News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Julianne Adams • Mitchell’s Book Corner, with its classic structure, heralds your arrival on Main. Across town, Nantucket Bookworks’ homey front lures you in like a warm cup of cocoa. Mainstays of island life since 1968 and 1972, the two stores continue to differentiate themselves from each other, […]
• by Julianne Adams • “It’s nothing that’s been done here before,” says Nick Ferrantella. “It’s deeply rooted in the community.” Nick is speaking about Island Vibes: The Nantucket Music Collection, the latest musical project born in the underground studio he built ten years ago. Island Vibes, as Nick’s son […]
Visiting a museum with young children can be a challenge. That’s why the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) and the Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum have set aside special days for families to visit and enjoy their properties in a way that works for those with little ones. The NHA will host […]
Island author Jim Sulzer landed on Nantucket the same way many of us did. It was 1986 when the Yale graduate and his wife decided to come live on the island for “just one year.” Almost 30 “just one years” later, when Sulzer isn’t busy teaching writing to grades 5-8 […]
• by Julianne Adams • It is fitting that Frances Ruley Karttunen has taken on the project of recording the history of Nantucket’s North Shore. A 12th-generation Nantucket native, Karttunen’s own history is wrapped up in the island’s. Her family reaches back to the English families who settled into Madaket Harbor […]
• by Sarah Teach • Times are a’changing. The CEO of a Japanese Fortune 500 company and the lady who delivers your mail will both tell you so. Is change less pronounced out here on “yesterday’s island” than in the rest of the world? Eighty-nine-year-old Karl Lindquist, who grew up […]
• by Sarah Teach • In 2001, Nantucket’s Sidney and Robert Henderson VFW Post 8608 was forced out of its former Tom Nevers location due to erosion. But the wind and seas couldn’t destroy island veterans’ spirits. A new facility at 22 New South Road was 12 years in the […]
• by Sarah Teach • Eighty-nine-year-old WWII veteran Karl Lindquist is lucky to be alive. It was 1944, and Lindquist had just turned 18 when the Nantucket Draft Board gave orders for him and two other young Nantucket men to report for U.S. Army Infantry duty in Boston. The town […]
• by Sarah Teach • Joe Donelan isn’t one to grab the mic and crow about his winemaking prowess. In fact, it’s hard to even get him to talk about himself. But catch him for a chat, and you’ll find the founding owner of Donelan Family Wines casts a calming […]
