Fall 2020, Vol. 70, No. 2 and 2019 Annual Report

FALL 2020 VOLUME 70, NO. 2

200 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ESSEX SINKING SERVING THE YEAR-ROUND COMMUNITY

Guardian Fund 2020–2021 $250,000 and above NHA Staff* Payroll Protection Program $100,000 – $150,000 Anne Delaney & Chip Carver Diane & Britt Newhouse Melinda & Paul Sullivan $25,000 – $99,999 Amanda Cross Carol † & Richard Lowry Franci Neely $10,000 – $24,999 Susan Blount & Richard Bard Christy & Bill Camp Shelley & Graham Goldsmith The H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation Adrienne & S.D. Kirby Mass Humanities Nantucket Fund for Emergency Relief

ReMain Nantucket Fund Kelly Williams & Andrew Forsyth $5,000 – $9,999 Maureen & Edward Bousa Jennifer & Wylie Collins Lisa & Porter Dawson Ashley Gosnell Carl Jelleme Carter & Chris Norton Ella Prichard Janet & Rick Sherlund Liz & Geoff Verney $1,000 – $4,999 Nancy & Doug Abbey Patricia & Thomas Anathan Lindsey & Merrick Axel Susan & Bill Boardman Olivia & Felix Charney Prudy & Bill Crozier Robyn & John Davis

* Amount of savings as a result of a voluntary salary reduction program.

Ann & Stephen Davis Tracy & John Flannery Mary Fontaine & James Burruss Elizabeth & Michael Galvin Amy & Brett Harsch Wendy & Randy Hudson Coco & Arie Kopelman Helen Lynch Alice & J. Thomas Macy Debra & Vincent Maffeo Polly & Peter Millard Judy & Stephan Newhouse Anne & Edwin Obrecht Valerie Paley Susan & Kennedy Richardson H.C. Bowen Smith Marcia Weber & James Flaws Alisa & Alastair Wood Up to $999 Sarah Alger & Bruce Malefant Lucinda & Robert Ballard † Deceased

Mary Randolph Ballinger Margaret & William Brenizer Patricia Bridier Eileen & Robert Butler Hilary Cunniff Janie & Jerry Dauterive Martha Dippell & Danny Korengold Julie & Cameron Gammill Lauren & Paul Gudonis Joan & Philip Gulley Catherine & Richard Herbst Alyssa & Daniel Herman-Kaitz Nancy & Arthur Hooper Judith Ivey & Tim Braine LegaSea Raw Bar Victoria McManus & John McDermott Carolyn & Ian† MacKenzie Ann & Dennis Marvin Carla & Jack McDonald Jeanne & Bruce Miller Carter Stewart

This list is of October 6, 2020.

Annual Fund and Guardian Fund Since 1746, the Old Mill has continuously provided for the needs of this island, giving it the distinction of being the oldest operating mill in the country. When the NHA wrapped the American Flag over its shingles this spring, it became a symbol of strength. Today, the NHA is the guardian of many of the cultural treasures that embody all that we love about Nantucket. The NHA recognizes its important role as a vital, yearround contributor to the island’s economy, culture, and social fabric.

As the end of the year approaches, we need your help. We ask that you support the NHA with a gift to the 2020 Annual Fund and, if you can, consider a supplemental donation to the 6 Ft. Guardian Fund. This fund was created in direct response to COVID-19 with a goal of raising $1.5 million over two years. These funds, which are above and beyond donations to the annual fund, membership, and special events, will bridge the gap of projected lost income for this and next year’s operating budgets. To date, over $1 million have been pledged to this critical initiative.

With excellent participation from the Board of Trustees, generous support from members and donors, and a voluntary 20% salary reduction from all staff, the NHA is rebalancing the organization while preparing for a post-COVID 19 environment.

We were proud to open our doors to the public this summer and fall. The Whaling Museum offered a safe and educational experience that was appreciated by many. This fall and winter, we turn our attention to the year-round community offering free admission, exciting virtual learning experiences, and collaborating with non-profit organizations to use creatively our large indoor spaces. Your donation will allow this good work to move forward.

Thank you in advance for your support and we look forward to seeing you at the Festival of Wreaths and Trees.

Sincerely,

Chip Carver President, Board of Trustees

James Russell Gosnell Executive Director

Serving the Year-Round Community YOUR HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENRICHMENT IS ALWAYS TOP OF MIND

Free admission for the year-round community continues through the summer, fall, and winter. Reserve your ticket with new easy-to-use online registration. We thank The Community Foundation for Nantucket’s Remain Nantucket Fund and Marine Home Center for underwriting this admission and to William Raveis Real Estate for sponsoring the touch-free “Yellow Cobblestone Road” initiative.

AUDIO TOUR Upon entry, enjoy our new audio tours with over 50 stops. This is available for free on your personal device in both Spanish and English—try it now and enjoy at home by pointing your personal device at this QR code.

The initial translation from English to Spanish was done by NHA Interpreter, Miranda Dale, with assistance from Nantucket High School student, Dayner Javier. Evelyn MacEachern graciously volunteered her time to fact check the translation and to record the tour. The NHA was pleased to partner with the Nantucket Community Music Center’s Floyd Kellogg who recorded and edited the project.

“STUDY HALL” AT THE MUSEUM With “Study Hall” you can choose a work space at the museum. Surround yourself in history and art while attending a virtual class, doing your homework, or reading the Inky.

Select your preferred location in one of our galleries, available free of charge, on a first come first serve basis or call the Front Desk to reserve (508)228-1894, ext 133

MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The Mentorship Program enters its 4th year and has expanded to include fall and winter modules. High School students receive a stipend while learning important life skills in the museum after school. Each module is 2 times a week for 8 weeks. This is a great resume builder for the budding college student. Inquire and apply via nha.org/learn/ students-K-12/mentorships or contact mary@nha.org.

EXHIBITIONS AND DISCOVERY CENTER If you have not visited the Whaling Museum in a year, you are in for a pleasant surprise. New exhibitions and experiences abound throughout, and the Discovery Center is an ideal play-space for little ones.

NHA UNIVERSITY “NHA University” continues with virtual lectures, and digital presentations by our great interpreters, including The Hunt and The Gam, are proving popular. We can report out some remarkable success in the digital realm. Over the past 12 months, there were 450,000 visits to our website and 2 million pages viewed. Our Instagram account has 12,930 followers and our weekly eblasts now reach 21,875 subscribers.

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FOR YOUR CALENDAR FREE admission to the Whaling Museum is offered to the Year-Round Community.

November 12 – 21: Festival of Wreaths November 10: NHA U Virtual Lecture November 11 & 18: Members’ Evenings November 20: 200th Anniversary of the Essex Sinking Virtual Event with Nathaniel Philbrick November 27 – December 31: Festival of Trees December 1: NHA U Virtual Lecture December 2 & 9 Members’ Evenings

MUSEUM IN MY SCHOOL The K-5th grade “Museum In My School” program will continue virtually this fall. Now in its 9th year, this innovative program brings history into the classroom.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION WITH BULGARIAN SCHOOL In a creative partnership, the Bulgarian School will conduct Saturday classes for 39 students at Hadwen House this fall, winter, and spring.

The school was established in 2015 as an independent non-profit organization to provide instruction to children with interests in learning the Bulgarian language, culture, and traditions. Additionally the school provides extracurricular music, dancing, and acting lessons to its students and stands ready to partake in activities that benefit and contribute to the quality life on the Island. Dobre doshli!

December 10: NHA U Virtual Lecture Reserve the Whaling Museum for an intimate event amidst the Festival of Trees this December. Contact Rentals@nha.org.

All 11th and 12th NHS students, pick up a complimentary copy of Disturber of Tradition: A Portrait of Anna Gardner in the Whaling Museum lobby.

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ON THE COVER Geddes Paulsen “Queequeg” Liquid acrylic and shellac on un-stretched canvas, 5’x7’.

Gift of Jason Tilroe, 2020 Born on Nantucket Island to two artists, the genetics of art making have been passed down to me through the generations. I began drawing as far back as I can remember. At age nine, while visiting Kingston, NY I took an interest in the tattoo shop that operated on the ground floor of the building my father lived in. I looked through the portfolios and from the moment I saw people wearing tattoos, I wanted one. At that time, during the 1990’s, the graphic boldness of the “neo” tribal tattooing grabbed my attention. The permanent yet temporal nature of the human form as a canvas fascinated me. Years later, I acquired my first tattoo based on these designs. That experience unknowingly planted a seed that eventually blossomed into a career in tattooing. In 2010 I landed an apprenticeship in Chicago and have been professionally tattooing ever since.

In the summer of 2019 I was asked by the Artists Association of Nantucket to create a depiction of the character Queequeg for the 200th anniversary celebration of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Queequeg, the tough, rugged, cannibal harpooner, was based on a Maori chief from New Zealand. Being a contemporary tattooer born on Nantucket Island, the port from which the Pequod sets sail in Moby Dick, depicting this character was an exciting opportunity. I was able to work with the elements of design and visual influences that I have been inspired by since my first exposure to tattooing. The sharp, sculpted calligraphic lines, the symmetry and heavy black shapes radiate an aura of strength and boldness which I feel Queequeg captures with his intensity.

The neo-tribal trend has origins in many cultures, inspired in part by the “Tā Moko” (tattoos) of the Maori people of New Zealand, from which the inspiration for Queequeg originated. There is a rich history and deep meaning behind these designs. From a purely aesthetic point of view, the exposure to this history of tattoos has had a beautiful and lasting impact on myself and many tattooers of my generation.

••• Throughout the last ten years, Paulsen has endured his fair share of setbacks, notably, two diagnoses of a rare blood cancer in 2012 and 2019. Throughout that time, artwork became more of a meditation and a way to ground himself to the moment; some relief from the constant reminder of the impermanence of life that coincides with these diagnoses. His work portrays themes of life and death, addictions, and attachments to temporal objects and spiritual cleansing.

Presently, he finds himself inspired and influenced by contemporary tattoo culture and his fellow tattooers and artists that he works with in the Hudson Valley. When he’s not tattooing, Paulsen is creating in his home studio. His current work includes mixed - media paintings and murals heavily influenced by visionary art, outsider art, and folk art/Americana.

Board of Trustees 2020–21 Chip Carver, President Susan Blount, Vice President David Worth, Vice President William J. Boardman, Treasurer & Friends of the NHA President Sarah Alger, Clerk Nancy Abbey Patricia S. Anathan Lucinda Ballard Olivia Charney Wylie A. Collins Amanda Cross John Flannery

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Annabelle Fowlkes Cam Gammill Graham Goldsmith Ashley Gosnell Wendy Hudson Judith Ivey Carl Jelleme Carla McDonald Franci Neely Friends of the NHA Vice President Britt Newhouse Valerie Paley Marla Sanford

Janet Sherlund Trustee Emerita Carter Stewart Melinda Sullivan Jason Tilroe Finn X. Wentworth Kelly Williams Alisa A. Wood Ex Officio James Russell, Gosnell Executive Director

Editor: Ashley Santos, Associate Director of Marketing Designer: Amanda Quintin Design HISTORIC NANTUCKET (ISSN 0439-2248) is published by the Nantucket Historical Association, 15 Broad Street, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Periodical postage paid at Nantucket, MA, and additional entry offices. For information visit nha.org. ©2019 by the Nantucket Historical Association. all photos by nha staff unless otherwise noted.

FALL 2020 | VOLUME 70, NO. 2

IN MEMORIAM Joseph J. McLaughlin NHA Board President, 1992–93 Written by Kimberly Corkran

Table of Contents: 200th Anniversary of the Essex Sinking | pg. 6 USS Nantucket | pg. 14 Crispus Attucks | pg. 15 Written in Bone by Dale Chatwin | pg. 16 Humpback Irons...a Most Unusual Harpoon

by Jack Fritsch | pg. 22 Archaeology at the Oldest House

by Andrew Bair | pg. 36

I was very honored to be asked to write a few remembrances of Joe McLaughlin and his involvement with the Nantucket Historical Association.

I first met Joe when we were both serving on the Board of the NHA and looking back, my first impression of Joe was what an affable man he was. Back in the early 90s we were having our Board meetings on the second floor of the Old Town building.

We would gather around the Board table discussing the challenges that the NHA was facing and Joe, through his friendliness and good-natured ease, always made me feel welcomed and a part of this wonderful organization. You see, I was a greenhorn and had much to learn.

Lurcretia Mott’s Quilt | pg. 39 2019 Annual Report | pg. 42

Groundbreaking on Bartlett Road for the Bartholomew Gosnold Center in July 1991. Far left is Flint Ranney, unknown, Kim Corkran. Holding shovel is Maurice Gibbs, holding flag is Mark Fortenberry, and far right is Joe McLaughlin.

It was very evident that we needed a storage facility that would house our collections in a safe manner. No small task as it would require purchasing land for a building site, and raising the funds to do it. Joe, Flint Ranney and Maurice Gibbs were instrumental in making this happen. Today, thanks to their hard work, we have the Bartholomew Gosnold Center.

I was taking notes on how Joe navigated through this endeavor as there were many factors to consider. When he became President of the NHA in 1992, I was his VP and still learning.

I valued his knowledge and always loved hearing that chuckle he had! So, to you Joe, I thank you for paving the way for my Presidency!

We will miss his cheery smile, and his wonderful support for the NHA but the affable man in the blue blazer will live in our memories, the archives of the NHA, and our hearts.

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200th anniversary

of the essex sinking On November 20, 1820, an enraged sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 1,300 miles from the nearest land. Twenty sailors survived the attack and quickly outfitted their three small whaleboats to make a journey to safety. They could only carry limited food and water, and could only hope that their supplies would last them as they slowly sailed for land across miles of open water. Three months later, five emaciated survivors were picked up by passing ships, three more remained stranded on a deserted island, and twelve men were dead—seven of them eaten in desperation by their starving shipmates. Their tale of choices, survival, and leadership astonished the maritime community, eventually serving as part of the inspiration for Moby-Dick.

shipwrecks Shipwrecks sometimes ruined whaling careers. For George Pollard, Nantucket whaler and captain of the Essex, the proverbial lightning struck twice. After safely returning home in the summer of 1821, Pollard set out again that fall in command of the Two Brothers, another whaler bound back for the Pacific. The ship struck a reef in Febraury 1823 in shoals to the northwest of the Hawaiian Islands, and, although he was reluctant to abandon ship, his crew safely evacuated to the nearby whaler Martha. Pollard never received another command.

In 2008, NOAA marine archeologists discovered the wreck of the Two Brothers. Working at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawai’i, they discovered a cooking pot and anchor 15 feet down on the seabed. Further exploration led by Dr. Kelly Gleason revealed more pots, bricks, grinding stones, and harpoons—all artifacts pointing to whaling activity in the early 1800s.

While the Two Brothers wreck claimed no lives, other shipwrecks involved the tragic loss of life. In these situations, marine archaeologists followed the same protocols as their land-based colleagues, respecting mariners’ watery graves.

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The Paphanaumokuakea Marine National Monument is a World Heritage monument encompassing 583,000 square miles of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the northwestern Hawaiian island.

After 1820, it became known among whalemen that the equatorial Pacific was a promising region to hunt the prized sperm whale. Charts by Charles Haskins Townsend documented the number of whales captured “along the line.”

Whaling in the Pacific led to increased worldwide awareness of atolls and islands in the Pacific. Some of these islands were populated by indigenous peoples, who began trading with the increasingly frequent whaleships. Other islands were uninhabited, and European and American captains often gave them new names. Nantucket captain Elisha Folger named one island “New Nantucket” in 1818. Subsequently, New Bedford captain Michael Baker claimed the island and gave it another name—his own. He sold the island to investors, and it was eventually mined for guano by the American Guano Company.

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cannibalism and “custom of the sea” Life at sea occasionally ended in tragedy. When vessels foundered in the age of sail, and crews found themselves in remote waters far from aid, sailors relied on their considerable professional skills to try to save themselves. But circumstances often outmatched them. If food and water ran short, cannibalism sometimes ensured survival, and a sympathetic public was likely to forgive such extreme necessities upon return to land. The common expression for these acts of survival was “the custom of the sea.”

Melville’s Moby-Dick drew from the story of the Essex, albeit with dramatized effect. In Moby-Dick, it seems as if the whole crew of the Pequod craved a cannibal diet—if Melville never fed his characters flesh, he still described their whale prey with an anatomy and behavior parallel to a hunted man.

Another famous shipwreck with cannibalism was the 1816 wreck of the French frigate Medusa, whose raft of 151 survivors floated for two weeks until an English bark rescued fifteen men. The wreck of the British yacht Mignonette in 1884 found the survivors in legal trouble for murdering a shipmate for food. This event changed the “custom of the sea” from a tragic but accepted necessity to a legal crime. As a consequence, fewer mariners admitted to cannibalism, although it still happened.

Cannibalism among shipwrecked sailors was openly acknowledged in the days of sail, and castaways often admitted to drawing lots to decide who would live and who die. Yet it is clear that these lotteries were rarely fair, and the strong typically ate the weak. In disaster after disaster, passengers perished before sailors, boys before men, and Blacks before whites. So, too, perhaps, among the men of the Essex. Was it a coincidence that only Nantucketers remained in the boats at the end, or that only white men survived, or that only non-Nantucketers elected to remain on Henderson Island? We may never know for sure, but the questions are there to be asked, further darkening what, by any measure, was a journey of nearly unimaginable horror.

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Jean Louis Théodore Géricault. La Balsa de la Medusa (Musee du Louvre) 1818–19.

save the date Friday, November 20 at 5:30pm Join us for a special Essex virtual event on the 200th anniversary of its sinking with best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick and NHA Obed Macy Research Chair, Michael Harrison Nat Philbrick

Michael Harrison

To learn more and purchase tickets, visit NHA.org

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at what cost?

In Moby-Dick, only Ishmael survived the voyage of the Pequod, his shipmates perishing from Ahab’s maniacal pursuit of the white whale. To be sure, many real Nantucketers also died from the actions of angered sperm whales, and some certainly perished due to the poor judgement of their captains. But disease and shipboard accidents were also leading causes of death among Nantucket whalers, as well as among Nantucket fishermen and merchant sailors more generally. Research carried out at the NHA has identified a minimum of 1,131 seafarers lost aboard Nantucket vessels between 1724 and 1896. Their sacrifices stand as a testament to the human cost of whaling, fishing, and trading from a small island community.

The whole point of whaling was to capture and kill whales, but reckoning the total number of whales killed throughout the history of Nantucket is complicated. Whalers sometimes recorded individual whales in their logbooks, but that number did not matter to them. What mattered was the amount of oil the whales yielded, measured in barrels, and whalers kept scrupulous record of the number of barrels they gathered. Oil totals were so important they were always reported when one ship gathered news from another in mid-ocean. Even when there was other news to report from the voyage, the oil total was paramount. A typical case from the Nantucket Inquirer, April 2, 1835: “Spoken off Port Spain, Trinidad, Dec 5, by brig Carroll arr at Phila. Sch Harmony, Swain of this port, in distress, 100 bbls.”

Whalers captured a variety of whale species, such as northern and southern right whales, sperm whales, blackfish, and humpback whales. Individual whales varied greatly in size and might yield as few as 10 or as many as 100 barrels of oil. Scholarly consensus places the average yield at about 34 barrels per whale. Between 1760 and 1869, documented Nantucket voyages returned 1.1 million barrels of sperm oil. At 34 barrels per whale, that works out to more than 32,300 sperm whales. Nantucketers went whaling as early as 1690, and the historical record of their voyages is incomplete, so the total number of sperm whales killed in service to the island’s prosperity may be as high as 40,000, to say nothing of right whales and other species. This number may seem large, but it is not, compared to the devastation wrought by industrial whaling in modern times. Between 1900 and 1999, the world’s whalers killed 761,523 sperm whales, out of nearly 3 million whales killed in total.

Right page: A team of interns and volunteers scoured newspapers, account books, and whaling logs in an effort to quantify the Nantucket whaling industry’s death toll at sea. While the record will never be complete, the team identified more than 1,000 sailors who lost their lives in pursuit of “black gold.”

The outliers represent years where whole crews are documented as lost at sea rather than individual sailors.

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Scrimshaw whale’s tooth with inscribed memorial to “Albert Gardner Lost at Sea 1840” Gift of Rick and Janet Sherlund. 2019.29.1.

nantucket mariners lost at sea 1722-1869

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whaling crew diversity Melville gave his Pequod a diverse crew, mentioning 44 men from the U.S., northern and southern Europe, South America, Iceland, the Azores, China, and India. He epitomized this diversity in his four “harpooneers”: Queequeg the Pacific Islander, Dagoo the African, Fedallah the Indian “Parsee,” and Tashtego the Gay Head Native American. American whaling crews before the Civil War were in fact diverse, but never this diverse within a single voyage or among the ranks of the boatsteerers (harpooners).

During Nantucket’s earliest period of whaling, ca. 1690–1720, the English relied on Native American men to man their whaling boats. English settlement drastically altered the lifeways of the island’s Wampanoag people. Fishing and whaling became necessary economic alternatives for a native population that could no longer rely on the island’s land. As these fisheries developed, however, boats and equipment lay in the hands of the English, leaving Native people to provide the bulk of the labor. White men did not form a majority of the island’s whaling workforce until about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Nantucket whaling crews of the 1820s to the 1850s were comprised of a mix of local and off-island men, mostly Americans but supplemented by Europeans and increasing numbers of Azoreans, Cape Verdeans, and Pacific Islanders over time. Nantucket whaleship masters were nearly always white men from Nantucket; the mates were often but not exclusively islanders. Because seasoned merchant mariners avoided the tedious and dirty life of whaling, the industry hired many landsmen and provided meaningful economic opportunities for otherwise marginalized workers, particularly Blacks, Native Americans, and poor whites.

White stereotypes cast Native Americans as natural hunters, which helped skilled men from the Mashpee and Gay Head Wampanoag communities to advance to the ranks of boatsteerers and mates.

Melville’s “wild Indian” Tashtego is a poor depiction of this core group of American whalemen.

Black men, both freemen and escaped slaves, often made up between 25 and 40 percent of Nantucket crews. While they earned nearly the same as their white shipmates, they were customarily excluded from specialized roles higher than cook and steward. Notable exceptions include Captain Absalom Boston and the all-Black crew of the Industry in 1822; Peter Green, who commanded the John Adams in 1823 after the captain died and a whale carried off the first mate; and the all-Black crew of the Loper, who harvested a remarkable 2,280 barrels of oil in just 14 months in 1829–30 and were feted by the ship’s owners on their return with the toast, “Black skin—the best skin a whaleman can see.”

American whalers routinely stopped at the islands of the Azores and Cape Verde to lay in provisions and hire additional crewmen. Beginning in the eighteenth century, some of these seamen came to Nantucket and stayed, creating a Portuguese-speaking community that in the mid- to late-nineteenth century anchored further immigration from the Atlantic Islands to New England. American whalers also hired Pacific Islanders from the places they stopped to rest and reprovision in the South Seas. No Queequegs here: Pacific Islanders commonly selected—or were assigned—simple nicknames instead of their real names when signed aboard: John Mowee, Peter Mowey, Joe Maui, Kanakkoe Bill, Robert Coffin “Canacker”, and Jack Lewis “Canaka” all served on Nantucket ships before 1858. (Even Queequeg was entered as “Quohog” on Pequod’s roll.)

