News and Events for Nantucket Island
~ by Amy Jenness ~ After surviving the gruesome loss of the Nantucket whaleship Essex in 1820, George Pollard, the ship’s captain, and Owen Chase, its first mate, returned home in June of 1821. Pollard immediately returned to the sea in command of a another whaleship. But Chase stayed home […]
Author David O. Dowling will present his latest book Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck on Monday, June 20 at 6 pm in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. In this book, Dowling explores the survivors’ accounts of the ill-fated voyage of the whaleship Essex and […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to present “Pacific Parallels: Marquesas Islands and the Essex Crew,” a special lecture by anthropologist Emily Donaldson, this Monday, June 15 at 6 pm at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. From the Essex crewmen’s near brush with French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands, to […]
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is celebrating island life in a timely exhibition entitled In the Art of the Sea, opening with a reception on Friday June 12, from 6 to 8 pm in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington St. The exhibition will be on […]
On August 14, 1819, the whaleship Essex sailed out of Nantucket Harbor— Captain George Pollard, one of the youngest ever to command a whaling ship, anticipated a successful two-and-a-half year voyage; its crew of twenty hoped for greasy luck. Their experience was anything but lucky. Fifteen months after the start […]
Warner Bros. Pictures announced late on March 14, 2015, that the release of the film In the Heart of the Sea, Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard’s adaptation of Nantucket author Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book, has been rescheduled for December 2015, replacing the original release date of March 13, 2015. Now […]
