Historic Nantucket Annual Report, Summer 2018, Vol. 68, No. 2 by Nantucket Historical Association

SUMMER 2018 | VOL 68, NO. 2

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017-2018 Kelly Williams, PRESIDENT Victoria McManus, VICE PRESIDENT

HOURS OF OPERATION

David D. Worth Jr., VICE PRESIDENT

William J. Boardman, TREASURER Michael Cozort, CLERK

WHALING MUSEUM & HADWEN HOUSE

Sarah Alger

Open Daily 10:00am–5:00pm

Patricia Anathan

RESEARCH LIBRARY

Josette Blackmore

M,T,T,F 10:30am–4:30pm First Saturday of the month 10:00am–2:00pm

Susan Blount

HISTORIC SITES

Chip Carver

Open Daily 11:00am–4:00pm

Anne Marie Bratton

Olivia Charney Wylie Collins

MUSEUM SHOP

Cam Gammill

Open Daily 10:00am–8:00pm

John Hilton

DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR

Wendy Hudson

10:30am, leaves from the Whaling Museum

Carl Jelleme

HISTORIC HOUSE & GARDEN WALKING TOUR

William Little

1:30pm, leaves from Hadwen House

Carla McDonald

WITH NHA ADMISSION, VISIT OUR ON-ISLAND PARTNERS AND SAVE

Kennedy Richardson

$5 OFF AT THE MARIA MITCHELL BIRTHPLACE $2 OFF AT THE AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE $2 OFF AT THE NANTUCKET SHIPWRECK & LIFESAVING MUSEUM $2 OFF AT THE NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKET MUSEUM

Ham Lynch

Marla Sanford Janet Sherlund, TRUSTEE EMERITA Daisy Soros Carter Stewart Jason Tilroe Phoebe Tudor

SAVE THE DATE! JANUARY 18-27, 2019 THE NHA IS HONORED TO BE THE LOAN EXHIBITOR

ON THE COVER: From TOP Left to Right: Abram Quary portrait 1900.0018.001, Martha Miller GPN1195, Captain Absalom F Boston portrait 1906.0056.001, Eliza Starbuck Barney P111, : Arthur Cooper portrait 1899.0131.001 , Lucretia Coffin Mott P1327, Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford P462, Joseph R Lewis Jr GPN3852 , Frederick Douglass, Anna Gardner P1209a, Sampson Dyer portrait 2013.0002.001, James Crawford GPN973

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Finn Wentworth Jay Wilson, FRIENDS OF THE NHA PRESIDENT Alisa Wood James Russell, GOSNELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

HISTORIC NANTUCKET (ISSN 0439-2248) is published by the Nantucket Historical Association, 15 Broad Street, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Periodical postage paid at Nantucket, MA, and additional entry offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Historic Nantucket, P.O. Box 1016, Nantucket, MA 02554–1016; (508) 228–1894; fax: (508) 228–5618, info@ nha.org. For information visit nha.org. ©2018 by the Nantucket Historical Association.

A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT AND THE GOSNELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR This Annual Report to the membership provides an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments while looking forward to new beginnings. We bid farewell to two trustees, Ham Lynch and Jason Tilroe, and thank them for their remarkable service. We welcome enthusiastically Amanda Cross and Graham Goldsmith knowing that they will be equally exemplary. 2017 was a year marked by successions. Janet Sherlund served as president for eight remarkable years with Kelly assuming the helm at the Annual Members meeting in July. Bill Tramposch concluded his 11-year tenure as Gosnell Executive Director in May. We thank David Worth who served as interim executive director on a pro-bono basis for four months until James started in September. Janet and Bill leave a legacy of excellence, accomplishment, and fellowship. Appropriately, we honor Janet at this year’s Nantucket by Design gala in August. On Nantucket, and perhaps because of our relative isolation, we have the opportunity to examine what is unique and differentiating about our shared history. From Moshup through Melville, Mott and Mitchell to the new Pink Wave, authentic and moving encounters with our past make for a more informed and engaged public today. Trustees wish to create a sense of rediscovery in our mission by presenting a comprehensive history, with significance for diverse audiences. Emphasis will be placed on entrepreneurial thinking and fiduciary responsibility, while employing a community-centric approach of inclusive programming, civic engagement, and collaboration. If the NHA is to effectively communicate these complex stories through its collections, programs, and properties, then it needs to be an exemplary steward, an innovative presenter, and embrace learning and scholarship. The NHA’s remarkable progress over the past decade positions us well for the future. This summer and fall trustees will script a new Strategic Plan that will chart a course for the organization. We ask the aspirational questions of how we can become “Best in Class” and make the NHA a national model for excellence. Reaccreditation in 2017 by the American Alliance of Museums was a step in the right direction. We must go deeper and ask how the NHA can provide higher and

differentiating value to its various communities. How should we deliver a consistent and compelling museum experience? And how can we provide an environment for lifelong engagement and learning. In part, we can measure success by increased attendance (100,000 in 2017), increased collaborations and strategic partnerships (see page 7), and an increase in enrollment in our new 1894 Founders Society (major donor society). Our goal is to create more value for our membership by steadily improving upon our specialized knowledge, exceptional collection, and presentation capabilities at our properties. Our assumption is that through leveraging this investment, more people will visit, excitement will grow, and the institution is perceived even more as a vital and integral part of the community. A core NHA objective is to tell stories, so we must ask ourselves what stories do we currently tell and, more importantly, what stories do we not. Response to the Hadwen House exhibition on Rights and Race and the Art Colony exhibition at Greater Light will suggest if we can pivot to a more comprehensive suite of stories. Conversely at the Whaling Museum, we must “peak the peaks” and offer a more robust experience.

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MESSAGE CONTINUED In our first year, we set ourselves a number of goals. • Invest in deepening the experience in the Whaling Museum and extending the story to whale ecology today; • Open Hadwen House to the public, and introduce a new multi-year initiative titled Rights and Race (see article on page 26); • Launch a year-round mentorship program for island youth, expand college internships to a year-round model, and introduce semester-long learning with partner colleges; • Invest in a suite of digital initiatives to unify our collections databases and digitize our collections; • Commit to instruction and promotion of early American crafts; • Celebrate the fine arts and the decorative arts, often in conjunction with peer organizations; • Ramp up a publications program, with two books launching this summer; • Increase access and deepen the experiences at our 7 historic sites; • Welcome the community with free off-season admission; • String our sites together with a new app to facilitate wayfinding.

On properties, we wish to challenge our membership to “think big”. What is that magic formula that allows us to attain “highest and best use” of our portfolio? A major step forward was the acquisition of 4 Whalers Lane in September. This strategic acquisition allows for future expansion and the addition of more exhibition and educational space downtown. Meanwhile we must be mindful of the unique demands of housing such that we can attract and retain key staff to push the organization forward. We hope you share our excitement about the strength of and possibilities for this venerable 124-year-old institution. Looking ahead to the twin anniversary years of the 360th year since the first English settlement and the association’s 125th, the Board of Trustees is grateful for your keen and generous participation and buoyed by the passion and conviction of its membership. Sincerely, Kelly & James

CONTRIBUTE TO NANTUCKET HISTORY

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OUTGOING TRUSTEES HAMPTON “HAM” LYNCH Ham Lynch served on the NHA Board of Trustees from 20082012. During his tenure Ham was Vice President of the Board, a member of the Executive Committee, and Chair of the Collections and Exhibitions Committee. He also chaired a number of crucial Ad Hoc Committees including the Re-Stewarding Committee. Mr. Lynch then returned to the Board as a representative of the Friends of the NHA from 2016-2018, serving on the Committee on Trustees and Governance and the Collections and Exhibitions Committee. Mr. Lynch has been a remarkable supporter of campaigns, events, membership, and annual giving. His special interests have included the NHA 1800 House and collections. The NHA community expresses its gratitude for Ham’s dedication and commitment to further the mission of the institution.

JASON TILROE

Jason Tilroe served on the NHA Board of Trustees from 20102018. During his tenure, he was Vice President of the Board, and also served on the Executive Committee and the Collections and Exhibitions Committee. He has generously supported the NHA through annual, capital and endowment campaigns, membership, events, and donations to the collections. He has hosted numerous NHA events in both London and Nantucket. Mr. Tilroe has been instrumental in conceiving and supporting important cross-institutional educational initiatives for the island’s year-round community. He and his family are life members of the NHA. The NHA community expresses its gratitude for Jason’s dedication and commitment to further the mission of the institution.

INCOMING TRUSTEES AMANDA CROSS

GRAHAM GOLDSMITH

Raised in New York City, at the age of 12, Amanda started spending summers on Nantucket. After graduating from Harvard, she moved to Nantucket full time. She was an early member of the Nantucket Planning Commission, Nantucket Arts Council Board, and Opera House Cup Committee. In 1990 she began spending the winters in Sanibel, Florida, with her husband and daughter. Her business career was devoted to developing computer software. Amanda co-founded SanCap Cares, raising $15 million for Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida. She is currently serving on the boards of Southwest Florida Women’s Foundation and Lee Health Foundation. A year ago, Amanda moved back to Nantucket full-time. Amanda has a long interest in the NHA and the rich history of Nantucket, particularly womens’ rights.

Graham Goldsmith is the chief executive officer and the cochief investment officer of Cross Ocean Partners. Cross Ocean is an alternative investment management firm based in London, England and Greenwich, Connecticut. It manages $4.1bn of committed capital focused on special situations credit and hard asset investing. Prior, Graham was a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Global Credit & Special Situations Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (“BAML”), where he worked for over 20 years until June 2014. Graham also served on BAML’s Fixed Income Management Committee, and led BAML’s global regulatory reform team. Graham serves on the board of trustees for Middlebury College and on the board of visitors for the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Graham and his family are lifelong Nantucket summer residents.

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MEMBERS’ STORIES SERIES Karen Butler, Longstanding NHA Member

n the early 1990s, as a longtime fun-loving photographer of Nantucket, especially its lighthouses, I was taking a class on “How to Photograph a Building” at the University of Florida School of Architecture’s Preservation Institute program on Centre Street, and it dawned on me that if the lighthouses of Nantucket could talk, what stories they would have to tell. At the time, no one had told those stories, at least about the people who were closely connected with them. It was suggested that I contact the executive director of the NHA, Maurice Gibbs, as he might help me locate such

After four and a half years, the end result was Nantucket Lights: An Illustrated History of the Island’s Historic Beacons, published in 1996 by Mill Hill Press. I like to say that the book wrote me, rather than I wrote the book. If it were not for all the urging done in a gentle and sweet manner by those whose history I was capturing, the book might be sitting here half-finished. Unequivocally, it is most important to add that a great deal of credit goes to the intellectual support and enthusiasm I received from the NHA Research Library. To me, that was a meaningful part of the completion of Nantucket Lights and for that, I am eternally grateful.

IN MEMORIAM, ELIZABETH “LIBBY” OLDHAM Nantucketers. I didn’t know Maurice at all, but he graciously gave me the names of five people (Ethel Larsen Hamilton, Reggie Reed, Vic Reed, Janet Haskins, and Bill Grieder), who had lived at Nantucket’s lighthouses as children, as their fathers were some of the last keepers on Nantucket before the U. S. Coast Guard managed them. Today, we have only memories of their spirit and recordings in the NHA archives of interviews that were conducted. Maurice also suggested that I spend time at the NHA’s Research Library, where I could get some great coaching from Libby Oldham on how to go about the research if I wanted to write a book on the subject that would include old photos and poignant reminiscences. Libby enthusiastically shared her expertise. Mind you, I had done writing about historic subjects, but had never written a book. I needed a lot of guidance, and she generously gave it to me.

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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Elizabeth “Libby” Oldham on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Earlier this year, Libby retired from the Nantucket Historical Association, after serving more than two decades as a Research Associate and the Copy Editor of Historic Nantucket magazine, books, and numerous other publications. Libby will be posthumously named a Research Fellow at the 124th NHA Annual Meeting on July 6. You can still glean Libby’s knowledge through our archives of her research queries by visiting: NHA.ORG

NHA COLLABORATIONS COMMUNITY PARTNERS

HA engaged with these local and regional non-profit organizations, schools, colleges, universites and supporting businesses in collaborative efforts to deliver a comprehensive program of work.

Angler’s Club Antiques Council Artists Association of Nantucket (3) Boston University Cape Cod Museum of Art Center for Coastal Studies Council of American Maritime Museums Egan Maritme Institute Historic Deerfield Hobart and William Smith Colleges Nantucket Atheneum Nantucket Book Festival Nantucket Community Music Center Nantucket Community Sailing Nantucket Conservation Foundation Nantucket Cottage Hospital Nantucket Garden Club Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Land Bank Nantucket Land Council Nantucket Lighthouse School Nantucket New School Nantucket Preservation Trust Nantucket Public Schools

Nantucket Theatre Workshop New Bedford Whaling Museum New York School of Interior Design (2) Northeast Document Conservation Center Maine Maritime Museum Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust Mass Humanities Museum of African American History Mystic Seaport Peabody Essex Museum Preservation Institute Princeton University ReMain Nantucket Fund Roger Williams University (1) Salve Regina University ‘Sconset Chapel ‘Sconset Trust The Inquirer and Mirror Town of Nantucket The White Heron Theatre University of Massachusetts, Boston Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute

EXHIBITION COLLABORATIONS

ollaborations with the following organizations were integral to the success of the following new exhibitions at the Whaling Museum, Hadwen House and Greater Light.

Celebrating Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket Athenuem Whale Ecology, Center for Coastal Studies, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket, Art Colony, Artists Association of Nantucket Juxtapositions, Artists Association of Nantucket Rights and Race, Museum of African American History, Nantucket Atheneum

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EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

ast fall Education and Interpretations Committee Chair John Hilton challenged staff to reimagine our education programs. In response, new initiatives targeted to Nantucket youth were conceived and piloted in the winter and spring. Mary Lacoursiere returned to the NHA as The Peter M. & Bonnie J. Sacerdote Chair of Education. With a desire to focus and excel, curricular-based K-12 programs were offered for both an in-school and inmuseum experience. Unique experiences for students included “Walk Through Time” sleep-overs in the whaling museum and the K-5th grade “Museum in My School” history program. Public programs reached thousands more with over 100 programs and activities. NHA public programs reached over 5,000 participants through a total of 73 lectures, concerts, classes, and performances in 2017. Diversity initiatives “Our Nantucket: Jamaica” and “Our Nantucket: Ireland” drew attendees to the museum in large numbers.

“HANDS ON HISTORY” IN THE DISCOVERY ROOM The “Hands on History” craft program held in the Discovery Room during the summer engages thousands of children. In 2018 the program will feature a daily themed craft activity; Maria Mondays, Tinker Tuesdays, Whale Wednesdays, Throwback Thursdays, Knot-Ack-All Fridays, Museum-and-Seek Saturdays, and Shell Sundays. The activities are free with museum admission.

1800 HOUSE The NHA 1800 House program continues to celebrate Nantucket’s rich history of decorative arts and crafts. Artisans offer hands-on classes using traditional techniques and materials. Students of all ages have the opportunity to explore Nantucket’s heritage while creating their own works of art. Participation is strong as the summer seasons starts, with many classes offered by new instructors. Summer 2018 features The Fine Art of Craft, a juried exhibition at the 1800 House, showcasing the work of talented masters of decorative arts. The exhibition is free and open to the public through July 26.

NHA INTERNS This program expanded to include winter and spring interns and off-site internships with the expectation that more students, both undergraduate and graduate, will find meaningful work-study experiences to bolster their fields of study. Six interns were engaged in 2017 and 11 interns are engaged this spring and summer. Their work includes public programming, site interpretation and library and collections research.

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EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS NHA MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

he Mentorship program provides Nantucket High School students the opportunity to learn life and work skills in a professional environment while preparing for college, in a paid after school program running throughout the academic year and summer. This winter and spring, an 8 week pilot guided students through a structured course of learning, while having fun in the process. Students engaged in research, public speaking, career exploration and activities to further the mission of the NHA. During the summer months, mentees are engaged in Visitor Services and interpretation at the NHA historic sites.

FROM NHA VISITORS SERVICES TO ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERISTY

UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIONS NHA worked with select colleges for on-island and class-based learning. Participating colleges include Boston University (BU), Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS), the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), Princeton University (PU), Roger Williams University (RWU) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Work conducted by RWU architectural students involved reimaging the 4 Whalers Lane site. BU museum-studies students will curate an exhibition. WPI students will examine the Old Mill and devise a series of interactive elements to teach engineering and math. NYSID students redecorated rooms in the Oldest House. HWM students worked remotely and helped with the “One Book One Island” partnership project and a Princeton student is working in the research library.

1800 HOUSE EARLY AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS

Nantucket High School student and Visitors Services team member, Brandon Menjivar reflects on his NHA experience. For me, the NHA has been a terrific, professional environment. When I started I was strictly in Visitor Services, but I’ve also had experience with managing a range of situations from positive to challenging ones. It’s a different kind of environment to work in than most high school jobs would provide. The value of learning to interact with visitors has been important, making sure that they are having a great experience while they’re in the museum. At Roger Williams, I’ll be a political science major and I’m looking forward to getting out into the world and branching out beyond Nantucket, seeing what a new community might have to offer.

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EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS

OUT OF THE BOX: UNPACKING NANTUCKET STORIES

2018 EXHIBITIONS

2017 EXHIBITIONS

new 4-pronged exhibition philosophy embraces telling more Nantucket stories, leveraging use of galleries and properties, increasing use and display of our collections and partnering with peer organizations to create meaningful presentations. Hadwen House features an exhibition on abolitionism and suffrage, titled Rights and Race. This exhibition feeds into a partnership with Museum of African American History and Nantucket Athenuem as we celebrate Frederick Douglass’s 200th birthday. The garden there showcases contemporary sculpture by island artists. Greater Light showcases the Art Colony period collections of both the NHA and the Artists Association of Nantucket. Maria Mitchell Association’s curator unveiled an exhibition on their namesake in the Whaling Museum. The Marine Mammal Alliance of Nantucket and the Center for Coastal Studies aided with a new exhibition on whale ecology, featuring underwater photographs by Eric Savetsky. Displays in the Candle Factory and throughout the Whaling Museum were upgraded including a new Friends of the NHA corner. Nantucketers and Their Boats, an exploration of the ways islanders interact with the water, is the 2018 major summer exhibition in the McCausland Gallery.

During 2017 the NHA opened two exhibitions. Dear Absent Ones: The Seafaring Pinkhams, on view from March through December, highlighted the many ways one family contributed to the success of island whaling. Out of the Box: Unpacking Nantucket Stories brought a diverse range of fascinating artifacts out of storage from every corner of the collection to illuminate island life in the past and reveal the diversity of people who have made Nantucket their home.

WHALE ECOLOGY

DEAR ABSENT ONES: THE SEAFARING PINKHAMS

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CELEBRATING MARIA MITCHELL

EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS 2017 COLLECTIONS

or 124 years, the NHA has been fortunate to be the recipient of important art, objects, and collections. This year, of note for its size, was the collection of thousands of prints and negatives by island photographer Bill Haddon. Sara Jo Kobacker and the Kobacker family donated two important scrimshawed teeth. The Susan’s tooth by Frederick Myrick is from 1826-29. The William L. Roderick tooth is a large polychromed tooth attributed to the Welch surgeon who sailed on the bark Adventure between 1847 and 1856. Linda Loring gave an important 19th century ship model by island boat builder William H. Chase, and Barbara Read gave a set of Nantucket Grammar School athletic awards from the 1930s. Two important acquisitions came via the generosity of the Friends of the NHA. The first was a sperm whale tooth depicting the whaling ship George Clinton of Hudson, NY, 1835. The second is a painting of the clipper ship Midnight by the Chinese artist Hin Qua, created around 1860. The richness of the NHA’s manuscript and artifact collections grows every year. Among the highlights were significant additions to the costume and textile collection, including an iconic Nantucket Looms CPO jacket, the gift of Patricia S. Anathan, and a 1920s shawl, the gift of Frances Karttunen, originally purchased from Jacob Abajian’s Oriental Bazaar on Centre Street. Carl Anderson donated a set of letters that nineteen-year-old F. Chester Adams wrote to his mother during summer 1917, when he worked as a bellhop at the Sea Cliff Inn.