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Crew list for ship Barclay, 1832. NHA Purchase, with support from Patricia and Thomas Anathan. RL2020.23

In imagining a crew for the Pequod, Melville took the reality of 1840s American whaling and exaggerated it, making his crew artificially hyper-diverse for literary purposes. While Ahab and the mates conform to real-world demographics, Melville’s harpooners are racial stereotypes of savage hunters; in fact, he never calls them by their rightful title, boatsteerer, but invents the word “harpooneer” to focus on their skills with the spear. To honor the actual men who worked in island whaling, we need to look beyond Melville’s literary creations and celebrate the real men who sailed Nantucket’s whalers.

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USS Nantucket CONSTRUCTION UPDATE Pauline “Polly” Spencer, sponsor of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)#27, reports that the future USS Nantucket is 60 percent complete. The Keel Laying ceremony took place in October 2019. All modules have been assembled with the exception of the mast, which gets erected after the ship rolls out of her bay just prior to launch. It is on track for an April 2021 christening in Marionette, Wisconsin. The christening and launch give a ship her identity. After the launch, she will continue to undergo outfitting and testing before delivery to the U.S. Navy.

The Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), the Navy’s newest commissioned ship, prepares to leave its mooring next to USS Constitution following a three day port visit. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Mark O’Donald/Released.

The process of launching the ship into the Menominee River, a tributary flowing into Lake Michigan, is an engineering challenge, and a sideways launch is required from the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard. This method is often used when the body of water does not allow the ship to be launched lengthwise.

After the USS Nantucket completes her testing phase, known as sea trials, she will be delivered to the Navy and undergo commissioning preparations. This officially places the ship in active service, where she will be integrated into the fleet.

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Carney wearing the Medal of Honor.

Photo taken by African American photographer James E. Reed of New Bedford.

The first USS Nantucket was an ironclad Monitor and participated in the 1863 assault on Fort Wagner during the Civil War. It is at this battle that Sargent William Carney of New Bedford, Mass, who was serving in the Massachusetts 54th, earned the Medal of Honor. He was the first Black soldier to receive the nation’s highest honor. His story became widely known as a result of the 1989 movie Glory.

The Nantucket community is welcome to participate in the ship’s ceremonies. Details on the launch and commissioning will be forthcoming.

Crispus Attucks AND THE BOSTON MASSACRE PRINTS Crispus Attucks is regarded as the first martyred hero of the American Revolution. He escaped from slavery in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1750. He is traditionally said to have been a sailor on Nantucket vessels. In the late Colonial era, whaling offered greater opportunities for fair pay for people of color than could be found ashore. A capable African American could achieve advancement in a whaleship crew. Massachusetts was the center of deep-water whaling at the time, and the laws in the Commonwealth, beginning with favorable decisions from the bench as early as 1760, were unusually protective (for their time) of individual rights, even of slaves.

Historical accounts point to Attucks serving on whaling voyages in the 1750s and 60s, which would be consistent with the inclinations of a fugitive interested in keeping a low profile, favoring protracted periods away from the increasingly heavily patrolled waterfront. Unfortunately, nothing specific is known about those voyages.

Attucks, who may have gone by the pseudonym Michael Johnson, is supposed to have been in the crew on at least one merchant voyage to the Bahamas, returning to Boston by early 1770, presumably biding his time until he could return to the sea.

Attucks was shot and killed by British soldiers at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Paul Revere’s famous contemporary engraving of the event, based on a work by fellow Boston artist Henry Pelham, named Attucks but failed to depict him as a Black Boston Massacre, March 5th 1770 [graphic] / by W. Champney.

J.H. Bufford’s Lith. Graphics-L Boston–Streets 39 man. Pelham and Revere sought to shape Boston: Published by Henry Q. Smith : J.H. Bufford’s Lith., 1856. public opinion by depicting the hostile Courtesy of The Massachusetts Historical Society.

Colonial laborers and sailors who actually took part in the event as peaceful gentlemen. It may be that a Black victim did not serve their artistic ends. Not until an 1856 lithograph published by J. H. Bufford was Attucks, a Black man, shown at the center of the event.

In her book The Beginnings of the American Revolution, Ellen Chase notes that Attucks “… was on the eve of sailing for North Carolina on Captain Folger’s Nantucket whaler.” If this passage is accurate, then the voyage in question might have been one commanded by Abishai Folger in an unidentified vessel or one by Captain Elisha Folger in the sloop Friendship. Unfortunately, the ships’ logs and crew lists of both voyages do not exist.

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Engraved whale’s tooth, ca. 1850 William L. Roderick (1826–74) Sperm-whale ivory and ink; 7 x 2 x 1 1/4 in.

Gift of Sara Jo Kobacker 2017.23.1

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Written in Bone

NANTUCKET’S CONNECTIONS TO BRITAIN’S WHALING FLEETS

By Dale Chatwin

Throughout the nearly 200 years of Nantucket’s prominence in the whaling industry, the island maintained strong ties with British whaling. In particular, the British Southern Whale Fishery, which commenced in 1775 when the British sought to transfer Nantucket efficiency in whaling to London, might never have existed without the ships and skills of Nantucket.

In its early years, many of the ships and even more of the masters in the southern fleet were from Nantucket. The British fleet learned to use try-works from Nantucket whalemen, and over 160 Nantucketers commanded British whaleships on over 600 voyages. Research into three outstanding artifacts in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association reveals those bonds.

The first is a recently acquired oil painting depicting whaling in the Arctic by William John Huggins (1781 – 1845), marine painter to King William IV of Great Britain.

The second is a large sperm-whale panbone engraved with a scene depicting British whaleships.

The third is an engraved sperm-whale tooth by an acknowledged master of the art of scrimshaw, William Lewis Roderick, a surgeon on three British whaleship voyages between 1847 and 1856, as seen to the left.

The painting depicts the American built vessel, Harmony of Hull, and four other ice-bound whalers operating in the Davis Straits between Baffin Island, Canada, and Greenland in 1828.

The British Northern Whale Fishery traced its origins to the early 1600s, and, after the exhaustion of bowhead whale stocks by the Dutch, British, and Danish whaling fleets around Spitzbergen, moved west toward and then past Greenland again seeking the bowhead whale, with Scottish whalers still taking whales in the 1890s. The primary focus of the British Northern Fleet was always oil, and, for much of its life, baleen, the other key product from a bowhead, was of little value.

The American-built bark Harmony of 292 tons was first registered in Hull in 1804. In the painting, the Harmony sits right of the center anchored to the ice with the other vessels including one (far left of the scene) foundering as the ice closes in to crush the hull. Members of that

ship’s crew can be seen rowing away from their vessel having surely tried to salvage all they could.

This is the second version of this scene and was likely commissioned by Robert Bell, (son of Thomas Bell, owner of the Harmony). Between 1806 and 1834, the Harmony took over 300 whales totaling 2500 tons of oil.

Huggins, who once served on an East India Company ship, was noted in The Gentleman’s Magazine, in December 1828, as being engaged in painting this scene with the express intention of having it reproduced and disseminated broadly.

In 1829 a colored lithograph based on the painting was published in London by Huggins’ soon-to-be son-in-law Edward Duncan, and, as predicted by The Gentleman’s Magazine, the print quickly became a popular source of public knowledge of the rewards and risks of Arctic whaling.

The original 1828 painting, now in the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, depicts a busy scene with a range of animals and activities represented. In the 1835 painting, Huggins’s has revisited the scene, enlarging and editing it based on more specific information about the animals that were present and practices specific to the Northern fishery.

Nearly every aspect of Arctic whaling is depicted in the painting – including the chase and capture of whales and the activities involved in processing, or cutting-in,

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the catch alongside. On board we see smoke rising from a galley at the front of the vessel; an enclosed crows-nest for protection from the Arctic weather; and washing hanging between the main and mizzen masts.

Birds circle the ships hoping for scraps. In the foreground on the left great auks (large penguin-like birds) gather at the front of an ice floe; less than ten years later these large birds had been hunted to extinction. On the extreme right, a polar bear and cub are shown.

British Arctic whalers voyaged annually, sailing in March either to the waters east of Greenland or to the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay lying off its west coast, returning by September or October. Unlike American or British Southern Fishery vessels, the oil taken was not rendered down on-board using a try-works but was instead coopered into casks and processed upon returning to the home port. It was whalemen from Nantucket who perfected the technique for boiling down the oil on board a whaling vessel.

Strapped to the foremast in the painting we will also see a set of jawbones. Bowhead jawbones could often be over twenty feet in length and were the property of the captain to sell. In 1820, Harmony had returned with nine pairs of jawbones.

A large bowhead whale could also provide an enormous amount of oil – up to one-third of its weight – a tongue yielding up to four tons and lips two tons of oil, respectively. Records show that 1828 was a particularly mild season in the Arctic (perhaps explaining the washing on the line), and a very successful one for Hull whaleships including the Harmony, which took 13 whales.

This large and important piece of scrimshaw by the anonymous artist known as the “Panbone Engraver” uses the entire “pan” section from the rear of a sperm whale’s jawbone. The scrimshaw is characterized by an extraordinary level of detail.

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The scene, which can be dated to the late 1830s, portrays a whaleship on the right cutting-in, with two others engaged in the hunt. On the left a whale is smashing a whaleboat, sending the crew flying into the air.

The ship-rigged vessel on the left of the panorama is flying the house flag of the London-based firm of Alexander Birnie & Co., which identifies the subject vessel as either Tuscan, Ann, or Toward Castle. Alexander Birnie and his brother James were involved in the whaling

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trade from the turn of the century, and Birnie whaleships made 80 voyages to the South Seas through the mid-1830s, when the company experienced financial difficulty.

Oil merchant Elhanan Bicknell purchased the Birnie fleet. As part of the sale, Bicknell, also a patron of the arts, acquired at least two Huggins paintings of Birnie whaleships including one of the Ann. Bicknell is reputed to have shown these to another artist he supported,

J.M.W. Turner, and the influence can clearly be seen in Turner’s painting Whalers (1845), now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The bark-rigged vessel in the center is flying the house flag of London shipbuilders and shipowners Green, Wigrams & Green. This very wealthy partnership owned the famous Blackwall Yard on the River Thames, a large merchant fleet, and six whaling vessels during the 1830s.

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Vigilant, Eleanor, and Active. Only one of their vessels was built bark-rigged, which identifies the center vessel as the Narwhal. Narwhal had been built for London whaleship owner William Mellish, but following his death in early 1834 Green, Wigrams & Green deployed the vessel to their fleet. In all, their whaling fleet made 20 voyages.

Engraved panbone, ca. 1830 Unknown English artist Whale bone and ink; 39 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 6 in.

Nantucket Historical Association Collection, acquired in trade from David Gray 1956.3.1

Narwhal sailed in late December 1835 under the command of William Darby Brind, whose previous two commands had been the Birnie-owned Toward Castle.

This raises the possibility that the scene on the panbone may have been commissioned by Brind as a composite of his career, with the Toward Castle depicted on the left, the Narwhal in the center, and the unidentified, shiprigged vessel on the right one of his earlier commands.

This would explain the lack of any identifying land features in the scene.

Whilst the Panbone Engraver’s work provides no indication as to locale, William Lewis Roderick’s work can nearly always be broadly – or in some instances very accurately – located, as Roderick’s whaling voyages are well documented through logs, crew lists, and newspaper reports.

Roderick served as ship’s surgeon on three South Seas whaling voyages in the bark Adventure of London between 1847 and 1856. The vessel was owned by the shipbuilder George Waters Sweeting and merchant James Crichton.

Roderick was born in Swansea, Wales, though he must have soon moved to London as he was baptized there in mid-October 1826. Before going whaling he served a three-year apprenticeship with a surgeon in Swansea, followed by a year in a hospital in London. By his own admission, he never acquired formal qualifications in medicine. He married just before embarking on his second voyage in March 1851 and retired from the sea following his third voyage. He died in November 1874.

The majority of scenes on Roderick’s scrimshaw can be firmly placed in Indonesian waters, though at least two teeth are known to be the product of a shorter 18-month cruise to the Azores between April 1851 and October 1852.

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The scrimshaw tooth in the NHA collection is a double-sided polychrome engraved whale tooth depicting on the obverse front an active whaling scene with three whaleboats engaged in capturing a whale, a ship in the background, and a mountainous coast.

As in much of Roderick’s work, the vessel is flying a flag from the top of its main mast and is bark-rigged. The similarity of the vessel on the tooth to vessels depicted in much of Roderick’s other work suggests it must be the Adventure, the vessel on which Roderick served during all of his voyages. If that is the case, and given the sophisticated use of perspective in the composition of the scene, the mountainous coast is likely an island in Indonesian waters as is typical in the majority of Roderick’s work.

The reverse of the tooth reveals a stunning piece of engraving, depicting two whaleboats capturing a large whale (again presented in perspective) but with no locale depicted. In the background is a whaling bark which again must be the Adventure.

Large bull whales were found in Indonesian waters but were confined to a few bodies of water, including the Timor Strait, Savu Sea, and south-west of Sandlewood (Sumba) Island between Sumatra and the northwest

coast of Australia. North of Sumatra they might be encountered in the north of the Flores Sea and in the south of the Celebes Sea. The log of Adventure’s 1844 voyage records that it took large bull whales in a number of these locations.

Another Roderick tooth, held in a private collection, records that it was taken from a large whale captured on March 30, 1855, during Roderick’s third voyage. Roderick’s medical log describes that whale being taken 300 miles west of Shark Bay about half way down the Western Australian coast. Surprisingly, then, the scene engraved on the tooth depicts whaling near the volcanic island of Pulau Komba (also spelled Pulo Comba) in Indonesia, some 1,500 miles away from where the tooth was taken. Roderick’s log records that the Adventure was off Pulau Komba just months later in late July 1855.

Roderick produced a number of whaling scenes on teeth and panbones depicting whaling off Pulau Komba.

Interestingly, there is also a watercolor by the English marine artist John Cantiloe Joy which almost certainly depicts whaling near Pulau Komba. As Joy never served on a whaleship or visited Indonesia it seems likely that Joy based his work on a Roderick scrimshaw tooth or sketch rather than the other way round.

What does this all mean? It suggests to me that, at least in some circumstances (and probably in nearly all), Roderick acquired his raw teeth and bone and used them at a later date rather than rendering his scenes at the time. I would even further suggest that Roderick completed most of his finest work after he returned from his third whaling voyage. His most famous work, a large panbone depicting whaling off Pulau Komba, is dated July 30, 1858, when he was no longer at sea.

Returning to the NHA’s Roderick scrimshaw, I would argue, given the extraordinary command of perspective demonstrated, that this tooth was among Roderick’s later work although he was still depicting scenes he had witnessed or encountered in Indonesia.

This leads me to wonder if, besides keeping an official medical log on his third voyage, Roderick kept a journal or sketchbook in which he recorded events and sketched locales, only later translating them to teeth and bone. In doing so, Roderick would not be alone among British whaling surgeons. One of the best, a journal kept by whaling surgeon Eldred E Fysh on board the British whaleships Coronet and Elizabeth is in the collection of the NHA (Ms. 220, log 55). Just another example of the many links between Nantucket and the British Whale Fisheries.

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Humpback Irons: A MOST UNUSUAL HARPOON

By Jack Fritsch

It seems that in the eyes of the Yankee whalers, a whale was a lot like a mouse and they were forever trying to invent a better mouse trap. Whalemen were like all fishermen in begrudging the one that got away. A quick perusal of logbooks shows that many whales did in fact get away after being darted by a harpoon. In light of this, it is not surprising that the pursuit of the whale fishery gave rise to many attempted improvements in the tools of the trade: there were eventually at least 23 different types and 34 unique U.S. patented harpoons.1 Some of these, believe it or not, actually were improvements.

One of the oddest of the harpoons was the little known (and rarely seen) Humpback Iron. This device was a greatly over-sized version of the improved toggle iron. It follows the design of a standard hand darted harpoon and could not possibly be fired from a gun. But just a quick glance at one in a museum immediately shows the mystery…this iron was too large and heavy to have been effectively thrown. The surprising answer does not disappoint and reveals the ingenuity (and desperation?) of the old whalemen.

The humpback was one of the five species normally hunted by the Yankee whalers. It was the least desirable of prey since it sank about half the time after being killed.2 In later years after the collapse of whale oil prices and baleen became the driving commodity,3, 4 the humpback became even less desirable as its baleen was considered useless for commercial purposes.2, 3 The pressures of the Revolutionary War forced Nantucket whalers to rely on short, quick cruises in nearby waters, and since the right whale population had been depleted, out of desperation they were forced to chase humpbacks in large numbers.5, 6, 7, 8 New England whalers in small shore-based operations throughout the Gulf

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of Maine in the mid- and late-nineteenth century also had to resort to humpbacks as all other whale species disappeared and the menhaden oil fishery waxed and waned.5, 9, 10, 11 Since at least half of the humpback whales captured promptly sank, the fishery was run (in Maine parlance) as a “shoot and salvage” operation. Small, fast schooners carrying no more than two whale boats chased the whales, which despite their speed could be caught and killed with relative ease now with the advent of shoulder guns and bomb lances.

The problem lay with so many whales sinking that now needed to be recovered off the ocean floor. In order to have any hope for success, the humpback fishery had to be pursued in shallow waters less than forty fathoms in depth,12 and specialized recovery methods needed to be devised.

Simply trying to raise the whale by hauling back on the original harpoon line would not work: the small toggled head would pull out. Yankee ingenuity offered the solution of a specialized recovery harpoon—the “Humpback Iron”—with a greatly enlarged toggle head (in the order of ten inches as opposed to the standard five to six inches) and

Humpback Harpoon that hung for many years on the door of the Four Winds Gift Shop on Centre Street, which had been a non-whaling blacksmith’s shop until about 1950.

a much thicker and stronger shank (from one half to nearly a full inch in diameter as opposed to the normal average of about three-eighths inch). The harpoon was rigged, of course, with a much thicker and stronger whale line.1, 13 In use, a humpback iron was darted into the whale after it was taken with a traditional harpoon. If the whale sank before this could take place, then the carcass had to be harpooned on the bottom of the sea in an attempt to raise it! This was accomplished by mounting the recovery harpoon atop a long shaft from a cutting-in spade, attaching a heavy chunk of pig iron near the head (about 30 pounds or so), and a couple of iron hoops fastened along the shaft; to use, the original darted harpoon line leading up from the carcass was rove through the hoops, then the weighted recovery iron was sent traveling along the line to the bottom in the hope of driving firmly into the carcass. After a wait of a few days, the gas-

es of decomposition would make the whale more buoyant, and the heavy line of the recovery iron would be slowly hauled back to raise the whale.1, 13, 14 Never wanting to “leave well enough alone,” in time there was an attempt to make an improvement on the Humpback Iron, and in 1862, Thomas Roys of Southampton, Long Island, patented an apparatus for Raising Dead Whales from the Bottom of the Sea. This so-called “Whale Raiser” was a massive affair altogether: a swivel barb harpoon that was ten feet long and weighed two hundred pounds, having a huge triangular head with two cutting edges backed by two very long pivot barbs, two guide hoops, and ending in a large ring in place of the normal open socket. In practice, a small codline was attached to this ring; after fastening to the sunken whale, this line was used to pull a larger line through the ring, and then in turn a larger hawser, which was to be hauled back by the ship’s windlass.1, 13

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Rare Humpback Harpoons by E. B. & F. Macy (New Bedford, ca. 1860s to 80s), with 8 5/8 inch long toggle head, on 5/8 inch diameter shank, with overall 30 5/8 inch length. Sold by Nina Hellman Antiques. An identical harpoon is illustrated in Lytle, 1984.

Roys tried hard to impress the whaling fleet with his new invention, and throughout 1861 he ran advertisements in the New Bedford bimonthly Whalemen’s Shipping List, and Merchant’s Transcript, which claimed, This instrument will attach any number of lines to whales that are dead on the bottom, and can be furnished for forty dollars; it can be done in anything less than one hundred fathoms of water. If it fails to give satisfaction if tried, the money will be refunded at termination of the voyage.

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ful. Yankee whalers were not impressed with an unwieldy forty-dollar contraption when they already had an inexpensive Humpback Iron to do the job. There is no evidence that a single one of his devices was ever used.1, 14 In fairness, there was not much demand—even the recovery harpoons were not in widespread use—so that today they are among the rarest antique harpoons. Most people, even seasoned collectors of whaling items, have never seen a Humpback Iron. However, you can examine one right here on Nantucket at the Whaling Museum, where there is a fine one on display in their whaleboat.

HUMPBACK IRONS References Cited 1 Lytle, Thomas G. 1984. Harpoons and other Whalecraft. Old Dartmouth Historical Society.

Illustration of How a Humpback Recovery Harpoon Was Used (illustration from Thomas Roys 1862 patent application).

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NBWM. 2020. Overview of North American Whaling. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/ research-topics/overview-of-north-american-whaling

3

Davis, Lance E., Gallman, Robert E. and Karin Gleiter.

1997. In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816–1906. University of Chicago Press.

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Davis, Lance E., Gallman, Robert E. and Teresa D. Hutchins. 1988. The Decline of U.S. Whaling: Was the Stock of Whales Running Out? The Business History Review Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter, 1988), pp. 569-595

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Allen, G. M. 1916. The whalebone whales of New England. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8(2):105–322.

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Macy, O. 1835. The history of Nantucket. Hilliard, Gray, and Co., Boston.

7

Starbuck, A. 1878. History of the American whale fishery from its earliest inception to the year 1876. In Rep. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish. 1875–76, App. A.

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________ . 1924. The history of Nantucket County, Island and town including genealogies of first settlers.

C. E. Goodspeed & Co., Boston.

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Clark, A. H. 1887a. History and present condition of the [whale] fishery. In G. B. Goode (Editor), The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States.

Sect. V, History and methods of the fisheries, Vol. II, pt. XV, p. 3–218. Gov. Print. Off., Wash

10 Mitchell, E., and R. R. Reeves. 1983. Catch history, abundance, and present status of northwest Atlantic humpback whales. Rep. Int. Whal. Comm., Spec.

Iss. 5:153–212.

11 Randall R. Reeves, Smith, Tim D., Webb, Robert L., Robbins, Jooke and Phillip J. Clapham. 2002.

Humpback and Fin Whaling in the Gulf of Maine from 1800 to 1918. Marine Fisheries Review 64:1-12 12 True, F. W. 1904. The whalebone whales of the western North Atlantic compared with those occurring in European waters with some observations on the species of the North Pacific. Smithson. Inst. Press, Wash., D.C. (1983 repr.).

13 Brown, J. T. 1887. The whalemen, vessels and boats, apparatus, and methods of the whale fishery. In G. B. Goode (Editor), The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Sect. V, Vol. II, pt. XV, p. 218–293.

