Dean Lunt
An eighth-generation island native, Dean Lunt was born and raised in the island fishing village of Frenchboro. His ancestors arrived on Mount Desert Island in the late 1700s and many of them moved out across the bay to settle Long Island in the early 1800s where they have fished the waters of Blue Hill Bay ever since. In 1999, Lunt founded Islandport Press, an award-winning independent book publishing company that produces books with New England themes. Lunt, a graduate of Syracuse University...See more
An eighth-generation island native, Dean Lunt was born and raised in the island fishing village of Frenchboro. His ancestors arrived on Mount Desert Island in the late 1700s and many of them moved out across the bay to settle Long Island in the early 1800s where they have fished the waters of Blue Hill Bay ever since. In 1999, Lunt founded Islandport Press, an award-winning independent book publishing company that produces books with New England themes. Lunt, a graduate of Syracuse University and former newspaper reporter is the publisher of Islandport and Islandport Magazine and has written two nonfiction books, Hauling by Hand and Here for Generations . He lives in Yarmouth with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters. See less
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