Lecture: Shipwreck and Scrimshaw: the 1846 Earl of Eglinton Disaster and the “Ewer” Tooth with Michael Harrison
Join Michael Harrison as he unravels a mystery from the Nantucket Historical Association’s collections. An unexplained inscription on a scrimshaw tooth, Baptist missionaries in Burma, a deadly wreck at Tom Nevers, and a long-ignored island merchant’s account book all figure in a story of heartbreak and friendship linking Nantucket to Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Indiana in the 1840s and 1850s.
