Download or read book Growing Up in a Shipyard written by Dana Story and published by Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dana Story is the last of many generations of Essex men to labor in the town's renowned shipyards. Having grown up in his father's shipyard, Story tried to carry on the trade after World War II, but by then wooden shipbuilding was an anachronism, and his yard failed in 1948. In this candid reminiscence, Dana Story captures the spicy character of a coastal New England town. With obvious fondness he brings to life the shipyard "gangs", men of long experience, proud and eccentric. This is an engaging account of a vanished segment of New England life.