Irish moss, formally known as Chondrus crispus ... Ball also manages Scituate’s Maritime and Mossing Museum, which opened two weeks after the mossing industry officially ended in 1997.

THE MARITIME AND IRISH MOSS MUSEUM IS ANOTHER STOP ON THE SOUTH SHORE IRISH HERITAGE TRAIL, A TRIBUTE IN PART TO THE TOWN’S MOST HARD WORKING IRISH IMMIGRANTS, WHO BUILT A LIVELIHOOD HARVESTING ...

“Many of these wrecks happened on Scituate’s coastline,” said Sandra Frankmann, a member of the Scituate Historical Society and a docent of the Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum. “Even ...

The moss was cured, dried and turned into carageenan, a thickener used in a number of everyday products, including toothpaste, ice cream and dog food. Scituate Maritime and Irish Mossing museum ...

Two weeks later, the Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum opened its doors ... and recognized the red algae chondrus crispus, or Irish moss. He knew a successful business could be built on the ...

At a folk life museum not far from my great-grandmother ... One local delicacy in particular caught my attention: Irish moss, the seaweed formally known as Chondrus crispus, which yields the ...

Irish moss pie originated in Miminegash, Prince Edward Island, which the Journal says was once considered the "Irish Moss Capital of the World." The recipe was refined at the Seaweed Pie Café and ...

The early 19th-century church houses the National Maritime Museum, which is run voluntarily ... at Mr Branigan's suggestion, to all those Irish mariners who lost their lives during the second ...