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LETTERS OF REMEMBRANCE
One historian’s mission to collect a million of the greatest war letters ever written. For the last twenty years, Andrew Carroll has traveled to all fifty states and forty countries in search of the...
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OLD NEWS
James Russell pledges to bring historic change to the NHA. Nothing about James Russell’s journey to his current position as the Gosnell Executive Director of the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA)...
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GRACE UNDER FIRE
The African Meeting House’s Charity-Grace Mofsen stands for the best of Nantucket in the face of one of the island’s ugliest moments. Charity-Grace Mofsen hadn’t even reached the five corners...
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COLD CASE
Reopening one of Nantucket’s greatest unsolved mysteries: The disappearance of Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne. Few people on Nantucket remember her name all these years later, but for those that do, Margaret...
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CURIOUS COLLECTION
The NHA’s latest exhibit will have you thinking outside of the box. In November 1847, Rockwell’s New York Circus set sail on the brig Young Lady from Manhattan to Boston. After fourteen days of storms...
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HISTORIC HEROINES
How the seeds of feminism in America first took root on Nantucket. When more than four hundred people gathered in the courtyard of the Atheneum this past January as part of the nationwide women’s...
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PLAYING THE OLDIES
One songwriter is bringing new life to Nantucket’s oldest places. In what will literally be music to people’s ears, the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) commissioned singer-songwriter and...
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OLD MAN & THE ISLAND
The hidden history of Ernest Hemingway on Nantucket. Whether fighting giant marlin off the coast of Key West or hunting U-Boats off Cuba, Ernest Hemingway’s swashbuckling adventures helped propel him...
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LETTERS OF REMEMBRANCE
One historian’s mission to collect a million of the greatest war letters ever written. For the last twenty years, Andrew Carroll has traveled to all fifty states and forty countries in search of the...
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OLD NEWS
James Russell pledges to bring historic change to the NHA. Nothing about James Russell’s journey to his current position as the Gosnell Executive Director of the Nantucket Historical Association (NHA)...
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GRACE UNDER FIRE
The African Meeting House’s Charity-Grace Mofsen stands for the best of Nantucket in the face of one of the island’s ugliest moments. Charity-Grace Mofsen hadn’t even reached the five corners...
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LASER FOCUS
How cutting-edge laser technology is preserving Nantucket history. You’ve probably seen them around town. They comb the island in Florida Gators caps and T-shirts, wielding high-tech devices on...
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DREAM ON
Marking its ten year anniversary this July, the (new) Dreamland continues to offer much more than meets the eye. In the not so distant past, Nantucket’s youngest residents only knew The Dreamland as a...
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A STAR WAS BORN
This August marks Maria Mitchell’s bicentennial birthday. On a cool October night in 1847, Maria Mitchell sat on roof of the Pacific National Bank looking up at the stars. The twenty-nine-year-old...
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ESCAPE ARTIST
One local artist’s unbelievable journey to freedom. Eighteen years ago, Nantucket resident Paul Galschneider was sitting in a maximum-security prison cell giving Steve “The Rifle-man” Flemmi a foot...
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PORTAL TO THE PAST
Could the JFK Bunker in Tom Nevers become Nantucket’s next museum? In the middle of a windswept field at Tom Nevers’ southernmost edge, a semicircular, rust-streaked portal emerges from a grassy...
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BONE TO PICK
Will a bill designed to save endangered species make an artistic tradition on Nantucket go extinct? Nantucket has a long and complicated history with ivory, stretching back to the whaling days when...
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HONORING HONOR
Summer resident Bob Monahan helps celebrate Medal of Honor heroes. Of all the exclusive clubs in America, none is more rarified than the recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Created in 1861...
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THE ISLAND’S INNER SANCTUMS
Step inside some of the most exclusive clubs on the island. On an island where yacht clubs and golf clubs can fetch six figure initiation fees, there are a handful of organizations where no amount of...
View ArticleTHE NANTUCKET OF YESTERYEAR
Our favorite photos from the Nantucket Historical Association over the years. From trains across the island to a bike ride downtown with almost no cars in sight, Nantucket has sure seen its fair share...
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