Gov. Print. Off., Wash.

14 Smithsonian Institution. On the Water. 3: Fishing for a Living 1840 – 1920. https://americanhistory.si.edu/ onthewater/exhibition/3_7.html

Photograph of Thomas Roys Patented Whale-Riser.

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2019 Gifts to the Collection 2019.1.1 Engraved scrimshaw tooth of the Nantucket whaler Henry Astor “Gift of the H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation in memory of Lucy Fowlkes Breed and her love of Nantucket.”

2019.8.1 Painting: Nantucket Shore, 1865 by William Trost Richards Gift of the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association

2019.2.1-2 Business signs Gift of Douglas Seholm

2019.9.1 (Above) Framed photograph: Whale Calf 1

by Bryant Austin Gift of Cheryl McCornick and Bryant Austin

2019.3.1 Carpenter’s scribe Gift of Michael R. Harrison

2019.10.1-17 Dolls and doll clothing Gift of John McLaughlin

2019.4.1-5 HyLine Cruises uniform Gift of HyLine Cruises

2019.11.1-6 Steamship Authority Captain’s uniform belonging to Captain Bruce Malenfant Gift of Bruce Malenfant

2019.5.1 Rectangular copper printing plate depicting map of Western part of Nantucket Sound, 1883 Gift of Captain William C. Russell and his beloved wife Lyndall Scott Russell

2019.12.1 Business sign from the Cy’s Green Coffee Pot restaurant Gift of Mary Ellen Pender

2019.6.1-2 Nantucket Angler’s Club burgee Nantucket Angler’s Club hat Gift of the Nantucket Angler’s Club

2019.13.1-2 Drawing: Atheneum Interior by A. Shunney Drawing Whaling Museum Attic by A. Shunney Gift of Patricia S. Anathan

2019.7.1-2 Nantucket Friendship basket purse made

by Charles Sayle Nantucket Friendship basket purse made

by George Brown, Jr. NHA Purchase

2019.14.1 Ship model of whaleship Edward Cary Gift of the H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation

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2019.15.1-114 Robert and Nina Hellman Collection Partial gift of Nina Hellman, partial NHA purchase with funds from the H. L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation, in honor of Polly Espy Millard

2019.16.1-20 Robert and Nina Hellman Collection Partial gift of the Friends of Nantucket Historical Association, partial gift of Nina Hellman 2019.17.1-2 Business sign Nantucket Sleigh Ride Painted sand dollar “Lovingly donated by the children of Mary M. and Edward M. Walsh in appreciation of their selfless dedication to family, and in memory of the many happy days we shared together on Nantucket in our youth.”

2019.18.1 Pencil from The Green Coffee Pot restaurant Gift of Barry R. Zlotin 2019.19.1-5 Household items including pastry cutters, silver spoons, plate, and scissors.

Gift of Marsha Hall Brown 2019.20.1 Sea chest (Isaac Riddell) Gift of Patricia Damm 2019.21.1 Miniature mortar and pestle, 19th century Gift of Peggy MacDonald 2019.22.1-10 Eliza Coffin slippers, doll and doll clothing, sampler, silver spoons, needlework pieces, scarf, cape, and silver pendant.

Gift of Mark and Rebecca Williams

2019.23.1a-b Pair of shoes worn by Florence Maria Merriam at her wedding, 1896 Gift of Merriam Bouscaren

2019.29.1 Scrimshaw whale’s tooth with inscribed memorial to “Albert Gardner Lost at Sea 1840” Gift of Rick and Janet Sherlund

2019.24.1 Painting: The Fisher Girl, Nantucket, 1881 Gift of Jan and Warren Adelson

2019.30.1 Wampanoag grinding stone Gift of Janie Goodwillie

2019.25.1 Painting: Laying the Trywork Bricks,

by James Harrington Gift of Betty Harrington

2019.31.1 Sawfish bill Gift of Robert Farley

2019.26.1 Print: Residence and Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, on the Potomac, engraved

by William Henry Capone after William Henry Brooke Gift of Stuart Frank 2019.27.1-2 Drapery, Tony Sarg Drapery, Tony Sarg Gift of Billi and Bobby Gosh in memory of Muriel Williams 2019.28.1-2 Embroidered bedspread by Nantucket Needlewomen 19th century needlepoint pillow Gift of Julie Beinecke Stackpole and the Estate of Mary Ann Beineche

2019.32.1-2 Business signs Gift of Deborah Culbertson

2019.8002.1-4 Framed ink and watercolor: Whale Fishery in New England 1853, No.3 Framed ink and watercolor: Whale Fishery in New England 1853, No.1 Framed ink and watercolor: Whale Fishery in New England 1853, No.4 Needlepoin: Whale Fishery in New England No.2, 1853 Gift of Lucile W. Hays 2019.8003.1-3 Whale, seal, and crude oil candles Gift of Mary Malloy

2019.33.1 “My First Flight at Hyannis Air Service” button Gift of Jim Borzilleri

2019.8004.1-5 Swordfish sword, ship model, bottles, and shadowbox.

Gift of Robert Farley

2019.34.1 (Below) Tony Sarg diorama “The Toy Shop” NHA Purchase

2019.8005.1 Tapa cloth Gift of Beverly Hall

Non-Accessions 2019.8001.1-3 Bottle of sperm oil from Nantucket Whaling Museum Bottle of raw unprocessed head matter spermaceti Bottle of spermaceti wax Gift of Nina Hellman

2019.8006.1-5 Commemorative plaques from the Whaling Museum Found in collection 2019.8007.1 Portrait of Lucretia Mott by Heather Vance, 2019 NHA Purchase

Tony Sarg’s “The Toy Shop” on display in the new Discovery Center.

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2019 Research Library Acquisitions RL2019.13 1835 American Silk Growers Guide NHA Purchase

RL2019.1 Jim Borzilleri Collection of Nantucket Airlines Materials Gift of Jim Borzilleri

RL2019.7 Cynara Reid Collection of Nantucket Angler’s Club Billfish Tournament Materials Gift of Cynara Reid

RL2019.2 H.S. Wyer Photographs Gift of Meredith Dyer Sweet

RL2019.8 Bartlett Family Letters Gift of Charles Bartlett

RL2019.4 Postcard to Miss Gertrude Perry Gift of Alvin Shaut

RL2019.9 First Congregational Church broadsigns Gift of Bill and Linda Steelman

RL2019.5 Map of Davis’s South Shoal and Other Dangers, 1849 Gift of Peter Mckie

RL2019.10 Hazel Kingsley Turley Papers Gift of Michele Fogg

RL2019.16 Virginia Johnston Collection of Nantucket Photographs Gift of Donald Johnston

RL2019.11 Wauwinet Tribe photograph Gift of Valerie Faubel

RL2019.17 Robert Butman Photographic Collection Gift of Marcia Butman

RL2019.12 Quadrangles of air and sea disasters Gift of David Bachman

RL2019.18 Once More at Cy’s by Zelda Zlotin Gift of Denise Korngold

RL2019.6 Bill Fisher Tackle bumper stickers Gift of Jeff Allen

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RL2019.14 Mary Van Arsdale Papers Gift of an anonymous donor RL2019.15 Protection Certificate for ship Mary Ann NHA Purchase

RL2019.19 Addition to the Macy Family Papers Gift of Neil Cinelli RL2019.20 Addition to the Edouard Stackpole Collection Gift of Renny Stackpole RL2019.21 E.S. Fitzgerald and Joseph Mitchell business materials Gift of Paul Bullock

RL2019.34 Benjamin Franklin Folger genealogical chart for Thomas Farmer and Sarah Grieves Gift of Michael Richard Kelly

RL2019.48 Charlie Swain Army Air Force portrait Gift of his children, Jonathan Swain and Nancy Swain Reeves

RL2019.35 Clinton Parker blacksmithing account book Gift of Virginia F. Andrews

RL2019.49 Addition to the Marshall-Pinkham Family Papers / Brown Collection Gift of Helen Marshall Hall Brown

RL2019.36 (Bottom right) Mid-Island Bowling Leagues photo album Gift of Robert A. and Harvey S. Young

RL2019.22 Helen Marshall handwritten manuscripts Gift Helen Marshal Hall Brown

RL2019.37 Nantucket business and events ephemera Gift of Barry R. Zlotin

RL2019.23 Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders: Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman Gift of John and Cynthia Everets

RL2019.38 Academy Hill School class photographs Gift of Pauline Igoe

RL2019.24 Additions to the Riddell Family Papers and Gardner Family Papers Gift of Patricia Gay Damm RL2019.25 Abisha Luce whaling journal NHA Purchase RL2019.26 Photograph of Nantucket Band, c. 1888 Gift of Bryan Fisher King RL2019.27 Nantucket Atlas, plate 10 NHA Purchase RL2019.28 ‘Sconset History Night Research Files Gift of the Siasconset Historical Research Group RL2019.29 Monaghan Family Photographic Collection Gift of Mr. Charlie Bullock RL2019.31 Robert Hellman Collection Partial gift of Nina Hellman, partial NHA purchase with funds from the H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation, in honor of Polly Espy Millard RL2019.32 Robert Hellman Collection Partial gift of Nina Hellman, partial gift of the Friends of Nantucket Historical Association RL2019.33 George Wendell Macy account book and ‘Nantucket Sleighride’ craft show materials Gift of the children of Mary and Edward Walsh

RL2019.39 Sea Cliff Inn and Cottages brochure Gift of Jeanne Underhill RL2019.40 Book and photographs Gift of Merriam Bouscaren RL2019.41 H. Marshal Gardiner photograph of Academy Lane Gift of Rhoda Kimble RL2019.42 Miss Cora Stevens gift bag and postcards Gift of Florence Kraigel

RL2019.50 “Survey of the Nantucket Harbor and Shoals” Gift of L. Dennis Shapiro RL2019.51 Hospital Thrift Shop records Gift of the Nantucket Hospital Thrift Shop RL2019.52 Galley Theater Lighting records Gift of Sandra Galley RL2019.53 Digital reproduction of the Bigelow and La Farge Families Tuckernuck House Journal Gift of the La Farge Family RL2019.54 Robert Hellman Collection Gift of the Friends of the NHA RL2019.55 Robert Hellman Collection NHA Purchase

RL2019.43 John Cunningham Ring high school diploma Gift of Anne Dyer RL2019.44 Cushman Family Letters Gift of Mark and Rebecca Williams RL2019.45 Robert Stackpole collection of postcards Gift of Mrs. Beth Stackpole Kelly RL2019.46 (Top left) Milo Calkin whaling journal NHA Purchase, with support from support from Susan Blount, Polly Espy Millard, Art and Diane Kelly, and L. Dennis and Susan Shapiro RL2019.47 Dreamland account book Gift of Jane Lovering

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IMPORTANT EXHIBITION SUMMER 2021 Major Retrospective of Anne Ramsdell Congdon paintings and drawings in the McCausland Gallery

The Friends of the NHA bought this important painting by Anne Ramsdell Congdon for the Museum in August 2020. It was rediscovered by Vose Gallery at an estate sale in California. It did not come with a title but the distinctive tall building with the hip roof on the right is still standing today and places the scene on Old South Wharf. Congdon loved the wharves and like many of her other works, this lushly painted image with both warehouses and sailboats expertly captured the Nantucket waterfront as it was transforming from a working to a recreational port.

Congdon is one of the most important female painters from the Nantucket Art Colony (1920–1945) and this top- notch painting adds to the small but growing collection of Congdons owned by the Museum. The NHA has digitized her diaries, and in the next five years plans to produce the first catalog to document and contextualize the work of this very significant but little-known female artist from Nantucket.

Above: Anne Ramsdell Congdon (1873–1958) Old South Wharf, Nantucket, 1937 Oil on panel Gift of the Friends of the NHA

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2020 Gifts to the Collection 2020.1 Painting: The Northern Whale Fishery. Ship Harmony of Hull and other Ice-Bound Whalers on the Davis Strait between Baffin Bay, Canada and Greenland, by W.J. Huggins, 1835 NHA Purchase with support from Kaaren & Charles Hale, Shelley & Graham Goldsmith, Caroline & Jeffrey Paduch, the Richard E. Griffin Family Acquisition Fund, and an anonymous gift 2020.2 Spermaceti wax samples Gift of the Chemistry Students of Nimitz High School, Irving, Texas 2020.3 Brick from Nantucket street Gift of Harvey Deutsch 2020.4 Maritime artifacts Gift of Samantha Rand 2020.5 Pair of silver cufflinks made by Morton and Reva Schlesinger Gift of Judith Wodynski 2020.6 Winthrop silver-plated, six-piece coffee and tea service Gift of Helen Marsha Hall Brown 2020.7 Sculpted bronze portrait of Lucretia Coffin Mott NHA Purchase

2020.8 Embroidered dinner napkin Gift of Cynthia Gallagher

2020.16 Murray’s Toggery face mask Gift of Murray’s Toggery Shop

2020.9 Pins pertaining to Ellen R. Ramsdell Gift of Frances Karttunen

2020.17 (Bottom) Historic painting and scrimshaw Gift of James L. Dunlap

2020.10 Engraved whalebone plaque Gift of Marcy Bartlett

2020.18 Two sperm whale teeth Gift of the Irene Hatch Family Trust

2020.11 Model of the whaling brig Beaver NHA Purchase, made possible with a gift from the H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation

2020.20 Queequeg, 2019 Geddes Jones Paulsen (born 1988) Acrylic and shellac on canvas NHA purchase

2020.12 Odd Fellows regalia and rolling pin Gift of Frances Karttunen 2020.13 Three signs of various types Gift of Deborah D. Culbertson 2020.14 Painting: South Wharf, Nantucket by Anne Ramsdell Congdon Gift of the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association 2020.15 Nantucket rush-seat ladder-back chair belonging to James Cary Gift of Jason Tilroe

2020.21.1–2 Two American Legion hats belonging to Alvin “Toppy” Topham Gift of Leigh M. Topham 2020.8001 Line-O-Scribe machine printing press with four trays of type Gift of Lucile W. Hays 2020.8002 Nantucket scalloper Gift of Edward A. Stojak 2020.8003 Painted whale rib bone Gift of James L. Dunlap Accessions January–September 2020

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2020 Accessions at the Research Library RL2020.1 Typed manuscript on shawls Gift of Helen Marshall Hall Brown

RL2020.7 Bill Haddon color photograph of Old Mill Gift of Joanne Polster

RL2020.12 Nantucket Preservation Trust House Histories Gift of the Nantucket Preservation Trust

RL2020.2 Photographs, aerials, and negatives Gift of Richard Austin

RL2020.8 Pascaert van Nieu Nederland Van Hendrick Christiaens Eyland tot Staaten hoeck of Cabo Cod

by Arent Roggeveen, 1675 Partial gift of the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association, partial gift of Elizabeth and William Guardeniere

RL2020.13 Nathaniel Barney letter to Samuel Williston, 1847 Gift of Deborah Petite

RL2020.3 (Above) Anne Ramsdell Congdon Papers Gift of the Congdon Family RL2020.4 Old Mill photograph Gift of Woody Kay RL2020.5 Young’s Bicycle Shop maps, 1964-2014 Gift of Young’s Bicycle Shop RL2020.6 Scans of Young’s Bicycle Shop maps, 1977–2018 Gift of Young’s Bicycle Shop

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RL2020.9 From Shore to Shore by Phoebe Ann Coffin Hanaford NHA Purchase RL2020.10 The Writ of Injunction, Labor Unions, Boycotts, Strikes, and Contempts by William Barnes NHA Purchase RL2020.11 Columbian Centinel, 15 December 1790 edition NHA Purchase

RL2020.14 Sales receipt from Mendle Rothenberg’s store on Main Street, 1878 Gift of Paul LaPaglia RL2020.15 Six photographs and Ellen Ramsdell’s Garden price list Gift of Frances Karttunen RL2020.16 Physics textbook owned by Lawrence S. Folger at the Coffin School, 1886 Gift of Norman W. Chaleki RL2020.17 Items pertaining to Ellen Ramsdell Gift of Frances Karttunen

RL2020.18 The Last Voyage of the Independence

by Milo Calkin, 1953 NHA Purchase RL2020.19 Oldest House watercolor postcard Gift of Mary Shannon RL2020.20 Geo. E. Eldridge’s Chart C Vineyard Sound Lt. Ship to Chatham, 1909 NHA Purchase, with a gift from Diane and Art Kelly RL2020.21 Squam House “Chadwick’s Folly” manuscript materials Gift of Helen Marshall Hall Brown RL2020.22 Family manuscript materials and Edward Coleman Gibbs Bible Gift of Frances Karttunen RL2020.23 Crew list for ship Barclay, 1832 NHA Purchase, with a gift from Patricia and Thomas Anathan RL2020.24 Two Nantucket maps by the Killen Brothers, c. 1930 Gift of Susan Watkins RL2020.25 Scans of Lincoln Ceely ledgers RL2020.26 Aerial Views of Nantucket, Mass., 1926 Gift of Chad Gifford

RL2020.27 Eldridge’s New Chart from Chatham New Harbor to West Chop Light, 1894 NHA Purchase with support from Diane and Arthur Kelly RL2020.28 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Block Island, Buzzard Bay, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, 1883 NHA Purchase with support from Diane and Arthur Kelly RL2020.29 Topham family photographs Gift of Leigh M. Topham RL2020.8001 Steamship Authority brochure with timetable Gift of Mike Fagan RL2020.8002 The whaleman’s experience in the golden age of whaling, 1814–1880 by Vincent Santapaga Gift of Vincent Santapaga RL2020.8003 A Thousand Leagues of Blue: The Pacific Whaling Voyages of Charles and Susan Veeder of Nantucket by Betsy Tyler Publication of the Nantucket Historical Association RL2020.8004 Tales & Legends of Early Nantucket: A Historical Treasure Hunt by Julie Jensen NHA Purchase RL2020.8005 Trees, Shrubs & Lianas of Nantucket, 2 volumes,

by Yeshe Palmo NHA Purchase

RL2020.8006 Last Call and The Last Bay Scallop?

by John Stanton NHA Purchase RL2020.8007 Henry S. Wyer postcard Gift of W. Lee H. Dunham RL2020.8008 Agency: Married women traders of Nantucket, 1795-1865, by Mary Heen Gift of Mary Heen RL2020.8009 Figuring by Maria Popova NHA Purchase RL2020.8010 Tribe, Race, History by Daniel Mandell NHA Purchase RL2020.8011 An Innovation Story by Stephen L. Yelon NHA Purchase RL2020.8012 The Mapping of North American (2 vols.); New England in Early Printed Maps Gift of Arthur L. Kelly RL2020.8013 New England Prospect: A Loan Exhibition of Maps at the Currier Gallery of Art; Surveying the Shore Gift of Michael Buehler RL2020.8014 Sea History, No. 171, Summer 2020 Gift of the National Maritime Historical Society RL2020.8015 Sherburne to ‘Sconset: A Nantucket Success Story Publication of the Nantucket Historical Association RL2020.8016 The Life and Times of Oswald Anthony Tupancy

by Paul R. Judy Gift of Paul R. Judy RL2020.8017 From the Forecastle to the Cabin; Five Years before the Mast Gift of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum RL2020.8018 Colonial Homes, Feb 1998, Vol. 14 No. 1 Gift of Peter Greenhalgh RL2020.8019 (Left) Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Free Man Gift of Kelly Williams

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Charting a Map Collection Two years ago, Diane and Art Kelly of ‘Sconset and Chicago expressed an interest in helping the NHA strengthen its historic map collection. Five important maps have been added to the collection since then, including this recent donation of an 1883 U.S. Coastal Survey (USCS). It is massive at seven feet long and three feet high, detailing the coast and waters from Monomoy through the Nantucket Shoals to Block Island. The NHA thanks Michael Buehler of Boston Rare Maps for his expert advice and assistance.

This chart consists of three charts, all printed on heavy paper and joined. Overall, it is profoundly informative, hard to find in this format and condition, and eminently displayable. USCS charts were prepared by an agency of the U.S. Government beginning in about 1816. They were both accurate and detailed.

One drawback with USCS charts is that they were not updated frequently. Since the ocean currents regularly changed the location of shoals and subsequently the soundings, commercial mariners and fishermen wanted current and accurate charts. This is what provided an opening for George Eldridge, beginning in the early 1850s, to found his firm, which thrived by providing regularly updated charts. Again, thanks to the Kellys, six Eldridge charts of Nantucket have been identified and three are now in the NHA’s map and chart collection.

In addition to frequency of issue, there is one other important difference between the USCS and Eldridge charts. The former show both topographical (land) and nautical details; the latter focus almost exclusively on the nautical, because they were targeted at mariners for their use at sea. To view our map collection, go to: nantuckethistory.org.

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NHA receives major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services The NHA has been awarded a $190,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to catalog the NHA’s archeology collections. These include Native peoples and English settlers collections estimated to number at least 5,000 stone tools, pottery, ceramic fragments.

This project will include creating digital images and records that will be publically accessible once complete on the NHA’s online collection database. Artifacts will be rehoused in new museum-quality enclosures for better protection.

To commemorate the 360th anniversary of the first contact between Native peoples and English settlers on Nantucket in 2019, staff set a goal to revive and build on Dr. Elizabeth Little’s lifetime work of groundbreaking research. This is a multi-year effort that will impact every department in the organization. The NHA will work with Plimoth Plantation, the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council, and noted archaeologists. To provide expert advice and direction, the NHA has also engaged Mary Lynne Rainey, Principal Senior Archaeologist, Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. to work alongside NHA project manager Amelia Holmes, Director of Collections, as well as Michael Harrison, NHA Obed Macy Research Historian, and Karl Wietzel, NHA Collections Specialist.

Wampanoag projectile points, Gift of Alice and Alfred Shurrocks, 1940.1.

Photography by Jeffrey S. Allen.

Amelia Holmes, NHA Director of the Collections, notes: “The archaeology collection forms one of the NHA’s largest artifact groups. The objects divide broadly into four groups. The first and largest contains lithic spear and arrow points made by the Native peoples who inhabited Nantucket from about 8,000 BCE to the eighteenth century. There are 2,000-3,000 items in this category, documenting hunting practices and tool-making materials spanning from thousands of years before European settlement into the post-contact period. The next group of objects contains larger Native American stone tools, including ax heads, mallets, fishing weights, and mortars and pestles. There are about 200-300 of these items in the collection. The third group contains animal bones and seashells excavated at native dwelling and hunting sites across the island. The number of items in this group is approximately 500. The last grouping holds between 1,000-2,000 historic-period ceramic and glass fragments excavated at English colonial and early American sites on the island. A majority of these items document daily life at historic houses and sites now under the care of the NHA, and were uncovered during digs at those sites.”

