GLIN==> Press release: Great Lakes Seaway Trail Now Part of Blue Star Museums Program for Military Families

PRESS RELEASE: June 29, 2011
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, Great Lakes Seaway Trail President & CEO,
315-646-1000 x202
Publicist Kara Lynn Dunn, 315-465-7578, karalynn at gisco.net

Jpg available:  The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center was first
built in 1817 as the Union Hotel in Sackets Harbor, NY. Photo: George
Fischer
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Now Part of Blue Star Museums Program

Sackets Harbor, NY -- The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center in
Sackets Harbor, NY, is now a Blue Star Museum.

The Blue Star Museums program is an initiative of the National Endowment for
the Arts with Blue Star Families, an organization that raises awareness of
the challenges and strengths of military family life- and more than 1,300
participating museums across America. The museums, nature center, historic
and cultural sites provide free admission spouses and families of active
military.

More than one million children in the U.S. have had at least one parent
deployed. The program provides the free admission to affected families
through Labor Day, September 5, 2011.

³The Great Lakes Seaway Trail is pleased to partner with the National
Endowment of the Arts in this initiative to provide military families with
opportunities to learn about the byway region and the activities and
destinations found only along our freshwater shoreline,² says Seaway Trail,
Inc. President and CEO Teresa Mitchell. ³By visiting the Seaway Trail
Discovery Center which showcases the entire 518-mile National Scenic Byway,
they will discover a diversity of recreational, historic, cultural, natural
and scenic travel opportunities.²

The Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center is located along the Sackets
Harbor waterfront in the three-story, native limestone former Union Hotel
built in 1817. The free admission will apply to daytime visits and evening
programming at the Center. Upcoming 6:30pm programs feature US Lacrosse Hall
of Fame Coach Kirk Ventiquattro on Saturday, July 9 and Onondaga Nation
lacrosse stickmaker, coach and retired professional lacrosse player Alfie
Jacques on Saturday, July 16.

There are 14 Blue Star Museums on Great Lakes Seaway Trail that stretches
out with 518 miles for leisure driving and freshwater vacations along the
St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York
and Pennsylvania. Those sites are:

·      Antique Boat Museum - Clayton, NY
·      Col. William Bond-Jesse Hawley House - Lockport, NY
·      Edinboro Area Historical Society - Edinboro, PA
·      Erie Canal Discovery Center - Lockport, NY
·      The Erie Maritime Museum & U.S. Brig Niagara - Erie, PA
·      Great Lakes Seaway Trail Discovery Center - Sackets Harbor, NY
·      Historic Palmyra - Palmyra, NY
·      Hornby School Museum - North East, PA
·      Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester - Rochester, NY
·      Niagara County History Center - Lockport, NY
·      North Tonawanda History Museum - North Tonawanda, NY
·      Seneca-Iroquois National Museum - Salamanca, NY
·      Seward House Museum - Auburn, NY
·      Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum - Sodus Point, NY.

More than 300,000 military families benefitted from the Blue Star Museums
program in 2010.

The 2011 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Travel Magazine is being distributed to
military personnel at Fort Drum, located approximately 25 miles northeast of
Sackets Harbor, NY.
 
For more information, go online to www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums and
www.seawaytrail.com, 315-646-1000. # 

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