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This fall, Vice President Joe Biden will travel the nation for his American Promise Tour, a series of conversations that will go beyond the 24-hour news cycle and 140-character arguments to connect friends and neighbors around the topics that matter most. Vice President Biden will reveal the big political moments of […]
• by C. Oscar Olson • I love my morning commute. The 3 mile bike ride from the South Shore to downtown Nantucket on a beautiful summer morning is truly a pleasure. The benefits are numerous: No traffic, easy parking, exercise, and it’s good for the planet (not to mention […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is collaborating with Nantucket Cottage Hospital (NCH) on new series entitled “A Night of Stories: Tales from Cottage Hospital Nurses” on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 6 pm in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. This historic look back at our island’s hospital will feature […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]