Wednesday, June 13, 8 pm
"Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin,"
a slide lecture and booksigning by Margaret Moore Booker, author and associate director/curator of the Egan Institute.

Tuesday, June 26, 8 pm
"Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria,"
a lecture and booksigning by author Kevin McMurray.

Thursday, July 5, 8 pm
"The Proving Ground: A Gripping Account of the Ill-fated 1998 Sydney to Hobart Boat Race,"
a lecture and booksigning by author G. Bruce Knecht.

Wednesday, July 11, 8 pm
"Tracking Giant Blue-Fin Tuna in the North Atlantic,"
a lecture by Dr. Molly Lutcavage, senior scientist, New England Aquarium.
Co-sponsored with Maria Mitchell Association & New England Aquarium.

Tuesday, July 17, 8 pm
"Reading Moby-Dick,"
a lecture by Nathaniel Philbrick, best-selling author and director of the Egan Institute,
with booksigning of new sesquicentennial edition of Moby-Dick, with foreword by Philbrick.

Tuesday, July 24, 8 pm
"Fire On the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story Of Richard Etheridge and Pea Island Lifesaver"
(the only lifesaving station with an all black crew in the nineteenth century)
a lecture and booksigning with authors David Wright and David Zoby.
Co-sponsored by the Nantucket Life-Saving Museum.

Tuesday, July 31, 8 pm
"In Harmıs Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors"
a lecture and booksigning with best-selling author Doug Stanton.

Wednesday, August 8, 8 pm
"In the Heart of the Sea,"
lecture by best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick.
Co-sponsored by the Nantucket Atheneum. At the Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street. Admission $10.

Tuesday, July 31, 8 pm
"In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors"
a lecture and booksigning with best-selling author Doug Stanton.

Wednesday, August 8, 8 pm
"In the Heart of the Sea,"
a lecture by best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick.
Co-sponsored by the Nantucket Atheneum. At the Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street. Admission $10.

2001 SPECIAL EXHIBITION
NANTUCKET SPIRIT: THE ART AND LIFE OF ELIZABETH REBECCA COFFIN
MAY 25 - OCTOBER 8, 2001

Featuring more than twenty-five paintings by Elizabeth R. Coffin (1850-1930), as well as many photographs and decorative objects, this exhibition brings to life an extraordinary Nantucket artist whose story and work is richly deserving of wider recognition. A painter in the American Realist tradition, Coffin made her mark in the competitive New York art world before settling on the island and devoting her life to education, art patronage and philanthropy.

Paintings by Elizabeth Coffin's contemporaries Eastman Johnson, Thomas Eakins and Annie Barker Folger are also included in this special loan exhibition.

Based on the book Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, by Margaret Moore Booker, published by Mill Hill Press, May 2001, on sale at the exhibition.

Open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. daily, admission $1.00. (Free for NHA members & pass holders.)