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Autism Speaks | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Essays

Getting So Close – Autism Speaks

~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ I am trying to get my son to shave. Ever since he was in seventh grade, he has grown a phenomenal beard; a dense thicket of wiry red bristles. After eight hours, a shadow appears. In two days, a low growth spreads across his […]

Arthur Cooper
Nantucket History & People

A Look Back … Segregation on Nantucket

by Amy Jenness Despite its reputation as a 19th century antislavery stronghold, Nantucket’s first generations of European settlers owned slaves and the process of integrating the island has at times been a difficult one. In 1659, nine English families purchased large portions of the island and came here to establish […]

Nantucket Essays
Nantucket Essays

It Isn’t “the There”

There are not many left. Certainly, not many left on an acre of oceanfront in Squam. It isn’t much. It had been a shack for fishermen to spend the weekend, then it became something you could bring the wife and kids to, then it became a place for the grandchildren […]

Artists Association of Nantucket | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Arts, Nantucket Events

Art in the Garden

The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to invite the public to its second Sidewalk Art Show of the season, Saturday, August 13 from 10 am to 3 pm in the dappled summer sun of the Nantucket Atheneum garden on India Street. More than twenty Artists Association of Nantucket […]