Highlights from FISH MARKET DAY       Sunday, November 22nd     

Stories, films, readings and reminiscences to celebrate the spirit of the fishmongers who once enlived the streets of the South Street Seaport.

• Jack Putnam reads from the work of writer Joseph Mitchell and talks about his own first-hand Fish Market experience. Jack Putnam is an educator and historianat the South Street Seaport Museum. For more than two decades, he was a participant-observer in and of the Fulton Fish Market before it moved to the Bronx. Jack was a friend of Joseph Mitchell; he accompanied Joe on his last visit to the old hotel, a subject of Mr. Mitchell’s stories, shortly before the writer’s death in 1996.

• Terry Walton shares Market and Seaport stories from her new book, Harbor Voices, New York Harbor tugs, ferries, people, places, & more. Lifelong sailor and maritime editor Terry Walton has written about New York Harborfor 30 years. She is vice chair of New York’s Working Harbor Committee, a founder of South Street Seaport Museum, and founding editor of the Museum’s Seaport Magazine. Terry serves as an Advisor to the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum and the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery. She is the author of two maritime books — the newly published anthology Harbor Voices, New York Harbor tugs, ferries, people, places, & more (National Maritime Historical Society, 2008), and Cold Spring Harbor – rediscovering history in streets and shores (Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, 1999). As a maritime editor and project/planning consultant - and as owner of Rosalie Ink Publications - Terry has produced many articles and books on local history, most recently the history of the hamlet of Jericho, Long Island, and is author of the script for Huntington, Long Island’s 350th anniversary documentary film, and the 150th anniversary history of the Cold Spring Harbor Fire Department. Terry lives in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island.

• Sal Polisi demonstrates woodcarving.South Street Seaport Museums's Master Carver-in-residence Sal Polisiin the Maritime Crafts Center.

• Talk with Sal Sclafani, retired fish market worker, and hear about his life on South Street.

To view artwork by Naima Rauam, go to http://www.artpm.com/index.

Photos from the 2009 exhibition