The Colcord Archives at the Penobscot Maritime Museum are in total disarray since the Museum had to lay off its librarian ten years ago. I tried a couple of years ago to find Colcord's correspondence with C. Fox Smith, which had been briefly quoted in one recent book, and was totally frustrated. What worse that a library not having something you want? Why knowing that it is probably there improperly shelved or lying on a table awaiting shelving...

Lincoln Colcord might have heard some bawdy shanties when he was aboard their father's ships. He was a precocious lad who soon learned to frolic in the rigging and learn everything he could from the shellbacks. He deeply regretted that the Great Age of Sail was fast disappearing.

Charley Noble