a local historian of nantucket and nantucket whaling. i do not know exactly when it was gifted and it was given to the nha in 1914. it is in this little ivory frame with a card that says he was in the boat for 93 days. he made this piece of twine. it was very powerful artifact . all that is left is this piece of twine. very powerful. you alluded to manuscripts and crew lists from previous voyages of the essex. there are books from other voyages of the ship and they have all the crew signatures. we own a silver ladle that was given to daniel russell, the previous captain of the essex on the previous voyage that was successful. the ship was regarded as having greasy luck. a good one to be aboard. we have artifacts that reflect that. the other thing that reflects the power of this event in the imagination is a trunk of the period. it was fetched out of the sea. the story is it was fetched out of the sea from near the essex wreck. a man on one ship who had it sold it to a man on another ship. this is from the essex. the man bought it and too

this evening of the essex tragedy is a near and dear story to nantucket and to nantucket's identity as a historic whaling port. they nantucket whaling museum is a unique place to tell the story. we preserve the history of nantucket and we have a lot of collections related to the story . it is in our bones so we are really thrilled to be able to have all of you join us this evening for our conversation about the essex. [laughter] the basic thing, we are here to talk about the essex the question of the evening. what are the basic things everyone should know about the essex tragedy? guest: the essex left in 1819, the year after the pacific national bank was built. she was old and had a first time captain, first mate owen chase. the cabin boy was thomas nickerson. they departed and headed for the pacific. it was a normal whaling voyage, not a very successful one. they made their way up to the west coast of south america and they decided to venture out farther. after a stop at the galapagos, they were 3000 miles from the set -- from the coast of south america where they cited a huge spring

welcome to the nantucket whaling museum. we are very pleased to renew our commemoration of the 200 anniversary of the whaleship essex. i am the research chair. we are pleased to leave this evening in conversation with an author. he arrived in nantucket in 1986. he has lived here ever since. he is a historian and has written numerous books about the island. in 2000, he published "in the heart of the sea," a book about the nantucket tragedy. since then, he has gone on to write a number of books. one about exploring, the mayflower, a variety of other topics. branching off from nantucket. we are thrilled that everyone can join us. this story of the essex tragedy is near and dear to nantucket. to the identity of a historic whaling port. this museums is a unique place to be able to tell the story. we preserve the history of nantucket. we have lots of collections. it is in our bones. we are really thrilled to be able to have all of you join us this evening for our conversation about the essex. mr. philbrick: i second that. it is re

i was very curious how closely related were the nantuckets?igured out how they are all, and they were all related. over and over again. and, you know, survival situation, it's people, it's groups of people that have a pre-existing bond, whether it is spiritual, whether it is cultural, that tend to make it out at a higher rate than those who do not have those kinds of bonds. that probably helped the fact that there were only five nantucket survivors from the whale boats. the other thing -- i went to mystic seaport and spent times on the charles w. morgan, the last remaining american wooden rail ship. channeling what was it like when a whale attacked? and went to the kendall whaling museum that is now part of the new bedford whaling museum, another key source. so, all of these provided -- history isn't what happens in the past. it's what we tell using the evidence of what came from the past. you don't know everything about what happened. you just have these artifacts from the past, whether it is a journal or a letter or a newspaper account. all

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so, that probably helped the fact that there were only five nantucket survivors from the well at theend. i spent time at the last remaining american wooden whale ship. i spent a lot of time channeling what it would be like if the whale attacked, and went to another museum that had its own wonderful collection. and another key source at another museum. all of these provided -- history is not what happened in the past, it is what we tell using the evidence of a came from the past. you don't know everything about what happened, you just have these artifacts from the past, whether it is a journal, a letter, or a newspaper accounts. all of these kinds of things, and you take all that together, and there was even something here, and you take all of it together, and it is the job of the historian to try to tell the story as best you can, being truthful to what historical accounts you have, and inevitably, they disagree in some instances. and you have to make the judgment call on who to believe. >> learn more on sunday at 6:30 p.m. tv.

