Tag: Memorial Day

Memorial Day | Nantucket, MA
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Memorial Day Memories

by Maryjane Mojer Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm When I was growing up on Nantucket, Memorial Day was not just a sign that school was almost over (it was) or that summer was just beginning (because at 8, summer actually was, I believed, Memorial Day to Labor Day). Memorial Day was […]

Breeze Bar + Cafe at The Nantucket Hotel | Nantucket, MA
Nantucket Essays

Fire and Rain

~ by Robert P. Barsanti ~ I was lucky enough to sit on the back porch of the Nantucket Hotel on Saturday evening, well out of the passing rain showers and white shirted winos on the street. Instead, I looked into the bottom of glass of bourbon and heard “Fire […]

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Nantucket Essays

Remembering Who Earned This

• by Robert P. Barsanti • This year, Boxed Water is the new thing.  On Sunday morning, the beautiful ones drifted down to the ferries wearing Vineyard Vines, loafers, sunglasses, and carrying white and black boxes of Boxed Water.  They swirled it, sipped it, set it back on the tables, […]

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A Weekend of Firsts

• by Leah Mojer • Memorial Day Weekend is the most glorious and anticipated of all weekends here on Nantucket as it is in many places in New England. It is the official kick-off to Summer, the best season, and boy do we celebrate. Between the Figawi Boat Race & […]