News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Preservation Trust 2014 Preservation Awards: call for nominations will run now through Friday, March 21st at 5:00 PM. The Preservation Awards honor projects, individuals and organizations that have made a positive impact in preserving Nantucket’s historic character. NPT hopes that the awards will continue to encourage proper preservation work, […]
It is going to be a veritable Who’s Who at the Eighteenth Annual Nantucket Wine Festival, May 14-18, 2014. From Eric Asimov, NY Times Chief Wine Critic, Master Sommelier Dustin Wilson of NYC’s Eleven Madison Park and Chef Ken Oringer of Toro to Luminary of the Year Paul Draper of […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in collaboration with the Nantucket Atheneum and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, is pleased to present the Moby-Dick Marathon beginning Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 9 A.M. and ending approximately at Noon on Sunday, February 2. For the third year in a row, approximately 90 participants […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is opening a new exhibition and hosting a short film and talk on Friday and Saturday, January 10 and 11. The J. Cecelia & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street, will open Friday, January 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for a reception featuring the […]
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation joins the Nantucket New Year’s festivities for the second year in a row by bringing a world-renowned performer to the Main Stage for two family-friendly shows on December 31 at 4PM and 7PM. The Foundation’s executive director Melissa Murphy commented, “When over 1,000 people from our […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce A Night of Holiday Magic, an all-ages, community holiday celebration sponsored by ReMain Nantucket, on Saturday, December 14, 2013, at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street from 5 – 8 P.M. For the fourth year in a row, A Night of […]
• by Sarah Teach • Digging up and casting away the root of all evil, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) presents a jolly holiday musical production of “A Christmas Carol.” Charles Dickens’s familiar story is approached by adaptation writers Mike Ockrent and Lynn Ahrens with a lighter foot than the […]
The instigators of the original Nantucket Christmas Stroll were merely trying to prevent islanders from escaping to Cape Cod, 30 miles across the Sound, to do their holiday shopping. Rewind to 1973, a year when local merchants, in an effort to boost the island’s holiday purse, kept shops open late […]
