This Week on Nantucket, August 14-21

This Week on Nantucket

August 14 - August 21

–In This Issue –

•Island Calendar

•Let’s Eat! Proprietors

•MusACK: Jolie Holland

•Walk with Neil: Altar Rock Published by

August 13-17, 2025

Classic Yacht Exhibition : Nantucket Boat Basin

Saturday, August 16th | 5:30-7:30PM | $40/pp

THE TENTH ANNUAL CLASSIC YACHT EXHIBITION, sponsored by PURE insurance, will be held in the Nantucket Boat Basin on Saturday, August 16th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The yachts in the Classic Yacht Exhibition participate by invitation only, featuring historic classics of the Opera House Cup. This is a special opportunity for guests to go aboard and see these beautiful yachts up close — which doesn’t happen anywhere else!

Check-in to the Classic Yacht Exhibition is on the Straight Wharf dock. Participants will receive a booklet describing each of the yachts on display, and a map showing their location. We ask our guests to follow any rules that owners have for boarding their yachts, i.e., no shoes, no food or drink, and a limited number of visitors at a time. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided by Fusion of Flavor. Tickets are $40 per person and may be purchased in advance on the NRW website, at either Merchandise location, or at the event.

The Classic Yacht Exhibition is presented by

OHC Parade of Wooden Boats & Rainbow Parade Sunday, August 17th | Brant Point

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Thursday, Aug. 14

August Blues Fishing Tournament

Through Aug. 31. The annual August Blues fishing tournament, a fundraiser for Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, invites all anglers to pursue bluefish. Prizes in boat, beach and junior categories. For more information, to register and to donate, visit augustbluesnantucket.com

Nantucket Race Week

Through Aug. 17, Nantucket Harbor and various locations around town. Nantucket Race Week, the annual benefit for Nantucket Community Sailing, features 10 days of sailboat racing, regattas and social events culminating Aug. 17 with the Opera House Cup, the premier wooden sailboat race on the East Coast. For more information, visit www.nantucketraceweek.org

Yoga on the Bandstand

7:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday, Children’s Beach Bandstand, Harborview Way. The Nantucket Office of Culture and Tourism hosts an hour of yoga on the bandstand.

Island Calendar

Milestone Center Site Tour

9 a.m. Milestone Cranberry Bog, Milestone Road. Nantucket Conservation Foundation staff, including president and CEO Cormac Collier, lead this tour of the future home of its Milestone Center research and education facility. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

Dance Party in the Garden

9:45 a.m. Atheneum Garden, 1 India St. Cory Morgan leads an energetic, joyfilled dance time for babies and children with songs, silly dance moves and fun challenges like Freeze Dance and the Cha-Cha Slide. Bring a blanket. Canceled in the event of inclement weather.

Behind the Seams

10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Organized by the Nantucket Historical Association, “Behind the Seams: Clothing and Textiles on Nantucket” presents more than 150 objects from the NHA’s costume and textile collections to tell stories of making, meaning and island identity from across Nantucket history.

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Proprietors: Creativity inspired by experimentation

By Francesca Giangiulio fgiangiulio@inkym.com

For Nate Hanyzewski, being a chef is a lot like being in a band. The restaurant is the stage, the kitchen crew are your bandmates, cooking is like making music and each service is a live show: improvised in places, tightly rehearsed in others and always meant to leave the audience satisfied.

“I do my best work when I’m getting input and help from my bandmates,” he said. “It’s a really cool team effort, and I think it makes our restaurant a little bit unique.”

Hanyzewski has been chef de cuisine at The Proprietors Bar & Table since 2018, when he took over the kitchen from Michael LaScola, the former American Seasons owner who opened “Props” with his wife Orla in 2013.

Even with its national press – Vogue, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler – the India Street restaurant has never felt like a transplant from somewhere else.

“We love to be here for the locals,” Hanyzewski said. “We really pride ourselves in making this place feel like Nantucket,

Let’s Eat!

we really create a sense of place here.”

Proprietors gets its name from Nantucket’s original English land owners.

Everything about the restaurant from the design, creative global flavors, local farm bounty and family-style eating is meant to be reminiscent of old-timey sailors returning with treasures from abroad.

Not to mention the bar program so respected that other island bartenders stop in on their nights off.

When Hanyzewski first walked through the door, it wasn’t as a chef. He had been working in kitchens around the island for years – at The Pearl, Queequeg’s, Town and The Summer House –but it was one late fall night when LaScola asked if he wanted to help out.

The Pearl had closed for the season, and he thought, why not?

“I immediately fell in love with the restaurant, the team, the food, just the overall operation,” he said. “And then I just kept coming back.”

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Introspection and peace on the way to Altar Rock

By Neil Foley Contributing Writer

The sun sets like a blazing red fireball, igniting the sky and setting the moon aglow with orange light.

Holding on to the lasting twilight and the dwindling days of August, I decide to begin a walk in a place of reverence.

Once again, I head away from town down Polpis Road to step back in history while moving along another beautiful island trail.

At the start of Altar Rock Road are two small parking areas with signs that indicate a historic cemetery nearby. Walk from either lot onto the wide mown path through the sprigs of huckleberry and short scrub oaks mown late this past winter.

On the edge of the encroaching scrub thickets is a small square cemetery which marks the burial grounds of the old Quaise Asylum.

Built in the 1820s to give the poor, indigent and elderly without families a more rural place to live and farm their own food, the Quaise Asylum became the last

home for hundreds without proper care or ways to support themselves.

Part of the asylum burned down on a cold and snowy night in February 1844, claiming the lives of 10 residents.

The graves here are unmarked, save for a memorial stone installed in 2010. The remaining asylum buildings were moved closer to town to prevent such a tragedy again.

One structure became a house of corrections (demolished in 1952), but a large structure was moved to Orange Street, where it was renamed Our Island Home in 1905 and The Landmark House in 1981. It still stands today as a reminder that our community has a duty to support those in need.

As I walk back toward the road in silent reflection, a tree ahead sends a shock down my spine. It towers above the other trees, but it is dead and leafless, as though I had blinked and we were in the

Hope and beauty in “The Island of Missing Trees”

By Clara Kempf Contributing Writer

In the middle of her morning class, high school student Ada is overtaken by a deep rage and sadness that is not her own, and lets out one long and uncontrollable scream, an emotional outburst that has made its way to her through history.

In a London back-yard garden, a fig tree (ficus carica), all-consumingly in love with her gardener, a botanist and father, misses home and reminisces about all she has witnessed.

Years ago, star-crossed lovers meet in the secluded back room of a taverna in Cyprus, tending to the first leaves of a romance amidst the looming threat of civil war.

In Elif Shafak’s “The Island of Missing Trees,” all of these narratives are

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connected, and weave together to tell a remarkably tender story about emotion (both love and sorrow alike), and how its ripple effects make their unmistakable mark far into future time.

I think what captivated me most about this novel is the persistence of beauty and gentleness even amidst the most dire of circumstances.

Even far away from home, the feeling and experience of home remains and can be fostered. Even in a time of conflict and tension, love will always exist and can be a path to understanding.

The presence of nature in this book, too, acts as a sort of balm. It is everywhere,

Elif Shafak

from the ladylike and charming fig tree, which serves as somewhat of a chronicler for the story, to lush descriptions of honeysuckle and garlic interspersed almost like a break to breathe in between bittersweet memories.

Descriptions of food, too, are beautifully written, giving the reader a vivid sense of not only Cypriot cuisine, but of how vital hearth and kitchen can be to bring a family together.

Of course, avid fan of magical realism that I am, I gleaned a lot of joy out of reading the just slightly alien narration of a fig tree.

