Summer Events -1985

Sponsored by the Nantucket Historical Association and to be held at the Whaling Museum at 8 P.M.

Monday, June 24 Thursday, July 11 Thursday, August 8 Thursday, August 22

PROTECTING NANTUCKET'S FURNITURE HERITAGE: CARE AND CONSERVATION, Robert D. Mussey, Jr., Furniture Conservator, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. NANTUCKET AND HER COASTAL PORT CONNECTIONS IN THE ERA OF AMERICA'S CHINA TRADE, Miriam Butts, Guest Instructor at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. SONGS AND YARNS OF THE DEEPWATER SAILORMEN: A MUSICAL EVENING, Stuart Frank, Director, Kendall Whaling Museum and Mary Malloy, Dept. of Education, Peabody Museum. 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 Nantucket artists, including many examples from private collections. NANTUCKET COLLECTORS, an exhibition of works drawn from some of the major private collections 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.