LOBSTER INSTITUTE
This book would not have been possible without the efforts of many people.
We would first like to thank the women on the cookbook committee who gave many hours of their time and energy to make the project a success. Members include: Jean Aldrich, Jane Alley, Mary Blackmore, Cindy Brown, Pat Carver, Myrna Coffin, Paula Colwell, Susan Hawkes, Harriet Heanssler, Roberta Joyce, Ruth Lane, Sue Nickerson, Sue Smith, and Lisa Werner.
We would also like to thank Earlon and Leta Beal, Rollins and Trenna Kelley, Pat and Richard Carver, Avery Kelley Sr., Richard Black, Ed Blackmore, Sue Smith, Connie Sullivan, Susan Hawkes, and Harriet Heanssler for contributing anecdotes for the book. In addition, Maire MacLachLan and Bethany Aronow at Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History at the University of Maine in Orono were very helpful in researching historical anecdotes as well as photographs.
For contributing photographs, we would like to thank Jeff Brown and the Maine State Archives in Augusta, Alicia Anstead, Robert Bayer, Richard and Roberta Black, Mary Blackmore, Pat Carver, Harriet Heanssler, Roberta Joyce, Avery Kelley Sr., Sanford Phippen, Olive Pierce, Sylvester Pollet, Bernice Skolfield, Lisa Werner, and Joanna Young.
Important contributions were also provided by Joe Vachon, former vice president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association; Robin Tara, a premier lobster lover; Robert Bayer, Executive Director of the Lobster Institute and University of Maine lobster biologist; Sue Russell, secretary for the Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program; Joyce Wheeler, University of Maine System; David Dow, former Executive Director of the Lobster Institute; and Jean Day, also of the Lobster Institute. Thanks, also, to Acadia Publishing Company of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Oceanarium in Southwest Harbor. We would like to thank the University's Center for Marine Studies for their support of the initial project.
Finally, we also appreciate the work of Susan White who edited the original, hardcopy version and Jeff Nichols who converted the original version to an e-book.
