Nantucket, 1950

My parents went to Nantucket in 1950. Here is the home movie footage they shot. Included are leaving a harbor (New Bedford?), arriving and departing Nantucket, a visit to the oldest house (Jethro Coffin house?), golfing, swimming in the surf, and the lightship Crossrip.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Nantucket
• 1950
• harbor
• Jethro
• Coffin
• house
• lightship
• Crossrip

[Shubael1809]

Good Gawd! This is tremendous. The Jethro Coffin House ("The Oldest House") with it's "horseshoe chimney" was struck by lightning in 1988 and the chimney was blown to smitherenes. It's an ancestral house of mine. It took an act of God and a MONSTROUS amount of money to put the house back together again. This is invaluable footage. Thank you!

[lipwak]

@Shubael1809 You're welcome. It always makes me happy that what were just home movies for us, might be more valuable in unknown ways to others.

[zimzam52]

The reason I believe it is the Nobska is at 3:02 mins into the video the camera moves towards the bow and only the Nobska had a pointed bow. and the open railings like those shown and it looks like they left from steam boat warf because your view is of the yacht club mooring area. The Nobska's whistle is now on the MV Eagle and it is great to hear it blowing it takes me back to when I was a kid on Nantucket

[lipwak]

Great info, thanks!

[zimzam52]

great to see the old island. how about cross rip light ship from the Nobska wow great stuff

[lipwak]

Was the Nobska the boat we had the camera on?

[gcreedon]

@lipwak

Actually, that's the entrance light at the end of the east jetty, where the fog horn is.

[ctw1966]

My parents first came to Nantucket in 1965. Beautiful footage!

[zimzam52]

It was a great steamer. The whistle is now on the Eagle. So a little piece of Nobska lives on. The sound brings back many pleasant memories for me.

[pete5668]

The old Nobska is at the Charlestown Navy Yard in drydock, just a rusted old hulk. Poor old girl looks very sad now.

[pete5668]

Brant Point.

[bcreelman]

The back "fin" looks like the pile of rocks at the beginning of the channel entrance at high tide. at low tide you would have seen the whole jetty. very cool video...