from nantucket.here is also a man from the azores and that is edward -- as the edward kerry sailed all over the world, they would pick up sailors along the way. that will add to the diversity of the crew. the first whaling crews created the first meritocracy in the colonies, the and a young man who could prove his worth, could climb up the ladder and eventually achieve success on a whaling voyage. maybe become a mate, maybe even become a captain. pictured here we have -- boston who was the first african-american captain of a whaleship with an all-black crew. the edward kerry is going to -- 1854, thiswar, was a really emotional time when ships departed nantucket. most of the town would be waving goodbye. these men will be away from the town for four years, a really young -- long time to be away from your loved ones. voice, theticular edward kerry is going to go around the cape of good hope into the indian ocean and eventually into the pacific, hunting whales. bemarily they are going to looking for spu

a fellow nantucketer. a cry resounded throughout the ship, the wind blowing heavy, succeeded in reaching him as he was about to give up. he had a bucket under him which fortunately happens to go over at the same time. the name of the lad was samuel christian. in another entry, on august 27, 1854, joseph described the hard work that took place on the whaleship. working like the old harry, putting spars over the stern, and all of his homesick as the devil. so ends the 24 hours of trial and tribulation. so what happened to young joseph ray? after this voyage, he went out on another whaling voyage at -- out of connecticut and unfortunately, he was up in the sails and he fell from the four foremast yard and was lost at sea. and what happened to the edward kerry? it went out in 1858 and stopped in san francisco where it was sold and resumed its whaling. then, in 1865, it was captured and burned by the confederate shenandoah and that was the end of the edward kerry. so now -- people would think that probably the

the early whaling on nantucket was right around nantucket. there were whales migrating particular in the north atlantic and that whale migrates up and down the east coast, but yeah , the early whaling, before they had -- on board, they didn't have the option of going three or four years on the whaling voyage. , theyy caught a whale had to get back to nantucket before the blubber was rancid. >> we have a comment about antarctic whaling. the comment is if there were in the georgia islands, on the harbor close to , the antarctic peninsula. >> right, right. >> greenland's north, i'm confused. anyway. peggi: yes. [laughter] again, we have some dramatic stories in journals and logbooks and the paintings in the museum that all tell us how difficult it was when they were really in the arctic area, because often the ships were stuck in the ice and that could be very fatal , ituse if the ice closes in could collapse the ship. it was very dangerous. but they had a lot of oil, so theya lot of whales -- but have a lot of whales up there so you can see whe

here's hoda kotb with "murder on nantucket island." >> nantucket, massachusetts, a smudge of an island off the coast of cape cod. it's simple and elegant in a way that says serious money. the beaches are pristine. the food phenomenal, and the shopping, pack your credit cards. as the setting for romance with surf, sunset and sea breezes, nantucket is 50 shades of fabulous. but then the fog rolls in, dense, mysterious and everything changes. suddenly it seems anything is possible in this moody place. maybe even sinister things. >> 911. this line is recorded. state your emergency. >> hi, we got an emergency. my sister, she's not answering her phone. >> it was monday, october 25th, 2004. a gray day. officer daniel furtado of the nantucket police department was on patrol when the car radio crackled at 1:15 in the afternoon. a call had come in. >> she was supposed to leave and pick up my son at day care. she won't answer her cell phone. >> okay, i'm going to send someone over right now. >> it was a routine matter or so it seemed. furtado was dispatched to check it out. he met his partner at

when they is having nantucket. mind being --. what that meant for our people was okay, now they only give you 25 acres but now we are going to tax you on it. yeah. that means a different term in my language. we lost a lot of our land like that. cape cod became cape cod. not until the 90s. it was the fastest developing town in massachusetts in the 90s. today we literarily got recognized by the u.s. government as a people. what we do today we have programs. we do our powwow which is july 4th weekend. we did it for my brother who passed away back in 97. he got killed in rhode island. i want to show you something. haven't visited here about 8-10 years. we went out to up the road. my grandparents were raised your. my grandfather moved here from mashpee. my grandmother born 1895 and passed away in 1964. she had a stillborn son 1919. i visited the grounds yesterday, right. i googled indians of nantucket. i came across a picture that i had in my living room. this was my grandmother. there wasn't a name underneath it. that is ruth west, m

