Two new books by members of the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum will be featured at the museum’s second winter 2026 lecture. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Fairfields Volunteer Fire Department, 119 Main Street, Reedville. Admission is free. The authors/illustrator will talk about their books and offer them for sale and signing. ‘War on the Inland Sea’ Thomas Briggs’s first book, a historical novel set during the French and Indian War, is the saga of the conflict for control of the Great Lakes. Told from three perspectives—the French, British and Native American—the principal narrative follows the British attempts to build a fleet on Lake Ontario in 1755. Briggs uses his sailing knowledge, research and experience in Afghanistan to describe the realities of building and sailing vessels in the wilderness while engaged in war. Briggs is a captain of the museum’s historic skipjack, Claud W. Somers. He has sailed as captain or crew on a variety of boats from New York Harbor to ...