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RESEARCH LIBRARY

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NHA 2017 VERNEY FELLOW The 2017 E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellow was Meaghan Fritz, a PhD candidate in English at Northwestern University. Her area of focus is nineteenthcentury American literature, with a focus on women’s writing. As the Verney Fellow, she used the Research Library’s manuscript collections in writing her dissertation “American Widows Willed: Extralegal Citizenship and the Literature of Womanhood”.

The Research Library’s 2017 intern, Emma Gronbeck, an MLS student at Simmons College, worked with the NHA’s institutional records. Emma surveyed 180 linear feet of institutional records, created a processing plan for the institution’s properties records, and processed and wrote finding aids for 11 historical association properties. The Community Preservation Committee awarded the NHA $40,000 to digitizing the Nantucket whaling logbooks and journals. This funding enabled the Research Library, in partnership with the Northeast Document Conservation Center, to digitize forty-one fragile logbooks and journals. The Research Library has embarked on a major multi-year digital initiatives program to digitize the entire Collections, thanks to a leadership gift by Connie and Tom Cigarran. Increasingly, building, preserving, and providing access to these collections requires the use of digital technology. Integrating appropriate technological solutions to provide better care for and access to the diverse collections will allow the user to search a common database seamlessly and quickly. This is a major undertaking as the NHA has approximately 25,000 artifacts, 60,000 photographs, 8,000 books and tens of thousands of documents and archives, the vast majority of which have been donated. 2017.11.1

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ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTION The Nantucket Historical Association gratefully acknowledges those who generously contributed gifts of artifacts and documents to the collections in 2017.

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2017.1 Tin lamp, 19th c. GIFT OF CHARLES MCCANNON

2017.2 Ten silver spoons GIFT OF NANCY AND CARL GEWIRZ

2017.3 Friendship basket purse and Nantucket basket, 1980 GIFT OF CHRIS CRAIG IN HONOR OF ISABELLE SEAMAN

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2017.7 Embroidered shawl owned by Ellen Ramsdell, 1920s GIFT OF FRANCES KARTTUNEN

2017.13 Nantucket basket, 1950s. GIFT OF THE ESTATE OF NANCY E. POLAND

2017.14 Silk scarf owned by Eunice Barrett Pinkham

GIFT OF ELIZABETH JACOBSEN

GIFT OF FRANCES KARTTUNEN

2017.9 Painting of clipper ship Midnight, 1850s.

2017.15 Residential quarterboard from “The Struggle,” 1964

2017.22 Sampler by Elizabeth S. Paddack, 1826

GIFT OF THE FRIENDS OF THE NHA

GIFT OF RONALD SANTOS

GIFT OF JOYCE FOLGER JENKINS MARSH

2017.10 Miniature grandfather clock

GIFT OF MIRANDA FERRARA FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM P. AND MARY DICKINSON HERBERT

GIFT OF SCOTT L. GHORMLEY

2017.11 Nantucket Looms CPO jacket, ca 1980

2017.16 Girls’ dresses, ca. 1985 GIFT OF PATRICIA S. ANATHAN

2017.17 Six prints by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1950s

2017.5 Two ship models, 19th c.

GIFT OF PATRICIA S. ANATHAN

GIFT OF ELIZABETH JACOBSEN

GIFT OF LINDA LORING

2017.12 Butterick sewing patterns for Nantucket Designs for Children, 1980s

2017.18 Nantucket Grammar School award ribbons and set of paper dolls, 1932

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GIFT OF BARBARA READ

GIFT OF THE FRIENDS OF THE NHA

2017.19 Six teaspoons by Samuel Barrett, 1787 GIFT OF ALBERTA AND IRVING GOSS

GIFT OF ALBERTA AND IRVING GOSS

2017.8 Three baskets, ca. 1945.

2017.4 Nantucket ephemera, 1920s

2017.6 Scrimshaw tooth of ship George Clinton of Hudson, New York, 1835

2017.20 Brass stencil from Peter C. Brock, Ravenna, Ohio

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2017.21 Painting of Nantucket family coats of arms, 1935 GIFT OF MARILYN MACY DIX

2017.23 Two scrimshaw whale teeth, attributed to William L. Roderick and Frederick Myrick 19th c. GIFT OF SARA JO KOBACKER

2017.24 Nantucket Looms V-neck fisherman’s sweater and pair of Nantucket Reds trousers, 1980s GIFT OF PATRICIA S. ANATHAN

RESEARCH LIBRARY ACCESSIONS

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RL2017.1 Power of attorney from Joseph M. Chase, 1844 GIFT OF JONATHAN SWAIN

RL2017.8 Ephemera from the estate of William P. and Mary Dickinson Herbert

RL2017.15 Letter from Joseph Marshall to William Crosby, 1851 GIFT OF MARSHA HALL BROWN

GIFT OF MIRANDA FERRARA

RL2017.3 Family photographs GIFT OF JONATHAN SWAIN

RL2017.4 Autograph letter to Jared Coffin from Obed Ray Jr GIFT OF SARA BREWSTER

RL2017.5 Ledger of Nantucket residents compiled from the 1870 federal census GIFT OF CINDY BURNHAM

RL2017.6 Photograph of Wallace Adams

RL2017.9 Journal of the ship York, 1849

RL2017.16 Letter from Capt. William H. Caswell to Susan Wood, 1860

GIFT OF DIANE EGAN

GIFT OF PETER COCCOLUTO

RL2017.10 Letters relating to the death of Robert Macy (1798â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1828)

RL2017.17 Letter from Katharine Wyman Herbert, 1928

GIFT OF LAUREN MACY FLAHIVE

GIFT OF MIRANDA FERRARA FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM P. AND MARY DICKINSON HERBERT

RL2017.11 Chester Adams letters, 1917 GIFT OF CARL ANDERSON

RL2017.12 Deed for Swain House on Broad Street, 1857 GIFT OF BILL MOYNIHAN

GIFT OF DUNNIE TAWNEY

RL2017.7 Letter from Mary E. Starbuck to Amelia Day Campbell, 1920 GIFT OF SUSAN R. AND L. DENNIS SHAPIRO

RL2017.13 Four postcards by H. Marshall Gardiner GIFT OF GINGER EVEN

RL2017.14 Photographs by Paul Whitten, Jimmy Chase, and the Read family

RL2017.18 1938 National Air Mail Week envelope GIFT OF MIRANDA FERRARA FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM P. AND MARY DICKINSON HERBERT

RL2017.8001 Books about whaling GIFT OF BOB AND NINA HELLMAN

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GIFT OF BARBARA READ

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SPECIAL EVENTS 2017 SPECIAL EVENTS

n 2017, Nantucket Historical Association offered special events celebrating Nantucket and supporting the NHA’s mission. From Nantucket by Design to Festival of Trees, the NHA is grateful for the generosity of those who provide their time, talents, in-kind gifts, and leadership support- all of which were essential to the success of of these events.

A highlight of Nantucket’s 2017 summer season was Nantucket by Design was chaired by NHA Trustee Pheobe Tudor. Keynote speakers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams were joined by design luminaries Carolyn Englefield, Gary McBournie, Richard Mishaan, and Michelle Nussbaumer. The week of events included a design lecture and luncheon, a design panel, cocktail receptions, private dinners, design installations by students from the New York School of Interior Design, and a festive summer party at NHA’s Oldest House. Open the week of Thanksgiving, the 19th Annual Festival of Wreaths featured an array of wreaths beautifully crafted by local businesses, nonprofits, schools, and organizations. From traditionally decorated greens to unconventional materials, the auction wreaths exemplified the creativity of the island. Admission to the show was free and visitors were encouraged to bid on their favorite in a silent auction to benefit the NHA’ s year-round outreach efforts. In its 24th year, the Festival of Trees once again transformed the Whaling Museum into a festive winter wonderland for the entire month of December. This event showcased community-crafted trees designed by local merchants, nonprofit organizations, artists and children. The Festival of Trees Preview Party is the kickoff to the event and provides attendees with delicious food and drink and the first opportunity to view the tree designs. Throughout the entire month, the event drew over 6,000 visitors into the museum.

HOST YOUR EVENT AT THE NHA The NHA properties provided unique historic venues for 36 special functions- from weddings to corporate engagements, and a variety of celebrations at Quaker Meeting House, Greater Light, and the Whaling Museum in 2017.

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antucket Historical Association’s major summer fundraiser, Nantucket by Design, celebrates the very best in creative and inspirational design across many fields and disciplines.

The events begin on August 1 with an intimate cocktail reception at a private home, where guests will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with Nantucket by Design keynote speaker David Kleinberg. On August 2 the Design Luncheon at White Elephant Village Ballroom will be moderated by Sophie Donelson, editor-in-chief of House Beautiful magazine. Highlights include a champagne reception, multimedia presentation by David Kleinberg, of David Kleinberg Design Associates, Q & A session, and book signing. The Design Luncheon is sponsored by Kathleen Hay Designs, Nantucket Lightshop, The Tile Room, and The Water Closet. The Design Panel will be held at White Heron Theatre on August 3. Sponsored by Boston Design Center and moderated by Chesie Breen, this panel brings together some of the most outstanding design talent for a topical discussion on the latest trends. This year’s line-up of designers consists of Amanda Lindroth, David Netto, and Nick Voulgaris III. For a singular evening experience, attendees enjoy the opportunity to dine with design luminaries in the intimate settings of private Nantucket homes and NHA historic sites at the All-Star Private Dinners. The dinners are chaired by Gary McBournie and Bill Richards and sponsored by Magellan Jets. In a closing celebration on August 4, the Whaling Museum will be an exciting new venue for the Nantucket by Design event. The Night at the Museum party will be surrounded by Nantucket’s history, featuring signature cocktails, live music, dancing, top-rate food and drink by Nantucket Catering Company, and so much more. During the week of Nantucket by Design, New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) students have been invited back to reimagine select rooms in the NHA’s Oldest House historic property. Ellen Fisher, NYSID Dean and VP for Academic Affairs, has created a university course that aims to provide students with a show house experience. Students will design one of the two first-floor rooms at the NHA’s Oldest House property, and will create concepts, source furnishings from local Nantucket shops, and create a space fitted for modern living while still preserving the essence of this historic property. Students will then discuss their work and creative visions with visitors.

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NANTUCKET BY DESIGN 2018 LEADERS DIAMOND

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Anne DeLaney & Chip Carver Kelly Williams & Andrew Forsyth Franci Neely Janet & Rick Sherlund Harriett & Warren Stephens Phoebe & Bobby Tudor Kim & Finn Wentworth

Victoria McManus & John McDermott Jean Doyen de Montaillou & Michael Kovner

Susan Blount & Richard Bard Carol & Harold Baxter Maureen & Edward Bousa Anne Marie & Doug Bratton Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Ella Pritchard Molly & Patrick Ryan Helen & Chuck Schwab

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BRONZE

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Patricia S. & Thomas J. Anathan Mary Randolph Ballinger Laura & Bill Buck Carl Jelleme Harvey Jones Bill Richards & Gary McBournie Ashley & Jeffrey McDermott Sarah & Jeff Newton Susan & Ken Richardson Linda Saligman Jason Tilroe Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Watkins

Liz McDermott & Ben Barnes Kay Bernon Mr. & Mrs. Max N. Berry Susan & Bill Boardman Marianna Brewster Paula & Bob Butler Connie & Tom Cigarran Lucy & Nathaniel Day Excecutive Jet Management Karyn Frist Kyle & Doug Karp Linda & George Kelly Sharon & Frank Lorenzo Poppi Massey Betsey & John Moller Nantucket House Antiques & Interior Design

Nancy & Doug Abbey Olivia & Felix Charney Prudence & William Crozier Karen & Chris Gagnier Elizabeth Georgantas Coco & Arie L. Kopelman Janet & Keith Lindgren Susan Lister Locke Susan & Jeff Lucier Joni Mullen Diane & Britt Newhouse Bonnie Roseman Nancy & Joe Serafini Denise & Bill Welsh

CONTRIBUTORS Anne Bailliere Joan Bolling Eileen & Robert Butler John M. DeCiccio Barbara & Ed Hajim Franci Neely Diane & Britt Newhouse Kathy & Roger Penske Sheila & Richard Riggs Kate Lubin & Glendon Sutton Merrielou & Ned Symes Garrett Thornburg

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Carla & Jack McDonald

Kathe & Bill Pate Liz & Jeff Peek Maria & George Roach Margaret & John Ruttenberg Marla & Terry Sanford Carolyn Thayer Alisa & Alastair Wood Leslie Forbes & David Worth

NANTUCKET BY DESIGN 2018 SPONSORS

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PROPERTIES

y far the single biggest strategic decision in 2017 was the acquisition of 4 Whalers Lane abutting the Whaling Museum complex. The structure of the deal allows time for the Board to conduct an in-depth analysis of its property portfolio and architect a holistic campus-wide plan. Opening more of our historic sites for longer periods of time and providing a more robust visitor experience are twin goals in 2018. Greater Light showcases a new exhibition. The Old Mill will run more frequently and have new interpretive displays. The Oldest House will have more artifacts and items of interest along with more activities on site. The Quaker Meeting House and Whitney Gallery will be open 7 days per week starting in July.

mportant physical improvements were made along South Beach and Broad Streets to help prevent flooding and improve ADA access. At Hadwen House, the triple parlor was opened and behind the scenes work included installation of a new HVAC system, cosmetic and plumbing upgrades and build-out of a brick terrace. At the Thomas Macy Warehouse, the Department of Public Works built a â&#x20AC;&#x153;high/lowâ&#x20AC;? path option that allows ADA access to the first floor. Tom McGrath, an historic preservation specialist drafted an action plan to renovate the exterior, including a new slate roof as per original, new flashing, gutters and downspouts. Thanks largely to a Community Preservation Committee award, much of this work will be performed in the fall of 2018. Resulting from a detailed engineering study in 2017, the NHA aspires to have the Old Mill running with increased frequency this summer and fall. Currently, hardscaping projects are underway to improve points of entry. This project has been facilitated by outreach to local landscapers by trustee Carl Jelleme of Toscana Corporation.

VICTOR-BRANDON DPW STAFF, JIM RIVARD, ENGINEER MIKE BURNS, PLANNER, AND CITIZEN DAVE FREDERICKS

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DIGITAL INTIATIVES

he NHA is delighted to announce the launch of the new NHA.org. Designed and built by Novation Media, longstanding NHA technical advisors and supporters, the new website integrates information about the historic properties, collections, archives, exhibitions, programs, and publications so that anyone worldwide with an interest in Nantucket history can access and retrieve important information with ease. The Novation Media team, Al Novissimo, Mary Novissimo, and Chris Mason, analyzed the rich content from over 3,500 pages of the former website and reorganized the content into a modern, intuitive, and visitor-friendly interface with a powerful search capability. Content that was once difficult-to-find is now easily accessible. Using the device of their choice, visitors can now discover whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available and currently happening at the NHA, learn about Nantucket history and the places they are visiting, search the collections and other online resources, buy tickets, sign up for classes and programs, purchase from the museum shop, and more.The flexibility of the new website is evidenced by the ease of adding significant additional content since the soft launch of the site in May. The new NHA website completes phase 2 of a multi-phase website initiative. Phase 1 was the modernization of the online NHA Museum Shop, completed in November 2017 and now integrated with the new NHA.org. Phase 3, will transform the current archives and collections databases into a modern web architecture that will support robust search and research functionality for professional researchers and students, and the general public. Most importantly, this new architecture will provide the framework for expanded product delivery as the new digital initiative goal is to digitize all archival material, artifacts, and audio and video recordings in the NHA collections over the next three years.

ntegrated with the website is an exciting new webbased wayfinding mobile app that directs visitors to the NHA historic sites. The app provides walking and biking directions, information on site history, upcoming programs, and accessibility.

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SPECIAL SUMMER PROGRAMS 2018 JUXTAPOSITIONS

June 21- October 9 Juxtapositions, a seasonal exhibition of contemporary sculptures, will be on view at the Hadwen House garden, with an artists forum in August. This exhibition presents contemporary abstract sculpture in a formal 19th century garden; bringing a new element to this unique outdoor setting and inspiring visitors to examine the ways in which art and nature work in harmony regardless of process, material or subject. Works by sculptors Kevin Barrett, John Evans, David Hostetler, M.J. Levy Dickson, Karen Petersen, and Billy Sherry are presented. This exhibition is in partnership with Quidley & Company, Old Spouter Gallery, Hostetler Gallery, The Gallery at Four India Street, Art Cabinet Nantucket, and Artists Association of Nantucket.

SCULPTURE BY JOHN EVANS

OIL, BUSINESS AND BLUBBER July 17

NHA will host a half-day symposium, “Oil, Business, and Blubber”, focused on the business of whaling and its economic impact on early American culture. Jonas Peter Akins, HBS Research Associate, and Choate Rosemary Hall faculty member will present “Financing Whaling Ventures: A Case Study on Long Lays on Greasy Voyages”, illustrating how the whaling industry made its mark on the global economy of its time. Dr. Jerry Dauterive, Professor of Economics at Roger Williams University, will deliver an in-depth look at the industry of spermaceti candle-making and its significance in early American economic history. Author and NHA 2014 Verney Fellow, Ben Shattuck, shares the exciting story of the first bank heist in early U.S. history, which occured on Nantucket in 1795. The symposium will be held at White Heron Theatre on July 17, from 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and is preceded by an evening cocktail reception on July 16.

SAILORS’ SCUTTLEBUTT LECTURE SERIES July and August

In partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing, NHA presents the Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series at the Whaling Museum on July 10 and 24, and later on August 7 and 28, 2018. Inspried by NHA’s 2018 major exhibtion Nantucketers and Their Boats, the lecture series celebrate Nantucket’s maritime heritage and offers points of interest to sailors and non-sailors alike. The lectures feature a line-up of presentations and discussions delivered by famous Nantucket sailors; Alfie Sanford, Gary Jobson, John Burnham, Craig Venter, and Nat Philbrick. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF JOHN BURNHAM

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SPECIAL SUMMER PROGRAMS 2018 LECTURE & RECEPTION WITH DAVA SOBEL July 25

In celebration of the 200th birthday of Maria Mitchell, Dava Sobel, will be the speaker at 6:00 p.m. on July 25, on her new book The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. The talk will be followed by a reception, book signing, and time for attendees to enjoy the Maria Mitchell Association and NHA’s collaborative exhibit on Maria Mitchell – Celebrating Maria Mitchell And Her Legacy.

SCRIMSHAW PRESENTATION WITH DR. STUART FRANK August 11

Dr. Stuart Frank, the world’s foremost expert on scrimshaw, will deliver a lecture “Curiosities and Oddments of Scrimshaw in the Nantucket Historical Association” at the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday August 11. Dr. Frank is a former curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and currently Director of the Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory. He will introduce viewers to the extraordinary range of this fanciful artwork. Images of these unique creations from NHA’s collection will be highlighted in an entertaining and educational multimedia presentation.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAMMING

July- December Lecture August 21

To commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass, NHA is collaborating on programs with Nantucket Atheneum and the Museum of African American History. Dr. Christine Kinealy, a world-renowned historian and professor of history at Quinnipiac University will present Frederick Douglass in Ireland. This lecture will be held in the intimate setting of Hadwen House on August 21 at 6:00 p.m., surrounded by the Rights and Race exhibition, connecting themes of social change in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Douglass visited Nantucket five times and spoke publicly on several occasions to integrated audiences of the community who were aligned with the anti-slavery movement. Multiple activities include: a renactment of Frederick Douglass’s arrival on Nantucket in 1841, a walking tour “Walking with Frederick Douglass on Nantucket” through island neighborhoods, readaloud sections of Douglass’s autobiography and musical performances.