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Archaeology AT THE OLDEST HOUSE

By Andrew Bair

Archaeology is a lot of things, but the activity that figures most in the popular imagination is digging. At the same time, preserving the archaeological record—that is, all the physical remains of past people still preserved underground—is the primary ethical responsibility of all archaeologists. And therein lies the grand dilemma of archaeology: we want to learn more about the past, but archaeological excavation destroys the underground record of the past itself, which can never be studied exactly as it was a second time. Although archaeologists take painstaking notes to recover and preserve as much data as possible, once an archaeological site is excavated, that’s it.

Preservation of the archaeological record in the United States and around the globe is further threatened by population growth, economic development, and environmental changes, but perhaps most urgently by amateur artifact collectors digging holes looking for buried treasure. In 1966, the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) recognized the significance of the Nation’s finite cultural resources and provided a mechanism to ensure that federal agencies take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties and archaeological sites. Subsequently, State Historic Preservation Offices were established in each state to implement the stipulations laid out in the NHPA, and to the extent possible, adapt those regulations at the state level. In cases where federal and state regulations don’t apply, archaeological sites are vulnerable to imminent destruction, and permanent loss of data.

To balance the goals of collecting important archaeological site data while preserving these finite resources to the greatest extent possible, archaeologists have developed a number of best practices. At the outset, archaeologists coordinate preservation initiatives with the community to promote the development of laws, codes, and ethics that discourage the destruction of the archaeological record and promote preservation as a valuable tenet of community life. Next, as a research design is developed for a given project, the archaeological team identifies and prioritizes historic records, maps, community ethnohistory, reports of prior inves-

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Harvard University graduate student Andrew Bair conducts a survey outside the Oldest House using ground-penetrating radar.

tigations, and warehoused artifact collections to develop goals, cultural contexts, and appropriate archaeological methods. Finally, central to the preservation commitment, whenever possible archaeologists use cool, non-destructive technology that allows them to study the archaeological record without digging it up.

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The NHA has historically been a community partner committed to preserving Nantucket’s archaeological resources. With this nondestructive ethos in mind, in August the NHA initiated a new (and Covid-safe) research project at the Jethro Coffin House (16 Sunset Hill), that showcased the application of state-of-the-art, non-destructive archaeological technologies. Considered by some historians and scholars as the ‘Oldest House’ on Nantucket, the Coffin house was constructed in 1686 as a wedding gift for Jethro and Mary Gardner Coffin.

After passing through the hands of private owners for over 250 years, the Jethro Coffin House entered the care of the NHA in 1923. Soon after in 1927, the NHA began a restoration of the house which defines its current appearance and character. Over the next two years, the chimney was raised and restored, wood sills were replaced, and a new masonry foundation was installed under the entire house. Other improvements included replacement of the burned lean-to-structure at the rear of the house using period structural elements from the nearby Paddack House, which was dismantled for this purpose. The house has been an element of the Nantucket Historic District since 1955, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. Today, the house is a highly visible symbol of Nantucket’s historical past and plays host to thousands of tourists every year.

The Jethro Coffin House is of great academic interest, having been studied by archaeologists, historians, and architects since the late nineteenth century. Understandably, most of this previous academic work has been concerned with the architectural features, history of ownership, and landscape siting of the house itself.

But the Jethro Coffin House lies on a one-and-a-half acre parcel of land, which has received less archaeological attention. In 1975-1976, a test trench was excavated by the NHA Archaeology Committee near the northeast corner of the house that resulted in the recovery of domestic yard refuse dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Jacobson et al 1986). Then in 1984, the NHA planned to construct a Colonial-period garden on

the property. This prompted Dr. Elizabeth Little, vice chairman of the NHA Archaeology Committee, to propose a multi-disciplinary archaeological study of the property with the primary goal of locating remains of outbuildings, fence lines, garden plots, or other features to reconstruct land-use patterns and lifeways of the historic occupants. The project was funded by a technical assistance grant to the NHA from the Massachusetts Council on Arts and Humanities and coincided with the 1986 tercentennial year of the property. Methods included architectural and deed research, folklore, remote sensing using electric resistivity (non-invasive), archaeological testing, and paleobotanical analyses of soils. Taken together, the project identified areas of outbuildings and gardens, historic refuse disposal, brick and cobble paving, and contemporary disturbances and provided a systematic interpretation of the archaeological remains surrounding the house.

In the 34 years since the NHA completed archaeological studies at the Jethro Coffin House, archaeological technology has improved dramatically. As the NHA prepared to develop new, public-oriented educational initiatives on the property, the application of new techniques in the study of the house was a priority. Given what we already know about the history and archaeology of the house, and life on historic Nantucket more generally, we can revisit some basic questions with a new approach. What types of activities might have happened outside the house in the yard? Are there subterranean traces of historic structures that were not identified in 1986, such as a barn or other outbuilding that might give us new insights? Or how about a trash heap, or midden, which is one of the most exciting discoveries for an archaeologist?

To answer these questions and provide new data to compare with the 1986 survey results, in cooperation with archaeologists Andrew Bair (Harvard University) and Chad Gifford (Columbia University), and their colleague Colin Keane (also of Columbia University), continued on page 38

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surveyed the property around the Jethro Coffin House using ground-penetrating radar, or GPR for short. GPR is one of the exciting new ‘cool technologies’ that modern archaeologists use to understand what’s under the ground without needing to dig. A GPR is basically a big antenna that transmits radar energy into the ground.

That energy will travel in a wave downwards until it impacts with something, like a buried stone wall or drainage pipe, that causes the wave to bounce back towards the surface in different ways. The GPR antenna listens for that return signal and records it. By dragging the antenna around on the surface of the ground, you can map where radar energy was reflected all around an archaeological site. At the end of the survey, and after a good deal of data processing, you can create a threedimensional map of an entire buried archaeological site without ever having to dig at all. GPR works a lot like how bats navigate in darkness using echolocation.

Bats will emit a high-pitched sound and listen for the echoes it makes off objects in the night. They can visualize a three-dimensional map of their surroundings in their brain and use it to avoid trees and find their prey. GPR is exactly like this, except it uses radar waves instead of sound waves, and looks for archaeological features not tasty bugs. The GPR equipment used on this project was generously provided by Geophysical Survey Systems Incorporated.

The accompanying illustrations show this technology in play around the Jethro Coffin House. Specifically, the archaeologists are able to knit together hundreds of vertical slices of radar data taken side-by-side to render a three-dimensional map of the features that lay underground. While the archaeologists are currently processing the data and interpreting their findings, which they will deliver to the NHA this winter in the form of a formal report, they are pleased to present some very preliminary results. These, too, can be seen in the accompanying illustrations. It is too early to say for certain, but the GPR data suggest the presence of several buried archaeological features, possibly relating to garden plots and pathways. Interestingly, there are no obvious collapsed architectural structures with, for example, rectangular stone foundations. Regardless, the underground features that do appear in the data are

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Jethro Coffin House Late 19th century photograph. NHA collection.

Ground-Penetrating Radar Results from the Jethro Coffin House.

GPR can be used to create three-dimensional maps of the archaeological subsurface.

perfectly preserved underground, and will remain so for when archaeologists possibly return in the future for further surveys. Any new surveys in the open areas surrounding the Oldest House will need to connect these underground features with the archaeological work conducted at the site in 1986 by the beloved Dr. Little, as well as with what is known from the written historical records about life on Sunset Hill.

It is comforting to know that this history is safely preserved underground for future generations to similarly preserve or study in even more sophisticated non-destructive ways. The hope is that there are many other pockets of history preserved underground on Nantucket. However, if we are not careful, one day they will all be gone. It is our collective duty not just to better understand the archaeological record, but to protect it as well.

Lucretia Mott’s Quilt As part of a comprehensive project to care for its extensive costume and textile collections, curators reexamined the holdings of quilts and coverlets, totaling about 75 pieces. This process revealed a number of unique and exciting pieces, including this silk patchwork quilt made

by Lucretia Coffin Mott. The large quilt was donated in 1967 by Mrs. J. G. Richard Heckscher, a descendant of the famous feminist, from Devon, Pennsylvania. It is T-shaped to fit over a four-post bed (note the ties to attach to posts), and from top to foot measures nearly ten feet. The unique design elements are carefully planned and completely hand sewn, pieced with many small blocks of fabric, including diamonds, triangles, and a sunburst motif at the foot of the quilt. It was likely made from scraps of old garments, as many of the silks are modest silks and drab colors that were frequently used in Quaker dress. It is fully lined and Lucretia embroidered her name and the date 1833 on the lining at the top.

As of one of the most exciting pieces of needlework in the NHA collection, please enjoy it on display in the current exhibition, The Road from Abolition to Suffrage in the Williams Forsyth Gallery at the Whaling Museum.

THANK YOU Special thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert for her steadfast and expert help conserving our textile collection.

Silk patchwork quilt, 1833 Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) Silk, cotton, velvet 101” H x 117” W, side length 73”, bottom width 57”.

Gift of Mrs. J. G. Richard Heckscher

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Nurturing Strong Partnerships The NHA collaborated with these non-profit organization in 2019 and 2020: Artists Association of Nantucket Atlantic White Shark Conservatory Center for Coastal Studies Chamber of Commerce Columbia University Council of American Maritime Museums Dreamland Foundation Egan Maritime Institute Michael Graves College, Kean University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Nantucket Atheneum Nantucket Book Festival Nantucket Community Music Center Nantucket Community Sailing Nantucket Conservation Foundation Nantucket Garden Club Nantucket Lighthouse School Nantucket New School Nantucket Preservation Trust Nantucket Public Schools Nantucket Theatre Workshop New Bedford Whaling Museum New York School of Interior Design Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket MusACKal Museum of African American History Mystic Seaport Pilmoth Patuxet (formerly Plimoth Plantation) Preservation Institute Princeton University ReMain Nantucket Fund Roger Williams University Salve Regina University ‘Sconset Trust Smithsonian American Art Museum The White Heron Theatre Worcester Polytechnic Institute Top: The Nantucket Garden Club having a little fun with a Seward Johnson sculpture while maintaining the grounds at Hadwen House.

Bottom: The NHA’s North Atlantic Right Whale made numerous appearances outside the Whaling Museum this year in partnership with the Marine Mammal Alliance, thanks to support from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation.

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Thank You to Our Extraordinary Volunteers, 2019–20 97.7 Nantucket Broadcasting Abiah Folger Franklin Chapter, NSDAR ACKFIRE Studios ACK Treasures Scott Anderson Louisa Affleck Joan Albaugh Pat Anathan Anchored Law Antiques Depot Artists Association of Nantucket Amanda Amaral Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate Mark Avery Christy & Jonas Baker Mary Randolph Ballinger Jason Balou Liz Barnes Bartlett’s Farm Alison Barr Carol Baxter Gussie Beaugrand Skyler Bennett Jeanne Bennett Stacey Bewkes Josette Blackmore Cristina Blank Casey Boukus Edith Bouriez Maureen Bousa Sara Boyce Andrea Bradford Brant Point Grill Brant Point Marine Anne Marie Bratton Chesie Breen Marianna Brewster Bulgarian Education Center Alice Campbell Alexandra Cashion Laurie Champion Olivia Charney Cheney Brothers Custom Builders Cameron Christie Connie Cigarran Cisco Brewers Community Foundation of Nantucket Create Art Supply Store Crosswinds Restaurant & Bar currentVintage

Donald Dallaire Lisa Dawson Democrat Town Committee Penny Dey Dharma Yoga MJ Dickensen Lucy Dillon Will Doggett E. Mayo Dogwalking Mark Donato Jeanne Dooley Jean Doyen de Montaillou Dreamland Stage Company Paula Dore Duffy Trudy Dujardin Devin Durand Tara Young Earley Jackie Echeverria Margaret Eger Timothy Ehrenberg Amy & Snip Eldridge Donna Elle John Emert Emeritus Development Empire Builders Patsy Ernst John Evans Exploration Station Preschool Joan Fisher Bonnie Ford Alison Forsgren Tina Fournier Cece Fowler Phyllis Freilich Elizabeth Georgantas Geronimo’s Pet Supply Sea Glassman Rose Gonnella Joan Goodwin Leigh Goodwyn Grey Lady Apiary Jamie Gretz Suzy Grote Amy Guidi Handy & Dallaire Events David Handy Mary Hannigan Tom Hanlon Landscaping Meredith Hanson Harborview Nantucket Anne Hardy Jane Hardy Colin Havener The Harvey Foundation

Hilarie Hawley Kathleen Hay Joanna Hay Judi & Greg Hill Michelle Holland Katie Hughes Joan Hull Hydrex Philanthropic Island Kitchen Isle Designs Dayner Javier Priscilla Johnson Victoria Johnson Illya Kagan Kagyu Chokur Ling Kristy Kay Kristy Kay Design Connie King Ginny Kinney Kitty Murtagh’s Julie Kever Anne Knutson Denise Korngold Kate Korngold Melanie Kotalac Michael Kovner Virginia Kostadinova Languedoc Bistro Nan Lampe† Janet Lindgren Vicki Livingstone Susan Lister Locke Judy Lochtefeld Sharon Lorenzo Helen Lynch Evelyn MacEachern Fabrizia Macchiavelli Made on Nantucket Mary Malavase Steele Marcoux Marine Home Center Mark Cutone Architecture Lauren & Neil Marttila Amy McAveety Gary McBournie Carla McDonald Tharon Anderson McEvoy Medius Builders Kim Merlin Dylan Miller M. F. Millworks, Inc. Bob Miklos, DesignLAB Ralitsa Mitrakieva

Laurie Monahan Mac Mueller Nantucket Bank Nantucket Book Partners Nantucket Community Sailing Nantucket Community School Nantucket Conservation Foundation Nantucket Food Fuel Rental Assistance Nantucket Garden Club The Nantucket Hotel & Resort Nantucket Housefitters Nantucket Intermediate School - 3rd Grade Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Nantucket Island Safe Harbor for Animals (NiSHA) Nantucket Lighthouse School Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Nantucket New School Nantucket Republican Town Committee Nantucket Shellfish Association Nantucket Swim Across America Jeremy Nelson Ellen Niven Doralee & Patrick Nolan Lizza Obremski Anne Obrecht Old Spouter Gallery Organic Hair Salon Our Island Home Sandi Owen Pekarcik Construction Emily Pihl Joanne Polster Lulu Powers Chris Powers Landscaping Grace Valley Queequeg’s Lisa Rance Mary Lynne Rainey Sue Riddle Jo-Ann Richard Bill Richards Maria Roach Wendy Rouillard Melanie Sabelhaus Linda Saligman

Sandcastle Construction Marla Sanford Sarah’s Pet Sitting Service Michelle Saravia James Scheurell ‘Sconset Gardener SeaGrille The Second Shop Nancy Serafini Melissa MacLeod Caiden Shea John Shea Karin Shepard Sherburne Commons Janet Sherlund Jenny Slayton-Green Elizabeth Sleeper Small Friends on Nantucket St. Mary, Our Lady of the Isle Ella Stratman Audrey Sterk Jill Suprenant Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Merrielou Symes Anne Terry Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Judith Thayer Three C’s Painting Topper’s Town Triple Eight Distillery Phoebe Tudor Unitarian Universalist Meeting House UMass Field Station Val Oliver Design Geri Walker Lily Walker Timothy Walker Pam Waller WCAI Radio Weatherly Design Melanie Wernick Barbara White The White Elephant White Heron Theatre Company Judy Widger Kelly Williams Erin Wilson Patsy Wright Gretchen Wright Maria Zodda

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Philanthropy 2019 Trustees and Staff thank the many individuals, foundations, businesses, and corporations that so generously supported the NHA in 2019.

Annual Support

Mrs. Julie Jensen Bryan & Mr. Robert Bryan | Robert & Julie Jensen Bryan Gift Fund The NHA is grateful for the generous annual support received Paula & Bob Butler from memberships, donations to the Annual Fund, corporate Centre Pointe underwriting, grants, tribute gifts, and gifts for special programs, Laurie & Robert Champion | Henry exhibitions, and special events, including Nantucket by Design, Salvatori Family Foundation the Festival of Wreaths, the Festival of Trees, and the Flower Jenny & Wylie Collins Amanda B. Cross Power Party. Unrestricted operating funds nurture every aspect Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Diamond Jr. of the NHA—from the care of the properties and collections Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Duncan | Bruce and to the delivery of public programs and educational outreach.

Deborah Duncan Foundation Cumulative annual giving of $100 and above from these sources Nan & Chuck Geschke | The Geschke is reported for January 1 to December 31, 2019. All gifts to the Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Zenas Hutcheson III capital campaign are reflected on page 55.

James Robinson Inc Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Jean Doyen de Montaillou & Michael First Republic Bank $100,000 and up A. Kovner Mr. & Mrs. Graham C. Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Menschel | Liberty Street Foundation Charina Endowment Kaaren & Charles Hale | The Mr. & Mrs. William E. Little Jr. Fund | Charina Foundation Inc. Charles S. & Carmen DeMora Miriam Mandell | Samuel P. Mandell Hale Foundation $50,000 – $99,999 Foundation Carol† & Richard W. Lowry Ritchie Battle | Margaret Ritchie R. Marine Home Center Mrs. Ella W. Prichard Battle Family Charitable Fund Carla & Jack McDonald | Carla and ReMain Nantucket, LLC Connie & Tom Cigarran Jack McDonald Family Fund Laura & Bob Reynolds | Reynolds Kelly M. Williams & Andrew J. Forsyth Victoria McManus & John McDermott Family Foundation | The Williams Forsyth Family Fund Susan M. & Kennedy P. Richardson | Janet & Rick Sherlund The H. L. Brown Jr. Family Kennedy P. Richardson Fund Mr. & Mrs. Warren A. Stephens Foundation Dr. Margaret B. Ruttenberg & Mr. Melinda & Paul Sullivan Bonnie & Peter McCausland | The John C. Ruttenberg | The Derald H. Ms. Susan Zises Green | The Meyer & Ruttenberg Foundation McCausland Foundation Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Bonnie J. Sacerdote | Bonnie Kim & Finn Wentworth | Normandy FW LLC Johnson Sacerdote $10,000 – $19,999 Foundation | Anonymous $30,000 – $49,999 Peter M. Sacerdote Foundation Nancy & Doug Abbey Anne DeLaney & Chip Carver | Mr. & Mrs. Terry Sanford Patricia S. & Thomas J. Anathan Carver/DeLaney Families Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. Saul Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Gale H. Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Robert Stansky | Stansky Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Mrs. Mary Randolph Ballinger Family Fund Franci Neely | Franci Neely Mr. & Mrs. Harold J. Baxter | Baxter Merrielou & Ned Symes | Edward Foundation Family Foundation & Merrielou H. Symes Charitable Joseph & Tracy Roby | Sara Roby Pamela & Max Berry Fund Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William J. Boardman Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Taylor Phoebe & Bobby Tudor Anne Marie & Doug Bratton | Bratton Mr. & Mrs. Ladd Thorne Family Foundation $20,000 – $29,999 Mr. Jason A. Tilroe Mrs. Christina L. Brown | Owsley Susan Blount & Richard Bard | Susan Louise E. Turner | King-Evans Brown II Family Foundation, Inc. Blount & Richard Bard Charitable Charitable Lead Trust Fund

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$5,000 – $9,999 Aetna Foundation, Inc.-Matching Gifts Mrs. Susan D. Akers | Akers Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Clifford S. Asness Mr. & Mrs. Ben Barnes Dr. Patricia Nilles & Mr. Hunter Boll Boston Design Center Mr. Richard Bressler | Ajax Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Chris Brewster Mr. Donald A. Burns Mr. & Mrs. William R. Camp Jr. Chairish Mr. & Mrs. Felix T. Charney Chubb & Son, a div of Federal Insurance Co. Congdon & Coleman Insurance Mr. Marvin Davidson Mrs. Mary Davidson Ms. Alex DeAngelo Mr. John M. DeCiccio | John M. DeCiccio Charitable Fund Elizabeth Miller & James Dinan | The Dinan Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Dolente Emeritus Ana & Michael Ericksen Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Fowler Karyn McLaughlin Frist | Karyn McLaughlin Frist Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Mr. Michael Gerstein Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Giletti Barbara & Ed Hajim | The Hajim Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Hedberg Mr. & Mrs. Amos B. Hostetter Jr. Mrs. Wendy Hubbell | The Waldo Trust International Debutante Ball Mr. Carl Jelleme Diane Pitt & Mitch Karlin | Mitchell Karlin & Diane Pitt Charitable Fund Jill & Stephen Karp | Karp Family Foundation

Kathleen Hay Designs Diane & Art Kelly | The T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George B. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. S. Dillard Kirby Mr. & Mrs. Todd Knutson Mr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Lilly | River Road Foundation Sharon & Frank Lorenzo | Lorenzo Family Foundation Carolyn & Ian† MacKenzie Mottahedeh Mr. & Mrs. Craig H. Muhlhauser | The Muhlhauser Charitable Gift Fund The Nantucket Hotel & Resort Nantucket Looms Nantucket MusACKal LLC Sarah & Jeff Newton | Newton Family Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. John D. Nichols Jr. Northwestern Mutual Carter & Chris Norton Novation Media One Kings Lane Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Paduch Mr. & Mrs. Bradford Paul Liz & Jeff Peek | Peek Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. William M. Raveis Jr. River Road Foundation Mr. & Mrs. George Roach Mr. & Mrs. Francis Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Rubenstein Linda Saligman | The Linda & Harvey Saligman Charitable Foundation Mr. Joe Santo Susan R. & L. Dennis Shapiro | The Arzak Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Smialowski | The Joseph and Deidre Smialowski Philanthropy Fund Talon Air Garrett Thornburg | Thornburg Foundation Liz & Geoff Verney | The Gilbert Verney Foundation Suzy & Jack † Welch | John F. Welch Jr. Foundation Stephanie & Jay Wilson | Jay M. Wilson Fund Alisa & Alastair Wood Leslie W. Forbes & David D. Worth $2,500 – $4,999 Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate

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Audrey Sterk Design Mr. Robert E. Bagshaw, Jr. Janet & Sam Bailey | The Warrington Foundation Mr. David G. Berry BPC Architecture & Interior Design THE BRIGHT GROUP Mrs. Nancy Broll | Tompkins-Broll Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William C. Buck Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Cape Cod Five Foundation Carolyn Thayer Interiors Chip Webster Architecture Mrs. Martha W. Cox | Cox Foundation Prudence & William Crozier | Crozier Family Fund Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Dauterive Mr. & Mrs. Porter G. Dawson Donna Elle Design Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ebert | Ebert Charitable Foundation Mr. Joshua F. Eldred Eldred’s Auction Ms. Rhonda Eleish Mr. & Mrs. John W. Everets Mr. Nial Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Stuart C. Fiertz Fisher Real Estate Mrs. Kathy Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Galvin Mr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Gosnell Ms. Ashley P. Gosnell Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Grote Maureen & Jim Hackett | Hackett Family Foundation Ms. Carolyn Lamm & Mr. Peter Halle Hanna D. Monaghan Trust Amy & Brett Harsch | Harsch Family Charitable Fund Kim & Alan Hartman | The Hartman Family Foundation The Harvey Traveler Collection Hingham Institution for Savings Housefitters & Tile Gallery Wendy & Randy Hudson James Lydon, Sons & Daughters Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Jay Jobe Systems Inc Mr. & Mrs. John W. Johnson Joseph Olson Interiors Inc. Mrs. Kathryn L. Ketelsen Coco & Arie L. Kopelman Ms. Margaret Hallowell & Mr.

