Poppa Neutrino
David Pearlman, widely known as Papa Neutrino, died last month at 77 of congestive heart failure in New Orleans. His remarkable life was summarized in an obituary in the Telegraph:
“Poppa Neutrino, who died on January 23 aged 77, was an itinerant American whose singular life story featured episodes as a card sharp, a soldier, a prisoner and a pastor; he never lived in any permanent structure for more than a year, and owned almost nothing, but in 1998 he became the first man to sail across the Atlantic on a raft made of junk.”
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Peter Stanford, a founder and first president of the South Street Seaport Museum has written a letter calling for the resignation of the museum’s current chairman, Frank J. Sciame, and its president, Mary Pelzer. The museum recently laid of most of its staff and is in severe financial trouble. See out previous post – 
On January 14th we posted about the
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In contrast to claims made by BP suggesting that the Gulf will have recovered from the Deep Horizon oil spill by 2012, a recent study presented at an
The restored South Street Seaport, on New York’s City’s East River, has always been an uneasy balance between a historic seaport and a real estate deal. South Street is now far more shopping mall than historic seaport. The current museum chairman, Frank J. Sciame, is himself a real estate developer. Depending on who one asks, Sciame is either the museum’s savior or its destroyer. Since March, Mr. Sciame has lent the museum $3 million to cover operating expenses. Over the last three weeks, seven of the 21 trustees resigned from the museum board, and according to sources at the Seaport, twelve employees were furloughed on Monday, leaving at most a skeleton staff to continue Seaport operations. Whether the 
