Life Lines April 2018
Welcome to Life Lines the monthly newsletter for our members, and also to anyone reading this that has not yet become a member of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association. For those of you reading and have yet to join, please consider doing so. Your membership will get you access to the station inventory link…
Read MoreLife Lines, March 2018
A special performance on Sunday, February 25, 3:00 p.m. at Haven Creek Church to unveil Melvin’s newest Pea Island “Branding Image” painting. A special performance of “Freedmen, Surfmen, Heroes™” will take place on Sunday, February 25, 3:00 p.m. at Haven Creek Church which will include a ceremony to unveil Melvin’s newest Pea Island…
Read MoreLife Lines, February 2018
Important Day in U.S. Coast Guard History—January 28, 2018 Just a reminder to all of our readers, the U.S. Coast Guard received its present name through an act of the U.S. Congress signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson on January 28, 1915. That Act merged the Revenue Cutter Service with the U.S.…
Read MoreLife Lines, January 2018
Welcome to Life Lines the monthly newsletter for our members, and also our fans who are not yet members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association. For those of you reading and have yet to join, “What are you waiting for?” A new year is here and you too can be part of the adventure…
Read MoreLife Lines, Winter 2017
Welcome to Life Lines the monthly newsletter to let all of our members, and also our fans who are not yet members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association. Again this newsletter is bringing you information to keep you informed on what is occurring out there. For those of you reading and have yet to…
Read MoreLife Lines Fall 2017
To all of our members, and also our fans who are not yet but should be members, the U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association is initiating our monthly newsletter to bring to you some of the information that arrives in your board members’ email each month. Now you too can be court side, front row, and…
Read MoreStation Building & Flag Tower, 2012. Courtesy of GSA
Station Building & Flag Tower, 2012. Courtesy of GSA
Our First Traveling Exhibit
We’ve designed our first Life-Saving Service themed traveling exhibit, on the Board of Life-Saving Appliances and the many outlandish life-saving tools they reviewed in the late 1800s. For information on the exhibit and how to bring it to your community click here.
Read MoreRescue: True Stories of the U.S. Life-Saving Service
We’ve just released our second compendium of the best of Wreck & Rescue Journal, Rescue: True Stories of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, published by Avery Color Studios. Rescue features original articles by the country’s leading experts in the field of search and rescue history: Fred Stonehouse, Dennis L. Noble, John Galluzzo and many more. In all, seventeen…
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