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June 2025
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Clean TeamExpired

Help Clean up various parts of Nantucket. The Clean Team is a group of over four hundred Nantucketers that is dedicated to keeping our Island’s beaches, dunes, roadsides, and bike paths free of litter.  
14 Jun, 2025
8:00 am
The Handlebar Café
15 Washington St
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Plein Air NantucketOngoing

Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to host the annual Plein Air Nantucket, a plein air painting festival. This week long event is free and open to all artists at any skill level or age who wish to paint outdoors and enjoy the camaraderie of painting with peers. Freshly painted works from this event […]
14 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Clean Water Classic Harbor Paddle Event!Ongoing

Attention – Water Sports Enthusiasts and Everyone Who Loves Nantucket! Mark Your Calendars for an exciting new “harbor paddle event” – the Clean Water Classic! This new, peer-to-peer fundraising paddle event will be open to competitive and recreational stand-up paddle boarders, kayakers and canoeists,   and will occur on Nantucket harbor on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Proceeds benefit local water conservation […]
14 Jun, 2025
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meeting at Milestone Road at junction with Tom Nevers Road. Help Clean up various parts of Nantucket. The Clean Team is a group of over four hundred Nantucketers that is dedicated to keeping our Island’s beaches, dunes, roadsides, and bike paths free of litter.  
14 Jun, 2025
8:00 am
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Bob Woodward with Linda HenryExpired

Few journalists have shaped American political understanding as profoundly as Bob Woodward. The legendary Washington Post reporter and author of 23 bestselling books – 16 of them #1 New York Times bestsellers – Woodward has chronicled every president from Nixon to Biden, including his groundbreaking work on Watergate. In conversation with Linda Henry, CEO of Boston Globe Media Partners, Woodward will […]
14 Jun, 2025
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Guided Tour of Coskata-Coatue Wildlife RefugeOngoing

Join our expert guides on this over-sand vehicle beach tour and learn about the fascinating flora and fauna at Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge. Experience beautiful and unique habitats including salt marshes, the barrier beach system, and the marine environment. Learn how sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms threaten the integrity of this rare […]
14 Jun, 2025
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Wauwinet Gatehouse
111 Wauwinet Road
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Sankaty Head Lighthouse Open DayOngoing

Traditionally, the Lighthouse is open twice a year for climbing, thanks to dozens of dedicated volunteers. Learn more about Sankaty Head Lighthouse For your safety please note: Children must be 7 years of age or older to make the climb (but are welcome to visit outside). Please wear appropriate footwear to climb. No flip-flops permitted. […]
14 Jun, 2025
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Jason Reynolds with Mary HaftExpired

The #1 New York Times bestselling author, award winning writer and a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the celebrated Jason Reynolds, will bring his perspective on addressing complex social issues through characters and story that resonate with honesty, humor, hope and heart. With more than twenty books for children and young adults, including Twenty-Four Seconds from Now, Jason […]
14 Jun, 2025
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Nature RambleOngoing

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
14 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Nature RambleOngoing

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
14 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Read to a BuddyExpired

NiSHA and our certified animal therapy teams, in collaboration with NCS, offer Read to a Buddy, a literacy program encouraging pre-reading and reading skills. This program is a fun, relaxed, and nonjudgemental way to become more confident and simply enjoy reading. Bring a book from home or choose a book from the collection. Registration will […]
14 Jun, 2025
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Early Childhood Playroom
56 Centre Street, 106
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Carl Hiaasen with Elin Hilderbrand & Tim EhrenbergExpired

Carl Hiaasen has been described as “America’s finest satirical novelist” and his most recent novel, Fever Beach, tackles our current chaotic and polarized American culture. He will be joined with co-hosts of the popular literary podcast Books, Beach, & Beyond, #1 New York Times best-selling author Elin Hilderbrand and Tim Ehrenberg, creator of Tim Talks Books. The three will […]
14 Jun, 2025
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of NantucketOngoing

