News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Dance Festival returns on July 9 to 14 with a diverse lineup of world-class artists. For 2024, Co-Artistic Directors Lauren Lovette and Lauren King are incorporating live music and expanding the repertoire of dance styles, including tap, ballroom, and street dance as well as ballet, to create an […]
For several months, Egan Maritime has explored island responses to the many sailing ship-era shipwrecks near Nantucket. Virtually all these disasters happened during one of New England’s infamous nor’easters or other seasonal storms. Even the US Lifesaving Service (USLSS) on Nantucket took the summer off: they only worked from September 1 until the end of April. We, too, can pause now and reflect on why Nantucketers successfully rescued mariners facing the dangers of the sea.
Keep up with changes of a warming world where the sewer plant is perched on the edge of the Atlantic, aquifer is getting salty, & creek is rising.
Join Nantucket’s Maria Mitchell Association for a free, safe viewing of the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse.
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is inviting members of the community to enjoy our annual Spring Sweep Auction, March 28 to April 1
Keith Lockhart & the Boston Pops on Tour will be joined at Jetties Beach on August 10, 2024, by special guest Super Diamond. Best-selling author and island resident Elin Hilderbrand will host the event.
The Hive, located at 5 Amelia Drive, Nantucket, will be a state-of-the-art facility for food innovation with 2 production kitchens and 4 innovation kitchens.
A heavy snow on Nantucket Island transforms us.
The Nantucket Girl Scouts Troop 64889 paid a visit to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s Labor & Deliver Department to drop off 16 baby blankets they created.
