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Gina Bilander – Nantucket: How One Small Island Helped Shape the Modern World
21 July , 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“The Little Grey Lady”, 30 miles out at sea, has a unique history and landscape that has had an impact on the Quaker and anti-slavery movement, astronomy, art and literature; and the preservation of land. Beginning with the first islanders, the Wampanoag, to the African-American island community and Quaker abolitionists working together, and the site of Frederick Douglass’s first public anti-slavery speech. While many of the men were away for years at sea on the Whaling ships, a community of strong women ran the island’s shops, schools, and cultural groups, among them astronomer Maria Mitchell and Lucretia Coffin Mott. Later John Steinbeck, Nathaniel Benchley and others formed a writers and artists colony.

Today Nantucket leads in preserving it’s landscape, ponds and harbor; and the Nantucket Land Council was supportive of the World Fellowship Conservation Easement.