Historic Nantucket

Historic Nantucket is published four times a year. With each issue readers are drawn into the history of the island. Themes as diverse as whaling, genealogy, and folk art are explored by contributing researchers and Nantucket Historical Association staff. For forty years, members of the Nantucket Historical Association have been receiving this valuable and fascinating publication. To receive Historic Nantucket please become a member of the NHA. For more information, or to contribute to the magazine, please contact us.

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Current Issue: Whaling Fall 2008 (Vol. 57, No. 4 incorrectly labeled Vol. 58): Mutiny on the Potomac, by Justin A. Pariseau "...my home is on the deep waters," by William J. Tramposch Captain Eber Bunker, by Tim Blue Available to NHA members. Share on Facebook

Summer 2008 (Vol. 57, No. 3 incorrectly labeled Vol. 58):

• Baseball: Its Beginnings on Nantucket, by Erik Ingmundson
• 'Sconset-born Charles Frederick Briggs, by Bette S. Weidman
• 'Sconset Days: Excerpts from a Life, by Robert Longley

Winter 2008 (Vol. 57, No. 1): An Island of Characters

• Freedom on Nantucket: The Reverend James Crawford and William Benjamin Gould, by Helen Hannon
• Arthur Hayden and the Madaket Free Press, by Jim Powers
• Reuben Macy: A Nantucket Doctor, by Helen P. Seager
• Flying Santa: Edward Rowe Snow and the Romance of History, by Joseph P. Theroux
• Academy Hill: A historical tour of Nantucket's hilltop neighborhood, by Pat Butler

Summer 2007 (Vol. 56, No. 3): Nantucket Art Colony

• Grounded at Sea Level: Frank Swift Chase on Nantucket, by Robert Frazier
• Nantucket in the Art of Maginel Wright, by Mary Jane Hamilton
• Remembering the Artist Robert J. Freiman, by René Lapierre
• Sankaty Light: “I see Sankaty, the mariner’s friend!” The future of Nantucket's "blazing star", by Robert D. Felch

Winter 2007 (Vol. 56, No. 1): Whaling

• Nantucket Whalers in Milford Haven, Wales, by Jane Clayton
• The Cruise of the Nantucket Ships Asia and Alliance: In Consort to the Indian Ocean and the Coast of New Holland, Australia, 1791-94, by Rod Dickson
• Native Hawaiian Whalers in Nantucket, 1820-60, by Susan A. Lebo
• Shearing Day, by Leslie Ottinger
• Monument Square, by Helen Seager

Summer 2006 (Vol. 55, No. 3): Theatre Issue

• Reminiscences of 30 Years with the Theatre Workshop, by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Curtains Rising: The First 50 Years of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, by Jennifer M. Ahlborn
• Mousetrapped, by Ginger Andrews

Winter 2006 (Vol. 55, No. 1)

• Author Exposed! Young Sailor is Revealed as "Anonymous" Keeper of Excellent Voyage Narrative, by Mary Malloy
• The Portrait of Absalom Boston, by Frances Ruley Karttunen

Commemorative Issue (Vol. 54, Nos. 3 & 4)

• Whaling Museum Tour, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Interpretive Themes for the Whaling Museum, by Kirstin Freeman Gamble
• If These Walls Could Talk, by Niles Parker
• A Museum for Families, by Kirstin Freeman Gamble
• Island Treasures: Gifts to the NHA, by Niles Parker
• Nantucket's Whaling Museum: Architectural Intentions, by Martin Sokoloff

Winter 2005 (Vol. 54, No. 1): Of Whales and Whaling

• A Treasure Found: Computer Technology Leads to Nantucket Scrimshaw Discovery, by William J. Boylhart, introduction by Tony N. Dumitru
• A Photographic Mystery Solved, by Ryan Cooper and Robert Hellman
• The Whalemen's Shipping List, by Donna Cooper
• Sperm Whale in Residence, photos by Cecil Barron Jensen and Jeffrey S. Allen

Fall 2004 (Vol. 53, No. 4): Gleanings

• Azubah Cash's Whaling Days, by Amy Jenness
• The End of the Whaling Era as Recorded by Obed Macy, by Frank Milligan
• Diary of a Trip to Nantucket: Charles C. Dyer, 1846 by Georgen Gilliam Charnes
• "Letter of Apology to Bert From This Wretch" Tony Sarg Writes from London, by George Korn
  

