From collection Elmer Montgomery Collection
Boats in storage
HOLIDAY WINTER: Unidentified small boat hauled out for winter at Holiday Beach. Small shack and lobster traps to left. At Holiday Beach in Owls Head, and at other places along the Maine coast in the 1930s and '40s, no one much cared if a few traps and a boat or two sat out through the winter. The land was locally owned and its use freely granted, generally. A cradle fashioned of spruce logs for the boat to rest on, along with some planks and rollers, a tackle, and a car to do the pulling, was all it took to fetch a boat up beyond high water, where she'd be safe until spring.
Details
LB2008.15.234
[included in the "Elmer Montgomery" exhibit] [Included in the Island Institute exhibit, 2015] HOLIDAY WINTER At Holiday Beach in Owls Head, and at other places along the Maine coast in the 1930s and '40s, no one much cared if a few traps and a boat or two sat out the winter. The land was locally owned and its use freely granted, generally. A cradle fashioned of spruce logs for the boat to rest on, along with some planks and rollers, a tackle, and a car to do the pulling, was all it took to fetch a boat up beyond high water, where she'd be safe until spring.
