Island artists find strength in numbers during the off-season
by Marli Guzzetta
     Animals, armies and artists all have at least one thing in common: they can attest that there is almost always strength in numbers.
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TREASURE HUNT
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
     The title of Edouard Stackpole's second young adult novel - about a young boy who tangles with treasure and pirates during revolutionary America - is an imperative for Nantucket families on the day after Thanksgiving, when the Egan Foundation and the Lifesaving Museum launch their second annual, al
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Identify This
Georgen Gilliam Charnes
     The Nantucket Historical Association houses the most complete visual record of Nantucket history in existence. The image here is from our collections, and may be one we cannot identify, wish for more information about or just want to see if people can identify. Many more images are available for vie
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Festival of Wreaths: Seeing more than green
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
     The Nantucket Historical Association will present approximately 10 wreaths for every year they've held the Festival of Wreaths - that's over 80 arrangements of festival greens for the 8-yearold event, which drafts local artists, artisans, school children, over 10 nonprofits and merchants to design t
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The Thomas Macy Warehouse
BY MARY LANCASTER
     There has been a lot of talk this year about the changing face of the downtown business district and how many merchants have closed or moved or are contemplating those actions. But the truth is, the island's commercial core has been evolving for nearly 200 years.
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for the ARTS record
     Glazer, Bullington and Wendelken Jazz Trio Interviewing the members of The Undergraduates last week for an article, we got off on a tangent about the number of people who play instruments - and play them well - on Nantucket. Mollie Glazer, Erik Wendelken and Andy Bullington fall squarely into that c
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Media you can Trust
The merchants make the picks
     MUSIC Musicall 4 East Chestnut Street 228-9306 Ironically titled, given Sir Paul's current romantic turmoil, "Love" melds songs and snippets of songs from the Beatles catalogue in a seamless continuum of music that covers everything, like a great, big, psychedelic aural blanket. Sir George Martin
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WE LIKE IT WE LOVE IT
We make the pick
     Azaftig girl, I have a tendency to wear down the denim on the insides of my jeans to a threadbare state even when the rest of the jeans are perfectly intact. And then I can't stand throwing them away. But now it seems the gods of commerce have taken pity on my jeans - and all jeans that share a simi
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DISH
The Bigger The Better
with Maribeth Maloney
     Sing along to the tune of "The Brady Bunch" while on the verge of a tryptophan-induced coma:
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