News and Events for Nantucket Island
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 […]
Throughout the month of December, the Nantucket Historical Association transforms their Nantucket Whaling Museum into a museum filled with magical holiday sights. Starting on Friday, December 5 and continuing through December 31, the 21st Annual Festival of Trees will be held at the museum at 13 Broad Street. This highly […]
The Nantucket Cottage Hospital Thrift Shop has donated $250,000 to Nantucket Cottage Hospital (NCH), the largest gift in its 85-year history on the island. The generosity of the island community and the dedication of the Hospital Thrift Shop’s board, staff and volunteers combined in 2014 to generate this extraordinary, record-setting […]
• by Sarah Morneau • Summer has come to a close on Nantucket, but that doesn’t mean the island shuts down. With the changing of seasons comes a changing of inventory, with stores switching from breezy summer attire to cozy sweaters, outerwear, and boots. Here we list some of the […]
• by Leah Mojer • The sun sets early, and kids are back to school, the ocean is cooling back down to chilly temps, and the streets swirl with copper-tinged leaves – it’s a harsh realization that the cold temps are not far away. There is always about a week […]
The Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum’s annual Yard Sale will be held on Saturday, November 22 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and Sunday, November 23 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at Bartlett’s Farm, 33 Bartlett Farm Road. The Annual Yard Sale is like no other yard sale on Nantucket. […]
• by Sarah Teach • Michelle Perkins and Scott Leonard are animal people, though they’d probably prefer to add a distinction: “non-human” animals. The past 16 years of their 25 as a couple have been spent in their home on bucolic Millbrook Road. Leonard is a handyman who can build […]
• by Dr. Sarah Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station • 2014 has been an interesting and eventful year for the world of Nantucket nature. Winter Storms on Nantucket In March we had a serious winter storm similar to the doozies we endured in February and March of […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • On Friday at four, A contractor and I stood on the rear deck of the Gray Lady Two as it popped into its high gear, sprouted a rooster tail, and zipped over the swells. The long swells marched slowly in from the northeast. We […]
