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The historic Brig Niagara is welcoming visitors aboard this Fourth of July weekend, offering free admission and free deck tours as the Commonwealth’s flagship returns to Erie.<\/p>\n
The ship arrived back in Erie on July 2 and will remain at the Erie Maritime Museum unless it departs for a scheduled voyage. Visitors can tour the vessel throughout the holiday weekend, with regular public tours available Wednesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n
Recognized as the most historically accurate tall ship in North America, the Brig Niagara gives visitors a firsthand look at what life was like aboard an early 19th-century warship. The vessel serves as Pennsylvania’s official flagship and plays a prominent role in the Commonwealth’s America 250 celebrations, commemorating the nation’s upcoming 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n
Erie Maritime Museum officials say they hope Pennsylvanians take advantage of the opportunity to experience a piece of the state’s maritime history.<\/p>\n
“People all over the Commonwealth, they go to work every day, they make money, and a portion of every dollar that they make and they are taxed on is going towards the care and maintenance of that ship, and I want people to feel as though that is their ship, and I take that very seriously,” said James Hall, site administrator for the Erie Maritime Museum.<\/p>\n
Hall said the Brig Niagara belongs to all Pennsylvanians, encouraging visitors from across the Commonwealth to step aboard and experience the ship’s history for themselves while it’s docked in Erie.<\/p>\n
For more information about Erie Maritime Museum admissions, you can visit the link below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic Brig Niagara is welcoming visitors aboard this Fourth of July weekend, offering free admission and free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4000,94407,136,138,137,296,85367,139],"class_list":["post-235681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-america-250","tag-brig-niagara","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-local","tag-maritime-museum","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}