Anchors Aweigh: Charting Savannah's Maritime Legacy

Welcome to the Ships of the Sea podcast, an audio voyage from Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. In this introductory episode, producer Dee Daniels introduces host Molly Carrott Taylor, Executive Director of Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, and previews the new podcast exploring Savannah’s maritime stories.   Molly shares her background as a collegiate sailor and longtime art museum leader, how she came to Ships of the Sea after consulting on membership and fundraising, and highlights recent growth, including bringing in over 6,000 children in two years and increasing the budget to $1.2 million from $800,000 in 2022.   She explains the museum’s home, the 1819 William Scarborough House, Scarborough’s role in the Steamship Savannah Company, and the Steamship Savannah’s May 22, 1819, transatlantic voyage—now honored as National Maritime Day.   The episode previews community-focused education and STEAM field trips, events like Celestial Seafarer and Supper at Sea, rotating exhibitions, upcoming sequential-art stories of key ships, and future podcast topics on modern maritime careers such as pilots, stevedores, longshoremen, attorneys, and archaeologists.   CONNECT WITH US: A looking inside Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum Museum EVENTS Education and Group Programs Meet the Production Team Dee Daniels Media   FIND A FAVORITE SPOT IN THIS EPISODE: 00:00 Welcome Aboard 01:02 Meet Molly Taylor 02:02 From Consultant to Director 05:31 Scarborough House Origins 05:59 Steamship Savannah Breakthrough 08:05 Schoolhouse Legacy 09:09 National Maritime Day Roots 11:04 Community Programs Vision 12:31 Signature Events and Exhibits 16:20 Hidden Maritime Careers 22:13 A Day in 1819 26:02 Hands On Learning Ahead 28:59 Closing and Support