and of nantucket whaling. i don't know all of the exactly when it was gifted but it ended up with starbuck and starbuck gave it to the nha in 1914. it's just as you describe. it's in this ivory frame with a card that says, you know, he was in the boat 93 days and he made this piece of twine. you know, it's a very powerful artifact. they're in these boats and they have the ship and all that's left is this piece of twine. >> yeah. >> very powerful. and now, obviously, you know, nat's already alluded to manuscripts, there are crew lists from previous voyages of the "essex," there's wafsh books from other voyages of thezuez÷ with all the crew signatures. we own -- the museum holds a silver ladle that was given to daniel russell, the previous captain of the "essex" at the end of the previous voyage, which had been very successful. he was then given a new command, a new ship, and that's where pollard, his former first mate stepped up. so, the ship was regarded as having greasy luck, as being a good one to be aboard.

certainly the early whaling on nantucket was right around nantucket. there were whales migrating by here particularly the north atlantic whale and that whale migrates up and down the east coast, but, yes. early whaling before triworks were onboard, they didn't have the option of going out for three or four years on a whaling voyage. they had to, if they caught a whale they had to get back to nantucket to process the whale before the blubber was rancid. yes, there was a lot of whaling in the early days right around here. >> we have a comment about antarctic whaling, comment is, also greenlandic whaling stations on south georgia island. stromness harbor. probably closest point to the an arctic peninsula. >> right, right. go ahead. >> freelance north. i'm confused. anyway. >> yes. but -- yes. but we -- again, we have some dramatic stories in journals and log books, and a painting in the museum, that all tell how difficult it was when they were really in the arctic area, because often the ships would get stuck in the ice, and that could be very fatal, beca

certainly the early whaling on nantucket was right around nantucket.here were whales migrating by here, particularly the north atlantic write whale and that whale migrates up and down the east coast. yes, the early whaling, before they had triworks on board, they didn't have the option of going out three or four years on a wheeling voyage. if they caught a whale, they had to get back to nantucket to process the blubber before it was rancid. there was a lot of wheeling around here. >> we have a comment that there were green land dick whaling stations on south georgia island, strong necessary harbor, probably the closest harbor to the antarctic peninsula. >> greenland is north. i'm confused. >> yes. again, we had dramatic stories in journals and logbooks and a painting in the museum, that all tell how difficult it was when they were really in the arctic area because often the ships would get stuck in the iegs. that can be very fatal. if the ice closes in, it can collapse the ship. very, very dangerous. but there were a lot of whales up there. you can see

of nantucketers. good luck to you. we're going to stay on dry land. so, they would stay. very emotional parting. and ultimately, they would be rescued because the survivors would send a rescue ship there. but another great irony, it turned out that the rock, from which water would bubble up, would, as the tide moved on, spring low would never again come above the tide limit and so they began to die of dehydration. and e, they would barely make it. they're on the verge of death when they were rescued. once again it's a story of incredible human endurance. full of all sorts of ins and outs. and it's a story that really captures the imagination. >> it's interesting. i was asked once by somebody. so, a few of these people survive, go through a horrible ordeal, they come home, what's the importance of this? what's the lasting impact of their tragedy? we think now of airplane disasters or any variety of modern calamities that bring about changes in legislation and safety p very famous example of changing al

>> certainly early whaling in nantucket, was right around nantucket. there are wales going by here, particularly the north atlantic right whale. and that migrates up and down the east coast. but the early whaling, before they had the -- on board, they didn't have the option of going out for three or four years on a whaling voyage. if they caught the whale, they have to get back to nantucket to process it. so yes, there was a lot of whaling in the early days. as >> we have a comment, about antarctic whaling. in that there was also greenland willing stations, and probably the closest point to the antarctic peninsula. >> right right. as >> i'm confused hollen freelance north? >> yes ok, again we have some dramatic stories in journals, and logbook's. and a painting in the museum. that all tell how difficult it was, when they were really in the arctic. because often, the ships would get stuck in the ice. and that could be very fatal. if the ice closes in, they it will collapse the ship. very very dangerous. but there are a lot of whales up there. so that's

welcome to the nantucket wailing museum. the entire historical so she shun is pleased to bring you our socially distance, commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the whale ship ethics tragedy. we are thrilled to be this evening, in conversation with nathaniel philbrick, longtime island are here. he and his wife arrived in nantucket, in 1986. and have lived here, ever since. and he is a historian, and has written numerous books about the island. in year 2000, published in the heart of the sea. a book about the essex tragedy, that one the book award in 2004 nonfiction. he has gone on to write a number of books, a very good book about the u.s. exploring expedition. looking at the mayflower. a whole variety of other interesting topics. wrenching off from nantucket, this is a sea bass for all of the history work that he is done. we are thrilled everybody can join us this evening. the story of the essex tragedy is a near and dear story to nantucket, and to our identity as a whaling port. and this is a unique place to be able to

