News and Events for Nantucket Island
“Music has the power to bring people together…” Laura Cunningham knows this, and, along with her friend and fellow musician Lorna Dollery, she is using music via their #CoronaSongChallenge to raise the spirits of Nantucket residents sheltering in place. And in doing so, they are raising money for Nantucket Cottage […]
• by Suzanne Daub • Gallery owner and collector Kathleen Knight has brought to Nantucket a exhibition of art that is surprising, engaging, provocative, and very unlike most seen on our island. Opening this week at The Gallery at Four India with a reception Friday evening, July 18, is “Pop […]
Spiritual Heritage Nantucket is celebrating its 10th anniversary of hosting events on the island that build and encourage the Christian community. The 2014 evening event headlines New York Times bestselling author, popular speaker and executive SQuire Rushnell and his wife, Louise DuArt, who is known as one of the world’s […]
• by Sarah Teach • It’s pollen season on Nantucket, and Hay Fever is just what you need. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) kicks off summer with the comedy that helped British actor-turned-playwright Noël Coward (1899-1973) get his foot in the writing door. Penned in 1924, Hay Fever is 90 […]
After a winter that seemed colder and longer and darker than any we had experienced in a decade, Nantucket’s celebration of spring this week promises to be particularly joyful. One of our favorite traditions for welcoming the change of season is a visit to American Seasons. There’s a comforting, homey […]
Once a year for 11 years, up to a dozen men on Nantucket Island have volunteered their time and their talents to display their “inner beauty,” their flamboyance, and their senses of humor participate in the annual Ms. Mantucket Pageant to raise money for island causes. Now organized by the […]
For the past four years, Nantucket Island has had an honorary mayor. At the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Red Ticket Drawing on Christmas Eve, Town Crier Eric Goddard announced that Jason Bridges had been appointed the new Honorary Mayor of Nantucket for 2014-15. Bridges succeeds Patty Rottmeier, who had […]
