Dyke Hendrickson

DYKE HENDRICKSON is an author-journalist living in Newburyport, Massachusetts, birthplace of the Coast Guard. Plum Island: A Vulnerable Gem is his seventh book. He is currently a historian with the Merrimack River Watershed Council. He also hosts a weekly podcast titled Life Along the Merrimack, during which he interviews environmentalists and public officials about the health and history of the river and Plum Island. Hendrickson is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College with a degree in...See more

DYKE HENDRICKSON is an author-journalist living in Newburyport, Massachusetts, birthplace of the Coast Guard. Plum Island: A Vulnerable Gem is his seventh book. He is currently a historian with the Merrimack River Watershed Council. He also hosts a weekly podcast titled Life Along the Merrimack, during which he interviews environmentalists and public officials about the health and history of the river and Plum Island. Hendrickson is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College with a degree in history, and he did graduate work at the University of Maine, Orono. He has been a writer and/or editor with the Portland Press Herald, the Boston Herald, and The Daily News of Newburyport. Other publications he has written for include USA Today, the Boston Globe and Tennis magazine. Other books with maritime themes he has written are Merrimack: The Resilient River (2021), New England Coast Guard Stories (2020), and Nautical Newburyport (2017). See less