News and Events for Nantucket Island
Jane’s Vanity is bringing the latest seasonal collections of hand-crafted European lingerie, loungewear, and accessories to Hostetler Gallery at 42 Centre Street for an exclusive two-day trunk show. Be surrounded by David Hostetler paintings that incorporate actual women’s lingerie and prints of lingerie images, while shopping for the newest romantic […]
Nantucket will be throwing it back to the 1970s on Jetties Beach this summer when Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra welcome The Australian Bee Gees Show as their special guest for the 19th annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert. General admission tickets for the event are […]
Darth Vader posing in front of a Chanel logo and C-3PO bathed in Louis Vuitton are just two of the characters featured in the series LEGO Wars, where Star Wars figurines fuse with the world of fashion. The artist behind the camera is Dale May, an award-winning advertising, entertainment, and […]
~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ The ocean has bestowed some special gifts on Fisherman’s Beach this summer. Sometime over the spring, the currents off shore shifted and built up a flat, gently sloping beach. So, in July, you can walk out thirty yards into the water and still be […]
~ by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner ~ A floating bathing house opened off South Wharf the second week of July in 1827. The house was supported on two pontoons and had eight 5 x 7 foot rooms and one […]
~ by Sarah Morneau ~ Take a stroll down Old South Wharf and iridescent bubbles float by you while pinwheels spinning lazily in the breeze catch your eye. You are intrigued, so you make your way down to the end of the shell lined path to where the bubbles are […]
~ by Amy Jenness ~ author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner. A year after publishing his novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville visited Nantucket for the first, and only, time on July 6, 1852. Melville travelled with his father-in-law Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw. During […]
