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Travel Weekly's tour operator editor Michelle Baran spent the day with Tourism Cares and a group of volunteers at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut as part of Tourism Cares' annual clean-up project. Pictured here, travel industry volunteers awaiting instruction.

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Tourism Cares, Mystic Seaport

Travel Weekly's tour operator editor Michelle Baran spent the day with Tourism Cares and a group of volunteers at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut as part of Tourism Cares' annual clean-up project. Pictured here, travel industry volunteers awaiting instruction.

Travel Weekly's tour operator editor Michelle Baran spent the day with Tourism Cares and a group of volunteers at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut as part of Tourism Cares' annual clean-up project. Pictured here, travel industry volunteers awaiting instruction.

Terry Dale, president of the U.S. Tour Operators Association (second from left), boarding the Joseph Conrad, a ship built in 1882.

The Conrad docked at Mystic Seaport.

Volunteers paint and do much-needed maintenance work on the re-created 19th century village.

Painting a shed near the boathouse.

Putting a fresh coat on the Seamen’s Friend Society, adjacent to the General Store.

The Fire Fly shed before the volunteers sanded and painted it...

... and the shed after several hours of work.

The volunteers leave a little stamp on their work.