News and Events for Nantucket Island
-by Abigail Terres- Bartlett’s Farm, situated on a picturesque piece of property on the southwest of town, is Nantucket’s oldest and largest family-owned farm. For more than seven generations, the Bartlett family have cultivated the land to feed their fellow islanders. For the first time, this summer Bartlett’s Farm is […]
Lon Solomon will be the featured speaker at this year’s annual Spiritual Heritage Nantucket free event to be held on July 2 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Meeting House, 11 Orange Street. Lon will present his message of hope and how he went from confusion and despair as a […]
by Abigail Terres Originally scheduled for Sunday, June 28th, the 2nd annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® Nantucket event organized by A Safe Place, Inc. has been postponed due to the very stormy weather. An announcement will be made when a new date is selected. For this fund- and […]
-by Robert P. Barsanti- June comes with velocity. The momentum tips in March, with a few polite e-mail and a gentle phone call; “Could you find someone to paint the house?” Hidden under the calendar, the deadlines ride a dark current until the warmth of May dries out the island […]
-by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station- For the first time in many years, we have a new mammalian intruder who has managed to stowaway on a boat and make their way to the island. What would be a farcical children’s book story for the […]
No one has attempted a solo swim across the 30 miles of open water between Nantucket and Cape Cod in nearly three decades. The only man known to have successfully completed a solo crossing is Paul Asmuth, an International Swimming Hall of Famer who swam from Nantucket to Hyannis in […]
