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How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
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How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World

By Nathaniel Philbrick
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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.

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Re: How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2018, 06:40:42 pm »
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
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Re: How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2018, 07:12:58 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 10, 2018, 06:40:42 pm
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.   :tongue2:
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Re: How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2018, 07:17:04 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on January 10, 2018, 07:12:58 pm
Yes, Nantucket is not just the Whaling Capital, it's the Limerick Capital of the World, too.   :tongue2:

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

Yes...I bet you do.  @Cyber Liberty   LOL
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Re: How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2018, 07:22:38 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 10, 2018, 07:17:04 pm
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.
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Re: How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2018, 07:29:24 pm »
Quote from: thackney on January 10, 2018, 07:22:38 pm
I'll give you credit.  I thought a Non-obscene Nantucket Limerick was just a myth.

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