How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World

[rangerrebew]

How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World

By Nathaniel Philbrick
Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe
December 2015
 

Today Nantucket Island is a fashionable summer resort: a place of T-shirt shops and trendy boutiques. It’s also a place of picture-perfect beaches where even at the height of summer you can stake out a wide swath of sand to call your own. Part of what makes the island unique is its place on the map. More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, “away off shore.” But what makes Nantucket truly different is its past. For a relatively brief period during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this lonely crescent of sand at the edge of the Atlantic was the whaling capital of the world and one of the wealthiest communities in America.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nantucket-came-to-be-whaling-capital-of-world-180957198/#IFXQi3HsjAS7uLjC.99
 

[WingNot]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
        His daughter, named Nan,
        Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket

[Cyber Liberty]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
        His daughter, named Nan,
        Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket

Yes, Nantucket is not just the Whaling Capital, it's the Limerick Capital of the World, too.   

[WingNot]

Yes, Nantucket is not just the Whaling Capital, it's the Limerick Capital of the World, too.   

Do you know how hard it was to come up with a "clean" one? 

Yes...I bet you do.  @Cyber Liberty   LOL

[thackney]

Do you know how hard it was to come up with a "clean" one? 

Yes...I bet you do.  @Cyber Liberty   LOL

I'll give you credit.  I thought a Non-obscene Nantucket Limerick was just a myth.

[WingNot]

I'll give you credit.  I thought a Non-obscene Nantucket Limerick was just a myth.

The alarm bells in the Mod Room all went off and they all scurried  to hit the edit/delete button when they Saw "Wingnut" had responded on the "Nantucket" Thread.  It must be like how the Rats feel now that Trump Has the Nuke Codes!