“New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.” ShouldMadeStarsEnglandPraisePatrioticDishesYankeesHymnsNew EnglandStripesAnthemIncenseKettlesNational AnthemClams Author:Joseph C. Lincoln
“Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each summer I find that the ranks have perceptibly thinned. The longshore captain is still there, many of the men who are not any older than myself, but their viewpoint is not that of a man who sailed his square rigged ship out one morning with China as his destination.” MenStillsStoriesMorningGoneForeverSeaHe ManTypeSummerChinaShipsDestinationSquaresCaptainsViewpointsRigged Author:Joseph C. Lincoln
“But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.” YearsDoneHandsYears AgoDiedMajorityFiftyFishingMarineMerchantsCapesPortugueseMarine LifeMerchant Marine Author:Joseph C. Lincoln
“My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.” CharacterBigsCitiesSeaTypeEverydayExceptionEveryday LifeHeartedCapesPortugueseDwellersBig HeartMotherly Author:Joseph C. Lincoln
“My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.” PeopleIfsYearsMotherFatherBornMy OwnSeaShipsCaptainsUncles Author:Joseph C. Lincoln
