UPDATED ON APRIL 7, 2020 Nantucket is an island of small businesses, all using their ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to keep going during social distancing and the current climate of uncertainty. Merchants are relying on online sales and curbside delivery until their shops open, service companies are selling gift cards …
THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET… For decades, Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket (now celebrating our 50th year!) has challenged readers to add to the original Nantucket Limericks. The ORIGINAL limericks, not the ones that make us blush. You can read them here https://yesterdaysisland.com/limerick-challenge/ along with more recent additions. While we all shelter …
“Music has the power to bring people together…” Laura Cunningham knows this, and, along with her friend and fellow musician Lorna Dollery, she is using music via their #CoronaSongChallenge to raise the spirits of Nantucket residents sheltering in place. And in doing so, they are raising money for Nantucket Cottage …
The Nantucket Book Festival will create an online experience for its audience to experience and enjoy the 2020 lineup of authors. In light of the COVID-19 precautions, The Nantucket Book Foundation is unable to present the 9th annual Nantucket Book Festival in its traditional multi-venue format in downtown Nantucket from …
by Robert P. Barsanti The ocean, they say, is a great bluffer. I am a person who checks the weather. I fell to bed last night to the threat of a great storm that would scour the land, lash the water, and shatter the bluffs. I woke in the early …
UPDATED ON APRIL 7, 2020 Nantucket is an island of small businesses, all using their ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to keep going during social distancing and the current climate of uncertainty. Merchants are relying on online sales and curbside delivery until their shops open, service companies are selling gift cards …
THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET… For decades, Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket (now celebrating our 50th year!) has challenged readers to add to the original Nantucket Limericks. The ORIGINAL limericks, not the ones that make us blush. You can read them here https://yesterdaysisland.com/limerick-challenge/ along with more recent additions. While we all shelter …
“Music has the power to bring people together…” Laura Cunningham knows this, and, along with her friend and fellow musician Lorna Dollery, …
The Nantucket Book Festival will create an online experience for its audience to experience and enjoy the 2020 lineup of authors. In …
UPDATE FROM THE MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION… Due to an abundance of caution and upon careful review of the latest national and state …
UPDATE: Out of an abundance of caution, the Nantucket Historical Association has made the difficult decision to cancel their annual Flower Power …
by Catherine Macallister If you haven’t made your way Bartlett’s Farm for the Lightship Basket Museum’s Annual Yard Sale, make sure to …
by Dr. Sarah Treanor Bois Director of Research & Education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation The off-season on Nantucket is the …