Fiddler : What’s In a Name?

Question: What’s in a Name?  Answer:  Quite a bit, it turns out, as in the case of a prize vessel in the Museum’s watercraft collection, Fiddler (MSM #1959.1266) an early Buzzard’s Bay 15’ Class designed in 1898 by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. The Herreshoff name alone would call attention.   In a recently completed review of … Continue reading Fiddler : What’s In a Name?