I have a favorite picture frame displayed prominently on my desk with an engraved quote that reads, “Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.” The special moment preserved in this frame is one of all of my children gathered together on Cisco Beach on a […]
It’s been said, “You don’t know what you don’t know, but when you do know you have to do something about it.” When Darcy Creech, founder and CEO of Peter Beaton Inc of Nantucket, visited a child named Joyce in the tiny village of Olkolili, Tanzania in 2010, she discovered something she did not know…Joyce […]
Merriam Webster defines a trench as “a place, position, or level at which an activity is carried on in a manner likened to trench warfare – often used in the phrase in the trenches.” The very nature of the word trench conjures up images of hard labor…digging, sweating and digging some more. It also implies […]
Last week, as the news stations flooded our television screens and mobile devices with gloom and doom stories of crash landed airplanes and politicians behaving badly we found a glimmer of hope as word came across the ticker that a royal bundle of joy would soon arrive on the scene. Even as we went about […]
“Laughter truly is good for our physical bodies and refreshment for our souls. It lightens our load, makes us happy and reminds us not to take the stresses of life too serious. As you organize your Nantucket summer agenda, plan to take advantage of the wide variety of opportunities to laugh until your sides split. […]
“Milton Berle once said, ‘Laughter is an instant vacation.’ Never is that more true than on Nantucket. I have never attended a Nantucket dinner party, beach barbeque or social event that wasn’t filled with laughter. People here genuinely know how to have fun and enjoy more than a few good laughs.” Excerpt from A Nantucket […]
The weather may have been wet and muggy on Nantucket Friday night, but the atmosphere was electric and the star line up HOT at the new VFW Post off New South Road. The All Star Jam Band (featuring rock legends formerly of the band Boston, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Fosterchild, The Wailers and James Brown band) took the […]
“I bet there isn’t a mom or dad alive who can’t relate to this photo. Every family has a ‘class clown.’ Somehow I managed to get four of them…the one in the photo being King Clown (my son, Mr. Funny Guy.) When the kids were little I spent a lot of hours and energy trying […]
“Like most of us who visit Nantucket for the first time, Tobie has been romanced and hoped to take a little piece of it home with her. As her daddy was packing for their departure he noticed her little purse was heavier than when they arrived. She’d snuck a few handfuls of the Nantucket beach […]
“Every place and Nantucket Experience we introduce Tobie to raised her curiosity. Narrow winding streets lined with one charming grey house after the next. (‘Is grey Nantucket’s favorite color?’ Tobie inquired) Excerpt from A Nantucket Experience – A Year in the Life of a Wash Ashore #islandgirl #nantucket
