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...know you'll agree: Isn't it hot and sticky over there? Shouldn't people have access to more linen? Here at J. Crew we pride ourselves on creating clothing that everyone can wear for both work and play. In fact, during a staff meeting this morning on Nantucket, we were sipping our fresh-brewed iced tea after a rigorous game of touch football on the lawn when it occurred to us that our summer 2000 line would work extremely well in a tropical island setting. Think bold prints, understated lines and classic comfort: We're sending you several samples...
...Scott) and Tom (First) of Nantucket Nectars rent the former D.U. final club building with big plans to move their multi-million dollar headquarters and to open a juice bar at the 45 Dunster St. site. But after heavy lobbying from the Harvard Square Defense Fund, Cambridge's zoning board allows the juice guys to only set up their corporate shop in the Square, denying them a license for selling their fruity concoctions...
...Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick has now re-examined the old tale, after digging up just about every scrap ever written about it. In the Heart of the Sea (Viking; 302 pages; $24.95) is a spellbinding yarn, and, like Melville's classic, awash with human frailty...
...captain cried out, "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" The first mate replied, "We have been stove by a whale." Moby Dick? No, this leviathan was part of the real-life drama that inspired the Melville story. Halfway around the world from its home port of Nantucket, Mass., while chasing whales in the South Seas, the 238-ton whaler Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The episode, in November 1820, was the Titanic disaster of its day, much discussed because of what ensued...
Philbrick avoids moralizing, but his story has a Melvillean coda. Nantucket's pious Quakers never discussed their kinfolks' cannibalism publicly. Pollard wrecked his second ship and wound up a night watchman. With increasing competition and the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, Nantucket's whaling industry went into a tailspin, and the heirs to old families like the Macys, Coffins and Folgers went off-island to seek their fortunes. Score one for the whales...