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Ships & Wrecks

he Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, celebrates the life cycle of historic ships with a new photography exhibit. Titled “From the Cradle to the Grave: Mining the Ed Coffin Collection,” it showcases 28 of the nearly 3,000 images that Coffin curated during his lifetime, all of New England sailing vessels, most

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