Entrance of Somes Sound from Southwest Harbor, Fitz Henry Lane, 1852. Courtesy of the Southwest Harbor Public Library.
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In the Season Four premiere, host Jenna Jandreau welcomes Joshua Smith to talk about his article in the forthcoming edition of Chebacco: "A Dark and Stormy Night”: Jefferson's Embargo in Frenchman Bay, 1807–1809, along with his new book, Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812.
Joshua M. Smith grew up on Cape Cod and coastal Maine. He holds degrees from the University of St. Andrews, Maine Maritime Academy, East Carolina University, and the University of Maine. He is author of Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820, which won the John Lyman Award in American Maritime History in 2007, and edited Voyages: Documents in American Maritime History, 1492-Present, a two-volume sourcebook in maritime history created in conjunction with the National Maritime Historical Society.
He has also written a monograph with a Canadian perspective entitled Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812, published by the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society. Smith lives with his family on Long Island, where he is a professor of Humanities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, as well as Director of the American Merchant Marine Museum, both in Kings Point, New York.
Chebacco Chats, our weekly web series, features authors, historians, and others who study and celebrate history, the great place that is Mount Desert Island, and the way the island impacts the wider world.
Season Four considers the theme of this year’s Chebacco, “The Maritime Edition,” and welcomes Josh Smith, Bill Horner, Julia Gray, and more, to talk about their articles on embargo history, youth sailing, Cranberry Isles in the Age of Sail, etc. This season also welcomes special guests to explore additional topics, such as Carl Little, who will usher in National Poetry Month on April 6 by reading a selection of MDI poems.
Chebacco Chats are live on Zoom, and recordings are made available the week after they air.
Visit www.mdihistory.org/chebacco-chats for a schedule of upcoming episodes, and links to past episodes.