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December 2015 marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Houston Maritime Museum. As the Museum begins the process of moving to a larger facility on the Turning Basin, we look back on our beginnings as the brainchild of founder James L. Manzolillo. This lecture looks back at the life and passion of Jim Manzolillo as the inspiration for the museum we know today as well as fifteen years of concerted efforts to take the institution to the Port.

Erica Peaslee

Erica Peaslee is the Curatorial Specialist & Archivist at the Houston Maritime Museum where her first project was organizing the James L. Manzolillo Archival Collection, an ongoing process. Erica graduated with a B.A. in History and a Minor in Art History from Sam Houston State University. She is currently an ALM Degree Candidate in the Museum Studies program at the Harvard University Extension School.