Portuguese Holy Ghost Society of Stonington

10/08/2026

The club received quite a gift from two of our members. A model of the USS Constitution. It can be seen at the club.

10/02/2026

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Stonington, Connecticut still runs the last commercial fishing fleet left in the entire state, a few dozen boats working out of a harbor that used to send out whalers and sealers before it ever sent out draggers after flounder and lobster. 🦞

The borough sits on a small peninsula jutting into Fishers Island Sound, close enough to Rhode Island that the fleet's history gets tangled up with both states, but the boats themselves have always worked out of the same Stonington docks, generation after generation of the same handful of families running them. The town holds a Blessing of the Fleet every summer that predates most of the Portuguese Catholic versions better known elsewhere on the coast, and the harbor still smells like diesel and bait the way it has for two hundred years.

Connecticut's coastline is short compared to Massachusetts or Maine, and most of its old fishing towns converted to tourism and yacht moorings decades ago once the catch thinned out. Stonington held on, partly through stubbornness and partly because the borough never let the waterfront get fully bought up the way New London and Mystic did close by.

A fleet that size surviving in a state most people don't associate with commercial fishing at all is its own kind of quiet holdout. Did you grow up near a working harbor, or was the water near you mostly for boats that never caught anything? 🌊

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09/30/2026

09/23/2026

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09/22/2026

Time of the year

09/11/2026

Hi folks,

Well, it’s that time of year again that we get together do a bit of volunteer work and reconnect with old friends and make some new ones.

Fish & Chips starts on Friday 10/2/26 and we will run it for our standard 8 weeks. Sign up sheet is at the club.

09/10/2026

Miss you already. It’s farewell but not goodbye. Thank you Ray for working at the phgs

09/09/2026

🇵🇹 Portugal’s flag tells a story of centuries of change.

From medieval royal symbols and coats of arms to the green and red national flag seen today, each design represents a different era in Portugal’s history. 👑🏰

Which Portuguese flag stands out to you the most?