and we hope it will bring us to nantucket. >> the chase. first day. now, by reason of this timely someoning round the boat upon its axis, its bow, by anticipating was made to face the whale's head while yet unwater. but as if perceiving this strategy, moby-dick w that malicious intel residence is jens ascribed to him sidlely transplanted him in an instant. shooting his pleated head lengthwise we beet the boat the whale lying on his back in the manner of a biting shark. taking the bows full win its mouth the white whale shook the cedar as a mildly cruel cat and mouse? log 132. ship, mary. chals pittman jr., master and keeper. tuesday the 17th. first part, light airs, hand employed in boiling. at daylight saw whales going to leeward. lowered. struck one large whale and one small whale. the large whale ate our boat up and got clear. >> the jeribum story. the pequod signal was at last responded to by the stranger setting her own. squaring her yard, she bored down, ranged a beam under the pequod lee and lowered a boat. i soon drew nigh. the stranger in que

it was a nantucket which had just wedged in the last cask of oil. in each basketed top were two barrels of sperm, above which you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid, and nailed was a brazen lamp. as was afterwards learned, the bachelor had met with the most surprising success. all the more wonderful, for that while cruising in the same seas numerous other vessels had gone entire months without securing a single fish. >> log 102, ship harvest. david n. edwards, master. george washington gardener jr. keeper. friday, july the 29th, 1831. first part finished stowing down and cleaned the deck and set the studding sails. latter part, threw the bricks overward and lashed the pots between the knees. after a long voyage we have been fortunate to fill our ship completely full and we have stored down 2,914 barrels close gauge. at length, the happy day has arrived. no longer we delay. our ship is full and homeward bound, to sweet america. so ends. [ applause ] >>> weeknights this month we're featuring "american history tv" programs as a preview of

it was a nantucket ship. the bachelor, which had just wedged in her last cast of oil and bolted down her bursting hatches. sideways lashed in each of her three basket tops were two barrels of storm, above which in her top mass cross trees, you saw slender breakers of the same precious fluid. and nail to her main trunk was a brazen lamp. as was afterwards learned, the bachelor had met with the most surprising success. all the more wonderful for that while cruising in the same seas, numerous other vessels had gone entire months without securing a single fish. >> log 1:02. ship harvest. david edwards. george washington, gardner junior, keeper. friday, july the 29th, 1831. first part finished stowing down and cleaned the deck and set the studding sails. latter part, knocked down the try-works and through the bricks overboard and lashed the pots between the knees. so, after a long voyage, we had been fortunate to fill our ship completely full, and we have store down 2914 barrels close cage. at length, happy day ha

he asks, what will ahab's vengeance get in our nantucket market?then navarro that ahab dials his charisma to 11. he says come closer. it's a lower layer. it's not about the money, he explains. this is personal. thumping his chest he cries out, my vengeance will fetch a great premium here. starbuck was rightly appalled. to be enraged with a dumb thing seems blasphemous. he reveals the logic, such as it is, about his campaign against the white whale. according to ahab, moby dick is not just a sperm whale, he is the tool of an unseen and decidedly evil purpose, evil power. all visible objects, ahab insists, are but as masts, and# by killing moby dick he will punch through and get at the root cause of all of his unhappiness and pain. he then compares the world to a jail cell. how can the prisoner reach outside, except by thrusting through the wall? to me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me, unlocking the secrets of the universe by killing a whale doesn't make much sense. but what good is rationality to a man possessed by such terrifying an

he sets the scene here on nantucket.e's the daughter of a light housekeeper, describes the erosion, you know, already, you know -- anyways. even goes to hawthorn's place in concord, and they have a meeting. hawthorn says, no, herman, you write this. he would write a novel with the title "the isle of the cross" it has been lost. it may have been burned. he mentioned that he was prevented from publishing it. it might have been a fear of a liable lawsuit because this person was still alive. who knows? but it was yet another great disappointment. melville then -- he continues to write incredible short stories, but it's not going well. his family pays for a trip to the holy land. on the way he meets hawthorn who is then -- who is working in the consulate in liverpool. they have a meeting on the sand s of liverpool. hawthorn says melville is still melville, he is the most religious man i have ever met but he cannot yet comfort him in belief. you know, he is wandering, he compares describes him as can dering the san shores. he

