Mahon About Town Nantucket Blog

Friday (20th)
DJ Devlin & Miguelon at the Rose & Crown
Vibewise at the Chicken Box

Saturday (21st)
Jubilee Singers, 8:00 pm, Nantucket High School Auditorium
DJ Bri Guy Video DJ Dance Party, Rose & Crown
Vibewise at the Chicken Box

Sunday (22nd)
Earth Day, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Unitarian Church, 11 Orange Street. More details follow.

Wednesday (25th)
The premier of two short films directed and produced by well known island residents Greg Bourbeau and Finn Murphy, with help from Dan Driscoll, Caitlin McDonough-Thayer, Ciaran Byrne, Jeff Ross, and many others. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm. Open bar, heavy appetizers, film screenings, and discussion, presented by Surfside Films, Sustainable Nantucket, and the Starlight Theatre. Starlight Theatre.

Thursday (26th)
Mahon About Town Party at the Rose & Crown - details elsewhere in this newsletter
Short Play Festival, 7:30 pm, Methodist Church (also Friday and Saturday)

Complete details on all events.

Earth Day Nantucket will include:

• Children’s Activities: face painting, grocery bag decoration, crafts and play area.
  Marine Home Center: the sales of florescent light bulbswill be donated toward the planting of trees.

• EnergyIndependenceToday.com: solar energy solutions
• Nantucket Land Council: working model of an aquifer
• NFAM: their new Farmers Market supporting local farmers and artisans
• Architects: green building techniques and LEED certification information
• Cleaning companies: natural and organic ways to clean and de-toxify your home
  Gray Lady Apothecary: all natural herbal products

• MonaVie: samples of natural super-food drink harvested from the Amazon
• Clean Power Now: renewable wind energy
• Coffin Landscaping & Fairview Gardening: natural and organic methods of gardening
• Cowboy’s Meat Market: donating snacks with proceeds going toward tree planting
• Stop & Shop: donating shopping bags for children to decorate, and fluorescent light bulbs with proceeds going toward tree planting
• Video presentations: “An Inconvenient Truth,” with an introduction and follow up by Keith A. Bergman, one of the first fifty in the nation trained to give the slide show on global warming featured in that film.
• Bartlett’s Farm: earth friendly products and techniques
• Rob Anderson Construction: reddi form insulated concrete foundations and building system, Seido evacuated tube solar hot water collectors
• Nantucket Board of Selectmen will be signing the Earth Day Nantucket Resolution at the event

For information: 508.228.3034, Bruce Marshall-Jones, or email info@EnergyIndependenceToday.com