It has appeared along with its two companion cottages on book covers
and calendars, cruise line ads and jigsaw puzzles, drink coasters and furniture tags. The Essex, poised on its pilings alongside Old North Wharf on Nantucket, is an icon. Its history and the history of the wharf it calls home is a story of epic proportions, complete with a chapter that reads like it came from Melville’s masterpiece Moby- Dick. It is a tale of triumphs and tragedies, heroic whalemen and humble fishermen, opportunists and embezzlers, playwrights and romantics.
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In the Summer issue of La Vie Claire Magazine |
