[1] Previously President of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1985-2005, he was tenured as a research associate at the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine in 2015.
[1] Neill lives in Sedgwick, Maine, with his wife Mary Barnes, who is an artist and President of the Blue Hill Heritage Trust.
[2] Peter Neill graduated from St. Paul's School in 1959 and Stanford University[3][4] in 1963 with bachelor's degree.
[5] After enrolling the US Army between 1964 and 1966, in 1969 he finished the University of Iowa Writers Workshop with MFA.
They developed context for teaching and learning to apply maritime history and environment.