The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to invite the public to its second Sidewalk Art Show of the season, Saturday, August 13 from 10 am to 3 pm in the dappled summer sun of the Nantucket Atheneum garden on India Street. More than twenty Artists Association of Nantucket […]
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Antiques Snippets – Scrimshaw Swifts
Commonly asked questions and misunderstandings about antiques… and the odd or end fascinating bit! One of the most common questions we are asked, almost on a daily basis, is what are these intricate lattice-work devices? When I press them to guess, people most often say a device to hang laundry […]
First Wireless on Nantucket
~ by Amy Jenness ~ Siasconset’s new Marconi Wireless Station received its first signal from the Nantucket lightship on August 12 in 1901. The two crews established a connection and then the ‘Sconset station asked the lightship crew: “How are you all? What’s doing?” The lightship crew responded with the […]
Keep ‘Em Laughing
Comedian Kevin Flynn, nationally known and a favorite on Nantucket, is returning to an island stage for two Monday night performances. He’ll appear at the new White Heron Theatre Company in downtown Nantucket on Monday, August 15 and Monday, August 22, both at 7:30 p.m. It’s that hectic time in […]
Antiques Show in New Venue Friday
According to Marty Shapiro, President of the Antique s Council, ” We couldn’t let a much loved antique show that has been a tradition on the island for 36 years simply just disappear! The Nantucket Antiques Show was something that people looked forward to every year and came from both […]
Passion in a Cup – Nantucket Coffee Roasters
~ by C. Oscar Olson ~ It was a cold night in Boston on December 16. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and the rest of The Sons of Liberty crept aboard a British merchant vessel and threw its entire shipment of tea into the ocean. The year was 1773, and this […]
Photographing in the Deep
Ben Phillips is returning to the Nantucket Historical Association for a lecture titled “Nantucket’s Offshore Wonders,” this Sunday, August 14 at 6 pm in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Ben Phillips, a Nantucket native, is an underwater photographer, travel-diving specialist, and diving instructor. During the past six years, he […]
Kenny Loggins Joins Boston Pops for Concert
Twenty years ago a small group of volunteers came together to try to do something big for Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Led by an ardent hospital supporter, the late Kathryn Clauss, they imagined what seemed impossible: what if we could get the world-famous Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra to come to Nantucket? […]
“The Velocity of Autumn” takes Summer Stage
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ One of the reasons to see a play as opposed to a film is that unlike the mundane and overly tired themes repeated in every “rom-com” or action flick, you just never know what you are going to get. There’s no happy-ending guaranteed – in […]