News and Events for Nantucket Island
~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ Everything changes. The island changes every summer with every new season of visitors. The shop owners stand at their doors and wait to see who walks in and who walks by. Is this the summer for towers of oysters and cherrystones? Is this the […]
~ by Abigail Terres ~ For the last 43 years, adults, teenagers and young children have put their skills and infatuation for sandcastle building to the test at the Nantucket Sculpture and Sandcastle Contest. The word “sculpture” in the title these past few years suggests that this festival has evolved […]
A summer tradition is building on Nantucket with the third annual Swim Across America being held on August 22 at 8 am at Jetties Beach. This event is the premiere swim of the summer for over 250 swimmers who will swim from one half to one mile to raise money […]
by Richard Trust You might think Mark Donato was born with Nantucket blood running through his veins. After all, the energetic, peripatetic 64-year-old has been highly visible for 34 years as proprietor of the ’Sconset Market, active 17 years in the annual wine festival and in the Nantucket Island Chamber […]
~ by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits ~ While relaxing aprés beach and winding down from the day (or getting ready for the annual clambake), nothing is quite as refreshing on Nantucket than a chilled glass of rosé wine. While some […]
On Centre Street, near where it crosses Broad by the Jared Coffin House, there is a unique store within a store. Two shops that were originally on Old South Wharf have been united under one roof at 40 Centre: Sweet Liddle and Emilly Brooke Rubin. You step through the front […]
Summer resident Jane Condon brings the funny to Nantucket every summer. She does it again this Monday, August 10, when this professional comic hosts The Latinas of Comedy in the Dreamland Studio Theatre. Condon, who has appeared on Last Comic Standing, The View, and the Today Show, will be joined […]
~ by Sarah Morneau ~After decades of occupying the old Lobster Pot building on Easy Street, The Antiques Depot packed up its inventory this spring and moved into a new home on Federal Street. They are now located in the heart of town, in a bright and airy second floor […]
“An adventure in theatre going. As I left the first performance I felt myself rather oddly shaky and breathless…There is nothing else anywhere near like Moby Dick in the theatre.” — The New York Daily News Written by Orson Welles, Moby-Dick Rehearsed celebrates the enduring legacy of Herman Melville’s masterpiece […]
