Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
With the summer season coming to a close, one way to bring Nantucket home with you (where ever home happens to be) is to take some favorite Nantucket recipes with you. Over the years a number of cookbooks have been published by Nantucket chefs and restaurateurs, as well as by […]
by Rebecca Nimerfroh They say any publicity is good publicity, right? In The Underpants, a comedic play written by actor, banjo player, and novelist Steve Martin, adapted from Carl Sternheim’s 1910 German farce entitled Die Hose, this statement is truly put to the test. Sheltered wife Louise Maske accidentally drops […]
• by Educator Corinne Muffly • A series of articles dedicated to helping parents find places and activities on Nantucket to enjoy with their children. Having a family has allowed me to try fun new things and get out of my comfort zone once in a while. One excursion I […]
A question from Norma: Traveling to the east coast on the first of Oct. would like to visit Nantucket but heard that a lot of businesses close down after Labor Day, true? Hi Norma: Definitely NOT true! The days of Nantucket rolling up the sidewalks after Labor Day are long […]
by Katherine Brooks Maria Mitchell Association Among the historic gray-shingled houses of Vestal Street and hidden in the gardens of the Maria Mitchell Association’s Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, sits a whale skull found thirty years ago at Cisco Beach. The bone belongs to a right whale: an endangered species […]
by Corinne Muffly, Educator This is the first in a series of articles dedicated to helping parents find places and activities on Nantucket to enjoy with their children. In the age of technology, I believe it’s appropriate to begin our family excursions with geocaching. What exactly is geocaching? It is […]
Multi-platinum artist and two-time Grammy award winner Kenny Loggins will join the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra as the special musical guest for the 20th annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert this summer to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Kenny Loggins’ remarkable four-decade-plus career has brought him from the top of the […]