THE GHOST IN THE CORNER
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT
      As a child growing up in Nantucket, Warren Hussey Bouton would frequently spend the night with his grandparents in their Main Street house. According to Bouton, "It was kind of a creepy old place. I would always stay in the back bedroom, and in the corner of the room there was a windowed door th...
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A Whale of a Halloween
BY LUCRETIA VOIGT CONTRIBUTING WRITER
      Nantucket is known for its whales. Once the whaling capital of the world, the face of Nantucket affixed to most tourist wear is a whale, Nantucket's public school has a whale for a mascot, and green slacks worn by only the most preppy tourists are adorned with pink whales. Nantucket's largest muse...
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Bullington, Butler, Whelden join NCMC faculty
      NCMC/Nantucket School of Music has added three new teachers to its faculty. Andy Bullington, guitar is well known to Nantucket audiences through his performances with cellist, Mollie Glazer, The Atlantics and Dave Provost's Band, "The Shingles.
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     PHOTO BY MICHAEL DWYER Robert Allison, Suffolk University history professor and member of The Bostonian Society's board of directors, presented the Society's 2007 Boston History Award to author, historian and Nantucket resident Nathaniel Philbrick attended the 2007 Boston History Award Gala hosted b...
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DISH with Maribeth Maloney
Q&A with Dan Silverman Executive Chef Lever House, NewYork City
      Maribeth Maloney: When Lever House - the building, that is - was unveiled in Manhattan in 1952, it was referred to as the Eighth Wonder of the World: a seminal work of Modernist architecture that redefined not only Park Avenue, but corporate architecture,
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Media you can Trust
      books Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "Someone Knows My Name" by Lawrence Hill "Someone Knows My Name" is the first person fictional narrative of an African woman who as a child is abducted from Africa, enslaved in South Carolina, sold to an indigo trader, then later thrown i...
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reel to reel
Now playing on Nantucket
      "Death at a Funeral" ( Rated R for language and drug content; 90 minutes) Directed by Frank Oz, "Death at a Funeral" is the funniest and wackiest funeral you will ever attend (at least we hope!). The farce begins with the delivery of two caskets for the funeral and takes off from there.
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SAILING INTO FALL
      Even though we have had some rain lately, this summer and fall have been as close to perfect as I can imagine.
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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 v...
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