Join friendly & knowledgeable guides for a 75-minute tour of the historic sites in Nantucket Town, Sconset, & more. See The Oldest House, The Old Windmill, Sconset Village, Sankaty Head Lighthouse & more. Tour departs daily at 11:15, 1:00, and 2:45. Tickets $45. Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line at nantucketbustours.com or at 508-228-0334.
14 Jun, 2025
11:15 am - 2:45 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$45.00
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Lisa Genova with Sara DiVello

Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, More or Less Maddy, Left Neglected, and Still Alice, which was adapted into a film starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Julianne Moore, who won the 2015 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Alice. Genova holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Through her books and […]
14 Jun, 2025
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Molly Jong-Fast with Kate Brosnan

Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking conversation with acclaimed writer and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast and Nantucket Project Co-Founder, Kate Brosnan. A correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Fast Politics, New York Times bestselling author, Molly is joining us with her newest book, a memoir of a last chapter lived with her mother, How to Lose Your Mother:A Daughter’s […]
14 Jun, 2025
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Jennifer Finney Boylan

Jennifer Finney Boylan returns to the Nantucket Book Festival with Cleavage, her poignant and witty new memoir-in-essays. The bestselling author of She’s Not There, the first bestselling memoir by a transgender American, Boylan is also a professor at Columbia’s Barnard College and a longtime faculty member at the Bread Loaf and Sirenland Writers’ Conferences. Join us as, with […]
14 Jun, 2025
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Ocean Vuong with Tim Ehrenberg

Novelist, poet, professor, and photographer, Ocean Vuong will present his newest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, published in May. He will be in conversation with Tim Ehrenberg, President of the Nantucket Book Foundation and creator of Tim Talks Books. Ocean and Tim will dive into his poetry collections, the award-winning book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and focus on […]
14 Jun, 2025
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Teen Dungeons & Dragons Club

Join our YA librarian to explore dungeons, battle monsters, and let your inner warrior out in our beginner-friendly Dungeons & Dragons club. All you need to bring is your untapped imagination and a hunger for adventure. All skill levels welcome. This event is intended for ages 13-18. Space is limited so please arrive on time. […]
14 Jun, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Loretta J. Ross with Michael Schulder

Loretta Ross, lifelong human rights activist and winner of a MacArthur Fellow “genius grant,” is the author of Calling In: How To Start Making Change With Those You’d Rather Cancel. It’s a guide to building coalitions with “problematic allies,” fighting hate, and even having fun doing it. Sounds improbable, until you learn Ross’ remarkable story as […]
14 Jun, 2025
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Methodist Church
2 Centre St
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Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills Sunset

After hiking through kettle and kame terrain in the moors learning about frost bottoms and when to pick beach plums with Nantucket Walkabout Guide Peter Brace, soak up the best view of Nantucket Harbor watching the sunset over the harbor and Nantucket Sound at the end of the day from Radar Hill. Shawkemo Hills offers […]
14 Jun, 2025
6:45 pm - 8:45 pm
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍The Next Chapter: Inspiring A New Generation

Join us for a special conversation with best-selling authors, Carl Hiaasen and Jason Reynolds. Celebrated for their captivating stories that engage both children and adults, they look at the world through a prism that spans a spectrum of ages, lending a sharper view on the human story. From the satiric commentary on political and environmental issues in Hiaasen’s […]
14 Jun, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
17 South Water Street
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The Cottage

Fresh from Broadway, this brand-new, side-splitting romp is an outrageous tale of sex, betrayal, and desire as one woman decides to expose her latest affair to both her husband — and to her lover’s wife. The true meaning of fate and faith, identity and infidelity, love and marriage are all called into question as a […]
14 Jun, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Bennett Hall
62 Centre Street
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Nantucket Walkabout – Gardner Farm

