News and Events for Nantucket Island
Nantucket oysters have earned their reputation as some of the best in the world—a claim backed by diners from New York to Europe who return to the island year after year. But what many oyster lovers don’t realize is that these briny delicacies are doing more than just delighting palates.
For 2025, the Nantucket Historical Association’s annual summer fundraiser celebrating the rich tradition of Nantucket lightship baskets has an added flavor: a bourbon tasting alongside the bubbly, craft cocktails, and light bites. Formerly the annual Baskets & Bubbly is now Baskets, Bubbles, & Bourbon and will feature exciting new additions […]
“It’s in his blood.”
“He comes by it naturally.”
How many times do we hear someone say things like this? I’m guessing that these are common refrains if you’re hanging out around the University of Texas football field, watching young Arch Manning warming up. Arch, projected to be one of college football’s better quarterbacks this season, is the son of Cooper Manning. Cooper was a football player at one time as well, destined to play for Ole Miss, but a diagnosis of spinal stenosis caused Cooper to leave the game. Cooper went on to have a successful career as an entrepreneur, a slight variation of the quarterback business.
As June settles into true summer, the flora of Nantucket really comes alive. The beach roses scent the air along the dunes, our yellow thistles open for pollinators, and the golden heathers carpet the moors. This past week, while enjoying the early summer splendor, another blossom caught my eye: small clusters of whitish-green, each flower only ¼-inch in size. The delicate five-petal flowers aren’t showy or brightly colored, but they are pleasant, gently draping in small clusters. These flowers, however, aren’t the kind to put in an arrangement or bouquet. These deadly beauties actually belong to the poison ivy plant.
This Thursday, June 19 a collaboration of Nantucket organizations are hosting an island gathering to memorialize and honor Juneteenth. The block party at the African Meeting House, 29 York Street, runs from 11 am to 3 pm and will include music, a documentary screening, games, arts & crafts, food, and […]
Egan Maritime Institute invites the public to attend the season’s first Foghorn Speaker Series event, Fishing for Food and Money, this Wednesday, June 25 from 5:30 to 7 pm in the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum. The evening will feature a panel discussion that expands on the themes explored in […]
Theater has the unique power to touch your soul, stir your emotions, expand your mind, and broaden your understanding of the world. But sometimes all you really want is to escape reality, and theater can help you do that too.
This week, from Thursday, June 12 through Sunday, June 15, more than 20 distinguished writers will be on Nantucket Island to talk about their craft in onstage conversations, readings, and panel discussions, and they will interact with readers in several informal social gatherings. Tim Ehrenberg, creator of Tim Talks Books and President of the Nantucket Book Foundation, says the four-day Nantucket Book Festival as a favorite among “year-rounders, summer residents, weekenders…the commonality is a love for books. There is such a genuine feeling of connection all weekend long…this connection has been at the root of the Book Festival since the very beginning.”
In contemporary American literature, Dawn Tripp stands out as an author who bridges the worlds of poetry, essay, and historical fiction with a strong voice and impressive literary finesse. A nationally bestselling author whose novel The Season of Open Water won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, Tripp is a writer with an extraordinary ability to paint with her words a compelling picture of complex historical figures and intimate human experiences. Tripp’s literary craftsmanship and storytelling skills overlay deep and careful research of her subjects—her newest novel, Jackie, took her ten years to research and write.
Oh man, what was I thinking to book a 6 am fishing charter on a Saturday? Well, it had to be, as some medical appointments had shuffled my week pretty thoroughly. I somehow woke up a minute before my alarm went off. Now I’m not flexing here, but this ability is something of a superpower. I was fairly beat from bass fishing the night before. Maybe not my wisest decision to go but those stripers aren’t going to catch themselves, right?