i also have nantucket ties to here, right? my people have been around this area of massachusetts for over 12,000 years. and we're still here today, okay? now, what i'm going to do today is like wampanoag is a culture of people. what makes it different from the other thousand, it could be language. it could be diet. it could be the housing we lived in. one common one we all have is how we think about life in general. we respect all forms of life be it human life, plant life, animal life. we don't put ourselves above or below that. that's one thing we all have in common. i do a lot of teaching, right? and i ask the people what race do we come from? the human race, right? so we should all respect each other, and that's rule of thumb for my people, you know? so like i said we've been here for 12,000 years. that's me up there with my lovely wife who teaches language. ulse holding a turkey feather mantel. i'm going to bring you to a year 1613 before there's any major interpretation in our culture, okay? i'm going to bring you to our

i know it's hard to do in nantucket. but i'm sure you try to find more shelter around the more woodsy area. and you would get protection from the wind, from the ocean. inland might be a half-mile, maybe a mile. and these are the houses we live in. we heard the names before, long houses. they're bark-covered houses. and normally during the winter these houses could be anywhere from 100 foot long to one of the biggest houses we found -- we found the footprint of this house, right? structured like this. this footprint was found out in worcester. the footprint of this bark-covered house was 326 foot in length and 60 foot in width. i tell kids if you don't know what that means, think of a football field. that's how big this house was. the frames were made out of cedar, okay? the outside bark normally would have been chestnut and elm. we don't have those trees around here anymore so, we use tube of popp lar today. and we used to use white ashe. unfortunately you have the ash bug today that's wiping out those trees. and they're

welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling.nting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people participating, which is absolutely shocking. we are just delighted. we are going to be talking to ignite about what it was like on the whale hunt. this presentation will last abou

welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling. excited about presenting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people

peggy godwin of the nantucket historical association discusses the history of wailing and the

but 20 years ago, i moved to nantucket island. i became fascinated with the place, having grown up in the maritime center of the world, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, i was a little overwhelmed by having all this water around me. and i was also overwhelmed because one of my most favorite books in the world was moby dick. it was as if i had stepped into the pages of my favorite novel. the more i learned about it, the more i began to realize that if i was ever going to write a book about the history of nantucket, i had to put it in the context of new england. i had to begin with the pilgrims. that story i assume i already knew. to look into 17th-century new england and the more i looked into the stories, the more almost indignant i became. what i learned in third grade didn't do justice to the complexity and the real relevance of what happened in 17 entry new england. because the story of the pilgrims does not end with the first thanksgiving. that is just the beginning of an intergenerational story that is truly epic in scope. because ye

not far from my home on nantucket. i can tell you from first-hand experience, poligrip is still a frightening piece of water. they almost lost the ship. remarkably, the wind does a 180 degrees and starts blowing from the south jones says we aren't going to the hudson river. we are going to cape cod. i need to get these people off of my ship and get myself back to england. they had to what we now call provincetown harbor. this creates an uproar in the between decks of the mayflower. the strangers who are roughly half the passengers realize that their patents, their legal paperwork does not apply to the settlement this far north. they realize the passengers aboard the mayflower are about to become america's first illegal immigrants. if this is the case why should we follow them? why do we go? this might mean the end of the settlement. this is a pivotal moment. what do they do? they do a remarkable thing. they put pen to paper and borrowed many of the words from john robinson's farewell letter, they draft what we call the

after moving to nantucket, became very interested in the history. writing for me, if i don't write something during a day, i really feel as if i have cheated myself in some way, so i try to keep at it. thank you. yes? any more questions? over here? >> as you've traveled around the country on your book tour, i know you need to new england, to chicago, to san francisco and to dallas, have you noticed any regional differences either in the way the people look at the book, or the way they look at the pilgrims? >> the question for you those of you who didn't hear it. i've been on this book tour that is taken me around the country. what has been the response? there are regional differences in that response. well for one thing, literally every place i have gone, there has been a generous portion of the audience who are mayflower descendants. it is showing me that this is a story that has a vital connection with who we are. one of the surprises for me was to learn that to be a descendant in the mayflower passengers i thought was it not only club. 10% of the

