here we a young man whose name is joseph ray. joseph kept a journal throughout this voyage. lot of the drawings that you will be seeing came from joseph ray. he was a 21-year-old nan tulkt boy hired to go out on the edward kerry. his job will be boat steerer and harpooner. so that means that when they lower the whale boats from the whale ship, when they're actually pursuing a whale, joseph will be in the bow of the ship. so he will first be using an ore to help row toward the whale. when they approach the whale, he's also be the person who is going to harpoon the whale. joseph joins the rest of the crew, and these are men from really all over. they're men from fall river, buffalo, boston, nantucket, of course, because the captains and the mates are most likely from nantucket. there's also a man from the azores. as the edward kerry sales all over the world, they'll pick up other sailors along the way. that will add to the diversity of the crew. diverse whaling crews created the first meritocracy in the colonies. any young man who could prove his worth could climb up a ladder

a lot of the drawings uc came from joseph ray. he was a 21-year-old nantucket boy hired to go out on the edward carry. his job was going to be vote steer or and harpooner. that means that when they lower the wheel votes from the whale ship that are pursuing a whale, joseph will be in the bout of the ship and he will first be using and or to help when they approach the whale. he will have a harpoon, he will harpoon the whale. and joseph joins the rest of the crew. these are men from nearly all over. from fall river, buffalo, boston, nantucket of course that's a capital and there's also came in from the azores as he sales all over the world they will be picking up other sailors around the way. that will add to the diversity of the crew. diverse whaling crews created the first meritocracy. and a young man who could prove his worth, climb up a ladder, eventually achieve success on a whaling voyage. maybe he'd become a captain even. pictured here we have absolute boston. the first african american captain of a will ship with an all-bla

. >> appear winslow, master, joseph e. ray, boat steerer, journal keeper. april 12th, 1855. at candidate a.m., the cry of "man overboard" resounded throughout the ship. the wind blowing heavy, the boats were lashes up in thors on deck. being in my berth at the time and hearing the noise went on tech just as the starboard boat was going down. i jumped into her with the mate and a few others and after pulling for sometime onnors succeeded in reaching him as he was about to if i have up. he had a bucket under him which unfortunately happened to go over at the same time. >> ahab and star buck in the cabin. star buck! i'll not have the burden as hoisted. what will the owners say, sir? let the owners stan on nantucket beach and outyield the typhoons. what cares they have? owners. owners? you are always praising the me asb the myselferly owners as if the owners were my conscience. but look, the only real owner of anything is its commander. and hark ye, my conscience is in the ship's keel. on deck! >> log 368, ship susan. ruben russel, hasser the and keeper. december 21st, 1845. at

joseph grubel's edsel ford nelson rockefeller. these are all people who had a great deal to do with rockefeller center. i'm going to skip ray bolger helen will's moody autocon jan pierre scripture vanderbilt and many others, but we can talk about them later. john d. rockefeller, jr. first rockefeller center had nothing to do with john d rockefeller senior. despite the picture of rockefeller center on the cover of ron cherno's great biography of john senior titan. he never set foot in the place. it was entirely the creation of his very unlikely son, john d jr. was very difficult growing up the sun of john d rockefeller senior. this was a very serious seriously religious family practicing a form of hellfire baptism. baptistism might be best characterized by what john d jr's mother once said to a friend that i'm so glad that john has told me what he wants for christmas so it can be denied him. this young man bearing the burden of the name john d rockefeller on his very frail shoulders entered the business world in 1897. in his father's office at 26 broadway within a few years. he got involved in his first business venture, whi