Featured Interviews on "They Came By Sea"
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Sarah Sherman Brewer was born and raised in Southport, a
small island off Boothbay Harbor. Her family has lived there
for generations. She is a co-founder of the Midcoast Maine
Fishermen's Wife's Association. She still lives on the island
with her husband Maynard, a commercial fisherman, and their
young son, Sherman. Mrs. Brewer has also authored Southport:
The War Years, An Island Remembers published in 1996. She
is currently working on a book on World War Two veterans in the
Boothbay Region.
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A native of Wisconsin, Ed
Churchill received his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the
University of Wisconsin at River Falls. He completed his Ph.D.
in History at the University of Maine. Joining the Maine State
Museum in 1971 as a historical researcher, Ed became Curator of
Decorative Arts in 1978 and was assigned to his present position
as Chief Curator in 1985. Ed has done extensive research on
early north-eastern America, New England and Maine history and
has been co-editor and contributor to two books, American
Beginnings: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of
Norumbega (1994) and Maine, The Pine Tree State from
Prehistory to Present (1995) and has written several
articles on early Maine and the northeast.
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James Stevens was born in 1916 at Popham Beach and moved to the village of East Boothbay in 1920. He began working at his father's shipyard, Goudy & Stevens as a teenager, and became a fulltime employee when he finished school. He married Evelyn Thurston in 1936 and they had eight children. He became a partner at Goudy & Stevens in 1943, and retired from the company in the early 1980's. |
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