“Museum [and Southwest Harbor Public Library] trustee Ralph Stanley received the 2010 Edgar B. Caffrey Award at the Antique & Classic Boat Festival on August 28 in Salem, Massachusetts. Stanley is renowned as a builder and designer of traditional wooden boats, especially lobsterboats and Friendship sloops. According to Festival organizers, the Caffrey award is given “to a person who has made an ‘exceptional contribution to the preservation and appreciation of maritime heritage’” (emphasis original). As an award recipient, Stanley joins company with such boating luminaries as Dana Story, Joseph Garland and Olin Stephens.” – “The Bay Chronicle”, Newsletter of the Penobscot Marine Museum, Autumn 2010, p. 7.
Description: “Museum [and Southwest Harbor Public Library] trustee Ralph Stanley received the 2010 Edgar B. Caffrey Award at the Antique & Classic Boat Festival on August 28 in Salem, Massachusetts. Stanley is renowned as a builder and designer of traditional wooden boats, especially lobsterboats and Friendship sloops. According to Festival organizers, the Caffrey award is given “to a person who has made an ‘exceptional contribution to the preservation and appreciation of maritime heritage’” (emphasis original). As an award recipient, Stanley joins company with such boating luminaries as Dana Story, Joseph Garland and Olin Stephens.” – “The Bay Chronicle”, Newsletter of the Penobscot Marine Museum, Autumn 2010, p. 7. [show more]
The Henry L. Gray house was begun by Henry Tracy as a residence for Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hodgkins, who had purchased the land from J. A. Freeman. The cellar was just completed and some of the lumber on the spot when Mr. Hodgkins died. Later, the property was purchased by Mr. Gray and the house built as his home. Work begun on it November 27, 1907, and the Grays moved in on February 10, 1908. Mr. Gray built the store to the south of his house in 1931.
Description: The Henry L. Gray house was begun by Henry Tracy as a residence for Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hodgkins, who had purchased the land from J. A. Freeman. The cellar was just completed and some of the lumber on the spot when Mr. Hodgkins died. Later, the property was purchased by Mr. Gray and the house built as his home. Work begun on it November 27, 1907, and the Grays moved in on February 10, 1908. Mr. Gray built the store to the south of his house in 1931. [show more]