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Little gray island : life stories from Nantucket. [foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick].
- Title
- Little gray island : life stories from Nantucket. Volume 1 / [foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick].
- Publication
- [Boston] : Grub Street, c2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Philbrick, Nathaniel.
- Description
- xiii, 221 p. : port.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This anthology features compelling first-hand accounts of childhoods and vacations on the island of Nantucket, written by twenty-four senior residents." -- P. [4] of cover.
- Series Statement
- The Memoir Project ; [4]
- Uniform Title
- Memoir Project (Series) ; 4.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Note
- Series numbering provided by publisher.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Nantucket ecology. Fog Island / Sally Nash ; Summer, fall, winter, spring / Marjorie Colley ; Becoming a Ranger / Allen Reinhard ; The Nantucket whale woman / Jean Rioux ; Piera / Joseph Welch -- Seaworthy: island life. More exciting than a fire / Anne Bradt ; Life on Tuckernuck / Ruth Chapel Greider ; Caes d'agua (Dogs of water) / Jayne Kenyon ; Healing / Pam Bartlett-Little ; Lingering lunches in a small hometown / Marjorie Colley -- Catching the boat. The midnight ride to Nantucket / Daryl Westbrook ; The same two weeks, every year / Pat Newton ; Eleganza II / Joseph Welch ; Drive time / Nancy Newhouse -- Portraits of washashores. A love story / Elaine Williams ; Memoirs of a "washashore" / Mary Kenny ; Finding my place / Mimi Young ; A change of address / Elizabeth Rodenhizer Cumby Murray -- Work: staying afloat. The new Old South Wharf / Beverly Hall ; A personal history of a public space: Galley Beach / Jane Currie Silva ; A medical perspective / Stephen Chase ; Remembering Esther Gibbs / Bruce Korson ; Summer jobs on Nantucket: a family's experience / Jim Baisley -- Historic properties. Island houses we have known / Marylyn Burns ; Messages from long ago / Charlotte Maison Kastner ; Buy a ticket to 'Sconset / Joan Porter ; Big Palma / Sally Nash.
- ISBN
- 0615505279
- 9780615505275
- OCLC
- 794606525
- SCSB-12783508
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library