and can you imagine it melville coming to nantucket? less than a year after the publication of moby---. i mean, it's just you can really cannot make this stuff up. he stays at the jared coffin house. captain pollard captain of the essex is in the house basically next door. and in melville's copy of owen chase the first maid of the essex of his account of the essex disaster melville later late in life would write in green crayon because now his eyes that we're already giving him problems are really giving him problems and i'm paraphrasing here sometime in the 1850s went to the island of nantucket met captain pollard who by this way this time not only lost the essex but his next command that two brothers the next year. met captain pollard. to the islanders a nobody but to me the most remarkable man, i have ever met. what he saw in pollard i think was a role model for how he would conduct himself for the rest of his life. because you know he with moby---, you know, he had gone through the one of the great personal and professional disappoi

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mehl vail, coming to nantucket. less than a year after the publication of movie dick. you really cannot make this stuff up. he's days at the coffin house, captain pollard, captain of the essex is in the house, basically next door and in mellow veils copy of a wind chase, the first -- his account of the essex disaster, mehl vail later late in life later right in -- the eyes who are really giving problems really giving him problems and i'm paraphrasing here, sometime in the 18 fifties went to the island of nantucket, met captain pollard who by this time not only lost the essex but his last command, the two brothers in the next year. met captain pollard, to the islanders and nobody, but to me, the most remarkable man i have ever met. what he saw in pollard, i think, was a role model for how he would conduct himself for the rest of his life. because with mo bee moby dick's, he had gone through one of the great personal and professional disappointments he could experience. he would continue -- pollard by this time was a nightwatchman, he -- wasn't as if he refused to even t

she was born on the island of nantucket, but most of her adult life in philadelphia. that was a city in which she based her activism on, which stretched across the united states and the atlantic as well. lucretia mott definitely defined herself as a feminist in women's rights activist. and she traced her commitment to women's race to hurt childhood on the island of nantucket. it was a community based on the whaling industry. so the men and the community would often go off on three, four, five year voyages, leaving the women to manage the household, do the household finances, and a lot of the nantucket rank businesses. for women in the bands and -- some of. didn't the quaker, is the society affronts are also the first nations to allow women to preach. she has always seen the male ministers and her childhood. she eventually became one herself in 1821. so, that compassion for religious authority also inform her commitment to women's race. she got married to her has been james in 1811. and in the 18 teens and early 18 twenties, there was nothing necessarily to indicate he

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realize his comments are weakening the military after all he wouldn't know a deployment from a trip to nantucket or a rocket launcher from all across dick but that's what he is doing maligning pregnant service members tucker carlson is the new donald trump tucker has taken trump's place as a right wing leader as an outrage generator as a fire starter some of the reaction from the mainstream media there well officials from various branches of the armed forces also the unger's remarks a pentagon spokesperson said he didn't mean the entire u.s. military took or carlson tonight is one of the highest rated programs in the u.s. the most popular 'd conservative show in the country this discussed this morning with journalist commentator chadwick were joining us from new york good to see a child like turkey or carlson he's hardly a shrinking violet when it comes to his conservative views so why are these remarks causing such a stir when others house and. i think it's probably because donald trump is out of the picture i mean it's interesting that they that you saw brian stelter from c.n.n. saying the cal

so lucretia was born in 1793 in nantucket, in massachusetts. she was the daughter and eventually the wife of merchants. she had a relatively comfortable life relatively speaking. and she was raised as a quaker and her parents sent her initially to a private school but didn't like the way that private school was giving her heirs about other schools so than the center to preschools and it was about the influence of quaker modesty and the notion that we are all equal and we all have an inner light and we need to be free of the trappings, and this is quaker ideology. basically free of the trappings of this world so we can hear what god is telling us to do, and what he means for us to do. so clickers, their meetings were often marked by silence. so there were men's and women's sessions, and women could speak but they could speak in all quaker meetings and there was not the notion that women did not have a spiritual life and their voice had to be heard. so lucretia mott was sent to a famous quaker school known as the non partner school. she finished

after all he wouldn't no a deployment from a trip to nantucket but that's what he's doing, maligningits. never heard of them. >> most americans have, fair. most don't use maternity flight suits as a springboard for a sexist attack. uniforms and body armor that fit women whether pregnant or not an issue long documented. the air force introduced maternity flight suits before biden came to the white house. if tucker carlson had bothered a basic search online for stories about it pus when he first made his asinine comments about pregnant women in the u.s. military who would have seen that, but he's not about the facts. >> that phrase stuck out. not because of hateful bias against pregnant women flying military jets. pro-pregnancy, we're also open minded. pregnant women may maybe the best pilots. the department of defense measures everything. got to be extensive research on this question. if the pentagon can show pregnant pilots are the best we will be the first to demand an entire air force of pregnant pilots. >> what is he talking about? pregnant pilots are just pilots who are pregnant.

