Editor's Note The Standard-Times recently sent a reporter to Barrow, Alaska, to explore that community's relationship to Yankee whaling, the prospects of cultural exchanges with the New Bedford ...
On July 23, 1897, 21-year-old Thomas Birnbaum scribbled an update into the logbook for the Arctic whaling ship Navarch: “ship still in ice.” Correction appended. On July 23, 1897, 21-year-old Thomas ...
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