BLADE RUNNER
How local blacksmith Keaton Goddard became a cut above the rest. Keaton Goddard—all six feet four inches—stood ramrod-straight behind an anvil on a dimly…
MAKING OLD NEW AGAIN
How James Russell and his team at the NHA are breathing new life into the Whaling Museum. Bounding through the Nantucket Whaling Museum, James…
TOP SECRET AT TOM NEVERS
Nantucket’s old Navy Base was the site of a sophisticated surveillance operation. As a kid in 1955, Robert Young was hanging around his family’s…
THE ISLAND’S INNER SANCTUMS
Step inside some of the most exclusive clubs on the island. On an island where yacht clubs and golf clubs can fetch six figure…
SHELL COMPANIES
How the next generation of Nantucketers is keeping our shellfishing tradition alive. Shellfishing stretches back hundreds of years on Nantucket. Before the first European…
MISSING THE POINT
The contentious debate over one of Nantucket’s most iconic landmarks. Every summer for decades, Peter Krogh would run his fire engine red 1957 Willys…
SUSTAINABLE STYLE
Summer resident and fashion designer Britt Cosgrove is making green the new black. Even as a young girl, Britt Cosgrove had a strong sense…
PORTAL TO THE PAST
Could the JFK Bunker in Tom Nevers become Nantucket’s next museum? In the middle of a windswept field at Tom Nevers’ southernmost edge, a…
LASER FOCUS
How cutting-edge laser technology is preserving Nantucket history. You’ve probably seen them around town. They comb the island in Florida Gators caps and T-shirts,…
ECLIPSE CHASER
Chip Webster has been waiting a lifetime to see the great American eclipse this August. On August 21st at 2:38.03 p.m., Chip Webster will…