Fun for Families

The entire Nantucket Island community is encouraged to enter the 47th Annual Nantucket Daffodil Show.

I’m lucky to live close enough to Fisherman’s Beach on Nantucket that I can wake up to the calming, rhythmic sounds of the surf.  This morning the music of waves…

The island’s past and present meet its future when “We Are Nantucket,” a community engagement program aimed at handing down and continuing the oral histories of Nantucket and its population,…

Fondly known as “Daffy Weekend,” the annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival, put on by the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, is one of our favorite island festivals.  Even if you don’t…

For better or worse, taking a wrong turn is sometimes a part of the journey. We’ve all gotten off using the wrong exit or gone the wrong direction on the…

This Saturday, August 12, thousands will gather at Jetties Beach for the annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert, a benefit for Nantucket Cottage Hospital.  Tickets have been sold out for…

For nearly two decades we have been challenging readers to add to the series of limericks about Nantucket. It wasn’t until we posted this dare on Nantucket.net that we began…

“There once was a man from Nantucket…” We’ve all heard some version of this ditty, and not many of them can be repeated in polite company.  But do you know…