[Loscho_Enews] Fwd: Everett Resident Discovers Lost Maritime Gem: September 30 at Everett Public Library

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From: Kate Larsen <KLarsen at everettwa.gov>
Date: Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:39 AM
Subject: Everett Resident Discovers Lost Maritime Gem: September 30 at
Everett Public Library
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*August 29 2017*

*Press Release for: Rebecca Huycke Ellison*

*For Immediate Release*



*Lost Maritime Gem Published*





A suppressed and lost maritime gem from the days of sail has been uncovered
and published through the efforts of an Everett resident.



Rebecca Ellison, who unearthed Capt. Daniel O. Killman’s suppressed
biography *Forty Years Master, *appears in a free program at 2 p.m.
Saturday September 30 in the Everett Public Library Auditorium, 2702 Hoyt
Avenue <https://maps.google.com/?q=2702+Hoyt+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g>
in Everett.

Capt. Killman was a two-fisted, square-rigged sailor of the old school. He
was born in Maine in 1860, went to sea while still in his teens, and sailed
for more than fifty years, most of which was out of west coast ports.  He
settled in Tacoma in the early 1900s and died there in 1936. The ships he
captained encountered and survived hurricanes, typhoons, murders and
attempted murders, court cases, World War I, whalers in the Arctic,
fishermen and gold seekers in Alaska, difficult crews, bureaucrats and
officials in ports all around the world. The book is a 2016 winner of a
Lyman Award, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History.
It was published by Texas A&M Press.

Killman wrote the book in the 1930s, after which it was forgotten until the
1970s.  His family then agreed to its being edited, extensively annotated
and published by prominent maritime historians John Lyman and Harold D.
Huycke, Jr. Killman’s daughter objected to the book’s publishing after
discovering his reputation as “Crazy” Killman. So the project died.
Huycke’s daughter, Rebecca Huycke Ellison finally received permission from
the family, and the book was finally re-edited and published by Texas A&M
University Press in 2016.

Rebecca Huycke Ellison was born in Tacoma, Washington.  She graduated from
Pacific Lutheran University with a BA in English, and the University of
Washington with a Master's in Librarianship.  After working in library
systems in California and Washington, she stayed home to raise three
children, now grown.  Everett has been her home for 25 years.



For further information, please call 425-257-7640 <(425)%20257-7640>.

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