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30 Aug 2011

Dude, Where’s My Car on Nantucket?

Dude, where's my car on Nantucket?

The 2000 cult classic movie starring Ashton Kutcher is the outrageous story of 2 teens who party a little too hard one night ending up in what they describe as a “chemically induced coma.”  This results in severe short term memory loss.  For those of us who live and work in Nantucket full time, August…

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23 Aug 2011

Nantucket Race Week…

Nantucket race week

Nantucket is awash with beautiful scenery in the summertime. Virtually everywhere you turn there are “Kodak moments” to behold. One of my favorite summer scenes is the harbor brimming with boats of all shapes, sizes and design. It’s so serene to watch some glide through the jetties on a cloudless afternoon and others bob on…

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16 Aug 2011

Surfing On Nantucket

Surfing on Nantucket

The Beach Boys convinced us that “if everybody had an ocean, across the U.S.A., then everybody’d be surfin’ like Californi-a.” I think that might be true. If you hang out on any beach long enough, watching nimble surfers gracefully riding the waves, it makes you wish you were skilled enough to “Hang Ten” with the…

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09 Aug 2011

Nantucket Garden Party…

Nantucket Garden Party

My husband Dan and I were humming Ricky Nelson’s 1970’s Billboard hit as we left our first Nantucket garden party of the summer last weekend. And what a party it was! The Nantucket Artists Association held its annual Gala on the lawn of a stunning Hulbert Avenue estate, generously donated for the evening by a…

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02 Aug 2011

Nantucket Captains Houses

Captains Houses

It’s well known that Nantucket was once the whaling capital of the world. Crews would board the large whaling ships and set out to sea in search of those beautiful spouting creatures…their money-makers. Although the boats were not all the same and the crews varied in size and skill, there was one common denominator among…

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