News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in collaboration with the Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) and the Nantucket Preservation Trust (NPT), is pleased to announce the “Four Centuries Domestic Walking Tour” tour on Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 10 A.M. Join expert preservationists and conservators for an exploratory two-hour walking tour examining […]
There are just four days left to send in your entry to the 2016 Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket Photo Contest. Nearing its 30th year, this popular contest is a fun way for you to share your images of Nantucket Island. Any season, any view, any time period (we love the old […]
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ Walking into the brightly lit sunshine of Kitty Pochman’s office, on location at 110 Eel Point Road, the view from her picture window does not disappoint. Her second story office at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation offers an unspoiled view west toward marshland, North Head Long […]
~ by Amy Jenness ~ In mid-September of 1961 Hurricane Esther gathered itself into a category three, and the category four, hurricane as it moved north-northwest from the Cape Verde Islands. The storm peaked with sustained winds of 145 mph, made landfall in North Carolina and continued north. Early on […]
by Robert P. Barsanti The weathermen declared Nantucket “the place to be” for the hurricane season, and the kite surfers nod vigorously out in the channel. Starring in their own YouTube videos, they rip across the water in the Tropical Storm force winds. A blue sail dips down and pulls […]
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket has a new addition to it’s 60th Anniversary season: Amy Stiller in Just Trust one night only, Sunday, September 11 at 7 pm in Bennett Hall, 62 Centre Street. This one-woman show is a semiautobiographical journey of a spiritually struggling young woman, striving to emotionally survive […]
~ by Katherine Brooks, Maria Mitchell Association ~ The story of the striped bass skeleton hanging in the Maria Mitchell Association’s Hinchman Natural Science Museum begins with an old Nantucketer, Granger Frost, who caught the striped bass off of Tuckernuck in 1971. The bass, lovingly named the 7th Earl of […]
~ by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits ~ Summer on Nantucket has become synonymous with drinking rosé wine. On the boat, at the beach, sipping it waterfront with breakfast, lunch or dinner are just a few occasions where one can be […]