Summer 2004 (Vol. 53, No. 3): Summer Stories

• Summering in Windsor Cottage, by Isabel C. Stewart
• Archaeology of the Polpis Bike Path, by Mary Lynn Rainey
• Writer-in-Residence: Poetry of Cape Verde, by Jarita Davis

Spring 2004 (Vol. 53, No. 2): Researching Nantucket

• The Robber Baron Behind the 1881 E. Howard No. 3 Striking Town Clock, by Ben Simons
• Christopher Hussey Blown Out (Up) to Sea, by Ben Simons
• Edmund Fanning, I Presume: Or, How to Flesh Out a Life Through Local Records, by Betsy Tyler
• Susan Mitchell: A Woman of Many Identifiers, by Jim Sulzer

Winter 2004 (Vol 53, No. 1): Saw a comet ablazing...

• "Saw a Comet Star Ablazing...Log of the New Bedford Whaling Ship Washington, March 6, 1843, by Leslie W. Ottinger
  
• The Adventurous John Egle, by Frances Ruley Karttunen

Fall 2003 (Vol. 52, No. 4): A Nineteenth Century Chronicle

• The Asylum at Quaise: Nantucket's Antebellum Poor Farm, by Alison M. Gavin
  
• "Good Bye Mary Mitchell Hard Lucky Craft" Capt. Samuel Joy's Journal, 1835 - 38 by Leslie W. Ottinger
• Seizing Agency: Black Nantucket and the Abolitionist Press, 1832-48, by Justin A. Pariseau

Summer 2003 (Vol. 52, No. 3): Nantucketers Remembered

• "The Best of Us All": Dr. Benjamin Sharp, by Frank D. Milligan
  
• Nantucket Hero: General George Nelson Macy, by Robert F. Mooney
  
• Captain George A. Grant: Whaleman, by Peter M. Wilson
  
• Mary Starbuck: Poet, Author, Nantucket Historian, by Ben Simons
• Nikita Carpenko (Excerpt from the Other Islanders), by Frances Ruley Karttunen
• Florence Folger Webster: A Nantucket Life in Pictures, by Claire O'Keefe
• Margaret Fawcett Barnes: A Little Episode in the Life of a Grande Dame, by Elizabeth Oldham
• Memories of Mac, by Kate Stout
• "Might as Well Sit Right Here:" An Interview with George Andrews, by Jim Sulzer
  

Spring 2003 (Vol. 52, No. 2): Vine & Hearts

• Family Registers: Genealogical Decorative Art, by Donna Smith Fee
• A Brief (and Ongoing) History of Collections at the NHA, by Ben Simons
  
• Behind Every Photograph... The Image Collection of the NHA's Research Library, by Georgen Gilliam Charnes
  

Winter 2003 (Vol. 52, No. 1): Winter Tales

• Nantucket's Master Mason: Christopher Capen, by James L. Dunlop
• William Comstock's Nantucket Goak, by Thomas Farell Hefferman
• Captain Ahab of West Barnstable, Joseph Theroux
• Old Gaol Restoration, by Cristin Merck
  

Fall 2002 (Vol. 51, No. 4): Nantucket Harvest

• A Paper Trail: Piecing Together the Life of Phebe Hanaford, by Lisa M. Tetrault
  
• "No Harvest of Oil": Nantucket's Agricultural Fairs, 1856-90 by Aimee E. Newell
• Living in the China Closet, by Frances Ruley Karttunen
  

Summer 2002 (Vol. 51, No. 3): Collections

• Nantucket's Collections, by Niles Parker
• A Young Collector: An Interview with David Wood, by Amy Jenness
• "Time Lies in One Little Word": Antique, by Amy Jenness
• A Postcard from Nantucket, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Reminiscing on 25 Years of an Antiques Show, by Nina Hellman
• Confessions of a Nantucket Collector, by Scott Waldie

Spring 2002 (Vol. 51, No. 2): The Other Islanders

• Black and White Relations on Nantucket, by Robert Johnson
• Portuguese Islanders and The Old Mill, by Helen Seager
  
• Dorcas Honorable: The Life and Heritage of an Oft-Married Woman, by Frances Ruley Karttunen
  

Winter 2002 (Vol 51, No. 1): Around the Globe

• Stevenson's Pillow: A Sketch of Austin Strong, by Joseph Theroux
• The South Seas Room, by Joseph Theroux
• "Fine Times on the Old Three Brothers", by Leslie W. Ottinger
• Helen Marshall's Travels Abroad, by Margaret Moore Booker

