Memories Of Nantucket's Power Plant
Bruce Courson •
To the editor: I arrived in the early 1980s to take a position at the Whaling Museum. My office was in the old Town Building, near the power plant.
The gentle rumble of the diesel generators was a rhythm we all found soothing. When they stopped, it was disconcerting.
The power cable to the mainland was one more step to reducing our isolation…and independence.
To those not on-island, then it was an amazing time. How fortunate to participate in those wondrous years. The power plant will be missed, as many of the island's connections to the past now are.
Bruce Courson