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Thursday. 6/18 Friday 6/19 Rais’d are the dripping oars— Silent the boat: the lake, Lovely and soft as a dream, Swims in the sheen of the moon. –Matthew Arnold (1822–88) https://www.almanac.com/content/two-fishermen-who-rowed-europe# HISTORY Here’s the true story of two oyster dredgers from New Jersey, George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, who voyaged in a tiny open rowboat across the Atlantic. Legend says that early in 1896, wealthy Police Gazette publisher Richard Fox offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could cross the ocean without sails or steam. No contemporary accounts confirm this reward, but there is no doubt that Harbo, 30, and Samuelsen, 26, who dredged oysters and clams off the New Jersey coast for a living, were the first to row across the Atlantic, setting a speed record that stood for 114 years. Of medium stature, both men had spent their lives at sea and were lean and muscular. Both were Norwegian-born. Harbo had studied navigation at a s