{"id":193,"date":"2012-02-20T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T15:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=193"},"modified":"2023-04-20T23:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:23:45","slug":"brooks-kenneth-f-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/b\/brooks-kenneth-f-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks, Kenneth F., Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Mira Dock<\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n<p>BROOKS, KENNETH F., JR (1921-1962). Kenneth F. Brooks Jr., a decorated World War II pilot living near Washington, D.C., spent his childhood summers on his uncle&#8217;s sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay and continues to sail. In <em>Run to the Lee<\/em>&nbsp;(1965) Brooks recounts a voyage made by his great-uncle John Talbott in 1904 on a ninety-foot schooner, the&nbsp;<em>Albatross<\/em>, from Baltimore to Solomons Island, fifty miles south. When the crew fell ill from spoiled oysters, Talbott battled a storm alone at the helm, reaching safe harbor.&nbsp;<em>Chesapeake Sleighride<\/em> (1970) is a fictionalized, illustrated version of the same story written for juvenile readers. Here the author narrates from the viewpoint of one of the crew, a fictional fourteen-year-old boy who did not eat the spoiled oysters and who assists the captain in sailing through the storm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px\"><em>Run to the Lee<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>(1965)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/runtolee00broo\">Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>keywords: male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mira Dock (2000) BROOKS, KENNETH F., JR (1921-1962). Kenneth F. Brooks Jr., a decorated World War II pilot living near Washington, D.C., spent his childhood summers on his uncle&#8217;s sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay and continues to sail. In <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/b\/brooks-kenneth-f-jr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&amp;<\/span> text links<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25914],"tags":[53756,53760,53761],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","tag-20th-century","tag-childrens-writing","tag-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}