Autor/-in: Charles H Lagerbom

Charles H. Lagerbom received his B. A. in History from Kansas State University and earned his M. A. in History and Archaeology from the University of Maine at Orono with the excavation and analysis of a Revolutionary War Truckhouse or trading post. He spent two field seasons in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica in the early 1990s as part of a glacial geology research team from the University of Maine Quaternary Institute, now the Climate Change Institute. He is author of the polar biography The Fifth Man: The Life of H. R. Bowers (Caedmon of Whitby 1999), Whaling in Maine (The History Press 2020) and Maine to Cape Horn: The Most Dangerous Journey (The History Press 2021). Charles has organized shipwreck surveys in Maine lakes, the 1779 Penobscot Expedition and the 17th century English galleon Angel Gabriel off Pemaquid. He is former Membership Chair of the American Polar Society and current Archivist for the Antarctican Society. Charles is a lifetime member of the Old Antarctic Explorer's Association, the American Polar Society and the Frederick Cook Society. A 30 year veteran teacher, Lagerbom has taught AP US History instructor and helped form and lead the Belfast Marine Institute, an educational organization dedicated to connecting local youth with the maritime world. He researches and writes a regular column called Half Seas Over, a maritime reference where one is half sunk or right in the midst of it all (or an allusion to being drunk). He travels to and speaks frequently on topics regarding Antarctica, Cape Horn, Maine whaling and New England colonial and maritime history. Charles lives on the coast of Maine with his wife Jennifer and can be reached at clagerbom@seaworthy. com.