A Boston Globe Article about Maritime Gloucester and the Ardelle

A change at the helm for Maritime Gloucester

Balf aims to extend reach of education, tourism efforts

November 13, 2011|By Joel Brown, Globe Correspondent

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Tom Balf looks over his domain as the new executive director of Maritime… (Lisa Poole for the Boston Globe)

GLOUCESTER - Downstairs at Maritime Gloucester, some fifth-graders watched as an instructor dissected a cod. Upstairs, Thomas Balf was dissecting the future of the city’s harbor.
“There’s this connection between the great maritime history of Gloucester and what might that maritime future look like,’’ he said.
Balf, 53, starts work Dec. 1 as the new executive director of Maritime Gloucester, formerly known as the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. Balf fills the role of Harriet Webster, who held the post since before the waterfront center opened in 2002, and died in June after battling a blood disorder. But even without her loss, the recently renamed nonprofit organization would be at what Balf calls a “pivotal’’ time.

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