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… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly,… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph C. Lincoln Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Joseph C. Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e80/joseph-c-lincoln-52068_anthem_new-england-clam-chowder-made-as-it-shou_2170781.jpg)