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Experience Nantucket, Every Season
Today on Nantucket
Friday, August 21
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7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Sports Fishing on the Herbert T -
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Story Walk: If You Spot a Shell -
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Marine Ecology Field Trip -
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Pick Your Own Flowers Tour -
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Kids’ Bird Watching -
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Ravenous Reptiles -
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Feeding Frenzy at MMA Aquarium -
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Generations Together at NISDA -
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Hands-On Lifesaving: Breeches Buoy & Heaving Stick -
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Maritime Activity Stations
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10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Guided Nature Walk – Sandplain Grassland Biodiversity -
10:15 AM - 4:30 PM Hands-On-History -
10:45 AM - 6:00 PM Historic Downtown Walking -
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Public Historical Tour of Nantucket -
11:15 AM - 4:00 PM Nantucket by Water Harbor Tour & Ice Cream Cruise -
11:15 AM - 2:45 PM The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of Nantucket -
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Bug Bonanza -
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Endeavor Sailing Excursions with Captain Jim -
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Wine Tasting at Mór Wine -
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Wines & Rinds at Bartlett’s Farm -
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM Live Music at Cisco Brewers: LowDown Brass Band -
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Nantucket by Water Cocktail Cruise -
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CUFFE: TAXED — Paul Cuffe, Nantucket, and the Mayflower Shallop -
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Kids’ Night Out: Enjoy Your Evening While Your Kids Enjoy Theirs -
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sunset Sail Aboard the Endeavor -
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Ned Rorem in Paris A Tribute in Film & Music -
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Audra McDonald -
10:00 PM Karaoke
Carrying on Tradition
“Leave me alone, I’m just carrying on an old family tradition…” these sardonic lyrics from the Hank Williams Jr. classic 1979 song Family Tradition…
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When Darkness Reveals the Light
There are some things you don’t realize you’ve stopped seeing until you see them again. For me, this summer, it was lightning bugs.
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Why So Dry?
Last year at this time, the plants in our wild spaces looked a little different. Rather than lush and green, we were faced with…
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NFF Summer Doc Series at Dreamland
The Nantucket Film Festival will launch its inaugural NFF Summer Doc Series, this week from August 25 to 27, bringing five acclaimed documentaries to…
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Nantucket Lifesavers Recognition Day on September 11, 2026
Each year, Egan Maritime Institute and Nantucket Cottage Hospital honor that tradition by recognizing modern-day lifesavers at Lifesavers Recognition Day. This year it will…
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Watch the Skies with Nantucket’s MMA on Wednesday, August 12
The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association (MMA) invites the community to a spectacular day of celestial events on Wednesday, August 12, beginning with a Partial…
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Atheneum Brings a World of Ideas to Nantucket
Each summer, the Nantucket Atheneum invites some of the country’s incisive thinkers, talented writers, and public figures to the island for an evening of…
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