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BY MARGARET CARROLL-BERGMAN INDEPENDENT EDITOR Island artist G. S. "Greg" Hill is drawn to the American flag. Whenever he is outside painting or sketching, if an American flag is flying, it captures his attention and interest. "You expect to see flags on Memorial Day and July 4th, yet, on Nantucket, you see them flying all summer long," said... More ...
TWN's Storytime with a Princess runs through July 14 BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER What child would not love to hear their favorite fairy tales read to them by a beautiful princess? That fantasy comes true in "Storytime with a Princess" staged by the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket and presented for kids two to 11 years of age. More ... "Bear and Katie" stars dogs in trouble BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER Loni Burchett has written her fifth children's book called "Bear and Katie in A Crazy Day at the Beach," subtitled "Trouble in Nantucket." The story features dogs who anger people enough to cause them to be picked up by an animal officer and put behind bars. More ...
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER There is nothing quite as magical and boundless as a child's imagination. When "Seussical the Musical" opens at Bennett Hall on July 8, a small boy named Jo-Jo finds a funny hat and tries to conjure up an image of what animal would wear such a thing. More ... Come to the Cabaret, my Friends... "Stage by Stage" to benefit Theatre Workshop of Nantucket BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER Summer resident Stephanie Speakman is a patron of the arts, and last year she attended every Theatre Workshop performance she could. Wanting to support the local drama company, Speakman approached TWN's Producing Director Jordana Fleischut with an idea for a fundraiser - a cabaret performance she... More ... for the Arts record Robert Frazier to exhibit at Old Spouter on July 5 Robert Frazier, director of the Artists' Association of Nantucket and a painter, will open a new exhibit at the Old Spouter Gallery on Orange Street on July 5 that features a number of impressionistic works focusing on a shifting perspective on N... More ...
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER Robert Barsanti washed ashore on Nantucket in 1987, coming from Ipswich after college graduation to join the faculty at Nantucket High School as an English teacher. Though he left the island after resigning from NHS in 2004 to attend to family obligations and now teaches high school English in Pit... More ...
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 ... More ...
books cds movies "The Garden of Last Days" by Andre Dubus III Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 From the acclaimed author of "House of Sand and Fog" comes another story from the darker side of humanity. Dubus sets his story on the West Coast of Florida, in the week preceding the World Trade ... More ...
BY MARGARET CARROLL-BERGMAN INDEPENDENT EDITOR Last year, Hilderbrand, 38, published "Barefoot," a story about women, relationships and love, which came out recently in paperback. This week and last "Barefoot" was numbers five and seven, respectively, on the New York Times Bestseller list. More ... |
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