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 26
April, 1979
No. 4
CONTENTS
Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff
2
Editorial—The Quality of Nantucket
5
The "American Rembrandt" by Robert di Curcio
7
Coming Events: The Nantucket Needlework Exhibition
16
Notes on Tuckernuck
17
Legacies and Bequests/Address Changes
31
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.