News and Events for Nantucket Island
As we breathe a collective sigh of relief from the nonstop duties of the summer season, we remember one of the rewards of all our hard work: Island Fair! On Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., come wind down and reconnect with friends […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • She stood at Children’s Beach at six o’clock in the morning. The Eagle hummed with lights and activity, but otherwise the harbor was quiet and still. Four ducks paddled past the sailboats, and their wake, eventually, rolled up on the beach. The sun rose […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • Mapping the Ocean Floor The UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station has the use of a new toy, and boy what a toy it is! In late August, Dr. Mark Borelli of the Provincetown Center for Coastal […]
• by Phil Laughing Crow Austin • May 6 came and went again this year without the slightest mention of the Hindenburg disaster that occurred in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. My father was exactly twenty years old at the time of the tragedy, which killed about three dozen souls […]
• by Chef Jenn Farmer • I recently stumbled upon some old recipes I picked up as a teenager when traveling in New Orleans and through several southern states. One recipe was pretty beat up, caught my eye and for obvious reason. It was for “Old Sober” or Yak a […]
access nantucket, formerly Nantucket AIDS Network (NAN), is celebrating their new mission and new name this weekend at an open house and at their first fundraising event. Friday, September 6, from 4 to 6 pm in their offices at 35 Old South Road, access nantucket will host an open house […]
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • We are blessed to have the 17 acre Folger’s marsh as the centerpiece of the Nantucket Field Station. It is populated by an enormous menagerie of egrets, herons, and cormorants among other marsh birds. I usually […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • He has stopped in the crosswalk by the Hub at nine o’clock at night. His phone and my headlights put him in a spotlight; however, because his earphones are in, he cannot hear my car. Instead, he hits himself in the thigh, then begins […]
Staff Picks & Insider Tips This year, jewelry fashion on Nantucket has been all about pearls. We spent the whole summer oohing and ahhing – and groaning, too – over this season’s pearl selection. We found that not all of the Nantucket jewelers who specialize in pearls are created equal. […]
