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    In preparation for Tuesday's rain, all #GalvestonH In preparation for Tuesday's rain, all #GalvestonHistory sites and offices will be closed. We will reopen Wednesday with our regularly posted hours.
    Hotel of 10,000 Stars highlights the people who pu Hotel of 10,000 Stars highlights the people who put food on our Gulf Coast tables. This new documentary will be screened this Friday night at the 1859 St. Joseph's Church and includes a special performance by singer/songwriter @carrierockriguez.

Co-hosted with UTHealth Houston’s @docside_clinic, this Labor Day weekend event is a unique pairing of film, music, culture, and the stories of working people, all inside one of Galveston’s favorite listening rooms (named for the patron saint of workers).

Tickets are available at galvestonhistory.org and include complimentary beverages from @saintarnoldbrewing.
    Today has been a LONG time coming with the placeme Today has been a LONG time coming with the placement of four hippocamps to the roof of the 1892 Bishop's Palace. Nicholas Clayton designed the home with plans for four, but only one was ever realized and was lost in Hurricane Alicia. 

These pieces, placed with precision care by @R.b.hash were manufactured by @Ludowici and are breathtaking. Additional work being completed includes placement of the ridge row and the last pieces to the turret and its decorative elements. Many thanks to @hometownbank for financing this project. We'll have much more to show off soon.
 
#GalvestonHistory #LoveGalveston #GalvestonIsland #1892BishopsPalace
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ELISSA Captain’s Log: 12 pm, Friday, August 14 - Saturday, August 15, 2026
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OUR LAST DAY AT SEA

“Good-bye, brothers [and sisters]! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.” - Joseph Conrad

The last day of a voyage always has a bittersweet side. It is a time of anticipation, yes. Of reunions, of celebration, of the joy of completion. But it also brings a certain sadness. An awareness that a familiar routine is ending, that the unique coming together of individuals to form a crew is about to dissolve, that the shared joys and hardships that go into making a voyage are soon to end.   

And then there is the ship herself. The relationship formed with an object that is more than a manifestation of wood, steel, or even fiberglass. The ship—home, transport, caregiver—one with whom a bond of understanding is established. What to ask of her. How will she respond? What she will or won’t do. All of this is about to end. So yes, bittersweet. Knowing that all voyages have a beginning and an end makes the ending no less sad. 

The last 24 hours of this voyage have been under sail alone, as have been the previous 24+. Fifty straight hours of sail, in fact, to finish the voyage. How fine! 

Most of the voyage back from New England has been powered by diesel rather than wind. Adverse sailing conditions and schedules required it. These last few days, however, have brought picture-book sailing.

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    The 1892 Bishop's Palace will be closed Tuesday an The 1892 Bishop's Palace will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday of this week while we install the final roof pieces. Photos and much more are coming soon!
 
#GalvestonHistory #LoveGalveston #GalvestonIsland #BishopsPalace
    =========== ELISSA Interim Executive Director's Lo ===========
ELISSA Interim Executive Director's Log: 8 am, Saturday, August 15, 2026
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A NEW ERA

It would be easy to view ELISSA's return as the conclusion of an extraordinary journey. In reality, it is something much more important: the beginning of a new chapter.

For more than four decades, @galvestonhistory has cared for, operated, and programmed the Official Tall Ship of Texas, preserving not simply a historic vessel, but a living connection to Galveston’s maritime history. ELISSA first visited Galveston in 1883 and today remains one of the few ships of her age anywhere in the world still actively sailing.

Over 66 days, ELISSA traveled more than 5,000 miles and welcomed more than 25,000 guests aboard. Along the way, she made provisioning stops, festival appearances, and port visits while proudly representing GHF, Galveston Island, and the State of Texas before millions of people across the country. A remarkable undertaking for any vessel, but especially for a National Historic Landmark.

A full economic and media impact analysis is still to come, but initial estimates place the media exposure generated at more than $50 million in public relations value, establishing ELISSA as a prominent national presence during the America 250 and Sail 250 commemorations.

Numbers, however, tell only part of the story. Over the past several months, citizens from across the country have reached out with personal stories. Some were discovering the ship for the first time. Others shared memories of past visits, sailing aboard her, volunteering on her decks, or lending their time and talents to continued preservation and operation. Each story is part of this history-making moment.

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    Happy ELISSA day to all who celebrate! Happy ELISSA day to all who celebrate!
    =========== ELISSA Port Captain's Log: 12 noon, Fr ===========
ELISSA Port Captain's Log: 12 noon, Friday, August 14, 2026
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THERE AND BACK AGAIN

We are now in the last fifty miles of the 5,300 nautical miles traversed on this ten-week voyage. We’re ghosting along under fore n’ afts, fores’l, tops’ls and t’gallants, and as I type this, the mid-watch is planning to lay aloft to loose royals. Tonight, we’ll heave-to and enjoy one last “Pizza Party Friday” before making our approach early tomorrow. 

In these last 48 hours, we’ve been dodging oil rigs and commercial traffic en route to the entrance buoy to the Houston Ship Channel. Almost feels like home. 

With every grand adventure comes, with its close, a sense of melancholy, or even malaise, as it were, mixed with a healthy dose of reprieve, pride, and triumph. It is very hard to describe in words. We have done an amazing thing here, in every sense of the word. 

One could write a book on the things we’ve seen and done, but here, in no particular order, are a handful of those things: 

•	Abundance of wildlife: whales, dolphins, turtles, sharks, mola mola, countless seabirds and other fishes. 
•	A rocket launch, a nuclear submarine, and fighter jet flyovers. 
•	Comets, meteor showers, dazzling constellations, and a Milky Way that cast its reflection on a black glassy ocean. 
•	A hurricane-force squall in New York Harbor and the “Green Flash” over the Gulf. 
•	Historic forts and historic cities, where our historic ship felt right at home. 
•	July 4th fireworks that one will *never* forget. 
•	Majestic sailing ships from around the world gathered together in one place. 

We sailed off the dock and out of the notoriously narrow Fort Pierce Inlet. We sailed around Cape Hatteras under tops’ls and t’gallants. We sailed off of our anchor abreast of the U.S. Naval Academy. We sailed past the Statue of Liberty. We sailed into Boston Harbor with eighteen sails set. And now we are sailing back to our home. 

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