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Bases like Portsmouth, Brunswick and Groton have done more than just fuel their region?s economy, they?re part of the fabric of New England?s military and maritime history. Today on the Exchange, we?ll look at the wider significance of the New England base closures? the social, the cultural and the historic. Kevin's guests are Richard Winslow III, New Hampshire based writer, historian and author of "Do Your Job: An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1800-2000" and "Portsmouth-Built: Submarines of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard". Stephen Jones, Professor of Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Principal of Flat Hammock Press in Mystic and author of a number of books on Maritime History. Rick Tetrev, Chairman of the Brunswick Naval Air Station Task Force, and former Executive Director of the Brunswick Chamber of Commerce. Rick Tetrev came to the Brunswick Naval Air Station in 1978 and retired Second in Command in 1996 and Beth Greenleaf Kirmsee, Landscape Architect and Coordinator of the Summer Field Mycology Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Beth Greenleaf Kirmmse did her PhD. on the Quonset Point Naval Air Station.