Paysage Bords de Seine Paysage Bords de Seine Paysage Bords de Seine ("On the Shore of the Seine" or "Landscape on the Banks of the Seine") is an 1879 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It was stolen in 1951 from the Baltimore Museum of Art and resurfaced in 2012. "Paysage Bords de Seine" was painted by Renoir in 1879. In June 1925, the painting was purchased by the Paris art gallery Bernheim-Jeune from a "Madame Papillon" (possibly Alphonsine Fournaise Papillon, a figure in the artist's "Luncheon of the Boating Party"). In January 1926, Herbert L. May purchased the painting from Bernheim-Jeune. In 1937, May's
North American Safe Boating Campaign Boating Campaign. The Campaign is a core program of the National Safe Boating Council. The North American Boating Campaign was originally known as “Safe Boating Week,” observed by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary as a Courtesy Examination weekend in Amesburg, Massachusetts in June 1952. This tradition continued until 1957 when an official National Safe Boating Week observation took place sponsored by the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary in various parts of the country. As a result, the U.S. Coast Guard prepared a Resolution, and on June 4, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed PL 85-445, to establish National Safe Boating