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Old Dartmouth Lyceum Lecture Series at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Thursdays, September 19th, October 3rd & 24th, November 14th This year the Old Dartmouth Lyceum lecture series will focus around the exhibit Arctic Visions: “Away then Floats the Ice-Island”. A...
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Silenced in Arctic Eternity
Sonntag’s Grave, Donald B. MacMillan, 1913-1917. Courtesy of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College. POSTED BY FRAN HENNESSEY Scattered rocks amongst a weather-worn Headstone marked August...
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Understanding By Degrees: Determining Latitude (Part 1 of 3)
Sextant, made by Jesse Ramsden, last quarter of 18th century, courtesy of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Diagram courtesy the English Wikipedia POSTED BY FRAN...
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Understanding by Degrees: Determining Longitude (Part 2 of 3)
1842 Chronometer in box — NBWM 1967.8 POSTED BY FRAN HENNESSEY In the previous post, I outlined the basic concepts for obtaining latitude by sextant sightings at local solar noon, and illustrated how...
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Understanding by Degrees: The Open Polar Sea (Part 3 of 3)
POSTED BY FRAN HENNESSEY During the 19th century, some scientists and explorers believed (or wanted to confirm) that an Open Polar Sea existed north of Ellesmere Island and Greenland, presumably as an...
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Faces in the Crowd
POSTED BY RUSSELL POTTER Among the lesser-known signatures in the Bradford scrapbooks is that of Lucette E. Barker, an artist in her own right, whose connections with other London artists and writers...
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LeGrand Lockwood
POSTED BY MICHAEL LAPIDES William Bradford dedicated Arctic Regions to the memory of businessman and financier LeGrand Lockwood. Bradford stating that Lockwood was “widely known for his generous...
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After Icebergs with a Painter: An Inspiration for Bradford’s 1869 Voyage
POSTED BY JOANNE SEYMOUR In Arctic Regions, William Bradford chronicled his 1869 voyage to the Arctic along Greenland’s coast, & cites two books that initially inspired his exploration for art’s...
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Kane’s Mysterious Waters: Transient Polynyas
POSTED BY FRAN HENNESSEY Led by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., the Second Grinnell Expedition (1853-1855) continued on-going searches for the missing Franklin Expedition. According to Kane’s writings in...
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Bradford’s “Mark Twain” Scrapbook
Post submitted by Russell Potter, a contributor to the development of the Arctic Visions exhibition and this microsite. He teaches at Rhode Island College, where he is editor of the Arctic Book Review....
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