The Nantucket Historical Association is creating new gallery space in its Broad Street Whaling Museum to showcase more of its ...

Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be a good ...

The Nantucket Current reported the 9.5-inch sperm whale tooth was sold in December by Rafael Osona Nantucket Auctions, "on behalf of a man who had quietly held on to it for more than 80 years after it ...

Hudson would not exist as it does today if not for two 18th-century Nantucket whalers, Thomas and Seth Jenkins. When the British started harassing whalers during the Revolutionary War, the Jenkins ...