Fall 2001 (Vol 50, No. 4): The No-Name Storm and Other Anniversaries

• Journal of the No-Name Gale, by Susan F. Beegel
• October 30, 1991, at the NHA: As Remembered by Maurice Gibbs, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• "My Yale College and My Harvard": The Writings of Herman Melville's Sea Works, by Mary K Bercaw Edwards
• Celebrating Fifteen Years of Collecting Nantucket Art and History, by Niles Parker

Summer 2001 (Vol. 50, No. 3): Brave Buildings

• The Casino, by Amy Jenness
• The Atheneum: Born from Ashes, by Robert A. Frazier
• 48 West Chester Street: A Stucco Bungalow on Nantucket, by Margaret Moore Booker
• 73 Main Street: The Eliza Starbuck Barney House, by Renny Stackpole & Julia Beinecke Stackpole
• 141 Cliff Road: Nantucket's Geodesic Dome, by Betsy Lowenstein
• New Home, Old Soul, by Donna Smith Fee
• Salvaged Materials: Unique Artistic Vision and Economic Constraints Lend Historic Contexts to Two Special Nantucket Houses, by James Sulzer

Spring 2001 (Vol 50, No. 2): Annual Report

• The Very Heart of this Institution: The NHA Research Library, by Aimee E. Newell
  

Winter 2001 (Vol. 50, No. 1): Spirituality

• "Evidence of Things Not Seen": Greater Light as Faith Manifested, by Angela Mazaris
• "If we will but an effort make": The Sewing Circles of Nantucket's Congregational, Methodist, and Unitarian Churches, by Aimee Newell
• Helping Hands, by Kate Stout
• A Brief History of Religion on Nantucket, by Rev. Georgia Ann Snell
• The African Meeting House, by Helen Seager

Fall 2000 (Vol. 49, No. 4): Love, Marriage, & Family

• Love, Marriage, and Family in the Nineteenth-Century Whaling Communities, by Lisa Norling
• "A genuine relic of old Nantucket": Eliza Ann McCleave's Museum, by Aimee E. Newell
• Researching the Diary of Martha Fish: Writing a Woman's Life, by Christina Gessler

Summer 2000 (Vol 49, No. 3): Making Nantucket Connections

• Literate Culture and Community in Antebellum Nantucket, by Lloyd P. Pratt
• The Nantucket Railroad, by Peter Schmid
• Nantucket in a New England Linguistic Atlas, by Frances Karttunen
  

Spring 2000 (Vol. 49, No. 2): Annual Report

• Time Past, Time Present: Annual Meeting Address, by Lonn W. Taylor

Winter 2000 (Vol. 49, No. 1)

• Nantucket in a Nutshell, by Elizabeth Oldham
  
• "That pride in our Island's history": The Nantucket Historical Association, by Aimee E. Newell
• An Island in Time: An Overview of the NHA's Collections with Accompanying Timeline

Fall 1999 (Vol 48, No. 4): Wrecked on the Feejees

• William Cary (1804-1883): the Loss of the Oeno, by Joseph Theroux
• The Book of Books: Bibles in the Collection of the NHA, by Betsy Lowenstein
• Sally Takes the Smallpox, by Leslie W. Ottinger
• Nantucket Jetties, by Matt Byrne
• Collecting for the Future: A Call for Twentieth-Century Materials, by Aimee E. Newell

Summer 1999 (Vol 48, No. 3): Gold Rush

• Read All About It!, by Kate Stout
• Where Are They Now?, by Mary Woodruff
• Rounding the Horn and Crossing the Isthmus to a Life in California, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Chrysopolis: San Francisco, City of Gold, by J. S. Holliday
• James S. Russell: Nantucket Native, California Miner, By Linda McBeath-Van Gundy
• The Nantucket Coffee Connection, by Robert F. Mooney
• Consequences of California Mania: Nantucket and the Whaling Industry, by Judith Downey
• Recording the Voyage of the Henry Astor to San Francisco, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Seeing the Elephant, by Cecil Barron Jensen

Spring 1999 (Vol. 48, No. 2): Annual Report

• Eastman Johnson's Summers on Nantucket, by Patricia Hills
• Spotlight on Collections: Presidential Signatures, by Betsy Lowenstein

