for the ARTS record
Sustainable Nantucket Film Series: "My Father's Garden"

Sustainable Nantucket has been screening documentaries this winter in tandem with the Atheneum and the Nantucket Historical Association. The documentaries have themes in line with Sustainable Nantucket's causes: economic sustainability (i.e. a downtown that's not just for the tourists) as well as agricultural and fishery sustainability. They also take into account environmental issues dealing with beach erosion and climate control.

This week's feature, "My Father's Garden," is a documentary filmed by Miranda Smith, whose father, a Florida orange grower, died after developing cancer related to the chemicals he used in his growing. The filmmaker contrasts her father's life with the life of Fred Kirschenmann, who is considered by many to be the father of organic farming.
When: Wednesday, March 21, 7-9 p.m.
Where: Nantucket Atheneun (Great Hall),
  1 India Street
Cost: Free
For more information, please call 228-1110.
Nantucket Historical Association Explorations: Provincetown

There is something very sweet about Nantucketers venturing off island together in the winter just to explore and have little, day-long adventures - and Nina Hellman has been hosting opportunities for islanders to do just that with her Explorations series for the Nantucket Historical Association.

For the upcoming trip to Provincetown, Hellman will bring approximately 20 people to the mainland for visits to the Provincetown Art Association, the Center for Coastal Studies, the Pilgrim Monument and lunch at Napi's restaurant. The NHA is providing transportation both ways between Hyannis and Provincetown; but attendants must make their own travel arrangements to get to the mainland.

This trip is a keen way for Nantucketers to scratch the itch of curiosity regarding our mainland sister city. Opened in 2006, the Provincetown Art Association museum boasts work by established and emerging artists, including Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, Man Ray and Red Grooms. The Center for Coastal Studies specializes in the endangered right whale and conducted the aerial surveys last week of the boat-injured right whale that has been floating around off the Cape. Established in 1973, Napi's is something like a mini annex for works from the Provincetown Art Association; the owner will attend the lunch to speak on his large collection.

Daytrippers will also be privy to a private tour of the Pilgrim Monument, which commemorates the Pilgrims first landing in Provincetown on November 21, 1620. They spent five weeks exploring the arm of the Cape, and also drew up the Mayflower Compact, before heading to Plymouth. Did you not know this? Maybe you should head to Provincetown.

When: Tuesday, March 27; Pickup in Hyannis,

9 a.m.; Return to Hyannis, about 5:30 p.m.

Where: Participants must make own reservations

to and from either the Hyannis airport or

the boat terminals. Cost: $120 (NHA nonmembers); $85 (members) For more information or to register, call Julie

Kever at 228-1894, ext. 0. I