The Molly Kool Centre. Photo by Doris Weir. From the Doris Weir Collection.
Time for a colour photo and a visit to Alma. This is the Molly Kool Heritage Centre it was the home of Molly Kool when she was growing up in Alma. In 2010 the building, which dates from the 1850’s, was rebuilt in it’s present location. Molly Kool, whose father was a Dutch sea captain, earned her master mariner's certificate from the Merchant Marine Institute in Yarmouth, N.S., in 1939. That accomplishment made Kool the first licensed female sea captain in North America and only the second woman to do that job in the world. Kool spent five years as a sea captain before moving to Maine and getting married.