Moses Brown gift to help rebuild Edgewood Yacht Club

A $1.5 MILLION gift to the Moses Brown School will be used to help rebuild the destroyed Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston (the 1908-built clubhouse before it too was destroyed by fire) and create a new home for the private school's renowned sailing program, among other uses. / COURTESY EDGEWOOD YACHT CLUB
A $1.5 MILLION gift to the Moses Brown School will be used to help rebuild the destroyed Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston (the 1908-built clubhouse before it too was destroyed by fire) and create a new home for the private school's renowned sailing program, among other uses. / COURTESY EDGEWOOD YACHT CLUB

PROVIDENCE – An anonymous, $1.5 million gift to the Moses Brown School will be used to establish a sailing and marine education center in Cranston at the former Edgewood Yacht Club.
The club leadership has invited Moses Brown, an independent college preparatory school, and Brown University to work together to rebuild the historic club, destroyed by fire in 2011.
The state Coastal Resources Management Council approved plans for a new clubhouse within the original footprint this past March. Founded in 1885, the first clubhouse was built in 1889, but, like its successor, was destroyed by fire.
The new center will provide a waterfront classroom for marine education. Located 15 minutes from the Moses Brown campus in Providence, the 1,500-square-foot building will become home to the school’s championship sailing team, which includes collegiate All-Americans and Olympians. The main clubhouse, being rebuilt in its historic location, will support the club and Brown sailing program coached by Moses Brown Class of 1994 alumnus John Mollicone.
The center also will grow the MB Trips – Travel, Research and Immersion Programs.
“We couldn’t be happier that this gift will grow MB’s Trips and sailing programs,” says Matt Glendinning, Moses Brown’s head of school. “It’s an honor to be asked by Edgewood Yacht Club to join Brown University in rebuilding a club that has been part of Rhode Island’s sailing heritage for more than a century.”
This project expands on the summer sailing and maritime education program Moses Brown launched in June through the gift of the S/V Friendship, a 36-foot Union cutter donated by alumnus Dean Woodman, class of 1946. The center will become home for the cutter.
“History, marine biology, even poetry come vividly to life on the water,” says Glendinning. “This new center will serve as a classroom for experiential learning right in our own backyard.”

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