Sunday, June 23RD: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
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History on the Harbor Lecture Tours will begin at 3:00pm-5:00pm departing from the Waterfront Center on the newly restored Ida May Vessel.
The lecture series begins with:
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A musical journey of sights and sounds tracing the development of technologies used to capture and preserve sound from Edison’s tin foil experiments of the 1800’s to the digital formats of tomorrow. Century old phonographs will be shown and demonstrated. Musical samples will showcase the various stages of phonography from the acoustical era, through the electrical era and into the digital era. The changing formats and musical styles presented via wax, shellac, vinyl, and computer codes offer an audible travel through time itself. $10 - Members | $15 - Non-members
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