Much fun with Shakespeare returns in a fall performance of "Much Ado About Nothing"
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      I f you could not make time during the hectic summer to see Seaside Shakespeare's performance of "Much Ado About Nothing," you have another chance in early October when the company will re-stage the play on the 3rd, 4th and 5th, including matinees and evening shows at The Chicken Box.
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Walden Chamber Players take the stage at Whaling Museum
with a dozen members and an island student featured in second performance
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Composers past and present will be highlighted in two unique concerts to be held at the Whaling Museum this week with the acclaimed Walden Chamber Players. Island high school senior River Bennett will be featured as a cellist at the second performance.
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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 viewing and identification at www.nha.
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Media you can Trust
      "To Be Like the Sun" By Susan Marie Swanson Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine A little girl talks to her sunflower as it grows from seed to tall, brilliant flower, making its "own sun up over my head!
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Island master carver Tim Parsons demonstrates at Basket Museum tomorrow
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      T im Parsons does not whittle. He is a carver who over several years has mastered his art using wood, mammoth ivory and elephant ivory. Parsons will share his craft during a special demonstration at the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 25, one of the last programs being offered before the museum closes for the season on Oct. 11.
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For the Arts record
      Clear the calendar for tomorrow when "Wait Until Dark" brings more than an autumn chill into your life The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket introduces fall stage productions with the scary Frederick Knott thriller, "Wait Until Dark" opening tomorrow night, Sept. 25 at 8:30 p.m. on the main stage of the Centre Street Methodist Church.
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For the love of the grape
Wine cellars abound on Nantucket
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER
      If you love the company of friends and family, the taste of fine wine and treasure finding superior, inexpensive young vintages, then nurturing them to their optimum age and flavor, you may be a good candidate for a wine cellar. There are many islanders who have wine cellars of all sizes and designs, and enjoy them for several reasons.
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