News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce that its new exhibit titled “The Mighty Misty Monster”: Moby-Dick Embroidered Narratives from artist Susan Boardman, opens to the public on Saturday, April 11, 2015, in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick inspired Boardman’s […]
Welcome springtime on Nantucket with art on Easter Weekend at the Artists Association of Nantucket’s (AAN) annual Spring Sweep Preview Party and Silent Auction, on Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4 in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. This popular exhibition and silent auction will […]
More than 90 island children ages 6 to 14 will perform on the stage of The Dreamland Theatre this weekend and next in a lively production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka Kids. The play follows enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Phaedra Plank / Sophia Reis) as he stages a contest […]
Small Friends on Nantucket, Inc. is pleased to announce that Courtney Bridges will be joining our school as Executive Director beginning in September, 2015. Bridges will oversee all business operations and programming for our early education and child care program. Bridges is a graduate of Ohio University with a B.S. […]
We’ve a way to shake off those winter blahs—when wind-swept streets are vacant, the harbor is partially frozen, the beaches barren and empty, and wisps of smoke from fireplaces abound… The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is hosting the opening of a February exhibition, Art For Heart’s Sake on Wednesday, […]
On Monday evening, February 2, the week of events planned around our island community reading Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey began with a film and panel discussion in the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Events continue tonight with an evening of Global Poetry and Music at 5:30 pm in the African Meeting House, […]
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 […]
ReMain Ventures is excited to announce that Greg and Joy Margolis have been selected to operate the new Culinary Center at 22 Federal Street once construction is completed later this year. Proposals were received from many qualified entrepreneurs and the selection process was completed just prior to the end of […]
Warner Bros. Pictures announced late on March 14, 2015, that the release of the film In the Heart of the Sea, Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard’s adaptation of Nantucket author Nathaniel Philbrick’s best-selling book, has been rescheduled for December 2015, replacing the original release date of March 13, 2015. Now […]
