For the last 31 years I've spent my summers (and a pretty good part of the rest of the year) in Gloucester Massachusetts, America's Oldest Seaport. Every September I look forward to our town's Schooner Festival, the annual celebration of our maritime history and of a time when iron men fished from wooden boats.
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