Winter 1999 (Vol. 48, No. 1): Historic Interiors

• "Showing you the house restored": Edward Sanderson and Moor's End, by Aimee Newell
• Protecting Historic New England Interiors: One House at a Time, by Shantia Anderheggen
• An Ode to an Old Nantucket Home: 32 West Chester Street, by Nancee Erickson
• Hadwen House: A Work in Progress, by Reema Sherry
• Resources for Old Nantucket Houses, by Patricia Butler
• From Fireplaces to Floorboards: Reading Historic Interiors, by Patricia Butler and David Wood
• Bibliography for Historic Interiors Research, compiled by Aimee Newell and Betsy Lowenstein

Fall 1998 (Vol 47, No. 4)

• "The Bride Was Tasily Dressed in White": Nantucket Weddings 1665-1928, by Aimee Newell
• The History of Nantucket's Golf Courses, by J.C. Gamble
• What Was Good for What Ailed You: Curatives and Remedies in the 1800s, by Susan Kirp Hochwald

Summer 1998 (Vol 47, No. 3): Whaling

• The Story of Nantucket's Sperm Whale, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• The New England Aquarium's Responses to Marine Mammal Strandings, by Jim Rice and Belinda Rubinstein
• Sperm Whales, by James McKenna
• Whaling Tools in the Nantucket Whaling Museum, by Robert E. Hellman
  
• Beginning with Candle Making: A History of the Whaling Museum, by Patty Jo Rice
• The Changing Perception of Whales in Literature, by Richard J. King
• Rare Books: A Look at the NHA's Collection of Nineteenth-Century Books on Whales and Whaling, by Betsy Lowenstein
  

Spring 1998 (Vol. 47, No. 2): Annual Report

• More Than Just a Summer Job: Reflections on Teaching in the NHA Children's Program, by Allie Beman
• Creating Lasting Memories, by Jeremy Slavitz
• Speaking African Nantucketers' Names Once More, by Frances Karttunen

Winter 1998 (Vol 47, No. 1): Family Roots

• A Walking Genealogical Tree: Benjamin Franklin Folger, Nantucket's First Genealogist by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record, by Joan Elrick Clarke
  
• Who was Eliza Starbuck Barney? by Kate Stout
• Eureka! Nantucket Blood, by Dwight Beman
• A Modern Nantucket Sleighride: From Nantucket to Norfolk Island and Back, by Mary Hills Munroe
• "What's in a Name!" by Elizabeth Oldham
  

Fall 1997 (Vol. 46, No. 4): Island Voices

• And Greasy Luck to You!: Nantucket Language That Has Prevailed, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Nantucket Indian Place Names, by Elizabeth A. Little
• Mary Coffin Starbuck's "Account Book with the Indians," by Helen Stehling

Summer 1997 (Vol. 46, No. 3)

• Views from the Ship Nauticon, one woman's journal, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• The Nantucket-Newport Axis: Early links between Nantucket and Newport Quakerism, by Robert Leach and Peter Gow
• E.C. Cutter's Nantucket Holiday, by Betsy Lowenstein
• 25 Pleasant Street in Miniature: a fully furnished scale model of an historic home, by Cecil Barron Jensen

Spring 1997 (Vol. 46, No. 2): Annual Report

• "Carefully Inwrought": Nantucket Needlework 1797-1997, by Aimee Newell

Winter 1997 (Vol. 46, No. 1): Winter Tales

• Collecting Nantucket Oral Histories, by Mary Miles
• Oral History: Some Notes, by Edward D. Ives
• A Guide to NHA Library Resources, by Betsy Lowenstein
• Maria Mitchell's Journal of the Hard Winter: Excerpts from her diary at 38, transcribed by Barbara Baxter Pillinger; edited & annotated by Elizabeth Oldham
• "Very Good Sleighing" 1843 entry from Gorham Hussey's journal
• "Capital Sleighing": editorial from The Inquirer; transcribed by Elizabeth Oldham

Fall 1996 (Vol. 45, No. 2): Historic Preservation

• Nantucket Historical Association Properties: A complete list of our twenty-four homes, museums, monuments, and sites, by Michael Jehle
• Preservation Institute: Nantucket : A Model Preservation Program, by Patty Jo Rice
• The Nantucket Historical Commission: An Overview, by Patricia Butler
• Preservation Restrictions: A creative tool for preserving private property, by Cecil Barron Jensen
• Dreamland Theatre: A Moving Picture House, by Patty Jo Rice