I found her (for this tree, despite being a tree, is very much a lady), to be utterly charming. Often, she tells the reader, who she is the only character to speak directly to, tales of the animals that live among her leaves, or about the intricate and surprisingly beautiful biological processes of growth and flowering and taking root.

At times, she speaks of other trees and plants, and why she, as a fig tree, is the most beautiful of the lot of them, and reading her words, I am very much inclined to agree.

Ultimately, “The Island of Missing Trees” is hopeful.

It tells the story of a teenager deprived of her own family history, of a father still struggling to face old wounds of grief, of a long-absent aunt who comes in, bringing tradition and memory with her, shaking up the fragile rhythm of family life, ultimately for the better, and finally, of course, of a tree in which all this memory and love is held, roots growing strong in new soil, but still remembering the ground in which they sprouted.

Even in its dedication, it calls out “to immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless and to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories.”

There is a hope to that, I think. In the idea that home can be found both in the past and in the present, and does not have to become inaccessible with distance.

It is in the connections we make, in the nature around us and in the memories we hold close to our hearts.

Clara Kempf is a library associate at The Nantucket Atheneum.

Jolie Holland brings genre-defying sound to the Gaslight

By Kendall Graham kgraham@inkym.com

Jolie Holland has been a touring musician for 27 years, carving out a career on her own terms, crafting intricate, atmospheric songs that defy easy categorization.

Holland’s sound owes much to her upbringing in Houston, with family roots in Louisiana, where both her parents are from.

“Some of my family is Cajun, so there’s always going to be this kind of rhythmic complexity that is part of what I grew up with, that’s not part of the regular American (music) experience,” said Holland, who will perform at The Gaslight Sunday night, accompanied by musicians Max Knouse, Brian Sulpizio and Ben Boye, her partner and frequent collaborator.

That complexity often takes shape

“Some of my family is Cajun, so there’s always going to be this kind of rhythmic complexity that is part of what I grew up with, that’s not part of the regular American (music) experience.”

– Jolie Holland

through polyrhythms in percussion and extended viola technique behind her vocals.

Holland recalled a conversation with a Berklee College of Music student who once told her he couldn’t understand her rhythms because they felt “too random.”

“I told him (the rhythms) were based on Jamaican liturgical music and Creole waltzes,” she said.

Holland first encountered drum-based Rastafarian liturgical music, also known

as “Nyabinghi,” (named after an East African warrior queen of legend) through the 1982 documentary film “Land of Look Behind” by Alan Greenberg, in which Jamaican life and culture are highlighted.

The film features interviews with Rastafaris and reggae performers Gregory Isaacs and Mutabaruka.

“I think that liturgical Rastafarian music, it’s so spacious and very affecting, and it’s just mostly drums and singers,” Holland said.

The influence runs deep in her own songs, like “Highway 72” and “Haunted Mountain” from her 2023 album of the

same name, both of which draw on Nyabinghi polyrhythms.

These layered, percussion-driven textures contribute to the immersive quality of her music, an approach that resists rigid genre boundaries and instead embraces a global range of sounds.

Her musical openness extends to her view of storytelling in music.

Holland doesn’t consider herself a strong narrative crafter, although the kind of music she makes – atmospheric, layered, often with acoustic accompaniment – lends itself to the idea of lyrical storytelling.

“I like to slip in vignettes, but not try to tell some kind of, like, Woody Guthrie-style story,” she said. “He was an organizer, so he was basically trying to use the

Rosé rebels: Confessions of a rosé wanderer

By Peter McEachern I&M Columnist

I’ll be honest. My love affair with rosé didn’t start in some sun-drenched vineyard in Provence.

It began on a brilliant spring afternoon in 1984, in a tiny restaurant tucked into the mountains of Leysin, Switzerland, where I was studying and perpetually broke.

The elderly restaurant proprietor, perhaps amused by this young American’s order of their “Californian burger,” poured me a glass of something pink from a bottle with no fancy label and said, “This will make your burger taste like home.”

That simple Swiss rosé, served alongside what was probably the most gloriously messy burger I’d ever encountered – complete with that distinctly Europe-

an interpretation of “Californian” style – changed everything I thought I knew about pink wine.

As spring sunshine streamed through the restaurant’s awnings and winter’s snow melted into rushing streams outside, the wine was both delicate and refreshing, somehow making that unlikely burger combination taste perfect.

It sent me on what would become a four-decade quest to find the world’s most rebellious rosés, always remembering that first lesson: sometimes, the most unexpected pairings create the most memorable moments.

Here’s what I’ve learned from sipping my way across continents since that

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Quidley & Company: Art to elicit a reaction

By Anna Popnikolova Contributing Writer

The woman in the painting was getting undressed in front of a mirror, her arms folded over, pulling her sweater over her head.

But her reflection in the mirror didn’t match the image I was looking at. Like a trick of the light, the mirror showed the sweater pulled further off, exposing her breasts.

I glanced back and forth, between the painting and the reflection, trying to figure out what was going on.

This painting, “Sweater,” along with “A Life Well Lived,” depicting a young girl’s face which transitions into an older woman’s face, make up Quidley & Company’s display of Sergi Cadenas’ transition paintings.

Two oil paintings at once, each reveals itself at a different angle, like a lenticular print. The artist, coming from a line of metal workers in Barcelona, Spain, is fascinated with depth and physicality.

Christopher Quidley, the gallery owner, said that watching people react to Cadenas’ work might be his favorite part of the job.

“People initially see one side or the oth-

er. We try not to draw attention to it, and allow them to discover it themselves. We get to be voyeurs to that,” Quidley said.

When I went into Quidley & Company for our interview, Quidley was in the middle of showing a group of visitors another one of Cadenas’ pieces: a massive metal shark, in vertical segments, hanging from the ceiling.

To my further surprise, the shark started to move, swimming slowly through the air, slice by slice.

This is Quidley’s Main Street gallery: full of surprises. His collection of artists are unlike each other, and unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

He seemed just as thrilled to be showing the shark, as the visitors were to be seeing it. After they left, we sat down, and he gave me a flyer for this week’s gallery opening, on Friday, Aug. 15. Donald Jurney is opening with paintings all done in the past year, which are scenes from London, Paris and Venice.

“He has this innate ability to capture a fleeting moment in time. It’s a moment, whether it’s real or fictitious, that a person feels they have been to in the past,”

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Cottage cities that never were

By Deborah Sorenson Contributing Writer

“Nantucket lands can be purchased at reasonable figures, and it is worth the while of any person who is prospecting for a place to build his summer residence, to take a run down here . . . ” – “The Boom in Lands,” The Inquirer and Mirror, Aug. 5, 1882

The cottage city craze on Nantucket can trace its origins to the island’s original speculators, the first English proprietors, and the communal ownership of the island’s common and undivided lands, which developed into a complex system of fractional shares of sheep commons.

A ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1821 enabled the exchange of grazing rights for set-off parcels of land, setting in motion a process of privatization and subdivision that accelerated as tourism on-island increased after the Civil War.

Between 1870 and 1900, much of the island’s coastline was scoured by speculators, including many who were descended from Nantucket’s original proprietors.

Riding waves of enthusiasm after good summer seasons, investors formed land companies, hired surveyors and commissioned attractive plans replete with curving avenues, parkland and thousands of waiting house lots.

However, the dream they advertised masked a great gamble being made on future returns, a gamble that only occasionally paid off.

Success in Sconset

The 18th-century fishing settlement at Siasconset was Nantucket’s first summer outpost and a magnet for seasonal development.

