IN THIS ISSUE:
- Officers (p. 2)
- Editorial (p. 4)
- Our New President (p. 5)
- Sixty-Second Annual Meeting (p. 7)
- Annual Report of the President 1955–56 (p. 11)
- “The Challenge of an Island Heritage” by Edouard A. Stackpole (p. 16)
- “Moody Ahab and his Heaven-Insulting Purpose” by A. Stuart Pitt (p. 23)
- History Making Events (p. 28)
- “Keziah Coffin Fanning’s Diary” by Nancy S. Adams (p. 35)
- “Joseph C. Hart” by Everett U. Crosby (p. 39)
- Membership Report (p. 41)
- Answers to Whaling Museum Quiz (p. 43)
- Quiz Yourself on the Whaling Museum (p. 44)