News and Events for Nantucket Island
~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, Walt Whitman has joined the crew. He is not old. He does not have wild hair, a fifty year beard, and leather leggings. As far as I can tell, […]
~ by Amy Jenness ~ When 200 women and 100 men gathered in upstate New York in 1848 for America’s first women’s-rights convention, they unanimously agreed that women should be given the same freedoms as men: the right to speak publicly, pursue an education, get a job, practice a religion […]
by Jenny Benzie Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits Tired of the same uneventful and even less inspiring so-called wine dinner party? Are you longing to meet other wine connoisseurs and collectors who will generously share their most coveted wine with you at a […]
~ by Jenny Benzie, Advanced Sommelier + Certified Wine Educator, Proprietress of Épernay Wine & Spirits ~ Visitors and summer residents coming to the island for a weekend getaway are jubilant to the prospects of warm sunshine and calm winds. The 42nd Annual Daffodil Weekend, sponsored by the Nantucket Island […]
~ by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day In Nantucket History ~ Isolated out to sea and staunchly Quaker, and therefore pacifist, Nantucketers nonetheless got pulled into British conflict long before the American Revolution. Island whaleships had to contend with European privateers capturing their ships as early as 1744. […]
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ You may recognize Libby Gibson’s voice from the weekly updates she does on 97.7 ACK FM, reporting the latest happenings of the town in that oh-so-relatable, down-to-earth tone. Or perhaps you have spotted her walking her dog down one of Nantucket’s many gorgeous beaches, Libby’s […]
~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ I have walked passed the snow shovels for weeks. One of them dates back into the eighties, when you could sell shovels that had a teflon coating and would hold pounds of snow; a shovel for the young man who scorned the Nautilus machines […]
This year there are two picnics to choose from during Daffodil Festival Saturday, April 30. The Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce (the brains and the brawn behind Nantucket Daffodil Festival Weekend), is hosting a Family Beach Picnic at Children’s Beach in addition to the famous ‘Sconset Tailgate Picnic. Both start […]
Charles Arthur Schaefer always knew he was born to be a gardener, even when the only space he had was in a pair of windows facing west in his old Greenwich Village apartment in New York. He filled them with a jungle of exotic plants that thrived to the point […]
