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The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce a new “Study Hall” program at the Whaling Museum to provide community members with a safe, socially distanced space to read, surf the Web using the museum’s free wifi, attend a virtual class, or do school work. With the weather cooling […]
With community safety as its top priority, the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce has reimagined its celebration of the holidays this season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 47th Annual Christmas Stroll has been canceled for 2020. In its place, Nantucket Noel, a shop local initiative, will run from November […]
On Nantucket whose voice gets heard? What would an accurate portrait of the island’s population tell us about ourselves? These are core questions of the U.S. Census, the constitutionally-mandated federal population count currently underway. The island’s people have always been a little hard to reach during a U.S. Census canvas, […]
by C. Oscar Olson Nantucket is a land shrouded in much more than just fog. For hundreds of years, various peoples have populated this tiny isle, and each of them brought with them their own set of stories, folklore, and fears. The past has a way of hanging on thirty […]
Nantucket has been an oasis for artists of all kinds for nearly 100 years. The island’s art colony bloomed throughout the 1920s, grew in the 1930s, and faced a crisis in 1943 when the only exhibition gallery closed. Then, the transformation of an abandoned warehouse on Straight Wharf into a […]
Next Monday, July 13, the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) will welcome guests back to the Whaling Museum, and the NHA staff looks forward to welcoming members back for an extended two-day “Members’ Preview” on Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12. Doors will open to the public on Monday, July […]
by Mary Bergman I haven’t left Nantucket since February 25th. But last week, I was on a houseboat on the River Thames. Since late February, I have been to high rises in New York City and the suburbs of Philadelphia. I’ve been to a yellow house in New Orleans, the […]