The half hour “Fifty Nine Steps to the Crow’s Nest” documentary tells the story of the “Crow’s Nest” merchant navy officers bar in downtown St. John’s. It is a fantastic film about a piece of St. John’s history, but, more importantly, a tribute to the memory of merchant mariners of World War II. Thanks to…
Remembering Chaplain Wally Ceadarleaf
Image: (Paul Connell/Globe Staff/File 1979) From The Globe, February 7, 2010. The Rev. Wallace E. Cedarleaf retired as Boston Harbor chaplain 17 years ago, but he is vividly recalled along the waterfront and among the thousands of seamen of foreign vessels that docked here during his 25-year tenure. “Wally was bigger-than-life. Everyone who knew him…
Book Review: Saving Jack
David Hurrell and Alexander Campbell. Saving Jack: The Story of the Seamen’s Mission of the Methodist Church, The Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest. London: QVSR, 2018. Of value to Methodist and non-Methodist alike, this handsome, full-colour album was put out to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Methodist mission to seafarers in London and its flagship…
Book Review: Sailors’ Society, 200 Stories from the Sea, 1818-2018
Nick Churchill, Melanie Warman, Charis Gibson, and James Leslie. 200 Stories from the Sea, 1818-2018. Southampton: Sailors’ Society, 2018. This is a commemorative book with 200 short vignettes about the work of the Sailors’ Society on the occasion of its 200th birthday. The source of most of the stories is the Society’s magazine, Chart & Compass founded in 1879,…