Nantucket By Design: Spotlight on Nantucket Lightship Baskets
Explore the history, traditions, and unique styles of Nantucket lightship basket making with Nantucket's master craftspeople including basket makers Karl and Susan Ottison, Tim Parsons, Nap Plank and Jose Reyes (1902-1980) as remembered by his son-in-law, Maurice Gibbs. Included is a visit with Nantucket scrimshander, Michael Vienneau. The closing sequence celebrates the recent affiliation between the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum and the Nantucket Historical Association and the opening of a new Nantucket lightship basket exhibition at the NHA's Hadwen House.
Interviews conducted by Mary Lacoursiere, NHA Director of Education.
Produced by Stacey Bewkes, Quintessence, for the Nantucket Historical Association.
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My father and generations before him born on Nantucket (Backus Lane)- my mother used a large lightship basket to keep clothes pins in and I have her small purse sized basket -my cousins (the Crowells)made them and my daughter-in -law has one of theirs. The baskets are treasures. I saw the name Sandsbury and wondered if there was a Captain Sandsbury my father used to talk about. Love Nantucket and so many memories of it.