Life aboard a Civil War Ironclad.
This lecture reveals every aspect of a sailor's life, from enlistment to his shipboard routine to the experience of combat. The lecture uses images and other primary documents from that period and attendees will be able to handle a reproduction uniform from the U.S. Navy and examine a scale model of the USS Weehawken, one of five built in Jersey City.
Douglas T. Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was the Curator and Deputy Director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, the Education Coordinator for the USS Constellation Museum, in Baltimore, and has spent most of his career working as the Resource Interpretive Specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation. He has researched and presented papers on at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council for Social Studies. The subjects he has presented has included child labor, patent medicine, and indigenous people. He was the Executive Producer of “Middlesex County History” a podcast series that focused on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County. The first podcast season focused on the archaeology of Raritan Landing, an 18th century community buried under a Middlesex County Park.
