Description: Vintage Edward Rowe Snow Map New England Lighthouses Larry O’Toole United States Coast Guard Boston District. Measures 9 1/4" x 16 7/8". Dark blue color. This is a genuine 1960's era Edward Rowe Snow map. Very good condition - see photos. Part of a large portfolio of Edward Rowe Snow maps and ephemera I acquired. Mails carefully rolled in a cardboard box tube. Edward Rowe Snow (August 22, 1902 Winthrop, Massachusetts – April 10, 1982 Boston, Massachusetts) was an American writer and historian.He was the son of Edward Sumpter and Alice Nichols (Rowe) Snow. He graduated from Harvard University, and Boston University, with an M.A.Snow married Anna Myrle Haegg, on July 8, 1932, and they had a daughter Dorothy Caroline (Snow) Bicknell.He was a high school teacher in Winthrop, Massachusetts. During World War II, he served with the XII Bomber Command, and he became a first lieutenant. He was wounded in North Africa in 1942, and discharged because of this in 1943. He was a daily columnist at The Patriot Ledger newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, from 1957–82.Snow is widely known for his stories of pirates and other nautical subjects; he wrote over forty books and many shorter publications. In all, he was the author of more than 100 publications, mainly about New England coastal history.Mr. Snow was also a major chronicler of New England maritime history. With the publication of The Islands of Boston Harbor in 1935, he became famous as a historian of the New England coast and also as a popular storyteller, lecturer, preservationist, and treasure hunter. Forty years later, he was still publishing.He is also famous for carrying on the tradition of the "Flying Santa" for over forty years (1936–1980). Every Christmas he would hire a small plane and drop wrapped gifts to the lighthouse keepers and their families.In the 1940s and early 1950s he hosted a weekly Sunday radio show for youngsters and early teens called "Six Bells" where one precisely at 3:00 PM would join in hearing of the adventures of pirates and buccaneers along the Atlantic Coast.Many credit him with saving Fort Warren, located on Georges Island in Boston Harbor, in the 1950s.In August 2000, a plaque was dedicated to Mr. Snow on his beloved Georges Island. A Boston Harbor ferry boat was named for him.Since 2002, several of his books were released in new editions published by Commonwealth Editions of Beverly, Massachusetts.
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