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by Katherine Brooks Maria Mitchell Association Among the historic gray-shingled houses of Vestal Street and hidden in the gardens of the Maria Mitchell Association’s Hinchman House Natural Science Museum, sits a whale skull found thirty years ago at Cisco Beach. The bone belongs to a right whale: an endangered species […]
During the relocating of books and old library-related equipment from the basement of the former Maria Mitchell Library, a stack of rare nautical maps entitled, “A Sailor’s Map of Nantucket” resurfaced.
In late March, independent filmmaker Jay Craven and his crew will arrive on Nantucket to begin production of Craven’s upcoming film, Peter and John. Craven’s production company, Kingdom County Productions, has partnered with Vermont’s Marlboro College to produce this period piece based on Guy de Maupassant’s novel, Pierre et Jean. […]
Would you call me a turkey if I told you I was going swimming with some friends in the North Atlantic on Thanksgiving Day? Though turkeys we may be, we are turkeys with a cause. This year marks the 12th Annual Cold Turkey Plunge, which benefits the Nantucket Atheneum’s Weezie […]