HUNTRESS vs THE HURRICANE OF ’38

On September 21, 1938, around 2pm, The Great New England Hurricane slammed ashore at Suffolk County Long Island at approximately 60 miles per hour.  The day would end tragically for many

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The Big Move

This is how dawn found her; DORIS, poised to leave Crocker’s Boatyard after 30 years, glowing in the new day’s anticipation. Pulling onto the streets of New London one couldn’t

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Doris or Not Doris?  Questioning Archive Photos

It seems like research should be a linear progression – you discover information, and throw it into your big basket of known things.  The problem, as I learned well running

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A New Beginning

Languishing in a boat yard in New London CT for 30 years, DORIS, the largest all-wood sailing vessel built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Co in 1905, was scheduled to be scrapped

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