Captain Seaspirit and His Remarkable Crew

About the Book

For years, the manuscript of the book sat in a drawer of a desk I inherited from my parents. The original typewritten papers have turned yellow, but the magic remains. I felt the time had come to let other children enjoy the story of Bobby and the magic ship, the same ship that sat on the mantle in our home those many years ago.

About the Author

Harold S. Jacobson was born in 1901 in Utica, New York. He grew up loving the town, it’s placement on the Mohawk River and on the Erie Canal, the history of the native Americans who lived there. He also loved to write jingles and poems about the places he knew and the people he met. When he was in his late 20’s, he wrote an exciting children’s adventure, “For the Freedom of the Mohawk”, a book about the Revolutionary War and the friendship between two boys, a native American Indian and a local son. Much later, after becoming a father himself, Mr. Jacobson wrote about Bobby and his adventures with Captain Seaspirit, who took him on an amazing voyage aboard his magical sailing ship. There he gets to meet the strange crew the good Captain had assembled – the unusual twins, a cook who cooks ice cream, a shipwrecked sailor and the skinny queen among others. Mr. Jacobson was my Dad and the Bobby of the book was named for my brother Bobby. The book was written in the early 1940’s and was the joy of my childhood. I loved the characters and we’d talk about them as though they truly existed. My Dad would often remind me when I wasn’t behaving of the characters Mr Meanie and Mr. Jolly Goodfellow and whom I should allow into my life.