Nantucket Museums & Sites
More than half a dozen Nantucket museums are open to visitors during the season, featuring exhibits on Nantucket whaling, island art, Nantucket shipwrecks, Nantucket Lightship Baskets, and more.
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Museums, aquarium, observatories and environmental education through walks, workshops and classes for students of all ages on Nantucket.
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Telling the story of the heroic life-savers whose motto was: "You have to go out - but you don't have to come back."
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The Whaling Museum and 6 historic sites preserve and interpret the history of Nantucket.appreciation and respect for their heritage.
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"Weaving Nantucket's past to its future." Featuring historic and contemporary lightship baskets in exhibits, demonstrations, lectures
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Representing individuals and museums dedicated to collecting, preserving, and exhibiting the heritage of America's early life-savers.
“Nantucket is a different sort of island.” See why – watch this trailer for the Ric Burns film “Nantucket,” showing in the Nantucket Whaling Museum.
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Nantucket’s Main Street Fountain Will Be Back in Time for Christmas
On March 4 of 2020, Nantucket lost a beloved artifact when a motorist (reportedly suffering from glare) struck and broke the iconic fountain that stood on Main Street for more than a century. The post Nantucket’s Main Street Fountain Will Be Back in Time for Christmas appeared first on Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket.
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NHA Publishes Bio of Nantucket Reformer
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) is pleased to announce the release of Disturber of Tradition: A Portrait of Anna Gardner, a biography written by island resident Barbara Ann White and published by the NHA. Anna Gardner (1816–1901) was a Nantucket edu cator, writer, abolitionist, and suffragist. A lifelong advocate of … The post NHA Publishes Bio of Nantucket Reformer appeared first on Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket.
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Growing Up in Sconset
Being 18-years-old in the summer of 1970 brought a tension that young men today do not have to face: the draft lottery. The United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War, and on July 1, 1970, numbers were drawn to determine who would be drafted into miliary service. The post Growing Up in Sconset appeared first on Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket.
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NHA Opens Inspiring New Exhibit
A new exhibit in the Nantucket Whaling Museum tells the story of inspiring individuals who moved Nantucket—and the nation—towards a more just and equitable distribution of political power. It begins with a simple will written in 1710 that endowed a formerly enslaved man with property and continues to the enactment of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 that granted voting rights to women. The post NHA Opens Inspiring New Exhibit appeared first on Yesterdays Island, Todays Nantucket.
