Peter Pan says if growing up means it would be beneath his dignity to climb a tree, then he refuses to ever grow up. One of the most amazing things about Nantucket is it brings out the child in all of us. I had the opportunity last week to experience Nantucket through the eyes of […]
Fall is the time of year for sniffles, sneezes and tummy aches. You can find yourself making three or four trips to the local pharmacy in a single week! So imagine my delight when I stopped into our Main Street pharmacy one fall day (aptly named Nantucket Pharmacy!) for no other reason than to slide onto […]
Click here or photo above to listen to Trace Adkins new hit “Just Fishin” In his newest hit single, “Just Fishin” Trace Adkins tugs on every daddy’s heart as he reminds us that spending time on the shoreline with our kids, a line in the water, is about more than just catching a fish. These […]
The 2000 cult classic movie starring Ashton Kutcher is the outrageous story of 2 teens who party a little too hard one night ending up in what they describe as a “chemically induced coma.” This results in severe short term memory loss. For those of us who live and work in Nantucket full time, August […]
Photo courtesy of Sosebee Studio Nantucket is awash with beautiful scenery in the summertime. Virtually everywhere you turn there are “Kodak moments” to behold. One of my favorite summer scenes is the harbor brimming with boats of all shapes, sizes and design. It’s so serene to watch some glide through the jetties on a cloudless […]
The Beach Boys convinced us that “if everybody had an ocean, across the U.S.A., then everybody’d be surfin’ like Californi-a.” I think that might be true. If you hang out on any beach long enough, watching nimble surfers gracefully riding the waves, it makes you wish you were skilled enough to “Hang Ten” with the […]
My husband Dan and I were humming Ricky Nelson’s 1970′s Billboard hit as we left our first garden party of the summer last weekend. And what a party it was! The Nantucket Artists Associationheld its annual Gala on the lawn of a stunning Hulbert Avenue estate, generously donated for the evening by a long-time supporter of […]
Captain Reuben Bunker House It’s well known that Nantucket was once the whaling capital of the world. Crews would board the large whaling ships and set out to sea in search of those beautiful spouting creatures…their money-makers. Although the boats were not all the same and the crews varied in size and skill, there was […]
Remember the Stouffer’s commercial from the 80′s where the husband sits in awe at the head of his beautifully adorned dining room table? “So this is the dining room,” he quips as his wife serves the Stouffer’s meal on the fine china. We all chuckled because we could relate. It seemed our days gathered around […]
“My life is like a stroll on the beach… as near to the edge as I can go.” –Thoreau To those of us who know, love and frequent the Nantucket beaches, it comes as no surprise that National Geographic’s new book “The 10 Best of Everything” named Nantucket beaches some of the top ten best in […]
