这些页面缺席了一段时间，这在很大程度上是由于千载难逢的机会参观了澳大利亚大陆。这是一次宏伟的旅行，去那里非常值得您的时间，努力，也应该有机会。
Part of the trip was spent in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales and an extraordinary city by any measure. While there, I had the great pleasure to get a tour of the United States Gallery of theAustralian National Maritime Museum. Paul Hundley, curator of the gallery, has been in Sydney for 18 years, being a native of Minnesota and having worked at a TMM sister institution, the皮博迪·埃塞克斯博物馆在马萨诸塞州塞勒姆。他给了我一个美好的旅行画廊。
One of the high points of the gallery in its current configuration, as I saw it, was the beautiful model of the CSSShenandoah.Evidently,Shenandoahonce docked at the Australian port of Williamstown (near Melbourne in the far south) for repairs. Representatives of the United States howled in protest, but the presence of the ship and the Confederate crew was evidently the social event of 1865. When the ship finally surrendered in England in November of that year, it evidently carried 42 Australian crew members! To this day, there is an active chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Australia, the William Kenyon Australasian Confederates Camp 2160.
Other points of interest in the United States Gallery included a beautiful display on the visit of the Great White Fleet in the summer of 1908, and a contemporary photography exhibit of the fleet of a prominent shipping company doing business between California and Australia.
The ANMM is located on Darling Harbor in Sydney and is responsible for a number of historic ships as well as its collections. A replica of Captain Cook’s barkEndeavourwas unfortunately not there when I visited, as it was making a circumnavigation of Australia. While it would have been magnificent actually sailing on her and being a member of the crew, a hammock berth for 10 days would have cost nearly as much as a round-trip airline ticket to the United States! I think I’ll stick with reading about the voyage in the 30 or so books and journal articles on the subject (including one published in 1774, just 4 years after the voyage) in Mariners’ Museum Library.
杰伊:高兴你回家,你真实的ly enjoyed that trip! Everyone who has been there seems to find it unique and is surprised at the unexpected links to the USA. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get there some day, too!
The reason we’re glad you’re back is that you’re going to do the Secrets in the Stacks thing next Wednesday! We’re looking forward to that, and are wondering how you’re going to tie in your trip? At least one of the extraordinary publications that you’re going to show us must have some piece of Australia in it?!
See you next Wednesday!