If you read Latin, you get it, this statement of Snug Harbor’s motto. Otherwise, I’ll translate a bit farther down. If you’ve never been, it’s worth a visit.
Here’s what KVK traffic looks like from the Minard Lafever-designed buildings of Snug Harbor, and
here’s what the waterside entrance to Snug Harbor looks like from the KVK . . . just between IMTT Bayonne and the “salt pile.”
The current feature exhibit is called “Treasures of Sailors’ Snug Harbor.” The bust here is Robert Richard Randall, the sea captain whose charity established what became a home for thousands of aging seafarers.
The will establishing the institution was drawn up by Alexander Hamilton.
The Latin in this John LaFarge stained glass window translates as “We who are exhausted seek a harbor.”
If you’ve never been to SSH, you’ll enjoy three floors of exhibits, which include ship models like Massapequa and
and Japan Ambrose. And of course much much more, such as
the entire John Noble collection, which I just scratched the surface on earlier this year here. There’s even a Herman Melville connection here.
For directions to SSH, click here.
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August 29, 2012 at 10:32 am
walt
Amen on Snug Harbor, the salt pile and the terra cotta DWV pipes around the corner just off of Richmond Terrace are worth checking out too!
August 29, 2012 at 6:27 pm
PaulB.
I’ve never been there, but as a mariner, I resent fully the pawning of the facility that happened years ago, so that sailors couldn’t live there, but artists who couldn’t sell their art could continue honing their craft and continue not making a living off it.
August 29, 2012 at 9:25 pm
tugster
paulb– i’m not sure it was the case that artists displaced the mariners. in the 1970s the “home” moved from staten island to coastal north carolina. i don’t know exactly at what time the richmond terrace became a museum, but as for the history of the workings of the trust that has cared for 15,000 some mariners since its start, check here: http://www.thesailorssnugharbor.org/Pages/BriefHistory.aspx Snug Harbor is certainly worth a visit though, and I’ve seen special interest given to visitors who identify themselves as working mariners even today.