H. Lee White Maritime Museum Launches New Exhibit During Festival

OSWEGO – The H. Lee White Maritime Museum presents a new exhibit, “Tugging Around Oswego Harbor: The 20th Century Works of William Leighton.” It will be unveiled as part of the museum’s Lake Ontario Waterfront Festival on Saturday, May 18 and remain on display until Sunday, Dec. 22.

Leighton is a professional photographer and 28-year veteran of the Palladium-Times who shares his love for the tugboat, known as the “workhorse of the water,” in the new exhibit. Through photographs, watercolors and scale models, Leighton’s impressions of tugboats provide a vivid portrait of the Oswego harbor in the 20th century and echo the essential nature of tugboats to harbor operations.

The museum also features the expanded “Shipwrecks of Upstate NY” exhibit with 35 3D-printed and hand-painted scale models of shipwrecks located beneath the waters of Lake Ontario and Central New York.

Developed by local divers and underwater explorers Tim Caza and Dennis Gerber, the “Shipwrecks of Upstate NY” exhibit provides an exact scale visual representation of wrecks untouched by anyone except nature.

Tim Caza is a licensed U.S. Coast Guard Captain and an active scuba diver with over 127 discoveries to date. Dennis Gerber is a retired electronics engineer and has 37 years of experience diving in the waters of the greater Central New York region. For more information on their work, visit their website at www.sonarguy.com.

Both exhibits will be on display during the H. Lee White Maritime Museum’s Lake Ontario Waterfront Festival on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information about the museum, visit its website at www.hlwmm.org or call 315-342-0480.

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