HISTORIC NANTUCKET Published Quarterly and devoted to the preservation Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port.
Volume 31
January, 1984
of
No. 3
CONTENTS I Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff Editorial: Peering into the Future About Our President A Little Model with a Long History by Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr. Peter Foulger — What We Have Discovered About a Most Remarkable Man by Kim Downs-Watson Address Changes An Interesting Find by Anita Coffin Dammin A New Curator Established by John Welch Dr. Samuel Gelston — Medical Pioneer by Edouard A. Stackpole A''Nantucket House" in Nova Scotia Bequests Noah's Legacy by Marian Gleason "Pea Soup" Humors of Election Day in Old Nantucket by Henry S. Wyer
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Historic Nantucket (USPS 246460)is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association members and extra copies may be purchased for $3.00 each. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Nantucket Historical Association, Box 1016, Nantucket, Ma. 02554. 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, Massachusetts 02554.
