#cuttyhunk

[julesofnature]

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

~ H.G. Wells

[jjkettlewell]

Cuttyhunk channel

[ub-sessed]

Albert Bierstadt, 1858, oil on canvas.

-Gosnold at Cuttyhunk-

[liefandliege]

My band released this song, album coming soon :-)

[ltwilliammowett]

Photo of the whaler Wanderer run aground, likely her 1924 beaching on the shore of Cuttyhunk Island, Gosnold, Massachusetts

[i-ideate]

sitting becaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalmed in the lee in the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee the lee

OF CUTTYHUNK

HEY

hey

Hey

hey

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey

[one-paper-bag]

something something William Finn picking up the tempo at the end of Sitting Becalmed in the Lee of Cuttyhunk implies motion something something in the original cast rec the increased tempo on the choruses shows Gordon’s anxiety and also his general restlessness something something i love William Finn

[mollydsails]

August 5 - don’t tell anyone, but this morning there is no fog, no gusty winds, and no gnarly seas. I don’t know if Molly D can make it from Cuttyhunk, through Quicks Hole, up Vineyard Sound and into Vineyard Haven without them. Ha ha! We will sure give it a try!

[sasha-whos-askin-racket]

Maybe if you sit and just listen to Sitting Becalmed in the Lee of Cuttyhunk on loop, you'll calm down.

[jjkettlewell]

Cuttyhunk

[albert-bierstadt-paintings]

-Study for Gosnold at Cuttyhunk-

[granma-sweetie]

♫ >:3

family history from a new brain

hey little songbird from hadestown

all i want for christmas is you but the mcr cover

27 by fall out boy

sitting becalmed in the lee of cuttyhunk also from a new brain

so many theatre sings..

[mlm-blues]

anyone else sitting becalmed in the lee of cuttyhunk hotter than a pregnant cow waiting for the wind to carry us somewhere somehow?? 😂

[moneeb0930]

Paul Cuffee, shipbuilder, the wealthiest Afrikan in the Amerikkkan colonies, early Black Nationalist and Pan Africanist was born on January 17, 1759.

Paul Cuffee was born on January 17, 1759 during the French and Indian War, on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts. He was the youngest son of Kofi or Cuffee Slocum and Ruth Moses. Paul's father, Kofi, was a member of the Ashanti ethnic group, probably from Ghana, Africa. Kofi had been captured at age ten and brought as a slave to the British colony of Massachusetts. His owner, John Slocum, could not reconcile slave ownership with his own Quaker values and gave Kofi his freedom in the mid-1740s. Kofi took the name Cuffee Slocum and, in 1746, he married Ruth Moses. Ruth was a Native American member of the Wampanoag Nation on Martha's Vinyard. Cuffee Slocum worked as a skilled carpenter, farmer and fisherman and taught himself to read and write. He worked diligently to earn enough money to buy a home and in 1766 bought a 116-acre (0.47 km2) farm in nearby Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The couple would raise ten children together, of which Paul was the seventh in line.

During Paul Cuffee's infancy there was no Quaker meeting house on Cuttyhunk Island, so Kofi taught himself the Scriptures. In 1766, when Paul was eight years old, the family moved to a farm in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Cuffee Slocum died in 1772, when Paul was thirteen. As Paul's two eldest brothers had families of their own elsewhere, he and his brother John took over their father's farm operations and cared for their mother and three younger sisters. Around 1778 Paul persuaded his brothers and sisters to use their father's English first name, Cuffee, as their family name, and all but the youngest did. His mother, Ruth Moses, died on January 6, 1787.

In 1779, he and his brother David built a small boat to ply the nearby coast and islands. Although his brother was afraid to sail in dangerous seas, Cuffee went out alone in 1779 to deliver cargo to Nantucket. He was waylaid by pirates on this and several subsequent voyages. Finally, he made yet another trip to Nantucket that turned a profit.