The village attracted an initial wave of land speculation in 1873 and again after a new terminus for the Nantucket Railroad was established there in 1884.

With the village as an attractive anchor, the surrounding area became a relatively secure location in which to invest in summer home development.

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Musack: Singer-songwriter Jolie Holland at Gaslight Sunday

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songs as news.”

Instead, her songwriting often channels mood and atmosphere, an instinct she connects to the darker undercurrents in Texas music.

“I just grew up with that being normal,” Holland said. “I remember when I was a really young musician learning songs, I was always moved to play songs that made me cry.”

Holland’s most recent work also reflects her collaborative spirit.

She and Knouse released “Wolf Dispatch” last month, a tribute album to the music of Michael Hurley, a storied cult figure in American folk music who emerged in the 1960s with a whimsical, lo-fi style.

Holland recalls being instantly taken with Hurley’s music.

“His lyrics are astounding,” she said.

“His sense of form is just so interesting, and it was like he was reinventing the wheel constantly throughout his entire

career. And in a way, it feels very theatrical to me. A lot of his songs feel like theater pieces.”

She likens Hurley’s work to a comedy film, lauded for its humor but overlooked for its technical merit.

His irreverence, she says, meant his music wasn’t always taken seriously, yet he was a pioneer in prioritizing artistic expression over commercial appeal, laying the groundwork for generations of experimental folk musicians and helping normalize the DIY aesthetic in the genre.

When asked what draws her to the folk genre, Holland eluded the label of folk artist.

“I know people who called (Hurley) a folk musician, and people use that word with me,” she said. “But I know people who are actual folk musicians, and so I don’t use that term personally.”

Instead, she sees herself first and foremost as a singer-songwriter and violist, working in a space that blends technical complexity with emotional depth.

For Holland, working within and beyond these traditions is a way of keeping her creative life fresh. She’s toured extensively, but her recent focus has been on smaller, more intimate performances.

In a series of recent Instagram posts, she invited audiences in New England to book private shows during her regional tour. The response was immediate: eight private performances booked in just three days.

The draw, she says, is the personal connection such shows foster.

“I love doing private shows, it’s a great way to step outside of the music industry,” Holland said.

“And I feel like the people are happier. When you’re going into a big venue, everybody feels like cattle. That experience is so different from going to, say, your friend’s house. And I think the sound is better when I do it myself.”

Jolie Holland performs at The Gaslight, 3 North Union St., Sunday, Aug. 17, with doors open at 9:30 p.m. 21 and over only.

Walk: Introspection and peace on the way to Altar Rock

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throes of January.

I’m not quite ready for the warmth of the season to leave us and the trees to senesce into chill dormancy. I put the ghostly tree behind me and walk the sandy road south toward the heart of the Middle Moors.

Large ornate moths in the family Saturniidae swoop in front of the headlights as they illuminate the narrow roads of the moors at night. The six-inch wingspan of a polyphemus moth flutters quickly like the wings of a bat, but I can clearly see the prominent eye spots on each hindwing that flash at me with each flap.

These moths, and many others, are confused by the presence of artificial light in their nocturnal world.

Moths adapted to use celestial light from the moon and stars for navigation, so sources of light on the ground level can confuse their orientation and navigation capabilities.

Saturniid moths lack working mouth parts and digestive organs so their adult life of a week or less is solely focused on creating the next generation.

The eye spot on each hindwing resembles those of an owl or other nocturnal predator, deterring smaller predators from getting too close in a textbook example of Batesian mimicry.

The eyespots also earned it the name polyphemus after the cyclops who ate several of Odysseus’ men in Homer’s “The Odyssey.”

These moths will not eat you, but they are large enough to be intimidating. Polyphemus when broken down means polyor “many” and pheme or “voice, rumor, or fame,” with my favorite translation being “abounding in songs and legends.”

While their namesake is a cyclops of legend, they too have many admirers and are worthy of acclaim.

I continue down the road which widens enough for two cars to pass before the edges rise high and the road narrows again. Watch out for speeding vehicles engaging in the time-honored tradition of taking a ride through the moors.

I pick up a discarded beer can among the false heather, an unfortunate cast -away from these time-honored rides by some careless jerk.

I emerge from the wall of thickets and the hill crests slightly, setting up a view on the other side which takes my breath away every time.

The entire expanse of the moors opens up before you, with Altar Rock dead ahead and Sankaty Head Lighthouse off to the east, revolving its light every seven seconds.

With a will of adventure and a mind filled with the reverence I found at the trailhead, I step further into the heart of the island and another sandy pathway to appreciate under the moon’s glow.

Neil Foley is the interpretive education coordinator and ecologist at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation.

Eat: At Proprietors, a creative kitchen inspired by experimentation

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“Chef Mike fostered an environment of creativity and wants people to grow in their careers,” Hanyzewski said.

These methods inspired Hanyzewski’s own leadership in the kitchen, but he hopes to push the Proprietors team even further, encouraging them to make mistakes, take risks and try new things because, in his mind, that’s the best way for the restaurant to grow.

“I’m here to teach and guide and help people along in any way possible, but I also want them to make mistakes and try things that they haven’t seen before, haven’t tried before,” he said.

Hanyzewski’s path to cooking wasn’t straightforward. Originally from Chicago, he spent his early 20s in a pop-punk band, playing guitar and soaking in the energy of Nirvana, the Ramones and old Chicago punk acts.

When the music career wrapped, he took a job in corporate America, working in sales and recruiting. But it didn’t stick.

“I grew up watching my parents in careers they didn’t set out to do. My dad wanted to be an artist, my mom a photographer,” he said. “I knew I didn’t want that for myself.”

He was already a dedicated home cook, diving into Rick Bayless’ Mexican cookbooks and experimenting with elaborate recipes for friends and family.

“I would cook for hours, it was the longest process ever, something that would now take me 15 minutes to do,” he said.

As his home cooking expanded into fine-dining chefs like Charlie Trotter and Masaharu Morimoto, he started to think that maybe he should give a cooking career a real shot.

Culinary school was a leap – financially and personally – but he was hooked from his first restaurant job.

“It was so intense and all-encompassing, and I just got the bug,” he said.

That drive took him from Chicago’s fine-dining scene, including a Michelin three-star, to Stephen Starr’s restaurants in Philadelphia, before eventually landing on Nantucket.

At Proprietors, Hanyzewski has kept the original spirit of the place – international flavors, playful presentation – but infused it with his own style, leaning a bit more toward classical French technique, Balkan influences from his wife’s heritage and the food memories of his Polish-Italian upbringing.

“We love that we can take influences from anywhere,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s Indian, Mexican, Spanish, French, Italian – it all fits here.”

Inside, Proprietors is dark and moody but still warm, layered with vintage and rustic-inspired farm and cooking motifs.

We sat outside on the patio – a little secret garden surrounded by greenery and twinkly lights – the kind of place that makes you want to linger long after the plates are cleared.

We began with cocktails, because skipping Proprietors’ drink list would be a missed opportunity. The Artemis (gin, pandan, pineapple, apricot, lemon) arrived bright green and tasted like a melted popsicle in the best way: sweet, fruity and fresh.

Across the table, the Hades (a spicy watermelon margarita) was fruit-forward with a gentle tequila bite and just enough spice to keep you sipping.

The Lilith, a bourbon-based drink, was mild but complex, with a layered depth that matched the savory plates still to come.

Hanyzewski said the bar team works closely with the kitchen, watching each other’s flavors and finding points to play off.

“It’s definitely something I’d like to do more of,” he said, “more collaborations and pairings.”

That cross-pollination was clear throughout the night. Flavors in the drinks often mirrored or contrasted with the food in satisfying ways.

