It is kind of delicious for someone like me, who believes the stalled and impossibly expensive and impractical plans for a downtown New London Coast Guard museum need to be scrapped, to read a scathing criticism of the project by one of its partners.
Cross Sound Ferry eventually signed on to support the problematic waterfront museum site after then Gov. Dannel Malloy pledged in 2013 to provide $20 million to build a bridge across the railroad tracks connecting the downtown to the proposed museum as well as a new ferry terminal planned by Cross Sound.
The ferry company, it seems, hated the idea of the waterfront museum before it loved it.
Strawser Auction Group announces four-day antique auction
Minton iconic majolica game tureen and cover, the cover having the heads of two hares and two ducks realistically colored and symmetrically arranged (est. $25,000-$35,000).
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND
.- A four-day Antique Auction bursting with nearly 2,000 lots of quality items, including important collections of majolica, Pickard china, World War II collectibles, Fenton glass and more will be held May 26th through 29th, by Strawser Auction Group, live in the gallery at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville, as well as online via LiveAuctioneers.com.
Of special interest is the Ann and Robert Fromer collection of majolica, assembled over the course of more than thirty years. The Fromers were avid collectors, said Michael Strawser, the president of Strawser Auction Group and founder of the Majolica International Society. The pieces in their collection are outstanding. The estate collection of Pickard china is also superb.
WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. â A four-day Antique Auction bursting with nearly 2,000 lots of quality items, including important collections of majolica, Pickard china, World War II collectibles, Fenton glass and more will be held May 26th through 29th, by Strawser Auction Group, live in the gallery at 106 East Dutch Street in Wolcottville, as well as online via LiveAuctioneers.com.
âOf special interest is the Ann and Robert Fromer collection of majolica, assembled over the course of more than thirty years. The Fromers were avid collectors,â said Michael Strawser, the president of Strawser Auction Group and founder of the Majolica International Society. âThe pieces in their collection are outstanding. The estate collection of Pickard china is also superb.â
A couple of weeks ago President Biden announced a massive effort to develop offshore wind energy projects, seeing them as the key to a “clean energy revolution.”
A couple of weeks ago President Biden announced a massive effort to develop offshore wind energy projects, seeing them as the key to a “clean energy revolution.”
It is a big change from the Trump administration, which was lukewarm, at best, about supporting renewable energy development and approving offshore wind-power leases. The Biden administration projects this undertaking will employ more than 44,000 workers in offshore wind by 2030 and nearly 33,000 additional jobs in communities supported by offshore wind activity.
I’m excited that hundreds of those jobs stand to be created here in southeastern Connecticut and that the port of New London could be a major player. It is ideally situated. Between the port and the proposed wind fields there are no bridges to impede the shipping of the towering wind-turbine stanchions to their destinations.