Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bach have 22 children? queried one wall "His organ had no stops. "Below a familiar ode to a certain woman from Nantucket was the question. "What's the difference between an orchestra and a bull?" Answer "In the bull, the horns are in the front and the asshole in the back." That one had killed us all summer...
...decline in traffic and revenues because of the ongoing PATCO strike." The airline had been forced to cut scheduled flights by 25% as a result of the firings. Air New England's celebrated clientele, which had long used the airline for transportation to Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod and other resort areas, are being picked up by Provincetown-Boston Airline and New York...
...Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through a cloud of rising air bubbles to the ship...
...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...
Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...