News and Events for Nantucket Island
-by Abigail Terres- Bartlett’s Farm, situated on a picturesque piece of property on the southwest of town, is Nantucket’s oldest and largest family-owned farm. For more than seven generations, the Bartlett family have cultivated the land to feed their fellow islanders. For the first time, this summer Bartlett’s Farm is […]
Lon Solomon will be the featured speaker at this year’s annual Spiritual Heritage Nantucket free event to be held on July 2 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Meeting House, 11 Orange Street. Lon will present his message of hope and how he went from confusion and despair as a […]
by Abigail Terres Originally scheduled for Sunday, June 28th, the 2nd annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® Nantucket event organized by A Safe Place, Inc. has been postponed due to the very stormy weather. An announcement will be made when a new date is selected. For this fund- and […]
by Abigail Terres This weekend nationally- and internationally-acclaimed authors and hundreds of readers will gather on Nantucket to share their love of books, their enthusiasm for writing, and their insights on the written word during the fourth annual Nantucket Book Festival. More than 70 published writers participating in the three-day […]
For four days from Thursday, June 18 through Sunday, June 21, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will host the annual Plein Air Nantucket. Plein Air Nantucket is open to all artists, at any skill level, who wish to paint in the fresh air and pristine scenery of the island, […]
Roberto Dutesco is a New York based photographer, poet and film-maker. Romanian born, he studied photography in Montreal, where he moved while still a teenager. Dutesco soon became a sought-after fashion photographer. With the spirit of a globe-trotter, he portrayed prominent personalities of our times, such as Pierre Trudeau, the […]
Artbook Project Exhibition opening will be the first chance for the community to see AAN’s new Visual Arts Center at 24 Amelia Drive. Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the opening of the Nantucket Artbook Project Exhibition, on Friday, June 19 at 5-7 p.m. at the Visual […]
Philip Bloom Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition featuring original paintings by Cassandra Levine, Javier Ramirez, and Patrick Shoemaker. From the Ashes of Conceptualism will open with a reception on Friday, June 19 from 6 to 8 pm, and will be on display to the public till June […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to present “Pacific Parallels: Marquesas Islands and the Essex Crew,” a special lecture by anthropologist Emily Donaldson, this Monday, June 15 at 6 pm at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. From the Essex crewmen’s near brush with French Polynesia’s Marquesas Islands, to […]
