Episode 57 - Mystic, CT

In 1837, three brothers named George, Clark, and Thomas Greenman opened a shipyard on the Mystic River — one yard that alone built more than a hundred ships before the century was out. When steam power made wooden sailing ships obsolete, a group of locals founded what's now the largest maritime museum in the country, still holding the last surviving wooden whaling ship from America's entire commercial whaling era.