A findings of a bloody mutiny on a Nantucket whaleship by Barnstable’s “Mad Jack” Percival will be discussed in a lecture at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth on Feb. 26.
Years before Barnstable’s Captain “Mad Jack” Percival sailed the “USS Constitution” around the world, he was sent to an atoll in the South Pacific to learn what happened in a bloody mutiny on the Nantucket whaleship “Globe” and follow through accordingly. The mutiny of the crew occurred in January 1824, 900 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, when one whaleman harbored dreams of becoming king of his own South Sea island.
Retired Barnstable judge Greg Williams will tell that story about Percival’s fabled life at the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth’s winter lecture on Feb. 26 at the Cultural Center of Old Yarmouth. Percival was controversial, irritable, short tempered and contentious, but also courageous, warm-hearted and a highly skilled seaman.
The lecture at 2 p.m. is $10, at the door or on the society’s website, hsoy.org/events. The Cultural Center is at 307 Old Main St. South Yarmouth.
Phone: (508) 362-3021
Email: info@hsoy.org
2023/02/26 - 2023/02/26
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA 02664
The Center's main parking lot is at the rear of the campus off Union Street, with overflow parking in the town lot on the corner of Old Main and Union Street or down Mill Street. The accessible parking spaces are near the accessible ramp entrance at the rear of the campus.