Providence, R.I. Preston died in his sleep at Bethany Home on December 27, 2021. Born in Providence in 1922, he was the son of Ernest Preston Brown and Ellen Adkins Atwood. He and his beloved wife Lois, who died in 2019, met in 1945 when he was stationed in herRead More

Southwest Harbor, Maine Ralph W. Stanley died unexpectedly Dec. 7, 2021 at Mount Desert Island Hospital. He was born in Bar Harbor, on Maine’s Mt. Desert Island. His mother was a registered nurse, and his father was a lobster fisherman who also skippered yachts for well-to-do summer residents. Stanley descendsRead More

Newton, Mass. Educator, sailor and farmer. A product of public elementary school in Miami, Fla., and a one-room schoolhouse in Alna, Maine. He became a teacher, principal, professor, consultant, and author who dedicated his career to improving public education and fostering communities of lifelong learning. He passed away peacefully onRead More

Newton, Mass. ROLAND S. BARTH – Educator, sailor and farmer. A product of public elementary school in Miami, Florida, and a one-room schoolhouse in Alna, Maine. He became a teacher, principal, professor, consultant, and author who dedicated his career to improving public education and fostering communities of lifelong learning. HeRead More

Amesbury, Mass. Peter was born to George and Elizabeth Gibb. He attended the University of New Hampshire and Middlebury College where he graduated summa cum laude from in ’76 with degrees in Economics and Biology. Peter had a sharp wit, loved music, poetry, animals of all kinds (especially his dogs),Read More

Falmouth, Mass. Henry Rich Keene, passed away peacefully, on a bright sunny morning, July 11th, with family by his side. He was born at home, in Dedham, Mass., and lived his life there except for his service in the Pacific during World War Two. He loved everything about Dedham andRead More

Concord, Massachusetts  William Asa Lawrence II, passed away peacefully on June 16th at Emerson Hospital after two years of failing health. He leaves his devoted wife of almost 64 years, Joany, his daughter, Betsy, his son, Bill and his wife, Bouchra, his son, Ned and four grandchildren, Hadley Brooke, Evelyn,Read More

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. B. Devereux Barker III, passed away peacefully on June 16. Born in Boston, Dev spent childhood summers in Marblehead, where he discovered his lifelong love of sailing at the Pleon and Eastern Yacht Clubs. After attending Noble and Greenough School, he graduated from Harvard in 1960, and thenRead More

Bruno Bich died on May 30, 2021. Son of Marcel Bich, founder of BIC, Bruno devoted́ his entire professional life to the company and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1993-2006, and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2018. Bruno attended New York University Business School, thenRead More

Rodger Martin passed away May 14, 2021, while awaiting a lung transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Rodger was best known in the yachting world for his diversity of modern yachts. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and spent his youth on the water. As heRead More