“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]
Half model of a sloop - boat never built. Ralph said, "I just wanted to make a half model." Built circa 1960. Photographs by Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill.
Description: Half model of a sloop - boat never built. Ralph said, "I just wanted to make a half model." Built circa 1960. Photographs by Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill.
This photograph was taken from Freeman Ridge. Compare this photograph to SWHPL 5220 for a view of the same scene circa 1888 - 1897. The library is most grateful to photographer Rogier van Bakel of Eager Eye Photo, who came with his quad-copter mounted camera from Somesville to volunteer his time and expertise to make a companion piece to our circa 1888 photograph of Clark Point.
Description: This photograph was taken from Freeman Ridge. Compare this photograph to SWHPL 5220 for a view of the same scene circa 1888 - 1897. The library is most grateful to photographer Rogier van Bakel of Eager Eye Photo, who came with his quad-copter mounted camera from Somesville to volunteer his time and expertise to make a companion piece to our circa 1888 photograph of Clark Point.