News and Events for Nantucket Island
This Saturday, August 17, Walk Now for Autism Speaks will take place at Jetties Beach. This fundraising walk is a fun-filled, family friendly event that is a powerful force to fund vital research into autism spectrum disorders. Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disorder in the U.S., and Autism Speaks […]
Marsha Egan’s positive energy is positively infectious. It is this, along with her irrepressible and spirited enthusiasm, bright outlook, “can do” attitude, and leadership skills, that contributes to her standing as an expert public speaker and professional coach. Every other Thursday through early October, right here on Nantucket, you can […]
• by Jenn Farmer • It was the best way to spend a misty evening on Nantucket. I was on the rooftop of the Starlight Theatre and Café. It was a little surreal, watching the fog roll in, listening to the music and pleasant conversations drift up through the grape […]
Many people think of Old South Wharf as a haven for artists and art lovers, with lots of quaint and unique galleries to peruse and a beautiful view of the harbor to get those creative juices flowing. But Old South Wharf is also a great location for fashion and style…and […]
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. — Coco Chanel As a young boy, Reubin Simantov loved to look for pearls in shells he found along the beach. It was a passion that stayed with him for life. When he was considerably older, Reubin learned the truth of the […]
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation’s Junior Theater Company returns for its fourth summer season to present Disney s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. with performances through August 20. The junior version is adapted from a book by Linda Woolverton and the Disney Theatrical Productions show that premiered on Broadway in 1994, […]
by Robert P. Barsanti I attended the funeral in Hillsboro, New Hampshire recently. My uncle, Nandy, had died relatively unexpectedly at age 88, at the end of a long laughing life. Those who had survived gathered up in a small church in the hills of central New Hampshire to try […]
SERENELLA-NANTUCKET CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO CELEBRATE GYPSET TRAVEL WITH AUTHOR JULIA CHAPLIN Julia Chaplin is a New York-based journalist and editor who covers contemporary art,fashion, design, lifestyle, and travel. Chaplin is the author of Gypset Style, Gypset Travel,founded www.gypset.com and designs a Gypset resort clothing collection. Gypset is a portmanteau […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • Nantucket is home to the last commercially viable “wild” bay scallop fishery in the U.S. (and essentially world-wide) and preserving this treasure is, in a way, tantamount to preserving Nantucket. Other fisheries up and down the […]
