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Author: Suzanne Daub
A New and Lighthearted Challenge for the Times
THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET…UPDATED SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 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 […]
The Festival Must Go On… Nantucket Book Festival Moves to Virtual Format
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 […]
Five O’Clock Shadow to Perform on Nantucket
The six vocalists in Five O’Clock Shadow, who win fans internationally for their rock-solid leads and harmonies, will appear in a day of programs and performances in Nantucket Public Schools on Thursday, May 3, followed by a 7 p.m. concert that night at Nantucket Dreamland Film and Performing Arts Center. […]
Ten-Day Spring ArtsWeek Begins on Nantucket Friday, April 27
For 10 days from Friday, April 27 through Sunday, May 6, Nantucket will celebrate its abundant visual and performing arts with performances and demonstrations in most creative disciplines. Spring ArtWeek Nantucket, the island’s newest, early-in-the-year celebration, coincides with and is coordinated with the statewide ArtWeek Massachusetts. Now in its sixth […]
Talent Show to Be Held in Nantucket’s Dreamland Theatre on March 23
The Dreamland Film & Cultural Center is pleased to present Nantucket’s Got Talent, a one-night performance program to include the myriad talents of those living on Nantucket year-round. This special event, will be held Friday, March 23 at 6 p.m. in The Dreamland’s main theater. Nantucketers of all ages are […]
Flora Crockett: 20th Century Art from Paris to Nantucket
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Flora Crockett (1892-1979), on display at the Visual Arts Center (VAC), 24 Amelia Drive, along with a special talk on Tuesday, December 5. Mary Emery Lacoursiere, AAN’s Adult Education Director, is Crockett’s great-niece and she took […]
Clinician Training Program at Nantucket Cottage Hospital
Nantucket Cottage Hospital and island physician Joel Hass have founded a new clinical education program that aims to expand access, provide educational opportunities, and bolster the recruitment of new clinicians to Nantucket. The Nantucket Cottage Hospital Advanced Practice Clinician Education Program will partner with the MGH Institute of Health Professions, […]
Winners of the AAN’s People’s Choice Awards on Nantucket
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the winning artists for the People’s Choice exhibition, a two week exhibition that was held in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street Throughout the first week of the exhibition visitors toured the two-story gallery and voted […]