Here's How We'll Do It: An Informal History of the Construction of the Shoals Marine Laboratory, Appledore Island, Maine

A collection of first-person Maine Coast stories illustrating vivid imagination and persistence in overcoming bureaucratic obstacles involving the workings of university presidents, U.S. senators, fishermen, officials of major state and federal agencies, the Supreme Court, two governors, and the paramount bête noir, Aristotle Socrates Onasis, in creating what is now one of the preeminent undergraduate field stations in America. Although anecdotal and occasionally irreverent, this text is accurate in its details as it chronicles the building of an educational facility from scratch on a small vacant Maine island ten miles offshore dock to dock (and building the dock, too.)