Month: July 2012

Island Cooking

Fish on the BBQ

by Chef Jenn Farmer Recently a dear friend showed up on a surprise visit. I had not seen him in more than six years and was overwhelmed and a little shocked to see him. He was one of my favorite people to hang out with when he lived on Nantucket. […]

Ethan
Insider Tips

Insider Tips #6

Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket has a new night editor, and he suggested that we devote this week’s Staff Picks and Insider’s Tips to children, moms, and grammas. We’ve known for a while that The Toy Boat, near the end of Straight Wharf, is a favorite for wonderfully crafted toys and creative […]

Kevin Flynn
Nantucket Events

Great Point & Groucho

by Sarah Teach Our spit of sand will be howling with laughter this weekend when the Nantucket Comedy Festival returns to Jetties Beach for the fifth year in a row. And there won’t be a laugh track in the house, with the festival featuring national headliners who have proven over […]

Santjes Oomen
Nantucket Events

A Weekend of Art

by Sarah Teach Some might say that Nantucket offers art with a simple glance outside your window. This Friday, July 27, several island galleries are bursting with creative expression from the inside. Visit Robert Foster Fine Art at 8 India Street to see the new work of Santjes Oomen, a […]

Youth Master Class
Nantucket Events

Ballet Stars Grace Nantucket Stage

The fourth annual Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival has brought film, lectures, demonstrations, and workshops to the island, and will culminate in star-studded performances this Friday and this Saturday at 6:30 pm. Artistic director Benjamin Millepied, back for his fourth year, has put together a dance program of six duets, or […]

Island Science

Nature’s Thermometers – Cicadas

by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station Insects are an important part of summer and of our collective impression of the passing seasons. When I reflect upon a quintessential summer, I think of June bugs, grasshoppers, butterflies, perhaps on more cynical days, deer flies, mosquitoes, […]

Nantucket Essays

Our Roots

by Robert P. Barsanti Nantucket beaches peak around two o’clock in the afternoon. The long time readers and surfers have been on the beach since eleven, their tent-cities are well established, and at last one three-foot deep sand pit has been dug. Perhaps, if there are young children involved, a […]

Island Cooking

Luncheon for the Ladies

by Chef Jenn Farmer Recently I was at a friend’s house, and he was watching one of those food network shows. I don’t watch T.V. so I got sucked in immediately. I am not going to report on which show or host, but the young lady cooking was actually pretty […]