welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling. and i am very excited about presenting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people participating, which is absolutely shocking. we are just delighted. we are going to be talking to ignite about what it was like on the whale hunt. this presentation will last abou

welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling. i am very excited about presenting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people

welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling. and i am very excited about presenting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people participating, which is absolutely shocking. we are just delighted. we are going to be talking to ignite about what it was like on the whale hunt. this presentation will last about 20 minutes. after that, i will be more than happy to take any questions that i hope to answer for you. i think we are just about ready to begin. welcome, and delighted. take out your map and look at it, see what a real corner of the world it occupies. those were the words of hermann melville in chapter 14 of "moby dick." melville was talking about nantucket, our tiny island about 15 miles long. that this little island became the whaling capital of the world. a major accomplishment for a little place like nantucket. so tonight we are going to go on the voyage of the edward perry. this is going to be captained by perry winslow, and it lasted to 1858. he is going to be accompanied on this voyage by his wife, whose name is mary

peggy godwin of the nantucket historical association discusses the history of wailing and the

welcome to the nantucket historical association's webinar on whaling. i am very excited about presenting this to you tonight. we have over 230 people participating, which is absolutely shocking. we are delighted. we will talk about what it was like on the whale front. this presentation will last about 20 minutes. i would be more than happy to take any questions that i hope to answer for you. i think we are just about ready to begin. see what a real corner of the world occupies. those are the words of hermann melville in -- in chapter 14 of moby dick. he was talking about nantucket, our tiny island about 15 miles --g, but this became their became the whaling capital of the world. go onight we are going to a voyage. captained by to be perry winslow, and it lasted from 1854-1858. accompanied bybe his wife, whose name is marianne, and two of their children. it will be joining on this voyage. and here we have a young man whose name is joseph ray, and journal throughout this voyage. a lot of the drawings you will see came from joseph ray. he was a 21-year-old

. >>> the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> hello. >> that means good morning, friends. in my language. good morning, friends. good morningfr

peggy godwin of the nantucket historical association discusses the history of wailing and the impact it had on this tomorrow -- small island community. >> good evening everyone, welcome to the historical association's webinar on the excited toam very present this to you tonight, we have over 230 people participating which is shocking, we are just delighted. we are going to be talking tonight about what it was like on the whale hunt, this presentation will last about 20 minutes and after that i would be more than happy to take any questions that i hope i can answer for you, so i think we are about ready to begin. welcome. take out your map and look at it, see what a real corner of the world a occupies, those are the words of hermann melville in chapter 14 of moby dick. melville was talking about nantucket, our tiny little island 30 miles at sea about 15 miles long. this little island became the whaling capital of the world, a major accomplishment for a place like nantucket. tonight we are going to go on the voyage of the edward kerry, this is going to be captained by carrie winslow an

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and video.d the >> what we wanted to do today, going to be a number of turn because i need to you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to quakers.he i taught freshman english at the niversity of connecticut six years and one of my courses was sored booksp, krpbs in nine 50's. what i realized is my students came fromry young and a different moral climate that shocking to was not them so i needed to give them moment to of the understand how radical it was. we will take time to give you puritan mentality so when enter you can understand how frightening it is. when the world was turned up side down between 1649 1660 or 1661. in ough we are sweltering the quaker meeting house i need you to imagine the coldest day london you can imagine. bitterly cold. 1649.f january, there's a very small man, smaller than i am, about five feet, getting dressed in the morning for his execution. frightened that those who have come to witness will think him frightened so he commissioned a undershirt this still survives in the british

the nantucket historic association hosted this event and provided the video. >> hello. >> somebody responded. >> that means good morning friends of my language. good morning friends. how are you doing today? all right, good morning, richard. i also have nantucket ties to

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and provided the video. >> what we wanted to do today, there will be a kind of style going on here, because i need to turn you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quaker

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and provided the video. >> what we wanted to do today, there will be a kind of style going on here, because i need to turn you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quakers. i taught freshman english at the university of connecticut for six years. one of my courses was on censored books in the 1950's. what i realized was my students were so very young and came from a different moral climate that peyton place was not shocking to them at all. i needed to give them the moment to understand just how radical the novel was. so we will take a little time to give you the puritan mentality, so when the quakers enter your world, you can understand just how frightening it is. we are going to be looking at a time when the world was turned upside down, between the years 1649 and 1660 or 1661. the we are all sweltering in the quaker meeting house, i want you to imagine the coldest day in london you can possibly imagine. bitterly cold, the end of january, 1649. there is a very small man, smaller than i am, about

the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video.

the nantucket historical association hosted this talk and video.d the >> what we wanted to do today, going to be a number of turn because i need to you into puritans if you are to understand where we are going to quakers.he i taught freshman english at the niversity of connecticut six years and one of my courses was sored booksp, krpbs in nine 50's. what i realized is my students came fromry young and a different moral climate that

. >>> the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> hello. >> that means good morning, friends. in my language. good morning, friends. good morning, friends. how are you doing today? all right, good morning, richard. my name is darius coombs, i am mashpee wampanoag and also have nantucket ties to here. my people have been around this area, massachusetts, for over 12,000 years. as you heard from the last speaker. and we are still here today. okay? now, what i am going to do today is like, wampanoag is a culture of people. 1 out of over 1000 indigenous cultures going across north america. what makes wampanoag different, from the other 1000? it could be language. it could be diet. it could be the housing we lived in. one common bond we all have is how we think about life in general. we respect all forms of life. be it human life, plant life, animal life. we do not put ourselves above or below that. that is one thing we have all in common. i do a lot of teaching, right? i ask people, what race do we come from? the human race. right? so we should all resp

the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> hello. >> somebody responded. >> that means good morning friends of my language. good morning friends. how are you doing today? all right, good morning, richard. i also have nantucket ties to here, right? my people have been around this area of massachusetts for over 12,000 years. and we're still here today, okay? now, what i'm going to do today is like wampanoag is a culture of people. one out of 1,000 indigenous cultures going across north america. what makes wampanoag different from the other thousand? it could be language. that's common with a lot of people too. it could be diet. it could be the housing we lived in. one common one we all have is how we think about life in general. we respect all forms of life be it human life, plant life, animal life. we don't put ourselves above or below that. that's one thing we all have in common. i do a lot of teaching, right? and i ask the people what race do we come from? the human race, right? so we should all respect each ot

the nantucket historical association hosted the stock and provided the video. >> what we wanted to do today, it is going to be kind of a a lot of styles going on here because i need to turn you into puritans, if you are to understand where we are going to go with the quakers. i taught freshman english at the university of connecticut for six years. and one of my courses was

the nantucket historical association hosted this event and provided the video. [ speaking foreign language ] >> somebody responded. that means good morning, friends, in our language. that means good morning, friends. how are you doing today? good morning, richard. i'm darius coombs. i'm wampanoag with ties to here. my area have been around this area in massachusetts from around 12,000 years, as you heard from the last speaker, right, and we're still here today. now what i'm going to do today is wampanoag is a culture of people. one out of over 1,000 indigenous cultures going across new york america. what makes workplace different from the other thousand, it could be language, that's climate, it could be diet, the house we lived in but what common one we have is how we think about life in general. be it human life, plant life, human life, we don't put ourselves above or below that. that's one thing we have a lot in common. i do a lot of teaching, right, and i ask the people, what race do we come from? the human race, right. so we should all respect each other and that's rule of thumb for my