“I remember the glorious time we had on the bay. My oldest brother let us use his rowboat. One time we went crabbing and filled the boat so full there was no room left for us. We just swam the boat back to shore.”

This story quilt reads clockwise and highlights the migration of Drema Benson’s grandparents and parents to various states, and, most recently, herself to Chester County.

Edwin Kendrick began working at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as an apprentice right after high school, in August of 1939. He finished his apprenticeship in 1942 and worked as a mechanic helping to build ships, before he was eventually drafted into the Army.

“I’m first generation American, and I’m a fisherman. I come from many generations of fishermen …at least 3. Seafaring in one shape, form, or another.”