Everyone is invited to attend a very special event next week - the "groundbreaking" for the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. The "quotes" are needed because this won't be your typical groundbreaking event.
The museum will actually look like a ship coming in to port in the Mobile River. So instead of shoveling dirt, the ceremony will be a keel laying, like what would be done for an actual boat.
The museum will actually look like a ship coming in to port in the Mobile River. So instead of shoveling dirt, the ceremony will be a keel laying, like what would be done for an actual boat.
The public is encouraged to take part in the festivities at 10 a.m. on Thursday, April 9 at Mobile Landing, the city’s downtown riverfront development and the museum’s future site (between Cooper-Riverside Park and the cruise terminal).
Scheduled to speak are Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland and E.B. Peebles III, chairman of the Maritime Museum Board of Trustees. Musical accompaniment will be provided by the United States Navy Band New Orleans.
Learn more here - http://www.nationalmaritime.us/
Scheduled to speak are Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland and E.B. Peebles III, chairman of the Maritime Museum Board of Trustees. Musical accompaniment will be provided by the United States Navy Band New Orleans.
Learn more here - http://www.nationalmaritime.us/
Looking forward to attending this special event!
ReplyDeleteGlad I'm following you on twitter... otherwise, I would have had to wait for the typical press release to hear about this ground-breaking ceremony.
Good to see another item from Mayor Sam Jones' 2006 Transition Task Force Report being set in motion!
This project is special to me because I was one of the volunteers on the Downtown Redevelopment/Riverfront Development Committee and supported the Maritime Museum's development.
Ever since my involvement in the development of Riverview Plaza, while working with Architect Dewey Crowder, I've been proud of the growth of Mobile... especially Downtown Mobile.
Keep up the good work!!!
Sincerely,
Girard Frank Bolton, III.
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p.s. - Let me know if there is anything I can do to help the City of Mobile in the future! - gfb3