We opened with the seasonal hummus, thick and creamy with a punch of lemony

tare. Unlike traditional tartare, Proprietors doesn’t serve the dish with any bread component. Instead, the beef is layered with crispy fried potatoes.

Hanyzewski said some people will still ask for bread, but it’s nice to see his experiments take people out of their comfort zones.

“Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t but I kind of like that. I’ve seen the shift to where you can present something that’s classically been done one way but you serve it another way and people still enjoy it,” he said.

Next came one of Proprietors’ icons: the fried broccoli. It’s been on the menu for six or seven years, tweaked over time but never removed.

I understood why. Crisp-tender florets came topped with peanut crumbles, pickled onions and a creamy, slightly spicy sambal vinaigrette.

“I’d probably have people running into the kitchen to yell at me if I took it off,” Hanyzewski said. That loyalty speaks not just to the dish itself, but to his ability to take something so simple (fried broccoli) and make it irresistible.

The corn salad special that night was a study in layers: crisp peppers and onions, creamy sweet sauce, jalapeño heat, nutty shredded cheese, tangy pickled vegetables and a squeeze of lime.

cilantro and just a hint of smoky paprika to keep us dipping the warm, fluffy, buttery bread.

Hanyzewski’s menu changes often –“more than Orla would like,” he said with a laugh, “since she’s the one reprinting menus” – but the hummus is a Proprietors staple with the garnishes and extra flavors shifting with what’s in season.

The pear and goat cheese salad special was a balancing act: smoky bacon, sweet and citrusy mandarin orange, smoked goat cheese mixed with beats and pistachio and walnut for crunch.

It’s a plate that shows Hanyzewski’s love of contrasts – salty and sweet, warm and fresh – and the way he’ll take familiar components and elevate them just enough to surprise you.

He said coming up with new menu items is truly a team effort. Sure, he has a list of ideas on his Notes app going back six or seven years, but these initial musings can completely change when brought to the other members of the crew.

“The next dish we work on, I hope it’s just the best version of that dish that we can make,” he said. “I love collaborating with my team back there, What starts on my Notes app can end up turning into something completely different.”

One such experiment is the beef tar-

It was presented like deconstructed street corn or esquites, and I could have kept eating it all night.

Hanyzewski’s commitment to seasonality and supporting local Nantucket farms means dishes like this shine for just a brief time before the harvest changes, but it also means that every trip to Proprietors can present something new and exciting.

We moved on to the grilled octopus: tender, briny and fresh, paired with crisp potatoes, pickled peppers, a mustardy saffron mayo and a sprinkle of dill.

Hanyzewski grew up in a Polish-Italian household, and you can see echoes of both in his cooking: the brightness of dill, the balance of acid and fat, the care for texture.

The lumache pasta was buttery and soft, the ridged shells catching juicy farm tomatoes and burrata. A splash of colatura – Italian fish sauce – added umami depth.

“We weren’t sure how it was going to play,” Hanyzewski said, “but it worked out really well.”

This is how he works: a base idea, a small twist and the willingness to keep or toss it quickly based on how it lands with guests.

We also tried the grilled bavette steak, cooked perfectly medium rare with a crust that gave way to melt-in-your-

mouth tenderness and a smoked tomato sauce that was so good, some of us wanted to eat it as a soup.

Peppery green goddess dressing and charred endive added freshness and slight bitterness, while sweet onion notes rounded the plate.

Dessert was a lemon meringue ice cream: tart, citrusy and silky, with sugary, toasted marshmallow on top and crisp shortbread for texture.

The layer of lemon curd between the ice cream and meringue was smooth with a great bite of tartness, enough to make me wish for another serving.

Dining at Proprietors is like listening to a band that knows how to riff together: each plate, each drink, each service a mix of skill, creativity and trust.

For Hanyzewski, that’s the whole point. “I just want to keep pushing,” he said. “I love to see the team grow. Over time, it all starts to come together, and it starts to look like a Proprietors dish, not wherever someone worked before.”

That night on the patio, surrounded by greenery, conversation and dishes that showed both imagination and discipline, it was clear this is a restaurant built on collaboration. Like any great band, they make their best music together.

Proprietors Bar & Table, 9 India St., (508) 228-7477, proprietorsnantucket. com. Open 5 p.m. daily in season.

Cellar: Confessions of a rebellious rosé wanderer on a quest

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sunny afternoon in the Swiss mountains. Some of the most extraordinary pink wines on Earth are hiding in places you’d never expect, paired with foods that would make a Provençal sommelier raise an eyebrow.

Majorca

Palma’s Hidden Gem: Years later, I rediscovered Rosa de Mar by Terramoll rosé magic in a tucked-away bodega in Palma’s old town.

The sommelier presented us with the bottle paired with the most perfect plate of jamón ibérico I’ve ever encountered.

The wine’s bright acidity cut through the rich, nutty ham like magic, while its strawberry notes danced with the meat’s subtle sweetness.

I sat there for three hours, completely mesmerized by how this island rosé captured Mediterranean sunshine and Balearic sea breezes in a single glass.

Soller’s Market Discovery : At the weekly market in the mountain town of Soller, I discovered how a crisp Majorcan rosé could transform a simple pa amb oli into something transcendent.

The wine’s mineral backbone paired beautifully with the local olive oil and ripe tomatoes, while its delicate red fruit flavors complemented the sea salt sprinkled on top.

Sitting under orange trees while the historic tram rattled past, I understood why the islanders carefully guard their wine secrets.

The Paella Epiphany: The real revelation came at a beachside restaurant in Port de Pollença, where a bottle of rosé from the island’s emerging wine region turned a massive seafood paella into a religious experience.

The wine’s bright acidity harmonized with the saffron, and its fruit flavors enhanced the sweetness of the Mediterranean prawns. It magically made every grain of Bomba rice taste more intensely of the sea that lapped just meters from our table.

Italy

Cesenatico’s Adriatic Magic : In the charming Adriatic coastal town of Cesenatico, famous for its salt flats and beach culture, I discovered that Rubicone Sangiovese IGP “Maramoto” Tenuta Mara could be both sophisticated and utterly relaxed.

Sitting at a canal-side trattoria, watching the fishing fleet unload, I shared this wine while enjoying the most incredible fresh grilled branzino I’d ever tasted.

The wine had this perfect minerality –clearly influenced by the nearby salt pro-

duction – that seemed to enhance every flake of the perfectly-cooked fish.

The Piadina Revelation: Later that same trip, at a tiny osteria, Casa delle Aie, outside of Cervia’s old town, I learned that rosé paired brilliantly with piadina romagnola, that thin, warm flatbread stuffed with prosciutto and squacquerone cheese or my favorite cheese and field-fresh greens.

The wine’s bright acidity cut through the creamy local cheese, while its red fruit notes complemented the delicate ham. It was rustic Italian perfection, the meal that makes you want to move to Emilia-Romagna immediately.

England

Somerset’s Surprising Elegance : Who knew that some of the most elegant rosé I’d ever tasted would come from Somerset’s rolling hills?

At the Wraxall Vineyard near Glastonbury, I discovered that English winemakers were crafting rosés with a precision and delicacy that caught me completely off guard.

While overlooking the Somerset Levels, the Pinot Noir rosé I sipped had this incredible finesse: crisp and mineral, with red berry and blood orange notes that seemed to capture the essence of an English summer.

The Cheddar Connection : In the village of Cheddar, I experienced what might be the most perfectly logical pairing in wine history: Somerset rosé with authentic farmhouse Cheddar cheese.

