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Historic Nantucket
Spring 2012 Volume 62, No. 2
A Publication of the Nantucket Historical Association
The
M E LVI L L E ISSuE
The
Unemployable
Herman Melville “Nothing else to do” but Sign on a Whaleship
very like a
WHALE Editions of Moby-Dick
Free speech and
Bike Paths
Nantucket’s Morris Ernst
& “Mystery Man” Identity Revealed