by Sam Kelley

Lakemans Harbor is the true story of how one family lobstered, fished, and built small boats in an idyllic place—a small island near Maine’s Downeast coast. Experience this life through the eyes of three generations of the author’s family, from the end of the 19th century into modern times. It began when a young man fell in love with an uninhabited island that he saw from his dad’s lobster boat. His was a life requiring hard work, self-reliance, and ingenuity, and yet characterized by camaraderie and generosity, spiced with elements of romance and adventure. Learn how the loner Ed meets and falls in love with a resourceful young woman who also yearns for the island life. Be with Ed as a father with two teenage sons as they are caught in a hurricane while sailing back home from offshore cod fishing grounds aboard their sloop Vesta. Relive some of the summer escapades in the beautiful natural setting of Lakeman Island enjoyed by Ed and Ethel’s children and grandchildren.

After the story ends, the epilogue expresses the author’s perspective on how our country should learn from past mistakes and work to restore the natural bounty of our marine resources—lessons not only pertaining to the Gulf of Maine, but applicable in general principle along all of our coasts, and even beyond.

Don’t miss the Welcome Mat inside the back cover

 

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