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The 47th Annual Sand Sculpture and Sandcastle Contest will be held this Saturday, July 30, from 12 noon to 4 pm. Sponsored by the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts (NISDA), the contest is open to all and will take place at Jetties Beach, east of the jetty. […]
Swim Across America Nantucket event chairs Jill Roethke and Jim Pignato are helping to keep cancer care local on Nantucket. The very first Swim Across America Nantucket swim took place back in 1991, but it wasn’t until Swim Across America’s 25th anniversary in 2012, that the swim came back to […]
Twenty-seven years ago a small group of volunteers came together to try to do something big for Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Led by an ardent hospital supporter, the late Kathryn Clauss, they imagined what seemed impossible: what if we could get the world-famous Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra to come to Nantucket? […]
White Heron Theatre Company of Nantucket has an exciting schedule of shows to celebrate its 10th anniversary season, including Dial M for Murder, a killer comedy that preceded the classic Hitchcock film and features Tony Award-winner Celia Keenan-Bolger. The season will also include two highly anticipated new works that were […]
Nantucket Island is getting ready for a 2022 spring season that is better than ever! Four fun festivals are being relaunched, featuring in-person events that everyone can enjoy. There will be family activities, picnics, parades, art exhibits, parties, lectures, and gatherings. The fun begins in April with the Nantucket Daffodil Festival by the […]
A new virtual tour of Nantucket’s Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge can now be enjoyed from anywhere. Created by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees). This immersive resource constructed by Above Summit Media combines bird-eye views of the entire refuge with audio narration from knowledgeable staff, drone […]
Nantucket’s 47th annual Christmas Stroll is over, but the 2021 winter holiday season on our island has just begun. We enjoyed cold, crisp, and sunny weather for Stroll Weekend and, despite warnings from meterologists, no boats were cancelled for the weekend. Santa arrived on schedule; entertainment on Main Street was […]