Kendall Merriam
Kendall Merriam: was born and raised in Rockland, Maine. His graduate studies in military and maritime history were taken at the University of Maine at Orono and Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn. He has written more than twenty books and plays. On April 29, 2010, he was appointed Rockland, Maine’s Inaugural Poet Laureate. He is also a cousin of Edna St. Vincent Millay.