ARTiculate
Authors of the war-time stories offer tips and background for talking about their books with your children.
WITH MARLI GUZZETTA
      With its One Book, One Island program, the Nantucket Atheneum has created an opportunity for you to engage with your children on issues relating to the Middle East. The program's intention is to edify the community through the shared reading of pertinent works of literature, which will be made avai...
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Global Connections
Fisherman Pennel Ames has been dropping bottled messages into the sea for six years. Last week, one washed ashore in England. It certainly wasn't the first time.
      Two weeks ago, John Nesbitt of the Bournemouth Daily Echo, in Bournemouth, England, was walking the beach with his camera at Purbeck when he came across a barnacle-encrusted wine bottled with a message inside.
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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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FLOSSIE'S LEGACY
BY STEVE SHEPPARD
      According to the records, the house at 31 India Street was built in the late-1700s by a whaling captain, but it wasn't until 150 years later that the ninth owner of the property transformed it into an enduring island legacy. Florence "Flossie" Francis, the house's longest inhabitant, created a hom...
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for the ARTS record
      Winter Community Concert: Eelgrass While the grasses here are frozen or brown, bluegrass promises to lift the spirits. NHS teacher Erik Wendelken and friends will twang your wind-chilled heartstrings as Eelgrass, a bluegrass band, will be playing a free show at the Atheneum Friday night, courtesy o...
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Musicians, poets toast Robert Burns
BY MARLI GUZZETTA
      When Molly Anderson assumed her position as Director of the Atheneum, she noticed almost immediately a bust on a shelf over the circulation desk, mislabeled with a yellow Post-it note as some British poet. The likeness was that of Robert Burns - 18th century Scottish poet and songwriter and author...
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DISH
Home Alone
with Maribeth Maloney
      Braising is not a method of cooking that I employ frequently. Probably because it goes best with two things that I generally don't have on hand: a tough cut of meat and a few hours to kill. Granted, most of the time it takes is idle, but it means being at home while the pot simmers.
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Media you can Trust
books cds movies
      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street 228-1080 "Paula Spencer" by Roddy Doyle I just finished Roddy Doyle's latest novel, "Paula Spencer," in which the reader meets (again) the protagonist of Doyle's 1996 novel, "The Woman who Walked into Walls.
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