Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
By now we are all used to postponements and cancellations of our favorite island events, but these six Nantucket organizations are taking new approaches, keeping the interest alive with galas and events that are streamed, held online, offered on the radio, or shown on television. Many of them are combinations […]
Nantucket has been an oasis for artists of all kinds for nearly 100 years. The island’s art colony bloomed throughout the 1920s, grew in the 1930s, and faced a crisis in 1943 when the only exhibition gallery closed. Then, the transformation of an abandoned warehouse on Straight Wharf into a […]
The show will go on! This year’s Boston Pops on Nantucket will be Boston Pops for Nantucket to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital has been reimagined to safely carry on this wonderful island tradition. For the past 23 years, the island community has come together on Jetties Beach to support Nantucket Cottage Hospital. This […]
Next Monday, July 13, the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will welcome guests back to the Whaling Museum, and the NHA staff looks forward to welcoming members back for an extended two-day “Members’ Preview” on Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12. Doors will open to the public on Monday, July […]
As with all celebrations this summer, July 4th 2020 will be a very different holiday than the Independence Day festivities Nantucket usually hosts. With games, face-painting, the famous water fight canceled and the fireworks postponed to New Year’s Eve, we have decided to share memories of the Fourth of July […]
The annual Race For Open Space will be returning this year in a virtual format from July 10- July 12, 2020. This race is put on annually by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation Associates. Proceeds from the race go to support the Nantucket Conservation Foundation. Registrants can participate in the race […]
The Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) is pleased to present NFF NOW: AT HOME, an online film and conversation series taking place from June 23 to 30. Due to the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, NFF is adapting in order to keep the island and its residents healthy and safe […]