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The Spermaceti Candle Trust and theHouse of Rotch

JERRY DAUTERIVE

PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

n November 1761, a small group of men met in Newport, Rhode Island, to sign an agreement that may represent the first formal conspiracy in restraint of trade in American history. The men were owners of the eight largest firms engaged in production of spermaceti candles, an important new source of lighting. Acting under the title of the “United Company of Spermaceti Chandlers,” their articles of agreement specified maximum prices the firms would pay for resources, minimum prices they would charge for their product, and a commitment to prevent the entry of new competitors into the industry Over the next fifteen years, members of this “Spermaceti Trust” would meet periodically to sign agreements in support of their goal of preventing competition in their industry. Although such associations were legal in the colonial era, the trust would need to address the

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challenges that still confront all cartel arrangements, including violations of the agreements by current members and the efforts of new firms to enter the industry. The union would continue in existence until the eve of the American Revolution. Its ultimate demise can be attributed in part to the realities of the market forces of the highly competitive whaling industry, and more directly, to the business innovations of the preeminent Nantucket whaling merchants of the era, Joseph and William Rotch. The development of the spermaceti candle in the middle of the eighteenth century was a major step forward in the history of artificial lighting—and in the economic development of colonial America. While the spermaceti candle may not have been invented in America, it was in the American colonies that its manufacture developed into a viable industry. The candle industry provided the colonies with an opportunity to assume a leadership role in the manufacture and export of an important product for world markets.

Bottle of spermaceti oil harvested from the head case of a sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket, 1998 1998.3.2

The use of candles as a means of prolonging the usable hours in a day dates back to Roman times, with animal fat, or tallow, and beeswax as two of the most common sources of candle fuel. The eighteenth-century invention of the spermaceti candle, which would burn longer, cleaner, and brighter, offered a product that was widely recognized as far superior to tallow. While tallowcandle production took place primarily in the home, the process involved in the production of spermaceti candles required a significant capital investment in equipment, and thus an early form of commercial manufacturing. Spermaceti—so-called “head matter”—is found in the head cavity of the sperm whale. The manufacturing process involved a series of stages: heating and liquefying the spermaceti, draining the liquid into casks that were stored for months, and transferring the semisolid mass into woolen sacks, which were squeezed in a large wooden screw press capable of exerting hundreds of tons of pressure. The steps were repeated with the same batch of spermaceti until the resulting highly refined wax was ready to be molded into candles. The origin of spermaceti-candle manufacturing in the colonies is something of a mystery, but the earliest attempts appear to have taken place in Rhode Island. Jacob Rodriques Rivera, a Sephardic Jew who emigrated from Portugal to Newport, is believed by some historians to have been manufacturing candles in Newport around 1748. In 1751, Benjamin Crabb of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for the “Sole privilege” of making “Candles of Coarse Sperma Caeti Oyle.” Crabb then moved to Rhode Island, where he was hired by Obadiah Brown to run the candle factory his family was constructing in Providence. By 1754, Obadiah Brown and Company was marketing spermaceti candles for sale in

Boston. This enterprise was an early successful venture for the Brown family of Providence in the development of their substantial commercial empire. Due to the price of the critical raw resource (head matter) and the complex manufacturing process required, the spermaceti candle was considered a luxury good in the lighting industry, priced significantly above common tallow and wax candles. Despite the high production cost and initial investment in equipment required, the potential for substantial profits attracted entrants to the market, and by 1760 there were at least seven candleworks in operation—five in Newport, one in Providence, and one near Boston. The candle makers were dependent on Nantucket whaling firms for the head matter that was the critical component of their product. As the number of candle makers increased more rapidly than the supply of head matter, competition for that resource caused prices to skyrocket. By fall 1760, concern over head-matter prices led Brown and three of the Newport manufacturers to notify Joseph Rotch, the leading Nantucket whaling merchant, of the maximum price they would pay for spermaceti. This initial effort by candle makers to confront the strategic position of the whaling companies was followed by a call from candle maker Richard Cranch of Braintree, Massachusetts, to all New England manufacturers “to meet in order to promote our mutual advantage.” Representatives of the eight major candleworks met on November 5, 1761, to sign an agreement creating the “United Company of Spermaceti Chandlers.” The articles stipulated a maximum price members would pay for head matter (not more than six pounds sterling per ton above the price of common spermaceti brown oil), a maximum commission firms would pay agents, and a minimum price for candles sold in New England (one shilling, ten and one-half pence per pound). The articles also boldly declared that since the members of the agreement were “more than sufficient” to consume all the head matter likely to be brought into New England, each member would use “all fair and honorable means to prevent the setting up” of any new spermaceti works. The union was to continue for a period of seventeen months, and during that time the members would have two meetings at “the best tavern in Taunton.” The United Company arrangement had the classic elements of market collusion, including agreements on pricing and cost-fixing, and a stated goal to prevent entry to the industry. However, in such collusive arrangements between sellers, individual members may employ economic incentives

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on head matter in England. Rotch denied the charges and responded with a spirited defense of his family’s commitment to economic self-interest by informing the candle makers that “all the friendship that can be expected in trade is to let your friend have a thing at the same price that others would give for it.”

Engraving of a spermaceti whale from A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the Purpose of Extending the Spermaceti Whale Fisheries, by Captain James Colnett, 1798 1996.23.1

to cheat on the agreement by offering secret price cuts or kickbacks. Thus, it is not surprising that within months the companies were charging one another with various violations of the articles. To strengthen terms of the trust, the members agreed to meet in Providence in April 1763. The 1763 agreement again stipulated a maximum price on head matter and prohibited members from manufacturing candles for nonmembers. The articles included a list of ten approved suppliers of head matter, primarily the major Nantucket whaling companies, including Joseph and William Rotch. The major innovation in the new agreement was a system for allocating head matter to the individual members of the union. All head matter was to be treated as one “common stock,” which would be divided into one hundred parts and allocated to the signers in stated proportions, with Brown and Company receiving twenty percent. While the agreement included no provisions regarding the pricing of candles, a supplemental agreement signed by Brown and the Newport houses in July 1763 specified minimum candle prices in New England, New York, and Philadelphia. Once again, charges and counter-charges of violations followed the signing of the agreement, including accusations of price-cutting and payments for head matter that were above the stated terms in the contract. In addition, manufacturers accused whaling merchant Joseph Rotch of shipping head matter to the London market under the guise of whale oil to avoid the duty

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As the demand for head matter continued to outstrip the supply, the manufacturers were increasingly concerned about the potential intrusion of new firms to the industry. Members agreed to provide “most early notice” of any attempts to establish new candleworks, and the candle makers were encouraged to withhold information on the equipment and mechanical requirements of the

The Rotch family understood the potential value of an integrated enterprise… a model that changed the structure of the industry.

manufacturing process. However, efforts to prevent entry were largely unsuccessful, and by 1774 the number of firms participating in the head-matter allocation scheme had increased to twenty-four, including four manufacturers in Providence and thirteen in Newport. The most significant new entrant was a representative from Nantucket—William Rotch. Although a few of the owners of candle firms, including the Browns of Providence and Aaron Lopez of Newport, were also involved in the whaling trade to some extent, no whaling company had made serious efforts to branch out into candle making during the early years of the industry. Thus, the news in 1769 that the Rotch family was the instigator for the construction of the first candleworks in New Bedford was an ominous sign for the trust. This was followed three years latter by William Rotch’s decision to construct Nantucket’s first candle factory. With those actions, the Rotch family was positioned to be a fully integrated firm, involved in the harvesting, processing, and distribution of whale oil and its derivatives. The trust initially welcomed the new candle maker into the association, but it soon became evident that William Rotch would not enter easily—or quietly—into the union.

Under the articles of agreement of 1774, Rotch received a quota of only thirteen parts out of every 181 parts of head matter, despite his formal request that his works receive head matter “equal in proportion to any one on the continent.” He pointed out that, even in a below-average season, his own ships had accumulated more head matter than Photo of portrait of was allotted to his works by the William Rotch, by E.D. agreement. In January of 1775, Marchant, 1825 Rotch concluded his protest with a note of warning: “Now if upon consideration you still insist keeping me to the proportion you allotted me, I believe I shall comply with it, but I certainly know it will not be for your interest to drive me to such an unreasonable compliance.” Association members realized that they would need to create appropriate policies to employ when Rotch’s whaling fleet brought in more head matter than was assigned to him. A meeting of the trust was set for March 29, 1775, but the meeting was adjourned due to poor attendance and rescheduled for April 26. However, just days before that meeting, skirmishes at Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the American Revolution. The United Company never met again. The war brought the colonial whaling business to a virtual halt, and colonial production of spermaceti candles plummeted. While the candle industry would recover following the war, only a small number of pre-war manufacturers continued in the trade. After the war, the center of candle manufacturing activity shifted from Newport to Nantucket, and by 1792 there were ten candle factories on the island, a number that had almost doubled by the end of the century.

and Nantucket signaled the doom for efforts of the independent candle makers to conspire and wield monopoly power through their collusive agreements. Market forces and self-interest present challenges to all attempts to create cartels in business. The spermaceti trust had to deal with the realities that individual members had incentives to violate the pricing terms of the agreements and that substantial profits would attract potential competitors. Though largely unsuccessful in its attempts to set prices and block entry to the industry, the United Company of Spermaceti Chandlers, during its fifteen years of existence, was colonial America’s best example of attempted monopoly through collusion. However, the world’s first “energy cartel” could not withstand the forces of the highly competitive whaling trade, the entrepreneurial drive of the Rotch family, and the forward-looking, integrated business model of William Rotch.

Dr. Jerry Dauterive is professor of economics and former dean in the Gabelli School of Business at Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of microeconomics, public choice, and managerial economics, as well as, more recently, the economics of the American whaling industry. Dauterive received his Ph.D. in economics from Texas Tech University. He will be presenting some of his research as part of an upcoming symposium on July 17 .

The United Company of Spermaceti Chandlers ceased to exist after the events at Lexington and Concord. Although the war disrupted all colonial manufacturing activity, the cartel simply could not survive the challenge of William Rotch and his business model. The Rotch family understood the potential value of an integrated enterprise, in which the whaling merchants controlled production, refining, manufacturing, and distribution—a model that changed the structure of the industry. The Rotch’s construction of candle factories at New Bedford

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SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY

NANTUCKET

M. Chris Manning, FORMER OBED MACY RESEARCH CHAIR In the nineteenth century, Nantucket was home to a large contingent of social activists committed to the popular reform movements of the period. Prominent islanders worked to abolish slavery, prevent the abuse of alcohol, elevate the status of women through suffrage and equal protection under the law, and increase educational opportunities for minorities. Many were Quakers or Unitarians and thus subscribed to a common value system that promoted racial and gender equality, personal integrity, simplicity, community, and nonviolence. Before there were protest marches and sit-ins on live television, twenty-four-hour news coverage, and socialmedia likes and retweets, nineteenth-century socialjustice activists were able to develop, maintain, and expand a network of like-minded allies and supporters, both male and female, black and white. They nurtured this network by sharing ideas in progressive newspapers like the Liberator (1831–65), the Colored American (1837–42), and the Woman’s Journal (1870–1931); participating in regional, national, and international conventions; attending public lectures; embarking on collaborative speaking tours; and through frequent correspondence. It is in the latter that the passion of nineteenth-century activists truly comes to life. The yellowed pages of letters written 150 years ago reveal that not only did Nantucket activists share similar values and support each other spiritually, politically, and intellectually, they shared the bonds of family and friendship. Some of the island’s most notable residents were friends with

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the likes of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Horace Mann, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Abby Kelley, Susan B. Anthony, and many others. They didn’t always agree, but it is clear from their letters and diaries that there was a deep and abiding affection and spirit of comradery among those men and women. Devout but liberal Quakers, Nathaniel and Eliza Barney were two of the island’s most dedicated advocates for social reform, which they supported through words, deeds, and financial contributions. Both were ardent abolitionists, helping to establish the Nantucket AntiSlavery Society in 1839 and organize the island’s first anti-slavery convention in 1841, which featured such notable speakers as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. It was also at this convention that a young African American man named Frederick Douglass (1818–95), just twenty-three years old at the time, stood before a crowd of black and white attendees and delivered what is considered his first public speech, marking his debut as an orator and launching his long career as a leader in the fight for civil rights.

THE EARLY YEARS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT In the eighteenth century, slaveholding Quakers were not uncommon, both on Nantucket and on the mainland. Although the morality of slavery troubled many Friends, the transition from denunciation to social action would take nearly a century. The topic was particularly controversial among New England Friends, many of whom owned enslaved people. In 1716, the Dartmouth Friends Meeting inquired of its neighboring

Eliza Starbuck Barney, 1860s (P111)

Swain. When he returned, Swain’s heirs attempted to seize his lay, but the ship’s owner, prominent Nantucket merchant William Rotch (1734–1828), helped Boston sue for his wages. The case appeared before the Nantucket Court of Common Pleas and a long-drawnout legal case ensued. Finally, in 1773, the jury found in favor of Boston, resulting in his immediate manumission at age twenty-three and payment of back wages, making Boston the first slave in Massachusetts to successfully sue for freedom. Although the case effectively ended slavery on Nantucket (with some notable loopholes), it remained legal in the state for another decade. In 1783, the Massachusetts Supreme Court interpreted a passage in the commonwealth’s Declaration of Rights, written by John Adams in 1780—“All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights”—as the legal basis for statewide emancipation. Eventually, all Nantucket slaves secured their freedom, and their descendants became some of the most prominent black families on the island.

1825 reprint of Elihu Coleman’s anti-slavery tract (MS107, Coleman Family Papers, 1729–1873)

meetings, “Whether it be agreeable to Truth to purchase Slaves & keep them Term of life?” The Nantucket Meeting responded that the practice was “not agreeable to Truth.” Elihu Coleman (1699–1789), a leading member of the island’s Quaker community, was one of the first to publicly criticize slavery. His antislavery tract, “A Testimony Against that Anti-Christian Practice of Making Slaves of Men” (1733), put into writing the views of the Nantucket Meeting, declaring “that this practice of making slaves of men, appears to be so great an evil to me, that for all the riches and glory of this world, I would not be guilty of so great a sin as this seems to be.” While Nantucket Quakers held firm to this conviction, the actual emancipation of slaves progressed more slowly. In 1769–70, Prince Boston (1750– ), an enslaved African American man from Nantucket, was sent to sea aboard the whaleship Friendship by his owner, William

SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN A SEGREGATED SOCIETY The end of slavery on Nantucket certainly did not mean the end of segregation, discrimination, or institutional racism. In 1786, three years after Massachusetts abolished slavery, the state legislature enacted an antimiscegenation law prohibiting the intermarriage of members of different races. The law, titled “An Act for the Orderly Solemnization of Marriages,” stated “That no person by this Act authorized to marry, shall join in marriage any white person with any Negro, Indian or Mulatto, on penalty of the sum of fifty pounds . . . and all such marriages shall be absolutely null and void.” The law remained in effect until 1843, when it was repealed under heavy pressure from anti-slavery activists. While many of Nantucket’s educated, wealthy, white elites were vocal advocates for abolition and equal rights, they still lived in a segregated society divided by gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. On Nantucket, many public venues were barred to people of color. In 1841, Eliza Barney and Hannah Pierce, executive members of the Nantucket Women’s AntiSlavery Society, reported that the group was forced to stop holding meetings at the North Con-gregational Church because people of color were not allowed in the building.

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Absalom Boston (1906.56.1)

Many of Nantucket’s people of color were actively involved in the social-reform movements of their time, particularly abolition and the fight for equal education. Captain Absalom Boston (1786–1855), son of former slave Seneca Boston and Thankful Micah, a Wampanoag woman, was a third-generation Nantucketer and a leader in the island’s African American community. He was a founding member of the African Meeting House as well as a prominent landowner and successful businessman, operating a store and boarding house in New Guinea. Boston was also an ardent abolitionist and one of the first Nantucketers to subscribe to the Liberator.

First and last pages of a letter of condolence from Frederick Douglass to the widow of David Joy, 1875 (MS7, Joy Family

The African Meeting House, 1907 (F6181)

Papers, 1806–1880)

In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, Nantucket was home to two parallel communities—an affluent white Quaker community centered on Main Street, where prominent families like the Barneys, Hadwens, Starbucks, and Macys lived, and the New Guinea neighborhood centered in the Five Corners area. Each community was made up of homes, businesses, schools, and houses of worship largely segregated by race. New Guinea was home to African Americans, Wampanoags, South Pacific islanders, Cape Verdeans, and Azoreans and included a vibrant mix of dwellings, shops, churches, boarding houses, and a school. In addition to contributing labor and expertise to the whale fishery and its allied trades, the community also produced entrepreneurs, business owners, civic leaders, and social activists.

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Captain Edward J. Pompey (1800–48) was another prominent African American businessman, civic leader, and whaling captain who was active in the anti-slavery movement and fight for equal education. He served on the board of directors of the Nantucket County AntiSlavery Society, at-tended meetings of the New England Anti-Slavery Society as a representative of Nantucket, and helped establish the New County Anti-Slavery Society, a union between Nantucket’s all-female antislavery society and the corresponding all-male society. Pompey also served as local agent for the Liberator and the Colored American, an African American weekly newspaper published in New York City, and distributed other social reform literature such as William Lloyd Garrison’s Thoughts on African Colonization.

THE FIGHT FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY In 1789, the state of Massachusetts mandated that all towns in the commonwealth must provide children with a public education. On Nantucket, however, private institutions of learning were already well established, thus the mandate was largely ignored. It wasn’t until 1825, after it was discovered that three hundred island youngsters could not afford private tuition, that five public schools were created. One of them was the socalled “African School,” housed in the African Meeting House at the corner of Pleasant and York Streets in the New Guinea neighborhood.

Massachusetts State Legislature to amend the common school law to enable black and white children to attend the same schools. The petition was signed by more than a hundred members of Nantucket’s black community, including Absalom Boston and Arthur Cooper, and was followed by additional petitions signed by both black and white Nantucketers, including a separate petition filed by Eunice Ross herself.

Like most schools on the island, the African School educated only younger school-age children, as Nantucket’s first public high school wasn’t established until 1838. In 1840, Eunice Ross, a seventeen-yearold African American student, applied for admission. Although Ross passed the qualifying entrance exam, the school committee refused her admission because of her race. Two years later, on the second day of a sparsely attended Town Meeting, a motion was approved to desegregate the island’s schools. After news spread of the decision, angry residents demanded a revote the following day, overturning the original motion. A fierce debate over school integration raged for several years, polarizing the small community and increasing racial tensions on the island. In an opinion piece published in the Inquirer and Mirror on July 1, 1843, a Nantucket resident argued that school desegregation would ultimately result in amalgamation: “That God has drawn a distinction between colored persons and white that must forever be observed; that it is utterly impossible for blacks and whites to live together on terms of equality without amalgamation; that the mixing together of black and white children in our schools involves the principle of amalgamation; that amalgamation is contrary to the law of God and the universal sense of mankind. . . .”

Although several prominent white Nantucketers supported school desegregation, including Nathaniel Barney and local teacher Anna Gardner, it was islanders of color who led the movement for equal education. Fed up with the overt racism of their neighbors, Nantucket’s black community organized a boycott of the public schools. In 1844–45, Edward J. Pompey petitioned the

Notice of the petition filed by Edward J. Pompey in 1844 (Morning Telegraph, January 20, 1844:2)

In 1845, the efforts of Pompey and others ultimately resulted in the passage of House Bill 45, which guaranteed all Massachusetts children equal access to education. The legislative victory did not result in immediate desegregation of Nantucket’s public schools, although it did provide the foundation for subsequent legal action. A lawsuit was soon brought against the town by Absalom Boston on behalf of his daughter, Phebe Ann Boston, demanding that she be admitted to the public high school. The school committee continued to fight the mandate until 1847, when a majority of pro-integrationists were elected to the Nantucket school committee. That year, several black children were admitted to the high school, including Phebe Ann Boston and twenty-four-year-old Eunice Ross. After years of protests, boycotts, petitions, and legal action, Nantucket’s public schools were officially desegregated—thanks to the leadership of Pompey and Boston and the support of the entire New Guinea community and its white allies.

