U.S.S. Constitution: Preserving “Old Ironsides,” Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Tuesday, June 9th

June 8, 2009

When: Tuesday, June 9th, 7:30 PM
Where: Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Waterline Center, 66 Main Street, Essex, MA

If you are interested in learning about the ongoing preservation efforts that help keep the U.S.S. Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” in shipshape condition, make plans to attend the presentation and talk by Margherita Desy at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Essex, on Tuesday, June 9th.

Margherita Desy is the Historian for the Naval History & Heritage Command Detachment Boston, working with USS Constitution. Last year Ms. Desy led a group from the Essex Shipbuilding Museum on a tour to see the work of preservation below her decks. Ms. Desy will speak about the continuing restoration of “Old Ironsides.”

Tickets:
Members: $6
Nonmembers: $8

Tickets can be purchased at the door on Tuesday, June 9th. The event starts at 7:30 pm.

About Margherita Desy

Ms. Desy has spent 10 years at the USS Constitution Museum as Associate Curator and Curator. She has also worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and for 20 years at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut.

Ms. Margherita was script advisor and on-camera historian for the 1997 History Channel production “Old Ironsides Returns to the Sea”, and provided color commentary for Boston WCVB’s Channel 5 coverage of USS Constitution’s historic sail in 1997 and the Sail Boston 2000 Tall Ships gathering.

She currently teaches at Tufts University as adjunct faculty for the Museum Studies Program in the Graduate and Professional Studies Department.