More than a century ago, many of the open spaces on Nantucket were devoted to agriculture, either for cultivation or grazing livestock, mostly sheep. On Polpis Road there were over 40 acres of wet …
Its age is palpable. Weathered gray without adornment, it has a relatively simple post and beam construction. But the hurricane braces in each corner attest to the builders’ intention that it …
Amid the din of propeller planes, on a damp November day in 1929, 26 women pilots gathered at an airplane hangar at Curtiss Field on Long Island. They were there to discuss the advancement of women …
Simple, structurally elegant and perfect for the job it was designed for over a century ago, the scallop rake is as much a symbol of Nantucket as the whaler’s harpoon. If only it got that kind …
Every year I have grand plans for my garden. I buy seeds, research planting times, I even think about what I will do with the bounty I imagine I will soon be harvesting. Then summer goes into high …
There’s an annual event brewing out here on the east end, one that if we are a lucky will never catch the attention of the Chamber of Commerce.
It’s been dubbed the Sconset …
The joys of winter birdwatching? OK, in summer maybe. But why winter?
If you can’t really know a person unless you have been with them in all sorts of moods and conditions, from …
Sean Fitzgibbon grew up on Nantucket scalloping and digging for clams with his family. Local oysters weren’t really that big of a deal here back then. Fast-forward 15 years and the oyster …
Its age is palpable. Weathered gray without adornment, it has a relatively simple post and beam construction. But the hurricane braces in each corner attest to the builders’ intention that it …
Amid the din of propeller planes, on a damp November day in 1929, 26 women pilots gathered at an airplane hangar at Curtiss Field on Long Island. They were there to discuss the advancement of women …
Elizabeth Bagley was able to hit the ground running when she was appointed the U.S. ambassador to Brazil at the beginning of this year, because of her first posting as U.S. ambassador to Portugal 25 …
There came a moment where the closest humans to the 11 th Hour Racing Team and the other sailors in the Ocean Race were aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles overhead.
This …