Stephen P. Langer Mr. Samuel Lehrman Diane & David Lilly | Peravid Foundation | R. C. Lilly Foundation Fund Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Macy Magellan Jets Ms. Holly Maisto Mark Cutone Architecture Mass Cultural Council Ashley & Jeff McDermott | The Ashley and Jeffrey McDermott Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin M. McGrath McKinnon & Harris Mrs. Betsy S. Michel | Jockey Hollow Foundation Monogram Appliances Moose Moss Nantucket Bank Nantucket Bank, a division of Rockland Trust Nantucket House Antiques & Interior Design Studio Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Mr. David Netto Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Owen | Owen Family Fund R Simantov Fine Jewelry Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Riggs Jr. Mrs. Nancy L. Romankiewicz | Romankiewicz Family Fund Ellen & David Ross | The Ross Foundation Ms. Sandra R. Holland & Mr. Alfred F. Sanford Sconset Gardener Mrs. Mary G. Farland & Mr. J. Donald Shockey Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers of Antiques & Fine Art Rev. Georgia A. Snell | Stillwaters Charitable Trust Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Spinelli Susan Lister Locke Gallery Kate Lubin & Glendon Sutton | Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation Mr. John R. Sylvia Tharon Anderson Design, LLC The Scout Guide Ms. Meredith A. Townsend Trianon/Seaman Schepps Waterworks Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Watkins

Mrs. Susan W. Weatherley $1,000 – $2,500 Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Leigh J. Abramson Mrs. Catherine Aguiar Mr. & Mrs. Scott Andersen The Andersen Company LLC Mrs. Tharon Anderson McEvoy Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Angelastro | Angelastro Family Charitable Fund Mrs. Mariann H. Appley Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Armstrong | Herbert D. Condie Jr. Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. David H. Barlow | David & Beverly Barlow Fund Bartlett’s Farm Ms. Jane Beasley Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bednar Mr. & Mrs. Gary Beller | The Gary A. & Carole P. Beller Family Fund Ms. Marlene J. Benson Mrs. Martha C. Berlin Mr. & Mrs. Armyan Bernstein BNY Mellon, Wealth Management Mr. & Mrs. James R. Boening Botticelli & Pohl, P.C. Mrs. Edith S. Bouriez Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Bovard Mr. & Mrs. David Bradt Mr. & Mrs. William S. Brenizer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Broadus III | The Broadus Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David S. J. Brown Mr. & Mrs. William H. Browne Ms. Jennifer Nassour & Mr. C. J. Brucato Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Brusca Mrs. Lissy Bryan Dr. Mary Fontaine & Dr. James Burruss Calista West Mr. & Mrs. D. H. Callahan Mrs. Louise Camuto Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines Cortney Chaite Cheney Brothers Building & Remodeling, LLC Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Chesley Mrs. Nancy F. Christopher Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Clapp III CMC Construction, LLC. Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Congdon Mrs. Christina C. Craighead

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PHILANTHROPY 2019 Cranberry Transportation/All Point Taxi & Tours Linda Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Kell Damsgaard Mr. & Mrs. John H. Davis Mr. George P. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Davis | Stephen A. Davis Fund Ms. Amy E. Hauk & Mr. Scott M. Dehm Mrs. Beth A. Dempsey Mr. & Mrs. Adam Devine Mr. Philip H. Didriksen Jr. Don Allen Auto Service, Inc. Ms. Margaret E. English & Mr. Mark Donato Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Donelan II Dr. & Mrs. Michael C. Duffy Mr. & Mrs. Brenton G. Durham Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Egan Eleish Van Breems Antiques Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Eskind | The Jane & Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Michael Farello Mr. & Mrs. Walter K. L. Ferguson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Filipski | Birch Lane Fund Mr. & Mrs. David Finley Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Fitzsimmons Ms. Marcia D. Weber & Mr. James B. Flaws Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Forman | The Forman Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Fox Mr. & Mrs. Chris Gagnier Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gaillard Julie & Cameron Gammill Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Georgantas Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Giovine Mr. & Mrs. Charles Goldstuck Mr. Leigh Goodwyn Mr. & Mrs. Brett Gordon Ms. Janice Hyland & Mr. Alan Granby Maria & Joseph Grause Robert F. Greenhill | Greenhill Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hale Mr. & Mrs. Jay M. Hammer Handy & Dallaire Events Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Harlan Hatch’s Package Store Mrs. Diana R. Hayden

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Mrs. Isabelle Georgeaux & Mr. Patrick Healy Heinz Family Foundation Mrs. Else Herman Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Higgins Donna & Christian Hoffman | Hoffman Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Holmes Hy-Line Cruises The Inquirer & Mirror The Islander Package Store Mrs. Elizabeth S. Jacobsen Ms. Susan Jemison Mr. Albert S. Messina & Mr. Ken L. Jennings Daintry & Julius (Reb)† Jensen Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Jordan Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Judy | The Judy Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Matthew H. Kamens Ms. Claire Fraser & Mr. Jack Kammer Mr. & Mrs. Douglass Karp Mr. & Mrs. John B. Keeshan Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Keith Mr. & Mrs. John J. Kennedy Ms. Robin Rednor & Mr. Robert V. Kennedy Mrs. Carol Kindler Mr. & Mrs. Adam W. Kirsch Ms. Martha L. Dippell & Mr. Daniel L. Korengold Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. LaRocco Mr. Christopher Larsen | Christopher Larsen Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. David Lashway Mr. & Mrs. Ernest J. Lawton III LeighDeux Leontine Linens Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Levy Mrs. Kathryn C. Lieb Lilly Pulitzer Dr. & Mrs. Keith M. Lindgren Mrs. Suzanne Lingeman | Lingeman Family Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Sandra M. Murphy & Mr. Charles W. Loeb Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Logan Mr. & Mrs. John W. Loose | Loose Family Charitable Fund Mrs. Helen Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Lynch M. Sweeney Construction Inc. Mr. Parke Madden Mr. & Mrs. Vincent A. Maffeo

Ms. Katherine Bucknell & Mr. Robert Maguire Main St. Construction Marc Yacone Electrical Mrs. Marilee Matteson | Marilee B. Matteson Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Bob McAleer Mr. & Mrs. Edward McCarthy Ms. Susan B. McCollum Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. McGowan Mr. & Mrs. Allan D. McKelvie Mr. & Mrs. Martin McKerrow Ms. Abigail P. Johnson & Mr. Christopher McKown | Christopher McKown & Abigail Johnson Fund Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. McMeen Ms. Patricia A. White & Mr. James F. Meehan Ms. Clare Casademont & Mr. Michael Metz Mr. & Mrs. Doug Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Miklos Mr. & Mrs. Peter deF. Millard Mr. & Mrs. Herbert B. Mittenthal Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Monahan Jr. Mrs. Joanne R. Murphy Nantucket Friends Meeting Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Pharmacy Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Nash Mr. Scott R. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Stephan F. Newhouse | S. and J. Newhouse Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. N. J. Nicholas Jr. | The Nicholas Family Fund Nicole Hogarty Designs Inc. Ms. Bernadette Nixon Sharon & David Northrup | Northrup Fund Mr. & Mrs. Alfred H. Novissimo Mr. & Mrs. Edwin W. Obrecht Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. Hardy Oliver Jr. Kathy & Angelo Orciuoli Ms. Susan Parker Mr. & Mrs. William Pate Ms. Ellen S. Flamm & Mr. Richard Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Phelan Melissa & Nat Philbrick Mr. & Mrs. Scott Pidcock Ms. Kristene F. Pierce Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Polachi Jr. Julia & Larry Pollock | Larry and Julia Pollock Family Philanthropic Fund

Ms. Imogen Pritchard Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Puff Jr. Ms. Karen W. Rainwater Mr. Andrew Law & Mr. David L. Rattner Ms. Elizabeth Reichert Mr. & Mrs. Harry T. Rein Mr. & Mrs. George M. Rich Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. Barton Riley | Gretchen & Jay Riley Gift Fund Mr. John F. Rinaldi Ms. Jill Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. F. Roberts Ms. Janet L. Robinson Ellen & Ken Roman Ms. Bonnie Roseman Marion & Robert† Rosenthal | The Marion & Robert Rosenthal Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James Russell Melanie & Robert † Sabelhaus Mr. & Mrs. William Z. Saltonstall | The Saltonstall Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. John D. Schaperkotter Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Schneider | Alison and Thomas Schneider Charitable Fund Ms. Donna K. Cooper & Mr. Karl H. Schulz | The Donna K. Cooper Charity Fund Ms. Penelope Scheerer & Mr. John R. Schwanbeck Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Schwed Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Serafini Thekla & Don Shackelford | The Shackelford Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Bruce A. Shear Ms. Mally Skok Mr. & Mrs. Erich C. Smith | Erich & Bonnie Smith Charitable Fund Mr. H. C. Bowen Smith Mrs. Lorraine C. Snell Kristy K. Snyder Mrs. Daisy M. Soros | Paul Soros Family Trust Polly & Richard Spencer Barbara & David Spitler | Osceola Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. John Stanton Mr. Tommy Stefanek Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Stein Mr. Peter C. Steingraber Ms. Janet L. Steinmayer Ms. Audrey Sterk Stover Engineering & Construction, Inc.

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Mr. & Mrs. Rich Sturchio Sylvia Antiques/Four Winds Craft Guild Mrs. Sandra H. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. William J. Thompson Ms. Rachel C. Hobart & Mr. Edward S. Toole Ms. Edie Van Breems Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Van Dyke II Hon. & Mrs. Paul E. Vardeman Mr. & Mrs. Rod Walkey Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ward Elizabeth & Peter Wareing | The Wareing Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. James B. Wayman | Wayman Family Charitable Trust Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Webb III Mr. & Mrs. William J. Welsh Mr. & Mrs. Pendleton White Mr. & Mrs. F. Brand Whitlock Mr. Robert A. Young Mr. & Mrs. Bracebridge H. Young Jr. Young’s Bicycle Shop Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zaffino Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey J. Zimmer $500 – $999 A Taste of Nantucket Ms. Serra Abramson Mr. & Mrs. Lee S. Ainslie III Ms. Sophie Massie & Mr. Charlie Alvis Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Ancona Ms. Carrie Culp & Mr. Don Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William H. Andrews III Mr. & Mrs. Frank Anton Mrs. Linda Arst Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Atchinson Mr. & Mrs. Louis Auletta Ms. Christy N. Wise & Mr. Robert Axelrod Mr. & Mrs. Barry Barksdale Mr. Brian Barnett Mr. Matt Baty The Beachside at Nantucket Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Beaugrand Mr. & Mrs. John W. Belash Linda Holliday & William S. Belichick Ms. Leanne M. Bell Ms. Mary A. Beman Jeanne & John Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Lee Black Mrs. Josette Blackmore Mr. & Mrs. James Bloomfield Mr. & Mrs. Robi Blumenstein † Deceased

Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Boesel Mr. & Mrs. Bill Bogle Mrs. Joan R. Bolling Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bonnet Mr. & Mrs. Alastair Borthwick Mr. & Mrs. James A. Bowditch | The Saint Paul Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David Boyce Ms. Sara B. Boyce Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Boylan Brass Lantern Inn Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan H. Brown Dr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Brown Ms. Kelley Laurel & Mr. Dan Brownell Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Butler Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Camalier III Ms. Katherine M. Grover & Mr. Michael J. Campbell Cape Cod Express, Inc. Mr. Joel Samuels & Mr. Richard Carlstrom Mr. & Mrs. Francis T. Carr Jr. Ms. Mary L. Cavanaugh Century House Mr. & Mrs. Peter Chalke The Chanticleer Restaurant & Gardens Mr. & Mrs. James Chapman Chatham Hill Investment Partnership Ms. Elizabeth K. Clyne Ms. Brenda M. Williams & Mr. Robert L. Coffin Ms. Honey Collins Ms. Suellen Ward & Mr. John Copenhaver Mr. & Mrs. James B. Cowperthwait Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Cozort Mr. & Mrs. Glenn M. Creamer Ms. Callahan Kever Cressman & Mr. Caleb Cressman Mrs. Carol M. E. Cross | Carol March Emerson Cross Fund Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Daisey Dr. & Mrs. David Dalury Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Danforth Ms. Amy Baldwin & Mr. Hugh Davis Linda & Dan de Menocal Ms. Jane Deery Kate & Jim Denny Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Dewez Ms. Penny Dey Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. DiMartino

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The Dobbert Companies Mrs. Dorinda Dodge Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Drake Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Drazen Mr. Adam Dread Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Driscoll Dr. & Mrs. William H. Druckemiller | The Druckemiller Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Dugas Dujardin Design Associates, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. James L. Dunlap Mr. & Mrs. William Einstein Ms. Karen Keane & Mr. Daniel D. Elias Ms. Donna Elle Mr. & Mrs. Douglass N. Ellis Jr. Mr. Dennis Erickson Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Ernst Ms. Nicole Evangelista Ms. Mary Beth Farrell Mrs. Trudy S. Dujardin & Mr. Frank Fasanella Mr. Robert D. Felch Ms. Carole Murko & Mr. Jim Finnerty Mr. David Fiorillo Mr. & Mrs. Randall Fojtasek Mr. Harris Doliner & Mr. Jay Foley Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Ford Mr. & Mrs. Alan M. Forster Four Winds Gifts, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Frary Mr. & Mrs. Buck French Mr. Brad Friedlander Mr. & Mrs. Steven Fuerst Ms. Louisa Blodgett & Mr. C. Meade Geisel Ms. Courtney Genovese Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. Gentner | The Kenneth & Claudia Gentner Charitable Giving Fund Mr. & Mrs. James Geraghty Nancy & Carl Gewirz † Dr. Debra Ann Gfeller & Mr. Michael Giaimo Ms. Christopher A. Glowacki Ms. Cheryl Woodford & Mr. Almond Goduti Dr. & Mrs. Elliot R. Goldberg Mr. Mark H. Gottwald Ms. Toby A. Greenberg Ms. Tamara Greenman Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Greenspon Diane & Jeff Groff

Ms. Mary G. O’Connell & Mr. Peter J. Grua Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Gudonis Ms. Cathi Guerrieri Mr. & Mrs. Brad Guidi Joan & Philip Gulley | The Gulley Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Hamilton, III Ms. Anne Hardy Ms. Barbara Harris Mrs. Beverly A. Harris Mrs. Lucile W. Hays Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Healey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Hebert Mr. Colin Heffron Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Herbst Dr. Ken Herman Ms. Eileen M. O’Gara & Mr. Kevin F. Hickey Mr. & Mrs. Peter D. Hicks Mr. & Mrs. Timothy B. Hidell Ms. Elin Hilderbrand Mr. & Mrs. Greg S. Hill Mr. Charles Hilton Ms. Schuyler Hinnant Mr. & Mrs. Rich Hjulstrom Mrs. Julia Hobart Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hogya Ms. Rose M. Gonnella & Mr. Frank Holahan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Hollister Mr. & Mrs. James R. Holt Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Hooper Jr. Ms. Sharon K. Horne Ms. Maureen Phillips & Dr. Douglas Horst Ms. Gale Hurd Ms. Joy H. Ingham J. Brown Builders Mr. Andrew Jacobson Ms. Katherine Jetter Mr. & Mrs. Evan Jones Dr. Simon S. Jones Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Joseph Ms. Hannah Judy Gretz Margaret & Eli † Kaufman Mr. & Mrs. Woodward A. Kay Ms. Fruzsina Keehn Kenneth C. Howard Electric, Inc. Ms. Patience E. Killen Ms. Carolyn M. Knutson Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Kotchen Mr. & Mrs. Eric Kraeutler

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PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. Robin Kramer Mr. & Mrs. William P. Kupper Jr. Miss Katherine Laffey Mrs. Nancy W. Lampe † Cynthia & Anthony Lamport | The Lamport Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. C. Charles Larner, III Mr. & Mrs. Scott LaShelle Ms. Eleanor Lasko Ms. Patricia M. Lassiter Carol † & John G. Lathrop Lauren Marttila Photography Lisa & Bruce Lawler Mrs. Virginia Laytham Leanne Bell/Gwen Beal GiveBack Account Mrs. Jill L. Leinbach Mr. & Mrs. Sal Lentini The Lenzner Family (Margaret, Terry, Emily, Jon, & William) Mr. & Mrs. Frederick N. Levinger Ms. Carol P. Searle & Mr. Andrew J. Ley Ms. Martha L. Berman & Mr. Robert I. Lipp Mrs. Victoria E. Girvan-LiPuma & Mr. Joseph P. LiPuma Ms. Susie L. Locke Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Longo Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Lucier Ms. Mary Luster Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Barry MacTaggart Madaket Marine Ms. Mary D. Malavase Sarah F. Alger & Bruce J. Malenfant Mr. W. C. Dwyer Maloney Mr. Robert Franklin & Mr. Charles Mappin Mr. & Mrs. Neil E. Marttila Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Massie Dr. Janine A. Matsko Mr. Housley Carr & Mr. Michael May Mr. William J. Richards & Mr. Gary S. McBournie Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. McCann Jr. Amy McGowan Michael McGowan Ms. Sarah McLane Mr. & Mrs. William McNabb, III Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Meister Mr. Justin Merola Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Meyers | Meyers Family Foundation

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Mr. & Mrs. William C. Miller IV Mr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Miller Ms. Eliza Miller Mr. Peter C. Moister | Peter Moister Donor Advised Fund Mr. & Mrs. Jack Molloy Ms. Siobhán O’Mahony & Mr. William M. Moore Ms. Loretta Moran Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Morin Mr. & Mrs. W. Christopher Mortenson Jr. Morgan & Allen Morton Ms. Charlotte Moss Mr. & Mrs. James R. Mulvihill Mr. & Mrs. William Murphy Nantucket Island Homes Nantucket Networks, Inc. Nantucket Painting Co. Mr. & Mrs. Roger Nastou Mrs. Scott A. Nelson Ms. Victoria Nevinny Ms. Hien Nguyen Mr. Paul Gaucher & Mr. Peter Niemitz Nina Hellman Antiques, Inc. OCB, LLC Mrs. Anne P. Olsen | Olsen Family Donor Advised Fund Mr. Thomas J. Kim & Mr. John F. Olson Mr. & Mrs. Mark F. O’Neil Ms. Monica O’Neil Ms. Maureen A. Orth Ms. Valerie J. Sherlock & Mr. Austin O’Toole Mr. & Mrs. Karl Ottison Ms. Joanne E. Sullivan & Mr. Neil Paterson Dr. E. Prather Palmer Karen & John Palmer Mr. & Mrs. William F. Paulsen Lesley & Girvin Peters Judith & Richard Phelan | Judith B. and Richard S. Phelan Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Phelan Mr. Carlos Portillo Rivera Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Pratter Mr. Erik Pulkkinen Ms. Michelle A. Cruz & Mr. Evan Peverley Ann & Christopher C. Quick Mr. & Mrs. John Riccio Dr. & Mrs. V. Bruce Rigdon

Roastd General Store Mrs. Robin Rodbell Mr. & Mrs. Peter E. Rodts Ms. Sarah Hanley & Mr. Malcolm J. Rohrbough Mrs. Cheryl Lynch-Romano & Mr. Joseph L. Romano Mr. & Mrs. David J. Ryan III Mr. Charles E. Ryan Mr. Charles Salem Sandcastle Construction, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Matthew S. Sanford Ms. Chloe Sanford Santos Rubbish Removal, Inc. Ms. Gayle A. Bridgman-Santucci & Mr. Joseph E. Santucci Sarah F. Alger, P.C. Mr. & Mrs. Cary M. Schwartz Schwartz Hannum Ms. Heather Reisman & Mr. Gerald W. Schwartz Mrs. Gretchen G. Schymik Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Scott Ivy & Fran Scricco Mrs. Michele Seass Ms. Heidi Cox & Mr. George Seyfert | Heidi Cox Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. David W. Sharpe Ms. Deborah J. Bryan & Mr. Norman Silberdick Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Simmons Ms. Julie A. Fitzgerald & Mr. Carl H. Sjolund Mr. & Mrs. Karl W. Slatoff Mr. & Mrs. Ben Smiles Ms. Mia Smith Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Soros Mr. & Mrs. John Sower Ms. Susan K. Spring Linda & William † Steelman Mrs. Remy S. Stressenger Studio 61 Mr. & Mrs. John Sussek III Mr. Allen Schuh & Mr. Jonathan C. Swain Mrs. Rose Tallman Mr. & Mrs. Peter Thomas The Tile Room Mrs. Judith C. Tolsdorf Mr. & Mrs. James O. Treyz Mrs. Carolyn D. Thayer & Mr. Steve Tuzik Twig Perkins, Inc. Ms. Diane Upright

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony C. Vale Mr. Anthony Vanaria Mr. & Mrs. K. Morgan Varner III Mr. & Mrs. Donald T. Visco Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Wackenhut Mr. & Mrs. Richard Walters Ms. Cesarina A. Templeton & Mr. Bruce Wheeler Mr. Harry W. Wilcox III Denele Willett Ms. Linda F. Williams Mr. & Mrs. F. Scott Wilson Ms. Sarah Winchester Mr. & Mrs. Michael Wodynski Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Wright III Ms. Kathleen A. Young & Mr. Brent B. Young Ms. Konstantina Zaras Ms. Carolyn Grant Zarrella & Mr. Ronald Zarrella $250 – $499 Anonymous Anne & Christopher Acker ACKtivities Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Affleck III Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albach Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Albani Ms. Joan P. Albaugh Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Allen Antiques Depot Mr. & Mrs. Eugene D. Atkinson Mr. Mark S. Avery Lindsey & Merrick Axel Ms. Leanne Baker Mr. & Mrs. Jonas Baker Mrs. Mary Beth Barkan Mr. & Mrs. Peter Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Bartram Mr. & Mrs. George Bassett Mr. & Mrs. Bruce B. Bates Mr. Jarrod Baumann Mr. & Mrs. Eric Baurmeister Mr. & Mrs. Scott Beardsley Katherine † & William Beattie Ms. Carla Kindt & Mr. William Beckett Mr. Allan D. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Craig Beni Ms. Emily Bernard Mr. & Mrs. William Birch Mr. & Mrs. James Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Bocage Mrs. Elaine M. Boehm

PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. & Mrs. Roger M. Bogin Ms. Ann P. Bond BORREGAARD HOME Ms. Ellen Bowman Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Bowman | The Bowman Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Boynton Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Bradford Brant Point Inn Mr. Alexander Brash Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Braunohler Mr. Todd Broad Ms. Anna Brockway Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Bullock Mr. & Mrs. Coleman P. Burke Ms. Laura Burnett Peggy & Grant Cambridge Mrs. Barbara J. Capizzo Mr. & Mrs. James D. Carey Mr. & Mrs. George U. Carneal Mr. & Mrs. Kim J. Cassady | Cassady Charitable Gift Account Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Caulfield Mr. John C. Chadbourne Ms. Viola Chaloupkova Ms. Pamela V. H. Clark Ms. Dorinda Yates & Mr. Alfred Coffin Ms. Sarah Colbert Mr. & Mrs. William R. Congdon Mrs. Marion R. Conley Ms. Patricia Connolly Mr. Laurence Conway Ms. Kimberly C. Corkran Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Coscia Ms. Courtney Cotter Mr. & Mrs. John F. Cregan Ms. Karin J. Crooks Mrs. Cynthia Cross | John & Cynthia Cross Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Timothy G. Crowley Cruising Club of America Ms. Patrice Cuddy Mr. & Mrs. Andrew G. Cuneo Current Vintage Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Daley Dr. & Mrs. John D’Avella Dr. Susan Decoste Ms. Mary E. Ivey & Mr. Charles G. Del Signore Denby Real Estate Mr. & Mrs. Alan Deombeleg Mr. & Mrs. David S. Deutsch Mr. Robert Devine Mr. & Mrs. Peter DiCristofaro