At The King’s Head pub with 800-yearold stone walls, the wine’s bright acidity was the ideal foil for the cheese’s rich, nutty complexity. Add some fresh, crusty bread and local apple chutney and you have what the English call “proper lovely.”

Sparkling Somerset Surprise: But the real revelation came at the Newt after we finished a three-hour bee safari. We tried English sparkling rosé for the first time.

Made in the traditional méthode champenoise style, it was paired with fresh Somerset strawberries and cream. The wine’s effervescence and bright red fruit flavors made those berries taste like they’d been blessed by summer.

It was a reminder that you don’t need to be in Champagne to experience pure sparkling magic. Sometimes the most unexpected terroir produces the most memorable wines.

Germany

Mosel Valley Magic : My first encounter with German rosé happened in a tiny weinstube overlooking the Mosel River in Traben, where the vineyard terraces seemed to climb impossibly steep slopes into the clouds. The winemaker

poured me a Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) rosé that was so elegant and precise, it completely shattered my preconceptions about German rosé wine.

Paired with wild boar sausage and red cabbage, the wine’s bright acidity and delicate red fruit flavors transformed what could have been a heavy meal into something surprisingly refined.

Rhine Valley Discovery : In the Rhine Valley, at a traditional gasthaus in Rüdesheim, I discovered how a Weissherbst made from Portugieser grapes could elevate a simple plate of bratwurst and sauerkraut into something magical.

The wine’s clean, fresh character cut through the sausage’s richness, while its subtle fruit notes complemented the tangy fermented cabbage. It was paired with dark German rye bread, adding an earthy complexity to every bite.

Baden’s Elegant Surprise: My most memorable German rosé experience came in Baden. I enjoyed a sophisticated Pinot Noir rosé with venison medallions and spätzle in a restaurant overlooking the Black Forest. The wine had enough structure and complexity to stand up to the game meat, while maintaining that characteristic German precision and minerality. It was a reminder that German winemakers approach rosé with the same meticulous attention to detail they bring to their legendary Rieslings.

The California trilogy

Paso Robles Power : In the rolling hills of Paso Robles, where the temperature swings between blazing hot days and cool nights, I learned that American rosé doesn’t apologize for anything.

A Grenache rosé from a small family winery paired with barbecued tri-tip taught me that pink wine could be bold, powerful and utterly delicious with smoky, charred meat.

The wine’s fruit-forward character complemented the barbecue sauce’s sweetness while its acidity cut through the meat’s richness. It was California confidence in a glass.

Napa Valley Sophistication : The rosé experience in Napa was entirely different: more refined, more structured. At a hillside winery overlooking the valley floor, I sipped a J. Moss and Stone’s Throw Winery, which is known for its Saignée method rosés from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape with the elegance of a fine Bordeaux but the sunny personality of California.

Paired with local cheese and charcuterie while watching the fog roll in from San Francisco Bay, it was a lesson in how terroir can create complexity even in pink wine.

Sonoma’s Coastal Cool: I discovered

my favorite California rosé style near the Russian River in Sonoma County. The cool maritime influence creates rosés with remarkable finesse and mineral character.

Sharing a bottle of Pinot Noir rosé with Dungeness crab fresh from the nearby Pacific, I understood why Sonoma winemakers are so passionate about their coastal terroir. The wine’s crisp acidity and subtle red fruit flavors made those sweet crab chunks taste like pure ocean essence.

Through all these adventures, I’ve developed some personal rules for rosé pairing:

The Seafood Connection : Almost every great rosé I’ve tasted has been phenomenal with seafood, from Majorcan prawns to Italian branzino to California Dungeness crab.

The Cheese Harmony : Whether authentic Somerset Cheddar, Italian squacquerone, or California artisanal varieties, rosé and cheese speak the same language.

The Regional Magic : Some of the best pairings happen when you match local wines with local ingredients: German rosé with sauerbraten, English rosé with Cheddar, Majorcan rosé with pa amb oli.

The Surprise Factor: My best discoveries have come from unexpected pairings. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Here’s what I probably should have mentioned at the beginning: despite all these incredible discoveries and falling in love with rosé from England to Spain, I still find myself constantly curious about those pale pink bottles from Provence. You know, the ones that started this whole global rosé expedition. I see the ones from the lavender-scented region in every wine magazine and social media post.

I’ve never actually been to Provence. I know, I know, it’s ridiculous. I’ve sipped rosé on islands and in old English pubs, I’ve paired pink wine with everything from wild boar to pastéis de nata, but I’ve never sat on a terrace in the South of France with a glass of Côtes de Provence watching the Mediterranean shimmer in the distance.

It’s the wine lover’s equivalent of being a music fan who’s never been to Nashville. There’s this romantic ideal of what that experience would be like, and part of me is afraid that going might somehow diminish the mystique.

But every time I sip a beautiful rosé, there’s this little voice in the back of my head whispering, “But what about Provence?”

So yes, my next trip should already be booked. But until then, I’ll keep exploring the wonderful world of rosé rebels, because the journey has been just as delicious as the destination promises.

Santé to the pink wines that dared to show me the world, one sip at a time!

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Historic Downtown Walking Tour

10:45 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Walk through historic downtown Nantucket with a museum guide and discover the unique history of the island. The tour transports visitors on a journey through Nantucket’s past and tells the story of the rise and fall of the whaling industry, the rise of tourism and the impacts the island’s economy had on social and racial development on Nantucket.

Live Music: Trousdale

1 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Los Angeles-based pop trio Trousdale will perform. $25 cover.

Sconset Walking Tour

3 p.m. 1 New St., Sconset. Join Nantucket Preservation Trust executive director Mary Bergman as she shares her knowledge of this unique fishing settlement at the eastern edge of the island. The 75-minute tour focuses on the early “whale houses” as well as the village’s boom as a seaside resort and actors colony. Tickets at nantucketpreservation.org

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The Nantucket Project

3:30 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Nantucket Project presents a special day of storytelling, short films and candid conversations. For tickets or more information, e-mail admin@ nantucketproject.com

Live Music: Jacob Butler

6 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Jacob Butler will perform.

“Buyer & Cellar”

7 p.m. Bennett Hall, 62 Centre St. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents the comedy “Buyer & Cellar,” starring Robbie Simpson of last season’s “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.” Through Aug. 14. Visit www.theatrenantucket.org for tickets and additional times.

“Theatre People, or the Angel Next Door”

7:30 p.m. Nantucket Performing Arts Centre, 5 North Water St. ACK presents the comedy “Theatre People, or the Angel Next Door.” Final night. Tickets at www. nantucketperformingarts.org

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Quidley: At Main Street gallery, art intended to elicit a reaction

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Quidley said.

The paintings are small and square, and sit on the wall like hazy memories. They are otherworldly, somehow, much like the rest of the space.

The 26 Main St. window has always been one of my favorites. From Jojo Anavim’s boldly colored y2k pop art, to Hunt Slonem’s trademark wide-eyed bunnies, Quidley does a great job of keeping visitors and collectors on their toes.

“The roster has been the roster for 20 years. It changes a little, but it mostly stays the same,” Quidley said. “But a lot of artists have changed over time. I think each of our artists are unique and stand on their own. It’s a powerful experience for someone visiting the gallery, especially for the first time.”

To Quidley, when it comes to artist relationships, consistency is important. Growing up as the son of two artists, he witnessed firsthand how important having a consistent gallery is for artists.

Even though he grew up on Cape Cod, his parents were represented by a gallery on Nantucket, in the 1970s, which is when Quidley fell in love with the island.

