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The Gallery at Four India | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket History & People

On Collecting

by Gene Ingalls My role as curator of Fine Contemporary glass for The Gallery at Four India is a challenging and rewarding experience, but as a collector I am totally consumed. Collecting has been nothing short of a labor of love and has added joy beauty to my life. Collecting […]

Long Pond | Nantucket, MA
Island Science

A Short Tale about Long Pond

by Dr. Sarah Treanor BoisDirector of Research & Education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation According to Wampanoag tradition, Nantucket was formed when the giant Indian, Moshaup, dumped the sand out of his moccasins at the end of a long day. The sand from one moccasin became Martha’s Vineyard and […]

Swim Across America | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Events

Making a Splash to Help Cancer Care

Nantucket Swim Across America will hold its eighth annual swim next Saturday, August 24. This annual open water swimming event brings more than 500 people to Jetties Beach at 8 am to either volunteer or dive into the warm waters of Nantucket Sound. Since 2012, the Swim has raised more […]

Don Freedman on Nantucket 2019
Nantucket History & People

“Same Place, Different Gift”

As I settled into one of the comfy leather chairs he sells on the upper level of Don Freedman’s downtown shop, ready to chat with him about his 40th season on Nantucket, one of his many regular customers stopped by to introduce Don to his son. “He’s the third generation,” […]

GS Hill Gallery | Nantucket, MA
Featured Articles

A Touch of Fate and a Life of Art

by Suzanne Daub On a fog-shrouded night in 1978, Greg and Judi Hill first visited Nantucket Island: “We arrived on the late ferry at night, got off the boat with our luggage, and we asked a cab driver if he could take us to the Jared Coffin House…” Judi smiled…”he […]

Nantucket: The MusACKal | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Entertaining

You’ll Have a Whale of a Time

by Catherine Macallister At a time where historically–based musicals are taking Broadway by storm, it seems fitting that a Nantucket musical should make its way to the island. “I don’t love the pun,” says the Lady Grey, narrator of Nantucket: The MusACKal, already drawing chuckles from the audience as she […]

The Beet | Nantucket, MA
Featured Restaurants

Unbeetably Fast, Fresh, and Fun

by Carl Oscar Olson We all fall into routines. The things we like, the things we’re used to, and the things that are convenient can limit our horizons and leave us missing some of the best life, and Nantucket, have to offer. It’s important to keep things fresh, to keep […]

Cranberry Harvest | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Essays

They Aren’t Wrong

by Robert P. Barsanti I have become blind to phones. I understand that we live in a time when people can enter their own digital bubble, mentally recline on the electric curve, and watch the fun swirls—I know the attraction of Words with Friends. But, on a Saturday afternoon in […]

Lion King Jr. | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Arts, Nantucket Events

Theatre with a Focus on Kids

by Catherine Macallister For Laura Gallagher Byrne, there are memories that capture what it’s like to be a part of the Dreamland Stage Company: a young actress playing the iconic Peter Pan flying through the open window into the Darlings’ room for the first time, cast parties marking the end […]