News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • For the past two summers I have been fortunate to visit the Tuckernuck Land Trust’s (or TLT, website can be accessed at http://www.tuckernucklandtrust.org/) field station and do some basic biological collection (bees and mosquitoes) and give […]
Widely collected sculptor, painter, and musician David Hostetler has had a “break out” year for 2013. He’s moved in a new direction with his painting. Using his paper patterns that mark the outline on the log of his wood carvings, he painted his largest oil to date: 71”h x 74”w, […]
• by Sarah Teach • Ve all know of ze tale: Bram Stoker’s Transylvanian count who lived (sort of, that is) in Castle Dracula. In the 1920s, Irish playwright Hamilton Deane and American playwright John Balderston each took their pens to the story to craft a brilliantly terrifying stage adaptation. […]
• by Chef Jenn Farmer • What the heck does gluten free mean? Why are so many people beginning to eat gluten free? Sadly the Wikipedia answer is vague. Some people are actually allergic to the protein gluten that is found in wheat, rye, and barley. Oats are often on […]
• by Sarah McNamara • A trip to the salon is all about helping you to look your best and feel beautiful in your own skin. However, this experience can usually involve toxic and damaging chemicals and noxious fumes. As people become more aware of the importance of eating organic […]
More than twenty island artists will show and discuss their work this Saturday, August 24, when the the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) holds it’s second Sidewalk Art Show of the season. From 10 am to 3 pm, the garden of the Nantucket Atheneum (entrance on India Street) will be […]
Swim Across America, the national non-profit organization dedicated to raising money for cancer research, will return to Nantucket in a benefit for Nantucket Cottage Hospital and Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket (PASCON) through its open water swim on Saturday, August 24 at Jetties Beach. As of press date, more […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • He stands in board shorts and Yacht Club flip-flops at dawn on the Steamship Wharf and watches the colors spill over the eastern horizon. Then he puts his sun glasses back on. Summer can’t leave yet. He remains on the stand-by list. He parked […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • What is strong, a skilled hunter, ephemeral, eats mosquitoes and feeds a wide variety of birds, fish, and frogs? Give up? It is the beautiful dragonfly, currently gracing Nantucket ponds and wetlands this summer. Some of […]