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Mr. & Mrs. James B. Digney Mrs. Lucille DiGravio Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dockerty Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Donahue Driftwood Construction, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Eichler Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Emery Mr. William Emery The Enjoy Company Mrs. Barbara Erskine Mr. & Mrs. William Evans Mr. & Mrs. Tim Feeney Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fellon | Stephanie & Drew Fellon Fund Mrs. Mary Ellen Ferrel & Mr. John Heaps Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Finn Ms. Anne H. Fitzpatrick Flowers on Chestnut Forme Barre Fitness Mr. & Mrs. Don Freedman Freedman’s of Nantucket Mr. & Mrs. Stuart W. Freilich Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin C. Frick Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Friel Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Frisbie Sr. Ms. Kate C. Stout & Mr. Pete N. Funkhouser G. S. Hill Gallery Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gaito Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Gallagher Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gardner Jr. Mr. Denis H. Gazaille Mr. & Mrs. David Gee Ms. Suzann Johnson & Dr. Art Gertel Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Gewirtz Mr. & Mrs. Whitney A. Gifford Mr. Peter Ginn Glyn’s Marine, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Eric Goddard Mr. James Godec Ms. Bee D. Gonnella Mr. Herbert W. Goodall III Mr. & Mrs. Theodore B. Goodnow Mr. & Mrs. John B. Goodwin Jr. Mrs. Ellie Gottwald Ms. Tracey Grace Mr. & Mrs. Frank Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Greenberg Ms. Bethany Greene Greenwood Alarm & Key Company Mr. & Mrs. Charles Griffith

Deborah Lewis & Bob Grinberg Mrs. Lucia Gumaer Mr. & Mrs. Graham Gund Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Gutman Mr. & Mrs. Ryan N. Hagglund Mr. & Mrs. Nick Hahn Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Haines Mr. Rick Hajjar Dr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Hakes Sally & Brooks Hall Ms. Susan Handy Mr. & Mrs. Eldridge C. Hanes Mr. Mark S. Harmsen Mrs. Janie Harper Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Hart Mr. & Mrs. Khaled S. Hashem Mr. William Heffern Ms. Leslie J. Heiden Mr. & Mrs. Schuyler K. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Mason C. Heydt Mr. Carlos Hidalgo Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Holdgate Mr. & Mrs. Don Hinkley Ms. Ashley Hirsh Mrs. Mary Margaret Holmes Ms. Lisa Wohlleib & Mr. Seth Hoogasian Dr. & Mrs. Bruce D. Hopper Hostetler Gallery Mr. & Mrs. William P. Hourihan Jr. Ms. Ellen Hubbard Mrs. Sharon Hubbard & Ms. Stephanie Hubbard Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Huertas Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hulme Ms. Susan Mabile & Mr. David A. Hundt Island Custom Builders Island Properties Islandwide Realty Mr. Almon W. Ives Ivy Wealth Management Ms. Jessica Jenkins Mr. Irakli Jibladze Ms. Fabrizia Macchiavelli & Mr. Clifford Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Johnson Mr. Chris Jones Mr. & Mrs. Bardwell Jones Ms. Catherine C. Jones Ms. Janet B. Joy Mr. & Mrs. John D. Kann Mr. Robert M. Kaye Ms. Karen Keelan

Mr. Paul W. Keeshan Mr. & Mrs. Dennis J. Keller | The Keller Family Foundation Jim & Sharon Kelley Mr. Joseph D. Gioe & Mr. Stephen T. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. David J. Kenney Kate & Chris Kling Mr. Sandy Kohner Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Kotalac Jr. Mrs. Jillian Hagen-Kovach & Dr. Jeffrey D. Kovach Mr. & Mrs. James S. Kozera Hon. & Mrs. Edward T. Krumeich II Ms. Pamela S. LaFontaine Ms. Mary Walsh & Mr. Allan LaFrance Ms. Louise W. Lamphere Mr. & Mrs. J. Hicks Lanier Mrs. Doris E. B. Lanigan Mr. Charlie Larner Irma & Talbert Lauter Le Languedoc Bistro Mr. & Mrs. Larry LeCain Mr. Theodore Lee LegaSea Raw Bar Co. Lemon Press Market LLC Mr. & Mrs. Charles Lenhart Dr. & Mrs. James Levin Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Levy Ms. Memrie M. Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Steve Lisk Mr. & Mrs. John Lochtefeld Mr. & Mrs. Ian K. Loring Mr. & Mrs. William R. J. Lothian Mr. James E. Lydon Ms. Mary-Adair Macaire Mr. Ian MacArthur Dr. Malcolm & Karen MacNab Ms. Sarah A. Maneikis Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Manus Mr. Bill Marasco Ms. Diane Margison Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Marino Mr. & Mrs. Philip Marks Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Martin Martin House Inn Ann & Dennis Marvin Ms. Linda A. Mason Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Mastain Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Chris Matthews | Matthew Family Charitable Fund Ms. Ann B. Maury Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. McGill III Mr. & Mrs. Peter McGrail

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PHILANTHROPY 2019 Ms. Sandra J. Medallis & Mr. Thomas B. McGrath Mr. & Mrs. Eugene G. McGuire Dr. & Mrs. James R. McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Gregory E. McKechnie Mr. & Mrs. Bill McKiernan Mr. & Mrs. Edward M. McNamara Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Meyer Jr. Mr. & Mrs. F. Duffield Meyercord Ms. Lisa Michel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Middleton | Middleton Family Fund Mr. & Mrs. Richard Millard Mr. & Mrs. Carter Mills Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Milone Mr. & Mrs. Keith Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Earl B. Mix III Moore Woodworking Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Moran Ms. Mary F. Wawro & Mr. Peter A. Morrison Ms. Sonya E. Keene & Mr. John T. Moy Ms. Helene Patterson & Mr. Leo Mullen Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Munn Pamelee & Ray Murphy | Murphy Family Fund Nantucket Architecture Group, Ltd. Nantucket Catering Company Nantucket Coffee Roasters / The Bean Nantucket Culinary Center Nantucket Frameworks Nantucket Fusion Inc. Nantucket Inn Nantucket Office Products Mr. & Mrs. Eloy L. Nava Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Nelson Mr. Ronald M. Neumunz Mr. & Mrs. R. James Nicholson Ms. Ellen Niven Mrs. Elizabeth Nolan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Nottebohm Ms. Katherine Logue & Mr. Jonathan Nyland Ms. Bethany Oliver & Mr. Sean Oberly Ms. Elizabeth Hunt & Mr. Edward O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Timothy O’Brien Mrs. Katharine S. O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Rafael E. Osona Mr. & Mrs. John F. Otto Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David R. Owens

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Mrs. Patrice A. Passaro Mr. W. Robert Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Peacock Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Pearson Mr. & Mrs. James A. Perelman Ms. Martha Perry Mrs. Teressa G. Perry | Teressa Perry Charitable Gift Fund Mr. & Mrs. Robert Petrini Ms. Annette F. Picerne Placesetters, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Neil Planzer Poets Corner Press Mr. & Mrs. Donald Pongrace Mr. & Mrs. David Powell Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Powell Ms. Judith Powers Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Powers Powers Landscaping Inc. PPX Events Mr. Gene M. Pranzo Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Prohaska Ms. Emma Pykosz Ms. Kathleen Fennell & Ms. Victoria Rakov Ms. Kristina Ralkova Mr. & Mrs. Craig L. Raphaelson Ms. Susan Raphel Mr. & Mrs. Russell Ray Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Richards Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence G. Rief Ms. Randy Rios Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Ripp Mr. Bradley Roberts Mr. Broocks Robertson Ms. Maureen Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Roblin Mr. & Mrs. David Roby Rockland Trust Mr. & Mrs. W. Steven Roethke Mr. & Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Nicholas Rorick Mr. & Mrs. Gregory S. Rowland Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ruettgers Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ruley Mr. Ryan M. Runstadler Ms. Elizabeth Ruprecht Ms. Lisa Gustavson & Mr. Chris Sales Kathryn P. Salmanowitz Mrs. Christine Sanford Mr. & Mrs. John R. Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Dan Schrauth Ms. Hana Schuster

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Schutt Ms. Judith F. Lee & Mr. Robert Schwarzenbach Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Schweizer Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John W. Scott The Scrimshander Gallery Mr. Gary Searle Mr. & Mrs. Hercules Segalas Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Shanahan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Shaver | The Shaver Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David J. Shea Mr. William J. Sheehan Ms. Mary H. Gilmour & Mr. Dix C. Shevalier Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. Shipley III Mr. Christopher Sigg Simply With Style Catering Dr. Paul Sklarew Mr. & Mrs. Fredric C. Slater Mr. & Mrs. Phillips G. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Karl Smith Ms. Cynthia O. Smyth Ms. Penny F. Snow Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Snyder Ms. Anne E. Rosen & Mr. Andre M. Spears Mrs. Deborah D. Speer Ms. Katherine T. Wood & Mr. David T. Sprouls Mr. & Mrs. John J. Stackpole Dr. & Mrs. Gary Staples Ms. Valerie Stauffer Mr. & Mrs. Harald S. Stavnes Mr. & Mrs. Paul Steinfurth Mrs. Sarah T. Stephenson Mr. & Mr. Timothy Stevens Mrs. Joly W. Stewart Ms. Michelle L. Alexander & Mr. Carter Stewart Mrs. Wendy S. Stone Craig & Marcia Strehlow Ms. Darla C. Stuckey Ms. Mary T. Krueger & Mr. Peter Sullivan Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Susan M. Warner Catering Swain’s Travel Mr. & Mrs. Greg Swart Mr. & Mrs. Louis R. Sweatland Jr. Ms. Katrina Swihart Mr. & Mrs. Manuel R. Sylvia Jr. Mr. Robert I. Sylvia Mr. James Tartamella Liza & Rocky Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. R. Scott Taylor Mrs. Linda R. Taylor Ms. Devon White & Mr. Cameron Texter Mr. & Mrs. George M. Thom Jr. Mr. David R. Janero & Mr. Jeffrey A. Thomson Mr. Kyle R. Thornton-Lamp & Mr. Michael D. Thornton-Lamp Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Timon Mr. & Mrs. David C. Todd Ms. Kimberly Roy & Mr. Christopher G. Tofalli Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey G. Tolsdorf | Tolsdorf Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Townsend, III Mr. & Mrs. James T. Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Byron Trott Mr. & Mrs. Isaiah Truyman Mr. Joseph Olson & Mr. Clay Twombly Mr. Juan Uribe Mr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Vieth Vis-A-Vis Ms. Barbara H. von der Groeben Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Wagner Ms. Kimberly K. Walin Mrs. Pamela P. Waller Mr. & Mrs. Tom S. Ward Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Ward Mr. & Mrs. William Warren Mr. & Mrs. Patrick S. Wayland Mr. & Mrs. Bob Weiler Mr. & Mrs. H. Thomas Weinhardt Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Weinroth Mrs. Nicolette Wernick Dr. & Mrs. John C. West Miss Joy Westrum Carolyn Wells & Frank White Mr. & Mrs. Stuart H. Whitlock Mrs. Janice C. Wiesen Mr. Hutton Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Jason Harman Mr. & Mrs. William R. Wilson Ms. Erin Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Ben Woodbury Mr. Devon Wright Ms. Lisa Wroe Yellow Productions Mr. & Mrs. Steve Yelon Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Young Mrs. Margot T. Young Ms. Lucinda E. Young Mr. Scott Widmeyer & Mr. Alan Yount Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Zarcone

PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. & Mrs. Jon H. Zehner Zero Main $100 – $250 Anonymous (8) Mr. & Mrs. Dan Abrahamsen Mr. & Mrs. John Addeo Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ahern Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Ahnemann Ms. Susan I. Stackpole & Mr. Dominick Alberino Mr. & Mrs. George T. Albrecht Mr. & Mrs. Nathan R. Allen Jr. Ms. & Ms. Karen Allman American Postal Worker Union AFL- CIO, Cape Cod Area Local #6005 Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Anderson | Stephen & Marcia Anderson Fund Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. William Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Merrick Andlinger Mr. & Mrs. Marcus Ansell Mr. & Mrs. Sandy Apgar Ms. Janice E. Ellsworth & Mr. Drew Arent Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Arnao Mr. Hayden Arnot Dr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Arvay Mr. Leo C. Asadoorian Mr. Alan F. Atwood Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Austin III Mr. & Mrs. Allan D. Austin Mrs. Kathy Garre-Ayars & Mr. Thomas Ayars Ms. Susan Ayd Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Bailey Mrs. Anne D. Bailliere Mr. & Mrs. James Baisley Mr. & Mrs. Bill Baldassano Vice Admiral & Mrs. John A. Baldwin USN Ret Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. R. Ballard Dr. Valerie J. Hunt & Mr. James Ballway Ms. Judy C. Baltimore Dr. Caroline Baltzer Ruth C. Baltzer Mr. & Mrs. Cliff L. Barber Ms. Eileen P. Gebrian & Mr. Timothy J. Barberich Mr. Thomas C. Barnes Mr. Curtis L. Barnes Mr. Richard G. Barnes Mr. & Mrs. William H. Barney III Mrs. Katherine Barney † Deceased

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Bartholdson Ms. Susan M. Cosper & Mr. Brian K. Bartlett Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Basilevsky Mr. & Mrs. John S. Beale Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bean Mr. & Mrs. David A. Beardsley Ms. Christina Becker-Birck Mr. Bruce Behrens Ms. Esther Beilenson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Belair Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Belford Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Bell Dr. Gail A. McGuinness & Dr. William Bell Ms. Michelle Belliveau Ms. Carol Bellmaine Mr. & Mrs. Andy Bender Mr. Bruce Beni Mr. & Mrs. Douglas L. Bennett Mr. & Mrs. James S. Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Brian Berger Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Berger Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Berglund Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. Berman Ms. Katie Lacey & Mr. David S. Berson Mr. Chris Bianco Ms. Beverly M. Hall & Mr. David L. Billings Ms. Tracey Bilski Mr. Carlin Binder Ms. Clara Bingham Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Birge III Sandi & Robert Blanda Ms. Cristina Blank Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bloomstone Ms. Nikoline Bohr Paulette & Fred Boling Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Bollam Ms. Karina Borja Ms. Jane Bourette Mr. Whitfield C. Bourne Mr. & Mrs. James Boutot Dr. & Mrs. Jay Bradner Ms. Audra Bradstreet Dr. & Mrs. Michael Bralower Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. M. Brannock Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bransfield Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bratton Mr. Larry P. Breakiron Mr. & Mrs. Allen H. Breed Mr. & Mrs. James H. Breed Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Bresette Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bresler

Mrs. Patricia M. Bridier Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Bridier Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Brightbill Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Briskman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Brome Mr. & Mrs. Haworth P. Bromley Ms. Margaret Spencer & Mr. Greg Brousseau Ms. Kim Brown Marsha Hall Brown & Robert S. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Brown Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Bub Ms. Mugs Buckley Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Buechle Ms. Sarah C. Bullard Mr. and Mrs. Dareen Bult Ms. Barbara E. Bund Mr. & Mrs. Greg Burkus Mr. & Mrs. Michael Burns Mr. & Mrs. Tom Burvis Mr. & Mrs. Curt Burwell Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Busher Ms. Ellen B. Mitchell & Mr. Charles Byrne Mr. & Mrs. Barry Byrne Ms. Nicole Cadle Ms. Elizabeth B. Wooding & Mr. Kenneth L. Cady Mr. John F. Calabrese Mr. & Mrs. Lee Calhoon Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Callahan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Callen Ms. Alice J. Campbell Mrs. Nancy Weeks-Cantone & Mr. Greg Cantone Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Caplan Mr. & Mrs. Chris Caponigro Dr. & Mrs. Peter O. Carey Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Carini Mrs. Catherine C. Peters-Carle & Mr. Raymond E. Carle Mr. & Mrs. Erik Carneal Ms. Alicia Carney Mr. John B. Carroll Mr. & Mrs. Joe Carrolo Ms. Liz Weiss & Mr. Tim Carruthers Ms. Amy C. Kossnar & Mr. Alejandr Carvajal Mrs. John Cashman Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Caspe Mr. & Mrs. Erik Caspersen Cassady Charitable Gift Account Mrs. Susan H. Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. D. Jan Cella

Ms. Dora Cerrutti Ms. Kathryn S. Chadwick Mrs. Virginia G. Chambers Ms. Carolyn J. Durand & Mr. Benjamin Champoux Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Chan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Charbonneau Mr. & Mrs. Edward Chase Ms. Annette Sugden & Mr. Dale Chatwin Mr. & Mrs. David Churbuck Mr. & Mrs. Don Claffey Mr. & Mrs. Laurance R. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Herbert T. Clark III Mr. William H. Clendenen Mr. & Mrs. John S. Clifford Mr. Richard Clifford Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Coblentz Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Coffin Mr. & Mrs. Louis D. Coffin Ms. Brenda J. Coffin Mr. & Mrs. John Coffin Mrs. Helen S. Coffin Ms. Victoria Myers & Mr. Michael Coggins Ms. Barbara G. Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Steven P. Colao Ms. Laurie A. Margolies & Mr. Fernando C. Colon Osorio Mr. Geoffrey Combs Mr. & Mrs. Michael Comeau Ms. Nicole Condit Mr. & Mrs. Philip G. Condon Mr. & Mrs. John T. Connelly Jr. Mr. Paul K. Connolly Mr. & Mrs. Laurence G. Constable Mr. & Mrs. Anthony M. Contratto Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Conway Mr. & Mrs. James A. Conz Mr. & Mrs. Chad Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coppola Mr. & Mrs. Andy Corry Ms. Karen R. Costantini Mr. & Mrs. Frederick O. Cowles Mrs. Fredrika V. Cox Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Crampton Ms. Darcy Creech Ms. Lindsay R. Cressman Mr. & Mrs. Asher Crispe Ms. Jenny L. Byrd & Mr. Tyson L. Crouch Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Crowley Colleen Cullen Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Curren

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PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. & Mrs. Vincent D’Agostino Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Daly Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Damashek Mr. & Mrs. Linwood E. Dame Ms. Jennifer L. Eckert & Mr. Richard A. D’Amore Mrs. Jean † & Dr. Richard A. Dapra Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Darling Mrs. Eden Davies Ms. Sarah Davis Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Davis Ms. Kristen Hawkeswood & Mr. Matthew S. Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Brett W. Dean Debra Blair Design LLC Ms. Margaret Debrot Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Deck Dr. Joanne Woodle & Mr. John DeGennaro Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan W. Delano Mr. & Mrs. Brady Demarest Mr. & Mrs. W. Chris Dentiste Mr. & Mrs. Paul DePriest Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Destafano Mrs. Susan M. Deutsch Ms. Rachel L. Devine Ms. Roslyn L. Diamond Mrs. Elaine Dias Ms. Karen Summers & Mr. Robert Dick Mrs. Bridget Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Vic DiGravio Ms. Giovanna DiRusso Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Dobies Mr. Gerald H. Crown & Mr. Paul J. Dobrowolski Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Dolan Mr. Tripp Donelan Dr. & Mrs. Jeff Donnelly Ms. Dennie Doran Mr. & Mrs. John J. Dorsey Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. Dowling, Esq. Ms. Susan Halley & Mr. Robert Dowsett Mrs. Mary V. Drew Mrs. Mary M. Duffin Mr. & Mrs. James Duffy III Mr. Robert Duker Ms. Michele Dwyer Ms. Lisa Dwyer Ms. Susan Eelman Mr. Timothy Ehrenberg & Mr. James Scheurell Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Eiden Mary & David Eklund

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Elevin Photography Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Elkman Ms. Michelle Elzay Dr. Alice F. Emerson Ms. Mary Ellen Gaw & Mr. John P. Emert Danielle England Mr. Carl D. England Jr. Dr. Anne T. Englot & Mr. Peter T. Englot Ms. Laurel A. Coben & Mr. Travis F. Epes Mr. & Mrs. Adam Epstein Mr. & Mrs. Nelson V. Erickson Ms. Jeanne Esti Ms. Barbara M. Vanderbilt & Mr. John W. Evans Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Evarts Ms. Susan Fairgrieve Mr. & Mrs. Timothy G. Fallon Mrs. Maia Farish Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Farrell Mr. & Mrs. Douglas P. Faucette Dr. & Mrs. David P. Faxon Mr. & Mrs. Matt Fee Ms. Rebecca A. Fellerman Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Ference-Gray Ms. Laetitia J. Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Willard B. Ferris Mr. Glenn Figurski Mr. & Mrs. John S. Fink Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Fischer Mrs. Joan J. Fisher Ms. Wendy L. Coffin & Mr. Peter A. Flanigan Mr. & Mrs. Samuel A. Flax Ms. Joanne A. McCaffrey & Mr. William E. Floring Mr. & Mrs. William M. Folberth III Mr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Folger Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Fossen Mrs. Jeannette S. Fowlkes | The Jeannette S. Fowlkes Charitable Donor Fund Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Fox Ms. Liza R. Fox Ms. Paula Gold & Mr. Douglas Foy Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fraga Dr. Stuart Frank Ms. Nancy J. Kyle & Mr. John B. Fraser Dr. & Mrs. John P. Fraunfelder Mr. & Mrs. Dalton T. Frazier Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier Mr. & Mrs. Emory B. Freeman

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Freytag Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Friedman Ms. Christine Frost Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Furtado Mr. & Mrs. Santo Galatioto Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Gambee Ms. Kathleen E. Gamblin Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Gannon Mr. & Mrs. William L. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. William B. Garfield Mr. & Mrs. Gary B. Garofalo Ms. Sarah Gault Ms. Karen Ketterer & Mr. Paul Gaynor Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Geer Mr. & Mrs. Richard Geiger Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gemis Mr. & Mrs. Louis R. Gennaro Dr. Louise I. Schneider & Dr. John D. Genova Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Geoghegan Mr. & Mrs. Nick Germino Ms. Nancy Gerstman Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ghirardelli Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Gifford III Mr. & Mrs. Peter N. Gilbreth Ms. Peggy Gilfoy Mr. & Mrs. Joshua R. Gillenson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gillespie Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Godwin Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Goldman Mr. & Mrs. John N. Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Goldsmith Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Goldstein Ms. Madalyn L. Mann & Mr. Robert C. Goldszer Ms. Virna Gonzalez Dr. & Mrs. Jordan Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Eugene W. Goodwillie Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Gorham Dr. Maria Smith & Dr. Thomas Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Gosh Mr. & Mrs. Anthonie Goudemond Ms. Melanie Gowen Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Grabos Mr. & Mrs. John A. Graf Mr. & Mrs. William H. Graham Jr. Ms. Kristin Graham Ms. Judith Deutsch & Mr. Norman Graham Dr. & Mrs. Peter Grape Mr. & Mrs. Henry Grazioso Ms. Pamela Sunaway & Mr. Cornelius J. Grealy

