Monday, August 5

Surrounded by History - The little backwater exhibition hall known as the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia is poised to receive a prized artifact, the turret of the U.S.S. Monitor later this week. This is the last phase in a five-year program to recover, conserve and exhibit items from the Civil War ironclad that fought the C.S.S. Virginia to a draw at the Battle of Hampton Roads, but later foundered off the coast of North Carolina. The project has attracted a lot of media attention. Also look for a very special National Geographic TV documentary coming soon.