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Nantucket Nantucket
Nantucket , island, c.14 mi (23 km) long, from 3 to 6 mi (4.8-9.6 km) wide, SE Mass., lying c.25 mi (40 km) S of Cape Cod, from which it is separated by Nantucket Sound. Muskeget Channel is located between Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard to the west. Exhibiting evidence of glaciation (terminal... Read more
Maria Mitchell Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell 1818-89, American astronomer and educator, b. Nantucket, Mass. Mitchell taught school in Nantucket, and later became a librarian. On Oct. 1, 1847, Mitchell discovered a comet (1847 VI) not far from Polaris. She was the first woman to be elected (1848) to the American Academy of Arts... Read more
Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass , c.1817-1895, American abolitionist, b. near Easton, Md. The son of a black slave, Harriet Bailey, and an unknown white father, he took the name of Douglass (from Scott's hero in The Lady of the Lake ) after his second, and successful, attempt to escape from slavery in 1838. At... Read more
Peter Folger Peter Folger
Folger, Peter (1617–90), grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, was a pioneer of Nantucket. His A Looking‐Glass for the Times (1676), in homespun quatrains of ballad meter, cried out for religious liberty, and asserted that the Indian wars were intended by God to punish the bigotry of... Read more
Hyannis Hyannis
Hyannis , resort village (1990 pop. 14,120), Barnstable co., SE Mass., on Cape Cod; inc. 1639. It is the business center and shipping point of the area; major industries are tourism and home construction. There are large retail malls and light industry. Hyannis provides ferry transportation to... Read more
Marthas Vineyard Marthas Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard , island (1990 est. pop. 8,900), c.100 sq mi (260 sq km), SE Mass., separated from the Elizabeth Islands and Cape Cod by Vineyard and Nantucket sounds. As a result of glaciation, the island has morainal hills composed of boulders and clay deposits in the north, and low, sandy... Read more
Theodore Roszak Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak , 1907-, American sculptor, b. Poland. Commencing his artistic career as a painter, Roszak began in the late 1930s to create constructions in plastics and metal. In the postwar period his style underwent an abrupt change in the direction of irregular and explosive forms, symbolic and... Read more
Lucretia Coffin Mott Lucretia Coffin Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880, American feminist and reformer, b. Nantucket, Mass. She moved (1804) with her family to Boston and later (1809) to Philadelphia. A Quaker, she studied and taught at a Friends school near Poughkeepsie, N.Y. After 1818 she became known as a lecturer for temperance,... Read more
Eastman Johnson Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson 1824-1906, American portrait and genre painter, b. Lovell, Maine. He studied with a lithographer in Boston and later in Düsseldorf, then for almost four years at The Hague, where he was greatly influenced by the 17th-century Dutch masters. In 1855 Johnson returned to the United... Read more
John Guare John Guare
John Guare , 1938-, American playwright, b. New York City; grad. Georgetown Univ. (B.A., 1960), Yale Univ. (M.F.A., 1963). Guare's freewheeling, satirical plays are the antithesis of "kitchen sink" naturalism, with darkly comic situations sometimes veering into violence. Frequently dealing with... Read more

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