[NEohioPAL]FREE "Land Lubber" Program - SS MATHER Museum

[Robert Catalano]

“Land Lubber” Programs

Mather Museum Examines Cleveland’s Legendary Great Lakes Shipping Families

February 2, 2004 - For Immediate Release

contact: Rob Catalano, Deputy Director
	    Telephone: (216) 574-9053	Fax: (216) 574-2536
	    E-mail: wgmather at msn.com

As part of its free, off-season “Land Lubber” series, the Steamship William 
G. Mather Museum brings a historic slide presentation to Cleveland 
Metroparks’ beautiful Canal Way Center, 4524 E. 49th St. in Cuyahoga 
Heights, on Wednesday, February 25 at 7 PM.  “Great Lakes Shipping Families” 
tells the story of the wealthy shipping dynasties that developed in the late 
1800s to make Cleveland a major Great Lakes industrial port.  Large sums of 
this fortune were given back to the city for philanthropy that continues to 
this day.

Water dramatically establishes the top and bottom of the state of Ohio. The 
southern border, the Ohio River, was always significant in developing that 
end of the state.  Cleveland played a major role in making the most of the 
much vaster Lake Erie border.   Familiar Cleveland names like Mather, Hanna, 
Rockefeller, Norton and Bradlee not only made their wealth in Great Lakes 
shipping, but continue to enrich the city with their philanthropy. William 
G. Mather himself was an early president of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Holly Holcombe, executive director of Harbor Heritage Society, which runs 
the Mather, will deliver the hour-long presentation. Call 216-574-9053 or 
visit www.wgmather.org for more information.

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