FOOD & DRINK
Meet Paul: The Handshake Shot Nantucket Bartenders Want You to Stop Asking For
Last summer, while sitting at local haunt Brotherhood Nantucket, two 20-somethings swayed into the bar. The bartender immediately approached them with a round of unidentifiable shots. The duo took them like champs, and after a quick conversation, they took their surprisingly swift departure. This interaction — and a handful of follow-up trips to the Massachusetts vacation destination, which lies about 30 miles off Cape Cod — is how I learned about the Paul, a once-beloved local ritual that’s become the bane of some Nantucket bartenders.
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.
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.
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