Skip Finley will be signing copies of "Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy" on Saturday, October 8, on the porch of Edgartown Books, from 2PM to 4PM. Working with archival records at whaling museums, in libraries, from private archives and studying hundreds of books and thesis, Finley culls the stories from the lives of over 50 Whaling Captains of Color.