![Museum President Steve White with Becky Jackson, winner of the 2019 Rudolph J. Schaefer III Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award.](https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/d2019-07-0478-300x254.jpg)
2019 Celebration of Volunteers
About 170 volunteers, guests, and staff gathered for the annual event to celebrate and honor service to the Museum.
![Dark Harbor 20s racing off Islesboro, ME. Photo Credit: Antelo Devereux, Jr.](https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MAINE16-8-20-056-300x200.jpg)
Museum Honors Dark Harbor 20 Class with William A. Baker Award
The owners are being recognized for their effort to preserve and maintain a significant class of American sailing craft.
![GFOE engineers and pilots fly deep-sea robots from the control room of a ship. (Photo credit: Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration)](https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Control-Room-credit-GFOE-300x200.jpg)
Museum Announces Strategic Initiatives
The proposed changes include a partnership with an underwater research and technology foundation, expanded watercraft exhibition space, and a new restaurant and hotel.
![Museum Chairman Michael S. Hudner, left, wields the chairman's gavel he just received from the outgoing chair, J. Barclay Collins, II, right.](https://mysticseaport.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/d2019-05-0636_JBC-MSH-Gavel-300x233.jpg)
Hudner Elected Chairman
A lifelong sailor and maritime businessman, Hudner succeeds J. Barclay Collins, II, who served as chairman for 6 years.
5 Questions with Lynn Noel/Gudrid the Wanderer
Lynn Noel is a multitasking artist who is making two appearances at Viking Days – as herself and as her alter ego, Gudrid the Wanderer.
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5 Questions with Viking Expert William Short
William Short is an author, filmmaker, lecturer, and independent scholar specializing in Viking-age topics, notably medieval Icelandic literature, Viking-age material culture, Viking-age weapons, and Viking-age combat techniques.