Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
The Maria Mitchell Association’s Natural Science Museum will be open on Saturdays this winter from 10 am to 2pm. While open, the Museum will run a feeding program, “Very Hungry Vertebrates,” in the mornings. “We are delighted to offer year round families and winter visitors an opportunity to enjoy our […]
Four fun annual fall festivals and events are happening this weekend on Nantucket Island. For the third year on Nantucket Island, Sustainable Nantucket is hosting it’s popular NantucketGrown™ Food Festival. Four days of food, fun and education surrounding what is fresh, local and sustainable, the festival began Thursday with a four-course NantucketGrown™ Dinner prepared […]
As part of The Dreamland Stage Company’s 2018-2019 season, director Laura Gallagher Byrne will present The Diary of Anne Frank on the main stage, with eight performances October 4 through October 14. Focused on offering productions suitable for children of all ages, both on a participation and an audience level, […]
by Suzanne Daub I looked out over Nantucket’s Madaket Beach one recent sunny Saturday morning and saw two people moving purposefully up and down the beach. I thought these early risers might be vacationers staking out a prime plot of sand for the day or perhaps beachcombing for shells and […]
Many of us were raised on the many tunes of Peter, Paul, and Mary: Hush-a-Bye, Puff the Magic Dragon, Blowin’ in the Wind, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, and later in the 1960s The Great Mandella, The Marvelous Toy, When the Ship Comes In, Day Is Done, and Leaving on a […]
The 2018 winner of our annual poetry contest is David Slevin from County Limerick, Ireland. He donated his prize money to The Nantucket Book Foundation, the organization that produces the Nantucket Book Festival, happening this weekend on Nantucket. Slevin, who has a sister who lives on-island, has been a frequent […]
The island’s past and present meet its future when “We Are Nantucket,” a community engagement program aimed at handing down and continuing the oral histories of Nantucket and its population, will once again be presented as a filmed series of interviews at The Dreamland between Cyrus Peirce Middle School students […]