Joshua M. Smith is Associate Professor of Maritime History in the Department of Humanities, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point NY. He has a masters of art with Honours from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, an A.S. in Small Vessel Operations from the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, a masters of arts in Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology from East Caroline University in Greenville NC, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Maine, Orono.

His dissertation, "The Rogues of ‘Quoddy: Smuggling in the Maine-New Brunswick Borderlands, 1783-1820," was published in 2006 as "Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820" by the University Press of Florida in Gainesville FL. He has also published articles on the history of smuggling in scholarly anthologies and journals, and has presented informally to the Friends of Fort Edgecomb his studies of the history of the Fort, which have evolved into his soon to be published title, "Blockhouse and Battery: A History of Fort Edgecomb."

He has taught world and American history courses at East Carolina University, the Maine Maritime Academy, and military history at the University of Maine before joining the staff of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He has also served as occasional faculty at the Global Maritime and Transportation School of USMMA.

His awards include an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society, a Fulbright Award for studies in Canada, a New England Regional Fellowship utilized at the Maine Historical Society, Harvard Business School, New England Historical Genealogical Society and the Mystic Seaport Museum, and most recently, a research fellowship from the American Maritime History Project.

His research interests include Maritime History in general, U.S.-Canadian Relations, Colonial and Early Republic U.S. and the Atlantic World. He is a member of the National Maritime Historical Society, Maine Historical Society, Canadian Nautical Research Society, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, North American Society for Oceanic History and the Columbia University Seminar on Early American History.

Mr. Buttrick is a Level 1 Historical Archaeologist certified by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission with a masters degree from the University of Maine at Orono. He has taught history and archaeology at Freeport High School, and is now engaged in private contract and public grant archaeological surveys. Among these have been the excavation of officers' quarters at Pemaquid, Sir William Phips' 17th-Century house in Woolwich, Fort Shirley in Dresden (with students from Bates and senior project students from area high schools), and served as the Assistant Director of the Fort Edgecomb Survey with Director Bob Bradley.

Recently, he has excavated sites in the Yarmouth area including the Loring Blockhouse and the Brooks Pottery, and has completed a contract site in Bath, the Old Shipyard Land Archaeological Survey. For the Portland Parks and Recreation Department, he excavated the Steven's Tavern site with students from Yarmouth Hi8gh School, and later, with a grant from the Davis Family Foundation, the Stevens Tavern, Phase II, and the Stevens Plains Tin Industry area in Portland. The Bayside Development District– Archaeological Research Phase was prepared for the City of Portland Housing and Neighborhood Services. He recently completed teaching Freeport High School students six years of classes at the Barnabas Soule 1740s Farmstead along the Cousins River in Freeport. This past summer, along with James Leamon and Dawna Lamson, he completed an archaeological survey of Jacob Bailey's St. John's Anglican Church in present day Dresden, with a grant from the Davis Family Foundation and support from the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.

Mr. Buttrick was presented one of three 1993 "Historic Preservation Awards" by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission for his Program Model for teaching archaeology to secondary school students. He is presently at work on a book on "How to Teach Archaeology to Secondary School Students."

His unpublished Reports and Registration of Archaeology Sites and Historical Research are on file with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.

Leon (Lee) Cranmer is Staff Historical Archaeologist with the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. He has a BS from Richard Stockton State College, a BA in anthropology and an MA in history/historical archaeology, both from the University of Maine. Lee has been conducting archaeology for the State for over twenty years. Prior to that, he spent two seasons in England doing archaeology. He has written one book and numerous articles on Maine historical archaeology and is currently working on a new book on Fort Halifax in Winslow, a French and Indian War period site. He has excavated hundreds of Maine sties for which he has written or co-authored site reports. Prior to his archaeology career, Lee spent seven years in the Navy, is a Viet Nam veteran, and later worked as a splicer for Bell Telephone. He lives in Somerville with Liz, his wife of 37 years.