OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON
byCape and the Islands congressman Bill Keating discusses the many issues impacting Nantucket and the rest of the country. For nearly seven years, Congressman…
History & Politics
QUIET CRISIS
byThe H-2B visa shortage is having serious consequences on the Island economy. A quiet crisis is playing out behind the scenes on Nantucket this…
THE AMBASSADORS CLUB
byThere are many clubs on Nantucket, but few as exclusive as this. Once you have served as a US Ambassador, the title is attached…
LETTERS OF REMEMBRANCE
byOne historian’s mission to collect a million of the greatest war letters ever written. For the last twenty years, Andrew Carroll has traveled to…
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR KARYN POLITO
byA conversation with Massachusetts’s second-in-command. Karyn Polito has served as the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts since 2015 and has assumed an unusually active role…
REPORTER REMEMBERED
byCelebrating the words of the late great David Halberstam. This spring marked the tenth anniversary of David Halberstam’s tragic death. A beloved Nantucket summer…
THE NEW GUARD
byMeet newly elected selectmen Jason Bridges and Rita Higgins. This spring, Nantucket voted in two new faces to the Board of Selectmen, Jason Bridges…
PLAYING THE OLDIES
byOne songwriter is bringing new life to Nantucket’s oldest places. In what will literally be music to people’s ears, the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA)…
HISTORIC HEROINES
byHow the seeds of feminism in America first took root on Nantucket. When more than four hundred people gathered in the courtyard of the…
CURIOUS COLLECTION
byThe NHA’s latest exhibit will have you thinking outside of the box. In November 1847, Rockwell’s New York Circus set sail on the brig…