With wedding season upon us, it’s the perfect time to see what’s happening on the Real Nantucket Weddings page of the newly redesigned website devoted to island weddings: NantucketWeddings.com. Nantucket Island is a beautiful place to hold your wedding, but there are some extra hurdles to jump and careful planning […]
Today’s Nantucket
Nantucket Bookstores Preserve Isle Magic
Mitchell’s Book Corner, with its classic structure, heralds your arrival on Main. Across town, Nantucket Bookworks’ homey front lures you in like a warm cup of cocoa. Mainstays of island life since 1968 and 1972, the two stores continue to differentiate themselves from each other, and from other bookstores more […]
Connecting with Keith Lockhart on Nantucket
On Saturday, August 9, Nantucket welcomed the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart back to Jetties Beach for the Pops’ 18th annual concert to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Though many of us know the back of Lockhart’s head better than we know his face, we all immediately recognize […]
Nantucket Music Festival Takes Place This Weekend
With summer skies and salt spray on ocean breezes serving as a backdrop, the inaugural Nantucket Music Festival is set for this Saturday and Sunday, August 2 and 3, featuring a stellar lineup that includes Dispatch, Guster, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Alya Brown, Entrain, Steel Pulse, Donovan Frankenreiter, […]
Faces of the Nantucket Triathlon
The Nantucket Triathlon, taking place this year on Saturday, July 19, may be young but it has already become known as an enjoyable experience for athletes of all levels. Jamie Ranney, who founded the triathlon in 2009, says, “My goal in starting the Nantucket Triathlon was to bring a […]
We Asked Nantucketers….
What Do You Appreciate Most About Your Dad? His love for his family, his love and knowledge of this island. As written by Mary Miles in Nantucket Voices, Vol. Two, “A Nantucket Native who has worked hard and given back to the community.” That’s my “Papa Visco.” -Carolyn Visco-Gould, Owner […]
Early June Weather on Nantucket
The calendar says it’s technically late spring, but it sure felt like early summer yesterday. It was spectacularly sunny all day long, and downright hot in the early afternoon. Its suitability as a beach day was not lost on the five dozen 4×4 drivers that lined 40th Pole with friends, […]