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Nantucket Historical Association's Annual Meeting THE EIGHTY-SECOND annual meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association was held at the Peter Foulger Museum on Tuesday af ternoon, July 20, with some seventy members of the Association in at tendance. Leroy H. True, President and Administrator, presided, opening the meeting shortly after the famous Walter Folger Clock struck the hour of four o'clock. It had been decided that the meeting this year would be devoted to a presentation of reports by the chairmen of the various departments and committees, so that the general membership would receive information as to the activities of the Association as they relate to the exhibit buildings and committee activities. The chairmen were also asked to present their concept of how future plans for changes at the exhibits could help them become more effective. The program which followed the opening remarks of President True proved both interesting and informative. Hugh Chace, Chairman of the Whaling Museum, reported on the record season which this important structure had enjoyed in 1975, and of the several changes in the exhibits which he has instituted during the winter. This has included cleaning and redisplaying the material in the South Seas Room, with a rail barrier to protect the New Zealand canoe model. A number of effective changes have also been accomplished in the Scrimshaw Room. Several ship paintings and prints have been restored. The newest exhibit, a handsome diorama, created by Raymond Delucia, of the Museum of Natural History, New York, and displayed in the room housing the whale skeleton, depicts an authentic waterfront scene at Straight Wharf on the 13th of October, 1842, with the whaleships Napoleon and James Loper at the wharves, and the ship Peru, just released from the "Camels," in the harbor around Brant Point. The activities at the Peter Foulger Museum were described by the Chairman of that building, Edouard A. Stackpole. He reported the busiest year to date — especially during the once-called "off season," over 850 school children having been visitors, including nearly 250 from the Nauset Regional High School on Cape Cod. Nine preparatory schools have had groups of students, on the island during spring and fall months under the Environmental Studies Program, sponsored by the schools, the
