Where Menhaden was King chronicles the Menhaden enterprise in Lewes which reached its height in the 1950s with landings of more than 200 million pounds of fish annually and led to Lewes laying its claim as the number one fishing port in the county.
The Author, Thomas Elton Brown Ph.D. Brown had a thirty-year career at the National Archives. He was appointed to the Delaware Heritage Commission, 2013-2021, and volunteered as a docent, processing archivist, and researcher for Historic Lewes, where he served as a trustee from 2011-2017.