Some of you will recognize these two ships from a post three years ago. You will love this story. After I graduated from college in 1964, I drove up along the Maine coast to photograph, and I also visited Leo Chabot, a friend I met in College, who lived in Kennebunkport. I stayed with he and his wife a couple of days and then he said I really needed to see Pemaquid Point, about 70 miles north on Route 1. As I headed there I drove through the town of Wiscasset, and as I started to cross the bridge on US Route 1 heading north, I glanced to the right and saw two huge old wooden schooners resting in the mud! I nearly drove off the bridge! I managed to stop and photograph them and I could not believe my eyes. So I photographed them a few more times over the years on trips to Maile. I think this color photograph was done in the very early 1980’s. There was a group trying to save them, and I was working for the Sunday Magazine back then and I wrote to the group, hoping it would make a magazine story. The magazine was not interested in the story. Both ships had deteriorated further and in 1998 they were completely demolished. There really was no way to save them.
The other day, I read about an edition of Walt Whitman's “Leaves of Grass” that was published in 1942. What was unusual about that issue was that the book was illustrated with photographs by Edward Weston. Weston received a commission a year before to travel the United States and take photographs for that edition of the book. Then I remembered that I may have bought a much later edition some years ago. A bit of digging and I found it! So I was leafing through it to see the photographs and I was stunned to find this one, taken in about 1942. Wow! I mean, how cool is this! What history - this photograph was probably taken the year I was born in 1942!
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