Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel The Tall Ship of Delaware written by Samuel W. Heed, Esq. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in Wilmington in 1997, Kalmar Nyckel--The Tall Ship of Delaware--is one of the region's great educational resources, a floating classroom and inspirational platform for a broad array of land-and sea-based programs. An accurate replica of the original Swedish naval vessel that launched the colony of New Sweden in the Delaware Valley in 1638, today's Kalmar Nyckel voyages over 2,000 nautical miles and reaches more than 30,000 students, passengers, and visitors a year. A photographer's dream wherever she goes, Kalmar Nyckel embodies America's maritime heritage and has become one of Delaware's defining treasures. Samuel W. Heed, Esq., is the senior historian and director of education at the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, where since 2008 he has been developing the programs, exhibits, articles, and documentaries that bring the Kalmar Nyckel story to life and give it meaning. Heed serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Council of American Maritime Museums. The Kalmar Nyckel Foundation archives provided the primary resources for this book.
Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel written by Kalmar Nyckel Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Clinton Alfred Weslager and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many vessels braved the Atlantic bringing explorers, traders, & settlers to the New World - Columbus's NINA, PINTA, & SANTA MARIA - Henry Hudson's HALF MOON - Lord Baltimore's ARK & DOVE - William Penn's WELCOME - & numerous others. None played a more significant role in the history of the Middle Atlantic States than the KALMAR NYCKEL, although the name may be unfamiliar to many Americans. Meaning "the key of Kalmar" (Kalmar was a Swedish city in the Baltic), the KALMAR NYCKEL, commanded by Peter Minuit, made the first permanent European settlement in the Delaware River valley at present Wilmington in 1638. Dr. Weslager reveals that the KALMAR NYCKEL continued to bring colonists on three subsequent voyages, blazing a route to the Delaware estuary on the trade winds. New Sweden became a home not only for Swedes & Finns, but for immigrants from Germany, the Netherlands, the British Isles, Belgium, Poland - even Danes & Schleswig-Holsteiners. The author maintains that the KALMAR NYCKEL has not received its just due. He argues that the ship did more than transporting a handful of Scandinavians. It brought more people, & of differing cultural backgrounds, than the venerable MAYFLOWER, & it planted the seeds for three of the original thirteen colonies - Delaware, Pennsylvania, & New Jersey. Finally, the KALMAR NYCKEL heroically ended its career as a spy ship in the Swedish-Danish War. "Dr. Weslager is universally recognized as America's foremost historian on New Sweden...he cites information found in contemporary letters, journals, notorial records, & other primary sources many of which have been translated into English for the first time."--Peter S. Craig, SWEDISH COLONIAL NEWS.
Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel written by Kalmar Nyckel Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wilmington s Waterfront written by Priscilla M. Thompson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilmingtonas Waterfront tells the story of what has happened along the Brandywine and Christina rivers in Wilmington. These two rivers encompass downtown Wilmington and have been the lifeblood of the city ever since they provided a pathway for its Swedish settlers. With their perpetual rise and fall of tide, ceaseless source of power, and never-ending supply of water, the rivers have seen the growth and decline of industry, nurture and neglect by government, and respect and rejection by residents. In 1979 and 1980, the authors visited every inch of both sides of the rivers, taking photographs, making notes, and doing historical and environmental research. Their efforts resulted in Project R.O.W. (Reclaim Our Waterfront), a detailed report funded by a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In this book, Priscilla M. Thompson and Sally OaByrne invite you to join them on a pictorial tour of Wilmingtonas waterfront. Through their collection of photographs, etchings, and lithographs showing waterfront recreation and industries, you will discover shipbuilding companies, steamboat excursions, parks, waterworks, bridge dedications, and all the landmarks and activities that are a part of the Wilmington waterfrontas past.
Download or read book Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World written by Otmar Schäuffelen and published by Hearst Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come sailing with Chapman, on the pages of an expansive, attractively illustrated reference to large, and frequently famous, sailboats from around the globe. Enthusiasts will find completely up-to-date information on these extremely popular boats, more than 450 color photos, and descriptions of different types of sailing ships and rigging. Each craft listed features a full-color picture, details, and statistics, accompanied by facts and figures on its home port, the year it was built, the names of the owner and crew, plus rigging, tonnage, mast, sails, and use.
Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Clinton Alfred Weslager and published by Middle Atlantic Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Life s Story written by Max Matteson and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fairly detailed account of the life and background of a boy from the midwest that he was encouraged to publish
Download or read book The Kalmar Nyckel a Guide to the Ship and Her History written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel and Fort Christina written by H. A. Maxson and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kalmar Nyckel and Fort Christina written by H. A. Maxson and published by . This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Family written by Ralph F. Warner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Family is about the Warner family of Philadelphia's Blockley Township. R. David Warner Sr., the author, is qualified to write this book because he and his father are the twelfth and thirteenth generation of a family which settled on the shores of the Schuylkill River five years before William Penn laid out the city. Before his death in 1992, the author's father wrote a series of letters containing the stories told to him as a child in the early twentieth century. He researched the public records of both the Historical Societies and the Quaker Meetinghouse to build upon the actual accounts of his family members. He spent the last twenty years of his life collecting this historical information. In the mid-nineteenth century, the author's great-grandfather began building on the names and facts about family members. The information he gathered was also used to write this book. Actual letters written from the foxholes of the civil war are typical of the documents used to complete this book. Our past can only be retrieved from what we remember and from the historical records that have been kept. Without memories and without records, we have no personal history!
Download or read book The Lenape Homeland written by James G. Landis and published by Faith Builders Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delaware written by Federal Writers' Project and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on 1955 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by C. A. Weslager and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Delaware the First State written by Carol E. Hoffecker and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of Delaware, from its first inhabitants and the arrival of European settlers to the effect of modern times on its business and government.
Download or read book The Kalmar Nyckel written by Kathy Montgomery and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1644 the New World was a wild and dangerous place. The Swedish flagship, The Kalmar-Nyckel, is the majestic vessel, which brings the Swedes to the Delaware River area to carve out a colony amongst the Lennie Lenape Indians and to steal away territory from the Dutch. But home in Sweden is another battle for life. Johan Mattsson has returned home from the war, but a battle still rages within him. The story of Johan Mattsson and the history around him are all based on fact. Travel the salty sea with the Kalmar-Nyckel as she weathers storms, adventure, and pirates. Be there at the humble beginnings of the little known Swedish colony, New Sweden. And walk with Johan, broken in body and spirit, as he returns home to his family, to God, and the love of his life only to be torn away by his dark secret that could cost him his own life.
