Sea Goddess Log

This log is a new feature. If I knew how to set up a message board for this subject I would, but this will have to do. I will post here any and all comments you care to send me about the Sea Goddess Pageant for the Lobster Festival every year. If you care to add to or answer any of these posts, send them to me also and I will add them in. I will number the threads, so please tell me which thread you wish to add your comments to. I am looking specifically for the names of Sea Goddess for each of the 63 festivals as well as their courts. Any other side information you can add (especially if you participated in a pageant) would also be appreciated. When I come home this summer, of course, I will check things out more thoroughly at the library when I go through the Courier archives.

Thread #1 Sara Sylvester Tavares:

"The Kippy Karnival queen was always the first princess announced. In 1964 that was Dawn Crudell. I am pretty sure. Linda Studley was in that year as well if not the next year. Susan Ames won and I believe that was 1964. Pamela Gay also won I believe that would have been 1961 or 62 and I believe went on to become Miss Maine. Am not totally sure of that fact, but know she went beyond the festival."

(Dawn Crudell, Linda Studley, and Susan Ames were all Southenders) If you know for sure that Susan Ames won in 1962 and what year Pamela Gay won for sure, please email me that info.

From Sara, May 19:

"Susan Ames would have been 64 or 65, right after we graduated. 62 is too early.

Thread #2 Bette Sylvester Bergeron:

I was a Princess in 1980… I was third, Kim Brooks (I think) was the runner up… but I didn’t know the girl that won that year

Thread #3 from Rockland History Facebook Page, May 22:

Rockland, Maine History wrote: "Ann Lord of Parsonfield (York County) was Sea Goddess in 1950, Signe Swanholm of Thomaston in 1949."

Thread #4, May 23, Me:

I found this list of all the Sea Goddesses on the Maine Lobster Festival History site. If you are one of these Goddesses; or know one of these Goddesses; or were a member of one of these Sea Princess courts; and have any information of a personal nature: about the pageant itself, your personal story, where you are now, etc. please email me at southendstories@aol.com. I’m counting on you to help me get this project further on down the road. Thanks in advance.