THE JOSEPH A. NICKERSON JR. PORTRAIT GALLERY: Built in 1987 through the generosity of an anonymous doner, this section houses the portraits of Chatham sea captains and other Chatham notables painted by Frederick Wight, the son of Alice Stallknecht Wight, between 1928 and 1935. Raised in Chatham and graduating from Chatham High School in 1919, Frederick Wight eventually became head of the Fine Arts Department at UCLA, as well as Director of its art gallery, which now is named in his memory. While Mr. Wight was painting the portraits of the sea captains, his mother recorded their recollections of days at sea, creating an intriguing and fascinating oral history of the lives of these seagoing men of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Transcriptions of her notes are available in this room, as well as in a book made from them called A Home on the Rolling Deep that is published and sold by the Society.