Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

COUNCIL 1982 - 1983

Leroy H. True, President - Chief Executive Officer

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

Alcon Chadwick, Vice Pres. George W. Jones, Vice Pres. Mrs. Bernard D. Grossman, Vice Pres. Walter Beinecke, Jr., Honorary Vice Pres. John N. Welch, Treasurer

Donald E. Terry Mrs. James F. Chase Robert D. Congdon Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman

H. Flint Ranney Harold W. Lindley Robert G. Metters Mrs. Alan Newhouse

STAFF

John N. Welch, Administrator Renny A. Stackpole, Director of Museums Edouard A. Stackpole, "Historic Nantucket" Editor; Historian 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. Kathleen D. Barcus Whaling Museum Curator: *Renny A. Stackpole

Rev. Frank J. Pattison, Manager; James A. Watts,

Mrs. Robert E. Campbell, Alfred N. Orpin

Mrs. Rose Stanshigh, Mrs Edward Dougan 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, 1800 House: Margie Beale Macy-Christian House Curator: *Mrs. John A. Baldwin

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

Millers: Thomas Seager, Evan Stackpole, Terry Ellis Fair Street Museum Curator: Albert F. Egan, Jr.

Mrs. William Witt Lightship "Nantucket" Curator: *John Austin

Michael Jones Hose Cart House Curator: *Francis W. Pease Archeology Department Chairman: *Rev. Edward Anderson

Vice-Chairman: Mrs. John D.C. Little Old Town Office Curator: 'Hugh R. Chace *Ex-officio members of Council

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 31 July, 1983 No. 1

C ON T E N T S

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

Editorial: An Island of Ideas 2

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Portrait of Robert Ratliff, Rigger, an Old Royal Navy Man 6

The Starbuck Family and The Parliament House by Margaret S. Beale 7

Nantucket School Days of a Century Ago as Recalled by Capt. Everett B. Coffin

Seaside Time

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The Salvaging of the Three-Masted Bark Laura A. Burke -1882 by Edouard A. Stackpole

Bequests and Address changes

Gifts of the Tony Sarg and Austin Strong Collections Enhance Our Exhibits 21

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Lecture on French Whaling at Whaling Museum, June 25 31

Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachsuetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copies, $2.50 each. Membership dues are — Annual-Active $7.50; 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, Massachsuetts 02554.

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