Most commonly found in coastal New England vacation areas like Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod, American Cottages are often identified by their gray wooden shingles. In the United States, various styles of cottage homes evolved as Americans' taste in architecture evolved. The Craftsman ...
On Nantucket, style is still what countsJohn Robinson, Globe Staff
A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. These silly rhymes were made famous by a man named Edward Leer, an Englishman who wroteThe Book of Nonsensein the 1800s. The book is filled with over 200 nonsensical limericks written and illustrated by the author himself. While Edwar...
Thanksgiving, Nantucket, Princeton & Duke: Mystery School of the Handwritten Thank-You Note. The Governess, 1739, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779)If you went to Duke, folks will re-float the vile and completely untrue story that Duke exists only because Princeton had too much honor ...
a local whiskey distillery, has a newWhiskey Lodgedowntown. Even 2025 looks exciting, as aWhite Elephant Resort, known for its posh Nantucket and Palm Beach outposts, will open across the street from Mollie Aspen. So, I guess there's only one thing left to do: Start planning my return ...
Dexterity with a pocketknife is a part of a Nantucket education; but I am inclined to think the propensity is national. Americans must and will whittle. Whittle Cut small bits or pare shavings from; Whittle a piece of wood Common Curiosities How does one differentiate between "widdle" meaning...
What does a Vogue editor bride wear on her wedding day? The answer, naturally, is as layered and nuanced as the women themselves.
I recently traveled to Greenland as a solo female traveler to find out what life is like in this cold and unforgiving corner of the Arctic. Greenland is not a common travel destination. Most of the time when you tell people you’re going to Greenland, they respond with, “You can go...
scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold ...
Lease Area (OCS-A 0520) Beacon Wind Lease Fast Facts 17NM southwest of Nantucket, MA 52NM east of Montauk Point, NY 128,000total acres Potential generative capacity of the project in excess of approximately2.5 GWcapacity upon completion ...