News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will reopen their Whaling Museum on Broad Street this Tuesday, February 1, with free admission for the year-round community and visitors. Daily in-person interpretive programming will return to the Whaling Museum this year after a hiatus during the pandemic. Interpretive programming includes The Essex Gam, which retells the […]
by Robert P. Barsanti Winter comes to Nantucket on a northerly gale. The sky descends to a few feet overhead, the clouds somersault, and the wind flings sand. If the wind is of a particular mind, the temperature nudges below freezing and the fellas in their shorts and “Let’s Go […]
Nantucket Book Clubs is a new project created by Nantucket Book Partners (Mitchell’s and Bookworks) to connect and collaborate with the Nantucket community. The books to be featured were chosen by island nonprofits, businesses, and community members according to their missions and interests. The 2022 Book Clubs focus on grief, leadership, climate change, connection, community, diversity, and much […]
Not all that long ago, when I believed that my parents would be hosting the holidays for the next few years at least, a question was pressed into my chest. “So,” my uncle asked. “What is it like on Nantucket in the winter.”
Like anyone who has one foot on island and one foot on shore, I had developed a series of responses to this question. Always aware of an opportunity to be an embarrassment and an outrage to my father, I had several samples of island life ready to present.
by Tim Ehrenberg It’s that time of year to start making a list and checking it twice… No need to find out who’s naughty or nice though, because books make the perfect gift for anyone on your shopping agenda. Thank Santa Claus that we have two bookstores here on Nantucket […]
As members of a small community, our favorite gifts to give are gifts that give back. When you Shop Local on Nantucket, you are helping the small makers and small businesses who make our island unique.
The Nantucket Comedy Festival is happy to help you finish your Christmas
Stroll on Nantucket on a bright note with a new event to support the Stand Up &
Learn kids comedy program.
Many of us have been enjoying the mild autumn we’ve had on Nantucket this year with end-of-summer temperatures lingering well into the end of September. Forget “sweater weather”: it’s been more like shorts and t-shirts into October. Even now, in mid-November, we’ve had some 60-degree days and only recently had our first frost. It’s enough to think autumn has moved into winter’s territory.
