Tag: Nantucket summer

A boy pauses at the water's edge with his bodyboard, capturing the quiet brilliance of summer on Nantucket.
An Island Point of View

The Real Brilliance of Summer

There is no place quite like Nantucket in the summer.

Every June, the island seems to wake from a long sleep. Window boxes overflow, hydrangeas begin their slow explosion into blue, the harbor fills with sails, restaurants spill onto sidewalks, music drifts through open doors, and every sunset somehow convinces us that we’ve never seen one quite like it before. The island becomes brilliant. Not simply beautiful, but brilliant. It shines with an energy that’s difficult to explain to someone who has never been here. It is easy to understand why people spend all year dreaming about these few short months.

Bartlett’s Farm Nantucket 2025 man holding up corn
Nantucket History & People

Generations of Farming Island Fresh Flavors

or many Nantucketers, summer doesn’t officially start until that first bite of Bartlett’s sweet corn, so fresh you can eat it raw—and if you ask the Bartlett family, that’s exactly how they prefer it.

Corn season is just around the corner, with Bartlett’s signature sweet corn expected to be ready for harvest by mid- July: one of the busiest times of year on Nantucket’s oldest and largest farm.

Nantucket fishing charter story
An Island Point of View

A Day in the Tuna Life

Oh man, what was I thinking to book a 6 am fishing charter on a Saturday? Well, it had to be, as some medical appointments had shuffled my week pretty thoroughly. I somehow woke up a minute before my alarm went off. Now I’m not flexing here, but this ability is something of a superpower. I was fairly beat from bass fishing the night before. Maybe not my wisest decision to go but those stripers aren’t going to catch themselves, right?