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<a href="http://friendsjournal.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Golden-Rule-crew-1958.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="The Golden Rule Shall Sail Again"></a><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title"><br></h3><div class="sd-content"><div class="sharing-hidden"></div></div></div></div><h1 class="title">The Golden Rule Shall Sail Again</h1><div class="post-meta"> <a href="http://www.friendsjournal.org/?s=[acf%20field=" author_name']'="">Arnold (Skip) Oliver</a> <abbr class="date time published" title="2013-07-31T05:00:54-0400">July 31, 2013</abbr> </div>
<div class="entry"><p style="padding-left: 30px;">“What <em>Golden Rule</em> said was,
‘We are not telling you WHAT to think, but we are saying, in the most
dramatic way we can, that there is a NEED to think.’” Albert S. Bigelow,
<em>The Voyage of the Golden Rule</em>, 1959.</p>
<div id="attachment_3013841" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3013841" alt="Golden Rule in 1958. From left to right: Captain Albert S. Bigelow, Orion Sherwood, WIlliam Huntington, and George Willoughby. Courtesy Jessica (Reynolds) Renshaw." src="http://friendsjournal.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Golden_Rule_in_1958-300x198.jpg" height="198" width="300"><p class="wp-caption-text">Golden
Rule in 1958. From left to right: Captain Albert S. Bigelow, Orion
Sherwood, WIlliam Huntington, and George Willoughby. Courtesy Jessica
(Reynolds) Renshaw.</p></div><p>Sailors dream of boats. We conjure up images about the craft that is a
thing of utter beauty, sails perfectly, and will carry us to magical
places. Some of these dreams are readily achievable, while others are
less realistic, if not downright quixotic. This is a story about a
sailboat dream that is right up Don Quixote’s alley.</p><p>Those of us who dream about the historic ketch <em>Golden Rule </em>may be a bit less realistic than most. On the other hand, the <em>Rule</em> has
stirred the imaginations of people ranging far across space and
time—from Hiroshima to Connecticut, and the 1950s up to the present. The
boat is unusual, and her history even more so.</p><p>Lets start with the history. The <em>Golden Rule </em>was the very
first of the environmental and peace vessels to go to sea. In 1958, a
crew of anti-nuclear weapons activists set sail aboard her in an attempt
to interpose themselves and the boat between the U.S. Government and
its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands in
the Pacific Ocean. >>>>> story coninues</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.friendsjournal.org/the-golden-rule-shall-sail-again/">http://www.friendsjournal.org/the-golden-rule-shall-sail-again/</a></body></html>