News and Events for Nantucket Island
Join the migration of vintners, sommeliers, chefs and wine lovers from around the world who flock to Nantucket Island for a collection of more than 50 events that make up the annual Nantucket Wine Festival. Over the course of five days, the island comes alive with tastings, seminars, lunches, dinners […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is hosting a festive free workshop for kids on New Year’s Eve day upstairs at 11 Centre St, Sherburne Hall (Preservation Institute: Nantucket — their temporary winter location), from 11 am to 12 noon. “Ring in the noon year with AAN. Join us for this […]
The Holiday Season is upon us and Nantucket residents can take a tour of the beautifully illuminated homes across our island. Nantucket Visitor Services is sponsoring the 9th annual Island Tour of Lights. Nominate your house or vote for a favorite house lit up and decorated for holiday season! Starting […]
What New Englander doesn’t love cranberries? Nantucketers are no exception. Island residents have cultivated cranberries for over 150 years, and today, the island is home to two cranberry bogs, including one of the nation’s only organic bogs. In celebration of this tart, tradition-steeped red berry, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) […]
October is filled with opportunities to appreciate art on Nantucket. Several wonderful galleries will be showing both new and long-loved art. During Columbus Day weekend, Artists Association of Nantucket will host their annual Wet Paint Weekend, and Nantucket Community Music Center (NCMC) will host their famous Pipe Organ Crawl. Several […]
• by Sarah Teach • Picasso sits alone in a dingy brick basement with the trappings of an interrogation room. Cold concrete floors. Bare light bulbs. A single table flanked by upright chairs, designed for discomfort. But the oddity of this interrogation room is that stacks of paintings line both […]
• by Sarah Teach • Twentieth century artists frame the fall lineup at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. Showing in repertory with Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso is playwright John Logan’s Red, which dramatizes a defining period in the life of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. A Picasso and Red share the […]
Nantucket Memorial Airport will be executing a full scale “Emergency Response Exercise” on Wednesday, September 24. The “Emergency Response Exercise” is a full-scale, interagency deployment of on-island resources, with the goal of providing continuous improvement of emergency services to the flying public and the citizens of the county of Nantucket. […]
• by Sarah Teach • The Nantucket Island Fair brings together many of the best parts of Nantucket: family, friends, community spirit, the fruits of islanders’ summer of labor. And, of course, a beautiful shoreline. This annual family event has all the trimmings of a traditional country fair, with a […]
