For several months, Egan Maritime has explored island responses to the many sailing ship-era shipwrecks near Nantucket. Virtually all these disasters happened during one of New England’s infamous nor’easters or other seasonal storms. Even the US Lifesaving Service (USLSS) on Nantucket took the summer off: they only worked from September 1 until the end of April. We, too, can pause now and reflect on why Nantucketers successfully rescued mariners facing the dangers of the sea.
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In this Issue
- A Mix of Imagination and Craftsmanship
- Time to Catch a Striper
- Call of the Osprey
- An Island Collaboration to Ignite Curiosity and Inspire Learning
- What’s New on Nantucket
- Celebrating 80 Years
- Limerick Challenge
- Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket Page by Page
- Uniting Community with New Exhibit & Project
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
Read The Paper Online
In this Issue
- A Mix of Imagination and Craftsmanship
- Time to Catch a Striper
- Call of the Osprey
- An Island Collaboration to Ignite Curiosity and Inspire Learning
- What’s New on Nantucket
- Celebrating 80 Years
- Limerick Challenge
- Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket Page by Page
- Uniting Community with New Exhibit & Project
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