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lawsuit was soon brought against the town by Absalom Boston on behalf of his daughter, Phebe Ann Boston, demanding that she be admitted to the public high school. The school committee continued to fight the mandate until 1847, when a majority of pro-integrationists were elected to the Nantucket school committee. That year, several black children were admitted to the high school, including Phebe Ann Boston and twenty-four-year-old Eunice Ross. After years of protests, boycotts, petitions, and legal action, Nantucket’s public schools were officially desegregated—thanks to the leadership of Pompey and Boston and the support of the entire New Guinea community and its white allies.

A racially integrated class from Nantucket’s South School, 1890s (P1606)

FEMALE ACTIVISTS & THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT Nantucket’s prominent role in the anti-slavery and equal rights movements introduced island women to a broad ideology of social reform. In 1870, after ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote, the women’s rights movement took on a renewed sense of urgency, viewed by many as the final hurdle to a truly democratic society. In addition to her anti-slavery work, Eliza Barney was actively involved in the fight for women’s suffrage. In 1850, both Eliza and Nathaniel Barney attended the first National Woman’s Right’s Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, where Eliza was appointed chairman of the organization’s Educational Committee, serving alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In the April 1853 issue of the Una, the first periodical of the women’s rights movement, an appeal to the

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citizens of Massachusetts regarding women’s rights was endorsed by Eliza Barney, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelly Foster, and several other prominent figures. Eliza and her daughter-in-law, Malinda Barney, were also both members of the Massachusetts Suffrage Association and the Nantucket Woman’s Suffrage League, frequently hosting meetings and events at Hadwen House and at 73 Main Street. At the local level, Eliza led the struggle to secure voting rights for island women, casting a ballot in the first election for school committee members in which women were allowed to participate. In Massachusetts, school suffrage (the election of school committee members) was achieved in 1879, although turnout remained extremely low due to a variety of reasons, including a cumbersome yearly registration process, prohibitive poll taxes, and uncontested candidates, all which discouraged participation. Other native Nantucketers who fought for equal rights for women include Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793–1880), Anna Gardner (1816–1901), and the Reverend Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford (1829–1921). Mott was born on Nantucket, and although she moved with her family to the mainland at age eleven, it was here that her religious, social, and political views were established. In 1840, Mott and her husband traveled to London to attend the first World Anti-Slavery Convention. When they arrived, Lucretia discovered that as a woman she would not be permitted to vote, serve on committees, or speak before the gathering. It was here that Mott met a young Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was also barred from the proceedings. The women became close friends and allies and began working together to reform the position of women in American society. Mott’s activism reached a turning point in the summer of 1848, when she, Stanton, and several other women organized the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, with Mott as the keynote speaker. The resulting Declaration of Sentiments, signed by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men and considered to be one of the most significant feminist documents in American history, demanded that women be extended the same civil and political rights as men. Nantucket native Anna Gardner (1816–1901) was an educator, author, and equal rights activist. Descended from some of the island’s oldest families, she grew up in an abolitionist Quaker household. In 1822, her family was one of several who helped Arthur Cooper and his family evade slavecatchers, an event that made an indelible impression on the young girl.

Gardner became actively involved in the anti-slavery movement at an early age, subscribing to the Liberator as a teenager. At twenty-two, she accepted a position as teacher at the African School, which she resigned in 1840 when her pupil, Eunice Ross, was denied admission to the public high school. This experience instilled in Gardner a lifelong commitment to the desegregation of public education. In 1841, Gardner helped organize Nantucket’s first anti-slavery convention. She was also active in social-reform organizations at the regional level, serving as secretary of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Later in life, she turned her attention toward women’s rights and suffrage. She was active in the Association for the Advancement of Women and helped establish the Nantucket chapter of Sorosis, a women’s literary society that also promoted equal rights and suffrage.

Women’s suffrage pin owned by Hanaford (1996.104.10)

The Reverend Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, 1918 (P462)

Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, cousin to Lucretia Coffin Mott, was a Nantucket-born Universalist minister, author, poet, abolitionist, temperance reformer, and champion of women’s rights. Born to a Quaker family in Siasconset, her island upbringing had a profound effect upon her life. In 1849, she married Joseph Hanaford, a homeopathic physician, and converted to the Baptist faith. Her religious beliefs and personal convictions eventually led her to Universalism and to the ministry. Hanaford gave her first sermon on Nantucket at her father’s encouragement. Her official call to the pulpit came a year later when she was invited to preach in South Canton, New York, by the Reverend Olympia Brown, the country’s first fully ordained female minister and a vocal abolitionist and women’s rights activist. With Brown’s encouragement, Hanaford entered a Universalist seminary. In 1868, Hanaford became the first woman in New England ordained as a Universalist minister and the third ordained female minister in America. She was also the first woman to serve as chaplain to the Connecticut State Legislature.

Lucretia Coffin Mott, 1870s (P1327)

In addition to her work in the ministry, Hanaford was an ardent abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, serving as vice president of the Association for the Advancement of Women in 1874 and as an active member of the American Equal Rights Association. She was a prominent public lecturer, touring the country to speak on a variety of topics ranging from temperance and women’s rights to history, poetry, and religion.

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Hanaford’s husband had difficulty dealing with his wife’s success, and they separated shortly after her ordination. The separation may also have been prompted by Hanaford’s relationship with a woman named Ellen Miles. Hanaford and Miles lived together for the next forty-four years, until the latter’s death in 1914.

Minister, author, and women’s rights activist Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford and her companion, Ellen Miles, ca. 1900 (P461)

The closeness of their relationship, as attested in letters between the two, was at least partly responsible for Hanaford’s dismissal from a Universalist congregation in New Jersey, which did not approve of the “minister’s wife,” as Miles was described in one newspaper account.

INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND The mid-nineteenth century was a turbulent time for our young nation. The decades leading up to and immediately following the Civil War brought progressive change, but as with all change, was also met with fierce opposition. After the formal abolition of slavery and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, people of color continued to face widespread discrimination and struggled to achieve equal rights—a battle that persisted into the twentieth century and is still being fought today. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, women also faced an uphill battle in the fight for equal rights and suffrage. Decades of struggle still lay ahead, however, as it was not until 1920, with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, that all American women secured the right to vote.

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“Equal Suffrage” booth in the shape of the Old Mill, ca. 1910 (P6610)

But the efforts of the early activists were not forgotten by the younger generation. On November 2, 1920, Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman’s Journal and daughter of prominent suffragist Lucy Stone, wrote the following brief note to the Reverend Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford: Dear Mrs. Hanaford: It gives me real pleasure today to think that you will be voting—although you have had that privilege since 1917* Cordially, Alice Stone Blackwell *Women in New York State, where Hanaford was living at the time, were granted full voting rights in 1917. •

PUBLICATIONS 2018 NEW NHA PUBLICATIONS

ritten by Michael R. Harrison, Robyn & John Davis Chief Curator, Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community is a copiously illustrated work that explores a hundred fascinating artifacts and documents from the NHA collection—including fine and decorative arts, furniture, costumes and textiles, whalecraft, technology, scrimshaw, manuscripts, and photographs. Ranging from famous treasures to obscure gems, but always telling interesting stories of Nantucket, the content will be drawn exclusively from the NHA’s permanent collection. This 216-page, 11” by 10” hardcover book will be an essential addition to your library. (Available July 6) A recently expanded edition of Sometimes Think of Me featuring exquisite embroidered narratives by island needlework artist Susan Boardman will launch at 6:00 p.m. on July 18, 2018, with a reception at the Research Library’s Whitney Gallery. Showcasing the colorful lives of women from four centuries of island history, each is accompanied by a biography by NHA Research Fellow Betsy Tyler, along with images of relevant art, documents, and artifacts. First published as a 2010 exhibition catalog, this 172page book is in a large 12” x 10” hardcover format, with narratives of several more outstanding women, both historic and contemporary, added to the original thirty-two. (Available July 18)

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Opera n

FINANCE REPORT LETTER FROM THE TREASURER The 2017 Audited Statement of Financial Position represents the work and accomplishment of our staff and supporters. Net assets increased by $1.5 million to $41.8 by December 2017. In addition to philanthropy, the NHA welcomed over 100,000 visitors at the Whaling Museum and its historic properties, thus maintaining its commitment to offering diverse educational programs, interesting exhibitions, and special events on a year round basis. Revenue increases over 2016 in memberships, admissions, and the museum shop are positive indicators. Reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums was an important imprimatur. The organization continued its investment in its properties with a floor expansion providing more exhibition space in the Whaling Museum, installation of a HVAC system at the Hadwen House and the installation of a new condenser unit at the Research Library, along with important flood mitigation measures. The board of trustees’ and staff remain focused on sustainability; building the endowment, which is now over the $20 million mark, and the continued success with membership, special events, and the annual fund which will enable the organization to fulfill its mission all the while maintaining a balanced budget. Our outside independent auditor once again gave the NHA a clean audit reflecting the good work by the financial team, led by CFO Johanna Richard. Importantly the contribution by the interpreters and volunteers should be singled out as they passionately share their time and expertise with the public.

OPERATING REVENUE

20%

CONTRIBUTIONS

ACTIVITIES

19%

SPECIAL FUNDRAISING EVENTS

18%

ADMISSIONS

12%

MUSEUM SHOP

11%

ENDOWMENT DRAW

MEMBERSHIPS

OTHER REVENUE EARNED

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

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2017

2016

ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents

$ 2,199,319

$ 2,173,794

Inventories

160,626

149,457

Other current assets

118,980

70,060

2,799,038

3,887,992

Land, buildings, and equipment, net

15,658,824

16,176,240

Long-term investments

20,875,540

17,985,119

Pledges receivable, net

Collections (non-monetarized)

—

$ 41,812,327

$ 40,442,662

$ 264,055

$ 408,196

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Accounts payable and accrued liabilities Net assets Unrestricted Undesignated Designated for endowment

586,536

975,728

6,995,736

5,941,188

Investment in land, buildings, and equipment 15,658,824

Temporarily restricted

William Boardman, Treasurer

REVENUE, GAINS & OTHER SUPPORT

16,176,240

2,578,866

1,351,809

Permanently restricted

15,728,310

15,589,501

Total net assets

41,548,272

40,034,466

$ 41,812,327

$ 40,442,662

FINANCE REPORT

2017

2016

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

OPERATING

Revenue, gains, and other support:

EXPENSES

Contributions Opera ng Expenses 29% Curatorial

$ 1,063,567

$ 1,262,924

Admissions

945,212

934,575

Memberships

488,479

475,727

Education Programs

101,261

159,875

Museum Shop revenue

638,308

635,068

19% Educa on and Public Programs 18% General and Administra ve

Endowment Draw

598,000

564,000

9% Membership and Development

Special fund-raising events

976,012

912,690

8% Museum Shop

Other earned revenue

446,495

490,681

5,257,334

5,435,540

11% Research and Library

6% Fund Rasing Events

Total Operating expenses

PROGRAM SERVICES

Program services Curatorial

1,834,286

1,653,512

Education and public programs

1,160,101

1,172,434

688, 415

736,276

366,643

419,442

29%

CURATORIAL

19%

EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS

18%

GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE

General and administrative

11%

RESEARCH LIBRARY

Museum Shop

Research & Library Special Events

Supporting Services Membership and development Total

MEMBERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT

Change in net assets from operating activities

MUSEUM SHOP

Non-Operating activities

SPECIAL EVENTS

Investment return, net of draw Interest income Gain on the sale of property

NHA ENDOWMENT

1,135,984

1,095,587

569,618

528,709

507,933 500,834 6,262,980

6,106,794

(1,005,646)

(671,254)

2,253,502 289,343 6,385

6,172

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3,251,00

Friends of NHA contributions

186,264

169,060

Capital campaign contributions

141,776

1,485,134

(2,986)

(17,651)

Change in net assets from nonoperating activities

Capital campaign expenses

2,584,941

5,183,058

Change in net assets related to collection items

1,579,295

4,511,804

(65,489)

(15,160)

Purchase of collections items Change in net assets Net assets beginning of the year Net assets end of the year

1,513,806

4,496,644

40,034,466

35,537,822

$ 41,548,272

$ 40,034,466

The Financial Statements for 2017 have been audited by Bollus, Lynch LLP, which has rendered an unqualified opinion on them. Complete financial statements are available upon request.

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HERITAGE SOCIETY

he Heritage Society recognizes individuals who make planned gifts of artifacts, cash, or real estate to the Nantucket Historical Association through their estate plans. In 2017, we were honored to receive a thoughtful and generous bequest in support of the NHA’s mission from the estate of Howard L. Lewis Jr. Planned gifts can take many forms and support the NHA in myriad ways—from building the permanent endowment to expanding the artifact collections. New members are recognized at the NHA Annual Meeting and presented with an ivory whale lapel pin carved by the late scrimshander Nancy Chase, who was an NHA trustee and Heritage Society member. To learn more about the Heritage Society, please contact the Development Department.

n 2018 a selection of significant paintings contributed by the Friends is displayed in the Whaling Museum’s Mezzanine Gallery. Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community, the NHA’s new book by Michael Harrison, Robyn & John Davis Chief Curator, highlights 100 artifacts and documents from the collections, many of which were funded by the Friends.

FRIENDS OF THE NHA

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Mary Frances Sutton Miller

Bruce B. Bates

Winifred M. Mortenson

Patricia and Thomas Anathan

Helen Lynch

Leroy and Cecily Langsdale Davis

Sally and Peter Nash

Mariann Berg (Hundahl) Appley

Carolyn and Ian MacKenzie

Trudy S. Dujardin

Kimi C. Puntillo

Mary Randolph Ballinger

Miriam Mandell

Robert C. Griffin

Lauren and Peter Roncetti

David Berry

Bonnie and Peter McCausland

Barbara E. Hajim

Kathryn Salmanowitz

Pamela and Max Berry

Ronay and Richard Menschel

Nina and Robert Hellman

Susan R. and L. Dennis Shapiro

Susan and William Boardman

Polly and Peter Millard

Grace S. Hinkley

Dorothy Slover

Anne Marie and Douglas Bratton

Franci Neely

Daintry and Reb Jensen

Maria T. and William G. Spears

Mary and David Brown

Aileen and Scott Newquist

Coco and Arie L. Kopelman

Jonathan C. Swain

Christy and William Camp

Anne and Edwin Obrecht

Richard Kemble† and George Korn

Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney

Laurie and Robert Champion

Liz and Jeff Peek

Robin and Richard† Kreitler

Judith and Michael Wodynski

Connie and Thomas Cigarran

Ann and Christopher Quick

Kimberly Corkran

Susan and Kennedy Richardson

Prudence and William Crozier

Ellen and Kenneth Roman

Robyn and John Davis

Marion and Robert Rosenthal

Rachel and James Dunlap

Bonnie Sacerdote

Barbara Fife

Linda Saligman

Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth

Denise and Andrew Saul

Nancy and Charles Geschke

Susan and Dennis Shapiro

Page and Arthur Gosnell

Janet and Rick Sherlund

Susan Zises Green

Daisy Soros

Ann and Graham Gund

Phoebe and Bobby Tudor

Barbara and Edmund Hajim

Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney

Kaaren and Charles Hale

Marilyn Whitney

Barbara and Amos Hostetter

Stephanie and Jay Wilson

Barbara Jones

Landis and Bracebridge Young

Harvey Jones

Robert Young

Carolyn B. MacKenzie

† Deceased

FRIENDS OF THE NHA

he Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association was established in 1986 to seek significant acquisitions for the NHA collections. During 2017 the Friends funded two acquisitions: a scrimshaw whale’s tooth depicting the whaling ship George Clinton of Hudson, New York, the important whaling port founded by Nantucketers after the Revolutionary War, and a Hing Qua painting of the ship Midnight, captained by George H. Brock of Nantucket, accompanied on one voyage by his daughter Susan Brock, who later became the first curator of the NHA. The 2017 Friends Lecture was presented by Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.

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Kathryn Ketelsen Coco and Arie L. Kopelman Margaret Hallowell and Stephen Langer Sharon and Francisco Lorenzo

1894 FOUNDERS SOCIETY

he 1894 Founders Society recognizes the highest levels of NHA philanthropic participation. Through this prominent giving circle, the Board of Trustees recognizes the cumulative annual giving by individual donors to assist with the NHA’s annual operating needs. 1894 Founders Society members contribute towards the annual fund, membership, and fundraising events, as well as for exhibitions, educational programs, and other special initiatives. Their generous support allows this venerable institution to further its mission. Victoria McManus & John McDermott

Ashley & Jeffrey McDermott

Linda & George Kelly

Carla & Jack McDonald

Sarah & Jeff Newton

Kathleen & Ken Kies

Diane & Britt Newhouse

Carter & Chris Norton

Sharon & Frank Lorenzo

Mary & Al Novissimo

Shira & Brad Paul

Helen Lynch

Ella Prichard

Liz & Jeff Peek

Sarah Alger & Bruce Malenfant

Susan & Kennedy Richardson

Ann & Chris Quick

Courtney & Greg McKechnie

Margaret & John Ruttenberg

Maria & George Roach

Ronay & Richard Menschel

Molly & Patrick Ryan

Danielle Rollins

Ann & Craig Muhlhauser

Wendy & Eric Schmidt

Linda Saligman

Kathy & Angelo Orciuoli

Helen & Chuck Schwab

Denise & Andrew Saul

Kathryn & Roger Penske

Kaltheen & Robert Stansky

Thekla & Don Shackelford

Bonnie Sacerdote

Merrielou & Ed Symes

Mary & Don Shockey

Marla & Terry Sanford

Jason Tilroe

Daisy Soros

Joanna & Steven Sarracino

Stephanie & Jay Wilson

Maria & Bill Spears

Lorraine Snell

Melinda & Paul Sullivan

Kate Lubin & Glendon Sutton

$5,000-$9,900

Theresa & Michael Taylor

Ann & Peter Taylor

Susan Akers

Garrett Thornburg

Alison & Charles Townsend

Pat & Tom Anathan

Louise Turner

Laurel & Clifford Asness

Liz & Geoff Verney

Marlene Benson

Karen & Chris Watkins

$10,000-$24,9000

Lesley Blanchard

Alisa & Alastair Wood

Mary Randolph Ballinger

Diana Brown

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Susan Blount & Richard Bard

Laura & Bill Buck

$3,000-$4,900

$50,000 and up

Carol & Harold Baxter

Donald Burns

Nancy & Doug Abbey

Anonymous

Pamela & Max Berry

Martha Cox

Janet & Sam Bailey

Leslie Forbes & David Worth

Susan & Bill Boardman

Amanda Cross

Dinah & Barry Barksdale

Anne Marie & Doug Bratton

John DeCiccio

Edith Bouriez

$25,000-$49,500

Jenny & Wylie Collins

Elizabeth Miller & James Dinan

Marianna & Chris Brewster

Margaret Ritchie Battle

Mary & Marvin Davidson

Ana & Michael Ericksen

Christy Brown

Maureen & Edward Bousa

Deborah & Bruce Duncan

Ola & Randall Fojtasek

Olivia & Felix Charney

Anne DeLaney & Chip Carver

Annabelle & Gregory Fowlkes

Shelley & Graham Goldsmith

Prudence & William Crozier

Kelly Williams & Andrew Forsyth

Nan & Chuck Geschke

Barbara & Ed Hajim

Lucy & Nat Day

Helen & Will Little

Barbara & Amos Hostetter

Kim & Alan Hartman

Catherine & Michael Farello

Bonnie & Peter McCausland

Carl Jelleme

Julia & John Hilton

Kathy & H. Crowell Freeman

Franci Neely

Ann & Charles Johnson

Wendy Hubbell

Karyn Frist

Laura & Bob Reynolds

Harvey Jones

Cynthia & Evan Jones

Robert Greenhill

Susan & L. Dennis Shapiro

Mary Ann & Paul Judy

Jill & Stephen Karp

Sabine & Richard Griffin

Janet & Rick Sherlund

Jean Doyen de Montaillou &

Coco & Arie Kopelman

Kaaren & Charles Hale

Hampton Lynch

Cassandra Henderson

Harriet & Warren Stephens Phoebe & Bobby Tudor

Michael Kovner

† Deceased

Miriam & Sonny† Mandell

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GIVING 2017 Annual Support The NHA is grateful for the generous annual support received from membership, donations to the Annual Fund, corporate underwriting, grants, tribute gifts for special programs, exhibitions, and special events, including Nantucket by Design, the Festival of Wreaths, and the Festival of Trees, unrestricted operating funds nurture every aspect of the NHA- from the care of properties and collections, to the delivery of public progams and educational outreach, to the development of our professional staff. Cumulative annual giving of $100 and above is reported for January 1 to December 3, 2017.

