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the sea living beautiful and life-giving seems as you ride to be everywhere about you behind before around now it rises like a lake gemmed with islands and then bosoms by rich swells of woodland now you catch a peep of it on your right hand among Tufts of oak and maple and anon it spreads on your left to a majestic sheet of silver among rocky shores hung with dark Pines hemlocks and spruces harriet beecher stowe letter from maine 1852 when we think of the coast of maine romantic images come to mind the beauty and serenity of the sea attracts thousands of visitors it's a vacation spot a place to relax but the rockbound coast in the vast sea beyond it have always had a very different meaning to the people who live there well people go to sea or at least they went to sea in the great age of sail particularly in connection with Maine history to make a living making a living from the sea has been a hallmark of Maine life since the 1600s when the first European fishing stations were built long before them the bounty of the sea supported the native people who lived there and the coast was where these two cultures set up trading posts for exchange one of the first people over here who really realized how important all of this area was going to be was Bartholomew Gosnold who had come over from England in 1602 what Gosnell saw was a tremendous quantity of fish and he gave great stories about how easy it was to catch the fish he was followed then by Martin Pring in 1603 in George Weymouth in 1605 who went back with essentially the same story in fact Weymouth was so excited he said I don't know why they're not coming down here from Newfoundland says the fishing down here is much better they ought to come here it wasn't long before the Europeans realized that January through March were the best months to fish rough seas during these winter months made the long journey to and from Europe extremely dangerous the solution was to build fishing stations where people could stay for longer periods before returning home with their catch first one we find was on Danvers Cove Island and that was in 1622 and we don't know much about it that had a dozen or so men there in some cases these fishing outposts became settlements whole families arrived as early as the 1630s and men and women survived by working together to farm and fish every kind of fish you can imagine everything every kind of fish that is here has been used commercially and every kind of method you can imagine has been used to catch them there was a whole variety of fishing styles they were fishing with nets that was fishing in wares along the shore where they basically built traps into the water to catch fish there was certainly the hand line fishing it was lobstering there's a great variety of fishing going on today fishing families still work together the brewer family has been fishing for generations in Southport like many other families in Maine my husband's family has fished here several hundred years starting with mackerel schooners lobstering ground fishing that sort of thing my family actually came from Scotland and were captured by the British and sent on a prison ship to the Saugus ironworks in Massachusetts and eventually gained their freedom migrated to me I guess the reason my family stayed and fishing so long is it's varied a love of the ocean and independence being your own boss is definitely a big plus it's just a good way to make a living and it to us it's more than just a job it's a way of life it's what we do it's what we are and we're very proud of it as I'm sure most families are down the coast I don't think we'd have it any other way a typical day for a lobstermen definitely is an early rise by four o'clock in the morning get up get some breakfast pack a lunch go down to the boat it's a long day's work sunup to sundown usually my father's father was a fisherman knowledge life he fished I even born in the 1830s and started fishing in little vessels called pinky's and they fished mostly on the in a bank charges and local banks then my father didn't like to shop a lot of becoming a fisherman so he studied drafting and served an apprenticeship in the drafting room at the guavian works James Stevens father met up with a man by the name of Wallace Gowdy and in 1920 they started Gaudi and Stephens in Boothbay Harbor they rented the building back away from the water and they built mostly small wooden boats through that period the biggest one was the passenger boat that was built to run on the river here between Boothbay and Bristol and Danvers kata and she was 50 feet long as a child there went the laws about hazard or anything like that so the kids were playing around the chips and the shipyards all the time and once in a while I'd be a owner of the yard that would take you out like that but most generally why they were pretty tolerant of you and they let you play around that's all you just actually grew up into it and sometimes you know there'd be a man out saketh opinion who might be doing one of the simpler jobs on the boat and they'd holler actions they take this and put these plugs in the one holes on the boat like that James Stephens childhood experiences occurred at a time when Maine's Golden Age as shipbuilding was long past although there were earlier precedents a shipbuilding and boat building really got started in Maine in the latter part of the 1700s in the early years a vessel building was almost a cottage industry in some parts of Maine any place next to a deep enough body of water a river for a large stream you might find small vessels being built there out of lumber which was harvested right there shipbuilding was probably in its prime between 1820 and 1860 this was really means economic Golden Age a period when shipbuilding shipping the timber industry and all kinds of small businesses in industry would be very very well in the mid-1800s name was an industrial center and Maine was an incredibly cosmopolitan place people from Maine traveled all over the world on business essentially sail ships all over the world they were engaged in trade to all the major ports of the world the trains that Maine participated most directly in our coastal trades we shipped out of Maine lumber lime ice and granite and fish the vessels that sailed out of Maine ports by a vast majority were carrying one of those cargo excellent shipbuilding sites good river and coastal transportation a diverse supply of local lumber and a tradition of maritime skills all fostered the state's Seabourn Commerce there were vessels built in Maine for every purpose that you can imagine there were vessels built for the deep water trades for traveling across oceans and around the world some of them with cargo carrying as the prominent feature of their design sometimes first with speed as the prominent feature of their design sometimes with a compromise between those two but they were built for the oceans of the world the classic woods that were used in the shipbuilding industry were white oak for ship frames elm for keels and some form of pine for planking the vessel and white pine for the mass of the vessel having said that though every type of wood every type of hardwood in particular has been used and was used on the Maine coast for building vessels for the biggest ships like that in colonial times the king had reserved the larger pines in the state no one was permitted to cutter pine tree that had the Kings broad arrow chopped on the side of it it indicated that that pine was reserved for the British Navy by the mid-1800s the Pine Tree State was the premiership builder in the nation Maine was also home to many sea captains and a class of wealthy merchants grew up along the coast you drive down Route 1 through Thomaston through Sears port through Belfast through bath and you see these great big houses with their gambrel roofs or mansard roofs and porticos and so on those are the physical relics of fortunes which were made by going to see William McGilvery of Searsport was one of those who prospered on the scene he had economic interests from Aroostook County to South Carolina he owned real estate in Searsport Stockton Portland he had railroad company shares Bank shares insurance company shares he was kind of a one-man conglomerate he owned a shipyard in Brewer and the shipyard in Searsport I don't know if he also owned the buggy factory but he was into transportation in a big way oftentimes a schooner captain would also be the owner of the schooner sometimes they were part of a larger company where a larger company would own a number of schooners and hire captain's oftentimes like an independent trucker will own his own truck these days an independent captain would own his own schooner so there was a lot of comparison between today's trucking industry and yesterday's shipping industry along the coast Maine's natural resources were in demand and merchants like McGilvery shipped goods such as lumber and granite all over the world granite industry was a big industry a lot of islands were mind basically mined for granite rock was cut out much of the granite my ship to cities to become everything from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Washington Monument to post offices and libraries in many of the big cities many of the big public buildings granite was not just cut in big hunks and taken away raw it was most often carved up into beautiful forms that you see on the buildings by stone carvers that were brought in specifically to carve the stone and shipped off all done so it must have been like putting together a big jigsaw puzzle when you got it to the city they were all pre done and they were just beautiful this was a an interesting aspect of life on the coast of Maine because it involved the importation of a labor force that did not exist here already which was skilled stone workers and many of the skilled stone workers that were brought to me by the quarries in the late 19th century were Italian or of other European origin and so this made a big impact on small Maine communities that were used to being very homogeneous and very Anglo in nature it made a lot of sense economically to carve the stone to its final shape where it was harvested where it was quarried rather than shipping huge blocks off to New York and then carving away half of it in the shaping of the final product there