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Antiques
Nantucket Events

August Antique Show Through Saturday

The 36th Annual Nantucket Antiques Show to benefit the Nantucket Fireman’s Association is being held this week at Nantucket High School, 10 Surfside Road.  Through Saturday, August 10, the show is featuring exhibitors from throughout the United States and Europe, with antiques from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The […]

Island Cooking

Backyard Weddings

• by Chef Jenn Farmer • Nantucket is a perfect location to have an outdoor wedding.  Recently my editor mentioned that two members of her family had outdoor weddings this year, and what a good idea.  I was instantly interested.   The timing was oddly excellent; I was going to be […]

Nantucket Essays

Billion Year Beach

• by Robert P. Barsanti • I was thinking about how strange it is. My two boys and I have spent much of the summer at Cisco this year.  Freed from the predictable pattern of the pond, they run through the dunes, spray themselves with sun screen and plunge into […]

Boring Sponge
Island Science

Sponges, Climate Change, & Bay Scallops

• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • We pulled up a common resident of our harbors the other day while doing a dredge for our Marine Ecology class off Pocomo Point. Scattered amongst the spider crabs and scallops and loose eelgrass and algae […]

White Heron
Nantucket Events

A Trio of Performances

The Nantucket Theatre Institute and the White Heron Theatre Company today announce a summer season of professional theatre in rotating repertory in a tent at their new permanent home at 5 N Water Street. The season will include the plays “God of Carnage” on Wednesdays and Saturdays, “Boston Marriage” on […]

AAN
Nantucket Events

Art: Big and Small

The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will be hosting a Think BIG Exhibition, with a kick-off opening reception on Friday August 2, from 6-8 pm. This exhibition of large works for sale will be on display through Saturday, August 17 at 33 Washington Street, just down the road from the […]

Island Cooking

Royal Solace

• by Chef Jenn Farmer • Unless you have been in a coma or cast away somewhere other than Nantucket, you probably know about the birth of the Royal Baby George.  It has become a news item that was difficult to miss.  I am a bit of a negative nelly […]