Alastair Crawford

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A Tribute to David Halberstam

This from my oldest and best friend, Larry Hatab, known to many as “Arab”. I was not a close friend of David Halberstam. We met on Nantucket when I was living there in the mid 1970s. Gene and I came to know him through our mutual friends, Frank and Maggie Conroy. David also frequented the [...]

Annye’s Whole Foods

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Mahon About Town Subscriber Party

The first Mahon About Town subscriber party of the season promoted the Grand Opening of the “New” Rose & Crown, Thursday, April 26th, with an island all-star jazz and Chicago blues band with Tom Stoddart on horn, Jake Vohs on drums, Andy Bullington guitar, and Erik Wendelkin on bass. For more photos, go to the [...]

Johnstons Cashmere

This Week on Nantucket

The Figawi’s are thankfully gone, so you can go back to town now. BENEFITS Tuesday night the 29th, Don Kolp (Brotherhood), Scott Thomas (Nantucket Inn), Scott Allan (Veranda House) and Meghan Canning (Harbor House), now known as “Team ACK”, have come together for a fundraiser for the Pan Mass Challenge, a 192 mile, 2 day [...]

The Vagina Monologues

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Opening of the Old South Road Bike Path

The Old South Road Bike Path was formally opened last Friday, May 25. For more photos, go to the Mahon About Town Photo Pages.

Yack

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Nantucket Media Watch

The Nantucket Independent becomes a free weekly newspaper beginning June 13. The paper will also be mailed to all island postal addresses, bringing the weekly circulation in high season to 14,000 copies, 11,000 in shoulder season, and 7000 in winter. Yack is featured in a Boston Globe article today, entitled “Islanders all come to yack [...]