by Amy Jenness Nantucket had access to local telephone service beginning in 1887, but the ability to make long distance calls didn’t occur until 1916 after the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company laid down 550 miles of doublearmored steel—the longest submarine cable in the country—between Wood’s Hole, Martha’s Vineyard […]
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- A Language without Words
- First of 3 Sidewalk Art Shows for 2025
- “Bad Luck Billy”
- If You Build It, Purple Martins Will Come
- Take the Nantucket Limerick Challenge
- Funniest Weekend on Nantucket July 10-12
- Family Activities & Night at the Museum
- Hilarious, Hopeful, & Achingly Human
- Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket Page by Page
- Limerick Challenge
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- Nantucket Essays
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- Nantucket Style
- Nantucket Voices
- What's New on Nantucket
Read The Paper Online
In this Issue
- A Language without Words
- First of 3 Sidewalk Art Shows for 2025
- “Bad Luck Billy”
- If You Build It, Purple Martins Will Come
- Take the Nantucket Limerick Challenge
- Funniest Weekend on Nantucket July 10-12
- Family Activities & Night at the Museum
- Hilarious, Hopeful, & Achingly Human
- Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket Page by Page
- Limerick Challenge
Articles by Department
- An Island Point of View
- Exploring Nantucket
- Featured Articles
- Featured Entrepreneur
- Featured Restaurants
- Insider Tips
- Island Cooking
- Island Science
- Nantucket Arts
- Nantucket Entertaining
- Nantucket Essays
- Nantucket Events
- Nantucket History & People
- Nantucket Style
- Nantucket Voices
- What's New on Nantucket