https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8 en-us 2020-12-03 16:00:59 UTC 2023-03-30 08:10:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f921.png rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984329189 "Twelve years after Columbus, a Frenchman named Jean Denys crossed the Atlantic, worked the Great banks off Newfoundland, and returned home with a hold full of cod" (Junger, 41). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984329189 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984355101 "This time he was clawing his way up the coast in some ugly fall weather when he sought shelter in a natural harbor he'd missed on his previous trip... Because of the sheltered coves and thick shellfish beds he called the place 'Beauport' - The Good Harbor" (Junger, 43). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984355101 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399069 "The ship was financed by the Dorchester Company, a group of London investors that wanted to start tapping the riches of the New World. Their idea was to establish a settlement on Cape Ann and use it to support a fleet of boats that would fish in the spring and summer and return to Europe in the fall" (Junger, 43).
"They combined forces with a band of outcasts from the tyrannical Plymouth colony and formed the nucleus of a new colony at Gloucester" (Junger, 43). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399069 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399454 "After a brief period of desertion, the town was resettled in 1631, and almost immediately the inhabitants took to fishing. Gloucester developed a reputation for tolerance, if not outright debauchery, that drew people from all over the Bay Colony. The town began to thrive" (Junger, 44). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399454 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399951 "Since 1650, an estimated ten thousand Gloucestermen have died at sea, far more Gloucestermen than died in all the country's wars. Sometimes a storm would hit the Grand Banks and half a dozen ships would go down, a hundred men lost overnight. On more than one occasion, Newfoundlanders woke up to find their beaches strewn with bodies" (Junger, 44-45). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984399951 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984400913 "There was something so ominous about Georges that fishing captains refused to go near it for three hundred years. Currents ran in strange vortexes on Georges, and the tide was said to run off so fast that ocean bottom was left exposed for gulls to feed on. Men talked of strange dreams and visions they had there, and the uneasy feeling that dire forces were assembling themselves" (Junger, 45). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984400913 rachelletendre https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984401235 "In 1827, a Gloucester skipper named John Fletcher Wonson hove-off to Georges, threw out a fishing line, and pulled up a halibut. Nothing particularly awful happened, and soon ships were going back and forth to Georges without a second thought. One of the worst... catastrophes happened in 1862, when a winter gale bore down on seventy schooners that were working a closely packed school of cod" (Junger, 45-46). ]]> 2020-12-03 16:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelletendre/r92eo0b03jh6jzh8/wish/984401235