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August 21, 2023

7 Must-See Museums in Portsmouth Virginia

Portsmouth’s Tour of Museums Portsmouth, VA is home to some of the oldest history in America and with that, it has hundreds of stories to share. When visiting our museums, you’ll discover stories from the first moments Captain John Smith saw an abandoned Native American settlement along the banks for the Elizabeth River up …
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March 25, 2020

Disney’s “The Finest Hours” and the Portsmouth Lightship Museum

I’m Diane L. Cripps, Curator of History, Portsmouth Museums and I hope you will enjoy this write up from Ross Patterson, about Ervin Maske, a Coast Guard seaman on his way to serve aboard our Lightship off Massachusetts in 1952, when a storm intervened. He wound up volunteering for a dangerous rescue mission. If the story sounds familiar, it may be because it was made into a 2016 movie by Walt Disney Pictures called The Finest Hours. The incident has been called the Coast Guard’s most daring rescue.
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