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 27
January, 1980
No. 3
Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff
2
Editorial — The New Year — The Perception of History
5
The "Ann Alexander's" Scrimshaw Set Tells The Story of a Ship Sunk by a Whale by Edouard A. Stackpole
6
Great Point Lighthouse Threatened By Erosion of The Beach
13
Legacies and Bequests /Address Changes
26
The Destruction of the U.S.S. "Housatonic" During The Civil War
27
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.
