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A friend related that she and her husband were walking down India Street last Friday morning, heading towards the Atheneum to hear the preliminary report of the Urban Land Institute team. To her amazement, she said, people were running past them headed for the same place, wanting to be certain that they would be able to get into the Great Hall to listen to the report. More ... H alloween usually marks the end of warm weather on Nantucket. We can pack away sandals and sunblock and drag out the boots and coats from the back of the closet. This also marks the time of year to think of pumpkins. Some people take their pumpkin appreciation very seriously. A few years ago, I traveled with my son to the annual Pumpkin Festival in Keene, N. H. More ... "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's form, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing. More ... Gold! There's GOLD in them thar hills! A call like that quickened the hearts of Nantucketers in the late 1840s, discouraged after the Great Fire had wiped out most of the town and our whaling industry was hitting the skids. Many of our able-bodied young men found a way to get to the gold fields in California. More ... |
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