ON THE ROOF
Romantic comedy forces NHS Drama Club students to stretch, with gloves on
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      The heady mess of early 20th century love is coming to the stage of Nantucket High School this spring, courtesy of the NHS Drama Club. The students are being pushed to expand their comedic chops with "On the Roof," an adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel "The Small Bachelor.
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The Wishing Tree
tells Nanucket's secret hopes
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      While many of us have said goodbye to the Tannenbaums in our living rooms, a single tree from the Nantucket Historical Association's Festival of Trees still stands in a corner of the museum, because it has come to represent not only Christmas, but also the secret hopes and dreams of Nantucket resid...
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Our 10 Favorite Things
The new Lightship Basket Museum Staff
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      The staff of the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum doesn't want to wait until the daffodils push up through the soil in spring to show you their new growth this winter.
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for the ARTS record
      Historical insights Teacher-turned-historian Barbara White will conduct a presentation for the Nantucket Historical Association to bookend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. White, who originally did research in the 1970s on Nantucket school segregation, retired three years ago from teaching history at ...
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Music Director undergoes a technology upgrade
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      Much like a healthy shark in the water, the mind of a teacher would die if it didn't keep moving. Nantucket High School's Music Department Head, Barbara Elder, is keeping her mental fins moving by taking a professional sabbatical beginning at the end of January to become fluent in the newest techno...
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PeT Tracks
Jan Jaeger
      PET-PROOF YOUR HOME We have always been able to trust our own dogs not to bother items left out on the counter or in the house, and it certainly has been more than a few years since we have had a puppy around.
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Media you can Trust
The merchants make the picks
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street 228-1080 "Food to Live By" by Myra Goodman We first learned of "Food to Live By" in Sarah Chase's column in the Inky. It is a compilation in beautiful full-color of more than 200 recipes along with tips for using fresh, organic foods that the autho...
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DISH
Flippin' Fools
with Maribeth Maloney
      My goodness. It seemed like such a simple mission: taking the kids out for breakfast. But searching for a place that was open turned into mission impossible - Downyflake, Hutch's, Hen House, Even Keel - all closed.
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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 vi...
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