Postcards & Notecards from away....
A Danish chart in note format from Andrew reporting his adventures in Italy, Denmark, and with a Moroccan stamp.
Dee has given us some other samples of embroidery in the past which hang in the midships passageway during the season. This is for sure the most unique Christmas card this year and a lot of very nice work. Thank you, Dee!
Neither a note or a postcard but interesting nonetheless
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courtesy of Dinah Lavery Powderly
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The schooner Leo beached at the gut, Deer Island, Boston Harbor around 1910
This remarkable picture shows a small dory trawler on a warm summer day, most likely beached for some caulking. We see all the deck and equipment details as well as the sharp turn of her stem and sweetly cutaway forefoot that helps identify her as an Indianheader model for inshore fishing (when there were fish inshore). At about seventy feet on deck she is as cute as a bug.
She was launched in July 1908 in Essex, Massachusetts, design attributed to Thomas McManus. Owned north of Boston, she typically unloaded at T Wharf. She will be forever nearly new, as she was lost off Cape Ann in March, 1912. Her crew of eight included two dorymen from Port Clyde, Maine.
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