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Capturing a Working Waterfront Last fall, Jim Hooper ’69 exhibited a show of his photographs at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Mass. The show, titled “Portraits of a Working Waterfront,” featured photos of those who work on or for the fishing fleet of Gloucester, one of the country’s oldest seaports. “Hooper was drawn to A show of Jim Hooper’s photography was on display at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Gloucester by the city’s famed Mass. from October through February 1. past and by the spirit and determination of the people who draw their living from the sea today,” reports the museum in the show description. Hooper also happens to have first-hand experience on the sea. He shared some of the backstory with the Bulletin: “Since retiring from my career in commercial real estate, I have returned to my old love of photography with great enthusiasm. I was partially motivated to take on another large-scale photography project due to a formative experience I had as a young man just a couple of years out of Berkshire. In 1972, in the middle of college, I took what today might be euphemistically referred to as a “gap year” and found work as a mate on a commercial tuna fishing boat. I spent a season fishing the waters between Alaska and southern California. The experience taught me life lessons that hold me in good stead even today. Forty-two years later and 3,200 miles away, I found myself drawn to another working waterfront; I spent the last year and a half photographing the people who make up the commercial fishing fleet of Gloucester and the shoreside businesses that support them. The exhibit consists of 71 portraits of approximately 154 people. Photographing and producing Portraits of a Working Waterfront has been another formative experience, and it has certainly been an important personal milestone on my journey as a photographer.” The images from the show have become part of the museum’s permanent collection and will serve as a moving homage to the people who make up the port of Gloucester. See www.capeannmuseum.org/exhibitions for more info.
Harlan J. Swift timswifty@gmail.com
67 F. Woodson Hancock III whancock3@aol.com
Duncan Smith remembers Bill Burrows in the In Memoriam section on page 62.
68 L. Keith Reed lkreed.mt@gmail.com
69 Kent S. Clow ksc3@msn.com
In Middletown, RI for the early September 2014 wedding of Mary Courtney Laird, daughter of Angus S. Laird ’69 and Courtney Stibolt Wilson. From left: Gordon L. Hunt ’69, Anne Clarke Hunt, Angus S. Laird ’69 and friends Elizabeth and Joseph Dean Yount
Rob Dwelley, along with partner Mark Bayne of South Carolina, is the new Masters Champion of The National Boatbuilding Challenge. Quality of workmanship was the only parameter with a time limit of 4 hours. Rob and Mark built the 12-foot Phil Bolger Dory in the competition, open only to former winners of the National Challenge. Rob won the Norwalk competition with this same boat with a time of 1:56 and in San Diego in 56 minutes, although quality was not judged.
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