News and Events for Nantucket Island
It is going to be a veritable Who’s Who at the Eighteenth Annual Nantucket Wine Festival, May 14-18, 2014. From Eric Asimov, NY Times Chief Wine Critic, Master Sommelier Dustin Wilson of NYC’s Eleven Madison Park and Chef Ken Oringer of Toro to Luminary of the Year Paul Draper of […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in collaboration with the Nantucket Atheneum and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, is pleased to present the Moby-Dick Marathon beginning Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 9 A.M. and ending approximately at Noon on Sunday, February 2. For the third year in a row, approximately 90 participants […]
Doctors and nurses won’t be the only ones seeing patients at Nantucket Cottage Hospital in 2014. Dogs have joined the ranks of the hospital’s caregivers with the founding of a new animal-assisted therapy program at NCH. Divot, an eight-year-old German shepherd, along with Bing, a whippet, and Tucker, a cockapoo, […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is opening a new exhibition and hosting a short film and talk on Friday and Saturday, January 10 and 11. The J. Cecelia & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street, will open Friday, January 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for a reception featuring the […]
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation joins the Nantucket New Year’s festivities for the second year in a row by bringing a world-renowned performer to the Main Stage for two family-friendly shows on December 31 at 4PM and 7PM. The Foundation’s executive director Melissa Murphy commented, “When over 1,000 people from our […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce A Night of Holiday Magic, an all-ages, community holiday celebration sponsored by ReMain Nantucket, on Saturday, December 14, 2013, at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street from 5 – 8 P.M. For the fourth year in a row, A Night of […]
• by Sarah Teach • Digging up and casting away the root of all evil, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) presents a jolly holiday musical production of “A Christmas Carol.” Charles Dickens’s familiar story is approached by adaptation writers Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens with a lighter foot than the […]
As we opened the door into Sophie T’s the aromas of garlic, freshly baked crust, and sausage, wafted over us into the night air. Italian comfort food is the perfect choice for a chilly evening, and Sophie Ts makes some of the best on the island. We had a large […]
• by Chef Jenn Farmer • Some Chefs get depressed in the winter due to lack of garden fresh veggies and orchard fresh fruit. But for me it is like a time when the slate is wiped clean. The seafood is still plentiful, as well as fresh cranberries, root vegetables […]
