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Penobscot Marine Museum

Ice Time in Rockport

An old-fashioned ice harvest

When Lynn Lugged the Lobsters

A three-generation Long Island seafood company relied on what is believed to be the last Maine-built lobster smack and a pair of retired and refit naval vessels to deliver downeast lobsters to New Yorkers

Picture Perfect Summer Time Haven

A newly compiled photo collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum captures a turn-of-the-century retreat in Brooklin

Marm and Pa on a “Trailer”

The land portion of a 1973 boat launch

Turn-of-the-Century Launching

Christening a four-masted schooner in 1918

Letters to the Editor 185

Day beacons, a rare Ranco canoe, and Blondie Hasler

Mid-century Views of Vinalhaven

Photographer Eliot Elisofon is known for images shot in exotic locales, but his favorite subject was Vinalhaven.

Lobster women, a sardine carrier, and a very old canoe

Lobster women, a sardine carrier, and a very old canoe

Boat Launches Back in the Day

The 1903 launch of the four-masted schooner Pendleton Brothers.

Searsport

Learn about the state’s maritime past at Penobscot Marine Museum, and then go antiquing in Searsport.