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From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2004 Sep 25, 17:07 +0000
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2004 Sep 25, 17:07 +0000
Frank Reed wrote:
> Three museums in New England have large collections of logbooks from
> Yankee whalers: Mystic Seaport, the New Bedford Whaling Museum (Kendall
> Whaling Museum), and the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Only a percent or two
> of the thousands of logbooks have so far been digitized.
That's four museums, Frank.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is in the city: on Johnnycake Hill, right
across from the Seaman's Bethel that Melville wrote about.
The Kendall Whaling Museum is in Sharon, Massachusetts (not far south of
Boston). Odd location for a maritime museum but that's where it is.
Both well worth a visit, as (of course) is Mystic Seaport. To my regret,
I haven't yet made it to Nantucket so I know nothing of the museum there.
Trevor Kenchington
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