REIMAGINING REMAIN
byCecil Barron Jensen brings an artist’s touch to ReMain Nantucket as executive director. When Melissa Philbrick retired from her post as the longtime executive…
History
OLD MAN AND THE SEA
byThe incredible story of a man, his boat and his voyage to Nantucket. Lydia Sussek was standing in line at the Steamship Authority last…
TOP SECRET AT TOM NEVERS
byNantucket’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 NANTUCKET OF YESTERYEAR
byOur favorite photos from the Nantucket Historical Association over the years. From trains across the island to a bike ride downtown with almost no…
THE ISLAND’S INNER SANCTUMS
byStep inside some of the most exclusive clubs on the island. On an island where yacht clubs and golf clubs can fetch six figure…
HONORING HONOR
bySummer resident Bob Monahan helps celebrate Medal of Honor heroes. Of all the exclusive clubs in America, none is more rarified than the recipients…
BONE TO PICK
byWill a bill designed to save endangered species make an artistic tradition on Nantucket go extinct? Nantucket has a long and complicated history with…
PORTAL TO THE PAST
byCould the JFK Bunker in Tom Nevers become Nantucket’s next museum? In the middle of a windswept field at Tom Nevers’ southernmost edge, a…
ESCAPE ARTIST
byOne local artist’s unbelievable journey to freedom. Eighteen years ago, Nantucket resident Paul Galschneider was sitting in a maximum-security prison cell giving Steve “The…
A STAR WAS BORN
byThis August marks Maria Mitchell’s bicentennial birthday. On a cool October night in 1847, Maria Mitchell sat on roof of the Pacific National Bank…