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Opinion November 25, 2009  RSS feed

Nantucket's Pilgrims
EDITORIAL
      This year marks the 350th anniversary of the first European settlers on Nantucket. In the winter of 1659, just 38 years after the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth, the first delegation of white people spent the winter on Nantucket. They did not have a fort or housing and it is speculated that they lived in the most rudimentary of dwellings, a simple hut formed by two trees.
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BIRTHS
      Nicholas Emerson Ferrantella was born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on November 15, 2009 weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces. He is the son of Victor and Jill Ferrantella of Nantucket. His grandparents are Nicholas and Linda Ferrantella of Nantucket, Kathleen McHugh and Mike Ward of Marstons Mills, Mass., and Arthur and Martha Hopkins of N. Attleboro, Mass.
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Cartoon
      PHOTO BY ROB BENCHLEY
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