SEA TO BELIEVE
byOf all the fish in the sea, the things Nantucket native and underwater photographer Ben Phillips finds most fascinating are no bigger than your…
Travel & Adventure
LAND OF THE LUSH
byA local filmmaker discovers the island of Dominica. From the moment I first spotted land as our little plane descended over Dominica during the…
THE OLDEST SALT
byHow the Nantucket Community kept its last commercial fisherman staying afloat. The ten thousand-pound basking shark came out of the water headfirst into Bill…
INTO AFRICA
bySummer Resident Stephanie Capuano is taking Nantucketers on mind-blowing African adventures. When Stephanie Capuano drives down Milestone Road headed to Sconset, where her husband’s…
THE STORY BEHIND THE “SLURPEE WAVE”
byWhat it’s like to have a photo go viral – as told by the photographer’s wife, Rebecca Nimerfroh The day of February 20th started…
A WORLD AWAY
byWorld travel, as a cultural phenomenon, has exploded in the 21st century. Lands that were mysterious, difficult to get to, and experienced by just…
AN ISLAND UNTO ITSELF
by“Adventure travel seems to imply a far-off destination,” wrote legendary travel writer Paul Theroux, “but a nearby destination can be scarier, for no place…
THE WAY OF THE FALCONER
byEmerging from his quaint cottage in ’Sconset, Tom Mulholland has the look of a wizard who just stumbled out of The Lord of the…
ON THE WINGS OF HISTORY
byWatching Andrew McKenna perform a fighter approach at Nantucket Memorial Airport in his P-51 Mustang makes your heart thud like a prop. Coming in…
MAKING WAVES
byRazor-sharp coral reef. Man-eating sharks. Cutthroat competition. The life of a pro surfer is hardly a day at the beach, but for sixteen-year-old Spencer…