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Experience Nantucket, Every Season
Today on Nantucket
Friday, August 28
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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 -
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM 1/4″ Woven Cuff Bracelet with Baleen with Caitlin Parsons -
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Hands On Lecture: An Hour in Mrs. Coffin’s Garden -
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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10:15 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 -
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Bug Bonanza -
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 -
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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 -
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Nantucket by Water Cocktail Cruise -
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Sunset Sail Aboard the Endeavor -
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dreamland Concert Series: Corky Laing (of Mountain) & Friends -
10:00 PM Karaoke
37 Summers of a Nantucket Sisterhood
This September, as they have done on the same September weekend for 37 years, a group of women will board the ferry to Nantucket…
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A Hike through the Shawkemo Highlands
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Taking Time to Notice the Rain
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Rooted Renters
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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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