Formerly a vegetable farm along the east of side of Hummock Pond, the Land Bank’s Gardner Farm property runs along Hummock Pond, a glacial meltwater river bed that once ran roughly 75 miles south out to the edge of the continental shelf. Now closed off to the ocean and filled with slightly brackish water — […]
15 Jun, 2025
8:00 am - 10:00 am
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Guided Tour of Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge

Join our expert guides on this over-sand vehicle beach tour and learn about the fascinating flora and fauna at Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge. Experience beautiful and unique habitats including salt marshes, the barrier beach system, and the marine environment. Learn how sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms threaten the integrity of this rare […]
15 Jun, 2025
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Wauwinet Gatehouse
111 Wauwinet Road
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe is a New Yorker staff writer and the award-winning author of Empire of Pain, Say Nothing, and Rogues. Known for his gripping investigations into power, corruption, and hidden histories, Keefe brings a masterful narrative style to every subject he tackles. Begin Festival Sunday with one of today’s most fearless and compelling nonfiction writers, as he shares insights from […]
15 Jun, 2025
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
17 South Water Street
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
15 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
15 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Chris Sheppard with Rob Cocuzzo

Christian Sheppard is a professor of liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball, he has written a witty and wise love letter to baseball with life lessons from Homer to Opening Day. Stories of Achilles, Jackie Robinson, Odysseus, and both the 2004 Red Sox and the 2016 […]
15 Jun, 2025
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
17 South Water Street
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The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of Nantucket

Join friendly & knowledgeable guides for a 75-minute tour of the historic sites in Nantucket Town, Sconset, & more. See The Oldest House, The Old Windmill, Sconset Village, Sankaty Head Lighthouse & more. Tour departs daily at 11:15, 1:00, and 2:45. Tickets $45. Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line at nantucketbustours.com or at 508-228-0334.
15 Jun, 2025
11:15 am - 2:45 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$45.00
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Jonathan Waterman with Patti Callihan Henry‍

Jonathan Waterman is an adventurer, award winning photographer and writer. His many articles have appeared in Outside, National Geographic, and Men’s Journal. Having spent years as a ranger and mountain climber in Gates of the Arctic National Park, he returned to Denali after a hiatus to discover shocking changes in the wildlife and landscape. Into the Thaw, his sixteenth […]
15 Jun, 2025
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
17 South Water Street
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Wright Thompson with Luke Russert

Wright Thompson is an award winning senior writer for ESPN and the bestselling books Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams. His newest book, The Barn, tells the shocking history of the 1955 lynching of fourteen year old Emmett Till, a child who loved Bo Diddly and comic books. This crime changed America with its impact on the civil rights […]
15 Jun, 2025
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
Nantucket Dreamland Theater
17 South Water Street
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Nantucket Walkabout – Shawkemo Hills

Shawkemo Hills offers a hiking experience through a portion of the island dramatically shaped by the last glacier to cover most of North America. From a high spot on this hike, see and learn about the formation of Coatue, Great Point, the Haulover, Nantucket Harbor and inner harbor shores. And from a low spot along […]
15 Jun, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Elin Hilderbrand Blue Book Tour

This new tour is straight from the pages of Elin’s ultimate “Must See, Can’t Miss, Won’t Forget” guide to Nantucket, The Blue Book.  Led by Elin’s sister, Heather Thorpe, this tour highlights Elin’s favorite shops, restaurants, & beaches, & showcases island spots prominent in her novels.  Tickets $100.  Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line […]
15 Jun, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
42 Straight Wharf
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Nantucket Book Festival – ‍Festival Send-Off Celebration

Gather at Cisco Brewers on our final day of the Festival for great food, music, and conversation for readers and writers alike. Attendees may choose from delicious options for lunch, plus drinks by Cisco Brewers, Triple 8, and Nantucket Vineyards. Shuttle available from the Visitors Services on Federal Street. No tickets required; pay for your […]
15 Jun, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cisco Brewers
5 Bartlett Farm Rd
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The Cottage

