Posts Tagged: 2012

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 […]

Gratitude

22 Nov 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged Beach, Cisco, Friends, Main Street, nantucket, Ocean, Shellie Dunlap, Thanksgiving | Be the first to comment here.

With temperatures in the high 50′s and low 60′s these past few weeks, it’s impossible to believe Thanksgiving is already upon us. It seems like just yesterday we were winding down our beach days. I hear it everywhere I go – time is flying by. As a kid, I always heard my grandmother say that […]

Papa’s Ocean

20 Sep 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged A Nantucket Experience, Atlantic Ocean, Beach, Beaches, Cisco, Ferry, Ferryboat, Hyannis, Island, nantucket, Ocean, Shellie Dunlap | Be the first to comment here.

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 […]