News and Events for Nantucket Island
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 […]
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 […]
Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is hosting a festive free workshop for kids on New Year’s Eve day upstairs at 11 Centre St, Sherburne Hall (Preservation Institute: Nantucket — their temporary winter location), from 11 am to 12 noon. “Ring in the noon year with AAN. Join us for this […]
Throughout the month of December, the Nantucket Historical Association transforms their Nantucket Whaling Museum into a museum filled with magical holiday sights. Starting on Friday, December 5 and continuing through December 31, the 21st Annual Festival of Trees will be held at the museum at 13 Broad Street. This highly […]
• by Dr. Sarah Oktay, Director, University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Station Summer and early fall apparently are a Nantucket playground for the Devil’s snare plant. If you are a lover of the Harry Potter books you may remember Devil’s snare as a large strangling, treacherous plant that Harry, Hermione, […]