$100,000 and above

Institute of Museum and Library Services Tupancy-Harris Foundation of 1986 Kim and Finn Wentworth

$50,000–$99,999

Magellan Jets Leslie Forbes and David Worth

$30,000–$49,999

Ritchie Battle / Margaret Ritchie R. Battle Family Charitable Fund Maureen and Edward Bousa Anne DeLaney and Chip Carver Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth Mr. and Mrs. William E. Little Jr. Franci Neely Susan R. and L. Dennis Shapiro Janet and Rick Sherlund Phoebe and Bobby Tudor

$20,000–$29,999

Nan and Chuck Geschke Barbara and Amos Hostetter Laura and Bob Reynolds Margaret Ruttenberg, M.D., and John Ruttenberg

$10,000–$19,999

Patricia S. and Thomas J. Anathan Mary-Randolph Ballinger Susan Blount and Richard Bard Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Baxter Pamela and Max Berry Susan and Bill Boardman Anne Marie and Doug Bratton Mary and Marvin Davidson Don Allen Auto Service, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Duncan / Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation The H. L. Brown Jr., Family Foundation Barbara and Ed Hajim Ann and Charlie Johnson Jean Doyen de Montaillou and Michael Kovner Hampton S. Lynch Jr. Miriam and Sonny† Mandell Marine Home Center Bonnie and Peter McCausland / The McCausland Foundation Victoria McManus and John McDermott

Carla and Jack McDonald N Magazine Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Mary and Al Novissimo / Novation Media Ella Prichard ReMain Nantucket Susan M. and Kennedy P. Richardson Wendy and Eric Schmidt Helen and Chuck Schwab Kathleen and Robert Stansky Harriet and Warren Stephens Jason A. Tilroe Stephanie and Jay Wilson

$5,000–$9,999

Mrs. Susan D. Akers Marlene J. Benson BNY Mellon, Wealth Management Boston Design Center BridgePoint Risk Management Diana T. Brown Laura and Bill Buck Donald A. Burns Chubb Connie and Tom Cigarran Jenny and Wylie Collins Amanda Cross Prudence and William Crozier John M. DeCiccio Elizabeth Miller and James Dinan Emeritus Development Ana and Michael Ericksen Barbara J. Fife Mr. and Mrs. Randall Fojtasek The Gilbert Verney Foundation Page and Arthur Gosnell Kaaren and Charles Hale Julia H. and John A. Hilton Jr. Wendy Hubbell Carl Jelleme Cindy and Evan Jones Karp Family Foundation Kathleen Hay Designs Coco and Arie L. Kopelman Margaret Hallowell and Stephen P. Langer Sharon and Frank Lorenzo Mrs. Helen Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Menschel The Nantucket Hotel Diane and Britt Newhouse Sarah and Jeff Newton Carter and Christopher Norton

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Ann and Chris Quick Danielle Rollins Bonnie J. Sacerdote Linda Saligman Denise and Andrew Saul Thekla and Don Shackelford Daisy M. Soros Maria and Bill Spears Stark Carpet Merrielou and Ned Symes Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Taylor Dr. Theresa G. Taylor and Mr. Michael R. Taylor Telescopes of Vermont Theodore Cross Family Charitable Foundation Garrett Thornburg Liz and Geoff Verney Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Watkins Clark M. Whitcomb† Mrs. Marilyn J. Whitney Alisa and Alastair Wood

$2,500–$4,999

Marian Berg (Hundahl) Appley Laurel and Clifford Asness Mr. and Mrs. Barry Barksdale Liz McDermott and Ben Barnes Eileen Berman and Jay Bauer Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Bernon David G. Berry Josette and Jim† Blackmore Edith Lynch Bouriez BPC Architecture Mr. and Mrs. Chris Brewster The Bright Group Mary and David Brown Christina Lee Brown Carol and William Browne Christy and Bill Camp Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Cape Cod Five Foundation Centre Pointe Laurie and Robert Champion Olivia and Felix Charney Congdon and Coleman Insurance Mrs. Martha W. Cox Robyn and John Davis Lucy and Nat Day Rachel and Jim Dunlap Catherine and Michael Farello Mr. and Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman Jr. Karyn McLaughlin Frist

Susan Zises Green Robert F. Greenhill / Greenhill Family Foundation Greydon House Sabine and Richard Griffin Ann and Graham Gund Maureen and James Hackett / Hackett Family Foundation Carolyn Lamm and Peter Halle Mr. and Mrs. Alan P. Hartman Cassandra Henderson Else and Ken Herman Highland Street Foundation Hingham Institution for Savings James Lydon Sons and Daughters James Robinson, Inc. Jockey Hollow Foundation Harvey C. Jones Jr. Barbara E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Kelly Kathryn and Jim† Ketelsen Killen Real Estate Mrs. Caroline M. Lathrop Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Lucier Caroline B. and Ian R. MacKenzie Alice H. and J. Thomas Macy Amy and Michael McGowan Courtney and Greg McKechnie Mr. and Mrs. Peter deF. Millard Ann and Craig Muhlhauser Nantucket Bank Nantucket Looms New England Home Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Newquist Anne and Brec Obrecht Liz and Jeff Peek R. C. Lilly Foundation Fund R. Simantov Fine Jewelry Ralph Lauren David Richter Sheila and Richard Riggs Maria and George Roach Ellen and Ken Roman Marion and Bob Rosenthal Ellen and David Ross Marla and Terry Sanford Mr. and Mrs. Steven Sarracino ‘Sconset Gardener Lorraine Snell The Tile Room Mr. and Mrs. Charles Townsend Susan W. Weatherley Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge H. Young Jr. Robert A. Young

GIVING 2017 $1,000–$2,499

Nancy and Doug Abbey Carrie and Leigh Abramson Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. Ainslie III Mr. and Mrs. Scott Andersen Joanne and Michael Angelastro Arrowhead Furniture and Nursery Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate Kathy Garre-Ayars and Tom Ayars Janet and Sam Bailey Beverly and David Barlow Jane Beasley Mrs. Minnette Boesel Botticelli and Pohl Architects Mr. and Mrs. William S. Brenizer Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bresette Barbara Presta and Guy Bristow Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Broadus Laura and Ray Brusca Julie Jensen-Bryan and Robert Bryan Lissy Bryan Eileen and Robert Butler Lisa and Don Callahan Cape Air / Nantucket Airlines Ms. Terese Ceruzzi Cheney Brothers Building and Remodeling Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Chesley Meredith and Eugene Clapp Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Cody Mr. and Mrs. John Cowden Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cowperthwait Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Cozort Cuddy Associates Mr. and Mrs. Kell Damsgaard David M. Handy Events Stephen A. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Porter G. Dawson Amy E. Hauk and Scott M. Dehm Betsy and Bill Delphos Helen† and Phil Didricksen Jennifer and Stephen Dolente Chris and Joe Donelan Driftwood Construction Susu and Mike Dugas Dujardin Design Associates Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Eisenson Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Ernst Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Eskind Trudy Dujardin and Frank Fasanella Marianne and Bob Felch Marcia Weber and James Flaws Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ford Jane and Charles Forman Nancy and Al Forster Penny and Bob Fox Freedman’s of Nantucket Brett and Michael Gaillard Elizabeth and Michael Galvin Julie and Cam Gammill Heather and Greg Garland Gauvin Gardens Nancy and Carl Gewirz Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Giletti

Mr. and Mrs. Graham C. Goldsmith Joyce and Mark Goldweitz Ashley P. Gosnell Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hay Gottwald Maria M. and Joseph T. Grause Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Greenspon Suzy and Richard Grote Joan and Philip Gulley Ms. Myrna Haft Linda and Joe Hale Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Hammer Harry Grodsky and Co. Amy and Brett Harsch Hatch’s Package Store Mr. and Mrs. Christian W. E. Haub Isabelle Georgeaux and Patrick Healy Paula and Schuyler Henderson Dorothy K. Hesselman Donna and Christian Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hofmann Virginia Marina and Willem Hoogenboezem Hy-Line Cruises I-Grace The Inquirer and Mirror The Islander Elizabeth S. Jacobsen Daintry and Reb Jensen Ann and Johnny Johnson Johnstons of Elgin Jordan Real Estate Mr. and Mrs. Paul N. Judy The Judy Family Foundation Liz and Matthew Kamens Claire Fraser and Jack Kammer Marjie and Robert Kargman Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kennedy Jane and Douglas Kern Mary Beth and Adam Kirsch Robert Lahey Janet† and Christopher Larsen Mr. and Mrs. David Lashway Kathryn C. Lieb Janet and Keith Lindgren Grace and Ken Logan Mr. and Mrs. John W. Loose Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Lowry Gerry and Jeff Lynch Poppi Massey Mary and Bob McCann Deedie and Edward McCarthy Sue McCollum Tharon Anderson McEvoy Holly and Martin McGowan Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. David M. McGrath Darina and Allan McKelvie Toni B. and Martin McKerrow Abigail P. Johnson and Christopher McKown Kevin and Beth McMeen Patricia A. White and James F. Meehan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyer

Bunny and Duff Meyercord Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Miller Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Mittenthal Morgan and Allen Morton Joanne R. Murphy Nantucket Bookworks Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Pharmacy Nantucket Tents Sally and Peter Nash Mr. and Mrs. Stephan F. Newhouse Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Nicholas Jr. Sharon and David Northrup Ann and C. Hardy Oliver Kathy and Angelo Orciuoli Maureen A. Orth Dr. E. Prather Palmer Ellen Flamm and Richard Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Phelan Melissa and Nat Philbrick Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pidcock Kristina F. Pierce Julia and Larry Pollock Nancy and Bob Puff Karen W. Rainwater Suzanne and Sandy Rand Susan and Harry Rein Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. F. Roberts Sharon and Frank Robinson Robin and Mark Rubenstein Delia and James Russell Melanie and Bob Sabelhaus Sandi Holland and Alfie Sanford Gayle and Joe Santucci Sarah F. Alger, P.C. Cary and John Schaperkotter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Schneider Denise and Robert Schwed Nancy and Joe Serafini Donna and Karl Schulz Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Smialowski The Rev. Georgia Ann Snell The Steamship Authority The Rev. Bill and Linda Steelman Peter C. Steingraber Michelle Alexander and Carter Stewart Melinda and Paul Sullivan Kate Lubin and Glendon Sutton Robert D. Swain John Sylvia Beth Terrana Judith and Bill Thompson Marie and Rick Wackenhut Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ward Elizabeth and Peter Wareing Jim and Roselee Wayman Mr. and Mrs. F. Brand Whitlock Mr. and Mrs. David S. Wolff Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Wullschleger Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Yates Ana and Chris Young Young’s Bicycle Shop

Scott Widmeyer and Alan Yount Susan and Jeffrey Zimmer

$500–$999

A Taste of Nantucket James W. Abbott Sophie Massie and Charlie Alvis Nora and Edgar Ancona Mr. and Mrs. Chris W. Armstrong Michelle and Robert Atchinson Audrey Sterk Design Amy Baldwin Bartlett’s Farm The Beachside at Nantucket Mr. and Mrs. C. Marshall Beale Gussie and Ken Beaugrand Laura Fletcher and Rich Belair Judy and John Belash Beverly Hall and David L. Billings Ruth and Robi Blumenstein Joan R. Bolling Jeanine and Alastair Borthwick Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bowditch Dana and David Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Eric Boyer Mr. and Mrs. David Bradt Brass Lantern Inn Vivian and Bob Braunohler Marsha Hall Brown and Robert S. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Brown Mr. and Mrs. Coleman P. Burke Dr. Mary Fontaine and Dr. James Burruss Mr. and Mrs. Curt Burwell Martha H. Butler Gail and Chris Camalier Peggy and Grant Cambridge Cape Cod Express, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. George U. Carneal Mr. and Mrs. Francis T. Carr Jr. Chip Webster and Associates Howard L. Clark Jr. CMC Construction Carol and Bernie Coffin Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Congdon Marion Roland Conley Suellen Ward and John Copenhaver Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cowzer Mr. and Mrs. Glenn M. Creamer Mr. and Mrs. James F. Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daisey Alexandra and David Dalury Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Dapra Elizabeth and Wayne Davies Linda and Dan de Menocal Anne and Patrick Dewez Kevin S. Dilallo Dorinda Dodge Beth English and Mark Donato Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Drazen Connie and Dan Driscoll Paula Dore-Duffy and Michael C. Duffy

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GIVING 2017 The Egan Group, Inc. Suzanne and Bill Einstein Mr. and Mrs. John P. Falk Nial Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Fiertz Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Fisher Four Winds Gifts, Inc. Cece and Mack Fowler Fusion of Flavor / Dean Miller Painting Tessa Cressman and James Garrels Elizabeth and Peter Georgantas Arianne and Michael George Susan and Jim Geraghty Megan and Scott Gilly Kristin Campbell and Christopher Glowacki Cheryl Woodford and Almond Goduti Dr. and Mrs. Elliot R. Goldberg Toby Greenberg Susan and Edward Greenberg Tamara Greenman Debbie Lewis and Bob Grinberg Wendy and Ben Griswold Mary G. O’Connell and Peter J. Grua Lucia and Elliott† Gumaer Mr. and Mrs. Luke Gutelius / The Brennan Family Foundation Karoly and Hank Gutman Ellen and Thomas B. Hakes, M.D. Sally and Brooks Hall Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hammond Beverly and Donald† Harris Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Hayden Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Healey Jr. Mary Ellen Ferrel and John Heaps Maggie and Tom Hemmer Colleen and Phillip Hempleman Candy and Mason Heydt Mr. and Mrs. Rich Hjulstrom Mr. and Mrs. William Hobart Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hodge Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hogya Rose Gonnella and Frank Holahan Nantucket House Antiques and Interior Design Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hollister Anne and Peter Holmes Mrs. Mary Margaret Holmes Carolyn Holt Hollie and Jamie Holt Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Holtman Laura Homan Lisa Wohlleib and Seth Hoogasian Dorrie and Bruce Hopper The Horchow Family Lois and John Horgan Ms. Maureen Phillips and Dr. Douglas Horst Housefitters and Tile Gallery Wendy and Randy Hudson Gale Hurd Mr. and Mrs. Zenas Hutcheson III It’s a Shore Thing

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Johnson Cathy B. Meyer and Eric R. Johnson Maryann and Bardwell Jones Stephen Joseph Debra Kanabis Peggy and Eli Kaufman Jane and Woody Kay Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Keller Kathleen Cannon and Brian Kelly Linda and George Kelly Kenneth C. Howard Electric Patience E. Killen Carolyn M. Knutson Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Lahey Jr. Nan Lampe Karen and Tony LaRocco Mr. and Mrs. Brad Larson Mr. and Mrs. Scott LaShelle Pam Lassiter Lisa and Bruce Lawler Jill L. Leinbach Cynthia and Charles Lenhart Lenzner Family Susan Nestor Levy and Ron Levy Sue and Byron Lingeman Martha and Robert Lipp Susan Lister Locke Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Lyons Mr. and Mrs. Barry MacTaggart Madaket Marine Debra and Vincent Maffeo Anne G. Maletta Marc Yacone Electrical Mr. and Mrs. George K. Martin Robin Mays McKinnon and Harris Susan and Paul Meister Ken Jennings and Albert S. Messina Mr. and Mrs. William C. Miller IV Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Miller Mr. Peter C. Moister Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Moore Siobhan and William Moore Winnie and Chris Mortenson Tracey and Greg Morzano Jacqueline Moss Carl M. Mueller Una and William Murphy Nantucket Frameworks Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Nantucket Island Homes Mr. and Mrs. William E. Neff III Patricia Nilles Nichole Marks and Jason Olbres Anne P. Olsen Monica O’Neil Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Paduch Karen and John Palmer Mr. and Mrs. William F. Paulsen Nancy and Michael Peacock Judith and Richard Phelan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Phelan Pinwheels

HISTORIC NANTUCKET / SUMMER 2018

Martha and Charley Polachi Miss Sarah Powers Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Pratter Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Quidley Quidley and Company Jessi and Matt Rainwater Tim Reinemo Mr. and Mrs. John Riccio George and Regina Rich Mr. and Mrs. J. Barton Riley Roastd General Store Charles E. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Bijan J. Sabet Mr. and Mrs. William Z. Saltonstall Richard Carlstrom and Joel Samuels Sandcastle Construction Mr. and Mrs. Cary M. Schwartz Schwartz Hannum PC Drs. Anna Hemnes and Jacob Schwarz Gretchen G. Schymik Mr. and Mrs. Fran Scricco Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Heidi Cox and George Seyfert Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Seymour Mr. and Mrs. David W. Sharpe Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Shear Mary G. Farland and J. Donald Shockey Leslee Shupe Deborah Bryan and Norman Silberdick Susan and Robert Simmons Trudy and Fred Slater Elizabeth Smith Mr. and Mrs. Eric A. Stein Sarah T. Stephenson Stover Engineering and Construction Darla C. Stuckey Sheila and Bill Sullivan Paula and Bernie Swain Mr. and Mrs. David C. Todd Mr. and Mrs. Donald Torey Dr. Jessica Torre Caroline Tucker Twig Perkins, Inc. The UPS Store Deb and Don Van Dyke Mr. and Mrs. K. Morgan Varner III Phyllis and Donald Visco Barbara von der Groeben Denise and Bill Welsh Mr. and Mrs. F. Helmut Weymar Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wheeler Harry W. Wilcox McCartney and Jay Wilkins Mr. and Mrs. Duncan F. Will Mr. and Mrs. Ben Woodbury Betsy and Joe Wright Martha Wyant

$250–$499

02554, Inc. 97.7 ACK-FM and 89.5 FM Nantucket’s NPR

Anonymous (2) Anne and Christopher Acker ACKtivities Dorothy and Dale Albright Linny and Rick Andlinger Margaretta Andrews Antiques Depot Aristeia Capital, LLC Diane Ash Mr. William C. Ashby Lindsey and Merrick Axel Lili Baker Jenny and Michael Baldock Judy C. Baltimore The Barkan Family Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Barnard Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barrett John Bartholdson Frank Bartholomew Mr. and Mrs. George Bassett Jr. Marcia and Bruce B. Bates Ashleigh and Scott Beardsley Kathie and Bill Beattie Carla Kindt and William Beckett Linda Holliday and William S. Belichick Allan D. Bell Jocelyn and Craig Beni Tamara and John Bickel Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Blau Myrna and Ronald Bocage Allison and Chris Bovard Sara B. Boyce Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Boynton Dr. and Mrs. Jay Bradner Brant Point Inn Larry P. Breakiron Trish Bridier Dr. and Mrs. George P. Butterworth Kate Clark and Miles Carlisle Mr. and Mrs. Dan Carlsson Martha A. Carr Janis E. Carreiro Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Carter Kerry Cassidy Kathleen Caulfield Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield John C. Chadbourne Margaret B. Childs Pamela Van Hoven Clark Brenda M. Williams and Robert L. Coffin Dorinda Yates and Alfred Coffin Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohen Patrice Gallagher and Fred Collord Sara P. and William R. Congdon Patricia Connolly Kimberly C. Corkran Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Coscia Kendra and Philip Cox Christina and John† Craighead Susan Crehan Hostetler Carol March Emerson Cross

