News and Events for Nantucket Island
What New Englander doesn’t love cranberries? Nantucketers are no exception. Island residents have cultivated cranberries for over 150 years, and today, the island is home to two cranberry bogs, including one of the nation’s only organic bogs. In celebration of this tart, tradition-steeped red berry, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) […]
With wedding season upon us, it’s the perfect time to see what’s happening on the Real Nantucket Weddings page of the newly redesigned website devoted to island weddings: NantucketWeddings.com. Nantucket Island is a beautiful place to hold your wedding, but there are some extra hurdles to jump and careful planning […]
Tasty New Kind of Sea Turtle Aunt Leah’s Fudge has brought a couple of new fudge flavors to town this year. Using kosher salt with sweet treats is all the rage, so Aunt Leah has created Sea Turtle, which melds together chocolate or vanilla fudge with caramel, pecans and sea […]
The Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s 11th Annual Cranberry Festival will have approximately 880 million guests of honor. On Saturday October 12, 2013 from 11 am to 4 pm, the little red honorees will be on full display as they are harvested in the traditional way out at Milestone Cranberry Bog. Festival […]
Tickets are now on sale for two Nantucket events that are sure to be sell-outs: an evening with acclaimed underwater diver and photographer Tony Wu, hosted by the Nantucket Historical Association on July 8, and the ever-popular Boston Pops on Nantucket concert, hosted by the Nantucket Cottage Hospital on August […]
Every other year, Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative Assessment Week offers naturalists, researchers, and the public the chance to help document the many exciting and amazing species on Nantucket Island. From Wednesday, May 16 until Monday, May 22, a variety of walks and talks will be offered both during the day and […]
Steve “Tuna” Tornovish It’s hard to be successful from a standing start (no, this is not a poke at our beloved Bill Belichick after his North Carolina Tar Heels took a horrendous loss to TCU on national television) but the August Blues fishing tournament certainly has done it. In only […]
The signs are everywhere. Shorter days, football teams getting ready, the August Blues fishing tournament in full swing—yup, this summer is slipping away like a Don Henley song. So when I found myself with an open afternoon last week I decided to get out to the beach and see if maybe I could actually participate in the tournament by catching a bluefish. Seems reasonable, right?
