Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
Starting Monday, June 7, the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) will be offering another summer of education, research, and exploration of the sky, land, and sea of Nantucket Island. The Aquarium on Washington Street and Historic Mitchell House on Vestal Street will be open for tours on Monday through Friday […]
After 18 months the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum will once again open its doors to visitors starting at 10am today, Friday, May 28, 2021. This year’s special exhibition is “Duty and Diligence: Station Life in the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Visitors will step back in time for an immersive experience […]
Life on remote, windswept Nantucket has always fostered extraordinary women. Intelligent, educated, passionate, and brave, they took on difficult issues involving anti-slavery, women’s rights, suffrage, and times of war. Despite obstacles, they each assumed roles and attitudes that were not common for women of their time. Now holographic technology has […]
Tickets for The Dreamland’s Drive-In Theatre for films showing through the end of July, 2021, will go on sale at 12 noon on Monday, May 17 via The Dreamland’s website. Tickets may sell out quickly, so don’t wait to purchase yours! Beginning with Steven Spielberg’s classic adaptation of Peter Benchley’s […]
The White Heron Theatre Company of Nantucket is pleased to announce that it is a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA’s $10,000 grant will support a workshop of a new piece, Miss Mitchell with book by Kristin Slaney and music and lyrics by The […]
Mother’s Day is right around the corner. If you haven’t highlighted, circled, and set yourself a digital calendar reminder for next Sunday, May 9, we recommend doing that right now. We know that shopping for Mom may not always be the easiest mission, so we have put together a list of ten […]
by Sam Kefferstan Now in its second year, Mass Audubon Nantucket Sanctuaries’ Youth Environmental Stewardship Program puts island youth out on the trails, fields, and beaches of our Nantucket properties, including Lost Farm, Sesachacha Heathlands, and Smith’s Point. Youth stewards will work alongside sanctuary staff to steward land including maintaining […]