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Nantucket Scallopers Ball
The bi-annual Scalloper’s Ball took place on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Nantucket Yacht Club, featuring the reunion of ECliff & the Swingdogs. Food was provided and donated by the Nantucket Yacht Club and local fishermen: scallops, seafood stew, mussels, raw bar, to benefit the Nantucket Shellfish Association for a scholarship in marine studies, and to support the marine studies program in the island’s public schools.
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Add comment November 3, 2009
Nantucket Hoedown
The 2nd Annual Lighthouse School Hoedown took place on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Great Harbor Yacht Club, with Square Dance Band Cliff Brodeur & the Square One Band, Mechanical Bull, BBQ dinner by Jim Perelman, live and silent auctions, and the drawing of 8 Painted Chairs winners.
Some of the people we saw there: Melinda Vallett, Meg Ruley, Erin Dancik, Monika Geerling, Alison Van Fleet, Stacy Fusaro, Janice Carreiro, Barbara Kelleher, Lauren Roncetti, Mary &James Taafe, Wendy & Randy Hudson, Ella Finn, Beverly Hall, Bonnie Sylvia, Dean Eubank, RuthAnn Rahal, Sandra Eubank, Robert Sarkisian, Mollie Glazer, Skip Williams, Megan Maltby, Anne Topham, Amanda Congdon, Lucy Hehir, Jeanne & Tim Mccloure, Sunny Wood, John Kuszpa, Christine & Karl Smith, Sarah Lee Chase, Pat & Joy Marks, Andrew & Melissa Wing, Cary Hazelgrove, Mary Beth Bradley, Tracy Berry, Chris Westerlund,Sean O’Callahan, Janeen Parave, Kasia Baker, Robert McKee, Tara Young, Jamie Dickinson, MaryAnn Worth, Barry Rector, Allison Johnson, Joe Topham, Tara Young, Carter Mitchell, Lou Guarnaccia, Jamie Dickinson, Rhett Dupont, Mike Freedman, Eric Johnson, Pat Levesque, John Bell, Tracy Cullinane, Carole & Michael Watson, Jodi Levesque Lyndsay Baldwin, Jessica Hicks, Julie & Sunny Wood, Nicole Bousquett, Sydney Fee, and more. Photos by Gene Mahon, assisted by Amanda Morgan. More photos here.
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Add comment November 2, 2009
Nantucket Wet Paint Auction
The annual Artists Association of Nantucket Wet Paint Auction took place on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at Legion Hall. Here is a preview of the photos, with more photos next week.
Add comment October 17, 2009
Nantucket Community News
The Nantucket Land Council is participating in a nation-wide Monarch Butterfly study. All ages are welcome for an afternoon session of catching, tagging, and releasing migrating Monarchs. Each Monarch is tagged with a number that is entered into a database with its location. If the butterfly is caught again, the number is again entered into the database, so that the migration of individual butterflies can be tracked and monitored. Learn more about Monarch biology and migration, and help protect them by providing valuable information to scientists studying their migration patterns and critical habitat. To register, contact Emily MacKinnon at the Nantucket Land Council.
Friday, September 11th at 1pm
Tuesday, September 15th at 3pm
Wednesday, September 23rd at 3pm
The 2009 Nantucket Walk Now for Autism Speaks on Saturday, August 22, hosted more than 800 walkers at Jetties Beach and raised over $300,000 for Autism Speaks, funding work in research, family services, advocacy and awareness. Following a performance by children from the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation’s week-long autism theater camp, Autism Speaks Co-Founders Bob and Suzanne Wright welcomed the crowd to the event. Massachusetts State Rep. Tim Madden (D-Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket District) urged Walk attendees to participate in autism insurance initiatives. Tim Lepore spoke on behalf of the Nantucket School Committee, offering support for autism awareness. Patty Roggeveen, executive director of the Nantucket Dreamland Foundation and a member of the Nantucket Board of Selectmen, spoke on behalf of the Town, sharing words of support.
Suzanne Wright then called the more than 67 participants in the 2009 Whalers Sports Challenge (organized by Nantucket High School rising senior Caroline Stanton) to the stage. The students, representing the 67 children who are diagnosed with autism each day. Walk Co-Chair Sydney Fee Barsanti, with her sons Roarke and Beck Barsanti, spoke movingly about her experience of raising a child with autism on Nantucket, and what the Nantucket Autism Speaks Resource Center, which offers year-round support for families, has meant to her family over the past three years. After Suzanne Wright, accompanied by Bob Wright, the Walk Co-Chairs, and members of the Autism Speaks National board, cut the ceremonial ribbon, the Walkers were off.
The Nantucket Cultural Council deadline for organizations, schools and individuals to apply for grants that support cultural activities in the community is October 15th, 2009. These grants can support a variety of artistic projects and activities in Nantucket including exhibits, festivals, short-term artist residencies or performances in schools, workshops and lectures. The Council will also entertain funding proposals from schools and
youth groups through the PASS Program, which provides subsidies for school-age children to attend cultural field trips. This year, the Nantucket Cultural Council will distribute about $4,000 in grants. Previously funded projects include community programs, films,
and arts programs. For guidelines and information, contact Aaron Marcavitch at (508) 325-6231 or acornhp@yahoo.com, www.mass-culture.org/lcc_public.asp, or at the Nantucket Atheneum after September 10.
The Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative is hosting the 3rd Nantucket Biodiversity Initiative Conference on Saturday September 19, 2009 from 8:00am to 5:00pm at the Egan Maritime Institute, 4 Winter Street. It’s free, and the public is encouraged to attend to learn about ongoing research projects on plants and animals on Nantucket, as well as regionally. The conference will feature 30 presenters with short programs on a variety of natural history-related topics such as plant life, invasive species, electronic field guides, sheep grazing, salt marsh restoration, the Common and Roseate Terns, the ecology of Long-tailed Ducks on Nantucket Shoals, Gray Seals, finfish, snakes and the American Burying Beetle. For information go to: www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org.
Add comment September 11, 2009