Summer 1996 (Vol. 45, No. 1): Annual Report

• Edouard A. Stackpole Remembered, by Renny Stackpole

Spring 1996 (Vol 44, No. 4): Milling About

• The Old Mill: A reprint of the original 1913 article, by H.B. Turner
• History Reexamined, by Helen Winslow Chase
• Too Frail a Thread?, by Michael Jehle
• The Old Mill Remembered, by Clay Lancaster
• "So Tottering a Tabernacle" : The wonder of the old mill, by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Old Mill: What we know about it and what we don't, by Elizabeth Oldham

Winter 1996 (Vol. 44, No. 3): Nantucket's Native Americans

• Native American Symposium: A Report
• Beyond Repatriation (or How the "Other" Became the "We), by Richard West
• The Whipping Post, by Nathaniel Philbrick

Fall 1995 (Vol. 44, No. 2): Maritime Mementos

• Gulf Stream Charts of Benjamin Franklin & Timothy Folger, by Captain John Lacouture
• Those Meridian Markers, by Robert C. Orr
• "I feel as if a part of myself were gone..." Whalers' Letters, by Elizabeth Shore

Spring 1995 (Vol. 44, No. 1): Westward the Women

• Martha Dunham Summerhayes: A Nantucket Lady in Apache Country, by Susan F. Beegel
• Mary Ellen Pleasant: Mother of Civil Rights in California, by Susheel Bibbs

Fall 1994 (Vol. 43, No. 3): Fish Stories

• Indian Fish and Fishing Off Coastal Massachusetts : The beginnings, by J. Clinton Andrews
• Dory Fishing: the way it was, by Arthur McCleave
• Aquaculture: Tomorrow's Fishery, by Douglas K. Burch

Summer 1994 (Vol. 43, No. 2): Centennial Issue

• The NHA Logo
• The First Annual Meeting
• Cent Schools, by Helen A. Gardner
• Reminiscences of Old Podpis, by Alcon Chadwick
• Incidents in the Seafaring Career of Henry F. Coffin, by John B. Coffin
• The Great Hall, by Frances Page
• The Courts of Nantucket, by Allen Coffin
• Once Along the Waterfront, by Edouard A. Stackpole
• Nantucket Surreys, by Margaret Fawcett Barnes
• Vanished Treasures, by Harry B. Turner
• Nantucket's First Swimming Pool Built in 'Sconset, by Clement A. Penrose
• The Colonial Church and Nantucket, by Henry B. Worth
• The Humor of Nantucket, by William F. Macy
• Memories of "Old 'Sconset", by Alice Beers

Spring 1994 (Vol. 43, No. 1): The Last of the Old-Time Basketmakers

• The Last of the Old-Time Basketmakers: Mitchy Ray, by David H. Wood
• Prelude to the Launching: The NHA, by Edouard A. Stackpole

Winter 1993/1994 (Vol. 41, No. 4; incorrectly labeled Vol. 43, No. 4)

• Nantucket: 90 proof: A slightly irreverent view of one of our more raffish legacies, by Douglas K. Burch
• Lydia Folger Fowler: A lesser known daughter of Nantucket, by Alice Dixon

Fall 1993 (Vol. 41, No. 3; incorrectly labeled Vol. 42, No. 3): The Civil War

• The Island Guard: Nantucket's first (and only) militia, by Richard F. Miller
• Nantucket Warrior : The Journal of a Union Soldier, by Richard F. Miller
• Taking of the Whaler : A glimpse of the war at sea, by Douglas K. Burch

Summer 1993 (Vol. 41, No. 2): Summer Gatherings

• No Reserved Seats for the Mighty, by Robert F. Cross
• The Sconset School of Opinion, by Lee Rand Burne
• Where's the Fire?, by H. Flint Ranney

Spring 1993 (Vol. 41, No. 1): Precious Moments

• One Hundred Years of Water Service on Nantucket, by David D. Worth
• Maurice W. Boyer: Nantucket Photographer, by Dorothy Boyer Gomick
• Nantucket Goes to War, by Jean Allen

Winter 1992 (Vol. 40 No. 4): Nantucket Women

• Judith Macy and Her Daybook; or, Crevecoeur and the Wives of Sherborn, by Lisa Norling
• "Captain, the Lad's a Girl!", by Jacqueline Kolle Harding
• African-American Women in Nineteenth-Century Nantucket: Wives, Modistes, and Visionaries, by Gloria Davis Goode
• On the Trail of Women's History, by Barbara Westmoreland