Ms. Stacey W. Stuart & Mr. Peter J. Greenhalgh Mr. & Mrs. Laurence W. Green Mr. & Mrs. John S. Greenebaum Ms. Caroline Gregory Mr. Matthew Gregory Mr. & Mrs. William E. Grieder Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Garth A. Grimmer Ms. Donna Groskoph Mrs. Sarah E. Turner & Mr. Jonathan Gross Mr. & Mrs. William Guardenier Ms. Simone Habermeyer Mr. & Mrs. Victor P. Haley Mr. Joseph P. Haley Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hall Ms. Karen Avrich & Mr. Mark Halperin Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Halsell III Barbara & Jerry Hamelburg Ms. Jennie Voorhees & Mr. Michael J. Hamill Mr. & Mrs. William Hamlen Mrs. Janet MacKay-Hanlon & Mr. Francis Hanlon Ms. Meredith Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harde Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Hardy Ms. Eileen Harkness Mr. & Mrs. C. Steven Harkness Mr. J. Craig Hawkins & Mr. Stan E. Harvey Mr. & Mrs. George T. Hathaway Mr. & Mrs. Christian W. E. Haub Mr. & Mrs. Robert Havery Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Haydock Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Headley Mr. John M. Heggem Ms. Anita Heinstadt Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hemmer Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Henderson Mrs. Carol T. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Ned C. Hentz Ms. Susan Herman Mr. & Mrs. Ray Herndon Ms. Sandra A. Urie & Mr. Frank F. Herron Ms. Mariana Hersum Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Heyda Mr. & Mrs. Eugene B. Hilzenrath Ms. Grace S. Hinkley Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Hodge Mr. & Mrs. Dawson Hodgson Mr. & Mrs. Philipp Hofmann Mr. Zachary Hogan

PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. & Mrs. Eric S. Holch Mrs. Judith K. Holding Mr. & Mrs. Hudson Holland III Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Holland Dr. & Mrs. Erno Hollo Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holt Mrs. Carolyn Holt Mr. & Mrs. David Hooper Mr. & Mrs. John P. † Horgan Dr. & Mrs. William E. Horgan Mrs. Marion W. Horner Ms. Karen Hornick Ms. Tyrrell Flawn & Dr. John P. Howe Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hoyt Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Hull Mrs. Eileen Hulnick Mrs. Maris S. Humphreys Mrs. Hayden Hurley Mr. & Mrs. Burton C. Hurlock Mr. Scott G. Huston Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Hutchison III Ms. Julie Hynek Ms. Sandra Ingrish Gail & Ron Irving Mr. & Mrs. Richard Irwin Mr. and Mrs. John A. Isakson Ms. Anne H. Isbister Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Jacobs Ms. Ann Martindale & Mr. Stephen D. Jacobs Mr. & Mrs. Ethan B. Jacoby Ms. Susan E. O’Connell & Mr. Stephan T. Jaeger Mr. & Mrs. David M. Jagger Mr. & Mrs. Brad Jancik Jane Ameth Tyler Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Jasaitis Mr. & Mrs. Duggan A. Jensen Jewish Federation of Cleveland Ms. Laurie Jobe Mr. & Mrs. John G. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. M. Carl Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. Bertyl V. Johnson Ms. Linda S. Johnson Mr. Eric R. Johnson Mr. Harvey C. Jones Jr. Ms. Lucille A. Jordan Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Kahn Mr. & Mrs. Kevin G. Kalman Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kalmbach Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert B. Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. John Karnash Mr. & Mrs. David G. Kaytes † Deceased

Ms. Mary Chlopecki & Mr. Mike Kearney Mr. Floyd E. Kellogg Mr. & Mrs. John M. Kellogg Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Brandon D. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Kelly Ms. Kathleen Cannon & Mr. Brian Kelly Mrs. Lydia Zinzi Kennelley & Mr. Mark Kennelley Mr. & Mrs. Peter Keogh Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kern Ms. Katherine Thorpe & Mr. Terrance Kerr Mr. & Mrs. Carl Kester Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Killian Ms. Karen King Nina & David King Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Kingham Mr. & Mrs. T. Barry Kingham Mrs. Virginia Kinney Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin E. Kinney Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth N. Kinsley Dr. James T. Kirk, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kiss Ms. Lori Klinger Ms. Amy Knapp Dr. & Mrs. R. Frederic Knauft Mr. & Mrs. Adam Kocoloski Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Koenig Mr. & Mrs. Jacob H. Korngold Ms. Kimberly Stiner & Mr. Demian Kosofsky Mr. Arete Kostopolous Mrs. Barbara E. Kotalac Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffry I. Kramer Dr. & Mrs. Peter F. Krogh Ms. Norma Goldman & Mr. Loren H. Kroll Ms. Denice Kronau Mr. & Mrs. Chris Kryder Ms. Olivia Lovelace & Mr. Kenneth Kubie Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Kunkel Ms. Lisa Todd & Mr. Robert Kurtz Mr. Paul La Paglia Ms. Nancy Gillespie & Mr. Ulrich Lachler Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lacoursiere Ms. Beth Laffey Mr. & Mrs. Edward V. Lahey Jr. Ms. Laurie Lamoureux Mr. Doug F. Lampson Mr. and Mrs. Kristin Landry

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Lane Mr. & Mrs. Keith LaRue Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Lash Mr. & Mrs. Brandon D. Lawrence Elizabeth Yerxa Layton Ph.D. Ms. Alison Barr & Mr. Michael Lazerwitz Mr. & Mrs. William E. Learnard Mr. & Mrs. John G. Leddy Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lee Mrs. Amarilice Lefton Mr. & Mrs. David J. Leggett Rev. & Mrs. John M. Leggett Mrs. Carol E. LeGray Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Leighton Mr. & Mrs. Atul Lele Mr. & Mrs. George P. Lencyk Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Lesko Ms. Lauren G. Letendre Mr. & Mrs. Larry S. Levine Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Levine Ms. Greeley Sachs & Mr. Seth Levine Mr. & Mrs. Ronald J. Levy Ms. June F. Delp & Mr. Geoffrey J. Levy Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Lewis Dr. & Mrs. Albert G. Liddell Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Liddy Dr. & Mrs. Carl Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Stevan Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Christopher G. Lindgren Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Lindsay Ms. Georgie Lindstrom Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lisi Ms. Vicki Livingstone Dr. Susan G. S. Anderson & Mr. Daniel H. Llewellyn Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Lochner Jr. Mrs. Pamela F. Lohmann Ms. Sue A. MacNaughton & Mr. Richard T. Lohr Ms. Mary Longacre Mrs. Gay Lord Trivia & Jim Lowe Ms. Sherry C. Lowe Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Lowy Ms. Giovanna Lucy Mr. & Mrs. David A. Lund Ms. Noelle Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Lyons Ms. Tracy MacDonald Ms. Jan MacDonnell Mr. and Mrs. Dual A. Macintyre Mr. & Mrs. William Q. MacLean Mr. & Mrs. John MacLeod

Mr. Angus MacLeod Ms. Dana Chryst & Mr. Kevin D. MacNeil Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Macy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Macy Ms. Andrea Madeiros Ms. Stephanie D. Maffeo Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Maggio Mr. & Mrs. Edwin B. Mahoney Mr. & Mrs. Robert Maier Ms. Valerie Malinowski Ms. Catherine T. Maloney Mr. & Mrs. Lee Manners Mr. & Mrs. Paul Manning Mr. & Mrs. Mark Marache Mr. & Mrs. James M. Marinelli Mr. & Mrs. John D. Marques Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Martin Mr. & Mrs. Charles Martucci Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Mason Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Mason Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mass Mr. & Mrs. Michael Mastellone Mrs. Frances Unrine & Dr. Robert Mauro Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Maury Ms. Ellen Mayo Ms. Jessica L. Klein & Mr. Stefano Mazzocchi Ms. Mary E. McAuliffe Mrs. Shawna McClelland Mr. Jonathan Mccone Mr. & Mrs. John McCormick Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. McCouch Mr. & Mrs. James E. McCusker Ms. Ann L. McDaniel Ms. Ann McDermott Mr. & Mrs. Morton McDonald Mr. & Mrs. Jim D. McDonald Ms. Carol McEntee Mrs. Barbara A. McGhee Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McGinnis Ms. Nancy McGivney Mr. & Mrs. James A. McGraw Mr. & Mrs. James McGuire Mr. & Mrs. James R. McIntosh Ms. Diana R. McIntyre Ms. Katherine Watts & Mr. Dale McIvor Mr. & Mrs. D. Eric McKechnie Ms. Janice MacAvoy & Mr. Johnson McKelvy Ms. Susan McKenna Mr. & Mrs. Clifford McKinney III | The Prince of Wales Foundation

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PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mrs. Oriana McKinnon Ms. Juliette C. McLennan Mr. Edwin R. McMullen III Ms. Julie S. McNamara Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. McNeil III Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence C. McQuade Mr. & Mrs. Frederick McRobie Mr. & Mrs. Alan Medaugh Mr. & Mrs. Sanjeev Mehra Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mello Mrs. Anne S. Menz Mr. & Mrs. Richardson T. Merriman Mr. & Mrs. Edward Metcalf Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Michetti Mr. Michael Miles Ms. Elizabeth A. Milias Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Dean Miller Ms. Polly Thayer Miller Mr. Hal Miller Mr. & Mrs. Dana A. Mills Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Minahan Mr. & Mrs. Michael Misurelli Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. David Mittelbusher Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Mittelbusher Mr. & Mrs. Marc S. Moller Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mooradian Ms. Lindsay Moore Dr. & Mrs. David W. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Paul Moran Ms. Beverly J. Sanchez & Mr. Joseph S. Moran Mr. & Mrs. Hicks Morgan Matthew & Kristina Morgan Mr. & Mrs. James L. Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Michael Moriarty Ms. Jamie L. Moss Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Moss Mr. Richard L. Mucci Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Gerald J. Muller Ms. Sheenaugh Bodkin & Mr. Brian Murphy Ms. Shirley B. Murtha Ms. Eileen M. Muse Mr. and Mrs. Chris A. Myers Mr. & Mrs. Andrew O. Nash Margharet Nash Mrs. Virginia Nathan Dr. & Mrs. David G. Nathan National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

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Ms. Mary M. Naughton Mr. & Mrs. William E. Neff III Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Nelson Ms. Dorte Neudert Laurie & Robert J. † Newhouse III Mr. John Newman Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey J. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey M. Nielsen Mr. & Mrs. Eric H. Nietsch Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Nihan Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Nilsen Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan D. Nimerfroh Mr. & Mrs. Richard Nopper Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Normand Mr. Peter W. North Ms. Tilly Bagshawe & Mr. Robin Nydes Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Obermeyer Mr. & Mrs. David Obrien Mr. & Mrs. Andrew O’Brien Mr. & Mrs. Michael O’Donnell Mr. & Mrs. Martin Ogletree Mr. & Mrs. Peter Ogren Mr. & Mrs. William Oldakowski Mr. & Mrs. Christopher N. Olsen Mr. Jeffery L. Olsen Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Olson Ms. Kate H. O’Reilly Dr. & Mrs. Colm O’Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Bill Oshinsky Mr. & Mrs. John Osowa Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Packer Dr. & Mrs. A. Eugene Palchanis Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Paley Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Palmer Mrs. Delphine Paradis Mr. & Mrs. P. Stephen Paradis Mr. & Mrs. Ernest C. Parizeau Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey P. Parker Mr. & Mrs. I. Manning Parsons III Mr. & Mrs. David Paulin Mr. Robert Peaker Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Pearson Mr. John Peeples Mr. & Mrs. A. Steven Perelman Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Peri Mr. & Mrs. Robert Perlman | Robert & Lesley Donor Advised Fund Ms. Pamela Perun Ms. Kathryn M. Peters Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas K. Petersen Mr. & Mrs. Rob Petty Ms. Paula McLeod & Mr. James Pfaff Mr. & Mrs. Gerald R. Pfund

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Phelan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Phillips Ms. Catherine Piemonte Mr. & Mrs. Michael Pieper Mr. & Mrs. Richard Pietrafesa Ms. Wendy Horn & Mr. Michael Piispanen Ms. Kathleen McQuare & Mr. Russell Pike Mr. & Mrs. Scott Pinarchick Ms. Miriam Petrella & Mr. Rob Pinkava Mr. & Mrs. Jim B. Pinsky Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Plandowski Mr. & Mrs. John M. Plukas Ms. Sheila D. David & Mr. David Policansky Mr. & Mrs. Elliott B. Pollack Dr. Brenda Wrigley & Ms. Cathy Pontante Mr. & Mrs. James R. Poole Ms. Gloria J. Grimshaw & Mr. Bruce H. Poor Dr. William G. Porter Mr. & Mrs. Larry Post Mrs. Cynthia M. Powell Drs. Margaret A. & Trevor R. Price Ms. Charlyn Puza Mrs. Louise A. Puza Ms. Sheila E. McCarthy & Mr. Robert Quarz Mr. & Mrs. Robert Quinn Mr. & Mrs. James M. Rabb Ms. Diana L. Schutter & Mr. Rick P. Radder Ms. Nina S. Duchaine & Mr. Rory J. Radding Dr. & Mrs. Robert Radin Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ragno Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Rainwater Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Raith Mrs. Charron P. Ranney Mr. & Mrs. Carter Ransom Ms. Karen Rauch Ms. Abbe Raven & Mr. Martin S. Tackel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas M. Raymond Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Raymond Ms. Priscilla H. Raymond Ms. Barbara Read Mr. & Mrs. MacGregor Read Mr. & Mrs. Philip W. Read Mr. & Mrs. Arthur I. Reade Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas A. Ready Mrs. Susan M. Reed

Ms. Diana R. Regan Ms. Carey Dack-Reidy & Mr. Paul Reidy Mr. & Mrs. Karsten Reinemo Mr. & Ms. Robert B. Remar Mr. & Mrs. Rodger Renzulli Ms. Elizabeth K. Hillger & Mr. William H. Reynolds Ms. Heather Forbes & Mr. James J. Reznar Mr. & Mrs. Duncan W. Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Neville Richen Dr. & Mrs. Charles R. Rickards Mr. & Mrs. James Riesenbach Mr. James Rifino Mrs. Jeanne Riggs Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Riley Dr. & Mrs. Robert V. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rittenberg Ms. Barbara M. Matteucci & Mr. John S. Rizzo Ms. Megan Donahue & Mr. Isaac Ro Ms. Marjorie Traylor & Dr. Randy W. Roberts Ms. Ashlee Robertson Rachel Robertson Mr. & Mrs. R&al M. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Robinson Mr. & Mrs. K. Keith Roe Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rojcewicz Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Roncetti Mr. & Mrs. Doug Rose Mrs. Phyliss A. Rosenberg-Feliciano Mr. & Mrs. Amory Ross Mrs. Diane A. Palmeri & Mr. Albert M. Rossini Ms. Wendy Rouillard Mr. & Mrs. Milton C. Rowland Ms. Anne Rowland Mr. & Mrs. Girard Ruddick Mr. & Mrs. Allen Rudolph Ms. Kate Rushford Ms. Judith K. Rushmore Mr. Donald P. Russell Mr. & Mrs. Amdi Sabeti Mrs. Terri B. Sackett Ms. Marcia Butman & Mr. Toby Sackton Ms. Liz Coolidge & Ms. Elisabeth Sackton Ms. Kathryn Heflin & Mr. David Sadoff Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Salvatore Mr. & Mrs. Bret Samboy Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Sandler

PHILANTHROPY 2019 Mr. William Sanford Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Santos Dr. & Mrs. Jose A. Sapia Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sasso Mr. & Mrs. John D. Sayer Ms. Mariellen G. Scannell Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Scaramucci Ms. Denise Schenkel Ms. Peggy Schiffer Mr. & Mrs. James E. Schilling Ms. Jane L. Schnitzer Mr. Edwin A. Schreiner | Edwin A. Schreiner Trust Mr. & Mrs. Frederic W. Schroeder, IV Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Scott Mr. & Mrs. David A. Scotti Mr. & Mrs. William H. Seay, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William Setliff Mrs. Nancy J. Sevrens Mrs. Nina Hellman-Shamos & Mr. Jeremy Shamos Mr. Eric Shantz Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shapiro Ms. Mary Howell & Mr. Jeffrey Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Shaw Mrs. Lynda Shea Mr. & Mrs. Frank Sheckell Ms. Kathryn K. Sheehan Mr. & Mrs. Tim Sheeler Ms. Olivia Anello & Ms. Seton K. Sheridan Mr. & Mrs. John R. Sherwood III Ms. Susan H. Blair & Mr. David T. Shukis Mr. & Mrs. Robert Siebold Mr. & Mrs. Steven Siegler Mr. & Mrs. Ted Silva Mr. & Mrs. Ross Silverstein Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman & Rev. Richard J. Simeone Mr. Kraig Siracuse Mr. & Mrs. Tom Sleeper Mr. & Mrs. David Scott Sloan Ms. Rachael Freeman & Mr. Samuel Slosek Ms. Dorothy Slover Rev. Dr. Ruth Smalt Mr. & Mrs. Christopher W. Smiles Mr. & Mrs. D. Van Smith Mr. & Mrs. H. Brooks Smith Mr. & Mrs. Peter K. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Smith Ms. Megan Smith †Deceased

Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Smith Mrs. Betty J. M. Smith Ms. Wendy Murrell & Mr. Geoffrey J. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Snowdon Mr. & Mrs. W. Lloyd Snyder III Mr. and Mrs. John A. Soderberg Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Solomon Mr. & Mrs. Loren Southern Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Spellmeyer Dr. & Mrs. Stephen J. St. Pierre Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stahler Dr. & Mrs. Robert Stanton Mr. & Mrs. William D. Starbuck Ms. Ann W. Harrison & Mr. James A. Starkey Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Stearns Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James K. Stedman Mr. & Mrs. Brian Steele Ms. Jane J. Steele Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Steindler Ms. Parker Stephenson Mr. & Mrs. William J. Stern Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. William B. Stitt Jr. Mr. Charles Dorsett & Dr. Daniel Stobie Mr. & Mrs. Grove W. Stoddard Mr. & Mrs. Eric F. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Harris E. Stone Kristina & Brad Strand Mr. & Mrs. John Straus Mr. & Mrs. Chris Strausser Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Strong Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Stroud Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Succop Ms. Jennifer Sullivan Dr. Katherine Martien Sullivan & Mr. Gregory W. Sullivan Ms. Tess Anderson & Mr. Brian Sullivan Ambassador & Mrs. Louis B. Susman Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Sutherland Mr. & Mrs. David Swain Mr. & Mrs. Brad F. Sweeney Ms. Anne Sweidel Mrs. Lisa Sydness Mr. B.G. Sykes Mrs. Gail Ryan-Tannen & Mr. Kenneth Tannen Mr. & Mrs. James V. Tanzola Mr. Brent Tartamella Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Taylor Dr. Theresa G. Taylor & Mr. Michael R. Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Taylor Ms. Anne R. Teasdale Mr. & Mrs. Henry R. Terry Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Henry G. Theuer Mr. Thomas M. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Greg Thompson Ms. Karen T. Butler & Mr. John Thompson Ms. Elizabeth Thornton Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Thulin Mr. & Mrs. J. Barry Thurston Mr. & Mrs. Vincent E. Todd Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Tolsdorf Mrs. Jeanette D. Topham Ms. Lindsay Torpey-Cross Dr. Jessica Torre Mr. & Mrs. Terence J. Toth Ms. Beth L. Gledhill & Mr. Norman J. Toth Dr. Thomas A. Travers Mr. & Mrs. Doug Traynor Ms. Terry Trucco Mr. & Mrs. Stanley J. Truffini Mr. Richard L. Tuck Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Tucker Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Tulloch Mr. & Mrs. Damien J. Turbini Mr. & Mrs. Robert Turkington Mr. Samuel Turner Mrs. Harriet S. Turner Mr. & Mrs. Frank Twarog Mrs. Jane A. Tyler Dr. William J. Untereker Ms. Clara Urbahn Mr. & Mrs. Tedd Van Buskirk Mr. & Mrs. Roger A. Vandenberg Mr. & Mrs. James G. Vaughter Ms. Christine Velyvis Susan & Michael Veysey Mr. & Mrs. Andrew S. Viens Mrs. Ashley Villandry Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Virtue Mr. & Mrs. Carlo Vittorini Mr. & Mrs. L. Ralph Vizzari Mr. & Mrs. Werner von Guionneau Dr. Thomas M. Vordeer Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Voss Mr. & Mrs. Clark D. Wagner Ms. Jodi L. Walker Ms. Nancy G. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Walkingshaw John Wardwell Mr. & Mrs. John E. Warner

Ms. Julia Wascom Ms. Maire Watkins Mr. & Mrs. Michael Wayland WCAI Radio Mr. & Mrs. David B. Webber Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Wehmueller Dr. & Mrs. Joel Weinstein Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Weinstock Mr. & Mrs. Jay H. Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Wells Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Werle Mr. & Mrs. Robin West Ms. Calista West Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Weymar Ms. Laura Wharton Judy Whitbeck Ms. Griselda Lyman & Mr. Duncan A. White Mr. & Mrs. William A. White Ms. Lucia W. Whittelsey Mr. & Mrs. Edward I. Wight Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Wilkinson Dr. Sarah Williams Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Williams, III Ms. Melissa Wilmoth Mrs. Joanne S. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Wade Wilson Ms. Kathryn Kubie & Mr. Bill Winkler Mr. & Mrs. James D. Wismar Mrs. Betsy Wolfe Mrs. Yingying Liu & Mr. Charles Wong Mrs. Carol C. Woodbridge Ms. Catherine Zuromskis & Mr. Daniel Worden Mr. and Mrs. Dana Worth Ms. Patsy Wright Mr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Wright Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Wright Charles & Myra Wrubel Mr. & Mrs. Jon S. Wullschleger Mr. & Mrs. Mark Yacos Mr. Robert Yagley Drs. Elaine E. & Robert A. Yordan Mrs. Mary-Elizabeth Young Ms. Karla Zadnik Mr. & Mrs. James C. Zampell Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Zehr Ms. Noelani Zervas Mr. & Mrs. P. Rhoads Zimmerman Mr. & Mrs. Scott Zoellner Ms. Batia Zumwalt

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Business, Foundation, and Organization Support The Nantucket Historical Association recognizes the following for the outstanding support they have provided through sponsorship of special events and programs; membership; operating grants; and gifts in 2019. $100,000 and up Charina Endowment Fund $50,000 – $99,999 The Barbara Jones Charitable Fund The H. L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation The McCausland Foundation Normandy FW LLC Susan Blount & Richard Bard Charitable Fund Tupancy-Harris Foundation of 1986 $30,000 – $49,999 Britt & Diane Newhouse Charitable Fund Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Sara Roby Foundation $20,000 – $29,999 Ella Wall Prichard Charity Fund First Republic Bank Franci Neely Foundation Margaret Ritchie R. Battle Family Charitable Fund The Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation ReMain Nantucket, LLC The Williams Forsyth Family Fund $10,000 – $19,999 Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote Foundation Bratton Family Foundation Bruce & Deborah Duncan Foundation Carver/DeLaney Families Foundation, Inc. Centre Pointe Charina Foundation Inc. The Charles S. & Carmen DeMora Hale Foundation The Geschke Foundation Henry Salvatori Family Foundation James Robinson Inc Kennedy P. Richardson Fund King-Evans Charitable Lead Trust Knox Foundation Liberty Street Foundation

