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Nantucket Lightship
Nantucket History & People

A 130-Year Vigil – Nantucket Lightship

~ by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner ~ The US government installed new experimental technologies on the lightships Nantucket and Cape May in 1934. A new type of short-range radio beacon was installed on the Nantucket to enable the lightship […]

IOD World Champions rounding the mark. Photo by Alice Breed
Featured Articles

IOD World Championship on Nantucket This Week

photos by Alice Breed The International One-Design Class was conceived to build, maintain and race a fleet of “One-Design Yachts, distinctive in appearance and performance, using one-design racing, and especially to develop the competitive capacities of both helmsmen and crews under the fairest and most equal conditions.” Through Friday, September […]

Nantucket History & People

Cranberry Harvest on Nantucket

~ by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner ~ A September 11, 1915 article in the Inquirer & Mirror announced that cranberries harvested from island bogs would now be shipped in barrels labelled “Island Brand.” The new labels would also include […]

Nantucket Essays

Red Wheelbarrow

~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ As ordered, a pile of rich loam appeared at end of the driveway on Tuesday morning. The loam had come from the dump, created from the garbage and trash of the previous hundred years of half eaten sandwiches and rotting milk. Give food enough […]

Island Science

Native Grapes

~ by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station ~ As you walk around the island this month, take a deep breath and tell me what you smell. If you are at the Nantucket Field Station, the scent of Welch’s grape jelly is wafting through the […]

Island Cooking, Nantucket Style

Cider Revolution

~ by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Epernay Wine & Spirits ~ The leaves are starting to fall, the kids are back in school, and it’s time to enjoy the next couple of weeks on Nantucket that will lead us into an Indian Summer. This […]

San Francisca in the Gold Rush Era
Nantucket History & People

Gold Fever

by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner Published by the island newspaper Mirror on September 3, 1849, Jethro C. Brock’s list of Nantucket people who went to California was printed as a broadside called A Correct List of Persons Belonging to […]

Yesterday's Island Photo Contest
Nantucket Events

Share Your Photos, Win a Prize

September 12 is the deadline to enter the 2015 Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest. For more than 20 years, this popular contest has been a terrific way for you to share your images of Nantucket Island. Any season, any view, any time period (we love the old photos) are accepted, as […]