Fresh from Broadway, this brand-new, side-splitting romp is an outrageous tale of sex, betrayal, and desire as one woman decides to expose her latest affair to both her husband — and to her lover’s wife. The true meaning of fate and faith, identity and infidelity, love and marriage are all called into question as a […]
15 Jun, 2025
5:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Bennett Hall
62 Centre Street
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Nantucket Walkabout – Smith’s Point Sunset

Smith’s Point is a treat whenever you can get out there. Jutting out into the channel between Madaket Harbor and Tuckernuck Island, Smith’s Point alternates between including Esther’s Island, so named when Hurricane Esther in September 1961 cleaved off half of Smith’s Point from the rest of Nantucket. Although we islanders still refer to Esther’s […]
15 Jun, 2025
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm
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Nantucket Walkabout – Smooth Hummocks

Graded relatively flat by glacial meltwater running out over the coastal plain to the ocean 75 miles away when the landmass that would become Nantucket was nothing more than a wide, low ridge of sand, gravel and glacial erratics (boulders), Smooth Hummocks is Nantucket’s version of the Midwest’s prairies complete with rare wildflowers and grasses […]
16 Jun, 2025
8:00 am - 10:00 am
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
16 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
16 Jun, 2025
All Day
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The Quiet Table

The Quiet Table is designed for anyone who needs to do deep work—tasks requiring undivided focus, such as studying, reading, writing, or simply doing your taxes. One of the key principles behind the session is the concept of body doubling, where  having others present and working alongside you helps maintain focus. The presence of other people provides a […]
16 Jun, 2025
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of Nantucket

Join friendly & knowledgeable guides for a 75-minute tour of the historic sites in Nantucket Town, Sconset, & more. See The Oldest House, The Old Windmill, Sconset Village, Sankaty Head Lighthouse & more. Tour departs daily at 11:15, 1:00, and 2:45. Tickets $45. Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line at nantucketbustours.com or at 508-228-0334.
16 Jun, 2025
11:15 am - 2:45 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$45.00
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The Westender Tour with Nantucket Island Tours

The Westender Tour covers historic sites in Town then heads West to the Village of Madaket. After that exploration, enjoy stops at Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm plus a stop at Cisco Brewery where you can enjoy libations & the food vendors.  The overall experience lasts about two and a half hours. Tickets $85. Book at 42 Straight […]
16 Jun, 2025
11:45 am - 3:15 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$75.00
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Nantucket Walkabout – Sankaty Bluff

Sand, gravel and boulders laid down by the last glacier during the Wisconsinan Glacial Stage was not the first layer of foundation for Nantucket; an ocean bottom created during the Sangamonian Interglacial Stage and another pavement of glacial material during the Illinoian Glacial Stage are also underneath us. The only place to see all three […]
16 Jun, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Melville on the Shore

1852. In the wake of Moby-Dick’s commercial and critical failure, Herman Melville travels to Nantucket with his father-in-law. The writer is also reeling from another blow, the end of his enigmatic relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Muse that guided the novel’s gestation. When Melville encounters an abandoned widow on the island’s moors, he’s struck by […]
16 Jun, 2025
6:00 pm
Bennett Hall
62 Centre Street
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Nantucket by Water Sunset Cruise

Nothing beats a Nantucket Sunset. Grab a favorite beverage & snacks and c’mon aboard for one of the best shows in town! Departure time will vary with sunset. Call 508-228-7037 or book online nantucketbywater.com
16 Jun, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket by Water
Straight Wharf, Slip #1011
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Nantucket Walkabout – Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge — Coskata Pond & Woods

Based on a foundation of gravel, rock and clay, Coskata is the reason Nantucket Harbor exists. All around the wooded area of Coskata, which likely translates in the Algonquian Native American language that the Wampanoag Indians spoke to “at the broad woods”, are post-glacial deposits moved northward by littoral drift from Nantucket’s east shore over […]
17 Jun, 2025
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Birding at Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum

