Captain Mac: The Life of Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer

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people some of whom are no longer living Miriam MacMillan Mac’s niece May Fogg and a few of Mac’s boys Charles Hildreth Horace Hildreth William Rand Byron Turner and James Wiles whose memories helped me construct parts of chapters I appreciated talking with Stuart Hotchkiss who sailed the Bowdoin in World War II Special thanks go to two more of Mac’s boys Dr Edward Morse for his encouragement and Dr Peter Rand for his comments and for generously donating photographs I thank the United Church of Christ at North Gorham Maine where Mac taught more than a century ago when the building was a school for donating a rare formal photograph of MacMillan I am fortunate to have supportive writer friends in a local critique group as well as colleagues at writing retreats and to each of them I am grateful It is difficult to express the deep appreciation and respect I have for my editor Carolyn P Yoder She challenged me to perfect the manuscript while guiding and supporting me along the journey Finally thanks to my family my daughter who helped me understand the electricity and magnetism segments my son and daughter in law who lent editorial ears to chapter after chapter my mother who didn't live quite long enough to see the finished product but who read revisions with her English teacher viewpoint and my sister who helped sort through photographs Most of all I thank my husband who pored through research material with me solved computer problems and assumed scores of household duties supporting me