Peter Anastas (1937-2019) was a writer, teacher, activist and social worker who spent his life immersed in the preservation of Gloucester, Massachusetts and its cultural heritage. His publications include Glooskap’s Children: Encounters with the Penobscot Indians of Maine, the novella Landscape with Boy, the memoir At the Cut, and the novels Broken Trip, No Fortunes and Decline of Fishes. His collection of newspaper columns A Walker in the City: Elegy for Gloucester was reprinted by Lost & Found Elsewhere: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative and Dogtown Books in March, 2023.