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