LISA KRISTOFF
Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services Sarah Sherman. Courtesy photo
Sarah Sherman is well-known for her commitment to preserving the experiences of veterans. She wrote “Southport: The War Years, An Island Remembers” in 1996, “Heroes Among Us: A History of Boothbay Region s Veterans During the Second World War” in 1999 and “Looking Back: A History of Boothbay Region’s Veterans during the Korean and Vietnam Wars,” Volumes I and II, in 2016.
Sherman was hired in 2018 as director of strategic partnerships for the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and, for the last two years, she has worked with Kennebec County Sheriff and Marine Corps veteran Ken Mason and Programs Director Jess Quinn and later Programs Director Valerie Grant to facilitate a weekly, one-hour writing group for veterans incarcerated at Kennebec County Jail. Sherman also credited her affiliations with the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services, and ac