About the Author Peter Dow Bachelder is a Maine native and a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono. Following a brief stint with the U.S. Weather Bureau, he devoted his career to service within Maine’s tourism industry. He spent 30 years as Director of Information Services at the Maine Publicity Bureau. For several years, Bachelder wrote a column about shipwrecks and lighthouses that appeared in The Portland (Maine) Evening Express. He has since authored two books on these subjects: Shipwrecks and Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast and The Lighthouses & Lightships of Casco Bay. More recently he wrote the well-regarded volume Four Short Blasts: The Gale of November 1898 and the Loss of the Steamer Portland. He also created the text for a series of highly popular lighthouse maps and guides for the New York-based Hartnett House Map Publishers. In 1998 he published a book called The Great Steel Pier, an illustrated history of the Old Orchard Ocean Pier—the long-standing attraction that drew millions of enthusiastic visitors to this popular southern Maine beachfront community during the early and middle years of the twentieth century. Read more
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