What do you appreciate most about your mom? “Her sensitivity and the way she taught me that it’s okay to be different.” -Jim Sulzer, author of The Voice at the Door and teacher at Nantucket New School “My mom is still with us at 91, and just as sweet and […]
Tag: Nantucket Island
Five Fun Fall Freebies
Now that Nantucket’s tourist season has slowed to a trot, year-round working people on the island have a little bit more time to relax and a lot more room to breathe. At the same time, this means that the lucrative part of the year is yielding to the leaner months. […]
MOU (The sound of well fed cattle)
by Leonard Germinara The glacial out wash Faces open ocean and even if We could build a wall big and Strong enough To hold her back The force at either end of the structure Would rend Like a battle axe The flanks With catastrophic effect Force has to go somewhere […]
Daffy Dressing
One of our favorite things about the celebration of Spring on Nantucket that is the Nantucket Dafffodil Festival is the way that so many of the festival-goers dress up for the party. Parents dress up their little ones in white and yellow, in flowers real and artistic. The fun includes […]
The Starlight Meets Their Goal
With 24 days to go, The Starlight Theatre & Cafe has met and exceeded their Kickstarter pledge drive goal of $92,500.00! Mark Watson and Jeff Weiner sat down with us yesterday, with $5,100 still to go, to chat about their efforts to raise the money to upgrade to a digital […]
Postcard from the End of the World
reprint from Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket – by Phil Austin May 6 came and went again this year without the slightest mention of the Hindenburg disaster that occurred in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. My father was exactly twenty years old at the time of the tragedy, which killed about three […]