ALL GROWN UP
bySustainable Nantucket has blossomed to one of the Island’s most vital organizations. Since taking her post as the executive director of Sustainable Nantucket nearly…
Health & Wellness
SWIM FOR A CAUSE
byWhat started in 1987 as a relay swim from Nantucket to Hyannis has grown into a nationwide organization that is making serious waves toward…
A GUIDE TO STAYING HEALTHY ON ACK
byWhile most people on island this month are enjoying a break from the real world and taking advantage of vacation days, many are still…
WRIGHT CURE
byA year after losing his wife Suzanne to pancreatic cancer, Bob Wright has launched a foundation to find a cure. As the former chairman…
DR. WILLIAMS MEDICINE WOMAN
byDr. Sarah Williams is taking a holistic approach to giving Nantucket a gut check. Sarah Williams’ family was ravaged by cancer. Her mother, grandmother,…
BLIND CURING THE BLIND
bySummer resident Gordon Gund illuminates the Film Festival this June in a documentary by The Nantucket Project. A man does not always need eyes…
SURGEON OR SAINT?
byThe inspiring Dr. Jim O’Connell. In the summer of 2005, Jack Welch leaned over and whispered something to Dr. Cary Akins that made the…
THE NANTUCKET EFFECT
byWhy are Nantucketers healthier than the rest of the United States? Researchers have long pondered the health effects of where people live. The blue…
OF MICE & MEN
byMeet the scientist who wants to fight Lyme disease on Nantucket with genetically modified mice. By the time Dr. Kevin Esvelt left the Nantucket…
HOPE IN A NUTSHELL
bySummer resident Navyn Salem proves that it costs peanuts to cure malnutrition. Not many people can say they’ve saved millions of lives, but Navyn…