BRUNSWICK — Curtis Memorial Library will host author Frederic Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. Hill will discuss his newest book, “Ships, Swindlers, and Scalded Hogs: The Shipbuilding Crooker Brothers of Bath, Maine,” an account of a significant local family, in an important industry, during a crucial period in the history of the United States.
Formally of the Baltimore Sun, Hill has played an active role in Maine’s First Ship, the non-profit effort to build a reconstruction of the first ship built by English settlers at Popham Beach in 1607-08, a member of the Camden Conference and an occasional columnist on foreign affairs for The Sun, Bangor Daily News and other newspapers.
This is a free event. Refreshments will be provided and Gulf of Maine Books will have copies of the author’s book at the event, available for purchase and signing. For more information, call (207) 725-5242, email sbrown@curtislibrary.com or visit www.curtislibrary.com.
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