HEARTLAND RESEARCH BOARD MEETING NOVEMBER 15TH
Yesterday HEARTLAND RESEARCH had its monthly board meeting.
There were more than a half a dozen agenda items that the Board reviewed. We are excited for the future and we continue to press forward on several fronts as we prepare for 2023.
We have opened a new website where we will bring to the attention of thousands of people what we are doing at the Phoenician Ship Museum in Montrose, Iowa. Click here to see the website. We are creating a knowledge hub where you can come to read hundreds of articles and to see hundreds videos.
In the coming months we will focus our attention on several items including the following:
▪ Organization of a Phoenician Night in the spring of 2023 at the New York Explorers Club in Manhattan. We are involving government and civic leaders from Carthage, Tunisia and Morocco. We will feature the restoration of the Phoenician Ship in America. We will invite people from around the country and world to come to the Center of New York where they will have a chance to appreciate the seafaring skills of the Phoenicians in coming to America 2,000 years before Columbus.
▪ The Board is working out details for a riverboat to cross the Mississippi from Nauvoo to Montrose. We already have a riverboat at the Phoenician Workshop. We have already had preliminary talks with municipal and business leaders in Montrose. Our intentions are clear and we have secured outside funding for the development of this important connection to the large number of visitors who come to Nauvoo in the summer.
▪ The Board reviewed detailed plans for the restoration of the 2,600-year-old replica. Last summer we had 3,000 hours of volunteer labor. We are only at the beginning. Next summer we expect to double the number of volunteers. Last summer we managed to put together about 18% of the 40-ton ship. By the end of next summer we expect that more than 50% of the ship will be together. There will soon be thousands of people who will come and see the world’s oldest and largest ship replica that has crossed the Atlantic. The ship will stand as witness of ancient people who came from the East by sea to America in 600 B.C.
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Organization of a Phoenician Night in the spring of 2023 at
the New York Explorers Club in Manhattan. We are involving government
and civic leaders from Carthage, Tunisia and Morocco. We will feature
the restoration of the Phoenician Ship in America. We will invite people
from around the country and world to come to the Center of New York
where they will have a chance to appreciate the seafaring skills of the
Phoenicians in coming to America 2,000 years before Columbus. |
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The Board is working out details for a riverboat to cross
the Mississippi from Nauvoo to Montrose. We already have a riverboat at
the Phoenician Workshop. We have already had preliminary talks with
municipal and business leaders in Montrose. Our intentions are clear and
we have secured outside funding for the development of this important
connection to the large number of visitors who come to Nauvoo in the
summer. |
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The Board reviewed detailed plans for the restoration of
the 2,600-year-old replica. Last summer we had 3,000 hours of volunteer
labor. We are only at the beginning. Next summer we expect to double the
number of volunteers. Last summer we managed to put together about 18%
of the 40-ton ship. By the end of next summer we expect that more than
50% of the ship will be together. There will soon be thousands of people
who will come and see the world’s oldest and largest ship replica that
has crossed the Atlantic. The ship will stand as witness of ancient
people who came from the East by sea to America in 600 B.C. |