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and video.d the >> what we wanted to do today, going to be a number of turn because i need to you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to quakers.he i taught freshman english at the niversity of connecticut six years and one of my courses was sored booksp, krpbs in nine 50's. what i realized is my students came fromry young and a different moral climate that shocking to was not them so i needed to give them moment to of the understand how radical it was. we will take time to give you puritan mentality so when enter you can understand how frightening it is. when the world was turned up side down between 1649 1660 or 1661. in ough we are sweltering the quaker meeting house i need you to imagine the coldest day london you can imagine. bitterly cold. 1649.f january, there's a very small man, smaller than i am, about five feet, getting dressed in the morning for his execution. frightened that those who have come to witness will think him frightened so he commissioned a undershirt this still survives in the british

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the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and provided the video. >> what we wanted to dooday, there will be a kind of style going on here, because i need to turn you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quakers. i taught freshman english at the university of connecticut for six years. one of my courses was on censored books in the 1950's. what i realized was my students were so very young and came from a different moral climate that peyton place was not shocking to them at all. i needed to give them the moment to understand just how radical the novel was. so we will take a little time to give you the puritan mentality, so when the quakers enter your world, you can understand just how frightening it is. we are going to be looking at a time when the world was turned upside down, between the years 1649 and 1660 or 1661. the we are all sweltering in the quaker meeting house, i want you to imagine the coldest day in london you can possibly imagine. bitterly cold, the end of january, 1649. there is a very small man, smaller than i am, about f

about 20 years ago i moved to nantucket island and i became fascinated with the place, having grown up in the maritime center of the world, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, i was a little overwhelmed by having all this water around it. and i was also overwhelmed because one of my most favorite books in the world was "moby dick". i wanted to learn everything i could about it. and the more i learned about it, the more i began to realize if i was ever going to write a book about the history of nantucket, i had to put it in the context of new england. i had to begin with the pilgrims, the story i assumed i already knew. so i began to look into 17th century new england. and the more i looked into the story, the more almost in dig na dignant i became because what i learned didn't do justice to what i had learned. the story of the pilgrims does not end with the first thanksgiving. that is just the beginning of an inter-generational story that is truly epic in scope. yes, there was the first thanksgiving and then for the next 54 years there was a remarkable thing in plymouth colony. there was peacefu

inlucretia mott was born 1793 in nantucket, in massachusetts. she was both the doctor and eventually the wife of merchants, so she had a relatively comfortable life. quaker,was raised as a and her parents sent her initially to a private school, but didn't like the way the private school was giving her airs about others, so then they center to a preschool -- they sent her to a preschool early on, to give you an idea about quaker modesty and the notion we are all equal and we all have an inner light. we need to be free of the trappings, this is quaker theology, free of the trappings of this world so we can hear is's message to us, what god telling us to do and what he needs for us to do. so quaker meetings were often marked by silence so that people could listen, and there were men's and women's sessions. and women could speak, mostly to other women, but they could speak at all quaker meetings. there wasn't a notion that whitman -- that women didn't have a voice to be heard. was sent to a famous quaker school known as the nine partners school. she