remember, he is the man who opposed a wind project in nantucket sound because he didn't want to see theside his window. what hypocrisy for him to talk about green energy when he opposed a major wind project off the coast of nantucket. >> harris: power panel. david avella, chris hahn, former aide to senator chuck schumer. great to see both of you. david, i'll start with you. >> my goodness, harris. the worst part of this is the john kerry's advice he is giving to joe biden who now has destroyed more jobs in his first seven days in office than covid did in a month. if you make it harder for goods and products to get to consumers, makes it more expensive that makes it tougher on americans. as we think about kerry's comments in particular as we think about the trade deals that are coming up, is now the biden administration's position going to be you have to have the exact same climate policies that we do before you are going to do a trade, whether it be with the u.k., which is coming up, whether it be deals with china or renegotiated deals with russia or japan? it is more than just hypocris

the nantucket historical association hosted and provided he video for this event. >> with us tonight is the president of the national historical society. previously she had been the director of education at the huntington library in san marino, california. a former professor of history and u.c. presidential chair at university of california riverside. she attended mount holyoke college, and received her phd with distinction from yale university, where she also won the yale teaching award. her dissertation received a prize as the best dissertation in american history at yale. and the scott prize. she began her teaching career at simmons college and visiting -- and a fellow at the radcliffe institute and visitingprofessor at harvard university. her first book "parlor politics" where the lady helped build a government won the first book prize of the society of historians for the american early republic. the popular culture association annual book award. her political biography, a perfect union, "dolly madison" and the creation of the american nation, was a finalist for the george washin

i don't remember him ever speaking out against the kennedys of nantucket when they were going to build windmills there. it would have obstructed the kennedy view. he never criticized that and many of these workers, add i tos i said have six figures. hey john kerry, where do they go for work on monday? can they go to take a jet to go interview? >> the president of the united states has expressed in every comment he has made about the climate, the need to grow the new jobs that pay better, that are cleaner. what president biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they can be the people to go to work to make the solar panels. they were making them here at home. that is going to be a particular focus of the build back better agenda. >> sean: next week they've got no job to go to, john. i know you married into a lot of money. i know you fly around the world leaving your big fat carbon footprint pretty much everywhere you go. by the way, john kerry, may be a need to scrap your private jet. i think it's time to sell the plane. that makes you a lying hypocrite. and h

when he talks about the power of wind, remember, he is the man who opposed a wind project on the nantucket sound because he didn't want to see the view outside his window. so what hypocrisy for him to talk about green energy when he opposed a major wind project of the coast of nantucket. >> just to give you an idea of how widespread this moratorium on new federal oil and gas leases could be, in 2019 oil production on federally and sen federal waters 954.3 million barrels, 28 percent from 2016, the federal government derived $6 billion in revenue from that 22 percent of u.s. oil production is on federal lands and waters. not only are they losing jobs commit when you look at that $6 million in federal revenue, they're cutting off the revenue stream. they're cutting off their nose to spite their face. >> no question. that is why when you add up all these initiatives, what i fear the most is there going to get this through the regulatory powers of every agency throughout the federal government. you can see what we sought out from president obama. ec week job growth, you see wages suppressed co

. >> yes that's really interesting, especially in nantucket, because that's a maritime community, where many husbands were etsy. so there were women on the island, not just in pennsylvania, as the person asked for, and give us an example, but there were women conducting business on the island as well. >> let me put you on the spot for a second, what would you say is the ratio, or you don't between women, doing things, running businesses, making contracts, selling and people or women who applied for the exception? >> i think it changed over time, i am not lying trying to give it statistics here, but i think it i think we had a great presentation over the summer, from local harrison, who did some research about petticoat row. and if you're not familiar, it was a street on the island, that had a lot of women who are running the businesses. there's a concept there's idea that while husbands were at sea, that this was a flourishing center of commerce, run exclusively by women. hence petticoat row. but it was more after, the end of whaling on the island, that men were kind of coming for the g

. >> yeah, i think that's really interesting especially on nantucket because maritime community where husbands were at sea and there were women on the island, not just in pennsylvania as the question asker, you know, gave as an example, but, you know, there were women conducting business on the island, as well. >> let me put you on the spot, amelia, for a second. what would you say is the ratio or between women doing things, running businesses, making contracts, selling, and people, women who applied for the exception? >> well, i think it changed over time. so, i definitely am not trying to give out statistics here on the fly. but definitely changed over time. so when we actually had a really great presentation over the summer from michael harrison who did some research in peticoat row which was a street on the island that had a large number of women-ran businesses. a misconception that the husbands were at sea and this was a flourishing center of commerce run by women hence petticoat row but on the island and as men were kind of leaving for the gold rush and there were older men on t

the nantucket historical association hosted and provided he video for this event. >> with us tonight is the president of the national historical society. pr