At the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven, the staff really “gives a ship.”
That’s the title of a fundraising campaign launched last week. The “I Give a Ship, Going Pink So We Don’t Sink” aims to raise $25,000 by Sept. 1. And if that goal is reached, museum founder and President Deborah Whitcraft will dye her hair pink for a week.
“Deb hates the color pink,” said Gretchen Coyle, museum docent who has coauthored several books with Whitcraft.
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