Join Egan Maritime for a birding adventure at the Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum, situated on the edge of scenic Folger’s Marsh, a Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) property. Ecologist and birding expert Neil Foley (NCF) will guide you through an exploration of the abundant bird life in this unique ecosystem. Participants will also learn about […]
17 Jun, 2025
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum
158 Polpis Road
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Ecologist in Training: Tree Swallow Nest Box Surveys

In this workshop, we will explore the techniques for monitoring avian nest boxes, examine how tracking populations can help us conserve species, and learn about the threats that Tree Swallows face. Join LLNF staff to help check nest boxes and examine how changes in Tree Swallow nest success and phenology are tied to climate change […]
17 Jun, 2025
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Music in the Morning

Join us every Tuesday morning at the Nantucket Atheneum Garden for Music in the Morning! Led by local musician and teacher Cory Morgan, this fun-filled 45-minute session invites kids to explore rhythm, sound, and song through clapping, instrument play, and musical games. Perfect for toddlers to early elementary—and open to all! Don’t forget to bring […]
17 Jun, 2025
9:45 am - 10:30 am
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
17 Jun, 2025
All Day
View Detail

Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
17 Jun, 2025
All Day
View Detail

The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of Nantucket

Join friendly & knowledgeable guides for a 75-minute tour of the historic sites in Nantucket Town, Sconset, & more. See The Oldest House, The Old Windmill, Sconset Village, Sankaty Head Lighthouse & more. Tour departs daily at 11:15, 1:00, and 2:45. Tickets $45. Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line at nantucketbustours.com or at 508-228-0334.
17 Jun, 2025
11:15 am - 2:45 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$45.00
View Detail

The Westender Tour with Nantucket Island Tours

The Westender Tour covers historic sites in Town then heads West to the Village of Madaket. After that exploration, enjoy stops at Bartlett’s Ocean View Farm plus a stop at Cisco Brewery where you can enjoy libations & the food vendors.  The overall experience lasts about two and a half hours. Tickets $85. Book at 42 Straight […]
17 Jun, 2025
11:45 am - 3:15 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$75.00
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Somatic Yoga at the Atheneum

Join us at 12:30 for a yoga practice for everyone! We will move through the practice focusing our attention on what it feels like to be in the body through slow focused movement. We will conclude with a full body relaxation.  This is a short 45 minute practice that will leave one feeling relaxed and recharged […]
17 Jun, 2025
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Nantucket Walkabout – Lost Farm Sanctuary

Just under half of Nantucket’s farms existed on the western half of the island. Around 1850, when Nantucket boasted nearly 100 produce, dairy, poultry and cattle farms all over the island and Tuckernuck Island, there were around 20 farms along Hummock Pond Road and in this vicinity. Some of this farmland included the conservation land […]
17 Jun, 2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Mindfulness Meditation

Each weekly class includes a short talk, a guided meditation, and time for reflection or questions—designed to support a clearer understanding of the methods and help build a consistent meditation practice. Registration encouraged. No experience needed. Open to all.
17 Jun, 2025
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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ELL Beginning English

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary for everyday conversation. Practice speaking and boost your confidence in a friendly classroom setting. The Literacy Volunteers of the Atheneum (LVA) offer a drop-in beginning class every Tuesday evening at the library. The class is free and pre-registration is not required. For more information contact Cheryl at ccreighton@nantucketatheneum.org, or 508-332-0605.
17 Jun, 2025
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Open Arts Night!

