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Nantucket Historical Association Officers

COUNCIL 1981 - 1982

Walter Beinecke, Jr., Chairman Mrs. Bernard D. Grossman, Vice Chairman Leroy H. True, President-Chief Executive Officer

Albert F. Egan, Jr., Vice Pres. Mrs. R. Arthur Orleans, Vice Pres. Albert G. Brock, Vice Pres. Richard C. Austin, Secretary

Alcon Chadwick, Vice Pres. George W. Jones, Vice Pres. John N. Welch, Treasurer Edouard A. Stackpole, Historian

Donald E. Terry Miss Nancy Ayotte David D. Worth Mrs. Helen W. Chase Miss Dorothy Gardner Robert D. Congdon H. Flint Ranney Harold W. Lindley

STAFF

Renny A. Stackpole, Director of Museums Edouard A. Stackpole, Editor "Historic Nantucket" Mrs. R. Arthur Orleans, Assistant Editor Mrs. Elizabeth Tyrer, Executive Secretary

Oldest House Curator: *Mrs. Kenneth S. Baird

Mrs. Margaret Crowell, Mrs. Abram Niles Hadwen House-Satler Memorial Curator: 'Mrs. P. Prime Swain

Mrs. Richard A. Strong, Mrs. Everett B. Merrithew,

Mrs. Kathleen D. Barcus, Deidre Richards, Alice Metzdar Whaling Museum Curator: * Renny A. Stackpole Rev. Frank J. Pattison, Manager; James A. Watts,

Mrs. Robert E. Campbell, Alfred N. Orpin, Glenn Boornagian, Rose Stanshigh, Anita Dougan, Ann Albrecht, Mary Lou Waterman,

James Greenleaf, Karen Scott Greater Light: Dr. Selina T. Johnson Peter Foulger Museum Director: * Edouard A. Stackpole

Asst. Director: Peter S. MacGlashan

Mrs. Reginald F. Hussey, Librarian; Mrs. Norman A. Barrett,

Miss Marjorie Burgess, Miss Helen Levins, Alcon Chadwick,

Mrs. Ann Warren, Lorie Rawlinson, Andrea Lane, Everett Finlay Macy-Christian House Curator: *Mrs. John A. Baldwin

Miss Dorothy Hiller, Mrs. Edna Docca, Mrs. Helen S. Soverino Old Goal Curator: Albert G. Brock Old Mill Curator: "John Gilbert

Millers: John A. Stackpole, Edward Dougan, Thomas and Mary Seager Fair Street Museum Curator: Albert F. Egan, Jr.

Rachel Lukens Lightship "Nantucket" Curator: "John Austin

Richard Swain, Robbie Mooney, Daniel Nelson, Terry Ellis Hose Cart House Curator: * Francis W. Pease Archeology Department Chairman: *Rev. Edward Anderson

Vice-Chairman: Mrs. John D.C. Little Building Survey Chairman: *Rev. Robert G. Metters Old Town Office Curator: *Hugh R. Chace *Ex-officio members of Council

H I S T O R I C N A N T U C K E T

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

Volume 30 July, 1982 No. 1

C O N T E N TS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers

Editorial: Protecting Tradition is an Insurance

The Whaling Museum's new "True Hall"

Mrs. Louise R. Hussey, Librarian, receives Honorary Degree

The Journal of Eliza Brock - At Sea on the Lexington by Sherri Federbush

Miss McCleary Solved the Puzzle

"Nantucket'' by W. Frederick Brown

The Falkland Islands and Nantucket by Edouard A. Stackpole

Address Changes/Bequests 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 SI.00 each. Membership dues are — Annual-Active S7.50; Sustaining $25.00; Life — one payment $100.00; Husband and Wife $150.00 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.

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