“It comes from knowing how challenging it is for an artist to make a living. As a kid, I would go with them on weekends to where they were selling their artwork. I was dragged to galleries and museums, and I didn’t appreciate it as much when I was young, but now I know it was formative,” he said.

Quidley didn’t become an artist himself, but became fascinated with art sales in college, when he interned with a

gallery’s sales department in New York City. There is something magical, he said, about the actual selling of art.

“I love the energy of helping someone find something they really love. There’s a certain high I get when someone really falls in love with a painting and they just have to have it,” he said.

I saw it firsthand. During our interview, a woman came in, grinning ear to ear. She was picking up a painting that I assume she bought a few days before. It was bubble-wrapped and waiting for her in the corner when she arrived.

As she carried it out, she was practically floating. I didn’t see the painting, but I try to imagine what it could be.

Anavim’s newsprint and acrylics, sequins under the bubble wrap. Or, something like Mark Eastridge’s aluminum

Museum: Cottage cities by the sea that never were

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In 1873, prominent island builder Charles H. Robinson (1829-1915) and partner Dr. Franklin A. Ellis (1833-1884) established Sconset’s first planned subdivision in two sheep commons at the southern edge of the village.

Several of the streets laid out for this modest development are still in use, including Ocean Avenue along the coast and smaller through-ways such as Grand, Laurel and Cottage avenues.

In 1873, Robinson built a 90-foot-long bridge from the end of Broadway across the south gulley to provide easy access to Sunset Heights and the new Ocean View House hotel. A model Victorian-style cottage, also built by Robinson, appears in the distance.

Risky ventures

Two of Nantucket’s most remote and volatile stretches of coastline caught the attention of off-island developers looking to exploit their sandy beaches and dramatic views.

Plans made for the island’s western edge and the barrier beach between Nantucket Harbor and Nantucket Sound were among the most imaginative, if unrealistic, cottage city proposals put forward.

This ambitious, 1,000-acre plan was created by Worcester architect Stephen D. Tourtellot, who received a warranty deed for the property from Captain Henry Coleman and George B. Coffin in January 1873, and visited the island several times to survey and lay out lots.

His picturesque plan fills the entire tract with parkland, house lots and avenues curving around and over water-

paintings, the flecked purple ocean shimmering like fish scales.

Or Doug Powell’s repurposed computer keys, the whole alphabet under that tissue paper, even the Shift, Backspace, and Alt keys, making out some shape.

Whatever it is, I imagine her putting it up in her house, making sure it’s not crooked, taking a picture of it with her cell phone, showing all her friends, smiling.

“It’s not about a dollar-amount sale,” Quidley told me after she left the gallery with her painting. “They all make me really happy. The lady that just bought the painting, that just made me so happy because she’s so excited about it. Her excitement is just infectious.”

Quidley & Company, 26 Main St. (508) 228-4300, quidleyandco.com, open 10 a.m. daily in season.

the island in th fall of 1873, on the heels of the disastrous Panic of 1873, and, a year later, Boston-based broker Joseph A. Veazie purchased the tract to add to his sizable island land holdings.

Before coming to Nantucket, Tourtellot and his apprentice-turned-partner Frank Cherrington advertised their skill with cemetery work.

By this time, pastoral “rural” cemeteries were well-established solutions for cramped urban graveyards as well as popular outdoor recreation sites. Their aesthetic language of gated entrances, curving drives and picturesque landscaping influenced the design of new public parks and scenic subdivisions.

The barrier beach between Nantucket Harbor and Nantucket Sound was surveyed and laid out at least three times.

The second try was made by a syndicate of New York businessmen who purchased the holdings of the Coatue Land Company in early 1890. A plat by Nantucketer J. B. Snow shows their plans for a hotel, stores and summer cottages, but only a road and some bathing houses were built, along with renovations to the preexisting Cedar Beach House.

The Coatue Land Company opened the Cedar Beach House in 1883 with steamer service from town, offering meals, bathing, wading and air “free from all insects.”

New investors added swings and the toboggan slides in 1890 but that venture also failed.

Safe bets

ways, including Hither, Narrow and Further creeks, land that is now largely under water.

To help buyers envision the remote site’s potential, Tourtellot added illustra-

tions of cottages, a hotel and a chapel to this plan.

It was displayed at George F. Macy’s shop in town, but failed to attract investment. News of Tourtellot’s death reached

Like Sunset Heights and Edward F. Underhill’s cottage communities on the

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Owl Prowl

8 p.m. Maria Mitchell Association, 4 Vestal St. Join MMA field ornithologist and I&M columnist Ginger Andrews to listen for the calls of nocturnal animals and birds and watch for owls as they begin their nightly activity. Tickets on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Full Moon Nature Walk

9 p.m. Location provided upon registration. Maria Mitchell Association executive director Joanna Roche leads a peaceful one-hour walk up to two miles on uneven terrain under the light of the full Moon. Discover the legends and narratives of the past and present. Enjoy the tranquility of the quiet night sky and learn about our moon’s current themes and its symbolism. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

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outskirts of Sconset, the most successful speculative ventures were smaller developments within reach of established communities with stores, restaurants, bathing facilities and travel connections that could be marketed alongside their empty house lots.

One of the island’s largest landowners, former whaling merchant Henry Coffin (1807-1900), invested in a range of cottage city developments, including the “Cliff Lots” north of town and Surfside further south.

For Sherburne Bluffs, near today’s Lincoln Circle and Steps Beach, J. Davis Robinson (brother of Charles H. and co-architect of Sunset Heights, also 1873) created a plan that mirrors Sunset Heights with its tree-named streets, scenic drive along the bluff’s edge and bathing rooms on the beach below.

Lots in the Sherburne Bluffs area were purchased by notables such as painter –and enthusiastic land market participant – Eastman Johnson as well as politician Charles O’Conor, whose home “Sea Crest” included a separate brick library built in 1881-82.

Rather than make way for the plan’s scenic drive, most of the area’s estates stretch to the cliff’s edge to maximize the lots’ ocean views.

One of the island’s most exclusive enclaves today, Monomoy is located east of town on the curving southern edge of Nantucket Harbor.

The plan’s unusual shape reflects the

Live Music: Kevin Quill

9 p.m. The Club Car, 1 Main St. Pianist Kevin Quill will perform. Additional shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Live Music: Switchfoot

9 p.m. The Muse, 44 Surfside Road. Grammy-winning alternative rock band Switchfoot will perform. Tickets at www. eventbrite.com

Live Music: All Time Favorite

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Boston-based party band All Time Favorite will perform. 21 and over. Additional shows Friday and Saturday.

Live Music: Jamie McLean Band

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. The Jamie McLean Band, known for its mix of New Orleans soul, Americana roots, Delta blues and New York City swagger, will perform. 21 and over.

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site’s varied topography, which has been filled in with a conventional subdivision of small cottage lots. Directional arrows along the top edge identify the distance, by water, to key locations.

One obstacle that delayed the success of the Monomoy Heights development was an area known as the Creeks, a marshy lowland that separated Monomoy’s pastures– and sweeping views –from the town beyond.

Today, this area is home to the Creeks Preserve and enjoyed as Nantucket Land Bank parkland.

What happened?

Most of the subdivision schemes discussed here went no further than what was promised on paper.

The timing was wrong. Locations were inaccessible, even inhospitable. Summer visitors could rent existing furnished houses and cottages or simply buy land and build for themselves, options that became even easier once the island’s automobile ban was repealed in 1917.

So, while Nantucket’s proposed cottage cities failed to materialize as envisioned, the summer business they were designed to attract did come, and islanders’ enthusiastic embrace of real estate ventures has been proven spectacularly successful in the long run.

