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Island Cooking

Duck Tacos!

• 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 […]

Nantucket Style

Eye on Style, Lorene Ireland

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 […]

Featured Articles

Gems of the Sea

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 […]

Nantucket Events

Kids Take the Stage

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, […]

Nantucket Essays

Why I Walk

by Robert P. Barsanti I attended the funeral in Hillsboro, New Hampshire recently. My uncle, Nandy, had died relatively unexpectedly at age 88, at the end of a long laughing life.  Those who had survived gathered up in a small church in the hills of central New Hampshire to try […]

Nantucket Events

Serenalla Hosts Julia Chaplin

SERENELLA-NANTUCKET CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO CELEBRATE GYPSET TRAVEL WITH AUTHOR JULIA CHAPLIN Julia Chaplin is a New York-based journalist and editor who covers contemporary art,fashion, design, lifestyle, and travel. Chaplin is the author of Gypset Style, Gypset Travel,founded www.gypset.com and designs a Gypset resort clothing collection. Gypset is a portmanteau […]

Bay Scallops
Island Science

Bay Scallops, Nantucket Gold

• by Dr. Sarah D. Oktay, Managing Director UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station • Nantucket is home to the last commercially viable “wild” bay scallop fishery in the U.S. (and essentially world-wide) and preserving this treasure is, in a way, tantamount to preserving Nantucket.  Other fisheries up and down the […]