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May 8, 2008
'Sconset 02564: A Celebration of the Patchwork Village
Exhibition in the Peter Foulger Gallery

NANTUCKET, MASS.: The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce its major annual exhibition: ’Sconset 02564: The Celebration of the Patchwork Village will open to the public on Friday, May 23, in the Peter Foulger Gallery, Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street.

In collaboration with the ’Sconset Trust and the ’Sconset Civic Association, the exhibition will feature the history, the architecture, the personalities, and the “character” of this small settlement on the eastern shore of Nantucket—often described as a village unique in all of New England, if not in all of America—following its evolution from a fishing station to a world-renowned summer resort. Some of the offerings within the exhibition will include:

1. A model of the Nantucket Railroad from Steamboat Wharf to ’Sconset, along with a “Buy a Ticket to ’Sconset” photographic journey on the railroad
2. A new theatrical projection screen documenting the move of Sankaty Lighthouse and a history of the bluff houses
3. A video program featuring oral history interviews with ’Sconset residents
4. A model of the ’Sconset Pump made by Nelson “Snooky” Eldridge
5. A touch-screen interactive ’Sconset Family Album, featuring family photographs of ’Sconset residents

 

A comprehensive, illustrated Exhibition Catalog, ’Sconset: A History, will also be available for sale—a wonderful encapsulation of this diverse and appealing exhibition —made possible with support from the Judy Family Foundation.

The exhibition opens on May 23 and will remain on display through November 11, in the Peter Foulger Gallery, Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. A Preview Party for NHA Members will be held on Thursday, May 22, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

 

’Sconset
Did you ever hear of ’Sconset, where there’s nothing much but moors,
And beach and sea and silence and eternal out-of-doors,
Where the azure round of ocean meets the paler dome of day,
Where the sailing clouds of summer on the sea-line melt away,
 And there’s not an ounce of trouble
Anywhere?

Where the field-larks in the morning will be crying at the door,
 With the whisper of the moor-wind and the surf along the shore;
 Where the little shingled houses down the little grassy street
 Are grey with salt of sea-winds, and the strong sea-air is sweet
 With the flowers in the door-yards;
Me for there!

–Bliss Carman, 1910

 

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