For more on Nantucket’s early resort development, visit the Nantucket Historical Association’s Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St., or visit www.nha.org

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Live Music: Local Notes

10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket’s own Local Notes, led by Natalie Mack, will perform. 21 and over.

Friday, Aug. 15

Nature Walk: Tupancy Links

8:30 a.m. Tupancy Links, 157 Cliff Road. Walk the trails of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation’s Tupancy Links property and hear about the transition from private golf course to recovering grassland and the role it plays in restoring habitats across Nantucket. Free with registration on events page of www. nantucket conservation.org

Nature Ramble

10 a.m. Linda Loring Nature Foundation, 110 Eel Point Road. Sarah Bois, director of research and conservation leads this tour of climate-change impacts around the LLNF property. Free, but registration required on calendar page of www.llnf.org

Friday Funday

10:30 a.m. Children’s Beach Bandstand, Harborview Way. The Nantucket Office of Culture and Tourism hosts Friday Fundays through Sept. 12.

Live Music: Jacob Butler

6 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Jacob Butler will perform.

Dreamland Comedy: Kevin Nealon

6:30 and 9 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, actor and stand-up comedian Kevin Nealon will perform. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

“Million Dollar Quartet”

7 p.m. Bennett Hall, 62 Centre St. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents “Million Dollar Quartet,” a fictional adaptation of the night in 1956 when music legends Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley came together for a oncein-a-lifetime jam session at Sun Records. Through Aug. 23. Visit www.theatrenantucket.org for tickets, additional times.

Live Music: Sean Lee

8-10 p.m. Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Sean Lee will perform. Second show Saturday.

Housing Nantucket Fundraiser

6:30 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Craft cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and live music by funk rock band The Psycodelics to support Housing Nantucket’s efforts to provide attainable housing on the island. Visit events page of housingnantucket.org for tickets.

Saturday, Aug. 16

Nantucket Clean Team

8 a.m. Handlebar Café, 15 Washington St., and the beach access at the end of South Shore Road. The Nantucket Clean Team meets weekly from spring through fall to clean up trash around the island. Bags and pickers provided.

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Farmers & Artisans Market

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cambridge Street, between Federal and South Water. Sustainable Nantucket hosts a market of fresh local produce, island cottage-industry artisans and food. Weather permitting.

Capoeira with Werdum

9 a.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Werdum Nantucket presents instruction in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality.

Sidewalk Art Show

9 a.m.-2 p.m. Atheneum garden, 1 India St. The Artists Association of Nantucket holds its second sidewalk art show of the season, the oldest outdoor art show in the country. Dozens of AAN artist-members will display and sell their work.

Sojourner Truth, Sewing the Seeds of Justice

10 a.m. African Meeting House, 27 York St. Join the Museum of African American History and the Sisters in Stitches Joined by the Cloth for a workshop-lec-

ture on Sojourner Truth and block quilting. $20 suggested donation. RSVP at bit. ly/4mallTU.

Historic Bike Tour

10:30 a.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Strap on your helmet to explore historic locations on the periphery of town you may have missed, all while escaping the hustle and bustle of downtown Nantucket. Led by a Nantucket Historical Association guide. Approximately two hours. Tickets on calendar page of www.nha.org

NanPuppets

11 a.m. Children’s Beach, Harborview Way. Join Lizza Obremski and her puppet friends for a morning of educational entertainment for all ages. Free, but donations welcome.

Live Music: Nikki & the Barn Boys

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Cape Cod-based rock and soul band Nikki and the Barn Boys will perform. Second show Sunday at 3 p.m.

Classic Yacht Exhibition

5:30-7:30 p.m. Nantucket Boat Basin, Straight Wharf. Check out many of the historic wooden sailboats participating in Sunday’s Opera House Cup up close and personal. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. Tickets at www.nantucketraceweek.org

Film for Thought: “Wood Sails Dreams”

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Inquirer and Mirror and the Dreamland present “Wood Sails Dreams,” Nantucket filmmaker John Stanton’s documentary on wooden sailboats and the Opera House Cup, followed by a Q&A with Stanton. Free for Dreamland members. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Tim Russert Summer Groove

6-11 p.m. Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, 61 Sparks Ave. The Tim Russert Summer Groove is the annual gala fundraiser for the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, featuring cocktails and dinner, performances by club members and the Nantucket Dance Theater, dancing to the Walton Stout Orchestra and the presentation of the Tim Russert Spirit of Hope Award. Tickets at nantucketboysandgirlsclub.org

Piano Concert: Stephen Porter

7 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Pianist Stephen Porter will perform Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words,” Schubert’s rarely heard “Drei Klavierstücke D. 946,” written six months before the composer’s death at the age of 31 and a group of Chopin pieces. Free.

Live Music: The Psycodelics

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Funk rock band The Psycodelics will perform. 21 and over.

Sunday, Aug. 17

Bird Walk

7:45-10 a.m. Maria Mitchell Association, 33 Washington St. Explore Nantucket’s avian landscapes and hidden nooks with local bird guide and Inquirer and Mirror columnist Ginger Andrews. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

All Levels Yoga

9 a.m. Location upon registration. An hour of moderately paced yoga with mind-

ful, controlled movement and breath, with an emphasis on lengthening postures, fluid breathing, smooth transitions and cultivating focus. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

Parade of Wooden Boats /Rainbow Parade

9 and 9:40 a.m. Brant Point, end of Easton Street. Check out the competitors in the Opera House Cup, the premier wooden-sailboat race on the East Coast, as they pass Brant Point on their way to the course, followed by the parade of brightly colored Beetle Cat sailboats in the island’s Rainbow Fleet. Free.

Opera House Cup

11 a.m. Nantucket Sound. The 53rd annual Opera House Cup wooden sailboat regatta is held on the waters off the island, featuring nearly 50 boats from classic cruisers to purpose-built racers and a handful of former America’s Cup competitors. For more information, visit www. nantucketcommunitysailing.org

Live Music: Julia Newman

6 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Nantucket singer-songwriter Julia Newman will perform.

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Sunday Night Concert: The Dunbars

6 p.m. Children’s Beach Bandstand, Harborview Way. Nantucket musicians Jen and Rob Dunbar will perform. Free.

Live Music: Donovan Frankenreiter

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Singer-songwriter and surf musician Donovan Frankenreiter, a Nantucket favorite, will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at www.the chickenbox.com

Live Music: DJ Chad Banks

10 p.m. The Rose & Crown, 23 South Water St. Portsmouth, N.H. DJ Chad Banks brings his Hits and Remixes set to the Crown.

Live Music: Jolie Holland

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Texas indie folk-rock singer Jolie Holland will perform. 21 and over.

Monday, Aug. 18

Guided Bike Tour

8 a.m. Location upon registration. Join avid cyclist and Nantucket Conservation Foundation trustee Jim Meehan to tour

the trails and dirt roads of the Middle Moors or Ram Pasture. Space is limited. Helmet and a mountain bike suitable for rough roads required. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

The Stars that Guide Us

9:30 a.m. Dreamland Harborview Room, 17 South Water St. Join author Denice Kronau and her guests, Alicia Carney, executive director, Nantucket Dreamland Foundation; Joanna Roche, executive director, Maria Mitchell Association; Carlisle Jensen, executive director, Egan Maritime Institute; Jessica Castineiras, executive director, Nantucket Safe Harbor for Animals and Anne Kuszpa, executive director, Housing Nantucket, for breakfast and the launch of Kronau’s new book, “The Stars that Guide Us.” Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Hands on History

10:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday through Aug. 28. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. A short presentation with visual and tactile elements connecting to Nantucket history, followed by craft-making connected to that day’s talk. Free with museum admission.