We are expanding Open Mic Night into OPEN ARTS NIGHT! Our stage and mic are still open for any and all, but now we’ve added an Arts & Craft component so people may feel free to come and work on any kind of art project while watching the stage show. Bring your knitting! Embroidery! Coloring […]
17 Jun, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Nantucket by Water Sunset Cruise

Nothing beats a Nantucket Sunset. Grab a favorite beverage & snacks and c’mon aboard for one of the best shows in town! Departure time will vary with sunset. Call 508-228-7037 or book online nantucketbywater.com
17 Jun, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Nantucket by Water
Straight Wharf, Slip #1011
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The Cottage

Fresh from Broadway, this brand-new, side-splitting romp is an outrageous tale of sex, betrayal, and desire as one woman decides to expose her latest affair to both her husband — and to her lover’s wife. The true meaning of fate and faith, identity and infidelity, love and marriage are all called into question as a […]
17 Jun, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Bennett Hall
62 Centre Street
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Birding Field Trip

These trips will explore Nantucket’s birding hotspots and offer participants a chance to observe birds in their natural habitats. Binoculars, spotting scope, and field guides are available to borrow. All experience levels welcome. Birding Field Trips are free and open to all! Pre-registration is required. Please submit a unique registration for each participant. We will […]
18 Jun, 2025
7:45 am - 10:30 am
Linda Loring Nature Foundation
110 Eel Point Road
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Nantucket Walkabout – Smith’s Point

Smith’s Point is a treat whenever you can get out there. Jutting out into the channel between Madaket Harbor and Tuckernuck Island, Smith’s Point alternates between including Esther’s Island, so named when Hurricane Esther in September 1961 cleaved off half of Smith’s Point from the rest of Nantucket. Although we islanders still refer to Esther’s […]
18 Jun, 2025
8:00 am - 10:00 am
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Crafts in the Courtyard: Handprint Frog

Summer crafts are back in the courtyard, and we’re starting with this cute little frog.  Stop by anytime between 10-11 and make one of your own!  There will be paint involved, so dress appropriately! This program is funded by a generous grant from the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation
18 Jun, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Nantucket Atheneum
1 India St, Nantucket, MA
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
18 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Nature Ramble

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a tour of the LLNF property. She’ll showcase LLNF research and restoration in action while looking up down and all around for what’s budding, blooming, flying, and crawling around the trails. We’ll explore sandplain grasslands and coastal heathland habitats, and enjoy views of Long Pond […]
18 Jun, 2025
All Day
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Elin Hilderbrand

Book Signing with Elin Hilderbrand

Meet the author of The Blue Book and many other novels at Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main Street. The first 120 in line at Mitchell’s will get a ticket. No pre-purchase is required. You can start lining up at 10am. Only books purchased at Nantucket Book Partners can be signed. 
18 Jun, 2025
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mitchell's Book Corner
54 Main Street
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The Signature Tour: a traditional historic tour of Nantucket

Join friendly & knowledgeable guides for a 75-minute tour of the historic sites in Nantucket Town, Sconset, & more. See The Oldest House, The Old Windmill, Sconset Village, Sankaty Head Lighthouse & more. Tour departs daily at 11:15, 1:00, and 2:45. Tickets $45. Book at 42 Straight Wharf, on line at nantucketbustours.com or at 508-228-0334.
18 Jun, 2025
11:15 am - 2:45 pm
42 Straight Wharf
$45.00
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2025 Annual Events

April 24 -27, Daffodil Festival

May 14 – 18, Wine & Food Festival

June, Nantucket Preservation Month

June 12 -15, Book Festival

June 25 – 30, Film Festival

July 4,  – Independence Day Festivities

July 8 – 13, Nantucket Dance Festival

July 8 – 10, Nantucket Garden Festival

July 10 – 12, Comedy Festival

July , Nantucket Art and Artisan Show

July 14 -17, NHA’s Nantucket by Design

July 18 & 19, Weekend at the Atheneum

August 6, Garden Club House & Garden Tour

August 9, Boston Pops

August 13 – 17, Nantucket Race Week

August 17, Opera House Cup

August, Marine Life Release Day

September: Nantucket Harvest Fair

November, NHA’s Festival of Wreaths

December 5-7, Christmas Stroll

December, NHA’s Festival of Trees

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