we have wind sailed together around nantucket. in east ward. i mean, come on, guys. at least take a couple of acting classes if you are going -- at this point you are just so shameless. your anti-intellectual b.s. is so shameless. aren't you glad you didn't have to watch this weekend. >> yes. very sweaty and -- >> they're clowns. >> we have jonathan lemire, founder of the conservative website the bull work and author of how the right lost its mind, charlie psychs. >> charlie, i'm going to cut you out. charlie, i hope -- i mean, maybe you -- i don't know. maybe you went to an ivy league school too. i went to alabama and i love it. i like ivy league school because like i said before, i've had people from ivy league schools working for me before. they're pretty good workers. we have these anti-elitists attacking ivy league schools and they went to princeton and harvard. they went to yale and stanford. it is really again ted cruz and cruz mocking leaving his state while people are freezing to death. that's the punch line at cpac. i do

could climb republicans who might actually be interested in working with the administration because nantucket they get money back if it's groups and back to their states joe biden sees this i think as the vehicle by which he gets around a lot of the gridlock in washington john watched. and this is kind of ironic because we're sitting here on international television talking about about how much do you think sort of set piece. news conferences really count for in 2020 what i'm just looking for i think my screens every other news channel in the world talking about it as well but you know. he's got his social media jen psaki his. communications director as their press secretary is there every day now giving news conferences herself the word is out there all the time and yet the still seems to be something about this moment. a press conference is a place where a president is sort of out there on his own doesn't have other people stepping out doesn't have you know kind of the cavity it's an individual taking questions some of which may be difficult some of which may be challenging and and in this

philbrick author of why read moby--- discusses his love of the classic novel and its lasting legacy the nantuckethistorical association hosted this program and provided the video. it is a tremendous pleasure to be here. you know moby--- is my personal bible and and not being an academic. i miss the camaraderie of being with fellow intellectuals. and so t

tonight, the nantucket historical association hosts a talk by nathaniel on his book "in the heart of the sea." in it, he details the 1820 sinking of the essex in the pacific ocean falling a sperm whale attack and recalls the fate of the ship's crew as they spent three months trying, in vain, to reach mainland south america before being rescued. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv on c-span3. exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. coming up this weekend. saturday, at 6:00 p.m. eastern, on the civil war. a discussion on sheraton's ride. the october 1864 arrival of union general john phillip sheridan at cedar creek battlefield. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on real america. four films marking women's history month. including the 1987 film, "crossing borders" and "women in the family of man" from 1971. at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts. a re-creation of events of the assassination attempt on president ronald reagan by john hinkley jr. and at 8:00 p.m. easter

tonight, the nantucket historical association hosts a talk on the book "in the heart of the sea: the tragedy of the whale ship essex." he details the sinking of the essex in the pacific ocean following an sperm whale attack. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3. exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend, coming up this weekend, saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the civil war. a discussion on sheridan's ride. the october 1864 arrival of union general john phillips sheridan at cedar creek battlefield, ending the confederacy resistance in the shenandoah valley. four films marking women's history month including the 1978 film "crossing borders" and "women in the family of man" from 1971. at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, a recreation of events of the assassination attempt on ronald reagan. and tevi troy, the author of "what jefferson read, ike watched, and obama tweeted." exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-sp

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i also have named nantucket ties to here, right. my people have been around this area of massachusetts for around 12,000 years. you heard from the last speaker, right? and we're still here today. okay? now, when i'm going to do today he's like, wampanoag the people. one of many indigenous cultures going around america. what makes wampanoag it different from the other thousands? it can be language. it could be diet. could be the housing we lived in. but one common bond we all have is how we think about life, in general. we respect all forms of life. being human life, plant life, animal life, we don't put ourselves above or below that. that's one thing we have all in common. i do a lot of teaching, right? and i asked the people, what ways do we come from? the human race, right? so we should all respect each other. and that's rule of thumb for my people. so like i said, we've been around 12,000 years. that's me up there, with my lovely wife judy. who teaches language. also right next to me, holding that turkey feather mantle. what i'm