Fall 1992 (Vol. 40., No. 3): African-American History of Nantucket

• The Brotherhood of Thieves Riot of 1842, by Susan F. Beegel
• "I Will Take to the Water": Frederick Douglass, the Sea, and the Nantucket Whale Fishery, by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Integration of Nantucket Public Schools, by Barbara White
• The African Meeting House on Nantucket, circa 1912

Summer 1992 (Vol. 40, No. 2): Summer Memories

• Memories of Sea and Sand, by Louise Stark Arnold
• Summer Rituals: Wauwinet to Tuckernuck, by Diane Ucci
• The Day the President Came to Nantucket, by Robert F. Cross

Spring 1992 (Vol. 40, No. 1): Recreation

• Bicycles and Nantucket, by Roger A. Young
• Early Aviation on Nantucket, by Captain John Lacouture

Winter 1991 (Vol. 39, No. 4): Health & Medicine

• His Work Was His Hobby: Wylie L. Collins, by Douglas K. Burch
• The Indian Sickness in the Town of Miacomet, by Donald Pelrine
• A Friend in Deeds: The Hospital Thrift Shop, by Trisha Murphy

Fall 1991 (Vol. 39, No. 3): Melville on Nantucket

• Herman Melville: Nantucket's First Tourist, by Susan Beegel
• Moby-Dick and Nantucket's Moby-Dick: The Attack on the Essex, by Thomas Farel Heffernan
• "A Fine, Boisterous Something": Nantucket in Moby-Dick, by Mary K. Bercaw

Summer 1991 (Vol. 39, No. 2): Summer Escapes

• The Gilbreth "Bug-lights", by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
• Greater Light's Rippling Reflection, by Gayl Michael
• Horror in the Afternoon, by Peter S. MacGlashan

Spring 1991 (Vol. 39, No. 1): An Issue of Collections

• Wartime Whaling in East Indian Seas, by Helen Winslow Chase

Winter 1990 (Vol. 38, No. 4): Christmas Memories

• Charles H. Robinson, Part II, by Clay Lancaster
• Celebrating Christmas, A Look Back, by Gayl Michael

Fall 1990 (Vol. 38, No. 3): Tales of 'Sconset

• 'Sconset Wireless Stations, by Captain Jack Lacouture
• 'Sconset in Comparison, by Joan Pennock Craig
• Charles H. Robinson, by Clay Lancaster

Summer 1990 (Vol. 38, No. 2): New Life in the Oldest House

• Piecing it back together, by Mark Fortenberry and Diane Ucci
• "It was bedlam...", by H. Flint Ranney
• New Interpretation of the Oldest House, by Bruce Courson

Spring 1990 (Vol. 38, No. 1): Tuckernuck Remembered

• Sesachacha & Sankaty, by Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr. and J. Clinton Andrews
• Reflections of Tuckernuck, by E. W. Coffin

Fall 1988 (Vol. 36, No. 2)

• The Forgotten Landmark: Chadwick's Folly 1885, by Robert F. Mooney
• When "Clint" Folger opened the year with a roar: the Automobile Controversy of 1917, by Edouard A. Stackpole
• The Forgotten Town in the Sea is Rediscovered: The Beginning of Nantucket's Great Revival — 1870, By Edouard A. Stackpole

October 1987 (Vol. 35, No. 2)

• Early photography on Nantucket, by Edouard A. Stackpole.

January 1985 (Vol. 32, No. 3)

• The Young Boy and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway's Visit to Nantucket, by Susan F. Beegel.

July 1982 (Vol. 30, No. 1)

• The Journal of Eliza Brock- At Sea on the Lexington, by Sherri Federbush

April 1973 (Vol 20, no. 4)

• The Path Along The Bluff, by Edouard A. Stackpole

October 1970 (Vol. 18, No. 2)

• Mills on Nantucket, by Miss Sally Lamb

April 1967 (Vol. 14, No. 4)

• Was Nantucket Ever Forested? by Bassett Jones

Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, 1950

• First two Quaker Meeting-Houses on Nantucket, by Robert Leach
• The Saga of Sankaty, by Edouard Stackpole

Proceedings, 1947

• Farms on Nantucket in the 1850s, by William E. Gardner

Proceedings, 1929

• Nantucket Streets and Lanes, by Merle Turner Orleans (PDF of image only - not text searchable)

Proceedings, 1921

• Tuckernuck and the Yoho, by Gertrude Dunham