News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Leah Mojer • Decorating soldiers’ graves with flowers is an ancient custom. The first Memorial Day observance went by another name: Decoration Day. In the south, people would gather on the designated day and put flowers on graves and renew contacts with relatives, neighborsm and friends. There was […]
• by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits Every year has a new season, as they say in baseball, and the same can be found true for every vineyard and wine region in the world. You might wonder how to demystify wine […]
• by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits • Welcome Wine-oh’s and Wine-ette’s to the greatest wine show on Earth! The Nantucket Wine Festival will soon be in full-effect, and if this isn’t the reason you came to Nantucket for this special […]
• by Hilary Newell – Hilary Newell came around the point 28 years ago and has been learning island-style gardening ever since. • Window boxes are everywhere on Nantucket. The muted grey of weathered shingles lends itself to the addition of all sorts of colors to underline the windows. There’s […]
• by Sarah Morneau • Summer has come to a close on Nantucket, but that doesn’t mean the island shuts down. With the changing of seasons comes a changing of inventory, with stores switching from breezy summer attire to cozy sweaters, outerwear, and boots. Here we list some of the […]
With 25 years of experience making and selling jewelry on the island and 11 years on Old South Wharf, Emilly Rubin took the opportunity at the end of last year’s season to make the move uptown from the wharves. Last week’s article focused on the Sweet Liddle section of the […]
• by Julianne Adams • It’s amazing how scent can transport you—a whiff of waffle cone and you’re back on island for the summer. Scent is an extremely powerful and often very personal sense. Years disappear and emotions can fly up when a single fragrance is unleashed. The image of […]
Tiny Baskets Made of Gold Pageo, the exclusive jeweler on Nantucket’s Main Street, is bringing golden lightship baskets back to our island. In 1977, Glenaan Elliott Robbins designed the first gold Nantucket Lightship Basket in miniature. It was an oval lidded basket with hand-etched scrimshaw and a tiny penny inside. […]
Making the move uptown from the wharves was a blessing for Emilly Brooke Rubin, and a well-deserved one. At the end of last season she packed up her two stores on Old South Wharf, Sweet Liddle and her jewelry shop, and moved them both into the current 40 Centre Street […]
