So the idea of a home for old, worn-out, and decrepit sailors was born. Randall said from his father, who got it through “honest privateering.” And Ham said, effectively, that if his fortune came from the sea, it should return there. According to the lore, Randall wasn’t sure what to do with his fortune, and Ham asked him from whence it came. Robert Richard Randall left a bequest to found what eventually became Snug Harbor in his will in 1801. The founding of Sailor’s Snug Harbor is a great story, involving none other than the ubiquitous Alexander Hamilton. There were quite a few rules to follow, but also time to pursue art and build boats. They lived in beautiful buildings, and the restored dorm room looks light and comfortable. The life of a retired sailor living at Snug Harbor seems to have been pretty good. Robbins Reef Light, and Kate Walker, the remarkable woman who served as lighthousekeeper for over thirty years.The lives of sailors who retired to Snug Harbor.The founding and establishment of Snug Harbor in the early 19th century.The life and art of John Noble, for whom the collection is named and who primarily made prints and drawings that captured the life of the harbor. Instead, the collection occupies three light-filled, airy, beautifully restored floors of Building D at Sailors’ Snug Harbor. I walked into the Noble Maritime Collection expecting a dark basement full of dusty old nautical stuff, with a stuffy aristocratic bent. This museum suffers from a misleading name. The Collection acquired his studio, restored it beautifully, and moved the whole thing into a room in the building, where you can peek inside. John Noble made his art in a houseboat studio that he cobbled together, Frankenstein’s Monster-like, out of sundry boat bits and bobs over years.
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