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Keep Nantucket More than a Beach Hotel
You can rent a house on Milk Street for $45,000 a week. For that money, you could buy, and own, a Camaro or a Mustang or a BMW 2 series. But if you were to go to a realtor and plunk your money down to rent this house on Milk Street, you could spend a week with three queen beds, a pool (of course), and “one of the best and most fun home bars on the island” in case you grow tired of paying $19 for a Negroni among the common people who spend their cash on sports cars.
New Film Event Comes to Nantucket
Nantucket has a long history of empowering women. Because the Quaker population here valued equality and education, islanders educated their girls as well as their boys at a time that was not common. Nantucket women were independent, intelligent, curious, creative, and industrious. They were poets, artists, scientists, adventurers, writers, businesswomen, physicians—several of them world-renowned. Nantucket women were in the forefront in the fight for abolition and equal rights. On our island, women could express themselves.
Update: Freeze watch issued for 3 Massachusetts counties until early Friday morning
On Thursday at 4:49 a.m. an updated freeze watch was issued by the National Weather Service valid from 11 p.m. until Friday 5 a.m. for Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket counties. The weather service comments, "Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 28 degrees possible." "Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other...
For the Love of a Caterpillar
Director of Research & Education at the Linda Loring Nature Foundation. Spring seems to have finally arrived on the island. The Spring Equinox on March 19 officially marked the start of spring, but we all know not to be suckered in by those arbitrary dates. Traditionally, spring is marked more by the indicators of the changing season. It could be the Daffodil Festival which holds to the calendar date of the last weekend of April. Or it could be something more attuned to the spring climate: blooming forsythia, calling of spring peepers, and migratory birds arriving from their winter stays.
Tidying-Up for Spring
Spring cleaning on Nantucket doesn’t just refer to sweeping away dust and cobwebs that have accumulated throughout the house during the winter months. It also includes several cooperative efforts to tidy-up our island roadsides, beaches, nature preserves, and town. This week, the Nantucket Clean Team starts up again for...
These Are the 5 Best Hotels in Nantucket for Every Type of Traveler
Whether you’re planning to visit Nantucket for the first time or it’s the place your family has summered for generations, this stunning New England isle always manages to feel magical. From the classic shingle-style architecture and charming cobblestone streets to the endless array of hydrangea blooms, salty sea air and nearly 400-year history, there’s truly no place like it in the world.
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