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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 […]
by Carl Oscar Olson If you want to maintain a healthy, happy lifestyle, balance is key. We all walk the line between staying active and putting our feet up, eating right and indulging, working hard and playing hard. The list goes on. We can all use a little help along […]
Fondly known as “Daffy Weekend,” the annual Nantucket Daffodil Festival, put on by the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, is one of our favorite island festivals. Even if you don’t have an antique car for the parade, don’t want to don an elaborate hat for the Hat Pageant, or have […]
The Nantucket Film Festival announced today the honorees for the 2018 festival – including the Screenwriters Tribute to Oscar®-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach; the Special Achievement in Documentary Storytelling Award to Oscar® and Emmy®-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville; and the New Voices in Screenwriting Award to Sundance Film Festival Audience Award […]
Picture this: you and three friends at a live concert or theatrical performance of your choice anywhere within the continental US, at any time during the year – airfare and hotel included. And the whole package for all four of you cost just a $100 raffle ticket! Seem too good […]
The British Invasion will land at Jetties Beach on Nantucket this summer when RAIN: A Tribute to The Beatles joins the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra as the special musical guest for the 22nd annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. RAIN performs the full range of The […]