Postcards from Away 

Dublin in early May

no harbor here

nice but not navigable

 And here's some hometown news, but from Boston. Digging for a new office building in the Seaport District, workers came upon the lime filled wreck of a small coasting schooner. It wasn't unusual for a cargo of quicklime to get wet and the subsequent chemical reaction caused enough heat to start the vessel burning. She had most likely been abandoned on the Dorchester mudflats when afire and later filled over. 

 One barrel head showed the stenciled Rockland.

Boston Archaeology photo

As Rockland wasn't set aside for the town of Thomaston until 1854, the Boston wreck dates from after that.

 In our shop at the shipyard we have an original lime cask stencil from the kilns at our location.