Posts Tagged: 2016

Sacrifice

31 May 2016 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged A Nantucket Experience, American Legion, Holiday for Heros, Memorial Day, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Saving Private Ryan, Shellie Dunlap, Tom Hanks, VFW, WACK-FM | Be the first to comment here.

. Who can forget the opening few minutes from the heart-wrenching 1998 blockbuster, Saving Private Ryan. In theaters across the country, nobody breathed for minutes on end as we watched in horror Hollywood’s realistic depiction of the historic invasion. Later in the movie, during their search for Private Ryan, Corporal Upham confides in Captain Miller […]

Fair Weather

25 Sep 2012 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged American Legion, Atlantic, blue ribbons, bluefish, County Fair, Fair Queen, fairgrounds, Fall, funnel cakes, Island, island fair, Island festivities, littlenecks surf-casting, nantucket, Ocean, scallops Quahog, Shellie Dunlap, Tom Nevers | Be the first to comment here.

Fall is in the air here on Nantucket. The change in temps brings with it the anticipation of a new season of island festivities. Whaler football games, scallop season and the annual Nantucket County Fair. I attended my first ever island fair out in Tom Nevers last weekend. I was reminded what the country group […]