Loss of the Whaleship Essex: Readings and Music

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Gosnell Hall, Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street

The Nantucket Atheneum and Nantucket Historical Association present a unique staged reading with live music. Come and listen to the very words of first mate Owen Chase, young cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, and others as they once told the story of the Essex disaster. Between readings, experience live music by Joe Flood, who will play sea chanteys, popular songs of the era, and Melville poems set to music.