When I returned to the office I was advised to go home, bury my clothes and write the story the next day.Īt last count, Rockland has more windjammers than Camden, where the sailing-tourist industry was practically invented. I often wondered what the people on those tour buses thought when they got off at McDonald’s and were hit by that smell. Residents living close to Seapro claimed you could actually see the smell shimmering up the street toward Route 1. The process manufactured an odor as a byproduct that was likened to “baked vomit.” When the out-of-staters arrived and tried to close Seapro, locals said that was “the smell of jobs.” The remains from the sardine plants went to Seapro, a fish rendering plant located next to the ferry terminal.
The O’Hara fleet dominated the waterfront and the sardine plants employed half the people in the city. When I came to Rockland in 1970, it was a fishing town, plain and simple. I can remember that the only bragging in these parts was when Rockland actually passed Portland in fish landings. But few of us had guessed that we left Portland behind. Certainly, all of us in the midcoast area have watched with delight the proliferation of art galleries surrounding the august Farnsworth Art Museum.
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