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Look Back & Laugh… Pandemic Version of Nantucket Limericks

December 30, 2020

THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET… For decades the island guide Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket has challenged readers to add to the original limericks written about Nantucket. The ORIGINAL limericks–not the ones that make us blush–were a back-and-forth contest in 1924. You can read them at https://yesterdaysisland.com/limerick-challenge/ along with more recent additions. […]

Limerick Challenge: “There Once Was a Man from Nantucket”

July 11, 2017

“There once was a man from Nantucket…” We’ve all heard some version of this ditty, and not many of them can be repeated in polite company. But do you know where it all began? We do! The series of four limericks reprinted below first appeared in a June 14, 1924 […]