First sponsors of Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival announced
Editor's note: The name of Jefferson Harris was corrected in this version.
New London — Three Connecticut-based businesses have became the first corporate sponsors of this year's Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival.
People's United Bank, Frontier Communications and F&F Distributors have been recognized at ctmaritimefest.com and will be mentioned in material printed about the Sept. 9-12 event.
Festival Executive Committee Member and Assistant Treasurer Jefferson Harris also is a sponsor.
The festival, to be hosted on the New London waterfront, will feature a schooner race, a Captain's Ball, an art show, the Great New London Chowder Challenge and an appearance of the tall ship Oliver Hazard Perry.
More information about the Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival, which will signify the end of Connecticut's Coast Guard Summer, can be found at ctmaritimefest.com
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