Historian Daniel W. Gifford will explore one of the stranger sagas of the famous White City of the Worldâs Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago during a visual presentation via Zoom from his home in Louisville, Ky., at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 24.
Gifford is the author of the new book, The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress: New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry, the subject of his talk.
The New Bedford ship was transformed into a whaling museum for the Chicago fair. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America.
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