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Edgar Post Interview Part 1
Edgar Post Interview Part 2
Bio: Edgar Post
Edgar Post was born in Spruce Head village in 1921. His father was lobstering around Mink Island in the Mussel Ridge group of islands off Spruce Head. Edgar’s family stayed on Mink Island during the spring, summer and fall so as Edgar explained: “I was born into the fishing business”. “After the war” Edgar bought a lobster boat the Linda Lou built in Friendship by Frank Wincapaw. Edgar fished for lobsters on the northern end of Metinicus Island and then later fished Spruce Headwaters until, in his sixties, he left lobstering and worked for the William Atwood Lobster company in Spruce Head. In addition to lobster fishing most of his life, Edgar built and fished a herring weir off the western point of Spruce Head Island running toward Rackliff Island. In the winter Edgar plowed snow with his pickup truck. Edgar was an avid hunter and was part of a group of fishermen from the Spruce Head area who had deer camps along Rte. 9, “the airline” in Washington County. For Edgar and others in that group deer hunting took precedence over fishing during the month of November. In October 2015 Edgar received the Boston Post cane as the oldest resident of the municipality of South Thomaston.
Edgar Post Interview Part 1
Edgar Post Interview Part 2
Edgar Post Gallery
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- Photo 1 of 2: Taking herring out of the seine inside the weir with dip net using winch on Edgar’s lobster boat to raise the dip net.
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- Photo 2 of 2: Taking herring out of the seine inside the weir with dip net using winch on Edgar’s lobster boat to raise the dip net.
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- Loading herring aboard a lobster boat; dip net on left.
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- Photo 3 of 3: Edgar and helper “drying up” the seine to concentrate the herring working inside the weir.
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- Photo 2 of 3: Edgar and helper “drying up” the seine to concentrate the herring working inside the weir.
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- Photo 1 of 3: Edgar and helper “drying up” the seine to concentrate the herring working inside the weir.
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- Ashley holding the cork line in a shiff to keep the herring from going over the top of the seine.
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- “Drying up” the fish with a seine inside the weir.
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- Seine reel and dip net on Edgars Weir.
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- Loading a dory with herring from Edgar Post’s weir.
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- Dipping herring out of the seine inside the weir, loading the fish onto a lobster boat.
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- Edgar Post’s grandmother “Gram Rowell”. 83 years old going for a plane ride. Summer 1946
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- Edgar Post in the checkered shirt with helper inside the weir “pursing” the herring.
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- Edgar in checkered shirt pointing inside the weir “drying up” the fish in a purse seine. Ashley in a shiff with gaff and sailor hat. Weir in background. 1960s
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- Edgar Post’s weir showing ‘rails” that provided a walkway and dip net for taking sardines out of the net.
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- Edgar Post’s “float” with weir in background.
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- Edgar Post filling bait bags with herring “cuttings” from a sardine factory.
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- Edgar Post hauling a trap with wooden buoy. 1960s
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- Walter Post hauling traps from his open power boat probably off northern end of Metinicus Island. Boat likely built by Frank Wincapaw in Friendship. 1950s
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- Edgar with wife Helen, daughter Linda and son Ashley.
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- Edgar Post rowing to his lobster boat.
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- Edgar Post with summer guests aboard the Linda Lou. 1960
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- Edgar Post painting his lobster boat Linda Lou built by Frank Wincapaw in Friendship. 1960
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- Edgar Post’s “seine reel” and dip net west side of Spruce Head Island. 1960
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- Edgar Post’s weir looking North to Spruce Head Village. Edgar in the checkered shirt “drying up” the twine with unidentified helper in outboard skiff. Son Ashley in foreground, gaffing “cork line” to prevent fish from escaping over the top of the net. 1960
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- Edgar repairing a trap on his boat. Son, Ashley, and daughter, Linda, “helping”.
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- Edgar (on right) in his scuba gear with son, Ashley, running the outboard.
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- Edgar Post hauling one of his lobster traps. 1950
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- Photo 1 of 2: Edgar Post aboard his lobster boat filling bait bags with herring to bait his lobster traps.
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- Photo 2 of 2: Edgar Post aboard his lobster boat filling bait bags with herring to bait his lobster traps.
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- Edgar Post handling the dip net taking herring out of his weir standing on the stern of his lobster boat with boy in bow of skiff.
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- Edgar with “feeling oar”
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- Edgar with “feeling oar”