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the general court of massachusetts bay just days possibly before thomas macy left to come here to nantucket. in the book, it says that we know macy had impeccable hand writing, that he had probably just stepped down from being the clerk of the town, because the next week after this letter is written, the clerk's handwriting is different and awful. so let me put a hat on. it always helps to be someone else. this is to entrait the honorate court not to be offended for my nonappearance. it is not for my slighting of the honored court or fear to answer the case, but have been for some weeks past very ill. and am so at present. and notwithstanding my illness, my desirous to appear, have done my utmost to endeavor to hire a horse but cannot procure one at the present. i being destitute, have endeavored to purchase one, but at present cannot attain it. but i shall relate the truth of the case, as my answer would be to the honorable court. and more cannot be proved nor so much. on a rainy day, there come to my housed award warton and three men more. said warton spoke to me, saying that they were tr

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and provided the video. >> what we wanted to dog on here, because i need to turn you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quaker

the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video.

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and video.d the >> what we wanted to do today,o you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to quakers.he i taught freshman english at the niversity of connecticut six years and one of my courses was sored booksp, krpbs in nine 50's. what i realized is my students came fromry young and a different moral climate that

the nantucket historical association hosted the stock and provided the video. >> what we wanted to do today, it is going to be kind of a a lot of styles going on here because i need to turn you into puritans, if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quakers. i taught freshman english at the university of connecticut for six years. and one of my courses was

you would subtract one from an applicant who had ever spent the night on nantucket or martha's vineyardr saint bart's and he would add points to applicants who have vacationed in branson or lake mead or the florida panhandle. you would start an aggressive affirmative action program for fat people, for deer hunters, for anyone who drives an american car or eats dinner while wearing a hat. are those people represented on corporate boards? i don't think so. find a fat person corporate america. there's not one. why is that? you know why. our leaders are doing the opposite of any of that. what you're seeing is the ruling class following up -- pulling up the ladder, as they always do. how may people lecturing about diversity come from exactly the same elite background? well, pretty much all of them, so what they're advocating for his people just like themselves. we can give you a thousand examples. take marcus maybury. he runs global digital programming at cnn, been around journalism forever. he's now one of cnn's most energetic diversity enforcers. he never ends the sentence without using th

if i wear one of these, people assume we're doing a sketch on the show called "deadliest catch: nantuckettariq: yeah, it's like, we get it you're captain freaking america. you're not just an avenger, you're the first avenger but, no, that wasn't enough. you had to sit down at a piano and prove you have a soft, sensitive side too well, guess what hugh jackman called, and he -- well, he was really impressed. [ laughter ] so add that to the list. >> yeah, man we get it. you've been in a tony-nominated play on broadway you can act in films, onstage, you can play piano and you've met michael cera we get it! [ laughter ] >> tariq: we get it! >> jimmy: we get it! you're the perfect person, you handsome, talented, humble, funny, overall kind and easy to work with mother - ♪ [ applause ] sorry. i just had to get that off my chest. we love you, chris more "tonight show" after the break. [ cheers and applause ♪ honey honey? new nyquil severe honey is maximum strength cold and flu medicine with soothing honey-licious taste. nyquil honey. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy he

there you see nantucket 3:00 in the morning coming up, 48 miles per hour.o this purple is not pleasant when there's snow on the ground blowing it around and maybe even blowing some trees into power lines. there certainly to be power outages with this. now back to the map as i told you, new york city probably 10 to 14, maybe 16, we'll see. boston 8 to 12, later -- it takes longer for it to get to boston. philadelphia 6 to 10, less in camden, more in like allegheny county or back out toward the west and certainly more into lancaster. you get into d.c. 1 to 3, the problem in d.c. is the ice. back to you guys. >> chad, i don't know what's worse, the heavy winds, ice or thundersnow. it all sounds slightly apocalypt apocalyptic. thank you for keeping an eye on that. >>> now to this disturbing story out of texas this morning, a former houston police captain arrested and charged with carrying out an armed vigilante traffic stop after president trump's bogus claims of voter fraud. cnn's ed lavandera is live in texas with more. this is such a disturbing story, ed. wh

