( Oct. 13, 2023 ) Two Nantucket students – first grader Tanya Evans and fifth grader Raphelia Matheney – are among the winners of the Steamship Authority s eighth annual Sail …
The Steamship Authority announced the winners of its eighth annual art contest for students in grades kindergarten through grade 12. The winning artwork will be showcased in a 2024 calendar and on board Steamship ferries this fall and winter. Approximately 200 students submitted original artwork inspired by the theme “Sail into Imagination,” which encourages students […]
One of life’s great pleasures is stepping outside in one’s own yard and picking a homegrown bouquet to bring into the house. I have brought in an armload of different daffodils and narcissus for the living room, some violas and primroses for beside the kitchen and bathroom sinks, and fragrant hyacinths for my bedside table. […]
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Kyra Steck
Well, it’s been another week of weather. Pleasant and spring-like one day, then back to winter the next. I have seen people in shorts already, then back to wearing down jackets. It’s a good thing we New Englanders like to talk about the weather. It certainly seems to be an endless topic for discussion.
Forsythia is starting to bloom all over town, in wildly bursting tangles or in more sedate, neatly pruned bushes. The early star magnolia in front of the Olsen house is making its annual showing. Patti Linn’s yard has bulbs of every variety and color; hyacinths, tulips, daffodils in drifts of pink and yellow, lavender and blue. Primroses are just budding and showing color; many gardens have hardy plantings of them. The English primrose, or cowslip, is such a pretty pale yellow, and is reputed to be deer and rabbit resistant.