BIO

Charles Axel Poekel Jr. is an attorney, historian, and writer. He's Chairman of the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society of New York City, a former member of the New Jersey State Historical Commission, and a member of the Maritime Society of America and the Association of Yachting Historians His other books are West Essex and Babe & The Kid: The Legendary Story of Babe Ruth and Johnny Sylvester. Together with his wife Lynn and flame point Himalayan, Mr. Whiskers, he spends his time between Marion, Massachusetts and Palm Beach, Florida. He's the great-grandson of Thorvald Julius Schougaard Poekel.