GIVING 2017 Mr. and Mrs. John Cross Debbi and Peter Culbertson Dr. and Mrs. John D’Avella Mr. and Mrs. Jim Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey B. Davis John De Bastiani Jayne C. and Brian F. DeBiasio Denby Real Estate Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America Penny Dey Mr. and Mrs. James B. Digney Karen and Vic DiGravio Lucille DiGravio Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. DiMartino Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DiMascio Amy and Carmine DiSibio Adam Dread Heidi L. Drew Lois and Bill Druckemiller Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dunn Edith Delker Real Estate Marsha and Bob Egan Marianne and Tony Ehinger Terri and Kurt Eichler Lynne Elfland Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Douglass N. Ellis Jr. The Enjoy Company Mr. and Mrs. Erik C. Evens Mary and Frank Fahrenkopf Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Fallon Julija Mostykanova and Tim Feeney Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fellon Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Fifield Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Finn Anne H. Fitzpatrick Flowers on Chestnut Fly Louie Harris Doliner and Jay Foley Mary and Herb Frerichs Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Friel Jr. Kim and Robert Frisbie Mr. and Mrs. Steven Fuerst Kate C. Stout and Pete N. Funkhouser Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Gardner Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Blewett Gardner Jeffrey S. Gardner Denis H. Gazaille Art Gertel Whitney and Anne Gifford Sally and Joshua Gillenson Peter Ginn Go Figure Barre Studio Nantucket Mr. and Mrs. Eric Goddard Peggi and Steve Godwin Mimi Koehm, M.D., and Charles B. Gold Bee D. Gonnella Kim and Ted Goodnow Mr. and Mrs. John A. Graf Justin Cerne and Andrew Graham Fifi Greenberg

Greenwood Alarm and Key Company Hannah Judy Gretz Diane and Jeff Groff G. S. Hill Gallery Elizabeth and William Guardenier Lauren and Paul Gudonis Jean R. Haffenreffer Mr. and Mrs. Ryan N. Hagglund Donna Hamel Helen Hammond Jane and Redge Hanes Natasha and Jason Harman Mark S. Harmsen Kate Harris Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hart Mr. and Mrs. Khaled S. Hashem Lucile W. Hays Mary W. Heller Jeanne and Peter Hicks Elin Hilderbrand Linda and Peter Hoey Nancy and Arthur Hooper Ms. Megan Landeck and Dr. Charles Hoopes Mr. and Mrs. Peter Howell Kim Huebner Bill H. Ingram Jr. Island Custom Builders Island Kitchen Islandwide Realty Ward Ives Ivy Wealth Management Javatime Design Mr. and Mrs. Julian Joffe Cathy Journalist Mr. and Mrs. Rahul Kadakia Lori and John Kann Robert M. Kaye Ms. Karen Keelan Ms. Carol Kellman Mr. and Mrs. Brian Kelly Joseph D. Gioe and Stephen T. Kelly Justine and David Kenney Kate and Chris Kling Denise and Jack Korngold Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Kotalac Jr. Emily and Andrew Kotchen Jill S. Hagen-Kovach and Jeffrey D. Kovach Jacqueline and Eric Kraeutler Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Krumeich II Jackie and Bill Kupper Mary Walsh and Allan LaFrance Cynthia and Anthony Lamport Julie Lancia Carol B. Langer Mr. and Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier Eleanor and Matt Lasko Mr. and Mrs. John G. Lathrop Irma and Talbert Lauter Le Languedoc Bistro Mr. and Mrs. John G. Leddy Amarilice Lefton Carol and Fred Levinger

Victoria E. Girvan-LiPuma and Joseph P. LiPuma Vicki Livingstone Susan and Daniel Llewellyn Mr. and Mrs. John Lochtefeld Kim and John Locus Roberta and Peter Louderback Sherry Lowe Mary-Adair Macaire Penny and Dual Macintyre Mr. and Mrs. John MacLeod Mary D. Malavase Sarah F. Alger and Bruce J. Malenfant Audrey and Lee Manners Martin House Inn Ann and Dennis Marvin Mr. and Mrs. Chris Matthews Ann B. Maury Sandy Medallis and Tom McGrath John A. McGuinn Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. McGuire Betsy and Bill McKiernan Oriana McKinnon Ethan R. McMorrow Katie and Bill McNabb Kimberley and Edward McNamara Barbara and Alan Medaugh Lisa Michel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Middleton Rebecca and Dean Miller Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Milone Miss Rose Mitchell Mitchell’s Book Corner Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Mix III Laurie and Bob Monahan Joshua Moore Moore Woodworking Inc. Joan and Timothy Moran Barbara and Richard Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Morin Dr. and Mrs. Richard Moscicki Sonya Keene and John Moy Murray’s Toggery Shop Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Myers Nantucket Architecture Group, Ltd. Nantucket Carving and Folk Art, Inc. Nantucket Catering Company Nantucket Coffee Roasters / The Bean Nantucket Culinary Center Nantucket Inn Nantucket Island Events Nantucket Office Products Nantucket Whaler Apparel Nantucket’s On Island Chefs Jenny and Dwight Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Newhouse III Diane and James Nieling Paul Gaucher and Peter Niemitz Nobby Clothes Shop Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Nottebohm Mr. and Mrs. Timothy O’Brien Thomas J. Kim and John F. Olson Lorraine and Robert Olson

Courtney O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Karl Ottison Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Owen Mr. and Mrs. David R. Owens Joanne Sullivan and Neil Paterson Lindy Paull Pamela Perun Lesley and Girvin Peters Alicia and Robert Petrini Placesetters Mr. and Mrs. David Powell Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Powell Judith and Robert Prohaska Clelia Biamonti and Adam Psichos Sheila McCarthy Quarz Dr. and Mrs. Abrar Qureshi Kathleen Fennell and Victoria Rakov Kristina Ralkova Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ray Johanna and Blake Richard Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Rief RJ Miller Salon Dodo Roberts Brooks Robertson Mr. and Mrs. David Roby Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Rodts Eleanor and Steve Roethke Sarah Hanley and Malcolm J. Rohrbough Priscilla and Kermit Roosevelt Bonnie Roseman Susan H. Ruddick Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ruettgers Katharine K. Russell Christine Sanford Mr. and Mrs. John R. Schmidt Amy and Fritz Shroeder Judith Lee and Robert Schwarzenbach Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Schweizer Jr. Bobbie Howrey and Thomas Schwenke Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Scott The Scrimshander Gallery Hercules and Margaret Segalas Randee Seiger Lynda Shea Melissa MacLeod and John Shea Ann and Bill Sheehan Laurie Gilmour and Dix Shevalier Sideboard Small Batch Events Christine M. Kinney and Bill Siderewicz Simply With Style Catering Dorothy and Junie Sinson Julie A. Fitzgerald and Carl H. Sjolund Mr. and Mrs. Phillips G. Smith Tricia and Gil Snyder Lisa Soeder Anne E. Rosen and André M. Spears Barbara and David Spitler Mr. and Mrs. John J. Stackpole Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stahler Stephanie and Harald Stavnes Stephens and Company, Inc.

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GIVING 2017 Joly W. Stewart Wendy S. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Craig Strehlow Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Susan M. Warner Catering Allen Schuh and Jonathan C. Swain Swain’s Travel Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Sweatland Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Manuel R. Sylvia Jr. Robert I. Sylvia Mr. and Mrs. David Tashjian Mr. and Mrs. R. Scott Taylor Linda R. Taylor Carolyn Thayer Thirty Acre Wood, LLC Mr. and Mrs. George M. Thom Jr. Kimberly Roy and Christopher G. Tofalli Judy C. Tolsdorf Rachel Hobart and Edward Toole Anne and James Townsend Tina and Byron Trott The Turer Family Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Velez Susan and Michael Veysey Janet and Philip Villiotte Vis-à-Vis Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Vittorini Audrey Wagner Mary Ann and Samuel Wagner Anne Ward Emma and Tom Ward Laurie and Toby Webb David E. Webster Jr. Cathy and Stephen Weinroth Anne S. Carmignani and Stephen H. Weinstein Melanie Wernick Miss Joy West Susan and Scott Whitlock Janice Coffin Wiesen Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wight Elaine and Rick Williams Linda F. Williams Dr. Sarah Williams Erin Wilson Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Wilson Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wilson Judith and Michael Wodynski Carol C. Woodbridge Patsy Wright Lucinda Young Margot T. Young Yummy Nantucket Carolyn Grant Zarrella and Ronald Zarrella Zero Main

$100–$249

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Erik Abjornson Jennifer and John Addeo Mr. and Mrs. Hervey Ahlborn Lu and Skip Ahnemann

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Albani Joan Albaugh Susan I. Stackpole and Dominick Alberino Mr. and Mrs. George T. Albrecht Janis Aldridge Mr. and Mrs. Nathan R. Allen Jr. Betty Browning and Jeff Allen Mr. and Mrs. Barry Alpert Marcia and Stephen Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Anderson Susan and Mark Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anton Janice E. Ellsworth and Drew Arent Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Arvay Leo C. Asadoorian Diane C. Asche Mr. and Mrs. John W. Atherton Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Silos J. Atsalis Jean and Tom Austin Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Austin Mark Avery Susan Ayd Anne Bailliere Mr. and Mrs. James Baisley Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Baker Margit C. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Bill Baldassano Vice Admiral (USN Ret) and Mrs. John A. Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. R. Ballard Dr. Valerie J. Hunt and Mr. James C. Ballway Ruth C. Baltzer Eileen P. Gebrian and Timothy J. Barberich Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Barnard Curtis L. Barnes Nancy and Lee Barnes Mr. and Mrs. William H. Barney III Kathleen J. Horton and Kevin J. Barry Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bartholdson Susan M. Cosper and Brian K. Bartlett John B. Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Basilevsky Patricia Bates Mary K. Baumslag Mr. and Mrs. Eric Baurmeister Mr. and Mrs. John S. Beale Wendy and David Beardsley Carol and Louis Beierle Pat and Rick Belford Priscilla and Andy Bender Margaret G. Benedict Bruce J. Beni Mr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. James S. Bennett Jeanne and John Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Brian Berger Linda and Robert Berger Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Berglund Martha and Ira Berlin

HISTORIC NANTUCKET / SUMMER 2018

Nancy C. Berman and Ronald P. Berman Jane and Garrett Bewkes Stacey and Robert Bewkes Clara Bingham Mr. and Mrs. William Birch Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bires Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Birge III David D. Bixler Jr. Sandi and Robert Blanda Jack W. Blaylock Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bloomstone Elaine Boehm Sarah and Richard Boehm Miss Charlotte Boening Mr. and Mrs. James R. Boening Mr. and Mrs. Roger M. Bogin Bolder Books, LLC Paulette and Fred Boling Kathy and Tom Bologna Ann P. Bond Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Boughner Jane Bourette Catherine Taylor† and Carl Bradley Dr. and Mrs. Michael Bralower Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. M. Brannock Cherise and Robert Bransfield Mr. and Mrs. Allen H. Breed Mr. and Mrs. Ron Bresler Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Brewster Nicole and Jonathan Brightbill Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Briskman Mrs. Nancy Broll Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Brome Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bromenschenkel Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brown Judy and Bob Brust Caroline and Kurt Buechle Sarah C. Bullard Barbara E. Bund Barbara H. Burmester Lee Rand Burne Mr. and Mrs. Michael Burns Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Busher Mr. and Mrs. Tony Butler Mr. and Mrs. Barry Byrne Ellen Mitchell and Charles Byrne Kenneth L. Cady Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Cahill Mr. and Mrs. Lee Calhoon Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Callahan Jr. Miss Chelsea Cammarota Nancy Weeks-Cantone and Greg Cantone Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Caplan Mr. and Mrs. Chris Caponigro Dr. and Mrs. Peter O. Carey Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Carini Catherine C. Peters-Carle and Raymond E. Carle John B. Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carrolo Liz Weiss and Tim Carruthers Judy A. Carter

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Casazza Anna and Erik Caspersen Mr. and Mrs. Kim J. Cassady Sandal Cate Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Catlin Jr. Barry Catmur Susan H. Cavanaugh Helene and D. Jan Cella Cara Ceraso Virginia G. Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Chan Mr. and Mrs. Donald Charbonneau Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Charpie Sandi and Phil Chomo Mr. and Mrs. Don Claffey Mr. and Mrs. Laurance R. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Clark III William H. Clendenen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Coblentz Brenda J. Coffin Mr. and Mrs. John H. Coffin Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Coffin Peg and Phil Condon Louise and William Connell Bessie and John Connelly Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Connolly Price Connors Mr. and Mrs. Laurence G. Constable Michelle and Jeff Constable Sharon and Steve Conway Mr. and Mrs. Chad Cooley Judy and Kiril Coonley Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Andy Corry Christina and Christopher Crampton Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Cross Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cross Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Cueto Cumberland Farms Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Curhan Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Curren Michele and Tony Czarzasty Mr. and Mrs. Vincent D’Agostino Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Daly Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Damashek Ms. Jennifer Eckert and Mr. Richard D’Amore Cynthia and Jonathan Danforth Carly Danforth Jay D. D’Aprix Janie and Jerry Dauterive Nancy Moylan and Tom David George P. Davis Kristen Hawkeswood and Matthew Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Brett Dean Dr. Susan Decoste Dr. Joanne Woodle and Mr. John DeGennaro Mary Ivey and Charles Del Signore Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan W. Delano Beth A. Dempsey

GIVING 2017 Harlan J. Denny Mr. and Mrs. Paul DePriest Susan M. Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. David S. Deutsch Elaine and Manny Dias Karen Summers and Robert Dick Mr. and Mrs. Peter DiCristofaro Anna-Karin and David Dillard Mary Ellen and Kevin Dineen Maureen and Bob Dobies The Dodge Family Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Dolan Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Donahue Mr. and Mrs. James Doughan Jessie Bourneuf and Thomas J. Dougherty Janice and Tom Dougherty David Douty Susan Halley and Robert Dowsett Mr. and Mrs. George Drapeau III Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Drappi Janet M. Duane Mary M. Duffin Eileen S. Duke Dr. Rachel Dultz and Mr. Michael Dultz Mr. and Mrs. John Dunne Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dutra Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Dutra Mr. and Mrs. Moses Easley Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ebert Rosemary Ecolado Susan Holmes Eelman Mary and David Eklund Mr. and Mrs. Greg Elder Nelson Eldridge Cindy and Richard Elkman Donna Elle Tish Emerson Mary Ellen Gaw and John P. Emert Laurie Coben and Travis Epes Barbara Erskine Marianne Franklin and Richard M. Everett Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Fandrey Maia and Donald Farish Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Faucette Sheila and Matt Fee Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Ference-Gray Laetitia J. Ferguson Diane and Will Ferris Denise Harris-Fiems and Dennis Fiems Mr. and Mrs. Nick J. Finamore Mr. and Mrs. John S. Fink Margaret Burke and Dennis Fiori Anne and Lucas Fischer Karen D. and Josef E. Fischer, M.D. Joan Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Fitch Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fitzgerald Mr. and Mrs. Patrick D. Flahive Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Flax

Margaret-Anne Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Brian Fogarty Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Folger Mr. and Mrs. Tim W. Ford Claudia Formoe Jeannette and Georgeâ&#x20AC; Fowlkes Annabelle and Gregory Fowlkes Mr. and Mrs. Denny Fox Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fraga Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Franzen Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Frascati Dr. and Mrs. John P. Fraunfelder Mr. and Mrs. J. Pepper Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Freeman Phyllis and Stuart Freilich Fremont-Smith Family Kristin and Johannes Frey Mr. and Mrs. David S. Freysinger Betsy and Don Freytag Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Frick Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Friedman Hon. and Mrs. William H. Frist, M.D. Ciara and Jack Fritsch Mr. and Mrs. Eric Frost Mr. and Mrs. Marcus D. Fuller Mr. and Ms. John H. Galloway III Susan and Michael Gannon Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. William L. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. Gary B. Garofalo Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Garrette Karen Ketterer and Paul Gaynor Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Geer Terry Schubach and Larry Gelb Dottie and Lou Gennaro Drs. Louise Schneider and John Genova Mr. and Mrs. Chase Gensheimer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Gentner Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Gewirtz Dr. Debra Ann Gfeller Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ghirardelli Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Giese Mr. and Mrs. Peter N. Gilbreth Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Gill Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gillispie Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Gillum Jr. Marybeth Gilmartin Sandy and Ed Goldman Mr. and Mrs. John N. Goldman Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goldsmith Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Goldstein Madalyn L. Mann and Robert C. Goldszer Herbert W. Goodall III Zelda and Jordan Goodman Joan and John Goodwin Ryan Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Gorham Drs. Maria Smith and Thomas Gorman Billi and Bobby Gosh Mr. and Mrs. William H. Graham Jr. Judy Deutsch and Norman Graham

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Gray Norene and Laurence Green Stacey Stuart and Peter Greenhalgh Mr. and Mrs. William E. Grieder Jr. Bridgette Hynes and Ethan Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Griffith III Margo Grodsky Dr. Alex Benjamin and Mr. Pete Grover Hon. and Mrs. Ray W. Grubbs Mr. and Mrs. Brad Guidi Patty and Jeff Haines Valerie and Robert Hall Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hallock Jean and Hugh Halsell Lisa Halsted Barbara and Jerry Hamelburg Jennie Voorhees and Mike Hamill Laura M. Rizio and James A. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. William Hamlen Janet MacKay-Hanlon and Francis Hanlon Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Hardy Mr. and Mrs. C. Steven Harkness Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris James R. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Eric N. Harthun Mr. and Mrs. Robert Havery Kyra and Charlie Haydock Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Headley Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Healey Patrice and Matthew Healy John M. Heggem Nina and Bob Hellman Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Henry Mr. and Mrs. Ned C. Hentz Sandra A. Urie and Frank F. Herron Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Hess Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Heyda Mr. and Mrs. Greg S. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Hilzenrath Sarah K. Hindle Mr. and Mrs. Don Hinkley Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hofsess Judy and Bill Holding Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Holland Valerie Holloway Mr. and Mrs. David Hooper Dr. and Mrs. William E. Horgan Louise and William Hourihan Tyrrell Flawn and John Howe Kelley and Greg Howell Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hoyt Grace B. Hull Mr. and Mrs. David C. Hulme Eileen and Arthur S. Hulnick Haydi Hurley Mr. and Mrs. Burton C. Hurlock Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hussey Scott G. Huston Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hutchison III Mr. and Mrs. Ron Irving Sarah and Christopher Irwin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Irwin Anne H. Isbister Jackie and Ron Jackowitz Joan Badie and Chip Jackson Sarah L. Jacobs Ann Martindale and Stephen D. Jacobs Natalie Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. David M. Jagger Mr. and Mrs. Brad Jancik Anne and James Jennings Erin and Duggan Jensen Mr. and Mrs. James L. Jerden Mr. and Mrs. M. Carl Johnson III Linda S. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. John G. Johnson Simon S. Jones, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Jones Jr. Janet Joy Sydna and William Julian Deborah Kahn Debbie and Ray Kahn Betsy and Kevin Kalman Michael Kalman Bruce M. Kaplan Elizabeth P. Kaplan and Gilbert B. Kaplan Diane Pitt and Mitchell Karlin Dorine and John Karnash Julie Kaufman Barb and Dave Kaytes Caroline Montgomery and John Keane Mary Chlopecki and Mike Kearney Paul Keeshan Mr. and Mrs. John M. Kellogg Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Keltz Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kern Miss Callie Kever Leslie and Tom Killian Carol Kindler Nina and David King Mr. and Mrs. T. Barry Kingham Virginia Kinney Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin E. Kinney Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Kinsley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kiss Blue Balliett and William R. Klein Dr. and Mrs. R. Frederic Knauft Mr. and Mrs. Brian Knox Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kocoloski Kimberly Stiner and Demian Kosofsky Susan R. and James S. Kozera Mr. and Mrs. Alan Kramer Jan and Jeffry Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Chris Kryder Robert Kucharavy Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Kunkel Paul La Paglia Pamela S. LaFontaine Alice Russell and John Laing Brigid and Alec Lamon Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lancaster Mr. and Mrs. William F. Lane