At the age of twenty-one, Cuffee refused to pay taxes because free blacks did not have the right to vote. In 1780, he petitioned the council of Bristol County, Massachusetts to end such taxation without representation. The petition was denied, but his suit was one of the influences that led the Legislature in 1783 to grant voting rights to all free male citizens of the state.

Cuffee finally made enough money to purchase another ship and hired crew. He gradually built up capital and expanded his ownership to a fleet of ships. After using open boats, he commissioned the 14 or 15 ton closed-deck boat Box Iron, then an 18-20 ton schooner. Cuffee married Alice Pequit on February 25, 1783. Like Cuffee's mother, Pequit was also Wampanoag.[13] The couple settled in Westport, Massachusetts, where they raised their seven children: Naomi (born 1783), Mary (born 1785), Ruth (1788), Alice (1790), Paul Jr. (1792), Rhoda 1795), and William (1799)

In the late 1780s Cuffee's flagship was the 25-ton schooner Sun Fish, then the 40-ton schooner Mary. In 1795, the Mary and Sunfish were sold to finance the construction of the Ranger - a 69-ton schooner launched in 1796 from Cuffee's shipyard in Westport. By this time he could afford to buy a large homestead and in February 1799 he paid $3,500 for 140 acres of waterfront property in Westport. By 1800 he had enough capital to purchase a half-interest in the 162-ton barque Hero. By the first years of the nineteenth century Paul Cuffee was one of the most wealthy - if not the most wealthy - African American and Native American in the United States. His largest ship, the 268-ton Alpha, was built in 1806, along with his favorite ship of all, the 109-ton brig Traveller.

From March 1807 on, Cuffee was encouraged by members of the African Institution in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York to be involved in helping out the fledgling efforts to improve Sierra Leone. Cuffee mulled over the logistics and chances of success for the movement before deciding in 1809 to join the project. On December 27, 1810 he left Philadelphia on his first expedition to Sierra Leone.

Cuffee reached Freetown, Sierra Leone on March 1, 1811. He traveled the area investigating the social and economic conditions of the region. He met with some of the colony’s officials, who opposed Cuffee’s idea for colonization of Blacks from the United States for fear of competition from American merchants. Furthermore, his attempts to sell goods yielded poor results because of tariff charges resulting from the British mercantile system. On Sunday, April 7, 1811 Cuffee met with the foremost black entrepreneurs of the colony. They penned a petition for the African Institution, stating that the colony's greatest needs were for settlers to work in agriculture, merchanting and the whaling industry, that these three areas would best facilitate growth for the colony. Upon receiving this petition, the members of the Institution agreed with their findings.

In 1816, Cuffee envisioned a mass emigration plan for African Americans, both to Sierra Leone and possibly to newly-freed Haiti. Congress rejected his petition to fund a return to Sierra Leone. During this time period, many African Americans began to demonstrate interest in emigrating to Africa, and some people believed this was the best solution to problems of racial tensions in American society. Cuffee was persuaded by Reverends Samuel J. Mills and Robert Finley to help them with the African colonization plans of the American Colonization Society (ACS), but Cuffee was alarmed at the overt racism of many members of the ACS. ACS co-founders, particularly Henry Clay, advocated exporting freed Negroes as a way of ridding the South of potentially 'troublesome' agitators who might threaten the plantation system of slavery. Other Americans also became active, but found there was more reason to encourage emigration to Haiti, where American immigrants were welcomed by the government of President Boyer.

In the beginning of 1817, Cuffee’s health deteriorated. He never returned to Africa. He died on September 7, 1817. His final words were "Let me pass quietly away." Cuffee left an estate with an estimated value of almost $20,000.

Source: Wikipedia

[dogwhizzer]

uhmmm ...... lee of cuttyhunk !!! and birdhouse in your soul

hi beautiful sorry for never answering this. You are so right those songs DO fit my blog and i love them both

[one-paper-bag]

the original lyrics of sitting becalmed in the lee of cuttyhunk,,,, someone get gordon schwinn an adhd diagnosis good lord