News and Events for Nantucket Island
Twenty years ago a small group of volunteers came together to try to do something big for Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Led by an ardent hospital supporter, the late Kathryn Clauss, they imagined what seemed impossible: what if we could get the world-famous Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra to come to Nantucket? […]
A summer tradition is building on Nantucket with the third annual Swim Across America being held on August 22 at 8 am at Jetties Beach. This event is the premiere swim of the summer for over 250 swimmers who will swim from one half to one mile to raise money […]
~ by Abigail Terres ~ Shortly after dawn this Friday, August 7, the transformation begins. In just 36 hours, the decks at Jetties Beach will become a sophisticated stage for a world-class orchestra and the broad, sandy beach seating for the thousands who come to watch and listen. Saturday, August […]
For the Dad in Your Life Since it opened on Nantucket last season, Follain has earned a reputation as the place to go on-island for all-natural makeup and skincare products that are healthier to use and safer for the environment. Just in time for Father’s Day, this must-shop spot has […]
Cayden Keith Moore, the son of Danielle Smith and Corrigan Moore, was delivered at 3:35 a.m. on Tuesday, January 27 by Dr. Margaret “Mimi” Koehm and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital labor and delivery nursing team. Cayden was born at the height of the blizzard just after the island had lost […]
It didn’t take long for the island’s first baby of the New Year to arrive! Alan Eduardo Tejada, a healthy baby boy, was born at 6:17 a.m. on Thursday, January 1st, 2015 at Nantucket Cottage Hospital. He weighed seven pounds, eight ounces, and measured 20 inches. Baby Alan is the […]