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GIVING 2017 Doris Barlow Lanigan Anne M. Lanman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Larrabee Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest B. Latham Cynthia Lavenson Mr. and Mrs. Brandon D. Lawrence Elizabeth Yerxa Layton Alison Barr and Michael Lazerwitz Mr. and Mrs. William E. Learnard Mr. and Mrs. David J. Leggett Mr. and Mrs. Steven Leinbach Mr. and Mrs. Atul Lele Elizabeth and George Lencyk Jill and Jim Lentowski Michelle Perkins and Scott Leonard Lucy and Tobey† Leske Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Lesko Carol P. Searle and Andrew J. Ley Dr. and Mrs. Albert G. Liddell Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Liddy Karin and Carl Lieberman Sherre Wilson-Liljegren Diane and David Lilly Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lindsay Georgie Lindstrom Abigail Harding and M. Jess Lipsey Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Littig Dr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Littman Sally and Phil Lochner Pamela F. Lohmann Sue A. MacNaughton and Richard T. Lohr Mr. and Mrs. Dean S. Long Mr. and Mrs. Albert O. Louer Jim and Tricia Lowe Beth and Thomas Lowy Doris V. Hanna and Peter F. Lysaght Campbell and Paget MacColl Alison MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. J. Randall MacDonald-Hodgson Drs. Hallie Lightdale and Avram Mack Mary Jane and William MacLean Angus MacLeod Thomas L. Macy Stephanie Maffeo Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Maggio Mr. and Mrs. Robert Maier Catherine Maloney Juliette G. Mandeville Mr. and Mrs. Paul Manning Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Manus Robert Franklin and Charles Mappin Margaret and Charles Marino Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marks Jr. Kathrina and John Marques Emily W. Anglund-Nellen and Gregory T. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martucci Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mastellone Janine A. Matsko Mary McAuliffe Joanne A. McCaffrey and William E. Floring Mary Beth McCahan

Claire McCann Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. McCann Mr. and Mrs. Ciaran McCloskey Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. McCouch Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. McGhee Pat and Charles McGill Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGinnis Katelyn McGrath Mr. and Mrs. William F. McGrath Jr. Pam and Jim McGraw Mr. and Mrs. James McGuire Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. McHugh Mr. and Mrs. James McInerney Sarah and James McIntosh Deborah and James McIntosh Katherine Watts and Dale McIvor Lisa and Eric McKechnie Mary and Chris McKeown Mr. and Mrs. Dan McLaughlin Rhoda H. Weinman and Joseph J. McLaughlin Juliette C. McLennan John C. McMeekin Julie S. McNamara Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McNeil III Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. McQuade Mr. and Mrs. Sanjeev Mehra Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mello Cristin Merck Mr. and Mrs. Richardson T. Merriman Victoria R. Vitarelli and Tyler C. Merson Mr. and Mrs. Harry Midgley Elizabeth Milias Maria Zodda and John Millar Polly and Nick Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Carter Mills Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Minahan Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mitchell Katherine and David Mittelbusher Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Mittelbusher Mary Warren Moffett Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mooradian Jaye and David Moore Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Moore Vicki Morgan Family Joyce and Jim Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morse Marie and Steve Moss Jamie Lisa Moss Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mueller Helene Patterson and Leo Mullen Eileen M. Muse Nantucket Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Nash Mr. and Mrs. Roger Nastou Jean and David Nathan Diane and Eloy Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Nelson Susan and Scott Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Gordon G. Nelson Jeffrey and Anne Nielsen

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Mr. and Mrs. Alex Nieroth Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Nietsch Stacy Albanese and Todd Noonan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nopper Susan J. Leboeuf and Joel Novak Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Noyes Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Obermeyer Katharine S. O’Brien Elizabeth Hunt and Edward O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ohrem Jennifer and Erik Oken Julia Blanchard and Andrew Okun Mr. and Mrs. William Oldakowski Elizabeth Oldham Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Olsen Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery L. Olsen Elissa and Bill Oshinsky Mr. and Mrs. John Osowa Jr. Jill Morgan Packard Valerie and Jeffrey Paley Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Aaron M. Panner George C. Pappageorge Kim and Ernie Parizeau Julie and Jeffrey Parker Trisha Passaro Mr. and Mrs. William Pate Mr. and Mrs. David Paulin Robert Peaker Spencer Penn Mr. and Mrs. James A. Perelman Abby and Steve Perelman Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Peri Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perlman John Lamb and David A. Perry-Miller Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas K. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Rob Petty Paula McLeod and James Pfaff Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Pfund Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips Margaret C. Pignato Miriam Petrella and Rob Pinkava Mr. and Mrs. Jim B. Pinsky Ruth and Joe Plandowski Mr. and Mrs. John M. Plukas Sheila David and David Policansky Mr. and Mrs. Elliott B. Pollack Mr. and Mrs. Max Polster Mr. and Mrs. John Polychronopoulos Peggy Davis and Bill Porter Valerie and Larry Post Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah W. Powell Gene M. Pranzo Adrienne Prassas Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pretz Drs. Margaret A. and Trevor R. Price Dorothy Hertz and Phil Proch Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Quamme Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rabb Nina S. Duchaine and Rory J. Radding Lisa and Thomas Ragno Charron P. Ranney Ms. Becky Ransom

Katherine and Craig Raphaelson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ravenel Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Raymond Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Raymond Peg and Phil Read Mary and MacGregor Read Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Ready Vic and Maureen Reed Diana R. Regan Carey Dack-Reidy and Paul Reidy Maria Partida and Jose de Jesus Reyes Heather Forbes and James J. Reznar Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rice Marcia and Tom Richards Gary McBournie and Bill Richards Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Rickards Dr. and Mrs. V. Bruce Rigdon Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Riley Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Ringer Dr. and Mrs. Robert V. Riordan Ginny and Joe Ripp Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell E. Rishe Barbara M. Matteucci and John S. Rizzo Mr. and Mrs. William M. Roberts Katharine S. Robinson Maureen Robinson Joyce and Russell Robinson Mr. and Mrs. George F. Rochat Lili Roche Robin Rodbell Mr. and Mrs. Dana F. Rodin Maura K. Finan and Edward J Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. K. Keith Roe Nancy L. Romankiewicz Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Rorick Mr. and Mrs. Doug Rose Mr. and Mrs. Amory Ross Diane A. Palmeri and Albert M. Rossini Amy and Gregory Rowland Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rudolph Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruley Judith K. Rushmore Mr. and Mrs. Harry Russell Donald P. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Amdi Sabeti Terri B. Sackett Liz Coolidge and Elisabeth Sackton Marcia Butman and John Sackton Kathryn Heflin and David Sadoff Navyn and Paul Salem Kathryn and John Salmanowitz Susie and Emory Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Eric Sandifer Robert Sarkisian Jeanne Dietrich and Marc Satenberg Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sayer Lori and Michael Scheeringa Tim Ehrenberg and James Scheurell Mr. and Mrs. James E. Schilling Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Schmidt Linda and Miles Schmidt

GIVING 2017 Pam and David Schofield Edwin A. Schreiner Mr. and Mrs. James A. Schultz Laurie and William Schutt Mr. and Mrs. Ken Schwanfelder Katherine Kaizer and Evan Schwanfelder Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. John W. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Scott Mr. and Mrs. William H. Seay Jr. LeAnn Bartlett and Christopher Selvig Rini and Tom Shanahan Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Shapiro Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Shaver Mr. and Mrs. Bruce P. Shaw Margaret and Frank Sheckell Elizabeth and Tim Sheeler Heather Shelby Rich Shertenlieb Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sherwood III Happy and Sam Shipley Nancy V. Shoemaker Susan Blair and David Shukis Mr. and Mrs. AJ Siebeneck The Rev’ds Lyn Brakeman and Richard Simeone Mr. and Mrs. James W. Simpson Lucinda L. Slate Katherine and David Scott Sloan Mr. Gerald P. Slone Rachael Freeman and Samuel Slosek Dorothy Slover Rev. Dr. Ruth Smalt Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Smiles Mr. and Mrs. D. Van Smith Mr. and Mrs. H. Brooks Smith Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Smith Tom Smith Diane and Guy Snowden Katie and Dick Snowdon Burson and Pete Snyder Mr. and Mrs. W. Lloyd Snyder III Mr. and Mrs. Stanford R. Solomon Deborah D. Speer Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Spellmeyer Mr. Richard H. Spencer Polly and Richard Spencer Thatcher Spring Pamela and Stephen St. Pierre, D.V.M. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Stanton Dr. and Mrs. Gary Staples Ann W. Harrison and James A. Starkey Valerie and John Stauffer Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Stearns Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James K. Stedman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Steindler Mr. and Mrs. James Sterling Mr. and Mrs. William J. Stern Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Stevens Sharon Lefevre and Jim Stewart Mr. and Mrs. William B. Stitt Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Grove W. Stoddard Mr. and Mrs. Eric F. Stone Esta-Lee and Harris Stone Mr. and Mrs. Dale G. Stoodley Laura Elkins Stover Mr. and Mrs. Bradley D. Strand Remy A. Stressenger Mr. and Mrs. William Strittmatter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strong Lynn and Bob Stroud Sung and James Stubenberg Ellen and George Stueck Katherine Martien Sullivan and Gregory Sullivan Barbara Elder and James Sulzer Ambassador Louis and Marjorie Susman Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Sutherland Caroline and David Swain Mr. and Mrs. Philip G. Swan Mr. and Mrs. Greg Swart Anne Sweidel Marji, Bud, and the Taggart Family Brooke Kendall and JR Talley Gail Ryan-Tannen and Kenneth Tannen Mr. and Mrs. James V. Tanzola Patty Tasch Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Taylor Sandy and Ted† Taylor Ana Van Winters and Robert Temkin Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Terry Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Vaios T. Theodorakos Karen T. Butler and John Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Thulin John E. Tiffany Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Timon Boots and Dick Tolsdorf Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey G. Tolsdorf Peggy and Bill Tramposch Dr. Thomas A. Travers Mr. and Mrs. Doug Traynor Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Treanor Mr. and Mrs. Stanley J. Truffini Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Tuck Mr. and Mrs. Chris Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Tulloch Mr. and Mrs. Damien J. Turbini Harriet S. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Frank Twarog Jane A. Tyler Dr. and Mrs. William J. Untereker Clara Urbahn Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Van Brunt Barbara and Michael Varbalow Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Vardeman Mr. and Mrs. James G. Vaughter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Virtue Mr. and Mrs. L. Ralph Vizzari Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Voss Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Waggaman Mr. and Mrs. W. Wyatt Walker Jr. The Walkey Family Ken Wall

Anne and Jack Warner Susan M. Warner Maire Watkins Wendy and Bruce Watts Mr. and Mrs. David Webber Mr. and Mrs. David B. Webber Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Weber Mr. David E. Webster Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wehmueller Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas Weinhardt Dr. and Mrs. Joel Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Werle Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Wertheimer Mr. and Mrs. Robin West Megan Pelino and Joe Whalen Griselda Lyman and Duncan White Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. White Cara Shortsleeve and Nick Whitman Beth and Hugh Wilkinson Jess Williams Paula K. Williams Mr. and Mrs. John B. Williams Nell Wilson Joan R. Wilson-Godeau Kathryn Kubie and William Winkler Georgina and David Winton The Witt Family Deborah Halber and William Wittenberg Lorraine and Charles Woods Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Wright Myra and Charles Wrubel Mr. and Mrs. Steve Yelon Drs. Elaine E. and Robert A. Yordan Kathleen and Brent Young Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Young Mr. and Mrs. Andrew V. Youngblood Dr. Robin J. Zablow Mr. and Mrs. James C. Zampell Mr. and Mrs. Jon H. Zehner Mr. and Mrs. Martin Zetterberg Marcella and Rhoads Zimmerman Sandra Chiszar and Ralph Zuckerman Batia Zumwalt † Deceased

Gifts and donations under $100 are not listed

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CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND CHARITABLE FUNDS 2017 The NHA recognizes the following for corporations, foundations, and charitable funds for outstanding support through underwriting programs and projects. $100,000 and above

Franci Neely Foundation Margaret Ritchie R. Battle Family Charitable Fund Normandy Real Estate Partners

M. S. Worthington Foundation, Inc. The Nantucket Hotel & Resort Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation The Shackelford Family Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Stark Carpet Telescopes of Vermont Theodore Cross Family Charitable Foundation Thornburg Foundation The Waldo Trust

$10,000–$19,999

$2,500–$4,999

Institute of Museum and Library Services Tupancy-Harris Foundation of 1986

$50,000–$99,999 Magellan Jets

$20,000–$49,999

Baxter Family Foundation Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation Carla and Jack McDonald Family Fund Carver DeLaney Families Foundation The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation Don Allen Auto Service The Geschke Foundation The H. L. Brown Jr., Family Foundation Kennedy P. Richardson Fund Marine Home Center The Marvin H. Davidson Foundation The McCausland Foundation N Magazine Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Novation Media ReMain Nantucket Reynolds Family Foundation The Robert and Kathleen Stansky Fund Samuel P. Mandell Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund

$5,000–$9,999

Akers Family Charitable Fund The Arzak Foundation BNY Mellon, Wealth Management Boston Design Center Bratton Family Foundation BridgePoint Risk Management The C. and A. Johnson Family Foundation Charina Foundation Chubb The Dinan Family Foundation Donald A. Burns Foundation Edward and Merrielou H. Symes Charitable Fund Emeritus Development The Gilbert Verney Foundation Jay M. Wilson Fund The Joelson Foundation Karp Family Foundation Kathleen Hay Designs The Linda and Harvey Saligman Charitable Foundation

The Barbara Jones Charitable Fund BPC Architecture & Interior Design The Bright Group Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Cape Cod Five Foundation Centre Pointe The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Congdon & Coleman Insurance Cox Foundation Crozier Family Fund Greenhill Family Foundation Greydon House The Gund Family Charitable Fund Hackett Family Foundation The Hajim Family Foundation Henry Salvatori Family Foundation Highland Street Foundation Hingham Institution for Savings James Lydon, Sons & Daughters James Robinson Inc. Jockey Hollow Foundation Killen Real Estate Liberty Street Foundation The Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Moose Moss Nantucket Bank, a division of Blue Hills Bank Nantucket Looms New England Home Newton Family Charitable Trust Owsley Brown II Family Foundation R. Simantov Fine Jewelry R. C. Lilly Foundation Fund Ralph Lauren The Ross Foundation ’Sconset Gardener Susan Weatherley Family Charitable Fund The T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation The Tile Room Whitcomb Family Advised Fund The Williams Forsyth Family Fund

$1,000–$2,499

2 Macs 1 Bloom Family Fund Ainslie Foundation Arrowhead Furniture & Nursery

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Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate Big Hen Group I Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote Foundation Botticelli & Pohl, P.C. Cape Air / Nantucket Airlines Cheney Brothers Building & Remodeling Christopher Larsen Charitable Fund Christopher McKown & Abigail Johnson Fund Cody Family Charitable Fund Cuddy Associates David and Beverly Barlow Fund David M. Handy Events The Donna K. Cooper Charity Fund Driftwood Construction Dujardin Design Associates Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Forman Family Fund Freedman’s of Nantucket Gauvin Gardens The Gulley Family Fund Hale Family Foundation Hanna D. Monaghan Trust Harry Grodsky & Co. The Hartman Family Foundation Harvey Jones Gift Fund Hatch’s Package Store Hy-Line Cruises The Inquirer and Mirror The Islander Package Store The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Jordan Real Estate The Joseph and Deidre Smialowski Philanthropy Fund The Judy Family Foundation The Kirsch 1998 Family Trust Larry and Julia Pollock Family Philanthropic Fund Loose Family Charitable Fund Nantucket Bookworks Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Pharmacy Nantucket Tents The Northrup Fund Puff Family Fund Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation Robert & Marjie Kargman Fund S. and J. Newhouse Family Foundation Sarah F. Alger, P.C. The Steamship Authority Sylvia Antiques / Four Winds Craft Guild The Wareing Family Fund The Warrington Foundation Wayman Family Charitable Trust Young’s Bicycle Shop

$500–$999

A Taste of Nantucket The Ancona Family Foundation Angelastro Family Charitable Fund Bartlett’s Farm The Beachside at Nantucket Brass Lantern Inn The Brennan Family Foundation Cape Cod Express Carl and Nancy Gewirz Fund Chip Webster Architecture CMC Construction The Columbus Foundation Cymaron Foundation The Egan Group, Inc. The Elizabeth H. & Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Charitable Foundation Fisher Family Fund Four Winds Gifts Fusion of Flavor / Dean Miller Painting Gretchen & Jay Riley Gift Fund Hall Billings Initiative Inc. Harsch Family Charitable Fund Housefitters & Tile Gallery It’s a Shore Thing The J. Scott and Gillian M. Pidcock Charitable Fund Kenneth C. Howard Electric Lingeman Family Charitable Gift Fund Madaket Marine Marc Yacone Electrical McKinnon and Harris Morgan Stanley Nantucket Cultural Council Nantucket Frameworks Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Nantucket Island Homes Nina Hellman Antiques Paulsen Family Foundation Pinwheels Quidley & Company Roastd General Store The Saint Paul Foundation The Saltonstall Family Charitable Fund Sandcastle Construction Schwartz Hannum Stein Family Charitable Fund Stover Engineering & Construction Suzanne C. and Carl M. Mueller Charitable Fund Twig Perkins The UPS Store Whitehall Foundation

$250–$499

02554, Inc. 97.7 ACK-FM & 89.5FM Nantucket’s NPR

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND CHARITABLE FUNDS 2017 & IN-KIND GIFTS 2017 ACKtivities Antiques Depot Aristeia Capital L.L.C. Beyond Bombay Brant Point Inn Carol March Emerson Cross Fund Denby Real Estate Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial & Antebellum America Edith Delker Real Estate The Enjoy Company Flowers on Chestnut Fly Louie Frerichs Family Fund G. S. Hill Gallery Go Figure Barre Studio Nantucket Greater Salina Community Foundation Greenwood Alarm & Key Company The Harold and Janice Cohen Foundation Hostetler Gallery Island Custom Builders Island Kitchen Islandwide Realty Ivy Wealth Management Javatime Design Le Languedoc Bistro Martin House Inn Matthews Family Charitable Fund Middleton Family Fund Mitchell’s Book Corner Moore Woodworking Inc. Murray’s Toggery Shop, Inc. Nantucket Architecture Group Nantucket Carving & Folk Art Nantucket Catering Company Nantucket Coffee Roasters / The Bean Nantucket Culinary Center Nantucket Inn Nantucket Island Events Nantucket Office Products Nantucket Whaler Apparel Nantucket’s On Island Chefs Nobby Clothes Shop Placesetters, Inc. RJ Miller Salon The Scrimshander Gallery Sideboard Small Batch Events Simply With Style Catering Stephanie and Drew Fellon Fund Stephens and Company Storm Castle Foundation Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Susan M. Warner Catering Swain’s Travel Thirty Acre Wood The Vincent & Debra Maffeo Charitable Fund Vis-A-Vis Yummy Nantucket Zero Main

Up to $249

A. B. Norton, Inc. Abbey Revocable Living Trust

Allen County Public Library Boston Public Library Clara Foundation Clear Pond Fund Combined Jewish Philanthropies Cornell University Library Cumberland Farms Egan Maritime Institute Harvard College Library IBM Corporation-Matching Grants Program Isbister Family Fund Jeannine B. Webber Fund Library of Boston Athenaeum Nantucket Garden Club National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Library New England Historic Genealogical Society New Jersey Audubon Society New York State Library R. E. Riley Family Fund Rudy’s Limousine Service, Inc. Sally and Richard Charpie Gift Fund Serials Department Newberry Library State Historical Society of Wisconsin University of Massachusetts Library Voya The William M. Sullivan Fund

The NHA thanks the individuals and organizations for their in-kind gifts of goods and services. Joan P. Albaugh Sarah F. Alger, P.C. Rachel Amaral Molly Anderson Arlo Skye Arrowhead Landscape & Furniture Atlas Pen Austin Mary Randolph Ballinger Bartlett’s Farm Linda J. Bellevue Cristina Blank Blue Beetle Nikoline Bohr Edith Bouriez Alicia Bradford† Brant Point Grill Carol Rose Interior Design Jean Cawley Cisco Brewers Barbara Clarke Compass Rose Real Estate Stephanie L. Correia Cowboy’s Meat Market & Deli Cranberry Transportation Create - Art Supply Store Crosswinds Restaurant & Bar Dana Crowley David M. Handy Events Tess de Alberdi

Betsy and Bill Delphos Jenifer Demko Ezra Descarfino Anne F. Dewez Penny Dey Don Allen Auto Service Janice M. Dougherty Margaret R. Eger Nelson Eldridge Ana Ericksen Patricia Ernst Erik C. Evens Fairwinds – Nantucket’s Counseling Center Julija M. Feeney Michael P. Flanagan Flowers on Chestnut Alison K. Forsgren Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth Kathleen Francis Fusion of Flavor The Gallery at Four India Dorothy B. Gennaro John Gonnella Gray Lady Smoke Shop Great Harbor Yacht Club Hilarie Hawley Greg S. Hill Megan Hinton Betsy Holden Jennifer Horne Sharon W. Hussey Island Kitchen Judith Ivey Javatime Design Jessica Jenkins Max Johnson Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Patricia Jones Emma Keane Melissa Kershaw Kitty Murtagh’s Kathleen Knight Denise A. Korngold Mary Lacoursiere Languedoc Bistro Anne M. Lanman Cynthia S. Lenhart Lester Lanin Orchestra Leslie Linsley Jessica Manning Marine Home Center Roxane Martin Ashley and Jeff McDermott Priscilla McIntosh Paul J. Michetti Candice Miller deLancey Moser Nicole Moss Ani Mulcahy Nantucket Atheneum Nantucket Catering Company Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs Nantucket Clean Team Nantucket Fire Department

Nantucket Funeral Home Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Lighthouse School Nantucket Looms Nantucket Tents Franci Neely Hilary Newell Patrick Nolan Doralee Nolan Novation Media Matthew Oates Korinna Olson Karen A. Palmer Linda Patton Pennies from Heaven Studio Petticoat Row Bakery Queequeg’s Kristina Ralkova Kerry D. Ray Gary McBournie and Bill Richards Kathleen Richen Sharon Robinson Cindy Pease Roe Edwin T. Rudd Priscilla F. Saperstein ’Sconset Fire Department SeaGrille Susan R. and L. Dennis Shapiro David W. Sharpe Mary J. Sharpe Macy H. Smith Something Natural Spanky’s Raw Bar Steamship Authority Stephanie’s Nantucket John H. Stover Catherine F. Stover Stover Engineering & Construction Stroll Carolers Liz Thompson Jason Tilroe Topper’s Toscana Corporation Town Bill Tramposch Triple Eight Distillery Carol B. Truffini UpSculpt Visiting Nurses Association Timothy J. Walker Caroline R. Weld Daryl A. Westbrook White Elephant Susan Whitlock Scott Widmeyer Judith Wodynski Alisa and Alastair Wood David D. Worth Yellow Productions Zofia & Co.

