Nautical Newburyport: A History of Captains, Clipper Ships and the Coast Guard
Dyke Hendrickson
 
Dyke Hendrickson is a journalist and author with a love of history. He has been with The Daily News for about five years, and during that time wrote a 27-part series on the city's 250th anniversary.

He recently wrote his fourth book, "Nautical Newburyport: A History of Captains, Clipper Ships and the Coast Guard." It is an overview of the community's waterfront focusing on the period of 1764-1915. 

Hendrickson has always lived near a waterfront, and newspapers he has worked for include The Portland Press Herald, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Boston Herald, the Boston Business Journal and now The Daily News.