Meet the Artist: Ying Li

5:30 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. A free and informal meet and greet with pianist Ying Li before her Nantucket Musical Arts Society concert Tuesday. Free.

Screening and Concert: Ned Rorem in Paris

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. A tribute in film and music to the late Nantucket composer and writer Ned Rorem, followed by a performance by The Rossini Club. Free. Tickets at www. nantucketdreamland.org

Stargazing at the Observatory

9:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Loines Observatory, 59 Milk St. Join professional astronomers from the Maria Mitchell Association for a guided tour of the night sky, including the moon, planets, star clusters, nebulae and more. Register on calendar page of www. mariamitchell.org

Live Music: DJ Lay-Z-Boy

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. Boston-based DJ Lay-Z-Boy mans he turntables. 21 and over.

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Live Music: Wires & Wood

Live Music: Wires & Wood

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. Connecticut “newgrass” band Wires & Wood will perform. 21 and over.

Tuesday, Aug. 19

Folger’s Marsh Kayak Paddle

10 a.m. Location upon registration. Nantucket Conservation Foundation coastal ecology research technician Jisun Reiner and environmental educator Isaac Hersh for this paddle through Folger’s Marsh to better understand the value of a saltmarsh ecosystem Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

A Walk Down Main Street

3 p.m. 11 Centre St. An overview of Nantucket in its heyday focusing on the portion of Main Street between the Pacific National Bank and the Civil War monument. Learn about the street’s development and the area’s early residents and architectural styles. Tickets at nantucketpreservation.org.

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Connecticut “newgrass” quintet Wires & Wood will perform.

Dreamland Comedy: Jimmy Tingle

6 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. In Jimmy Tingle: The “Radical” Middle – Why Would A Comedian Run For Office?” Tingle chronicles his transition from a life as a seasoned comedian to a desire to enter politics, for real this time. Followed by a conversation with Tingle. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Lecture: Nantucket Brands

5:30 p.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. Moderated by Nantucket Historical association chief curator Michael Harrison, representatives from iconic Nantucket textile and clothing brands Erica Wilson, Murray’s Toggery, and Nantucket Looms will discuss the histories of each of these companies and their impact on Nantucket. Free, but registration required on calendar page of www.nha.org

Author Talk

6 p.m. Atheneum Great Hall, 1 India St. Best-selling island author Elin Hilderbrand will talk with Jennifer Weiner about her latest novel, “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits.” Free.

Classical Music: Pianist Ying Li

7 p.m. St. Paul’s Church, 20 Fair St. The Nantucket Musical Arts Society presents pianist Ying Li in the final installment of its summer concert series. Tickets $30 at the door.

Live Music: Andy Frasco and the UN

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. California blues-rock band Andy Frasco and the UN will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at thechickenbox.com. Second show Wednesday.

Wednesday, Aug. 20

Book-signing

11 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Best-selling island author Elin Hilderbrand will sign copies of “The Blue

Book” and Jennifer Weiner will sign copies of her novels. The first 115 people will get a ticket for the signing when they arrive in line. Line begins forming at 10 a.m. Only books purchased at Mitchell’s will be signed.

Behind the Scenes at the NHA Collections Center

4 p.m. Gosnold Center, 89 Bartlett Road. The Nantucket Historical Association curatorial team leads this behindthe-scenes tour of the NHA’s special collections of paintings, furniture and Nantucket artifacts. Members only. Register on calendar page of www.nhar.org

Live Music: Buckle & Shake

4-7 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Nantucket’s own alt-country band, Buckle & Shake, will perform.

The Rossini Club: From Then ’til Now 6:30 p.m. Nantucket Atheneum, 1 India St. A special tribute concert celebrating the music of Boston-based composer Howard Frazin, exploring the unique re-

lationship between lyric poetry and the sung word. The evening features Nantucket soprano Greta Feeney and pianist Wesley Ducote, and will also feature art songs by French masters Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré and Lili Boulanger. Free.

Film for Thought

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. The Inquirer and Mirror and Dreamland present “Monk in Pieces,” a documentary about composer and performance artist Meredith Monk, followed by a Q&A with director Billy Shebar. Free for Dreamland members. Tickets at www. nantucketdreamland.org

Returning to Romance Through Food and Flirty Fun in Fiction

7 p.m. online at www.nantucketatheneum.com. A discussion of New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston’s latest romantic comedy, “The Pairing.” Register on calendar page of www. nantucketatheneum.org

Science Speaker: James Lowenthal

7 p.m. 33 Washington St. The Maria Mitchell Association hosts Smith College professor of astronomy James Lowen-

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thal discussing “The Magic of the Night . . and How We Can Save It.” Free. Also available on Zoom. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Staged Reading: “Zeus 4”

7:30 p.m. Nantucket Performing Arts Center, 5 North Water St. NPAC presents a staged reading of the new play “Zeus 4” by professional actors including Judith Ivey, Jeremy Shamos, Nina Hellman and Mark Shanahan. Free, but RSVP on www. nantucketperformingarts.org required.

Live Music: The Nude Party

10 p.m. Gaslight Nantucket, 3 North Union St. North Carolina-based rock band The Nude Party will perform. 21 and over. Second show Thursday.

Thursday, Aug. 21

Nature Walk

8:30 a.m. Location upon registration. The Nantucket Conservation Foundation leads this walk through a scenic, hilly section of the Middle Moors, highlighted by freshwater ponds, interesting plant species and stunning views. Register on events page of www.nantucketconservation.org

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Book-signing: Josh Dawsey

10:30 a.m. Mitchell’s Book Corner, 54 Main St. Author and political reporter Josh Dawsey will sign copies of his collaborative book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.”

Family Tours at the Whaling Museum

10:30 a.m. Nantucket Whaling Museum, 13 Broad St. These interactive, family-friendly tours led by Nantucket Historical Association guides will spark conversation, invite curiosity and engage children of all ages to explore a world of history, artifacts and art. Free with museum admission.

Sconset Walking Tour

3 p.m. 1 New St., Sconset. Join Nantucket Preservation Trust executive director Mary Bergman as she shares her knowledge of this unique fishing settlement at the eastern edge of the island. The 75-minute tour focuses on the early “whale houses” as well as the village’s boom as a seaside resort and actors colony at the end of the 1800s. Tickets at nantucketpreservation.org

Live Music: Struggle Monkey

4 p.m. Cisco Brewers, 5 Bartlett Farm Road. Connecticut-based party band Struggle Monkey will perform. Second show Friday.

Corky Laing’s Rock Review

7 p.m. Dreamland Theater, 17 South Water St. Legendary 1970s rock drummer Corky Laing returns to the Dreamland with island guests Floyd Kellogg, Julian Stanley, Jake and Janette Vohs and John Shea to celebrate the music of Mountain, Peter Frampton and more. Tickets at www.nantucketdreamland.org

Full Moon Nature Walk

9 p.m. Location provided upon registration. Maria Mitchell Association executive director Joanna Roche leads a peaceful one-hour walk on uneven terrain under the light of the full moon. Register on calendar page of www.mariamitchell.org

Live Music: The One Nights Stands

10 p.m. The Chicken Box, 6 Dave St. High-energy New England party band The One Night Stands will perform. 21 and over. Tickets at the door. Additional shows Friday and Saturday.

DINING OVERLOOKING NANTUCKET SOUND.

Enjoy fine dining in our intimate dining room or a relaxed experience on our deck. In summer months, cruise to lunch or dinner aboard the Wauwinet Lady. Nantucket’s only AAA 5-Diamond restaurant.