“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]
Foreground – Left to Right: Ashley Coombs Mrs. Coombs ne Bailey Against the back wall – Left to Right skipping: Benjamin A.G. Fuller - Curator of the Penobscot Marine Museum – bearded man behind woman in blue shirt. Mary Elizabeth Joy Stanley (1991-), daughter of Edward Warren Stanley, in green. Sarah Ann Stanley (1993-), daughter of Edward Warren Stanley, in white shirt with black markings. Constance “Connie” (Robbins) Stanley, Mrs. Edward Warren Stanley (1969-) Nathaniel Lewis Stanley (1999-), son of Edward Warren Stanley) – boy to the right of Connie. Mary Rowena Stanley Abbott (1944-), Mrs. Roy Irving Abbott Stanley, in front of window. Roy Irving Abbott (1945) – in front of window. Richard Beebe Dudman (1918) – along wall with red bow tie. Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918), Mrs. Richard Beebe Dudman.
Description: Foreground – Left to Right: Ashley Coombs Mrs. Coombs ne Bailey Against the back wall – Left to Right skipping: Benjamin A.G. Fuller - Curator of the Penobscot Marine Museum – bearded man behind woman in blue shirt. Mary Elizabeth Joy Stanley (1991-), daughter of Edward Warren Stanley, in green. Sarah Ann Stanley (1993-), daughter of Edward Warren Stanley, in white shirt with black markings. Constance “Connie” (Robbins) Stanley, Mrs. Edward Warren Stanley (1969-) Nathaniel Lewis Stanley (1999-), son of Edward Warren Stanley) – boy to the right of Connie. Mary Rowena Stanley Abbott (1944-), Mrs. Roy Irving Abbott Stanley, in front of window. Roy Irving Abbott (1945) – in front of window. Richard Beebe Dudman (1918) – along wall with red bow tie. Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918), Mrs. Richard Beebe Dudman. [show more]