Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
Nantucket Island has a long and storied past that residents treasure, organizations protect, and visitors love to explore. As a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses more than 30,000 acres — the entire island, Tuckernuck, and Muskeget — we are one of the largest conventional historic districts by area in […]
Nantucket’s 47th annual Christmas Stroll is over, but the 2021 winter holiday season on our island has just begun. We enjoyed cold, crisp, and sunny weather for Stroll Weekend and, despite warnings from meterologists, no boats were cancelled for the weekend. Santa arrived on schedule; entertainment on Main Street was […]
November 30, 2021, is a day recognized worldwide as a celebration of generosity. Spearheaded in 2012, Giving Tuesday is an opportunity for people to share acts of kindness as well as to give time, money, and goods to support communities and causes. All of the non-profit and not-for-profit organizations that […]
Nearly 50 years ago, the originators of the first Nantucket Christmas Stroll were trying to prevent islanders from traveling to Cape Cod, 30 miles across Nantucket Sound, to do all their holiday shopping. Rewind to 1973, a year when local merchants kept shops open late the first Friday in December, […]
Loines Observatory is a truly unique location, for both Nantucket and beyond, and should be experienced by all Nantucket residents. As one of two observatories on Nantucket, the other being the Maria Mitchell Association’s (MMA) historic Maria Mitchell Vestal Street Observatory, Loines Observatory serves as the island’s beacon for learning […]
Join the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) this fall for open hours at the Hinchman House Natural Science Museum and Research Center, as well as various public programs, including Beach Biology Field Trips and Open Nights. Beginning on October 9, the Natural Science Museum will be open on Saturdays from 10am to […]
As part of the Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge, a pop-up art installation will be unveiled on Friday, October 8 at 6:30 p.m. Through projection-mapping art, “Rising Above” will tell the history and envision the future of the island’s resilience. The installation will be projected across the water onto the backside […]