News and Events for Nantucket Island
by Robert P. Barsanti The clouds washed away before dawn, and the sun looked over us for once this April. Spring visits, but leaves the engine running. Winter remains in the front bedroom, although he has worn out his welcome. Almost every Winter morning begins under the racing clouds from […]
On April 26, there is a double feature opening downtown in the Artists Association of Nantucket’s Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery. Primary Concerns is a show that will focus on dominant color schemes or the monochromatic, again playing off the colors of the island as spring awakens. This exhibition […]
by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier of Épernay Who wants to deal with the sticky mess of mixing cocktails out of the boot of your car? Not interested in lugging an entire collection of bottles to your tailgate in order to make just one drink with so many different ingredients? No […]
by Robert P. Barsanti One must have a mind of winter to live year-round on the island. To stand in the driveway of a rental house in Madaket, watch the gulls high overhead, and then see the clouds of starlings descend from a power line to the grass, and then, […]
Tired of giving the same old holiday gifts and stocking stuffers? Nantucket Island is the perfect place to shop for one-of-a-kind gifts. Many who come to Nantucket never venture beyond the “town square”’ of Main, Center, Broad, and South Water and the side streets between. But if you venture a […]
by Jack Fritsch “Neil Cocker will bring us the freshest scallops in Nantucket, even if he’s the one who ends up getting frozen.” It is a pretty wild poster hanging in Stubby’s, an image once seen all around D.C., but did you ever wonder about the guy dripping icicles from […]
