News and Events for Nantucket Island
For the tenth year running, Cape Cod Life has named Susan Lister Locke the Best Jeweler on Nantucket, a milestone that, even after a decade, still catches her by surprise. “I was astounded,” she says of the moment she learned the news. “I kept thinking it cannot happen again, and then it did… I am astounded, delighted, and humbled. It’s a real honor considering all the other skilled jewelers on the island.”
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) continues its Spotlight Series at the Champion Gallery in the Visual Arts Center (VAC), 24 Amelia Drive, with an exhibition featuring island artist G.S. Hill alongside Rose Gonnella, and Jennifer Rosenthal. Hill’s portion of the show offers a look at an artist whose career on Nantucket spans more than four decades and four distinct mediums.
By all outward measures, Richard Russo has had the kind of literary career many writers only dream about — a Pulitzer Prize, an Oprah’s Book Club selection, beloved novels adapted for film and television, and a body of work spanning four decades that has made him one of the defining voices of working- class American fiction. But spend time with the author and you understand that none of it came easily, and none of it was guaranteed.
