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Photo Essay: A Sconset Winter

There’s an annual event brewing out here on the east end, one that if we are a lucky will never catch the attention of the Chamber of Commerce.  It’s been dubbed the Sconset …
Outdoors

The Joys of Winter Birding

The joys of winter birdwatching? OK, in summer maybe.  But why winter? If you can’t really know a person unless you have been with them in all sorts of moods and conditions, from …
People

The Questions: Sean Fitzgibbon

Sean Fitzgibbon grew up on Nantucket scalloping and digging for clams with his family. Local oysters weren’t really that big of a deal here back then. Fast-forward 15 years and the oyster …
History Insider

Symbol of a bygone waterfront

Its age is palpable. Weathered gray without adornment, it has a relatively simple post and beam construction. But the hurricane braces in each corner attest to the builders’ intention that it …
History Insider

Women in Aviation

Amid the din of propeller planes, on a damp November day in 1929, 26 women pilots gathered at an airplane hangar at Curtiss Field on Long Island. They were there to discuss the advancement of women …
People

Elizabeth Bagley, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil

Elizabeth Bagley was able to hit the ground running when she was appointed the U.S. ambassador to Brazil at the beginning of this year, because of her first posting as U.S. ambassador to Portugal 25 …
The Outdoors

Around the World with 11th Hour Racing

There came a moment where the closest humans to the 11 th Hour Racing Team and the other sailors in the Ocean Race were aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles overhead. This …