Download or read book On This Day in Nantucket History written by Amy Jenness and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
Download or read book On This Day in Nantucket History written by Amy Jenness and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
Download or read book The Story of Old Nantucket a Brief History of the Island and Its People from Its Discovery Down to the Present Day written by William Francis Macy and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Whales and Women written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Nantucket written by Obed Macy and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket written by James Everett Grieder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details Nantucket's long history from European settlement in 1659 to whaling culture and Quaker influence to tourist destination. Nantucket, a Wampanoag word meaning far-away island, was first settled by Europeans in 1659. The earliest settlers, known as the Proprietors, envisioned a community of farmers and shepherds, but the island found its fortune as a preeminent whaling port in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During its time under Quaker influence, Nantucket was a cosmopolitan and dynamic place; radical new ideas, like abolitionism and women's rights, found fertile ground in the Quakers' firm belief in equality. As the entrance to the harbor became impassable, Nantucket lost its whaling focus and experienced a general economic decline. Ironically, this downturn and the resulting absence of new building, along with modern cultural change, became the springboard for its later revival. Nantucket was transformed into a tourist destination, an artist colony, and a summer home to the wealthy and famous, with a rich maritime heritage and a proud tradition of historic preservation.
Download or read book The Story of Old Nantucket written by William Francis Macy and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Story of Old Nantucket written by William F. Macy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Old Nantucket: A Brief History of the Island and Its People From Its Discovery Down to the Present Day About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Nantucket written by Cary Hazlegrove and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-03-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket Island, off coastal New England, has always been a cherished vacation destination. On a given summer day the population swells to more than forty thousand people. The summer months bring a steady stream of visitors who flock to the extraordinary beauty and history of Nantucket’s shores, its clear skies, and its southwest breezes. Just as important is the year-round community of people who choose to stay through the winter months. The off-season brings Nantucket to its essence—the peaceful and vibrant autumn, windy winters long and gray, followed by the short season of spring. Nantucket residents learn to love its quirky seasons, filled as they are with frustrating travel experiences, weather stories, and isolation. Filled with over 130 poignant color photographs illuminating the island’s distinct seasons, Nantucket displays the best from a body of work covering the past decade. Images paired with thoughtful words by island residents and a foreword by best-selling author and summer resident David Michaelis make this book an enduring portrayal of Nantucket.
Download or read book Brief Historical Data and Memories of My Boyhood Days in Nantucket written by Joseph Ellis Coffee Farnham and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nantucket a History written by Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time and Tide written by Frank Conroy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, relaxed oasis in the ocean." This book, part travel diary, part memoir, is a hauntingly evocative and personal journey through Nantucket: its sweeping dunes, rugged moors, remote beaches, secret fishing spots, and hidden forests and cranberry bogs. Admirers of Conroy’s classic and acclaimed memoir Stop-Time will again delight in what James Atlas, writing in the New York Times, called his "genius for close observation." In Time and Tide, Conroy recounts the island’s history from the glory days of the whaling boom to the present, when tourism dominates. He vividly evokes the clash of cultures between the working class and the super-rich, with the fragile ecology of the island always in the balance. But most fascinating of all, he tells his own story--of playing jazz piano in the island’s bars; of raising a barn in the early '60s with the help of a bunch of hippie carpenters; of leasing an old, failed bar with two island pals and turning it into the Roadhouse, a club "that was to be ours, the year-rounders, and to hell with the summer people." There’s a marvelous story of his first golf game, played on an ancient nine-hole course with two friends, a part-time sommelier and a builder from the South who invented the one-handed pepper mill. This is a book that revels in friendship, music, history, and the gorgeous landscape of a unique American place, and is a wonderful work by one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Download or read book STORY OF OLD NANTUCKET written by WILLIAM F. MACY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden History of Nantucket written by Frank Morral & Barbara Ann White and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story behind the Nantucket Civil War Monument, King Alcohol and more in Hidden History of Nantucket. The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Learn about some named on the Civil War Monument, some left off and some who may not belong. Meet the Cold Water Army of seven hundred schoolchildren who paraded against King Alcohol in hopes that the island would become a temperance oasis. Little remains of the bathing pavilion and water slide of the long-lost town of Coatue that once had big plans for expansion. With surprising facts and captivating tales, authors Frank Morral and Barbara Ann White explore these and other lost accounts of the faraway island.
Download or read book The History of Nantucket written by Alexander Starbuck and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Brotherhood of Thieves written by Stephen Symonds Foster and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
