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GRAND PRIZE
RANGER HARDCOVER BOOK

We’ve been hanging onto this first edition hardcover since it was issued in 1994. The late philanthropist Joe Sawtelle founded the Portsmouth Marine Society that ultimately published 30 important books about our local maritime heritage. His own favorite topic was John Paul Jones and he collected this research on the warship RANGER. This original copy is in perfect shape and includes the log of the Ranger, primary source letters, essays and Sawtelle’s assembled list of the Ranger crew. Published by Peter E. Randall, this is the ultimate resource for Ranger fans.

SEPTEMBER QUESTION

Bicycles were introduced to the Seacoast about 1878 and were all the rage for men and women in the Victorian era. Hundreds of patents adapted the bicycle for other uses including water travel. One Portsmouth local marketed his own version of the "marine bicycle" that was used during a trip to the Isles of Shoals in 1882. The trip was documented by a new group of bicycle enthusiasts that formed their own club. A vintage bicycle club by the same name still exists today. That national nonprofit group is known as what?

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