Feb 2, 2016 by FLB

2016 Lecture Series

Andy Weaver
Andy Weaver

Tuesday February 16, Guilford Free Library

Casting for a Variety of Fish around the World

Madison resident and lobsterman Andy Weaver will share personal stories of the challenges he’s faced over the years fishing and lobstering in Long Island Sound and beyond. He will also discuss the poor state of the lobster harvest in CT and challenges faced by fishermen.

Final program in 3 part series Tuesday, March 15: “Sea of No Plastic: Student Presentation on “Using Art to Share Learning” with Joe Bernier.

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Jan 6, 2016 by FLB

2016 Lecture Series

Amy Trout

Global Pioneers – New Haven and the China Trade: Join Curator Amy Trout from the Connecticut River Museum as she discusses New Haven’s brief but exciting foray into the China Trade and the troubles New Haveners encountered in their search for overseas profit.

Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 7 pm at the Guilford Free Library. Remaining Programs in the 3-Part Series:

Tuesday, Feb. 16: Casting for a Variety of Fish around the World with Andrew Weaver

Tuesday, Mar. 15: Sea of No Plastic: Student Presentation on “Using Art to Share Learning” with Joe Bernier.

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Mar 11, 2015 by FLB

Faulkner’s March 17 Lecture Series

The Menagerie at the Beach

Join in a presentation and discussion of how the fish communities of Long Island Sound have changed over the last 30 years. Penny Howell, Senior Fisheries Biologist CT DEEP Marine Fisheries Division will show the results of comprehensive surveys of the Sound which have catalogued over 145 species of fish which make up a dynamic menagerie reflecting tremendous productivity as well as shifting habitats.

MARCH 17, 2015 AT 7:00 P.M. 

GUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Feb 10, 2015 by FLB

Lighthouse Lecture Series Feb. 17

Susan TamulevichJoin us for a presentation by Susan Tamulevich, Director of the New London Maritime Society 7 pm at the Guilford Free Library. Over the past four years, the New London Maritime Society has received ownership of three lighthouses: New London Harbor in 2010, Race Rock in 2013,

Ledge Light in 2014, and led an unsuccessful effort to win a fourth at auction: Little Gull in 2012 at the Guilford Free Library 7pm. NLMS executive director Susan Tamulevich will talk about the unusual variety lighthouses off New London, the responsibilities of lighthouse stewardship, and the Society’s annual lighthouse summer programming, including winning Yankee Magazine’s award for “Best Lighthouse Boat Tour’ and the restoration of Harbor ‘Pequot’ Light in 2014.

Ledge Light
Ledge Light
Race Rock
Race Rock

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Jan 2, 2015 by FLB

January Lecture Guilford Library January 20, 7pm

Don’t miss our January Lecture Series at the Guilford Library January 20, 7pm on the restoration and 38th voyage of the whaler,Charles W. Morgan. [Read more…]

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New for 2017 – Faulkner’s Island Tern Cam

The Faulkner Island Tern camera is a partnership with Menunkatuck Audubon Society,  The Stewart B. McKinney Wildlife Preserve (McKinney NWR), and Faulkner's Light Brigade. Funded by a grant from the Guilford Foundation the Webcam records activities of seals and birds on the rocky north spit of the island. Click here to view.
Tern Web Cam
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The Faulkner's Light Brigade (FLB) was formed as a commission of the Guilford Preservation Alliance in 1991. Its fundamental mission was to investigate the ways and means of saving the historic Faulkner's Island Lighthouse and the island itself from threatening erosion in the east embankment. Faulkner's Island Light … [Read More...]

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