Oil, Ice, and Bone: Artic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom

New Hampshire Humanities Program: Oil, Ice, and Bone, Saturday, January 11th at 1:30 pm

In 1871 Arctic whaler Nathaniel  Ransom survived the loss of thirty-two whaling vessels in the frigid waters off Alaska's Icy Cape. He kept a journal - and held onto it as he and his shipmates jettisoned weapons and warm clothing to save their very lives. His eyewitness account of whaling's brutal slaughter and sudden losses is enriched by presenter Helen Frink's affection for an ancestor she discovered through his journals a century after his death. This is a NH Humanities program sponsored by the friends of Chesterfield Library.