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"For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhyth..." — Nathaniel Philbrick
For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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View AllNantucket's English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea's dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.— Nathaniel Philbrick
More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'— Nathaniel Philbrick