News and Events for Nantucket Island
The next time you decide to go hunting for shells on Nantucket, you can do it in comfort and luxury, rain or shine. Jewelry designer Reubin Simantov of R. Simantov, Inc. has a new location within the elegant Nantucket Hotel at 77 Easton Street, and there you will discover exquisite […]
• by Dr. Sarah Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station • A few months ago I attended a water quality presentation up at the Massachusetts State House at the invitation of my friend and our most excellent Cape and island House Representative Tim Madden and island buddy Bob […]
Tasty New Kind of Sea Turtle Aunt Leah’s Fudge has brought a couple of new fudge flavors to town this year. Using kosher salt with sweet treats is all the rage, so Aunt Leah has created Sea Turtle, which melds together chocolate or vanilla fudge with caramel, pecans and sea […]
• by Leah Mojer • Since the invention of film making, food and film have been a natural pairing. Food has such a deeply entrenched emotional connection, it only seems right to document the intimate relationship on film. From the excrutiating love story in Like water for Chocolate or the […]
Marilyn Monroe once said, “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” The mother and daughter team of Sherri Guggenheim and Jennifer Rubinstein are currently conquering the world of shoes in the shopping district of fashionable downtown Nantucket. Their chic boutique on Centre Street, ViVi G. […]
Spiritual Heritage Nantucket is celebrating its 10th anniversary of hosting events on the island that build and encourage the Christian community. The 2014 evening event headlines New York Times bestselling author, popular speaker and executive SQuire Rushnell and his wife, Louise DuArt, who is known as one of the world’s […]
• by Sarah Teach • Chicago-based documentarian Steve James, director of Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) selection Life Itself, will receive NFF’s fourth annual Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling at this year’s festival. Since Life Itself—the film based on Roger Ebert’s eponymous memoir—celebrated its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film […]
• by Sarah Teach • Not many Hollywood comedy writers have spent 18 consecutive years on a tiny island flung nearly 30 miles into the North Atlantic. But come the annual Nantucket Film Festival (NFF), many from that small group make like The Beatles and get back to where they […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • On Saturday, I parked on Main Street near the Hub. June has many dress rehearsal pleasures. The lines are short (for everything besides the ferry), the strawberries weigh down their branches, and you can get an ice cream in under five minutes. On any […]
