News and Events for Nantucket Island
Nantucket’s annual Swim Across America event returns for the sixth year to Jetties Beach this Saturday morning, August 26. More than three hundred swimmers will swim varying distances from one-quarter mile to one mile to raise funds to support Nantucket cancer care. The summer capstone event celebrates the island’s pristine […]
by Robert P. Barsanti I think of my mother almost every day. She died on a snowy night in February, at the tail end of a long, painful, and humiliating retreat from cancer. My father called me in the middle of that night when I was living on Lyon Street, […]
~ by Carl Oscar Olson ~ This Saturday, August 27, Swim Across America comes back to Nantucket for the fifth straight year. Starting at 8 am on Jetties Beach, more than three hundred swimmers and volunteers will splash into the Nantucket Sound to raise money to fight a disease affecting […]
No one has attempted a solo swim across the 30 miles of open water between Nantucket and Cape Cod in nearly three decades. The only man known to have successfully completed a solo crossing is Paul Asmuth, an International Swimming Hall of Famer who swam from Nantucket to Hyannis in […]
