The Norton Institute for Continuing Education (NICE) announces its second open??lecture of the 2016 – 2017 academic year. This presentation will be held at Wheaton (Norton, MA) College’s Hindle Auditorium, 26 East Main Street, Norton,?? MA,??and??is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Yankee Ships and Sailors in the Pacific Ocean
Presented by Dr. Mary Malloy
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
1:00 ??? 2:30 pm??????????????????????????????????
Wheaton College, Hindle Auditorium
Bostonians burst into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the eighteenth century with an enthusiasm for exploiting resources and expanding trade, and within a few decades there were more ships from Massachusetts in the Pacific than from any country in Europe. It was a new ocean for a new nation, and by the end of the nineteenth century more than 12,000 Yankee voyages had been made beyond Cape Horn.??
In this illustrated lecture, Dr. Mary Malloy will introduce the ships and people involved in the New England’s Pacific trade; their environmental, social and cultural impact on indigenous people in the region; and will describe some of the extraordinary objects brought back from Asia, Polynesia and the Northwest Coast for the first museums in America
Mary Malloy has been on the faculty of the Museum Studies program at the Harvard Extension School for more than a decade, and won the teaching prize there in 2010. She was a Professor of Maritime Studies at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA for 25 years and sailed with college undergraduates in the South Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean and on the Northwest Coast.
Mary has a Ph.D in American Civilization from Brown University, as well as M.A. degrees from Brown and Boston College; she earned a B.A. in Music from the University of Washington. The author of three novels and four works of non-fiction maritime history, her book Devil on the Deep Blue Sea:The Notorious Career of Captain Samuel Hill of Boston, won the Lyman Book Award for maritime biography in 2006.????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the Road Scholar??(formerly named Elderhostel) Institute Network??and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Wingate Residences at Norton Asssisted Living, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level liberal arts courses and free lectures for over-55 year-olds living primarily in the Norton, Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro, Taunton, Stoughton, Easton, and Canton areas.????
For complete details of the lecture plus other information, please consult the NICE web site at www.nicecourse.org or call Martin Aronson, NICE Curriculum Chair, at 781-784-8548.