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This story was contributed by the Cape Ann Museum:
In late 1979, Essex County Newspapers ran a full-page article on a young woman named Roberta (Robey) Benson, a photography student at Goddard College who was working on a photo essay towards her degree.
Benson had a desire to “find out more about fishing and fishermen, especially what makes them keep on going out, day after day after day, despite the constant danger, the drudgery and the high cost of maintaining a boat.” That desire led Benson to Gloucester in the summer of 1979 in search of a fishing vessel to take her out to sea so she could capture and document what a day’s work entailed.