Comments on: Visiting the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/ Explore new places and savor new tastes Fri, 28 Apr 2023 02:44:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lauren https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212117 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:30:34 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212117 This so worth going to visit. Is is rich in history. Be sure to go to Whaling Museum in Nantucket and listen to the guided tours & talks & uou will lean so much. My Great-Grandfather George Purdy was the Lighthouse Keeper & you can see his Lighthouse light inside the Museum!

]]> By: Irene S. Levine https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212086 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:38:40 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212086 In reply to Rachel Heller.

The fact that both islands look so bucolic now makes their history is all the more fascinating!

]]> By: Rachel Heller https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212085 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 17:30:18 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212085 I’ve only been to Nantucket once, and that was decades ago, but I went to Martha’s Vineyard every summer when I was a kid. It’s fascinating to me to see how risky it was to live in a place like that: getting to and from was dangerous, storms could stop supplies from arriving, etc. Those “widow’s walks” you see on both islands, where women walked in hopes of seeing the masts of their husbands’ whaling ships returning, illustrate how precarious life was.

]]> By: Marilyn Jones https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212079 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 04:22:24 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212079 I love a good museum and this one looks very interesting and well done. Thank you for sharing The Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving museum.

]]> By: Sand In My Suitcase https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212078 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 22:27:35 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212078 How precarious sailing on the oceans was! This looks like an interesting museum to visit in Nantucket :-).

]]> By: Penny https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212077 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:33:11 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212077 A definite must-visit the next time I’m in the area!

]]> By: Susan Frost https://www.moretimetotravel.com/visiting-the-nantucket-shipwreck-lifesaving-museum/#comment-212076 Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:29:29 +0000 https://www.moretimetotravel.com/?p=12188#comment-212076 Nicely described and written.

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