2019 - 2020 Events

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45th Annual Meeting - June 15, 2019
Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Keynote speaker was DWM executive board member Dan Rodrigues, who presented a "Whale of a Tale,"
a compilation of three recorded television interviews highlighting the life of his grandfather, Captain John Theophilo Gonsalves. 
Captain Gonsalves began his elongated whaling career as a cabin boy at age 11 to captain the last voyage of the
Charles W. Morgan in 1920.  DWM's Rich Taber interviewed Dan to learn more about his grandfather's escape from Arctic ice,
hurricanes, a German U-boat encounter and mutiny.

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Saturday, July 20, 2019 - Book Talk & Signing
2 - 3:30 at Seamen's Bethel, 15 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA
introducing Marsha Hall Brown's New Book, Under Sun, Stars and Sails: A Whaling Family's Life at Sea
We are pleased to offer Marsha's new book through the DWM Gift Shop in hard cover at $30. 

Marsha Hall Brown is a member of Descendants of Whaling Masters.  She is a direct descendant of Captain Hezekiah Coffin, the brig Beaver of Nantucket (the ship in the Boston Tea Party with the Eleanor and Dartmouth); Captain William Brown of Nantucket, third great grandfather; Captain Seth Pinkham of Nantucket, second great grandfather; and Captain Joseph Marshall (about whom Under Sun, Stars and Sails is written), a family relative (married to her great grandmother’s sister). Captain Marshall was master of the President, the Sea Queen of Westport, and the Aurora of Westport. Under Sun, Stars and Sails: A Whaling Family’s Life at Sea is the true-life story of a 19th-century Nantucket family’s adventures at sea during two whaling voyages. This intimate account tells the story of whaling master Joseph Marshall and his wife, Malvina Pinkham Marshall, who became partners in the whaling industry, while creating a distinctive family life with their young daughter, Helen. During their trip, the family visits exotic seaports, braves deadly hurricanes, survives chronic illnesses, crosses jungle rain forests and fords snake-infested rivers.
  
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September 28-30, 2019
Provincetown Outing at Cape Colony Inn
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​46th Annual Meeting - June 13, 2020
Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford, MA 02740

Nantucket Outing - October 4 - 6, 2020
Nantucket Inn