Manilatown Archive: The Quest to Build ‘Grace Quan’ (SF)

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Please join the Manilatown Heritage Foundation at the San Francisco Maritime Museum for a special talk with John Muir, Curator of Small Craft at SF Maritime, as he discusses the art of replica boatbuilding, and his own journey in building the Grace Quan Chinese shrimp junk currently docked at the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.

The stories of our coasts and ocean cover many topics and include many cultures. There is little-known of Asian fishing history along California’s long shoreline, and for this reason the Grace Quan has become an important interpretive and educational asset for the park that helps tell a more comprehensive story of who we are.

Please join us for our Talk with John…and then walk over and see the Grace Quan in person!

For more information about Flipping the Boat, the Manilatown Archive, or the Manilatown Heritage Foundation please vist us at: www.manilatown.org

About John Muir and the “Grace Quan”:

When cultural resource specialist and curator John Muir started his career with San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park more than 30 years ago, he wasn’t planning on building a replica of a Chinese shrimp junk. Thirty to 40 of these vessels were in operation at the height of the fishery in the late 19th century, a multimillion-dollar business. While he was interested in the San Francisco Bay Chinese shrimp fishery and the archaeology of the Chinese fishing boats that were built there, it wasn’t until he stumbled upon a special photo while doing research in the archives of the park that sparked his imagination. [read more at: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/may22/building-grace-quan.html]

Presented by Manilatown Heritage Foundation

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