News and Events for Nantucket Island
-by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner– On July 1, 1880 two hundred excited guests filed into Atlantic Hall at 74 Main Street to witness the dedication of the island’s new roller skating rink. Roller skating was a popular mainland past […]
Geena Davis, an Oscar and Golden Globe Award winning actor and advocate, will headline the Dreamland Foundation’s 2015 Stage and Screen Gala. The Gala, one of the summer’s standout events, will be held at the Dreamland Theater on Saturday, July 11. As the event’s headliner, Davis, who was born in […]
-by Abigail Terres- Bartlett’s Farm, situated on a picturesque piece of property on the southwest of town, is Nantucket’s oldest and largest family-owned farm. For more than seven generations, the Bartlett family have cultivated the land to feed their fellow islanders. For the first time, this summer Bartlett’s Farm is […]
Lon Solomon will be the featured speaker at this year’s annual Spiritual Heritage Nantucket free event to be held on July 2 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Meeting House, 11 Orange Street. Lon will present his message of hope and how he went from confusion and despair as a […]
by Abigail Terres Originally scheduled for Sunday, June 28th, the 2nd annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® Nantucket event organized by A Safe Place, Inc. has been postponed due to the very stormy weather. An announcement will be made when a new date is selected. For this fund- and […]
-by Robert P. Barsanti- June comes with velocity. The momentum tips in March, with a few polite e-mail and a gentle phone call; “Could you find someone to paint the house?” Hidden under the calendar, the deadlines ride a dark current until the warmth of May dries out the island […]
-by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station- For the first time in many years, we have a new mammalian intruder who has managed to stowaway on a boat and make their way to the island. What would be a farcical children’s book story for the […]
No one has attempted a solo swim across the 30 miles of open water between Nantucket and Cape Cod in nearly three decades. The only man known to have successfully completed a solo crossing is Paul Asmuth, an International Swimming Hall of Famer who swam from Nantucket to Hyannis in […]
