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July 1838. Publication place. United States. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including ...
Port of Nantucket in 1811. The citizens of Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era relied on whaling, industries that supported whaling, and the trade in oil that resulted from that industry. Because most of this trade was with England, the leading citizens of Nantucket chose to be neutral during the American Revolutionary War ...
There once was a man from Nantucket. " There once was a man from Nantucket " is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes and puns. The protagonist in the obscene versions is typically portrayed as well-endowed and hypersexualized. The opening line is so well known that it has ...
Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and the ...
Edgar Allan Poe mentioned the saga of Polly in his 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. History. Polly was a 131-ton brig constructed at Pembroke, Massachusetts in 1791, probably by shipbuilders Alden Briggs, Calvin Turner, and Ichabod Thomas, Jr. During her service life, the ship was home ported in Boston, Massachusetts
Nantucket docked in Boston Harbor in 2018. / 42.36111°N 71.03528°W / 42.36111; -71.03528. United States lightship Nantucket (LV-112) is a National Historic Landmark lightship that served at the Lightship Nantucket position. She was the last serving lightship and at time of its application as a landmark, one of only two capable of ...
Tuckernuck Island. Tuckernuck is an island in the town and former whaling port of Nantucket, Massachusetts, west of Nantucket Island and east of Muskeget Island. Its name allegedly means "a loaf of bread". [1] The island has an area of about 900 acres (360 hectares). [2] The highest point is about 50 feet (15 m).
The Inquirer and Mirror, began as The Inquirer in June 1821 at the height of the island's prominence in the global whaling industry. In 1865 its ownership acquired another newspaper, The Mirror, and the masthead that we know today as The Inquirer and Mirror was born. For most of its 200 year history The Inquirer and Mirror was independently owned.