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down each day to serve as a pleasant host to the first visitors. The success of the enterprise soon became known throughout the town, and both shop proprietors, hotel managers, and restaurant owners were directing their patrons to the Nantucket Whaling Museum. In the libury Mrs. Leila Appleton proved a gracious hostess. Clinton T. Macy, a young Nantucketer, served here for a summer term, and Miss Helen Winslow, a teacher and a researcher, took over the post, and soon became recognized as an authority on whaling in her own right. Mrs. Ellen D. Chace followed Miss Winslow, with Mrs. Louise Hussey becoming an assistant. It was Mrs. Hussey who was appointed Librarian at Mrs. Chace's death in 1966, and still serve^ in that important capacity, with the Library now at the Peter Foulger Museum. The list of Receptionists is one containing the names of many loyal workers, and among them Mrs. Bernice Winslow Foye, whose long service will not be forgotten by those with whom she worked. The in clusion of the names of all who have worked as receptionists and sales personnel at the Whaling Museum is now being prepared for publication in a subsequent issue of Historic Nantucket.
Meader Family The reunion this year will be on August 16th in Plymouth, New Hampshire. It will feature a morning meeting and an afternoon tour of Strawberry Banke, followed by a New England Clambake. Anyone in;.rested should get in touch with the secretary, Jane Meader Nye, R.D. 3, Ballston Lake, N.Y. 12019. More Clan Gatherings Should Be Forthcoming It is a source of wonderment why the old Nantucket custom of family reunions is not being resumed. While such outstanding events as the Island Birthday celebration of a number of years ago brought about several of family gatherings, it is to be hoped that a resumption of these enjoyable affairs will become features of our summer or fall events. The opportunities are here, with several of the larger hotels equipped to handle such gatherings, and when the Coffins, Macys, Swains, Barnards, Starbucks, Colemans, Pinkhams, Barkers, Husseys, Joys, Folgers, Gardners, Jenkins and others of the founding families desire a gathering of their clans they will find a welcome in the old Island home.
