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Searsport, ME 04974
Phone: 207-548-2529
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You’re invited to join us at Penobscot Marine Museum for our ongoing series of special events! For more information, contact Jeana Ganskop, Education Director, at 207-548-2529 or jganskop@pmm-maine.org.
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The Mackerel Schooner AUGUSTA E. HERRICK
August 31, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Thursday, August 31
7pm
Visitors Center, 2 Church St.
Cost: $8, $5 Members
Ralph Stanley, historian and boatbuilder, will present a talk on the mackerel schooner AUGUSTA E. HERRICK. The Swans Island schooner “had the distinction of being the only centerboard schooner ever to be employed in the North American fisheries” according to historian Howard Chappelle. The Swans Island fishermen, like owner William P. Herrick, led the Atlantic coast mackerel fisheries in catch rates. Come learn more about the vigorous and hardy men and schooners of Swan’s Island.