With an illustrated essay Shipbuilding on the Kennebunk, written by Kennebunk historian and naturalist William Barry in the 1910s, based on information he heard first hand from those who worked in Kennebunk’s golden age of shipbuilding.
Illustrations throughout, includes an important index of ships built in the district of Kennebunk with dates, tonnage and owners.
William Barry was the uncle of Museum founder Edith Barry. Upon his death, William left the Brick Store (his grandfather William Lord’s store) to his niece Edith and her two surviving siblings, who later opened the Brick Store Museum to celebrate William’s passion for local history and art in 1936.
William E. Barry’s Sketch of an Old River
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With an illustrated essay Shipbuilding on the Kennebunk, written by Kennebunk historian and naturalist William Barry in the 1910s, based on information he heard first hand from those who worked in Kennebunk’s golden age of shipbuilding.
Illustrations throughout, includes an important index of ships built in the district of Kennebunk with dates, tonnage and owners.
William Barry was the uncle of Museum founder Edith Barry. Upon his death, William left the Brick Store (his grandfather William Lord’s store) to his niece Edith and her two surviving siblings, who later opened the Brick Store Museum to celebrate William’s passion for local history and art in 1936.
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