News and Events for Nantucket Island
by Amy Jenness, author of On This Day in Nantucket History, available at Mitchell’s Book Corner On June 22, 1929 the telephone company “cut over” from an outdated magnetic telephone system at its Fair Street building to a battery system housed in a new building on Union Street. The new […]
For the Dad in Your Life Since it opened on Nantucket last season, Follain has earned a reputation as the place to go on-island for all-natural makeup and skincare products that are healthier to use and safer for the environment. Just in time for Father’s Day, this must-shop spot has […]
Artbook Project Exhibition opening will be the first chance for the community to see AAN’s new Visual Arts Center at 24 Amelia Drive. Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to announce the opening of the Nantucket Artbook Project Exhibition, on Friday, June 19 at 5-7 p.m. at the Visual […]
by Robert P. Barsanti When you live on Nantucket, you become so accustomed to its luxury that it becomes commonplace and invisible. The ocean breathes in the distance. The roses climb up onto the roof and then bloom. The sky glows an electric blue. You grow so familiar with the […]
Philip Bloom Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition featuring original paintings by Cassandra Levine, Javier Ramirez, and Patrick Shoemaker. From the Ashes of Conceptualism will open with a reception on Friday, June 19 from 6 to 8 pm, and will be on display to the public till June […]
by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station We have had three visitors this week, a Mola Mola otherwise known as an ocean sunfish, a beautiful humpback whale out by Great Point and an errant washashore/rode-ashore raccoon, and I thought I would write about one of […]
– Featured Entrepreneur by Suzanne Daub – A dream came true this spring for Wes Van Cott when he opened his Nantucket coffee shop in expanded, newly customized digs right around the corner from where he established the island’s first shop devoted to coffee. Twenty years ago he started Nantucket […]
