Summer Events -1985 Sponsored by the Nantucket Historical Association and to be held at the Whaling Museum at 8 P.M. Monday, June 24
PROTECTING NANTUCKET'S FURNITURE HERITAGE: CARE AND CONSERVATION, Robert D. Mussey, Jr., Furniture Conservator, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Thursday, July 11 NANTUCKET AND HER COASTAL PORT CONNEC TIONS IN THE ERA OF AMERICA'S CHINA TRADE, Miriam Butts, Guest Instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Thursday, August 8 SONGS AND YARNS OF THE DEEPWATER SAILORMEN: A MUSICAL EVENING, Stuart Frank, Director, Kendall Whaling Museum and Mary Malloy, Dept. of Education, Peabody Museum. Thursday, August 22 OWEN CHASE AND THE ESSEX SURVIVORS: FILLING IN THEIR STORY, Thomas Farel Heffernan, author of Stove by a Whale. Admission to the above is free to NHA members Other adults: $4.50, Children: $1.00
Exhibitions at the Fair Street Museum May 11 - June 8 June 13 - July 13
July 18 - August 24
August 29 September 21
NANTUCKET PORTRAITS, the Association's marvelous collection depicting personages from the island's past. HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF NANTUCKET: HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW?, selection of panels from the Historic American Buildings Survey, complemented by paintings and historic photographs. WOMEN ARTISTS ON NANTUCKET, a first-time assembled exhibition of works by female Nan tucket artists, including many examples from private collections. NANTUCKET COLLECTORS, an exhibition of works drawn from some of the major private col lections on Nantucket, including furniture, sculpture, paintings, and objets d'art.
Special Memorial Exhibition of the works of GRETCHEN WEEBER June 7 - June 14
At the Kenneth Taylor Gallery in the Thomas Macy Warehouse on Straight Wharf selected paintings will be sold to benefit the Historical Association's building maintenance fund.