†Deceased

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TRIBUTE GIFTS 2017 The Nantucket Historical Association appreciates the thoughtful generosity of all those who made tribute gifts which support the NHA’s mission. Honorary Gifts

In Honor of Deborah and Mark Beale Mr. and Mrs. John S. Beale Sarah B. Demarest In Honor of Max N. Berry Delia and James Russell In Honor of Maureen Fennessy Bousa Bunny and Jacques Wullschleger In Honor of Karen and Vic DiGravio Lucille DiGravio In Honor of Rachel and Jim Dunlap The Texaco Reunion In Honor of Patsy Ernst Amarilice Lefton In Honor of Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth Suzanne K. Forsyth In Honor of Samuel and Maxwell Gaillard Elizabeth Oldham In Honor of Kindra Gensheimer Mr. and Mrs. Chase Gensheimer In Honor of Mr. Brady Hurley Lori and Michael Scheeringa In Honor of Jean Doyen de Montaillou and Michael Kovner Patricia S. and Thomas J. Anathan Lucy and Nat Day In Honor of Dr. and Mrs. Keith M. Lindgren Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ravenel In Honor of Kristine Melvin The Hargrave Family In Honor of the Sheriff’s Department Toni Hanna In Honor of Sally and Peter Nash Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Vannerson In Honor of James Russell Pamela and Max Berry In Honor of the Starbuck Family Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth N. Cooper In Honor of Elizabeth Gilbert and Linda Steelman The Rev. Dr. Ruth Smalt In Honor of Paul Stephenson Lori and Michael Sheeringa In Honor of Isabel C. Stewart Michelle Alexander and Carter Stewart In Honor of Stacey Stuart Barbara and Michael Varbalow In Honor of William J. Tramposch Sally and Peter Nash Mary Ann and Samuel Wagner In Honor of Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Pamela and Max Berry Cece and Mack Fowler Maureen and James Hackett Bonnie J. Sacerdote Elizabeth and Peter Wareing

Memorial Gifts

In Memory of Jeffrey A. Barkan The Barkan Family In Memory of Katherine K. Barney Linda and Miles Schmidt In Memory of Elizabeth B. Bartholomew Frank Bartholomew Barbara Funk William Funk Martha Funk Colleen A. Ostlund Marji and Bud and all the Taggart Family In Memory of Dr. James E. Bullock Mr. and Mrs. Jim Davidson Bette-Jane Hardersen James R. Harris Eva and Stan Jakuba Helen Kummer Mr. and Mrs. William O. Low Doris A. Maher Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mankoff Mr. and Mrs. Dana Mills Mr. and Mrs. Eric Sandifer In Memory of Douglas K. Burch Cristin Merck Jessica Messersmith Kathy Tagliaferri Wendy and Bruce Watts In Memory of Elton and Douglas K. Burch Renae and Mike Davis In Memory of Peyton S. Hawes Mr. and Mrs. James L. Jerden In Memory of Veronica A. Peaker Robert Peaker In Memory of Alexandra L. Punnett New Jersey Audubon Society In Memory of Lawrence “Jack” Stratton William C. Ashby Carol Bendorf Richard H. Spencer In Memory of Estelle G. Swain Juliette G. Mandeville Susan J. Leboeuf and Joel Novak Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. O’Donnell Cheryl W. Snead In Memory of Estelle and Nason Swain Dr. Valerie J. Hunt and Mr. James Ballway In Memory of Robert M. Waggaman Adele H. Waggaman In Memory of David D. Worth Sr. Victoria E. Girvan-LiPuma and Joseph P. LiPuma

HISTORIC NANTUCKET / SUMMER 2018

NHA VOLUNTEERS 2017

Thank you to the more than three hundred individuals and organizations that gave of their time and talent in support of the NHA’s special events, administrative needs, education and program initiatives, and curatorial projects. Abiah Folger Franklin Chapter – NSDAR Accidentals and Naturals ACK Treasures African Meeting House Joan Albaugh Robin Standefer & Stephen Alesch Patricia Anathan Anchored Law Anderson’s Margaretta S. Andrews Antiques Depot Artists Association of Nantucket Diane Asche Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate Audrey Sterk Design Sallyanne Austin Mark S. Avery Christy Baker Mary Randolph Ballinger Britt Barr Bartlett’s Farm Carol Baxter Pat Belford Rich Belford Craig Beni Jeanne Bennett Michelle Birmingham Josette Blackmore Cynthia Blackshaw Ken Blackshaw Cristina Blank k’Sha Bloise Jeanine Borthwick Kim Botelho Nancy Boulicault Edith Bouriez Maureen Bousa Barbara Boutot Sara Boyce BPC Architecture & Interior Design Kathryn Bradley Brant Point Marine Brass Lantern Inn Anne Marie Bratton Chesie Breen Marianna Brewster Courtney Bridges Joann Burnham Jazzmin Butler Laura Byrne Fatima Caroio Caleagh Cazzetta Cara Ceraso Olivia Charney Lily Chavez Steve Cheney Cheney Brothers Building & Remodeling Janet Coffin

Lawrence J. Cronin Prudence Crozier currentVintage Mark Cutone Daniel Daley David M. Handy Events Adrina Davis Tess de Alberdi Tricia P. Deck Katherine Delgado Betsy and Bill Delphos Penny Dey Bishaka Dhamala Dharma Yoga Nantucket Daniela Diaz Terri Dion Ane DiVenere Mark Donato Sophie Donelson Heidi L. Drew Paula Duffy Trudy Dujardin Kathleen A. Duncombe Hadley S. Dutra Lisa Dwyer Marina Dzvonik Jackie Echeverria Diego Echverria Margaret Eger Emeritus Development John Emert Carolyn Englefield Beth English Patricia Ernst Espresso to Go / Fast Forward James Estrada Exploration Station Fairwinds – Nantucket’s Counseling Center Alina Fattakhova Julija M. Feeney Dave Feindell Ellen Fisher Bonnie Ford Alison Forsgren Phyllis Freilich Friends of Nantucket Public Schools Ciara and Jack Fritsch Elizabeth Georgantas Geronimo’s Ltd. Sarah H. Gillum GoFigure ACK Karin Goldstuck Bee Gonnella Joan Goodwin Gabrielle Gould Jason Graziadei James Gretz Melanie Hajjar Christina Hall Donald Dallaire and David M. Handy

NHA VOLUNTEERS 2017 NHA STAFF Jadelen Harold The Harvey Foundation Jenna Hashem Hilarie Hawley Kathleen Hay Madeleine Hay Cassandra Henderson Elsa Herman Judi R. and Greg S. Hill Carolyn Hills David Holland-Leggieri Jamie Holmes Housefitters & Tile Gallery Grace B. Hull Liz Hunt O’Brien Hydrex Blair Jannelle Sophie Jeager Brenda Johnson Jill Johnson Priscilla Johnson Victoria Johnson Catherine Jones Illya Kagan Margaret Kaufman Linda Kelly Kathy Kelm Nischal Khatri Ginny Kinney Denise Korngold Melanie R. and Richard E. Kotalac Jean Doyen de Montaillou and Michael Kovner Vanessa Larrabee Susan Lazarus Leggiadro Julian Lemus Allison Levy Janet Lindgren Vicki Livingstone Susan Lister Locke Adriene Lombardi Iris Lopez Sharon Lorenzo Tricia and Jim Lowe Helen Lynch Alison MacDonald Matthew R. MacEachern Erin MacIver Janet MacKay-Hanlon Consuelo Macpherson Made on Nantucket Simram Mahat Mary Malavase Miriam Mandell Maria Mitchell Association Marine Home Center John Marques Liela Marrett Bethny H. Maury Linda McAndrews Georgia A. McColough Ashley and Jeff McDermott Liz McDermott Carla McDonald

Martin E. McGowan Mae McKenna Mark McNaughton James Melone Barb Sachnoff Mendlowitz Dylan Miller Tyler Miller Sarah Ann Miller Kathleen Minihan Richard Mishaan Martina Mladenova Charity-Grace Mofsen Laurie Monahan Katie Mooney Yolanda Moreno Carole Murko Nantucket Ballet Dancers Nantucket Bank, a division of Blue Hills Bank Nantucket Bee Local Nantucket Bookworks Nantucket Community School Nantucket Conservation Foundation Nantucket Cottage Hospital Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Nantucket Elementary School Nantucket Garden Club The Nantucket Hotel & Resort Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Nantucket New School Nantucket Republican Town Committee Nantucket Shellfish & Harbor Advisory Board Nantucket STAR Nantucket Tilemakers Nantucket Water Garden Nantucket Whaler Apparel Franci Neely Lucy Nelson Hilary Newell Nancy Newhouse NISDA / Elderhostel Doralee Nolan Patrick Nolan Michelle Nussbaumer Anne Obrecht Bethany Oliver Courtney O’Neill Organic Hair Salon Kate O’Riordan Our Island Home Sandie Owen Angelina Ozoria Cesar Paez Gloria Partida

Judy Patterson Moneak Phillip Kristene F. Pierce Emily Pihl Joanne Polster Fatima Portillo Sarah Powers R. Simantov Fine Jewelry Kristina Ralkova The Residences at Sherburne Commons Mano Reyes Jo-Ann Richard LeeAnne Richard Gary McBournie and Bill Richards Kathy Richen Kenia Rivera Maria Roach Katerin Rodriguez Andrea Rose Wendy Rouillard Sandcastle Construction Marla Mullen Sanford Irean O. Schreiber ’Sconset Gardener Nancy S. Serafini Jamielya Shaw John V. Shea Ajaee Shepard Janet Sherlund Maria Silva Small Friends on Nantucket Clinton Smith Karl Smith Stephanie Sproule St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Isle Pamela St. Pierre Tina Steadman Audrey Sterk Suzanne Sullivan Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Sustainable Nantucket, Inc. Jaime Tashjian Anne Terry Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Charlene Thurston Phoebe Tudor Susan Turer Melinda Vallett Timothy J. Walker Pam Waller Cathy Ward Nancy Weeks-Cantone Missy Weil The Westmoor Club Michelle Whelan Susan Whitlock Hutton Wilkinson Kelly Williams Alisa and Alastair Wood Christopher A. Young Maria Zodda

NHA STAFF Alexandra Norton, Membership Manager Amelia Holmes, Library & Archives Manager Amy Durbin, Education Manager Ashley Martin, Special Functions Manager Bridgette Hynes, Director of Marketing Charlyn Puza, Administrative Assistant Claire McCann, Data Services Manager Cristin Merck, Director of Stewardship Edwin Rudd, Manager of Facilities Georgina Winton, Merchandise Manager James Russell, Gosnell Executive Director Jennifer Nieling, Project Costume & Textiles Specialist Joe Bedell, Maintenance & Grounds Assistant Johanna Richard, CAO/CFO Kathrina Marques, Garden & Landscape Manager Manuel Sylvia, Maintenance & Grounds Assistant Mark Delay, Maintenance & Grounds Assistant Maria Grause, Visitor Services Manager Mary Lacoursiere, The Peter M. and Bonnie J. Sacerdote Chair of Education Michael Harrison, The Robyn & John Davis Chief Curator Peggi Godwin, Visitor Services Manager Rebecca Miller, Board Liaison & Director of Administrative Services Ralph Marie Henke, Photograph Archives Specialist Stacey Stuart, Director of Corporate Development Susan Coffin, Director of Development Tony Dimitru, Collections Manager Tracy Murray, Controller Yeshe Palmo, Public Programs Coordinator

MUSEUM INTERPRETERS & VISITORS SERVICES Abigail Visco Ann Martindale Anne Sweidel Barbara Stott Barbara Varbalow Bob Kucharvy Brandon Menjivar Claire Jensen Colin Sears Diane Tomas Donald Pelrine Elizabeth Gilbert Emma Sanderson Janice Sandler Jerry Morrisey Jim Borzilleri Joan Guzman-Duarte Joan Hull Joanne Polster John Belash Joy Laufle

SEASONAL HELP Charlotte Groeseclse Dea Kirilova Denna Charnes Hazel Thomas Kendall Graham Lindsay Womack Sharon Cross Simona Mitevska

Karen MacNab Katie Kubie Kim Laure Laura Holden Linda Ferrin Liz Schaffer Malcolm MacNab Marta Savaria Miranda Dale Nicolas de Groot Ramon Partida Rebecca Chappa Sam Powers Sean Allen Susan Berman Taylor Rossini Thomas Miner William Winkler

2018 INTERNS Abbie Minard Claire Barnewolt Clayton Voyages Edward Harthorn Jake Hill Karl Wietzel Paul Cahill Rebecca Finnigan Rita Carr Tommy Bender

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CALENDAR PROGRAMS

LECTURES

FAMILY ACTIVITIES

JULY

JUL 16 Summer Sunset Series Music with Coq Au Vin on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members

JUL 2 “Nantaska” The Minnow and the Whale, The Curious Parallel Lives of Nantucket and Alaska with Crocker Snow $5 NHA Members, $15 Non-Members

JUL 17 Oil, Business, and Blubber Symposium on the Business of Whaling $150 per person

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EVENTS

JUL 1- 31 Hands-on-History Daily Childrens’ Craft Activity Free with Museum Admission JUL 6 Annual Members Meeting Book launch, Collecting Nantucket: Artifacts from an Island Community by Michael R. Harrison, NHA Members Only

JUL 25 Member Mornings: Behind-the-Scenes Tour with the Curator Nantucketers and Their Boats NHA Members Only

JUL 9 Summer Sunset Series Live music with Foggy Roots on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members JUL 10 Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series “Crusing the Atlantic” with Alfie Sanford in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing $20 per person

JUL 18 “Sometimes Think of Me” Book Launch & Reception with Susan Boardman at the Whitney Gallery

JUL 25 Lecture & Reception with Dava Sobel The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, in partnership with Maria Mitchell Association $25 per person

JUL 18 Hanna in Her Garden: An Afternoon at Greater Light with Beverly Hall $5 per person

JUL 25 Hanna in Her Garden: An Afternoon at Greater Light with Beverly Hall , $5 per person JUL 30 Summer Sunset Series Live music with Coq Au Vin on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members

AUGUST JUL 10, 11 Drawn to Whales with Don Sineti Afternoon activity July 10, 11. Evening musical presentation July 11 $5 per person JUL 11 Hanna in Her Garden: An Afternoon at Greater Light with Beverly Hall $5 per person JUL 14 Rossini Club Concert at Greater Light $15 per person

HISTORIC NANTUCKET / SUMMER 2018

AUG 1- 30 Hands-on-History Daily Childrens’ Craft Activity Free with Museum Admission JUL 19 Extraordinary Women of Nantucket at Greater Light $5 per person JUL 23 Summer Sunset Series Music with Foggy Roots on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members JUL 24 Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series “Celebrating Sailing” with Gary Jobson in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing $20 per person

CALENDAR PROGRAMS AUG 8 Hanna in Her Garden: An Afternoon at Greater Light with Beverly Hall , $5 per person AUG 1 Nantucket by Design Welcome Cocktail Party AUG 2 Nantucket by Design Design Luncheon with keynote speaker David Kleinber, moderated by Sophie Donelson, editor in chief, House Beautiful

LECTURES

FAMILY ACTIVITIES

AUG 9 Extraordinary Women of Nantucket at Greater Light $5 per person AUG 9 Whales Tales Lecture Series “North Atlantic Right Whales: on the Path to Extinction” with Stormy Mayo of Center for Coastal Studies $5 NHA Members, $15 Non-Members

AUG 3 Nantucket by Design Design Panel with Amanda Lindroth, David Netto, and Nick Voulgairs III, moderated by Chesie Breen

AUG 21 Fireside Chats at Hadwen House “Frederick Douglass in Ireland” with Dr. Christine Kinealy $5 NHA Members, $15 Non-Members

AUG 3 Nantucket by Design All-Star Private Dinners Chaired by Bill Richards and Gary McBournie AUG 4 Nantucket by Design Night at the Museum Gala Tickets Available at NHA.org

EVENTS

AUG 11 “Curiosities & Oddments in the Nantucket Historical Association Collection” a lecture on scrimshaw with Dr. Stuart Frank, includes light breakfast, private tour of NHA collection and admission to the Nantucket Summer Antiques Show, $75 per person

AUG 22 Member Mornings: Behind-the-Scenes Tour with the Archivist at the NHA Research Library , Members Only AUG 23 The Life & Work of Addison Mizner with author Richard René Silvin in collaboration with Nantucket Preservation Trust $10 per person

AUG 13 Summer Sunset Series Live music with Coq Au Vin on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members

AUG 27 Summer Sunset Series Music with The Ballroom Thieves on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members

AUG 14, 16, 18 Moby-Dick Rehearsed with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket $30 per person

AUG 28 Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series “Second Wind” with Nat Philbrick in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing, $20 per person

AUG 6 Summer Sunset Series Music with Foggy Roots on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members AUG 7 Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series “The International One-Design” with John Burnham in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing $20 per person AUG 8 Fireside Chats at Hadwen House “The Irish-American Experience” with Dr. Catherine Shannon $5 NHA Members, $15 Non-Members

AUG 20 Summer Sunset Series Music with Foggy Roots on the Roofwalk $20 NHA Members, $30 Non-Members

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Nantucket By Design’s fabulous closing party at the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Come enjoy food, drink, music and dancing all to benefit the Nantucket Historical Association. At the height of Nantucket’s summer season, the NHA celebrates the very best in creative and inspirational design with engaging lectures, lively panel discussions, and both intimate and grand gatherings.

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