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July 2020
Inside the Collection
July 2020
When you walk through the Nantucket Whaling Museum past stoic portraits of whaling captains, harpoons, the skeleton of the sperm whale that hangs above Gosnell Hall, up the steps across from the clock’s...
read moreSharks: Our Other Visitors
July 2020
Last August, Doug Lindley had just taken off from Nantucket Memorial Airport on his way to New Bedford to get some engine work done on his plane when he spotted a pair of white sharks off Cisco Beach. He...
read moreHeidi Weddendorf: Creating jewelry inspired by nature
July 2020
Heidi Weddendorf came to Nantucket in the summer of 1988 to escape the heat of South Carolina and manage the Erica Wilson boutique on Main Street. She had no intention of staying once autumn rolled around....read more
Dancers on the Marshes
July 2020
Snowy Egrets. Delicate, small white herons, they appear and disappear in our salt marshes.
What could speak more eloquently of summer’s arrival?
Sometimes, just a head pokes up in the grasses....
read moreBeating the Heat
July 2020
Summer is here and the garden is in full swing. Tall tomato plants are loaded with fruit soon to ripen, cucumbers are weighing down their vines and your neighbors have probably learned to avoid you if they...
read moreGin Cocktails
July 2020
Winston Churchill said this about the classic summertime cocktail: “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.”
Before he became, well, Winston...
read moreAll Olive Oils are not Created Equal
July 2020
Salad-making has long been my fondest culinary passion. Back in the 1980s when I was running my Que Sera Sarah specialty-food shop on the island, I’d go through at least a gallon of olive oil per day...
read moreSalad Days
July 2020
There is an almost stunning difference between a salad you might make with off-season lettuce and tomatoes from someplace far away, and one made from local lettuces, radishes, spring onions and hothouse...
read moreTake Me Out to the Ball Game
July 2020
The game was introduced in the 1840s and 1850s, those years before the Civil War. But the seeds of baseball were planted during that war, blossoming when soldiers on both sides returned to their small...
read moreThe Questions: Sam Slosek
July 2020
The 23 acres of farmland off Polpis Road have been in Sam Slosek’s family since 1954, when his grandfather, Stan Slosek, bought the property and started a dairy operation called Moors End farm. By the time...
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