Surfside Life-Saving talk Thursday at Lightship Basket Museum
BY MARGARET CARROLL-BERGMAN INDEPENDENT EDITOR
      James Claflin will give a talk on the Surfside Life-Saving Station and the history of lifesaving on Nantucket tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum.
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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 justwant to see if people can identify. Many more images are available for vie...
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Media you can Trust
      "Man in the Dark" by Paul Auster There are few authors I have not read, so I am embarrassed to say I totally missed the boat on Paul Auster. When Elly Brinkley, one of our summer whiz kids, presented us with the opportunity to host Paul and his wife Siri Hustvedt for a signing, I knew I had som...
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To give is American: The history of philanthropy in this country
BY MARGARET CARROLL-BERGMAN INDEPENDENT EDITOR
      George McCully trained as a Renaissance historian and taught at Brown University for 20 years before he switched careers to work as an independent consultant in philanthropy.
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Bill Staines to perform Saturday with Chuck Colley Trio at NHA
BY PETER A. SUTTERS JR. INDEPENDENT WRITER
      Folk singer Bill Staines will perform in concert with the Chuck Colley Trio this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Whaling Museum. Tickets are $10 for Nantucket Historical Association members and $25 for the general public. Staines blends his original works seamlessly with traditional folk songs.
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Playwriting competition open to island youth
BY MARGARET CARROLL-BERGMAN INDEPENDENT EDITOR
      When Jordana Fleischut started working as the producing director of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket two years ago, she realized there were limited offerings on island for children and teenagers interested in theater.
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A room of one's own: The shed
BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER
      F illing up our houses, basements, attics, garages and self-storage units with all the trimmings of our lives is only natural regardless of where we live, which is precisely why the Gods of More Stuff invented the shed. Not a barn, garage nor glorified doghouse, the residential shed is nirvana fo...
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for the Arts record
      Philbrick wins 2008 New England Book Award for non-fiction. Nantucket resident Nathaniel Philbrick is to receive the 2008 New England Book Award. Philbrick is the author of "In the Heart of the Sea," which won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2000 and "Sea of Glory: the Epic South Seas...
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