In the year 2000 published in the heart of the Sea Book about the Essex Tragedy which won the national Book Award in 2000 for nonfiction since then hes gone on to write quite a number of of books. Very good book about the us exploring expedition looking at mayflower whole variety of other other interesting topics branching off from sort of nantucket. This is a sort of Sea Base for for all of the History Work that that nats done. But we are thrilled that everybody can join us this evening this story of the Essex Tragedy is a sort of near and dear story to nantucket and Nantuckets Identity as a historic Whaling Port and this Organization And Nantucket Whaling Museum is a unique place to be able to tell this story. You know, we preserve the history of nantucket for the people of nantucket and we have lots of collections related to this story and its sort of in our bones as it were so we are really thrilled to be able to have all of you join us this evening for our conversation about about
Nantucket Whaling Museum the in target historical association is very pleased to bring you our socially distanced commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the whaleship Essex Tragedy. My name is Michael Harrison. Im the Obidmacy Research Chair here at the nantucket historical association and we are thrilled to be this evening in conversation with nathaniel philbrick. Long time islander here nat and his wife arrived on nantucket in 1986 and have lived here. Ever since and that is a historian and has written numerous books about the island in the year 2000 published in the heart of the Sea Book about the Essex Tragedy which won the national Book Award in 2000 for nonfiction since then hes gone on to write quite a number of of books. Very good book about the us exploring expedition looking at mayflower whole variety of other other interesting topics branching off from sort of nantucket. This is a sort of Sea Base for for all of the History Work that that nats done. But we are thrilled th
Posts. Good evening, and welcome to the nantucket Whaling Museum the in target historical association is very pleased to bring you our socially distanced commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the whaleship Essex Tragedy. My name is Michael Harrison. Im the Obidmacy Research Chair here at the nantucket historical association and we are thrilled to be this evening in conversation with nathaniel philbrick. Long time islander here nat and his wife arrived on nantucket in 1986 and have lived here. Ever since and that is a historian and has written numerous books about the island in the year 2000 published in the heart of the Sea Book about the Essex Tragedy which won the national Book Award in 2000 for nonfiction since then hes gone on to write quite a number of of books. Very good book about the us exploring expedition looking at mayflower whole variety of other other interesting topics branching off from sort of nantucket. This is a sort of Sea Base for for all of the History Work tha
That he was out campaigning for a republican across the nation doing press conferences and endorsements and fundraisers and dinners and things like that and everywhere he went, the police officers, the bell captains, flight attendants, citizens on the street, everybody came up to him and said, you just got to do it one more time. You have to run one more time and at that point that i think convinced him to try one more time in 1980. Wasnt going to try. That was probably it for him. There was a time when he was on the airplane and he liked to sit on the aisle so he could greet people that were coming on or meet people that were coming on the plane and this woman came on and she embraced him. She said, one more time and sitting next to him and before he passed away i interviewed me and he told me the story, he was sitting next to a Governor Reagan when a woman embraced him and he turned to mike at the time and he said, i guess i better do one more time. I guess i better go. So that was t
and we speak to the family doctor on a ventilator a year ago about the life lessons he s drawn from the pandemic. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. let s start with breaking news from boulder in colorado. ten people have been killed including a police officer. i suspect is in custody and is receiving hospital treatment. the hearts of this community go out to the victims of this horrific incident. we know of ten facilities at the scene, including one of our boulder pd officers by the name of eric talley. at 1430 hrs, the boulder police department began receiving phone calls of shots fired in the area, and a phone call about a possible person with a patrol rifle. officer talley responded and was the first on the scene. he was fatally shot. i also want to commend the heroic actions of the officers responding not only from boulder pd but from across the county and other parts of this region. police officers actions fell nothing short of being her