From the August 5, 2017, Go Erie.com "Porcupine project infused with $100,000 donation" by Ron Leonadi.
The Bayfront Center and Larson Texts on August 4 announced a partnership to build a topsail schooner Porcupine.
Big Ideas Learning, a subsidiary of Larson Texts pledged $100,000 over the next six years to complete the Porcupine project and to provide maritime-themed math curriculum for onboard programming.
The Porcupine Project is to build a representative of a War of 1812 topsail schooner and it will be known as "The School Ship for Presque Isle Bay."
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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