This topic offers some helpful suggestions on how to protect and preserve your own family heirlooms.
- When was the African Meeting House at Five Corners built?
Members of the New Guinea community began building the Meeting House in 1823, but the building was not yet finished...More Read more from When was the African Meeting House at Five Corners built? - Drying Wet Books
We do live on an island and things get wet. The roof leaks. The basement floods. Occasionally, the whole street...More Read more from Drying Wet Books - Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum History
The Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum (NLBM) was founded in 1997 with the purpose of preserving Nantucket’s rich history of lightship-basket...More Read more from Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum History - Preservation Institute: Nantucket
In the summer of 1972, the Preservation Institute: Nantucket began its first classes to teach architects the many faces of...More Read more from Preservation Institute: Nantucket - Preserving the Prehistoric Pottery of Nantucket
On a visit to the Whaling Museum, the first exhibit typically encountered is a display of Wampanoag artifacts. While these...More Read more from Preserving the Prehistoric Pottery of Nantucket - Preserving Your Family Papers
In attics and basements all over Nantucket, bits of history are waiting to be rescued. Letters your great grandfather wrote...More Read more from Preserving Your Family Papers - Sankaty Light: “I see Sankaty, the mariner’s friend!” : The future of Nantucket’s “blazing star”
I see Sankaty, the mariner’s friend! Who would be the first to say this as we headed eastward over Bean...More Read more from Sankaty Light: “I see Sankaty, the mariner’s friend!” : The future of Nantucket’s “blazing star” - Taking Care of Your Family Photographs
Wills, birth certificates, pension records, and other family-history documents provide much valuable information, but it is photographs that immediately make...More Read more from Taking Care of Your Family Photographs