Photo: Betsy Frawley Haggerty
If you are in the New York area, check out the North River Historic Ship Festival that starts with a kickoff gala tomorrow night and runs through Sunday. The festivities include:
- A gala reception honoring A.J. Pietrantone, the former executive director of Friends of Hudson River Park.
- Free dockside tours of the steam-powered lighthouse tender, Lilac, the 99-year-old wooden barge Lehigh Valley No. 79 and tug Pegasus.
- Free river trips on the world-famous and water-spraying retired NYC fireboat John J. Harvey and on South Street Seaport Museum’s historic schooner Pioneer. The 106-year-old tug Pegasus will also offer river trips.
- Two circus performances on a covered wooden barge.
- Fishing on the pier, river-critter touch-tank explorations and knot-tying aboard Lilac.