this unimaginal gap year has to be the potential to be one of the worse educational nantuckets for -- inequities as a graduate myself, i fully understand the implications when students fall behind and how difficult, if not impossible, it is for them to catch up. we have had a persistent and consistent racial academic achievement gap for decades and the inability for students to form personal relationships with their teachers and fellow classmates and to fully access the curriculum has long-term negative devastating affects particularly on those most vulnerable. this pandemic has impacted our communities of color in low-income families zprr disproportionate ways and i know public health experts are using data to operationalize a response during covid-19. what i am asking for is a similar approach for our public education leaders, experts and movers and shakers. the san francisco health officer authorized for in-person learning on a rolling basis as a a -- allowable and we need to focus on advanced learning and identifying the necessary resources and developing safety protocols and trai

this unimaginal gap year has to be the potential to be one of the worse educational nantuckets for -- inequities as a graduate myself, i fully understand the implications when students fall behind and how difficult, if not impossible, it is for them to catch up. we have had a persistent and consistent racial academic achievement gap for decades and the inability for students to form personal relationships with their teachers and fellow classmates and to fully access the curriculum has long-term negative devastating affects particularly on those most vulnerable. this pandemic has impacted our communities of color in low-income families zprr disproportionate ways and i know public health experts are using data to operationalize a response during covid-19. what i am asking for is a similar approach for our public education leaders, experts and movers and shakers. the san francisco health officer authorized for in-person learning on a rolling basis as a a -- allowable and we need to focus on advanced learning and identifying the necessary resources and developing safety protocols and trai

this unimaginal gap year has to be the potential to be one of the worse educational nantuckets for -- inequities as a graduate myself, i fully understand the implications when students fall behind and how difficult, if not impossible, it is for them to catch up. we have had a persistent and consistent racial academic achievement gap for decades and the inability for students to form personal relationships with their teachers and fellow classmates and to fully access the curriculum has long-term negative devastating affects particularly on those most vulnerable. this pandemic has impacted our communities of color in low-income families zprr disproportionate ways and i know public health experts are using data to operationalize a response during covid-19. what i am asking for is a similar approach for our public education leaders, experts and movers and shakers. the san francisco health officer authorized for in-person learning on a rolling basis as a a -- allowable and we need to focus on advanced learning and identifying the necessary resources and developing safety protocols and trai

got started effectively ferrying people from new york city out to the hamptons, people going to nantucketk this looks like over the next five years? has the price point come down? or do you think in this sort of work from home, people being outside of cities, there's a different commute strategy what does that look like to you? >> look, blade is now six years old, we named the company blade urban for a reason this has always been the path that we have been going on to. this move to new technology that is currently on the ground and going to the air this will be -- this technology is cheaper, less expensive for the consumer, will be carbon neutral, actually carbon, have no carbon emissions and be quiet, and that cost will be reduced to the consumer. will it be for everybody, but no, i think what's important is these are not flying taxis there will be multiple people on these aircraft you know, safely distanced, safe distance from the pilot, and the cost, you know, will come down we're already at $95, having shattered the uber black price barrier, to the airport for five-minute flight to th

. $20 million to finance a taxiway for airplanes on nantucket. develop a smart toilet. a hot tub to lower straf. 1 1/2 million to examine lizards walking on treadmills. 2 million to develop a wearable headset for eating behavior. isn't this just too much, richard? >> listen, i think -- thanks for having me. i don't agree with rand paul on much but i agree with him on this list. number that was the most alarming to me was the $25 billion that the u.s. government wasted at the pentagon. now think about that for a minute. this week we know -- last week we know 800,000 americans filed for unemployment. if you were to do some back of the envelope math that $25 billion would give each american $83 on the already -- if the government put the money in the hands of the american people. especially in a time when the economy and american people are hurting. i don't agree with rand paul on much but i agree with him on this. >> sandra: what do you agree. $10,000 per taxpayer wasted per year? >> i think he is light. we have a 4.8 trillion budget. i would allege at least 10% of that c