News and Events for Nantucket Island
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s newest production opened last week with a song that sets your toes tapping and puts a smile on your face that’s likely to stay through to the last echo of applause. Annie Get Your Gun is a fictionalized account of the true romance between American sharpshooters […]
~ by Katherine Brooks, Maria Mitchell Association ~ Among the historic gray-shingled houses of Vestal Street and hidden in the gardens of the Maria Mitchell Association’s Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, sits a whale skull found thirty years ago at Cisco Beach. The bone belongs to a right whale: an […]
~ by Corinne Muffly, Educator ~ A series of articles dedicated to helping parents find places and activities on Nantucket to enjoy with their children. Nantucket used to be quite the hotspot for harvesting blueberries due to the naturally acidic sandy soil. As the island’s population grew this natural resource […]
~ by Katherine Brooks, Maria Mitchell Association ~ The story of the orphan tropical fish sounds like it could be the nautical version of “Annie,” or a spin off of “Finding Dory,” but the story of the orphan tropical fish hinges on the theme of displacement and is an example […]
~ by Amy Jenness ~ In 1913 an Edgartown fisherman named Sam Jackson was dragging for flounder around Tuckernuck Shoal when he discovered a massive bed of quahogs and forever changed the island’s shellfish industry. For centuries local fishermen had harvested large clams, also known as quahogs, as well as […]
There are just three more chances to see the edgy exploration of the lines between seduction and power in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s production of Venus in Fur. Directed by Jedadiah Schultz, Kaitlyn Jane Kurowski and Jeff Barry star in this production of David Ives’ play (based on a novel […]
~ by C. Oscar Olson ~ Incorporated in 1641, Nantucket is easily one of the oldest towns in the country. One would assume that in the span of 375 years, all the “firsts” would be taken, and that there simply weren’t any new or notable trails to blaze. Think again. […]