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Marine Home Center Reynolds Family Foundation Robert & Julie Jensen Bryan Gift Fund The Robert & Kathleen Stansky Fund $5,000 – $9,999 Aetna Foundation, Inc.-Matching Gifts Ajax Foundation The Arzak Foundation Baxter Family Foundation Boston Design Center Chairish Chubb & Son, a div of Federal Insurance Co. Congdon & Coleman Insurance The Dinan Family Foundation Emeritus The Gilbert Verney Foundation The Hajim Family Foundation International Debutante Ball John M. DeCiccio Charitable Fund The Joseph & Deidre Smialowski Philanthropy Fund Karp Family Foundation Kathleen Hay Designs Mitchell Karlin & Diane Pitt Charitable Fund Mottahedeh The Nantucket Hotel & Resort Nantucket Looms Nantucket MusACKal LLC Northwestern Mutual Novation Media One Kings Lane River Road Foundation Romankiewicz Family Fund Talon Air Thornburg Foundation The Waldo Trust $2,500 – $4,9999 Mrs. Susan D. Akers | Akers Family Charitable Fund Atlantic East Nantucket Real Estate Audrey Sterk Design BPC Architecture & Interior Design

THE BRIGHT GROUP Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Cape Cod Five Foundation Carolyn Thayer Interiors Chip Webster Architecture Cox Foundation Donna Elle Design Ebert Charitable Foundation Eldred’s Auction Fisher Real Estate Hackett Family Foundation Hanna D. Monaghan Trust The Harvey Traveler Collection Hingham Institution for Savings Housefitters & Tile Gallery James Lydon, Sons & Daughters Jay M. Wilson Fund Jobe Systems Inc Jockey Hollow Foundation Joseph Olson Interiors Inc. Magellan Jets Mark Cutone Architecture Mass Cultural Council McKinnon & Harris Monogram Appliances Moose Moss Nantucket Bank Nantucket Bank, a division of Rockland Trust Nantucket House Antiques & Interior Design Studio Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Owen Family Fund Owsley Brown II Family Foundation, Inc. R Simantov Fine Jewelry R. C. Lilly Foundation Fund Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation The Ross Foundation Sconset Gardener The Scout Guide Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers of Antiques & Fine Art Stillwaters Charitable Trust Susan Lister Locke Gallery

The T. Lloyd Kelly Foundation Tharon Anderson Design, LLC Tompkins-Broll Family Foundation Trianon/Seaman Schepps The Warrington Foundation Waterworks $1,000 – $2,500 Alison & Thomas Schneider Charitable Fund The Ashley & Jeffrey McDermott Charitable Fund Bartlett’s Farm Birch Lane Fund BNY Mellon, Wealth Management Botticelli & Pohl, P.C. Calista West Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines Carla & Jack McDonald Family Fund Chatham Hill Investment Partnership Christopher Larsen Charitable Fund Christopher McKown & Abigail Johnson Fund CMC Construction, LLC. Cranberry Transportation/All Point Taxi & Tours David & Beverly Barlow Fund The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation Don Allen Auto Service, Inc. The Donna K. Cooper Charity Fund Eleish Van Breems Antiques Erich & Bonnie Smith Charitable Fund The Forman Family Fund The Gary A. & Carole P. Beller Family Fund Gretchen & Jay Riley Gift Fund Handy & Dallaire Events Harsch Family Charitable Fund Hatch’s Package Store Heinz Family Foundation Herbert D. Condie Jr. Family Foundation Hoffman Family Charitable Fund Hy-Line Cruises

The Inquirer & Mirror The Islander Package Store The Jane and Richard Eskind & Family Foundation Johnstons of Elgin Cashmere Jordan Real Estate The Judy Family Foundation The Kirsch 1998 Family Trust Larry & Julia Pollock Family Philanthropic Fund LeighDeux Leontine Linens Lilly Pulitzer The Linda & Harvey Saligman Charitable Foundation Lingeman Family Charitable Gift Fund Loose Family Charitable Fund Lorenzo Family Foundation M. Sweeney Construction Inc. Main St. Construction Marc Yacone Electrical Marilee B. Matteson Charitable Fund The Muhlhauser Charitable Gift Fund Nantucket Friends Meeting Nantucket Island Resorts Nantucket Pharmacy Newton Family Charitable Trust Nicole Hogarty Designs Inc. The Northrup Fund Osceola Foundation, Inc. Paul Soros Family Trust Peravid Foundation The Racemaker Charitable Fund The Saltonstall Family Charitable Fund The Shackelford Family Foundation Stein Family Charitable Fund Stephen A. Davis Fund Stover Engineering & Construction, Inc. Sylvia Antiques/Four Winds Craft Guild The Andersen Company LLC The Wareing Family Fund Wayman Family Charitable Trust Young’s Bicycle Shop $500 – $999

A Taste of Nantucket Angelastro Family Charitable Fund The Beachside at Nantucket Brass Lantern Inn Cape Cod Express, Inc. Carol March Emerson Cross Fund Century House The Chanticleer Restaurant & Gardens Chatham Hill Investment Partnership Crozier Family Fund Cymaron Foundation (Cyril F. and Marie E. O’Neil Foundation) The Dobbert Companies Dujardin Design Associates, Inc. The Elizabeth H. & Thomas H. Broadus Jr. Charitable Foundation Four Winds Gifts, Inc. Heidi Cox Charitable Fund J. Brown Builders The Kenneth & Claudia Gentner Charitable Giving Fund Kenneth C. Howard Electric, Inc. Lauren Marttila Photography Leanne Bell/Gwen Beal GiveBack Account Madaket Marine Meyers Family Foundation Nantucket Island Homes Nantucket Networks, Inc. Nantucket Painting Co. The Nicholas Family Fund Nina Hellman Antiques, Inc. OCB, LLC Olsen Family Donor Advised Fund Paulsen Family Foundation Peter Moister Donor Advised Fund The Prince of Wales Foundation Roastd General Store Sandcastle Construction, Inc. The Saint Paul Foundation Santos Rubbish Removal, Inc. Sarah F. Alger, P.C. Schwartz Hannum Studio 61 The Tile Room Twig Perkins, Inc.

$250 – $499 ACKtivities Antiques Depot BORREGAARD HOME The Bowman Family Charitable Fund Brant Point Inn Cruising Club of America Current Vintage Denby Real Estate Driftwood Construction, Inc. The Druckemiller Charitable Fund The Enjoy Company Flowers on Chestnut Forme Barre Fitness Freedman’s of Nantucket G. S. Hill Gallery Glyn’s Marine, Inc. Greenwood Alarm & Key Company The Hartman Family Foundation Hostetler Gallery Island Custom Builders Island Properties Islandwide Realty Ivy Wealth Management Judith B. & Richard S. Phelan Family Foundation, Inc. The Keller Family Foundation The Lamport Foundation, Inc. Le Languedoc Bistro LegaSea Raw Bar Co. Lemon Press Market LLC Martin House Inn Matthews Family Charitable Fund Middleton Family Fund Moore Woodworking Inc. Murphy Family Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation Murray’s Toggery Shop, Inc. Nantucket Architecture Group, Ltd. Nantucket Catering Company Nantucket Coffee Roasters / The Bean Nantucket Culinary Center Nantucket Frameworks Nantucket Fusion Inc. Nantucket Inn Nantucket Office Products

Peters Family Trust Fund Placesetters, Inc. Poets Corner Press Powers Landscaping Inc. PPX Events Rockland Trust The Scrimshander Gallery Simply With Style Catering Stephanie & Drew Fellon Fund Surfing Hydrangea Nursery Susan M. Warner Catering Swain’s Travel Tolsdorf Family Charitable Fund Vis-A-Vis Whitehall Foundation Inc. Yellow Productions Zero Main $100 – $249 American Postal Worker Union AFL-CIO, Cape Cod Are Local #6005 Cassady Charitable Gift Account Debra Blair Design LLC Edwin A. Schreiner Trust Elevin Photography Jane Ameth Tyler The Jeannette S. Fowlkes Charitable Donor Fund Jewish Federation of Cleveland John & Cynthia Cross Charitable Fund National Society Daughters of the American Revolution R.E. Riley Family Fund Robert & Lesley Perlman Donor Advised Fund The Shaver Family Foundation Stephen & Marcia Anderson Fund Teressa Perry Charitable Gift Fund WCAI Radio

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2019 Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association In 2019, the Friends of the NHA had an exciting year beginning with the acquisition of a significant painting for the collections— Nantucket Shore by William Trost Richards. The Trost painting was one of many paintings included in the inaugural exhibition in the Williams Forsyth Gallery in the Whaling Museum in 2019. The Friends of the NHA also recently completed the acquisition of several select pieces from Robert Hellman’s collection of whaling tools and equipment, perhaps the most comprehensive private collection of its kind in existence today.

The Friends was honored to welcome Stephanie Stebich, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director at the Smithsonian American Art Museum who presented the 2019 Friends Lecture on “Modern American Realism: Highlights from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection.”

Patricia and Thomas Anathan Mariann Berg (Hundahl) Appley Mary Randolph Ballinger Pamela and Max Berry Susan and William Boardman Anne Marie and Douglas Bratton Mary and David Brown Christy and William Camp Laurie and Robert Champion Connie and Thomas Cigarran Kimberly Corkran Prudence and William Crozier Robyn and John Davis Rachel and James Dunlap Barbara Fife

Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth Nancy and Charles Geschke Page and Arthur Gosnell Susan Zises Green Ann and Graham Gund Barbara and Edmund Hajim Kaaren and Charles Hale Barbara and Amos Hostetter Barbara Jones† Harvey Jones Diane and Arthur Kelly Kathryn Ketelsen Coco and Arie L. Kopelman Margaret Hallowell and Stephen Langer

Sharon and Francisco Lorenzo Helen Lynch Carolyn and Ian† MacKenzie Miriam Mandell Bonnie and Peter McCausland Ronay and Richard Menschel Polly and Peter Millard Franci Neely Anne and Edwin Obrecht Liz and Jeff Peek Ann and Christopher Quick Susan and Kennedy Richardson Ellen and Kenneth Roman Marion and Robert† Rosenthal Robin and Mark Rubenstein

Bonnie Sacerdote Linda Saligman Denise and Andrew Saul Susan and Dennis Shapiro Janet and Rick Sherlund Daisy Soros Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney Marilyn Whitney Stephanie and Jay Wilson Landis and Bracebridge Young Robert Young

2019 Heritage Society The Heritage Society recognizes individuals who make planned gifts of artifacts, cash, or real estate to the Nantucket Historical Association through their estate plans.

Planned gifts can take many forms and support the NHA in myriad ways, from building the permanent endowment to expanding the artifact and document collections. New members are recognized at the NHA Annual Meeting and presented with an ivory whale lapel pin carved by the late scrimshander Nancy Chase, who was an NHA trustee and Heritage Society member.

To learn more about the Heritage Society, please contact the Development Department.

Members of the Heritage Society Anonymous (4) Bruce B. Bates Barbara Bennett† Ann Sutton Cooper† Leroy and Cecily Langsdale Davis James Dunlap Trudy S. Dujardin

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Catherine S. Felleman† Robert C. Griffin Barbara E. Hajim Nina and Robert† Hellman Grace S. Hinkley Dainty and Reb† Jensen Coco and Arie Kopelman Richard Kemble† and George Korn

Robin and Richard† Kreitler Carolyn B. MacKenzie Mary Frances Sutton Miller Winifred M. Mortenson Sally and Peter Nash Kimi C. Puntillo Lauren and Peter Roncetti Kathryn Salmanowitz

Susan R. and L. Dennis Shapiro Dorothy Slover Maria T. and William G. Spears Jonathan C. Swain Elizabeth and Geoffrey Verney Laurie and Alexander Webb Judith and Michael Wodynski Laura and Douglas Wolford

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Campaign to Create a Welcoming Campus $500,000 and above Nantucket Community Preservation Committee $250,000 – $499,999 Kelly M. Williams & Andrew J. Forsyth | Williams Legacy Fund $100,000 – $249,000 Nancy & Doug Abbey Susan Blount & Richard Bard | Susan Blount & Richard Bard Charitable Fund The H.L. Brown, Jr. Family Foundation Anne DeLaney & Chip Carver Connie & Tom Cigarran Amanda Cross

Mass Cultural Council | Mass Cultural Facilities Fund Diane M. & Paul B. Newhouse Melinda and Paul Sullivan $50,000 – $99,999 Shelley & Graham Goldsmith Massachusetts Historical Commission ReMain Nantucket Edward W. Kane & Martha J. Wallace Family Foundation Alisa & Alastair Wood $10,000 – $49,999 Patricia S. & Thomas J. Anathan Susan & Bill Boardman

The NHA gratefully acknowledges the individuals and organizations who contributed to the capital campaign, 2018 – 2020

Jennifer & Wylie Collins Theodore Cross Family Charitable Foundation William, Helen, Thea, & Christopher Little Victoria McManus & John McDermott Carla & Jack McDonald National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Franci Neely Ella W. Prichard Susan & Kennedy Richardson | Kennedy P. Richardson Fund Janet & Rick Sherlund Kim & Finn Wentworth

Thomas Macy Warehouse Renovation Thanks to the continued remarkable support of the Nantucket Community Preservation Committee, with Chairman Ken Beaugrand, the NHA is positioned to commence interior renovations to this historically important building. A new slate roof installed in 2018 by James Lydon and restoration to the brick and windows in 2019 helped to stabilize and renovate the exterior. General contractor throughout this project and others since 2018 is Scott Andersen, who is generously providing his services pro bono. Work will begin in earnest January 2021 and be completed by the summer. The ground floor will remain a retail venue and the second floor will provide programming space.

The NHA expresses its gratitude to Bob Miklos of DesignLAB Architects who has guided the institution through much of its construction design projects over the past three years, including the recently opened Williams Forsyth Gallery. Bob’s pro-bono services were of tremendous service to the institution and board and staff are greatly appreciative.

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1894 Founders Society Through this society, the Board of Trustees recognizes the cumulative giving by individuals who assist with the NHA’s annual operating needs. 1894 Founders Society members contribute toward the annual fund, membership, and fundraising events, as well as to exhibitions and collections, scholarship and educational programs, plus other mission-driven initiatives. This generous support is greatly appreciated and welcomed by the community.

$50,000 and above President’s Circle

Laurie & Bob Champion

Donald Burns

Robin & Mark Rubenstein

Jennifer & Wylie Collins

Christy & Bill Camp

Linda Saligman

Ritchie Battle

Amanda Cross

Marvin Davidson

Joe Santo

Connie & Tom Cigarran

Jennifer & Robert Diamond

Mary Davidson

Susan & L. Dennis Shapiro

Kelly Williams & Andrew Forsyth

Deborah & Bruce Duncan

Alex DeAngelo

Deirdre & Joseph Smialowski

Barbara E. Jones†

Annabelle & Gregory Fowlkes

John DeCiccio

Garrett Thornburg

Bonnie & Peter McCausland

Nancy & Chuck Geschke

Elizabeth Miller & James Dinan

Liz & Geoff Verney

Kim & Finn Wentworth

Barbara & Graham Goldsmith

Jennifer & Stephen Dolente

Suzy & John † Welch

Susanne & Zenas Hutcheson

Ana & Michael Ericksen

Stephanie & Jay Wilson

Ann & Charles Johnson

Cynthia & Michael Fowler

Alisa & Alastair Wood

Jean Doyen de Montaillou & Michael Kovner

Karyn Frist

Leslie Forbes & David Worth

Helen & Will Little

Andrea & Theodore Giletti

$25,000 to $49,999 Anne Delaney & Chip Carver Kaaren & Charles Hale Carol † & Richard Lowry Franci Neely Diane & Britt Newhouse Laura & Bob Reynolds Tracy & Joe Roby Harriet & Warren Stephens Melinda & Paul Sullivan Jason Tilroe Phoebe & Bobby Tudor Susan Zises Green $10,000 to $24,999 Nancy & Doug Abbey Patricia & Thomas Anathan Anonymous Gale Arnold Mary Randolph Ballinger Susan Blount & Rick Bard Carol & Harold Baxter Pamela & Max Berry Susan & Bill Boardman Maureen & Edward Bousa Anne Marie & Doug Bratton Christina Brown Julie Jensen Bryan & Robert Bryan Paula & Robert Butler

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Carolyn & Ian† MacKenzie Miriam Mandell Victoria McManus & John McDermott Carla & Jack McDonald Ella Prichard Susan & Ken Richardson Margaret & John Ruttenberg Bonnie Sacerdote Marla & Terry Sanford Denise & Andrew Saul Janet & Rick Sherlund Kathleen & Bob Stansky Merrielou & Edward Symes Ann & Peter Taylor Sigrid & Ladd Thorne Louise Turner $5,000 to $9,999 Susan Akers Lauren & Clifford Asness Liz & Ben Barnes Patricia Nilles & Hunter Boll Richard Bressler Marianna & Chris Brewster

Michael Gerstein Barbara & Ed Hajim Margaret & Gregory Hedberg Barbara & Amos Hostetter Wendy Hubbell Carl Jelleme Diane Pitt & Mitch Karlin Jill & Stephen Karp Diane & Art Kelly Linda & George Kelly Adrienne & S. D. Kirby Anne & Todd Knutson Paula & Bruce Lilly Sharon & Frank Lorenzo Ronay & Richard Menschel Ann & Craig Muhlhauser Sarah & Jeff Newton Nancy & John Nichols Carter & Chris Norton Caroline & Jeff Paduch Shira & Bradford Paul Liz & Jeff Peek

$3,000 to $4,999 Janet & Sam Bailey David Berry Laure & Bill Buck Prudy & Bill Crozier Janie & Jerry Dauterive Rhonda Eleish Cynthia & John Everets Page & Arthur Gosnell Suzy & Richard Grote Amy & Brett Harsch Wendy & Randy Hudson Ann & John Johnson Coco & Arie Kopelman Diana & Jeff Owen Nancy Romankiewicz Ellen & David Ross Sandra Holland & Alfie Sanford Mary Farland & J. Donald Shockey Georgia Snell Carol & Stephen Spinelli Karen & Edward Watkins

Candy & Williams Raveis Maria & George Roach Sharon & Francis Robinson

2019 Fiscal Year † deceased

Extraordinary Philanthropy This list recognizes the extraordinary philanthropy of benefactors whose cumulative giving over the past 25 years has allowed the NHA to advance its mission.

$2,000,000 and above Tupancy-Harris Foundation of 1986

Teresa Heinz & John F. Kerry

Georgia P. & Thomas H. Gosnell †

$1,000,000 – $1,999,999 Robyn B. & John H. Davis Barbara W. & Amos B. Hostetter Karen M. & Roy E. Kirby L. L. Lombard & Edward W. † Lombard

Bonnie & Peter McCausland Bonnie & Peter† Sacerdote Janet L. & Richard G. Sherlund Town of Nantucket/Community Preservation Committee

$500,000 – $999,999 Sarah J. dePeyrelongue & George T. Baker† Anne Delaney & Calvin R. Carver Kelly M. Williams & Andrew J. Forsyth Nancy A. & Charles M. Geschke Barbara E. & Edmund A. Hajim

Mary Ann & Paul R. Judy The Kresge Foundation Helen Y. & William E. Little Ronay & Richard Menschel Franci Neely Kimberly & James J. Pallotta

Ann B. & Christopher C. Quick Laura C. & Robert L. Reynolds Estate of Marjorie Schultz Elizabeth T. & E. Geoffrey Verney Karen C. & Edward G. Watkins Kim M. & Finn X. Wentworth

$250,000 – $499,999 Gale Arnold Patricia S. & Thomas J. Anathan Mary Randolph Ballinger Susan L. Blount & Richard A. Bard Pamela T. & Max N. Berry Maureen F. & Edward P. Bousa Anne Marie & Douglas K. Bratton Christy C. & William R. Camp Laurie S. & Robert L. Champion Constance & Thomas G. Cigarran Cox Foundation Amanda B. Cross Eaton Vance Investment Counsel Kaaren & Charles M. Hale

Julia & John A. Hilton Institute of Museum & Library Services Daintry R. & Julius Jensen III † Barbara Jones† Jill E. & Stephen R. Karp Constance T. & Dennis J. Keller Jean Doyen de Montaillou & Michael A. Kovner Coco & Arie L. Kopelman Hampton S. Lynch Helen Lynch Carolyn B. & Ian R. † MacKenzie Victoria McManus & John McDermott Diane M. & Paul B. Newhouse

Elizabeth T. & Jeffrey M. Peek Everett R. Rieth Susan M. & Kennedy R. Richardson Charlotte A. & Gary L. Rogers Linda T. & Henry N. † Saligman Kathryn P. Salmanowitz Mary & Paul C. Schorr Wendy B. & Eric E. Schmidt Susan R. & L. Dennis Shapiro Melinda M. & Paul R. Sullivan The H.L. Brown Jr. Family Foundation Jason A. Tilroe Phoebe B. & Robert B. Tudor Stephanie & Jay M. Wilson

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A Portrait of Anna Gardner

SHERBURNE TO ‘SCONSET

Disturber of Tradition

Disturber of Tradition

SHERBURNE ’SCONSET A Nantucket Success Story

Graduation of the first normal school class at the Jefferson School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1876. Five new teachers hold their diplomas in the back; Anna Gardner is seated in the front.

“Anna Gardner devoted her life to equal education, justice, and civil rights. Her commitment was genuine, consistent, and unwavering. Volunteering to live under difficult circumstances for years, she sacrificed a great deal for her principles, for example, her conviction that her black students were every bit as capable as white students.

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Most importantly, black teachers emerged from the normal schools where she taught. The graduates of the Jefferson Normal School and other normal schools in the South kept a modicum of education alive during the horrors of Jim Crow. Some teachers who studied with Anna and Philena continued to teach under hostile conditions into the next century, forming a cadre of important educators who impacted generations of students.” – Disturber of Tradition, chapter 14 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-882201-09-9

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22 nd ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF WREATHS Extended Viewing Time!

Thursday, November 12 through Saturday, November 21 Held at the Whaling Museum, McCausland Gallery All bidding will be held online for safe and non-touch bidding with easy to access QR codes next to each wreath.

FREE to the Year-Round Community

Lauren and Neil Marttila, 2020 Festival of Wreaths and Trees Chairs

thanks to Festival of Wreaths and Festival of Trees lead sponsor

27 TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES Opening Early!

Friday, November 27 through Thursday, December 31 Held at the Whaling Museum (Closed Christmas Day) Transforming the Whaling Museum into a festive winter wonderland explore community-crafted trees designed by local merchants, nonprofit organizations, artists, and children.