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On This Day in Nantucket History
January 22, 1994Read more from January 22, 1994
Charles Sayles died in 1994 at age 85. Born in Ohio, Charles Sayles shipped out of the Great Lakes on a tanker and landed in Gloucester, MA where he worked on fishing schooners. Read more from January 22, 1994
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