News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • Ve all know of ze tale: Bram Stoker’s Transylvanian count who lived (sort of, that is) in Castle Dracula. In the 1920s, Irish playwright Hamilton Deane and American playwright John Balderston each took their pens to the story to craft a brilliantly terrifying stage adaptation. […]
• by Chef Jenn Farmer • What the heck does gluten free mean? Why are so many people beginning to eat gluten free? Sadly the Wikipedia answer is vague. Some people are actually allergic to the protein gluten that is found in wheat, rye, and barley. Oats are often on […]
• by Sarah McNamara • A trip to the salon is all about helping you to look your best and feel beautiful in your own skin. However, this experience can usually involve toxic and damaging chemicals and noxious fumes. As people become more aware of the importance of eating organic […]
More than twenty island artists will show and discuss their work this Saturday, August 24, when the the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) holds it’s second Sidewalk Art Show of the season. From 10 am to 3 pm, the garden of the Nantucket Atheneum (entrance on India Street) will be […]
Swim Across America, the national non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for cancer research, will return to Nantucket in a benefit for Nantucket Cottage Hospital and Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket (PASCON) through its open water swim on Saturday, August 24 at Jetties Beach. As of press date, more […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • He stands in board shorts and Yacht Club flip-flops at dawn on the Steamship Wharf and watches the colors spill over the eastern horizon. Then he puts his sun glasses back on. Summer can’t leave yet. He remains on the stand-by list. He parked […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • What is strong, a skilled hunter, ephemeral, eats mosquitoes and feeds a wide variety of birds, fish, and frogs? Give up? It is the beautiful dragonfly, currently gracing Nantucket ponds and wetlands this summer. Some of […]
Watch out, Michelangelo, because this little island is about to give you a run for your lira. On Saturday, August 17, Jetties Beach will come alive with sand sculptures made by teams of islanders of all ages. For the 40th year in a row, Nantucket Island School of Design (NISDA) […]
• by Sarah Teach • Nantucket’s professional repertory theatre company has chosen a winner. You may know Boston Marriage’s Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet from the literary term coined by his characteristically terse writing style: “Mamet speak.” He first started writing plays in the 70s, and his writing was Hollywood-adaptation […]
