Stay in touch with Nantucket Island, the place you love!
Nantucket welcomed the holiday season the Friday after Thanksgiving with the annual Chamber of Commerce Tree Lighting, and the festivities continue this weekend with the 45th Annual Christmas Stroll on November 30, December 1, and 2. With so much happening on the island this weekend, you’ll want to make sure […]
The Maria Mitchell Association’s Natural Science Museum will be open on Saturdays this winter from 10 am to 2pm. While open, the Museum will run a feeding program, “Very Hungry Vertebrates,” in the mornings. “We are delighted to offer year round families and winter visitors an opportunity to enjoy our […]
Many of us were raised on the many tunes of Peter, Paul, and Mary: Hush-a-Bye, Puff the Magic Dragon, Blowin’ in the Wind, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, and later in the 1960s The Great Mandella, The Marvelous Toy, When the Ship Comes In, Day Is Done, and Leaving on a […]
The island’s past and present meet its future when “We Are Nantucket,” a community engagement program aimed at handing down and continuing the oral histories of Nantucket and its population, will once again be presented as a filmed series of interviews at The Dreamland between Cyrus Peirce Middle School students […]
by Carl Oscar Olson If you want to maintain a healthy, happy lifestyle, balance is key. We all walk the line between staying active and putting our feet up, eating right and indulging, working hard and playing hard. The list goes on. We can all use a little help along […]
Who doesn’t love the feeling of stepping in from that all-too-familiar Nantucket winter blast to the cozy warmth of home? Unfortunately, keeping our homes warm all winter comes with a price: higher energy consumption. This is especially true for those who live in Nantucket’s older homes that are prone to […]
Nantucket has a rich transportation history. Whaling ships, steam powered ferries and the Nantucket Railroad in the 1800’s, and the first airplanes began landing just south of Commercial Wharf during the First World War. Fast forward to 1995 and the Nantucket Regional Transit Authority (NRTA) began providing the island’s first […]