- Everyone I’ve interviewed, for your courage, your openness, your raw honesty, your willingness, your patience. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
- All the readers of Waldoboro Voices. And warm shout outs too, to those whom I passed in the library, at Moose Crossing, the Town Hall or wherever, for taking the time to tell me how much they liked a particular interview; or for texting or writing me that. It means so much.
- Michael Amico and the Open House of History, for support, editing help and encouragement; and for your re-framing of Waldoboro’s history into today’s context.
- Bill Maxwell and the Waldoborough Historical Society – you were always there to answer questions. And a special shout out, also, for the Society’s collection of photographs and postcards, all of which have deepened my sense of Waldoboro’s history.
- Jasper Stahl and “The History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro,” published in 1956, which was the basis for a lot of my very abbreviated essay on Waldoboro’s; plus the sources of the quotations at the head of each chapter. Thank you in absentia.
- Raye Leonard, the editor at the time of The Lincoln County News, whose after-New Year query seeking more local coverage I answered. While the format I proposed was something the paper had never done, she went with it; and publisher John Roberts approved it. Without you both, this might never have happened.
- The staff of the Lincoln County News and in particular deputy editor Sherwood Olin and editor Maia Zwert for your vigilance in looking over my copy as I turned it in. Thank you for your patience for those sticky days, and for stopping the presses once to correct an error.
- My family – grandparents, parents, sister, aunts and uncles and cousins galore — whose footsteps I think I’ll never be able to fill. You all have imprinted on me our family’s place in Waldoboro’s history. I have taken on your mission.
- Tito Pizarro, my husband, for believing in this and believing in me, and for supporting and cheering me all the way. Gracisimo, Oso!