We are honored to be chosen, for the second year in a row, as a host site for Community College of Rhode Island’s annual Community Service Day! Students and staffed volunteered their time to help us clean, sort, organize, move, sand, paint and more. We couldn’t have done it without them! A big thank you…
On Friday February 7, 2014, RADM (Ret) Tom Zelibor and Frank Lennon met in Norfolk with RADM Dixon Smith, Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic; his deputy, retired Navy Captain Fred Crecelius; and Kevin Allison, legal counsel for the Region. We believe the meeting went extremely well, and that it was well worth the trip to Norfolk…
Thanks to people like you, 2013 has been a great year for effort to preserve “Big John” as a family attraction, education center and museum. Among our many successes, we are pleased to report that we are several steps closer to meeting the conditions laid down by the Secretary of the Navy and his staff…
Finally! We are thrilled to announce that our bumper stickers are ready and on sale. Get yours today from our online store (or stop in our North Kingstown, RI HQ) and help spread the word for only $2 each. Members: If you have not already received your complimentary sticker, it is on the way!
On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, the Middletown Town Council voted to officially endorse the USS John F. Kennedy Project’s proposal to bring Big John to Rhode Island. The progress was picked up by the Associated Press and printed throughout the country! Read more about it in the press: The Providence Journal The Colorado Springs Gazette…
Two articles about the project were published in the Newport Daily News this weekend. One highlights the fact that the Middletown Town Council will be reconvening Tuesday, September 3 to discuss, for the second time in two weeks, the possibility of the USS John F. Kennedy being permanently berthed in their town. We are thrilled…
We are thrilled and honored to announce that President George Herbert Walker Bush, our nation’s 41st Commander-in-Chief, has officially endorsed the idea of bringing the USS John F. Kennedy to Rhode Island as a memorial and public attraction. This is another major endorsement that will get us one step closer to building the critical mass…
