News and Events for Nantucket Island
“Rising Tides,” a documentary that explores the topic of coastline erosion, will be screened this Monday, June 25 at 6 pm in the Great Hall of the Nantucket Atheneum on India Street. Dr. Sarah Oktay, who served as one of the film’s consultants and has a cameo appearance in the […]
by Suzanne Daub The laughs start at rise, from the moment wide-eyed Gus enters the posh upstairs bedroom of a Manhattan townhouse, staggering under an armload of coats from the famous partygoers “downstairs.” He unceremoniously dumps them on the bed, then wanders starstruck through the room. The expressions and physical […]
by C. Oscar Olson Nantucket is an island of Kodak Moments. From Madaket to ‘Sconset and every cobblestone in between, there is a nary a bad angle for the perfect picture. But these days, virtually everybody carries a camera in their pocket. The art and skill that once went in […]
Dr. Sarah Treanor Bois Director of Research & Education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation Have you ever wondered about sand fleas and if they would help you out if you were in a bind? Well, that’s what students from the Nantucket New School’s (NNS) first and sixth grades were […]
The island’s past and present meet its future when “We Are Nantucket,” a community engagement program aimed at handing down and continuing the oral histories of Nantucket and its population, will once again be presented as a filmed series of interviews Thursday, June 14 in The Dreamland between Cyrus Peirce […]
Called by theatre critics “sidesplittingly funny,” and “deeply felt and honestly moving,” It’s Only a Play has just opened on Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s Bennett Hall stage. The plot is simple: It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a […]
