Summer 2016 Grays Har Grays Har Grays Har Grays Harbor Historical Seaport bor Historical Seaport bor Historical Seaport bor Historical Seaport Authority Authority Authority Authority Brandi Bednarik appointed new executive director Currents Currents Currents Currents A newsletter for friends and supporters of Lady Washington, Hawaiian Chieftain, and Seaport Landing GHHSA PO Box 2019 Aberdeen WA 98520 | 800-200-5239 | [email protected] | www.historicalseaport.org Inside: New exec. director 1 Ships’ schedule 1 1989 crew photo 2 Sailing for America 2-3 Science director 4 Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain are U.S. Coast Guard- inspected and certified passenger- carrying vessels crewed by licensed mariners and volunteers. The ships are operated to the highest standards of safety and professionalism. If you have suggestions for activities or ports, call us at 800-200- 5239. The Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority Board of Directors has appointed Brandi Bednarik as the organization’s new executive director. The board made the decision at a special meeting May 6. The appointment is effective immediately. Busy summer schedule ahead for our tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain are looking ahead to a busy summer season. Here’s the ports of call. June 9-July 5: Aberdeen June 23-27: Westport (Lady Washington) July 8-17: Port Ludlow July 19-Aug. 3: Bellingham Aug. 5-7: Blaine Aug. 8-11: Brownsville Aug. 12-17: Port Orchard Aug. 18-23: Tacoma Aug. 25-Sept. 5: Kirkland Sept. 8-11: Port Townsend (Lady Washington) Sept. 8-15: Aberdeen (Hawaiian Chieftain) Sept. 17-18: Westport (Hawaiian Chieftain) Guests who purchase four or more tickets for a Battle Sail or an Adventure Sail receive an automatic 15 percent discount at the time of purchase. The discount is available for online purchases only. To buy, visit historicalseaport.org. Ms. Bednarik had served as interim executive director since September 2015. She takes the post formerly held by Les Bolton, who departed the company in June 2015. “I’m honored to be appointed to the executive director’s job,” Ms. Bednarik said. “I’m excited by the challenge of transforming Seaport Landing into a community asset. We’re also planning more science education at the site, and I’m looking forward to working with our ships to improve and expand our maritime heritage education.” Ms. Bednarik was hired as the Historical Seaport’s bookkeeper in 2009 and held the title of Chief Financial Officer in addition to Interim Executive Director. Brandi can be reached at 360-532-8611 or [email protected]. Brandi Bednarik was appointed the Historical Seaport’s executive director on May 6. Meetings of the GHHSA Board of Directors are open to the public. The board meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Seaport Landing in Aberdeen.
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Roy Pearmain is a former Historical Seaport board member and former editor of the Currents newsletter.
Millions of people emigrated from the British Isles to America in the 19th century, with two million from Ireland between 1845 and 1855 alone. Most of the Irish were poor tenants fleeing the Irish potato famine and boarded a fleet of rotting and poorly managed brigs known as Famine Ships. Only half of the passengers ever made it to America, or died soon after arrival of typhus or cholera.
Some, such as the barque Jeanie
Johnstone, were called "Good Ships." The Jeanie Johnston made 16 crossings, moving over 2,500 people to Canada and the US without losing a single passenger or crewman. In fact there was at least one child born on this 47-day voyage.
Some of my own ancestors made the crossing from Liverpool to New York in 1833, but they came for a much different reason. Edward Paget Pearmain was not poor, he was on the lam. Edward had been a successful businessman, with a thread mill in Paisley, Scotland and a retail store in Bristol, England, where he sold thread
One family’s experience crossing the great Western Ocean
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Forest Pride was one of numerous ships that
carried Grays Harbor lumber to California ports.
and textiles until he became an activist.
Edward Paget Pearmain was upset about the Corn Laws. On October 8, 1831, the British House of Lords rejected reforms passed by the Commons. The public mood was ugly. On October 30, Edward led a mob that attacked the Mansion House in Bristol. In serious trouble, Edward went into hiding and sent for his oldest son, William Robert, who was on a sales trip with his tutor. William was to return home to arrange for the sale of the family business and flight to America.
The sale of the business accomplished, William booked to New York aboard the Sylvanus Jenkins. They brought with them £20,000 in currency (about $100,000), their household effects, a large consignment of unsold cotton goods, a ton of fine French silk and an ample supply of food.
William Robert's foresight to bring extra food was extremely fortunate. The passage was exceptionally stormy. Lightning killed three of the crew while they manned the pumps and a fourth drowned when he fell from a yardarm. The understaffed ship in stormy waters was 30 days behind schedule and the ship's stores were gone. The Pearmain food supply probably saved all from
starvation. Half of the ship's hold contained Pearmain cargo, making it a "good ship" on this voyage, at least.
Edward left his wife, Jane LeBon, behind, but brought his three boys, Edward, William Robert and Henry Anglesea with him. Henry Anglesea Pearmain was my great, great grand-father and it was his son, Henry Faren Pearmain who homesteaded 160 acres on Orcas Island, Wash., in 1889.
Forest Pride, pictured above, lost her anchor in a storm near the Pearmain homestead at Deer Harbor, Orcas Island, Wash.
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Christie Barchenger hired as Director of Science Education
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The Historical Seaport relies on the support of leading businesses to help us deliver our educational programs. If your company
has a giving program, please contact Brandi Bednarik, 800-200-5239, to discuss which giving level is best for you.
earth science programs at Nature Vision in Woodinville, Wash., worked as an eighth-grade science teacher in
northern Mississippi, and she directed an educational non-profit at a women’s university in Bangladesh.
In an interview with the Aberdeen Daily World newspaper on May 11, Christie said, “I think that the unifying theme of
programs [at Seaport Landing] is going to be water. On a very nerdy level, I think it’s fascinating how people learn,
and, I just like learning.”
The science program at Seaport Landing is expected
to welcome its first participants in 2017. The program is funded by a grant from the Magic Cabinet Foundation.
Christie is reaching out to educators in Grays Harbor and the surrounding area to gauge their needs for science programs. She can be contacted during business hours at 360-532-8611 or [email protected].
Christie Barchenger
Louis. Now a resident of Aberdeen, Christie has worked as
a consultant for the Partnership for Ambitious Science Teacher Leaders, a project of the Puget Sound Educational
Service District. She has taught hands-on ecology and
The Historical Seaport is pleased
to welcome Christie Barchenger to the organization’s team as
Director of Science Education.
Christie will develop a new science
education program at Seaport Landing for delivery to youth and the