The ’Sconset Post Office
BY CHRIS EDMONDS INDEPENDENT WRITER
     So much for the lunchtime rush. Only five people entered the
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World AIDS Day celebrated with vigil, activist
BY LAURA RASKIN INDEPENDENT WRITER
     Ole Pete Key asks, “D'ya know what I mean?" a lot at the end of his statements. It
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     Ben Franklin returns As the 300th anniversary of his birth approaches in January, Benjamin Franklin will visit Nantucket – the place of his mother’s birth. In two performances of “Franklin Alive!,” Boston area actor Bill Meikle will regale audiences with story and song about the man George Washingt
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“You’ve obviously spent time on Nantucket if…” Tennessee politician pens second volume in humor series
BY CHRIS EDMONDS INDEPENDENT WRITER
     Easy with a quip, Adam Dread comes through the telephone with the speech patterns of a radio host, the ace-in-the-hole humor of a stand-up comic and the rhetorical mannerisms of a politician. A quick check of biography reveals that he is, or was, all of those, as well as being a licensed attorney, t
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A Christmas Carol Scrooge & Marley
BY LAURA RASKIN INDEPENDENT ARTS WRITER
     Being a flight attendant for American Airlines is the source of international inspiration for
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T e d S e t h J a c o b s b r i n g s Tr a d i t i o n o f R e a l i s m f o r p o r t r a i t d e m o n s t r a t i o n
BY LAURA RASKIN INDEPENDENT ARTS WRITER
     After he had gone to art school at the Art Students League in New York City, Ted Seth Jacobs helped his mother with the black and white wash fashion drawings with which she made a living selling to The
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Looking beneath the surface The Dump as Art
Dump as Art by Laura Raskin • Independent Arts Writer
     Nantucket artists tend not to stray from the cleanly appealing: the beach, the moors, a sunset. Anne Marie Crane, who works at the dump, has painted the “phenomenon” of trash, which on an island, says a lot about its community, traditions
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