![]() ![]() All but nine crew members and roughly a dozen passengers perished. Within an hour, the ship had broken up entirely. Those below deck drowned when the hull smashed open. Early the next morning, the ship was caught in a northeaster, driven toward shore, and dashed upon the rocks just outside Cohasset Harbor. They had been at sea for a month now, with less than a day’s sail remaining, they celebrated the imminent end of their journey and, they hoped, the beginning of a better life in America. John was a so-called famine ship: Boston-bound from Galway, it was filled with passengers fleeing the mass starvation then devastating Ireland. ![]() ![]() In the evening of October 6, 1849, the hundred and twenty people aboard the brig St. An illustration of Henry David Thoreau in a pond: Why, given his hypocrisy, sanctimony, and misanthropy, has Thoreau been so cherished? – Illustration by Eric Nyquist ![]()
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