Lecture, Book Signing: Under Sun, Stars and Sails

Marsha Hall Brown, author of the new book "Under Sun, Stars and Sails – A Whaling Family’s Life at Sea," will talk about a remarkable family of three who spent spent three years together at sea. Readings from the Marshall family letters will give you a very personal understanding of the lives and relationships of Captain Joseph Marshall, his wife Malvina Pinkham Marshall, and their little daughter Helen. Tom Hall will discuss the extraordinary narrative of the Marshall family of Nantucket, who left New Bedford on their whaling voyages to the Pacific. Hall will show how this secular parable has a broader historical context that reaches back to the preliminary clashes of the Revolutionary War, and forward to unsettling portents of a threatening future. Presented on AHA! New Bedford, this free event from 5-6 pm is one of two Local History Guild events on July 11.