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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 […]
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 […]