Volume 25 January, 1978 No

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

Published quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port.

Volume 25 January, 1978 No. 3

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

Editorial

Augusta Bunker: Pioneer Schoolteacher and Rancher by Andre Aubuchon

The Hicksite Separation on Nantucket by Robert J. Leach

Sankaty Light Sighted at Sea by Capt. J. S. Gillooly, U.S. N.

The Path Along the Bluff by Mrs. Abbie Ransom

A Night in the Ice Fields on Board Steamer "Nantucket" by Edouard A. Stackpole 2

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Historic Nantucket Is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copies $.50 each. Membership dues are—Annual-Active $7.50; Sustaining $25.00; Life—one payment $100.00 Second-class postage paid at Nantucket, Massachusetts Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.