News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • What is strong, a skilled hunter, ephemeral, eats mosquitoes and feeds a wide variety of birds, fish, and frogs? Give up? It is the beautiful dragonfly, currently gracing Nantucket ponds and wetlands this summer. Some of […]
Watch out, Michelangelo, because this little island is about to give you a run for your lira. On Saturday, August 17, Jetties Beach will come alive with sand sculptures made by teams of islanders of all ages. For the 40th year in a row, Nantucket Island School of Design (NISDA) […]
• by Sarah Teach • Nantucket’s professional repertory theatre company has chosen a winner. You may know Boston Marriage’s Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet from the literary term coined by his characteristically terse writing style: “Mamet speak.” He first started writing plays in the 70s, and his writing was Hollywood-adaptation […]
This Saturday, August 17, Walk Now for Autism Speaks will take place at Jetties Beach. This fundraising walk is a fun-filled, family friendly event that is a powerful force to fund vital research into autism spectrum disorders. Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disorder in the U.S., and Autism Speaks […]
Marsha Egan’s positive energy is positively infectious. It is this, along with her irrepressible and spirited enthusiasm, bright outlook, “can do” attitude, and leadership skills, that contributes to her standing as an expert public speaker and professional coach. Every other Thursday through early October, right here on Nantucket, you can […]
• by Jenn Farmer • It was the best way to spend a misty evening on Nantucket. I was on the rooftop of the Starlight Theatre and Café. It was a little surreal, watching the fog roll in, listening to the music and pleasant conversations drift up through the grape […]
Many people think of Old South Wharf as a haven for artists and art lovers, with lots of quaint and unique galleries to peruse and a beautiful view of the harbor to get those creative juices flowing. But Old South Wharf is also a great location for fashion and style…and […]
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. — Coco Chanel As a young boy, Reubin Simantov loved to look for pearls in shells he found along the beach. It was a passion that stayed with him for life. When he was considerably older, Reubin learned the truth of the […]
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation’s Junior Theater Company returns for its fourth summer season to present Disney s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. with performances through August 20. The junior version is adapted from a book by Linda Woolverton and the Disney Theatrical Productions show that premiered on Broadway in 1994, […]
