People from Gloucester, Massachusetts - Abram Andrew, Alexander Gordon Lyle, Alfred Centennial Johnson, Alfred J. Wiggin, Ann-Margaret Ferrante, Anth (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Abram Andrew, Alexander Gordon Lyle, Alfred "Centennial" Johnson, Alfred J. Wiggin, Ann-Margaret Ferrante, Anthony Verga, Benjamin A. Smith II, Bill Armstrong (announcer), Charles Olson, David E. Harrison, Edmund A. Gann, Fitz Henry Lane, Frederick M. Ellis, George Elmer Browne, Gregory Gibson, Hank Camelli, Henry Sargent, Herb Pomeroy, Hilton Kramer, Howard Blackburn, Jeff Williams (American football), Jessie Ralph, John Ronan (poet), Jonathan Bayliss, Josh Gates, Judith Sargent Murray, Marc Randazza, Martin Welch, Pablo Eduardo, Phil Bolger, Ralph Stockman Tarr, Richard Poirier, Roger Babson, Russ Russo, Simon Geller, Stuffy McInnis, Sylvester Ahola, Timothy Davis (Massachusetts), Vincent Ferrini. Excerpt: Philip C. Bolger (December 3, 1927-May 24, 2009), prolific boat designer, was born and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began work full-time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in the early 1950s. Bolger also cites being influenced by mentors L.F. Herreshoff, Nicholas Montgomery, Howard Chapelle and his own brother Bill Bolger. The Gloucester Light Dory, one of Bolger's better-known designsBolger's first boat design was a 32-foot (9.75 m) sportfisherman published in the January 1952 issue of Yachting magazine. He subsequently designed more than 668 different boats, making him one of the most prolific boat designers of the 20th century, from the solidly conventional to extremely innovative, from a 114-foot-10-inch (35 m) replica of an eighteenth-century naval warship, the frigate Surprise (ex-Rose), to the 6-foot-5-inch (1.96 m) plywood box-like dinghy Tortoise. Although his designs ranged through the full spectrum of boat types, Bolger tended to favor simplicity over complexity. Many of his hulls are made from sheet materials - typically plywood - and have hard chines....