BoothBay Harbor, Maine

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叶凡、禺阳, 布斯湾渔民节. VOA Chinese, July 16, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/20100702-fishermen-festival-98038054.html?refresh=1

My comment:
(a) I can not find an English original for this Chinese-language report. Maybe this report is not translated but an original inits own right.
(b) Boothbay, Maine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothbay,_Maine
(The first European presence was a British fishing station on Cape Newagen in 1623. By the 1630s, there were a few families./ renamed Boothbay in 1842 after the hamlet of Boothby, which is located about a mile east of Welton le Marsh in Lincolnshire, England; Boothbay Harbor was set off in 1889 and incorporated as a town)

* set off (vt): "to set apart"  www.m-w.com

(c) 渔民节 Fishermen's Festival
(a 37-year0old festival, held in late April, each year: Apr. 23-25 in 2010)

* 布兰达·布莱克曼是布斯湾渔民节组委会联合主席
Brenda Blackman, co-chair of this year's event

(c) 虾公主选美大赛 Shrimp Princess Pageant
(d) 雪鱼 Cod Fish Relay Race
(e) 铲鱼比赛 Bait Shoveling Race
(f) 龙虾箱子上跑过 Lobster-crate running

* Wooden lobster crates are used to transport the live, fresh-caught lobsters from boat to fish market.
(g) 布斯湾地区历史协会博物馆

Boothbay Region Historical Society
http://www.boothbayhistorical.org/

Click "Exhibits" in the left column for the museum inside the Society.

(h) 灯塔之州 The Lighthouse State
(i) Burnt Island Lighthouse, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
http://www.lighthouse.cc/burntisland/

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