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John Putnam, the Melville of the South Street Seaport, Dies at 82 :: WRAL.com
John Putnam, an expert on New York Citys maritime and commercial history whose impersonations of Herman Melville delighted visitors to the South Street Seaport Museum for decades, died Sept. 9 in Staten Island. He was 82.