Connecticut River Ferries

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About the Author Stephen Jones is Professor Emeritus in the Maritime Studies Program, which he co-founded for the University of Connecticut-Avery Point. He served his military obligation in the Coast Guard aboard an off-shore lighthouse during the Mid-Atlantic Storm of the Century and later at a lifeboat station. His books on coastal culture include Drifting, Harbor of Refuge, Back Waters, Short Voyages, Working Thin Waters and the Flat Hammock Press editions of Ellery Thompson's Draggerman's Haul and The Arthur Henry/Theodore Dreiser: An Island Cabin. He has been executive producer of numerous maritime documentaries, including The Real McCoy, winner of five Emmys, and Ferryboats of the Connecticut River. He and his son, Captain Geoffrey Jones, run two maritime facilities on the Mystic River. He has served on the Town of Groton Shellfish Commission since 1968. His first excursion on a Connecticut river ferry was with his parents just prior to the outbreak of World War II.Wick Griswold is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Hartford. His signature course is the Sociology of the Connecticut River. His books include A History of the Connecticut River, Griswold Point: History from the Mouth of the Connecticut River and Pirates and Privateers of Connecticut, all published by The History Press. He is an associate producer of the documentary Ferryboats of the Connecticut River. He also hosts Connecticut River Drift on i-CRV Radio in Ivoryton, Connecticut. He is currently developing an educational project with the Connecticut River Museum and the Connecticut River Academy focusing on four hundred years of immigration into the Connecticut River Valley. He is commodore of the Connecticut River Drifting Society and lives where the river debouches into Long Island Sound. Read more

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I purchased this book as a gift to my best friend John Griswold who is a cousin of Wick's and had not seen the book. He lives in Stamford but has a home that is a part of a Griswold clan occupying Griswold Point in Old Lyme.

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