Little gray island
Subtitle: life stories from Nantucket
By: [foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick]
Series: The Memoir Project -- [4]; Memoir Project (Series) -- 4.
Publisher: Grub Street
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780615505275
Subjects: Biography; History; Social life and customs
Notes: Series numbering provided by publisher.

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221).
Table of contents: title: A Nantucket ecology. Fog Island / Sally Nash ; Summer, fall, winter, spring / Marjorie Colley ; Becoming a Ranger / Allen Reinhard ; The Nantucket whale woman / Jean Rioux ; Piera / Joseph Welch; title: Seaworthy: island life. More exciting than a fire / Anne Bradt ; Life on Tuckernuck / Ruth Chapel Greider ; Caes d'agua (Dogs of water) / Jayne Kenyon ; Healing / Pam Bartlett-Little ; Lingering lunches in a small hometown / Marjorie Colley; title: Catching the boat. The midnight ride to Nantucket / Daryl Westbrook ; The same two weeks, every year / Pat Newton ; Eleganza II / Joseph Welch ; Drive time / Nancy Newhouse; title: Portraits of washashores. A love story / Elaine Williams ; Memoirs of a "washashore" / Mary Kenny ; Finding my place / Mimi Young ; A change of address / Elizabeth Rodenhizer Cumby Murray; title: Work: staying afloat. The new Old South Wharf / Beverly Hall ; A personal history of a public space: Galley Beach / Jane Currie Silva ; A medical perspective / Stephen Chase ; Remembering Esther Gibbs / Bruce Korson ; Summer jobs on Nantucket: a family's experience / Jim Baisley; title: Historic properties. Island houses we have known / Marylyn Burns ; Messages from long ago / Charlotte Maison Kastner ; Buy a ticket to 'Sconset / Joan Porter ; Big Palma / Sally Nash.