- Notes on the Cape Verde Archipelago
Location The Cape Verde archipelago is a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean about three hundred miles west of...More Read more from Notes on the Cape Verde Archipelago - Notes about Cape Verdeans on Nantucket
Whaling Between the 1790s and the 1850s, outward-bound Nantucket whaleships stopped at the Cape Verde Islands to provision and recruit...More Read more from Notes about Cape Verdeans on Nantucket - Nantucket’s Cape Verdeans and the local post of the American Legion
Post 82 of the American Legion was organized on Nantucket in July 1919. By the end of that year, it...More Read more from Nantucket’s Cape Verdeans and the local post of the American Legion - Nantucket Cape Verdeans and an American Anthropologist
In 1916 Fogo-born Gregorio Teixeira da Silva traveled to Nantucket with anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons to collect stories and riddles...More Read more from Nantucket Cape Verdeans and an American Anthropologist - Who was Joseph R. Lewis Jr.?
Joseph R. Lewis Jr. (1850–1925) was a farm laborer and lived his entire life on Nantucket. Born in the Cape...More Read more from Who was Joseph R. Lewis Jr.?
The Nantucket Historical Association preserves and interprets the history of Nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island’s significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.